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Sir Adrian Dangerous wrote:

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A heathen!?! Forsooth, platinumprincss6, have you not been touched by his noodly goodness??? :-) Actually, I'm interested in your pan-religious take on the subject. Please expound. I'm very unfamiliar with the whole wiccan tradition, and am unable to recognize it unless the show actually points it out to me, as in the case of the "pond exorcism" of the Dark Man. (It was interesting that in the context of my Catholic upbringing I actually found that ritual very familiar and comfortable, so I am interested in knowing more.)


What can explain this void? Two likely explanations are a) it is all hogwash, or b) I am a non-receptor. Sadly, I'm afraid, like Columbus's impervious natives, it is the latter. I cannot see it. I cannot feel it. I can never know it. It is beyond my ken. Your tales are of interest me me, if no one else. I would be delighted if you would share them.

Incidently, my favorite "ghost' story of all time is the story of "Gef" the supernatural "Talking Mongoose" or "Dalby Spook" that inhabited a tiny cottage on the Isle of Man for a short time, described by Nandor Fodor in "Story of the Poltergeists Down the Centuries."

First, you are an excellent writer. Second, I think I am predisposed to view the reckoning with spirits more from a "spiritual" view than a "religious" view. This of course is all based on fiction, unfortunately. I am mildly frightened by ghost and thus do not seek them out. To this end, like you, I have not witnessed ghosts. I am however convinced that I have been visited by loved ones who have passed on.

My paranormal activities have come to me via dreams or just knowing things and in one on instance feeling a presence. I just knew something was going to happen the day Reagan was shot. I have just known that a plane was going to crash. On a more personal note, I have dreamt two occurences, one while it was happening and another the two days before it happened. In most cases, the situations are similar, but the players are different. Or the players were accurate but the situation was different.

In one case, a sniper was shooting at the train that my mother rode to work. It wasn't her train but it was the same route. At the same time that this was occuring, I was dreaming that someone was shooting at my mom on our corner but she was on a bus. My dream was so vivid that I woke up in a panic. I tend to think that my receptiveness is heriditary in a roundabout way which totally contradicts my pan-religious take. I have several relatives that are very religious (Christian - Pentecostals). In the throes of their religious passion, they experience other-worldiness, for example speaking in tongues. I think that if I was religious, my receptiveness would present in the same way as their religious passions. Since I am more spiritual than religious, I think I am tuning into something that is other-worldly but manifests differently. It gets interesting that the relative that visited me was very religious and spoke in tongues at will outside of religious contexts when alive. So my take, spirits, religion, pre-cognition may possibly all be reaching the same sphere. It just may manifest differently in different people. All of it is explaining the unexplained to a certain extent. When you have a conversation with a family member and they speak in tongue at will, it may lead one to it being more of a push than a pull. If the receptors are open to receive the stimulus. I don't have receptors to see, I have receptors to know. I don't believe I will ever see. Honestly, I don't want to see.

The second incident that I dreamt was way more tragic. In addition, during the day while the tragedy was transpiring, I felt what could only be described as a similar pain as the person. When he passed, my pain ceased. My sister also had the same phenomenon happen, a really bad headache for no apparent reason and then it just stopped suddenly. In this case, my dream moved me to reach out to the individuals in the dreams which happened prior to the event. I had them two nights in a row. However, as I mentioned the situation was spot -on, the relationships between the parties were spot-on, however the real individuals involved were different. Which brings in another level of subjectivity. There is no doubt in my mind, that something was sending me a message. Obviously, when I have really bad, vivid dreams and wake up anxious, it scares me. However, on occasion, I have these dreams and nothing of consequence happens.

To expound on your original question, my experience of not being particularly religious but spiritual left me with a frame of reference that led to my belief that practioners dealing with the spirit world were less religious. I have always been fascinated with the Catholic faith's involvement in the spirit world, but thought it was mostly rumors not necessarily true. Again, I honestly didn't believe that the Clergy performed exorcists. So in that vein, I didn't believe, prior to this show, that any type of religious invoking would be useful with the spirit world. Since religion has never been a part of my experiences, I thought it was all fiction that religion was ever invoked and useful. Also, as far as I know, based on limited information, besides Animism and Christianity, I am unfamiliar with any other mainstream religion, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc. that tackle the spirit world directly. I have always thought the tools of the practioners were more spiritual than religious. For a lack of a better word, I always thought this realm was best tackled more directly. I can't really expound more than that because before this point, I never had to tackle my contradictory beliefs about it religion vs. spirituality.

Sir Adrian Dangerous wrote:

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Princess, your dreams are spellbinding. I've never dreamt, except for the few times I accidently wore a nicotine patch to bed. (Patches don't work, BTW. The only thing that worked was cold turkey and whyquit.com.) I've never had any experiences with protestants or pentacostals because I'm from Puerto Rico, and everyone in my family is Catholic, or Hoodoo, so the speaking in tongues thing is so fascinating. No one I know ever does it. It's hard to put something like that in the category of "put on" when the Catholic tradition has such spiritual fancies as stigmata and ecstasy. They're probably firmly in the same catagory: unexplainable, compulsory, emotional, vague, and supernatural.

Now, back to those amazing dreams. You must have known whilst having them, that you were not experiencing the ordinary nocturnal interlude. Did they feel different? Did you actually visualize yourself on the train? And to address your second dream, my most heartfelt condolences for your loss, and your dearly departed's anguish. I am truly sorry for your loss.

SAD,

I am really sorry to hear about your situation, a horrible situation.

My dreams - Yes, I know that they are different. They are so vivid. When you wake up sobbing (which I have) - I just know, I am on to something. I know to pay attention because something is happening or going to happen. I start making calls. I know something is going to happen. But don't get me wrong, they are rare.

I didn't visualize the train (reality), I visualized that my mom was on a school bus - which stopped on our corner in the dream. Someone was shooting at the bus in my dream. I woke up really upset, turned on the TV and there was a report of a sniper shooting at a train, the route my mom would normally take to work. Mode of transportation, bus in dream, train in reality. My dreams are never spot-on but after the fact, one can see the connection.

Normally, I hardly ever remember my dreams, well at least remember most of my dreams. Every once in a while something just comes through for me. They are not always as bad. One time, I dreamt that an ex impregnated his girlfriend. A few months later it happened. My take - I am getting tragic events in advance as well. However, the more tragic things I am getting are so horrific, like LJ's story, I can't see them. It has to be very loud for me to take notice. Loud enough that I wake up sobbing. They also tend to happen in the morning right as I am coming out of deep sleep. I can comprehend the ex impregnating the woman he was cheating with and process that because while painful, not the end of the world, but I can't comprehend the more subtle precognition of more tragic events that I am getting in advance because it is so incomprehensible. Maybe, I am in protective mode well in advance but after so many subtle dreams, my defense wears down and either the message is loud and clear or I am worn from battling the message. Luckily, I am not getting these dreams all the time. And luckily, some are pretty good. My dreams are very powerful and I seem to be the most receptive to paranormal activity when dreaming. A gift and a curse because as I said, the message is always indirect and imperfect but gnawing.

re: smoking - I am trying acupuncture in the New Year for smoking. Hopefully it will work.