Elissa Heyman

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MAGIC Although my parents did not introduce me to religion except to define it as a psychological crutch, I had the concept of a “magical world” at a young age. Wild animals were in it, and Nature untrammeled by hiking paths…only deer trails. Even before kindergarten, I was allowed to get up early before anyone and walk by myself. It made for thrilling mornings in Mill Valley, California, once I stepped off the pavement to head for the hills that rippled all the way to Muir Beach. When I was 14 I got a bee in my bonnet about going to Greece, and when I got there at 17, I had a new kind of magical experience. It happened at the first ancient site I went to, the Temple of Delphi. Just as I sta

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