answer:I would say it indicates magical thinking. Magical thinking is usually the result of living in a very chaotic and unpredictable world. Such a perception of the world can come from being abused in childhood. People who have been abused often do turn to marijuana or alcohol or other drugs to cope with the feelings that come from living in a really scary and chaotic world that they feel they can’t control and can’t predict. In addition, sometimes people who dissociate or are schizophrenic, do perceive things the rest of don’t. She might perceive spirits and speak to them through her flute. But that can also be a metaphor. It is a common way for musicians to describe what it feels like to make music. The main problem here is the notion that spirits have real power in the world. She only pays attention to what happened to her, and not to the millions of other flute players who play all the time and whose houses don’t burn down. For me, I would interpret this as a coping mechanism. The house burned down. This is an extraordinarily disturbing event. She seeks a reason for it, because she wants to be in control of her life. She hits on this explanation because it allows her to perhaps avoid a burning house in the future. She can stop playing flute. Stop mesmerizing the spirits and forcing them to cleanse through fire. Who knows, maybe she put a pan on the stove on high, and went off to practice, forgetting that she was cooking something, and it burst into flames and burned down the house. If that was the case, then she is not so far off. Her flute playing did cause the house to burn down.