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Can you tell me a supernatural thing that ever happened to you or you have observed in real life?
I believe everybody has experienced something he or she still can't figure out what happened or science somehow cannot explain it so far. Here is mine: One day while I was working on something my desk, and suddenly I dropped my pen into the gap between the desk and the wall, but I didn't hear anything indicating the pen hit the ground. I then moved the desk and tried to recover my pen, but it turned out there was nothing there. I dug every inch down the floor in my study room, but I still couldn't find it.(The pen was my one of my birthday gifts, so it actually meant a lot to me.) After about six months, I think, when I swept the floor in the kitchen, I found my pen again, under the refrigerator... I still wonder today how in the world my pen just appeared in the kitchen after having disappeared for six months. It seemed like the pen traversed through some other spaces and ended up in the kitchen...
So share your story with us! Including prophetic dreams, etc.
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daniel hehir 20+
Here is a true story for you.
I was in Hawaii many years ago. I was out with three friends, one of which was a native and wanted to take us to a night club where there was a clairvoyant man doing a show. On the way in, there was a man who was passing out a small piece of paper and a pen to each of the incoming customers. He asked us to write down three questions and nothing more. Being a curious, I of course wrote down three questions and went in.
There were about 60 people in the room as I recall. Each of which had also written down three questions upon entering the room
We found a seat and waited for the show to begin. A little later, a man came out and talked to the audience a bit. He then had an assistant help him to tape and blindfold his eyes so he could not see the questions written on the small pieces of paper that were all well folded and placed into a deep hat. The assistant held the hat up as high as he could as the man then proceeded to pull out the small folded papers one by one and then proceeded to first "read" the questions, yes, "read it"...without seeing it with his eyes, as he simply held it in his fingers. After reading the question, he then proceeded to answer the question as well. Furthermore, he also called out each person by name, yes, by name, which was not written down anywhere!! My three question were phrased in a way that there was neither any clear concrete answer or any possible way of him being able to know of any such future event in my life. This was without a doubt "impossible" Time has shown that the answers he gave eventually came true, and once again, even I myself, at that moment in time, didn't know the answers to my own questions
So, for my part, people can be as skeptical as they like. I know, without a shadow of a doubt that the phenomenon of clairvoyance is real. "Supernatural" is a word that is simply describing something that is beyond our intellectual ability to grasp. It doesn't mean that it's not real
Yuguo Zhang 100+
pat gilbert 50+
I think we all have these abilities to a greater or lesser extent. I think problems (that are created to keep us in the cattle chute) take us out of now. What this stuff boils down to is communication, we are better at communicating than anyone would like us to believe. Are you awake?
How often do you know who is calling before you pick up the phone? How often do you know what the other drive is going to do before he does it? Athletes who play at a high level often talk about mental telepathy and how they transcend the mechanics of the game.
daniel hehir 20+
Yes indeed, in fact clairvoyance was much more usual in the older civilizations. I would venture to say that in isolated parts of the world, where cultures have yet to be bombarded with the sentient storm of modern technology, these abilities are much more prevalent than in the "developed" world.
I do think that these faculties can be re-awoken in modern man. Although it requires a lot of effort, as you say, we all have small isolated experiences of it. We just can't seem to find the source of it. Jacques Lusseyran is an example of this. Check out the link I sent to Hugo above.
pat gilbert 50+
There was a guy a while back on a TED conversation that has an interesting story regarding the extraordinary:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/11519/what_working_techniques_do_you_1.html
daniel hehir 20+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbtoX3Q5OI
pat gilbert 50+
daniel hehir 20+
I'm with you on "you don't have a soul you are a soul"
I was in on the link you mentioned. Yes, it was interesting, although there wasn't much new or revealing that hadn't been said before. I actually thought to take part in that discussion but never got back to it.
The question of being "awake" is an allusive one. We all assume we are awake, but in truth we are walking around in a half awake consciousness. Our full potential of "awareness" is far beyond that which we experience in our day to day consciousness. Take for example a savant, who is often socially and/or mentally handicapped. He may not be able to tie his shoe but can remember and draw an entire aerial view of the city of London as a highly educated artist or technical drawer after just one short view of it. How many "normal" people could do this? .... They are more aware / awake in certain parts of their "constitution" than most others. An painter / artist can be more visually awake, a musician more awake in the auditory element. But our senses can be developed to higher degrees than what we are born with.
