During this time there was the same, almost instant 'phenomena', that most often occurred as mallet raps to the walls and to the front verandah roof. One of two loud mallet raps occurred upon her becoming consciously aware. I could now interpret this occurrence in another way and say is was 'the psyche's elevation into a higher state of consciousness'. But if I stuck to the original feeling and description, it was simply 'an angel coming into my body'. She was coming down into me, I wasn't going up into her. It felt like the connection between two distinct and individual selves or consciousnesses, rather that 'one consciousness' - which is what made this experience different to the ecstatic states I'd previously experienced.
The dry season in Darwin was the time when a lot of festivals were held. Convoys of tourist 4WD's with caravans from the wintry southern states made their way up the Stuart Highway, into the longer drier warmer days of the Northern Territory.
One of the events that had been popular in Darwin for some time was The Psychic Fair. This was a gathering where psychics turned up to charge people for readings. It even featured an artist who was able to draw people's 'Guardian Angels'. I rarely attended events like this. But on this occasion Andrea had a friend who would be coming up to participate. His name was Aravinda. Knowing all the stuff that had been happening with me over the months, Andrea thought that it might be an idea to have Aravinda come and do a 'reading' on the house at Ridgehaven Circuit. I was keen on the idea. I was curious to see if he was able to pick anything up that I hadn't.
On the way to Ridgehaven Circuit from the Rapid Creek Markets, Aravinda asked me what my Chinese astrological animal was. As it turned out we were both born in the year of the snake. A short time later at Ridgehaven Circuit, a green toy snake turned up in a bag of fruit that I bought from the markets. The snake should not have been there. I specifically remember buying and bagging the fruit myself and it hadn't been in there. I told the others that someone must have put it in my bag when I wasn't looking. But I didn't see that as a very likely scenario.
The first thing that Aravinda did when he arrived at the house was suddenly stop at the bottom of the steps. He didn't like them, particularly the top two stairs. He asked me if anyone had fallen down them. Andrea had also heard the faint sound of someone coming up the stairs once in the late afternoon.
Aravinda said that he was able to pinpoint the various 'energy points' where there appeared to be problems throughout the garden and inside the house itself. As it turned out he was accurate. Once inside the house he immediately walked down the hallway towards the main bedroom. With some hesitation he went in. Then he came out and went back in again. Then he came out and stood at the doorway of the second bedroom. He looked in there and shuddered. He said, "I'm not going in there." He then said that there was an 'energy portal' coming down through the ceiling that connected the two bedrooms.
While making dinner that night, a wooden spoon flipped out of a saucepan when we were cooking. Andrea put the spoon back in, not thinking twice about it and, as if to make sure that we knew that it wasn't an accident, it flipped out again. The saucepan was cooling on the stove hotplate. This time I caught the action out of the corner of my eye, in time to see the spoon do a backflip up into the air. Then a touch lamp turned itself on in the second bedroom. After dinner Aravinda was sitting on the lounge bed in the main living area, when he suddenly jumped up with another obvious shiver. He quickly changed positions.
