But I Am!!!!!
My mother recently passed away in my home. My sister stays in the room in which she passed and regularly complains that she is nervous that our mother is haunting my house. I continually tell her, our mother was in a hurry to leave this plane so there is no way she is still here. But the discussion continues every time she stays.
Recently, I have noticed that odd things have been occurring. My sister's slippers (which she keeps under the guest room bed) were found out by the side door. There had been no one in the house that day - everyone was at work. It was odd. The slippers were aligned just like someone had stepped out of them to put their boots on.
The alarms on our doors are tending to go off in the middle of the night. They should only ring if the door opens. The alarm has also set itself at night a couple of times. Just little odd things.
I have caught movement out of the corner of my eye when there is no one there. Strange shadows in my room at night. Just bizarre things that my sister says is my mother. I keep saying that she is not here. I can see no reason for her to be here. She hated it when she was at my house. I am not sure why, but she didn't want to visit or stay. She was resentful when we brought her from the hospital to my house. She only wanted to be with my sister. (I know I sound resentful - maybe I am a little - OK a lot).
The noises started about 2 months after my mother passed. Whispers, knocking, grinding and dragging noises. They usually happen when I am alone in the late night when I cannot sleep. I usually go into the living room, so my husband won't get disturbed by my restlessness. I sit there in the dark reading my Kindle. I hear the knocks and then a soft whisper I cannot quite make out. My cats jump into my lap and snuggle down deep, although their ears are perked. They seem nervous. I see a quick movement and the sound of footsteps down the hall. I think it's my husband going to the bathroom, but the light doesn't come on nor does the door close. I put the cats to the side and creep down the hall. I walk through a wall of cold. I am chilled to the bone. I peek into my bedroom and I see the shape of my husband under the covers. I then catch the sight of a shadow leaning over him. I shake my head and again heard the whispers.
I keep telling myself, my mother is not here. Lately it has become my nighttime litany. "My mother is not here, my mother is not here, my mother is not here".
One night last week as I was saying my litany, I heard in my ear "BUT I AM"!!!!
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Just something I had to put down.
... yikes.
Yea, I am in a dark place right now.
Afternoon Veronica..
Remember life is full of shadows, but it's the sunshine that makes them all..
The dark times will pass, peace will be restored...things will return to normal...
Next time you hear, but I am..I would be saying well it's bloody time you go...
Thanks for the hug....
A beautiful rose. It brightens my day.
I am hoping for just a little bit of light.
AND THE DARKEST HOUR'S JUST BEFORE DAWN!
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Opening lyrics:
THIS IS DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE
By The Mamas and the Papas (1967)
While I'm far away from you my baby
I know it's hard for you my baby
Because it's hard for me my baby
And the darkest hour is just before dawn
Oh man, that brings back memories.
Till the last sentence I was blaming the cats
They are mischievous.
Usually they are the ones to blame!
Absolutely!
Be ware! She is there!
I know I said on one of your previous articles that I, too, have sometimes noticed a movement, a shadow movement, out of the corner of my eye, but when I turn my head nothing unusual is there. I have also experienced premonitions sometimes, although unfortunately not when it comes to lottery numbers.
Quite a few years ago, I awakened from a dream with a vivid memory of a set of numbers and they were the same amount that would be in a lottery including the power ball. So later in the day I played those numbers and I was handed the ticket with those numbers on it.
Did you win? Only twice have I won - once I won $5,000 in a lottery, and once I won a vacation for 2 in Rio de Janiero, where my then wife did not want to go so all I could do was negotiate with the travel company and ended up with a week in Miami Beach, where the weather was so cold there were only 3 days during which we could lie on the beach, in SWEATERS. Although that wasn't the reason for the divorce it may have been taken into considertion by me when I eventually DID divorce her, because I STILL resent having to give up Rio de Janiero.
I cannot imagine why someone would not want to spend a week or two on a free vacation in Rio. That's like a dream come true for me
I can't recall her reason, but I think she was scared - being in a land where she didn't know the language and it was a society that was strange to her.
