The Adam Enigma by Mark; Ronald C.; Reeder Meyer Page A

into the sage and piñon pine surrounding the shrine, never looking back.
    Myriam had thought him a very odd character and might not have heeded his words, but that night, being desperate for sleep, she followed his directions. The world of dreams descended upon her like a vision. She found herself in the middle of an ancient city of mud and straw and bricks. The reek of sewage and the stink of humans and animals were overpowering. She brought her hand to her nose and saw the skin was white and some of the fingers shortened and deformed. She touched her face and her nose was a stub, the cartilage eaten away. She gasped in fear as she recognized the disease—leprosy. She started to wail when a figure clothed in white approached her.
    He stopped and stood before her. Reaching out with a long fingered hand, he touched her forehead and said in a deep voice filled with compassion, “Be clean.”
    Immediately the leprosy disappeared and she was made clean. Myriam recognized, from within her dream, that this scene was repeating the biblical miracle of the cleansing of the leper. She looked up, expecting to see the shining radiance of Jesus Christ. Instead it was a stranger whose face was covered by a dark haze. Only his eyes shown through with benevolence that warmed her. The eyes were strangely familiar and she thought they might belong to Adam.
    The stranger said, “See that you tell others who I am. Go, show yourself to them, for a proof to them.”
    When she woke the next morning, Myriam remembered the dream and had called Beecher right away. She told him all about it.
    Myriam returned to the table. “I have to go, dear,” she said, opening her purse. Beecher put out his hand. “It’s on me.” She pouted and said, “One of these days you’re going have to let me pay for something.” She kissed him on the cheek and walked out of the restaurant.
    Beecher watched her drive off. She doesn’t suspect , he told himself. Ironically, her request to be allowed to pay had in its own way already been granted. After all, her dream had inadvertently set in motion a bizarre, spiraling set of events.
    After she had told Beecher about her dream, he had decided to contact the popular cable television show Psychic or Psycho? This popular series based in Phoenix, Arizona featured investigators who debunked psychic phenomena. Paying them a sizable advance, he persuaded them to explore the Milagro Shrine. Working under the guise that the results would soon become an episode in their popular series, the three-man, two-woman team had agreed to his proposal, and spent four days with their equipment, examining every aspect of the place and shooting copious amounts of Polycentrism Interference Photography. PIP was a remarkable new video processing technology that captured bioenergetic fields invisible to the naked eye. A scientist named Harry Oldfield invented PIP in the late 1980s, using advancedmicrochip technology. Oldfield developed a scanner that could provide real-time moving images of the energy fields associated with living things. He believed that the future of medical diagnosis lay in finding an effective scanner that could see imbalances in the body’s energy flows. Beecher had even provided the crew with the money to purchase the most advanced form of this technology available.
    The film crew had initially focused their attention on the cottonwood tree, spending two full days and nights following groups of pilgrims who had traveled from the East Coast to spend a week at the Milagro Shrine. Though a number of men and women glowed with reports claiming they had been healed in the presence of the tree, none of the equipment registered even the tiniest anomaly in the biofield surrounding the cottonwood. The Christ Chapel was next, and then the xeriscape garden with its maze of trails. Again nothing out the ordinary had been detected emanating from any of the structures or plant life at