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Like so many people, I've always wondered: Is it real? Are paranormal things - things coming from outside the five senses - real? What about intuitions, premonitions? Is there paranormal evidence, intuition proof, supernatural proof?
I don't need proof that seasons exist. I can see for myself. But as someone who doesn't feel very close to the paranormal - but isn't ready to say, anything I can't see for myself is nonsense, I long for evidence, proof.
I want to believe, by the way. I want to believe in the power of intuition, of premonition - not premonitions about some fixed future, but about some potential future hovering around.
So I loved reading, recently, Is There Such a Think as Premonition That Foretells Future Events, an interview with Larry Dossey, MD, who just wrote The Power of Premonitions.
The source of the interview:
a huge health site that I like - lots of emphasis on research, good science.
I strongly care about evidence. Otherwise, something is just an impression or a belief that could well be wrong, no matter how right it feels - as so many rigidly held beliefs have been proven wrong.
The article. What does it say that I loved reading? Basically it says that what I would like to be true is true: the future is not rigid, but there is evidence of premonitions and intuitions that - if people listen - often let them avert danger, disaster, catastrophe.
The most vivid story:
Amanda, a young mother in Washington State, was awakened one night by a horrible dream. She dreamed that the chandelier in the next room had fallen from the ceiling onto her sleeping infant’s crib and crushed the baby. In the dream she saw a clock in the baby’s room that read 4:35, and that wind and rain were hammering the windows. Extremely upset, she awakened her husband and told him her dream. He said it was silly and to go back to sleep. But the dream was so frightening that Amanda went into the baby’s room and brought it back to bed with her. Soon she was awakened by a loud crash in the baby’s room. She rushed in to see that the chandelier had fallen and crushed the crib - and that the clock in the room read 4:35, and that wind and rain were howling outside. Her dream premonition was camera-like in detail, including the specific event, the precise time, and even a change in the weather.
more The big thing: the baby did not die, the baby was not hurt, the baby was safe with the mother because she listened to her dream.
Of course not all fear dreams are linked with reality. They can come from worry, rather than from danger.
However, it's important to take into account that a fear dream, or the sense that one is having a premonition or intuition, may be based on a likely or looming future reality.
Lots more paranormal evidence is presented - including very controlled experiments that can only be explained by the existence of premonition.
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Here's another very vivid story, in this case on the power of intuition. It's not from that article, but from a review of a recent book by Michael Smerconish, Instinct - The Man Who Stopped the Twentieth Hijacker.
The story: one of the men who was supposed to hijack a plane on 9/11 was stopped at the border by an everyday border guard, Jose Melendez-Perez. His supervisors and colleagues were unanimously against him: he was doing racial profiling, they held, which was totally against Department of Transportation policy. There was going to be trouble. His answer: "I don't care. This guy's a bad guy. I can see it in his eyes." He sent the guy back out of the United States.
Though his supervisors were furious, sure that Jose's actions were based on discrimination, Jose was sure of something else: This man is bad. Without evidence, that's what he knew. And he was right - we know because the same man was later captured in Afghanistan and definitely linked to 9/11.
The plane the man was supposed to be on is the only one that did not hit its target.
Perhaps passengers were able to overwhelm the remaining hijackers because he was missing. Disaster still happened: the plane crashed, killing all on board - but it at least did not strike its intended target.
Someting else to ask: why did no one intuit about the other 19 hijackers? or, of someone did, what stopped the person from listening to his or her intuition?
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I like the findings on the power of intuition and paranormal experiences - which I have irrationally believed in without proof. Inside me I "know" that the future is not fixed, yet that there are probable futures heading our way which we may somehow sense and in that way sidestep danger, evade catastrophes - or move toward, if what we sense if what we want.
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More paranormal evidence. I've taught Walls, the autobiography of Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, many times. Each time I was struck by how many dangerous situations she escaped. Hiltgunt Zassenhaus - she saved the lives of 1200 prisoners of war during World War II, over and over risking her life - for example, by carrying suitcases of food and vitamins into prisons.
Just one story: amidst all the bombing and destruction, she had a safe haven one night - Dresden, totally untouched. A good night's sleep. Somehow she changed her mind, did not stay. She took one of the last trains out - and Dresden was fire-bombed that night, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. The bombing had been decided long before she left. Probably the bombers had even already left England. But no one else in Dresden seems to have "heard".
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That a very strong argument in favor of developing intuition, recognizing the power of intuition or whatever we want to call paranormal experiences.
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Hiltgunt's "hearing" makes sense to me: things are likely. Likewise, some things are set to happen - like the chandelier was about to fall. But the baby does not need to be underneath, crushed - not if someone can "hear" and heed the warning.
Good things can be on their way. And if we're lucky, perhaps we can "hear" and even head out to meet them.
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And then I ask myself: why do I deeply feel there is some flexible future, some potential future that we can have a connection with? Maybe that comes from some intuitive sense that that is so - in other words, from some paranormal sense. Maybe my sense of reality, in which there is a potential but flexible future, comes from my connection to the paranormal. The other possibility is that it comes from some unfounded and inaccurate belief.
I don't have the sense of having paranormal experiences, or having developed the power of intuition. I see myself, when it comes to paranormal proof, paranormal evidence, as someone without the power of intuition. But I haven't relied on my five everyday senses to come to my sense of what constitutes reality.
The conclusion is clear, I'm either para-nutty or do have some connection to the paranormal.
signed,
Elsa
September 15, 2009
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definition of paranormal:
- extrasensory, outside normal sensory channels;
- beyond the range of normal experience: so paranormal phenomena include telepathy;
- psychic or mental phenomena outside the range of the normal five senses.
Of course we may have our five sense pick up things that we are not aware of. In that case, we are not having paranormal proof, paranormal evidence, let alone paranormal experiences, and not even the power of intuition. It's just that we can't put our finger on it - but the evidence is there, coming from our very everyday senses.
Proof of paranormal experiences has to come from things that cannot be known by the five senses. We may have a sense this is a good street to turn down - something is pulling us there, and then see an old friend on that street, or find out we just missed a major accident on the street we left. Either of those things fit within the definition of paranormal experiences - and so constitute paranormal evidence.
Best to do - open ourselves as much as we can - first to what is something from inside us (feelings, thoughts, perceptions) and also to what is coming through our senses - and to be aware of the potential power of intuition, to do our best at developing intuition.
Even should we get loads of paranormal evidence of the existence of a potential future some of us can somehow, sometimes connect to, there's no telling how many of us could do this, and how far it could go, and how big the consequences could be - if more and more of us lived aligned with influences outside our senses.
Important to get rid of what holds many of us from anything that might smack of supernatural experiences or the arcane and the occult. Likewise important to be on guard against those rigidly sure of paranormal experiences without evidence.
Elsa
Sept 15, 2009
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