Thanks, Veronica, for tolerating our off topic dialogue.
No, the premonition was that I would see those numbers on a lottery ticket. As for winning the lottery, the odds are astronomical.
I have won the lottery several times and made $4 each time.
I do not mind off course discussion - just as long as it doesn't become a slap fight or has to do with that awful "P" word.
I'm the same on my articles. I think it's healthy for the site and good for those who carry on friendly conversations.
Often people deliberately go off topic when they are losing a politicalargument-- trying to change the subject. But OTOH over the years I have noticed that sometimes going "off topic" had led to some of the most interesting discussions!
Are you psychic?
Have you had other psychic experiences in the past?
I don't know if its still true, but many years ago there was a tremendous amount of crime in Rio. Alot of it was tourists being robbed (and/or otherwise scammed out of money). Robbed "In broad daylight")
Of course all psychic experiences will be in the past.
Yes, one was so alarming that it couldn't possibly be chalked up to coincidence. The dream had my wife, son, and I in a parking lot with for some reason a large hotdog in the parking lot and I ended up talking with someone who I hadn't seen in three years. The next morning, while at work, a job required me to take a business trip to the city 50 miles away, I notified my wife and she and my son wanted to go and visit a mall. We stopped at the mall and went in, did whatever they wanted to do and when we walked out across the parking lot at a motel was the famous hotdog vehicle it had just pulled up. My wife and son wanted to get a closer look at it, so as we walked up to it a man crossed in front of us and took a picture and when he turned around it was the man I hadn't seen in three years and we stood there a talked for a bit, before he informed us that at the request of his wife at the restaurant that she wished him to take a picture of the hotdog.
One of the latest ones, was a dream in which while working on something white I got swarmed by yellowjackets and ended up getting stung by a rather large black one on my mid-right forearm. That day I was removing the hood from my white pickup and bumping the truck around the yellowjackets, which, unknown to me, built a nest in the cab vent, swarmed me but I didn't get stung, so fearing I would eventually get stung I sprayed the vent area and waited until all activity ceased, then I proceeded to remove the hood only to get stung by a black paper wasp that had a nest in one of the hood hollows, but it stung me between the thumb and forefinger on the right hand, so I had changed the premonition. All the while my son is helping me and I am commenting about my dream and the events happening, I even told him that the sting was supposed to be mid-right forearm. Three days later my wife called me to come home from work to take care of a black paper wasp nest for she just got stung and our son informed her that I already knew where she got stung, and I said "mid-right forearm" and she said yes. So I didn't change the premonition at all, which lead me to this conclusion, premonitions/prophesies are future memories transmitted back through time, by whatever mechanism, and as it is for the present whatever happens in the future becomes that futures past and cannot be changed.
OK. Of course you are right! Then perhaps I should re-phrase the question:
Will you be having Psychic experiences in the future?
Apparently you remember many of your dreams? (Some people generally do, others generally don't). The phenomenon has been studied extensively-- there's even a name for that.
Having a psychic experience, whether while awake or dreaming, is called a "precognition". Everyone dreams. But some people claim they don't. What's happening is not that some people don't dream-- rather its that some people don't remember their dreams.
If a person doesn't remember their dreams but wants to remember them (bercause dreams are one way to access another aspect of your consciousness). there are techniques (meditations) you can do to remember them.
If a person doesn't remember their dreams but wants to remember them (bercause dreams are one way to access another aspect of your consciousness). there are techniques (meditations) you can do to remember them/.
In addition to these techniques using various types of meditations, there's an herb that you can take just before bedtime that often elicits dreams, usually ones that are remembered. Its called Mugwort (not to be confused with a more widely known herb called "Motherwort".).
As with any herb you're using for the first time, it should be organic and from a reputable herb store. Also, start with a very low dose and grsdually build up. (There are stores that just sell herbs-- usually the people that work there are usually quite knowledgeable about the herbs and can answer any questions you may have.
