On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:33:52 +0100, JJ wrote:
> Thanks for the booklist Gary, I'll look into it asap as it sounds like a
> good place to start.
> I am not so clever on the subject but my own feeling is that there is
> 'something' of which we are a part, rather then seperate entities. I
> also sense that there is more around us then we are aware of in this
> life. I never belived much in the 'spirit' things, but I have a nephew
> (Paul) who had a strange experience the other week and it made me think.
> He's not clever enough to make this story up, and he's not into BS
> either. It's the fact that I 'know' him which makes this story
> believable to me....'even though I don't understand it. He and his wife
> had felt for months there was something with them in their, watching
> maybe. His 3 year old son kept pointing to a corner of his room and
> saying 'man, man' but they thought nothing of it at first. After a while
> though they began to wonder why the kid kept saying this and why the
> room felt so cold in that corner when he said it. A friend suggested
> they contact a spiritualist to see if he could tell them something. The
> guy came out to the house and immediately said simply 'you've got
> company'. He said he could see a man in the corner of the room, but he
> described him in detail to them both and then revealed to 'Paul' a story
> that no-one could possibly have known. The man was his grandad who
> passed away over 10 years ago and he gave Paul many messages form him
> which made sense to him. Paul asked questions and the guy got the
> answers for him. Then his grandad told him he should not be hurting his
> wife so much as she was crying when he was out. He told him he was not a
> good husband to her but must change his ways. Paul was in a state about
> it all as she had suffered from depression. The thing is, they live in a
> relatively new house and a hundred miles from anyone they know, so this
> guy had never known of Paul's grandad. It's easy to say "there are ways
> to find out", but the guy was there as soon as he was called out. Also,
> his grandad was a very private person. I was dumbstruck when he told me
> all of this. What might 'you' make of it though?
J, why not? Stranger things have happened in this world. We here in the
Western World have long overlooked the spiritual side of life, dismissing
it as sheer superstition. But the more I delve into spiritual subjects,
the more I find out that we are missing out on a lot, maybe even the most
im****tant part of life!
You may not know, but apart from being a Reiki practitioner, I'm also a
taijiquan and qigong student. 10 years ago, if someone had asked me about
any of this, I would have laughed my head off and accused them of being
ignorant, superstitious dumbbells. Well, one day at the gym, a lady
showed up to start a taiji class, and I had always wanted to do a martial
art, so I signed up, having no idea what taiji was. She started spouting
off about all this oriental nonsense, and some mystical energy called
'qi', and I thought to myself "yadda, yadda, yadda, lady, let's skip the
bull**** and get on with the martial art". But I kept my mouth shut, my
ears open, and followed instructions, and a few months later, I had the
experience of qi circulating through my body during one of our exercises
and realized that maybe there's something to this stuff after all? Maybe
it just needs a good scientific study to explain it in ordinary terms and
get the "superstitious bull****" out of it, but there must be something
going on.
Hah! I didn't know the half of it. One day I heard the teacher talking in
a lowered voice with one of the other students and overheard the word
"Reiki". I asked what that was, and the teacher, knowing what kind of a
hard-core skeptic I was, just said it was "very spiritual" and let it go
at that. I couldn't pry anything else out of her, and since class was
over, I went on my way and left them to finish their conversation. Over
the next 2 weeks, everywhere I went I ran into people mentioning Reiki to
me, and previously, I had never heard of the thing! The next time I saw
my taiji teacher, I mentioned it and she said, "Maybe the Universe is
trying to tell you something?" Which, for me, was a bizarre thought in
and of itself. I had never conceived of the Universe as a single entity,
much less an intelligent entity that might be interested in giving me
hints. Immediately after that I signed up for a qigong class, and lo and
behold, the person next to me in class turned out to be a Reiki teacher.
Talk about coincidences! Needless to say, I signed up, and it was all
over except for waiting for the fat lady to sing.
Maybe not as exciting as having grandpa visit long after the funeral, but
I'm convinced there's more to life than meets the eye. :-)
Love and Light,
Garry
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