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Er, I started writing an example but it got (much) longer...
A few years ago I went out (once) with a woman who explained, over a glass of Cooper's pale, she could see auras, described her belief that the stones of the "great pyramids" were levitated into position by Egyptian priests and told of her participation in a selection of Uri Geller parlour tricks with some new friends who did that stuff a lot.
It was a lifestyle change for her, a revelation based upon a book which she talked about extensively (though I don't remember details like its name). Yes, these new age mystic people are everywhere - more so now the Orange Lane market has closed. Many seem to spend their time writing books. It was something about meeting such a person on a date that made the event an experience of non-trivial significance.
With a strange momentum from starting in 'date mode' - you know, trying to be misleadingly friendly, amusing, attractive, knowledgeable and interesting all at the same time - it was enough to have me talking about auras and the like.
She said ducks have purple auras (!). Oh really!, that's terribly interesting. Yes, I know what purple auras signify. I know about Tarot; when I was in school we used to mess with it (with some version of tarot on normal cards - it was all wrong - I still haven't had an eye-opening experience with a jester and a goat). Yes! of course aliens showed the Egyptians how to levitate things with their minds
(I'd seen Chariots of the Gods - with friends and a little alcohol it provides hours of entertainment).
Maybe the beer was loosening the hinges (or maybe windmills) of my mind, for verily, driving back home (well under the limit, officer) I felt very strange; like the borders of reality were blurred. Someone had disturbed my world view.
A while later, logic, observation and highly untrained reason returned, restored my world view to earlier settings, and drove off the feeling of dissociation only talking for an hour with a lunatic can create (...that or a schizophrenic episode or major depression).
In the pub she stated several times she welcomed arguments and discussion but my email to her, with the clever opening argument of "that's bullshit" may have seemed (in fact I know damn well it was) more offensive than intended.
Apologies.
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