Colleen Steen 500+
Yes, I agree...our senses can be, and have been developing to higher degrees, and I believe that is part of evolution. We carry an energy vibration, and the higher the vibration, the more we may be "awake", aware, and increasingly conscious. The more we are aware, the higher our energy vibration, which facilitates more awareness....it's another life cycle:>)
Colleen Steen 500+
I agree with you that these abilities have been around since the beginning of time, and often we simply do not pay attention. You speak of transcending the mechanics of the game. I had a little experience with this.
Years ago I was sailboat racing one afternoon, we had very heavy winds, and as we were pulling the spinniker sail in, the wind caught it and puffed it out really fast pulling three of us who were holding it across the deck. I got a metal winch rammed into my chest.
I was a professional actor at the time, and doing a play that night in which I had a leading role...singing and dancing. I was in quite a bit of pain, and on my way to the theater thinking how the hell am I going to do this performance?
As we were preparing for the show...warmup, costume, hair, makeup, etc., the pain was subsiding, and I was becoming the character. By the time I got on stage, there was no pain whatsoever. The character had NOT been sailing and injured that day, and the performance went fine.
AFTER the show, and that night, I had a lot of pain again, so I had it checked out with ex-rays the next day. I had 4 cracked ribs. Hurt like hell in the daytime.... I rested and used ice, heat and ibuprophen. At night I did the performance with the same results every night for two weeks...absolutely no pain.
That was when I realized that we can put ourselves in another state (character if you will) and transcend pain. That was the first time I was conscious of the ability, although as I explored back into my earlier life, I had been doing it for a long time....just not as consciously.
By the time I got to the head/brain injury years later, they wanted to give me all kinds of drugs for pain, and I kept telling them I was fine....didn't have a lot of pain.....guess I just decided NOT to have too much pain:>)
pat gilbert 50+
I had an experience that I'm reluctant to share as it may seem like a parlor trick, but it was almost identical to the story in the link I made (Tim Yuriev story about a Buddhist).
My contention is that we are infinitely more capable than this earth culture would have us believe and shame on us for allowing them to advise us on such matters that concern our very integrity.
By the way I'm quite rational logical and conservative but what I have said is true.
Colleen Steen 500+
I think I understand a little bit about reluctance. Years ago, I was invited to speak at the university about the NDE. I declined for months, mostly because of my reluctance in speaking about something that was so far "out there". Finally I agreed to speak about it in classes and facilitate discussion groups.
I was amazed at the reaction and feedback from the students!!! While I anticipated skeptisism, and rejection of the idea, they were actually very receptive, encouraging and eager to talk about it. In almost every class, there was at least one person who had an NDE, or students who knew about other people who had the experience. With this information, and the fact that I researched the topic quite extensively, for my own understanding, I began to realize that it was not uncommon at all.
The more comfortable I felt with the experience, the less reluctant I was to speak about it. One thing I had to detach from was my own dependance on what people might think of me....they might think I'm nuts!!! I got to the point where I didn't care what other people's perception was/is. They can believe it or not, and it doesn't impact me in any way.
I agree with you Pat, that we are more capable of assimilating much more information than we realize, and some folks would like to be skepical to the point of questioning our integrity. That's ok....it does not change who and what I am, or what I experience.
BTW...I am quite rational, logical and conservative as well. I also have an open heart and open mind, which, when all combined, may be the best of everything!
Stewart Gault 30+
Televangelsits get people to write down their ailments on paper before they come in and where they live etc etc. Then magically the preacher hears gods voice and knows exactly who you are where you live etc etc when really, in Peter Popoff's case he was being relayed the info via radio from his wife who was reading it off the paper
daniel hehir 20+
How did he know my name? My name was never asked and never given. Funny that he could know the answers to the questions as well... when the answers weren't even available to me until many months afterwards....
Stewart Gault 30+
And a few questions. Were you shown the contents of the hat? How many did he pick out? and do you remember any examples of the questions?