‘This is one intense hike,’ Billy B said as he wiped the sweat from his brow. ‘I see a clearing ahead where we can have our picnic lunch,’ he added.

‘I am reluctant to admit that I saw an old man pass us at the beginning of the trail and he just passed me again at the end of our journey,’ Chet said with some amazement as to how the OM could achieve such a mysterious two-time appearance when there was no foreseeable manner that he could have circled around the difficult trail and reappeared at the end of it.

‘His look was dour and he seemed preoccupied with his thoughts, Neva J said as she took the Merlot out of the picnic basket. ‘He looked a bit like my Dad Charles but that could not be possible as Dad has been dead for many years,’ she noted with a quizzical look in her eyes.

‘Have you ever experienced something in a new place and with people who you have never met and yet felt strangely like you had been there before and that you knew the people,’ Jane asked? ‘I visited Oxford and the Pubs as well as the University and felt the strangest sensation when I was in the University Libray that I had been there before,’ Jane went on to say.

‘Roger said just before he died that it had all been one big hoax…meaning life,’ Billy B said. ‘Is it a glitch in a simulation that produces de ja vu and repeating of meeting the same Old Man…or is it an alternate universe bleeding through our veil of reality,’ Billy B asked in earnest.

‘Welcome fellow travelers…please enjoy your lunch before I show you where you really are…look into the mirror and we will begin our enlightened discovery,’ he said with a smile and a wink…

‘You know it has been said that eye hath not seen nor ear heard what God hath prepared for them who love him…come and see your Heaven…Neva J take my hand…