I Am Thankful

 This is going to be a short list, culled from the long list of things I am thankful for.

In no particular order

I am thankful for my relationship with God
I am thankful that I met Bob and he is in my life
I am thankful that most of my family is alive and well
I am thankful for my little dog, Pekoe
I am thankful that I am getting to live the life I want to live
I am thankful that I have everything I need
I am thankful that I (generally) have everything I want
I am thankful that Bob and I are healthy and generally happy
I am thankful that we have enough food to eat
I am thankful that we have really great friends (both cyber and real)
I am thankful that I am able to find more than enough work and still have time to do the other things I want/need to do
I am thankful that, in spite of how screwed up this country may be getting, that I still live in the best country in the world (JMHO)

Of course there is more to be thankful for, so what are you thankful for???

Happy ThanksGiving, Turkey Day, T-Day, TG-Day and all that.


Wretha

Intent and a Big Thanks to a Big Man :)

Life is interesting, the longer I live and the more I work with intention, the more it becomes clear to me that we have a great deal of influence on what happens in our lives. Here is what I mean, my biggest wish that I had was to be able to live off grid, being self sufficient. That has happened for me in a big way, I am getting to live my dream and I didn't have to wait until the end of my life to do it. The next wish I had was to work at the Country Store in the middle of our community. I "put it out there" that I wanted this very bad, I didn't say it to anyone, just to the "universe". I knew that the lady who owned the store had all the help she needed and wasn't looking for anyone. One day, I went into the store and purchased a couple of things. I walked out to go home when "something" stopped me on the porch, I was "told" to go back into the store, I wasn't finished yet. I was prompted to ask the owner about working there, I told her that if she ever needed an extra hand, I was experienced with this sort of work... it turned out that one of the other ladies who worked here had just put in her notice THAT MORNING. The owner had not even had a chance to let the other employee know about it. I was hired on the spot.

Another wish I have relates to being off grid, I wanted to get a chest freezer, these can be converted to be an uber-efficient refrigerator. Again, I "put it out there" that I wanted this and then I let it go, I thought about it every now and again, but didn't dwell on it or worry about it. Today I get a phone call at the store, one of my neighbor's is moving and wanted me to post a message on the community bulletin board, she was selling a chest freezer, she wanted $50 OBO,  I told her that I would have to speak to Bob to make sure, we might want it, then she said for us it would be $25. Wow!

There are so many other things like this that happen on a very regular basis, when I have a need, or even just a want, I have learned to "put it out there" and it usually comes back to me, often better than I even wished for.

I also want to thank Big John, (John knows why), John Lipscom is a very generous man, he knows the power of "putting it out there" and getting great returns. John, is a prolific writer as well as a radio host of his own show, he has many websites and businesses, please give him a visit:

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http://bigjohnlipscomb.blogspot.com get ready for a big dose of the TRUTH!
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http://www.survivalistseeds.com
http://www.bigjohnsheirloomtomatoes.com
http://saddlecreekhorsesales.com
http://www.jojohorsesales.com

Random Writing

I sit alone, at my neighbor's house, watching Syfy's 2012: Startling New Secrets, I just don't know what to think about 2012. I wonder if it will be like the Y2K non-event. Or have I been lulled into a sense of complacency... On this show, I am hearing a lot about trying to prevent whatever is supposed to potentially happen. How do you prevent global sized occurrences? Personally, I am going to continue living my life, whatever happens, happens. I did want to get away from the city center, I have moved to what I consider a safer place, all those years of listening to Coast to Coast am did have some effect on me. :-)

While I'm watching the show, there is activity going on around me. I have seen, on 2 occasions, a sparkling at ground level, near a decorative, ceramic swan that resides on a bottom shelf. I don't think it has any relevance to the swan, it just happened in front of it. It wasn't bright, but it was brighter than the shadows and did catch my eye, twice. The sparkling thing was about the size of a grapefruit, not solid.  This is an area that has had activity before, usually just movements or shadows.

I have also heard lots of noises in places where I don't usually hear noises, though it is very possible that it's the house moving and settling, we do have big temperature fluctuations from day to night, especially if the sun had been shining in the evening (ie, no clouds). Because of those temperature fluctuations, pretty much all structures, buildings and such move, flex, pop and groan. I can tell almost to the minute when the sun goes behind the mountain, our roof (metal) pops real loud, if you aren't used to it, it can make you jump it's so loud.

