"Aloka means ‘light' in Sanskrit," she said. She had changed her name to Aloka Lavender, although her old name was way cool -- Bronwyn Maddison. She had made her way from Australia to Maui and then Marin County [both de-rigueur New Age spots] by "manifesting $30,000 through creative visualization", as she said. She offered me one third of her winnings [as opposed to earnings] if I married her so she could get a green card. Sometimes I wonder why I didn't take her up on this.