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.
Find a Holy Spirit filled Pastor or believer who can help you. Renounce satan and all his works, all this occult and repent of your sins and receive Jesus Christ. Don’t play with demons they are insidious and will kill you at some point.
I have had many supernatural experience with God Who has all authority in heaven and earth. I have seen his radiance, heard his audible voice and felt his hand on my shoulder, cast manifesting demons out and saw one once and more. But nothing compares to the intimate relationship we can have with God and knowing his love and forgiveness. Don’t wait, run to Jesus now.
A lot of folks have made a big deal about how HRC won 6/6 coin flips Monday night. A 1/64 chance. Of course, if everyone in the world flipped a coin 6 times that night, around 93,000,000 people would have come up with heads every time. And a whole lot of other people didn’t. Make it 20 straight heads and you’re still looking at about 6,000 “winners” (even though the odds are roughly 1 in a million to flip 20 heads in a row).
Now, what your wife did a couple times is a whole lot more unlikely than a coin flip. But then again, I suspect we could find millions of people whose wives made the same “predictions” but were wrong both times, and thousands who were right once. Statistically speaking, this stuff is going to happen. It is extremely unlikely that I will win the lottery (especially since I don’t “play”), but it is NOT unlikely that SOMEONE will.
About 3 hours later, I received a call that my father had been found dead at home of a sudden fatal stroke. A few days later, I looked at his PC, and found his last activity was within a few minutes of that attack.
Uncanny coincidence?
My husband woke up one night to see a woman standing at the foot of our bed. He said she was waving he arms in a “shoo” fashion at our cat, which was sleeping at my feet. He said the cat jumped off the bed and then the lady slowly faded away. He had no idea who she was. I’m GLAD I was asleep!
Also, we have a family friend who claims to know when somebody is going to die He sees a kind of fog over someone’s face. He is a quiet, gentle, Christian family man. He said he hates his ‘ability’.
Beautiful summary, thank you for your wisdom.
Most humans would consider God a, "supernatural," being. Lewis would (and did) contend that what we refer to as, "the supernatural," is perfectly natural, but beyond our comprehension. What could be more, "natural," than God, the creator, source and origin of all nature?
Wish I could contribute, but it would be anecdotal and impossible to prove, and to what purpose? To share your exposure to mockery?
There's "more to it" than we know, and paranormal experiences should be considered mere dividends, and gifts from God that bolster our faith by demonstrating the incompleteness of reason and science.
Read “Mere Christianity”, Lewis clearly identifies A natural and supernatural world. Such a world view is the foundation of Christianity.
Okay, ya got me there. :)
Trust me I have read it. Numerous times. Yes, he uses the language and the terminology because that’s what hs people understand, but in one of his lesser known works (I don’t recall which at present), he discusses those terms at length and questions them. He illustrates his point with the miracle at Caana where Christ turned water into wine. He pointed out that the same occurrs in nature (with the intervention of a grape vine, a vintner and time, etc.) but that water can be turned into wine. We view the grapevine, vintner route as, ‘natural,’ because that is the scope of our worldly experience, but just because something occurs outside the scope of our experience does not mean it is unnatural. To the believer that truly understands God can do all things, nothing should be considered outside the realm of possibility be it turning water into wine, parting the Red Sea, etc. In fact, to those who believe in the possibility of Divine intervention, such things should be considered perfectly natural.
By definition, divine intervention is the intervention of the supernatural into the natural created world. It is true though as CS Lewis points out, that this supernatural intervention does not break the laws of the natural world only speed them up a bit. Still it is the intervention of the supernatural into the natural world.
I’m not going to argue the point, and I wish I could recall the book in which Lewis made the point, but I cannot. I’ll simply leave you with the same question Lewis posed, and it made a very profound impression on me, so I will assure that if it’s not verbatim it’s pretty close:
“What could be more, ‘natural,’ than that which existed before all else?”
Dude, lafroste obviously killed both our freakin’ cats.
I wonder to this day, what my grandfather was saying to me.
What was the dog’s reaction to the energy?