Edit-I found out what the noises were tonight, the back door and screen door were open, there was just enough of a breeze to make the screen door move, ever so slightly, that was what I have been hearing all evening.

I spoke to a lady today who worked for hospice, we spoke a bit about death and dying, I felt like we were going in an interesting direction, I wanted to get into more detail about her thoughts on the dying process and what she thinks about what happens after death. Unfortunately we didn't have the time to really get into depth, I was "working" at the Country Store, she (and her hubby) were leaving, the phone rang... perhaps it was not meant to happen just yet, I hope to have another chance to talk to her.

It's a funny dance we humans do when it comes to talking about death and the afterlife, especially if you really don't know each other. I felt like she had some good information, and I felt like she was picking up on where I was going with the conversation. But without the time to continue the "dance", we just didn't get far enough into the conversation.

I was reminded of when I used to be a hairdresser, I did this for about 11 years. I used to hone my skills on "reading" people when I did hair. I usually had enough time while I had my customer in the chair to work the conversation around to whatever I was feeling or getting from them. I also had a bit of an advantage that I had almost forgotten about. When doing hair, the person who is getting their hair done, must let their guard down, they must allow me to get physically very close to them, to touch them, in a way that no other "stranger" would be allowed.

Because of this advantage, I was able to learn more about that person, I could feel things, sense things, I could even pick up thoughts and words. It was usually very easy to lead the conversation around to whatever I was picking up about that person. I wonder now what some of those people thought about me... if they even realized what was happening...

One thing I was always able to pick up was whether or not that person had been near death or had actually died. I don't know how to explain it, but anyone who has died or been near death "feels" different, I can't pinpoint what that difference is, I just know it when I sense it.

I had been 100% accurate in this until one day, I had a lady in my chair, we were talking away about nothing. I began to recognize that feeling, I starting leading the conversation, asking questions to try to discover how she had been close to death. I wasn't getting anywhere, I finally came right out and told her about what I was doing, it didn't bother her at all to talk about it. She insisted that she had never been close to death, no car accidents, no illnesses, no accidents of other sorts... so I finished doing her hair, and she left. I felt certain that I had felt that "been close to death" feeling, but I must be wrong, it really bugged me for a few days.

A few days after that, she called me at the salon to tell me that she had been thinking about our conversation and had remembered something that she hadn't thought about in many MANY years. As a young child, she had gotten very ill, went to the hospital, she almost died from that illness. It had been so many years since it had happened, she had forgotten about it.

I was thrilled to find out that I was still at 100% accurate. After I stopped doing hair, I do not have that unique position any more to have random people sitting in front of me getting their hair done. I still get that feeling every now and again, but I don't usually get to have those kinds of conversations.

What really made me think about this today is the lady I spoke to from hospice, and later in the day, I gave 2 haircuts on the Country Store front porch. Giving haircuts is something I rarely do since I got out of the business. I think I'll start doing more of it though. It will give me a chance to hone up on both skills. hair and reading people.

Dowsing Podcasts

Here are some fun and instructive podcasts about Joey Korn and Dowsing. Listen and enjoy. These can be downloaded too.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/WB-Ward/2009/03/19/Skeptic-Beliefs-with-WB-Ward



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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/THEAARFSHOW/2007/07/27/joey-korn-master-dowser-and-author



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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Spirit-Rescuers-2012/2009/01/11/Dowsing-and-other-Energy-Works



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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AskClaudia/2008/02/07/Dowsing-A-Path-To-Enlightenment-with-Joey-Korn



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Ghost Chicks - A New Paranormal, Ghost Hunting Show

There is a new show coming soon (I hope very soon) called http://ghostchicks.com

How is this any different from all the other ghost hunting type shows you might ask? While I love watching the various ghost hunting shows, they tend to be very male dominated, the few token females that are shown are often screaming, uber painted wide eyed, cleavage showing, hair flinging, goth looking girls. Now they all aren't that way, but there are enough, too many... they also tend to get the back seat of the investigations, in some cases I have seen the "guys" play dirty tricks on them, setting them up in no-win situations just to scare them and make them run screaming. It will be quite refreshing to see a show that features all female, serious, paranormal investigators.

The cast is as follows:
Jane Doherty is in a class all herself, a well known psychic, blessed with the ability to sense spirits and ghostly activity. She has been in the field for many years and is considered an expert in this.

Karen Timper is married and a mother of 2 adult children, she has been ghost hunting for about 6 years.

