Have you ever had the experience where you think of someone
and then the phone rings and it is that person calling you?
Or where you talk about someone and that person walks into
the room unexpectedly?
And then there are the many instances where people
disappear and their loved ones know in their heart of
hearts whether they are alive or dead, but have no way of
explaining that knowledge. An example is the disappearance
of Madeleine McCann in Portugal a year ago. I personally
am convinced that she is still alive - that is what my gut
feel tells me. Many other parents and loved ones are not
so fortunate - and they know it, and are just waiting for
confirmation. I really feel so sorry for them, but then
we all choose our experiences because we need to learn from
them.
I have learnt over the years to dread dreaming about people
close to me like my son or my partner. I know from
experience that those dreams invariably are warnings of
trouble ahead. For many years I was only aware of these
dreams that came true a few days later, and I did not
realize that they were early warnings. Once I have had
the dream, all I can do is wait for the trouble to
materialize and then deal with it. If I had known this
years ago when I first became aware of those particular
dreams, I would have made different life choices. My life
has turned out to be perfect for its purpose anyway,
because those experiences and the warning dreams have been
a very important part of my spiritual path and my growing
awareness.
How does this work? Here is my unscientific version.
Take a sheet of newspaper. Fold it in half, and then in
half again, so that you have four layers of newspaper. Now
take a pair of scissors and cut the outline of a person out
of the newspaper, but cut it out from the knees upwards.
You should end up with four people touching hands, and
joined from their knees downwards.
That is a representation of us, the people on earth and in
the universe. We are all unique and individual, but at the
same time we are all one and linked together. If you want
to, you can give names to the people you cut out. How
about calling them Me, Sister Teresa, Osama bin Laden and
Sarah Jessica Parker? Why not? Why would you want to be
one with Sarah Jessica Parker but not with Osama bin Laden?
We do not have much choice in this - we are all one. If
you had cut out six figures, you could have named the last
two Jesus and Adolf Hitler. Or you could have named them
after you most and least favourite teachers at school.
Either way, this gives you an idea of how we are all linked
together in this Universe.
We seem to have stronger links to some people than to
others, as if the paper was folded double so that the
figures would be joined from the knees downwards but also
touch closely on all the other parts. The people that we
have stronger links to are those that we associate with on
a daily basis. They would for example be lovers, close
family, friends and even animals.
I have read about an experiment that was done with a woman
and her dog. The woman would leave home to go somewhere
specifically for the experiment, in other words not part of
her daily routine. She would travel in a random direction,
and at some point decide to stop and turn back home. She
would note the time when she decided to turn back home.
At the same time there was a person at her home that would
observe the behaviour of the dog. Invariably, the dog
would get up and wag its tail in anticipation of the return
of the woman, a few minutes BEFORE the woman consciously
decided to stop and turn back. How did the dog know the
woman was on her way back? The dog had no hesitation
tuning into the quantum vacuum to ensure that he would
retain contact with his owner, because the dog has not
learnt yet to fear the unknown. We tune in the same way,
but we do it unconsciously, and that is how we become aware
of the well-being and distress of those that we feel
closest to us.
I grew up in an area where there would regularly be light
earth tremors - near the gold fields in South Africa. We
could also see in the behaviour of the animals when an
earthquake could be expected, and even how severe it would
be. If the animals - both chickens and dogs - became
restless, there would be a light tremor. If they started
behaving completely out of character, that would be the
time to go outside and expect a more severe tremor.
The same happened during the tsunami a few years ago.
There were a number of elephants with their mahouts or
drivers in one area. These elephants were tame and used to
having people on their backs. On the specific day, the
elephants ran to higher ground and nearly threw the people
off their backs. They then ran down again and grabbed
unsuspecting people with their trunks and dumped them on
higher ground.
The mahouts had no control over the animals, and only
realised what had happened when the devastating wall of
water came.
Imagine waves of energy around us and emanating from us.
Those waves of energy probably have the same strength for
each one of us, but we are only tuned into those that we
consciously want to pick up, like a radio that is tuned
into a specific station. The other stations are there, but
if we tune into all the stations, it would be too much for
our minds (and our ears) to cope with.
So we simply tune into those people that we care most
about, and then we are surprised when we know about their
well-being before they know themselves - because we do not
understand what we know intuitively. We live on the
surface of a sea of information, and we are only aware of a
tiny bit of that information.
So when you have a very strong and often apparently
completely irrational feeling about something, accept that
it is real, and act on it. It will make a huge difference
to your life and someone else's life.
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Elsabe Smit is the author of A Tapestry of Life and of the
blog http://www.mypurpleblog.com , Spiritual
interpretations of everyday life.
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