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Putting this into an historical perspective, I would like to suggest that intuition
may, in fact, play a very large role in reconstructing history on the basis of
artifacts& ."
There followed a series of factual anecdotes involving a number of eminent
archaeologists and their discoveries. As Peregrine listened, it began to dawn on
him that the faculty Adam was describing was, by any other name, a kind of
extrasensory perception. He glanced around him, wondering if any of the other
members of the audience had caught the masked drift of the discourse. Before he
could form any distinct impressions, the presentation took an even more radical
turn.
"If we accept that intuition does, in fact, play a vital expository role in
archaeological investigation," Adam said coolly, "we may well find ourselves
obliged to modify our definition of physical reality. To that end, I am going to
suspend, for a moment, all consideration of Newtonian physics in order to
broaden the concept of nature to include that elusive field in which the intuition
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operates."
This announcement generated an interested stir amongst those present. Without
pausing to refer to his notes, Adam continued, leaning forward conspiratorially
on the podium.
"All physical reality is traditionally quantifiable in terms of three dimensions:
height, width, and depth. But such an assessment fails to take account of the fact
that objects - and people, for that matter - also exist in the dimension of time.
This temporal factor is something that, for lack of a better term, I should like to
call Resonance."
Peregrine sat forward in his chair. He felt suddenly as if he were on the brink of
hearing something of vital personal importance.
"To draw an analogy," Adam went on calmly, "resonance can be interpreted as a
kind of existential echo: a subtle shadow of how things used to be. As a
theoretical psychologist, I would submit that the ability to perceive resonance is a
rare function of the human psyche. In antique times, that faculty was the
trademark of priests, seers, and mystics. In these latter days, it is still a factor
among those whose livelihood depends on their developing that faculty of vision:
archaeologists, psychiatrists, artists& ."
Artists? Startled, Peregrine was suddenly swamped by a host of half-realized
implications. Was this why Adam had wanted him to come along? He was still
struggling to untangle his own thoughts when he was roused from his reverie by
an outburst of hand-clapping. He looked up to see Adam descending from the
podium into a crowd of would-be questioners.
It was some time before Adam was free again to join him. By then Peregrine was
sufficiently master of his own whirling speculations to follow along gracefully
while friends and acquaintances offered their congratulations and goodbyes. The
shadows were lengthening by the time they pulled out of the car park. Peregrine
held his tongue until they were back on the main road toward Strathmourne,
then abruptly voiced the question that he had been at pains to suppress for more
than an hour.
"This business of resonance that you spoke of - is that another way of saying that
objects can somehow generate images from their temporal past?"
Wry amusement plucked at the corner of Adam's long mouth. "You were listening
closely, weren't you? Yes, that's the basic idea. The same principle applies to
people as well. Those resonances are sometimes described, in psychic circles, as
'auras.' And they can resonate forward in time, as well as backwards."
"Oh," said Peregrine. For a moment he stared hard at the road ahead. Then in a
rush he said, "This problem of mine - this problem with seeing things that other
people can't see - could it be somehow related to this notion of resonance?"
"It's at least a theory," said Adam. "But I can't give you any hard answers. I
suggest you sleep on it."
That proved to be his last word on the subject. Balked in several further attempts
to draw out his host in greater detail, Peregrine at last gave up and allowed the
conversation to drift into other channels, equally fascinating, but of far less
personal import, so far as Peregrine could tell. Later that night, none the wiser,
he went to bed with no expectation of falling asleep readily, let alone dreaming.
But as he lay in bed, staring up at the starry patterns on the ceiling, his thoughts
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drifted so subtly from conscious into subconscious awareness that he was not
aware of having fallen asleep until the onset of the Dream.
chapter Six
THE dream began as though he were waking up from a light doze. He was still in
bed in the Blue Room at Strathmourne, but the door was standing half-open,
emitting a wedge of unearthly light. Peregrine rose from the bed and crossed to
the doorway. When he looked beyond the confines of the room, he realized that
he was standing on the threshold of some other reality.
He should have been facing another door, in a corridor papered in a willow-herb
pattern designed by William Morris. Instead, he was confronting a square
chamber, empty and bare, whose blank walls had the silvery sheen of mirrors.
The wall to his right was broken by a high archway, affording him a view of a
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