Posted on 02/02/2016 7:42:55 PM PST by lafroste
This may be a little out there, and I am the first to admit that it is late, and I am a little tired, so please be kind. I want to ask any other freepers if they have ever had real supernatural experiences. I ask because I have been subjected to dozens of them. I sometimes think that I am living in a caricature of this world. I want to know if any others have gone through this.
First off, my originating experiences (ie. experienced by me directly) are pretty lame. But there have been a bunch of them. They are mostly confined to virtually impossible acts (such as passing my hand over and hitting random keys of a computer keyboard and entering the correct 10 character security code, or transmitting thoughts directly into my intended audience- to hilarious results). However, I have been fated to know other people with, frankly, extraordinary abilities.
One was my first wife. Her grandmother (who practiced Santeria and kept chicken feet in a glass of water under the bed to ward off evil spirits) always said that all she wanted was to see (my wife) get married. She made a 3,000 mile bus trip, went to our wedding, and was dead less than 12 hours after the wedding. But that is not the weird part. The weird part was that at the moment of my wife's grandmother's death, my wife, who was 400 miles away, woke up from a dead sleep (our wedding night) and started screaming and sobbing and carrying on in a language I did not know. I calmed her as best I could, and told her I would phone home in the morning (it was the middle of the night).
I called my father the next morning, and he reluctantly told me that the grandmother had passed the night before at the exact time my new wife woke up and went crazy.
Fast forward 20 years. My now ex-first wife called me up out of the blue (I hadn't spoken to her in at least 5 years at that point) and told me that my mom had just passed. She told me of a vision of hope and joy, but I was baffled by it all. The next morning I received calls from relatives that my mom in fact had died just when the ex told me she had.I have had several other acquaintances who also have demonstrated extraordinary abilities. I really ought to write a book about all of them.
Here is my question: I cannot be the only person who has experienced phenomena like this. From resurrections to deer inhabited by the spirits of the departed to jokes that transcend humor, surely other people have seen these things. So, i am asking for your stories. That we live in a supernatural world is, to me, undeniable.
That we die, that’s embarrasing.
You waited until the next day to find out from other relatives calling you that your mother actually had died?
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There is no necessity for putting chicken feet in a glass of water under the bed.
Indian corn, the multi-colored variety, hung at the front door and back door will do the trick.
That is directly out of Santeria.
Peter popoff gets people to buy his spring water so that they may have supernatural money show up in their accounts
Or, paint your porch ceiling Haint Blue, they hate that.
My late father grew up in Northern Missouri and Iowa during the Depression. One day, his grandmother asked him to fetch her pipe from the house as she sat in her rocker on the porch. After she smoked a bowl, her already dead husband visibly came and took her to Heaven while my father watched. Her body, of course, remained in the rocking chair.
When they told Helen Keller LSD would make her see things she said I am going to have to try that.
The next day I was telling my husband about it. An older gentleman was there and he told me we had heard the children who burned up in the fire.
Many years before a house in the area burned and about 6 children died. He had been out in the area coon hunting with a friend when they heard the screams. The fire had happened before he was born and he had never heard the story.
He said we were lucky to have heard the children playing and laughing instead of screaming.
Yep, as are your constant posting of vanities over the last 15 years.
CS Lewis took issue with the terms, “supernatural,” and, “paranormal.” He indicated they were perhaps the ultimate expression of human vanity, suggesting we had a complete understanding of all that is, “natural,” or, “normal”. Less than a milennia ago, people believed that a solar eclipse was a beast trying to devour the sun. A thousand years from now, people will look back at our grotesque ignorance with similar amusement.
I suspect there may full well be legitimate cases of psychokinesis, precognition, ESP, etc. which all have perfectly, “natural,” explanations we as of yet fail to understand.
I’ve never had a supernatural experience, does this mean I’m dead already?
I used to have out of body experiences when I was young, and no they were not drug related. Several years ago I house SAT for a friend of mine for a week. He liked to go to fortune tellers etc. There was some entity in that house that apparently did not like me, lights would go on off by themselves I would hear coughing and other noises that I could not explain. One morning I woke up suddenly and then was pushed by something causing me to almost roll off the bed.
“I’ve never had a supernatural experience, does this mean I’m dead already?”
Yep,and now we’ll all start seeing you.
Frightening !!!!!
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I pretty much expected that these post responses would be filled with invective’s. Oh well. If you read them, there are two answering posts to about 8 slamming posts. About what I expected. Maybe it is not I that need to open my eyes. Just saying....
I had an out of body experience just once. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that it was forbidden to me. I have never tried since.
I liked his response. People greatly desire a consciousness of power, real or imagined.
CS Lewis was a Christian so he most definitely believed in the supernatural. There was a time in his life when he was young when he was an atheist so maybe that reference you cited was from writings he did during that time.
Yeah, eventually I got the word on that too and stopped doing it. However they served their purpose because these experiences caused me to believe in the supernatural which eventually led me to become a Christian.
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