This is for those who awake with someone standing by the bed in the dark hours of the night. Those who can’t move or open their heavy eyes to see or open their mouths to scream. They can’t defend themselves against the terror that is shortly to come upon them. And worst of all, they’re too ashamed to tell anyone about it.
This I know all too well.
I wish I didn’t.
I awake to a man beside the bed. He is evil and he is there to kill me. He’s got tools of torture. I can’t utter a sound and I can’t move to defend myself. I see him, but my eyelids feel like weights are attached to them. Just too hard to open fully.
This began to happen on a regular basis and would destroy the rest of the night. There’s no way I could go back to bed after those experiences. Sometimes, it would wreck sleep for weeks or months at a time because a fear of sleeping slowly begins to creep in. With less sleep, the fear makes more sense and grows. A bad cycle.
“Fear not,†said the Master.
This is not supernatural. Being given the answer right before my eyes on the asking, however, could be. ;-)
It happened again one night, and I cried out to God. I came here, to my computer, as I waited on the coffee pot to do its magic. Flipped the lid and within a few seconds the answer was staring me in the face: sleep paralysis. The brain was waking seconds ahead of the body. Out of sync.
My brain half-awake but my body soundly sleeping, the worst fears tucked deep inside were being played out and I could not move my body to help myself. Once I understood what was going on, I was able to take a breath the next time and realize that I just couldn’t move my body. I focused, fuzzy as the focus was, on the fan in the bedroom and tried to remain calm. I went back to sleep. No terror. It dawned on me later that in every instance I never really opened my eyes to see anyone. My eyes were closed even though I would have sworn that I had opened them and would have sworn that the man was in the room. “But,†I said to self, “don’t you remember how you were trying so hard to open them and you couldn’t?†Then answered I, “That’s right. I already know what the room looks like, I don’t need to open my eyes to see it because my mind already “sees†it.â€
“But remember how you could work out so many features and even knew what he had in his tool kit? Remember how it was pitch black dark, but you saw everything?†Not really. There’s no way for that to have happened … that I “saw†a man but couldn’t see anything about him but absolutely without doubt “knew†everything. ‘Course I did, because it came from my own mind. I invented the whole thing myself.
It’s called by some, The Old Hag. In some cases, “she†sits on the sleeper and they feel they can’t breathe. The brain is forced to try to make sense of what is going on with the fact that the person can’t move, so what does it do? It digs around in all the sewage of the mind to dredge up the worst because when you can’t feel your body, you’re in pretty bad shape. A mind’s got to do what a mind’s got to do: it needs an explanation. And it’s going to have to be a darn good one, right?
So, what’s the solution? Best I recall was to not sleep on your back and not go to sleep with a full stomach. It’s extremely important to not allow yourself to become exhausted before going to bed.
If it happens again, I plan (ha ha) to try to turn it into something beautiful. I’ll try to retrieve something from the better parts of the storehouse, where all the file cabinets are full of the good stuff.
The information helped me greatly, and I thank God for it. Maybe someone will read this and it will serve them well, too. Sometimes it’s just a relief to know what “it†is and that others have “it†too.
God is good.
Bilocation. Girlfriends claim to see me in other places I was not, despite having already told them I was going to be somewhere else, and that’s why I couldn’t go to their family get-together.
“..sleep paralysis. The brain was waking seconds ahead of the body. Out of sync.”
I get that too. Usually about 20 minutes right after I go to bed and fall asleep. Nothing to distinct - other than thinking that there is a presence of someone in the room. Sometimes I figure it out while I’m in that state and tell “it” to F-off in my mind. Other times it will freak me out a bit - but then realize the dog isn’t barking - so all is well!
Thanks for all the good information SC! The figure my husband believes he saw was glowing green, according to him. He dreams in color I guess! He didn’t have sleep paralysis but does sleep on his back. Me, I sleep on my side or on my stomach. I had one incidence of sleep paralysis when I was a teenager, and that was it. We live in a 200+ year old farmhouse. Except for my husband’s dream/vision, we’ve never had any weird experiences except right before and after my mom passed away, and that was completely unrelated to the age of the house.
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