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then walked away. Wil turned to me.
    “What did he mean,” I asked, “when he questioned you about a Ninth Insight?”
    “There is part of the Manuscript that has never been found. There were eight insights with the original text, but one more insight, the Ninth, was mentioned there. Many people have been searching for it.”
    “Do you know where it is?”
    “No, not really.”
    “Then how are you going to find it?”
    Wil smiled. “The same way Jose found the original eight. The same way you found the first two, and then ran into me. If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.”
    “Tell me how to do that,” I said. “Which insight is it?”
    Will looked at me as if assessing my level of understanding. “How to connect is not just one insight; it’s all of them. Remember in the Second Insight where it describes how explorers would be sent out into the world utilizing the scientific method to discover the meaning of human life on this planet? But they would not return right away?”
    “Yes.”
    “Well, the remainder of the insights represent the answers finally coming back. But they aren’t just coming from institutional science. The answers I’m talking about are coming from many different areas of inquiry. The findings of physics, psychology, mysticism, and religion are all coming together into a new synthesis based on a perception of the coincidences.
    “We’re learning the details of what the coincidences mean, how they work, and as we do we’re constructing a whole new view of life, insight by insight.”
    “Then I want to hear about each insight,” I said. “Can you explain them to me before you go?”
    “I’ve found it doesn’t work that way. You must discover each one of them in a different way.”
    “How?”
    “It just happens. It wouldn’t work for me to just tell you. You might have the information about each of them but you wouldn’t have the insights. You have to discover them in the course of your own life.”
    We stared at each other in silence. Wil smiled. Talking with him made me feel incredibly alive.
    “Why are you going after the Ninth Insight now?” I asked.
    “It’s the right time. I have been a guide here and I know the terrain and I understand all eight insights. When I was at my window over the alley, thinking of Jose, I had already decided to go north one more time. The Ninth Insight is out there. I know it. And I’m not getting any younger. Besides, I’ve envisioned myself finding it and achieving what it says. I know it is the most important of the insights. It puts all the others into perspective and gives us the true purpose of life.”
    He paused suddenly, looking serious. “I would have left thirty minutes earlier but I had this nagging feeling that I had forgotten something.” He paused again. “That’s precisely when
you
showed up.”
    We looked at each other for a long time.
    “You think I’m supposed to go with you?” I asked.
    “What do you think?”
    “I don’t know,” I said, unsure of myself. I felt confused. The story of my Peruvian trip was flashing before my mind: Charlene, Dobson, now Wil. I had come to Peru because of a mild curiosity and now I found myself in hiding, an unwitting fugitive who didn’t even know who his pursuers were. And the strangest thing of all was that at this moment, instead of being terrified, totally panicked, I found myself in a state of excitement. I should have been summoning all my wits and instincts to find a way home, but what I really wanted to do was to go with Wil—into what would undoubtedly be more danger.
    As I considered my options, I realized that in reality I had no choice. The Second Insight had ended any possibility of going back to my old preoccupations. If I was going to stay aware, I had to go forward.
    “I plan to spend the night,” Wil said. “So you will have until tomorrow morning to decide.”
    “I’ve already decided,” I