(For example, there are different varieties of Mugwort,,)
Finally, it should be mentioned that in Accupuncture there's a technique called "Moxibustion" where a small usually cone shaped mix is placed on a point and lit in fire. The herb used for this is Mugwort.
Crime is always a risk no matter where you are, for me the pros have always outweighed the cons when travelling
Can't really know about that, have had many already. Some were years in the making, for instance, right here on NT I noted when Starlink started sending up satellites that I had a precognition of that. I have for much of my life had a recurring dream of light formations in the night sky until I actually witnessed two different formations of satellites crossing overhead one night and since then I have never had that dream again.
Dreams of future events could be the next day or years away so basically kind of useless. One such one was I thought I had a precognition of WWIII with a mushroom cloud from an explosion to the east of where I was standing on our property, which made no sense, for there is not one thing worth targeting a nuclear weapon on east of us clean to the Atlantic Ocean. Later that day it came true, what it ended up being was a 5 gallon bucket of Tannerite used as a target for my nephew to shoot with a high power rifle at 300 yards to the east of us during his bachelors party.
I used to have dreams about nukes going off. I lived in rural PA. The largest city was Pittsburgh which was 75 miles away.
I always got these dreams after I watched a movie about nukes or ate ice cream before bed
meh, you never had to participate in futile acts of self preservation back in the early 60's. my elementary school was 10 miles southeast of a nuclear weapons plant.
I have had a few experiences that are beyond the norm, but at this time in my life I am putting it all down to age.
If ''age'' explains it, then for sure that applies to me.
Maybe you are somewhat psychic?
TPTB have heavily brainwashed us into believing that there's no such thing as Psychic abilities. that its all a hoax. And they are sucessful! So much so that when ordinary people have actual psychic experiences they tend to believe that they aren't real.
Everyone has the potential to be somewhat psychic-- and that ability can be developed. (Of course some rare people naturally have the gift of being truly psychic from birth).
I assume you know your Astrology chart?
Indications of psychic ability:
1. If you have a lot of planets in water-- especially the Sun, and/or Moon and/or Rising in water signs.... that indicates psychic ability.
2. The Moon in Pisces, Scorpio or Cancer.
3. Any planet, especially a benefic, in the 12th house! (Well, also in the 8th)
4. A "prominent" (heavily aspected) Moon, Neptune, or Pluto
5. A stellium in Pisces, Scorpio, or Cancer.
The MBTI ("Myers-Briggs Typology Inventory") is a different sytem of personality typing than than Astrology. It classifies people as being one of 16 types. One of the 16 is the INFJ. INFJs tend to be psychic.
I am Wiccan, so all that is in my wheelhouse.
Not surprising!
I was going to say that "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio . . . . . .
(But I decided not to)
Good thing you decided not to, because Willie S. could sue you for plagiarism.
So it wasn't Yogi Berra after all.
(Nor The Bible)
A Medium once told me that if spirits you don't want are contacting you, t apparently the thing to do is to very firmly tell them to go away...and if you do this apparently they will!
I tend to use sage to banish negative or unwanted spirits or energy.
I used to do that to my entire place once/week-- and more occasionally when needed. Also sometimes hold the Sage and move it all around my body ("Skyclad" of course )
A few years ago another plant was being popularized for smudging, IIRC it was called "Palo Santo". It was a small piece of wood. Hard to keep lit (I probably should had found a better form, one that stayed lit easily).
IIRC Sage came from North American Indians' tradition...Palo Santo from South American Indians.
I think of these as "space clearing". I suppose the reason I stopped using them was for space clearing was that I've done Feng Shui in every room. Permanent objects that remain in certain places.
This is an ancient Chinese art of controlling the path of "Chi" (also spelled "Qi", ""Ki" in Japanese, sometime referred to as "Light" in ancient Christianity, "Ruach" in Hebrew, ), in your environment..Among other things it may use Dragons (not real live ones, but wood carvings), small water fountains, Bamboo, wind chimes, pictures etc.
