Ghost-Sensitive People: What are your experiences?
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A couple of my personal experiences: I used to have dreams quite frequently that I had left my body; I found that by flapping my feet ( like fins) I could control my direction. Also there was one time that someone (in my mind) quite distinctly said "Nottoway". I have always assumed I was an Indian in a past life. A friend who is gifted told me she constantly saw an Indian standing around me . I also had a dream where a large brown bear was sitting by my driveway guarding my house (I took this as I was a member of the bear clan in my past life as an Indian)
Actually I was seated at a Ouija board session. I was too withdrawn to participate, but I sat next to my cousin who was one of the people touching the planchette. I remember him asking some sarcastic questions and the thing spelling out "go to hell" a few times. But everyone seemed to be having fun. I don't recall anything frightening or sinister about it. When the planchette was spelling out "go to hell" I could see an older African American man in my mind's eye. He didn't seem evil or anything like that. More like kinda annoyed.
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Actually I was seated at a Ouija board session. I was too withdrawn to participate, but I sat next to my cousin who was one of the people touching the planchette. I remember him asking some sarcastic questions and the thing spelling out "go to hell" a few times. But everyone seemed to be having fun. I don't recall anything frightening or sinister about it. When the planchette was spelling out "go to hell" I could see an older African American man in my mind's eye. He didn't seem evil or anything like that. More like kinda annoyed.
at least he didn't shout "drop dead" like in my case. but I think you were very lucky. the dark powers don't want to scare people away by and large, they want to draw you in so they will give you useful info for a while. then they will start getting difficult. I tell everybody I find who enquires about it to tread carefully.
Actually I was seated at a Ouija board session. I was too withdrawn to participate, but I sat next to my cousin who was one of the people touching the planchette. I remember him asking some sarcastic questions and the thing spelling out "go to hell" a few times. But everyone seemed to be having fun. I don't recall anything frightening or sinister about it. When the planchette was spelling out "go to hell" I could see an older African American man in my mind's eye. He didn't seem evil or anything like that. More like kinda annoyed.
at least he didn't shout "drop dead" like in my case. but I think you were very lucky. the dark powers don't want to scare people away by and large, they want to draw you in so they will give you useful info for a while. then they will start getting difficult. I tell everybody I find who enquires about it to tread carefully.
Hearing a voice say "drop dead" would be very chilling. I do hear voices though. It's been attributed to mild schizophrenia, but maybe I'm hearing the voices of spirits. It's never anything I can really make out and sounds like it's coming from another part of the house or off in the distance when I'm outdoors. Sometimes I hear my name said through, by a woman's voice.
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About the only time I've heard sounds or voices is when I'm still half asleep and in the process of waking up. I can hear some very usual one-off sounds that'll sound like they're in my room but when it sounds as strange as the stab at the beginning of this tune or an odd disembodied whisper I tend to write it off.
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I am fascinated by your quasi-schizophrenic experiences, I was dx'ed as a young boy, and I more often than most people hear things, and when I ask people "do you hear that?" I get the stare of the other. am glad I never heard spectral sources of my name, that would have spooked me but good. but when I was in the army, one of the other GIs used to kid me [I was substantially better looking then] by wolf-whistling me. after a while the army shipped him off to PA school, and a while later I was walking alone in a shopping mall near closing, I got on an escalator, then suddenly from out of nowhere I heard that same wolf whistle, and I looked around and found nobody. the wolf whistle repeated 4 separate times, separated by about a minute. each time I found no human source of that sound. btw, this GI was a psychic who came from a psychic family.
If someone was using a ouija board on a life raft I am sharing with them in the middle of the atlantic ocean, I would quite merrily take a dive down into the chilly depths where I'd be sanitized and cleanly separated from the murky mystically vigilant muck that from then onwards envelopes that unhallowed floating dinghy and hopefully emerge on a cheerful block of ice a couple miles away warming my backside with a couple compassionate seals or whatever that aren't going to start meddling with that other great unknown we exist around and between! I could never be in an environment where someone is using one of those dodgy boards, the rules and boundaries are difficult to judge the reach of, the roulette wheel has too many places you could hit and connect with something you don't want interaction with, plenty of stories are horse manure sure, but plenty ain't, there's something that goes further when you open up such a gateway, not saying it's an evil contraption but the circuit is not exactly safe to tread lightly upon.
I am fascinated by your quasi-schizophrenic experiences, I was dx'ed as a young boy, and I more often than most people hear things, and when I ask people "do you hear that?" I get the stare of the other. am glad I never heard spectral sources of my name, that would have spooked me but good. but when I was in the army, one of the other GIs used to kid me [I was substantially better looking then] by wolf-whistling me. after a while the army shipped him off to PA school, and a while later I was walking alone in a shopping mall near closing, I got on an escalator, then suddenly from out of nowhere I heard that same wolf whistle, and I looked around and found nobody. the wolf whistle repeated 4 separate times, separated by about a minute. each time I found no human source of that sound. btw, this GI was a psychic who came from a psychic family.
It gets confusing because I have extra sensitive hearing, so I also hear real stuff others don't. None of it bothers me much so I never put much thought into it. It's always been there. My great aunt is into psychic new age whatever stuff. She's talked about me being an "indigo child" and whatever.
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I wasn't able to find any of the books mentioned in this thread, but I found Spook by Mary Roach, about a scientific approach to the afterlife. Mary Roach is a skeptic, but throughout the book, she becomes more middle-of-the-road in her beliefs. She admits that "it's possible that the reason I've never experienced a ghostly presence is that my temporal lobes aren't wired for it. It could well be that the main difference between skeptics... and believers is [shut up Grammarly this is a quote] the neural structure they were born with." This sounds like it could be a neurotype, like autism. Or maybe it's more akin to an innate skill or talent. I hope neuroscientists will look into this.
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You might find this pdf to have a lot of worthwhile content, written by one of the better early 20th century Hermetic Qabalists and Golden Dawn diaspora occultists/magicians:
Dion Fortune - Psychic Self-Defense
http://jacquesricher.com/occult/psychic.pdf
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