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11 Jan 2015, 4:42 am
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ImAnAspie wrote:
Every now and again, I experience some that's pretty freaky, inexplicable and has happened so many times over the years, it's undeniable.
When I'm in that twilight area just as you're starting to wake up from sleep but still not quite lucid, I'll dream about a person. One whom I've not seen for several years and every time, within a couple of days, I'll bump into them.
This has happened so many times over the years, I just can't see any explanation.
Another time, I decided to look on the Internet for a childhood friend I hadn't seen since I was about 12 (I was 45 at the time I tried to find him). He wasn't on the Internet but a few days later, I was informed by my Mother that he'd died and it was around the same time I decided to look him up!
When I'm in that twilight area just as you're starting to wake up from sleep but still not quite lucid, I'll dream about a person. One whom I've not seen for several years and every time, within a couple of days, I'll bump into them.
This has happened so many times over the years, I just can't see any explanation.
Another time, I decided to look on the Internet for a childhood friend I hadn't seen since I was about 12 (I was 45 at the time I tried to find him). He wasn't on the Internet but a few days later, I was informed by my Mother that he'd died and it was around the same time I decided to look him up!
Yeah, I know wha'cha mean. When I first got here I started a thread asking if any other ASDers had, like, a sixth sense about things, or some feeling like that. I've had dreams that have come true, TOO, like what you described. Also, one time, at work, this man walked in, and I thought: "Good GOD, he looks like a child molester!!" LOL I don't know what, on earth (literally), made me think that----what does a child molester look like, anyway. Then, very soon after, it was on TV, that he had been arrested for child molestation!!
Someone on here said something about: "Why would an Aspie BELIEVE things like this?"----or, something like that..... Well, what if..... You know how they say, like, a blind person's OTHER senses are heightened----maybe, to compensate for what they're "lacking"? Well, what if some ASDers have some kind of sixth sense to make-up for the things in which WE are "lacking"?
Also, I've heard LOTS of times that, like, "things are out there", we just have to be "still", to "feel" them----or, "hear" them, or whatever. I'm thinking that could, very well, BE!!
Gosh I love this. Thank you so much.
The comparison with blind people and other heightened senses is also awesome. Something like that had crossed my mind before, even before I knew I had AS but when I knew I was somehow different, like a Highly Sensitive Person or something (Dr Elaine N Aron); and I knew that my sensitivity played a big part in why I had developed such a debilitating depression due to having been bullied at school; it did also cross my mind then that it was the very same sensitivity that made me more vulnerable to mental illness that also makes me a bit more intuitive than the average person.
My problem has consistently in life been trying to be 'a good girl' and do what people tell me to do literally. So I've really fought my spiritual essence. I was brought up by atheist parents, have never been part of church, or even religious studies at school as my parents opted me out due to their atheism. But even since early childhood I would every now and again observe something -- what Jung would call a synchronisity. And then when I started to 'collaborate' with the force, these synchronisities have happened more and more, to the point that if you took my life and looked at it from an earthly perspective, and seen how 'far' I've gotten with it, it would just blow your mind, it blows MY mind every time I think about it. But as Neale Donald Walsh put it in Coversations with God, 'to know God you must be out of your mind', ie out of the mental chatter, and into the world of the more intangible, feeling/intuition/peace/awareness/mindfulness and suchlike.
I also feel strongly that my mission is to help the humankind and the world to the best of my abilities, and I am hoping I can keep climbing up my promising career ladder onto a place where I can really, severely, be of use. I truly feel that that is the final goal for me, and whenever I derive from it and become more egotistic in focusing on chasing accolades etc I simply can't go on like that for long but end up having a total breakdown and not get out of bed for a week or something. This is the 'spiritual perspective' that I have on my aspie shutdown periods; I also have an earthly perspective for it.
The most spiritual person that I know personally (and who is coincidentally massively successful in all earthly areas, ie money, fame, public recognition) told me, when I was oscillating between an earthly and a spiritual perspective, that 'Don't they say the highest form of intelligence is to hold two opposing thoughts in the mind at the same time and hold them both to be true, simultaneously'. Hearing that was a turning point of sorts. I've since found out about how Paradox is perceived in Jungian terms. Reality is a paradox, the only way we can approach reality through the faculty of our minds is through paradox.
But we don't just have the faculty of our minds. There's more to us than our minds - the rational/logical/thinking mind of ours and the constantly chattering monkey mind of ours. There's intuition. There's bodily awareness. There's emotions. There's probably many more faculties but those just came to my mind now.
Since I started meditating last year, oh my god have things taken off. I do meditation, free association writing and some forms of art therapy almost daily - I try and be strict about this now because it's the only way I can move forward from my debilitating depressions (which as I said I believe I have, from a spiritual perspective, because I deviate from the path of my divine calling to help the planet and its living creatures).
So, yes, I would absolutely agree from personal experience that to sit still is to get to know God. (And write. And do art. Anything that gets you 'out of your mind' into whatever other faculties exist. I mean, even exercise probably does that for many people, as it gets you into the body. Our western lives are dominated by the mind in an almost totalitarian way and we must guard ourselves against the errors that result from this, by working on our other faculties every day - this is what I have found to be true up to this point anyway.)
Love and light to you my fellow beings from another planet!
11 Jan 2015, 5:05 am
11 Jan 2015, 8:21 am
ImAnAspie wrote:
Campin_Cat wrote:
Luzhin wrote:
As an example; My mother died last year. She was living with my sister 3 states away. At the time she was ill but was expected to get better. Anyway, I was on the computer and 'felt' a presence behind me and at almost the same time I heard my mother call my name. I turned around and said,"I understand, goodbye mom". Fifteen minutes later my sister called to say my mom had just died.
There is so much we don't understand, perhaps, one day we will.
There is so much we don't understand, perhaps, one day we will.
OMG, regarding "the presence" thing: When my aunt (mother-figure who had helped raise me) died, for about 5 months afterwards, I felt a very heavy presence above my left shoulder. You know how you think somebody is watching you, and you turn-around, and sure-enough, someone is waving to you to "come here"? Well, it was sort-of like that kind of feeling, except kind-of "heavy"-like, on my shoulder. Well, so I didn't know if it was my aunt, or if it was supposed to be an angel, or something, but I started, sort-of, talking to it, every once-in-awhile, telling it I was alright----then, like I said, about 5 months later, one day "it" was just no longer there.
Have you ever heard stories about people, like, while they're being operated-on, they (their soul, I guess) rises above the operating table, and they look-down, on themselves, and the procedure, and everything? What do you think about THAT?
Also, I have a book by Victor Hugo, and he said something like that he believes people's soul leaves their body while they sleep, at night. I don't know if I believe THAT (a couple of times, when I've had to get-up, during the night, to go to the bathroom, I've thought of his words, and thought: "Wait, how does that 'work'----can I walk-around, if my soul's not in my body?"); but, again, it's something that makes ya go "Hmmm....."
Great post. I sometimes get lucky like narrowly escaping accidents, things occasionally go right for me and I say "Thank you" because it feels like I'm being protected in some situations. Perhaps it's my Dad? Perhaps it's nothing but it sure feels like something at times!
I'm not sure about out of body experiences. That one's still on the debate floor for me.
When you sleep LOL
- Nah, don't think I agree with that one either.Perhaps it is your Dad watching out for you. Just as in the post about my own Mother, I've come to firmly believe that the death of the body is not the end of the consciousness. And, that a connection remains between people. I think that in the future humans will look back at us and say, 'how could they not have known the truth?'.
But, we still have a lot of growing to do before that happens. We are barely out of the tribal mindset and the idea of Oneness (one planet, one people) is hardly a dot on the horizon. And after that? One Consciousness connecting everything/everyone in the Universe (which pretty much would explain Everything). Personally, I'm doubtful that humans will evolve that far. But that's just my opinion.
11 Jan 2015, 8:53 am
Felinelover wrote:
Campin_Cat wrote:
ImAnAspie wrote:
Every now and again, I experience some that's pretty freaky, inexplicable and has happened so many times over the years, it's undeniable.
When I'm in that twilight area just as you're starting to wake up from sleep but still not quite lucid, I'll dream about a person. One whom I've not seen for several years and every time, within a couple of days, I'll bump into them.
This has happened so many times over the years, I just can't see any explanation.
Another time, I decided to look on the Internet for a childhood friend I hadn't seen since I was about 12 (I was 45 at the time I tried to find him). He wasn't on the Internet but a few days later, I was informed by my Mother that he'd died and it was around the same time I decided to look him up!
When I'm in that twilight area just as you're starting to wake up from sleep but still not quite lucid, I'll dream about a person. One whom I've not seen for several years and every time, within a couple of days, I'll bump into them.
This has happened so many times over the years, I just can't see any explanation.
Another time, I decided to look on the Internet for a childhood friend I hadn't seen since I was about 12 (I was 45 at the time I tried to find him). He wasn't on the Internet but a few days later, I was informed by my Mother that he'd died and it was around the same time I decided to look him up!
Yeah, I know wha'cha mean. When I first got here I started a thread asking if any other ASDers had, like, a sixth sense about things, or some feeling like that. I've had dreams that have come true, TOO, like what you described. Also, one time, at work, this man walked in, and I thought: "Good GOD, he looks like a child molester!!" LOL I don't know what, on earth (literally), made me think that----what does a child molester look like, anyway. Then, very soon after, it was on TV, that he had been arrested for child molestation!!
Someone on here said something about: "Why would an Aspie BELIEVE things like this?"----or, something like that..... Well, what if..... You know how they say, like, a blind person's OTHER senses are heightened----maybe, to compensate for what they're "lacking"? Well, what if some ASDers have some kind of sixth sense to make-up for the things in which WE are "lacking"?
Also, I've heard LOTS of times that, like, "things are out there", we just have to be "still", to "feel" them----or, "hear" them, or whatever. I'm thinking that could, very well, BE!!
Gosh I love this. Thank you so much.
The comparison with blind people and other heightened senses is also awesome. Something like that had crossed my mind before, even before I knew I had AS but when I knew I was somehow different, like a Highly Sensitive Person or something (Dr Elaine N Aron); and I knew that my sensitivity played a big part in why I had developed such a debilitating depression due to having been bullied at school; it did also cross my mind then that it was the very same sensitivity that made me more vulnerable to mental illness that also makes me a bit more intuitive than the average person.
My problem has consistently in life been trying to be 'a good girl' and do what people tell me to do literally. So I've really fought my spiritual essence. I was brought up by atheist parents, have never been part of church, or even religious studies at school as my parents opted me out due to their atheism. But even since early childhood I would every now and again observe something -- what Jung would call a synchronisity. And then when I started to 'collaborate' with the force, these synchronisities have happened more and more, to the point that if you took my life and looked at it from an earthly perspective, and seen how 'far' I've gotten with it, it would just blow your mind, it blows MY mind every time I think about it. But as Neale Donald Walsh put it in Coversations with God, 'to know God you must be out of your mind', ie out of the mental chatter, and into the world of the more intangible, feeling/intuition/peace/awareness/mindfulness and suchlike.
I also feel strongly that my mission is to help the humankind and the world to the best of my abilities, and I am hoping I can keep climbing up my promising career ladder onto a place where I can really, severely, be of use. I truly feel that that is the final goal for me, and whenever I derive from it and become more egotistic in focusing on chasing accolades etc I simply can't go on like that for long but end up having a total breakdown and not get out of bed for a week or something. This is the 'spiritual perspective' that I have on my aspie shutdown periods; I also have an earthly perspective for it.
The most spiritual person that I know personally (and who is coincidentally massively successful in all earthly areas, ie money, fame, public recognition) told me, when I was oscillating between an earthly and a spiritual perspective, that 'Don't they say the highest form of intelligence is to hold two opposing thoughts in the mind at the same time and hold them both to be true, simultaneously'. Hearing that was a turning point of sorts. I've since found out about how Paradox is perceived in Jungian terms. Reality is a paradox, the only way we can approach reality through the faculty of our minds is through paradox.
But we don't just have the faculty of our minds. There's more to us than our minds - the rational/logical/thinking mind of ours and the constantly chattering monkey mind of ours. There's intuition. There's bodily awareness. There's emotions. There's probably many more faculties but those just came to my mind now.
Since I started meditating last year, oh my god have things taken off. I do meditation, free association writing and some forms of art therapy almost daily - I try and be strict about this now because it's the only way I can move forward from my debilitating depressions (which as I said I believe I have, from a spiritual perspective, because I deviate from the path of my divine calling to help the planet and its living creatures).
So, yes, I would absolutely agree from personal experience that to sit still is to get to know God. (And write. And do art. Anything that gets you 'out of your mind' into whatever other faculties exist. I mean, even exercise probably does that for many people, as it gets you into the body. Our western lives are dominated by the mind in an almost totalitarian way and we must guard ourselves against the errors that result from this, by working on our other faculties every day - this is what I have found to be true up to this point anyway.)
Love and light to you my fellow beings from another planet!
Some really good thoughts here...I enjoyed reading your post!
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