In a quiet backwater of South Wales during the Second World War an evacuee, a lively and adventurous boy, arrived into the author's timid and mundane life, bringing into it a sense of magic, of freshness and excitement. His was the stimulus which encouraged Shirley to step beyond the bounds of normal perception into a world of raised awareness and enhanced abilities, and which would prepare her for more in-depth, more challenging experiences later in her life. This is the story of those early important years.