His young squeeze had just backed out and had not seen the assault on her “sugar daddy” when it happened!
However, even more important than Shalom Ashkenazi, for the increasingly official acceptance of gilgul, was the book, the Sefer ha-Gilgulim (Book of Transmigration), by Hayim Vital (1543–1620), a disciple of the renowned Kabbalic mystic Isaac Luria.
Imaginary playmates and paracosms may chiefly represent the vast creative potential of inherently talented people, but in less elaborated forms, they may also represent what childhood imagination can offer to the growing person. Humanity has already benefited from the paracosmic visions of Plato, Thomas More, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hobbes, Arthur Tappan Wright (Islandia), and J. R. R. Tolkien.
But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle