Meanings of strange pathways in English

I was newly initiated into the Gardnerian tradition and tended to tread softly in strange pathways.

But the world was upside down and only those who could navigate the strange pathways of this nightmare would survive.

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Riches had turned Jarvis Hammon's mind into new channels; they had opened strange pathways and projected him into a life foreign to his early teachings.