It can also use pictures or other representations of Holy figures. I believe Buzz said he has a statue of Kwan Yin. (IIRC she's from the Buddhidt trsadition?).
I use mainly tradition ancinet Chinese symbolism for my Feng Shui,with one exception. Having an ecumenical streak, I have a picture of the Hindu Goddess Lakschmi.
As in "Reiki"
(Reiki is a Japanese form of channeling energy,,,for healing)
And I fogot to mention the Hindu "Prana" (in Sanskrit).
Whenever my sister and I go someplace spooky we sage afterwards.
I go to a Reiki master once a year to be re-aligned.
you always have so much information about so many topics. I appreciate that a lot.
Reiki is great! But here's something to know about it that may be useful.
There are certain jobs for which you may hire a professional-- but also could do yourself. Let's say you have a tight muscle in your leg-- one that you could probably cure yourself-- perhaps a heating pad, and/or self message. Self massage-- or go to a professional message. (or Accupuncture, etc). Therer are pros and cons to each approach.
But there are others, more serious medical conditions, where you can't, and shouldn't try to heal yourself.
Its easy to assume that Reiki is done only by a professiona;-- a certified "Reiki Master". But is relatively quick and easy to permanently have that healing power in your own hands!
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There are different levels of Reiki. It started in japan, but there are lots of people who can do it (even non-professionally, just on themselves, perhaps family and a few friends. (And yes-- even cats-- they love it!)
In the U.S. almost every Reiki practitioner can do Level 1 and 2. And some who have Level 3. IIRC, each sucessive level is exponentially more powerful (and more expensive than the previous level). Only level 3's can call themselves "Reiki Masters".
I have had Reiki sessions by friends who have 1 & 2, and some who have Levels 1,2, and 3. (Level 4s are fairly uncommon in the U.S. but in decades I have met only two level 4s-- and their Reiki is amazing to experience!
I have had Reiki sessions by friends who have 1 & 2, and some who have Levels 1,2, and 3. (Level 4s are fairly uncommon in the U.S. but in decades I have met only two level 4s-- and their Reiki is amazing to experience!
One of the first healing modalities I aquired was rright after I graduated college (undergrad). I became a Level 2. (At the time money was tight so I didn't do level 3. And kept putting it off so I'm only a Level 2.
But: I never pay for treatments. In fact I get Reiki every day-- I do a full body treatment on myself every day. (I used to do sessions (for free) on friends and family. I also did a short session on a "Russian Blue", who obviously loved it!
No, a "Russian Blue" is not a person who is apolitical opponent of Putin-- in fact its actually a breed of pussycat!
Glad you like it
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The reason have all that info is I've always been extremely curious. So I like to research things to learn things. (Astrologically curiousity is a trait often associated with Gemini-- in fact I sometimes think of Geminis as "information collectors".) I have a fair amount of Gemini in my chart.
I do a lot of research on my own, but in addition to college courses, Ihave taken quite a few unconventional courses (Not college courses-- but courses re:"spirituality", unconventional methods of healing, unconventional states of consciousness...even manifesting with consciousness.
Among the most powerful was a year long program in developing and learning about Psychic abilities.
The teacher was naturally psychic. And she was a (mostly retired) police psychic, called in when a case has "gone cold". In addition to her basic course, I also took some advanced courses.
The one course of hers I didn't take was Mediumship, but will probably take it in the future..
However one of the weekends in the regular (beginning) course we did do some Mediumship! Initially I thought I couldn't do it but I learned how. I sucessfully called forth the spirit of one of the other student's deceased mother. Her mother's spirit had a conversation with me (in front of the class) -- the student's whose mother it was amazed-- as was I!
Later another student called forth the spirit of my deceased aunt-- it was definitely her-- I was amazed!
Now you know why I often find political discussions on NT to be rather boring!
the smell of cordite works pretty well too ...
I burn a different plant ...
Mr Giggles experienced strange things after my mother passed. She passed in the hospital not in the house. They were very close
I know for a fact she is not in my house because she literally told me she couldn't wait to leave.
What if she's trapped?
I guess I could verify & if she is send her back to KY with my brother who is coming for her memorial service & ashes burying.
Some people believe that at the instant of death, the spirit leaves the body. (Supposedly it goes somewhere else-- although Iknowing where it goes is...let's just say its above my pay grade!)
However some people believe that the spirit hangs around for a while, and may contact people who were close to the deceased-- via dreams, etc.
There are ways to contact spirits. (Similar to what the Muggles refer to as a "seance"> But the real name for that ability is "mediumship"-- a person who does it is called a "Medium"). Its not too common, but like 'regular" psychic abilities it can be learned.ome people naturally have that ability
Nice short story. I'm in the process of writing a romance novel. I don't expect anyone to ever read it. I'm on draft 3 of the first third of the story. Writing sex scenes are more difficult than I expected.
My issue is & has always been dialogue. It flows great in my head, but when I read what I wrote it is one massive mess. Thus why I stick to shrt short stories with very little to no dialogue.
I'd love to read your novel.
That too. I'd like to think I'm getting better.
You could be a beta reader... Right now I expect one to think it waffles between boring and online erotica.
Every time I get to a certain point I end up going back and rewriting the beginning. At least the 2 main characters are more real now and not shallow caricatures. The first pass was too 'knight in shining armor rescuing the damsel in distress'. The second pass was too way too slutty. Now, I think, I've built a supporting cast of characters who are there to support. I still feel like I have to go back and reassess the antagonist and that sub-plot.
What's wrong with slutty? I like that better than the damsel in distress
There will be some, but the plot should be more than just sex.
Huh? I thought that was the whole plot of romance novels?
Shouldn't that be the gravy - not the meat AND potatoes? I suppose I could be wrong. I don't read romance novels though I have found a few amature novellas online.
Check your gmail...
I guess so (pout face).
Just so you know, I like gravy...
romance novels helped wreck my marriage. the ex's idea of foreplay was me begging for 2 hours ...
lol
Were you tied up too? Kinky...
wtf? I said I was married then, didn't I?
I think you're supposed to take turns?
Nice!
Viagra is now available by mail!
Ecstasy can be pretty amazing
And some people love Cocaine...
Any of these might help (???)
But what do I know anyway?
(And actually I believe the last two are still illegal, eh?)
I'll ask my doctor to prescribe some tadalafil.
I'm ashamed to say I've read a lot of romance novels. the major elements of a sex scene are ripping off clothes, lots of tongue action, and heavy breathing
A while back I found out something interesting about the authors. Many of them are famous, highly respected authors! Of course they don't use their real name as authors of that types of book.
So why do they write those if they are already famous for more "serious" types of literature?
Well, IIRC that type of books are called "potboilers". Famous "respectable" authors write them because they can bring in a lot of extra money. Also, they can write a whole novel of that sort in a very short time!
Yeah... I have the tongue action and the heavy breathing but no actual ripping of bodices. Maybe in a later scene for dramatic effect?
They are formulaic like old pulp novels.
FYI - make sure that it was you that purchased the lingerie, before destroying it ...
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the odds were stacked against him?
The answers are rooted in William Lucas’s experience as a Black man from Harlem who made his living as a police officer, F.B.I. agent and judge. But Dr. Oney doesn’t receive the guidance in person. Her father has been dead for more than a year.
Instead, she listens to the answers, delivered in her father’s voice, on her phone through HereAfter AI, an app powered by artificial intelligence that generates responses based on hours of interviews conducted with him before he died in May 2022 .
His voice gives her comfort, but she said she created the profile more for her four children and eight grandchildren.
Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead - The New York Times
I Used AI to Create a Digital Twin of My Mother. It Made Me Cry. - Business Insider
Now that is interesting. Thanks for the links.