Stephanie Albanese, Kristina Rugnetta and Mary Foley make up the rest of the crew, young, cute, full of personality, but don't let that distract you, these ladies seem to know their stuff and are very serious about making this show work.

From what I have seen so far, this show looks like it's going to be serious, mature, professional, with a bit of fun thrown in of course. :)

Visit their site, as of right now, it's not complete, but you can get an idea of how it's going to work... they also have videos on YouTube. Let's show these ladies some love and support. I have high hopes for this one.

links:
http://www.myspace.com/ghost.chicks

http://twitter.com/GhostChicks

http://www.youtube.com/user/GhostChicksTV

http://www.facebook.com/pages/GHOST-CHICKS-Paranormal-Investigation-from-a-Female-Perspective/133544583347?ref=ts

Bloodlines and Points

My bloodlines are many and varied, I am English, Irish, German-Dutch, Comanche and Apache, this is in no particular order, it's merely the order in which I memorized it. I know that my Native American bloodlines were/are very spiritual, I understand that the Irish can be superstitious as well as having a rich spiritual history, I don't know about the English or German-Dutch, I searched and didn't find too much. Though I did find something interesting about one superstition that many people do, it's knocking on wood, I have often wondered where and how that one came about. I found another reason why people knock on wood.

This is for the German ancestors.

When you see your friends at a Stammtisch in a German bar, you have to greet them by knocking on the wooden table 3 times. It is said that most Stammtisch tables used to be made of Oak wood, and the Devil was unable to touch Oak wood, because it was a holy tree. So knocking on the table was proving you weren’t the Devil. source

I have no idea what or who Stammtisch is. OK, a quick toss around Google and I find: The word Stammtisch is German. It is not easily translated into English but it means something like "regular's table" or "regular get-together".

I know I got the Irish and American Indian from my mother, and my mother's side of the family were spiritual in the sense that they could see spirits and spiritual activity. I was told the story of my mother as a young teen, maybe younger than that, she saw a snake going from one bedroom across the hall into her bedroom. This was no ordinary snake, it's body was at least a foot thick, she never saw the head or tail, she got her dad, my grandfather, he saw it too.

They both went into her bedroom to look for this snake, they never found it, I understand my grandfather tore the room apart, even going so far as to take a knife and cut open an upholstered chair just in case it got in there. They never found the snake, nor did they see it again. This snake was much too large to have gotten past anyone, there were no open windows. My grandfather refused to talk about it.

I have been in that house both as a young child, and a teen, that house was very active with spirit activity, I was never completely comfortable in that house. I think there was a lot of unhappiness in that house over the years.

I wonder if my mother's side of the family, being of Irish and Native American descent is the reason why I have been so blessed with the ability to see into the spirit world.

I wonder if just being in a family that was open to and aware of the spirit world was the reason...

I wonder if certain nationalities are more open to that sort of thing? I wonder if it's heredity in the same way hair and eye color can be, or even more like artistic or musical ability.

That's another thing, being artistic and/or musical. I also come from artists and musicians, perhaps that also allows the creative mind to blossom, therefore also being more open to the spirit world.

Perhaps it's like "points", having a Native American and Irish blood gives me a couple of "points", being from musical and artistic people gave me a couple of "points", having an open minded (about the belief in the spirit world) family gives me a "point", rack up enough "points" and boom, eyes open, can see into the spirit world... Maybe if you don't have or get enough "points", you generally don't get to do this.

My father says he really never had experiences like this until he met and married my mother, perhaps my dad had nearly enough "points", being a creative and musical person, and whatever else he had going for him that might allow for this, but not quite enough until he met my mother, that being what pushed it over the top and them boom, his eyes are opened...

All these questions to ponder...

Good or Bad?

Everyone has opinions about spirits, ghosts and other unexplainable, paranormal things. I find many people, though certainly not all people, on the extremes of the scale of whether or not these represent good or evil. Either they believe that all things in this arena are evil, demons, restless spirits with nothing better to do than scare the bejeebers out of us... or they believe it all angelic, higher beings, spirit guides whose sole purpose in life (or after life) is to guide and protect us.

Either these things are all to be feared or all to be believed with no questions asked. I think I fell somewhere in the middle, I certainly don't believe it's all evil, and I certainly don't blindly believe it's all good either.

I generally don't know how to classify what I see, it just "is". Most of the time I see something, or hear something, or smell something, I just observe, rarely interact. I can usually tell the difference between an active entity and a residual (a recording, or memory), though sometimes I don't realize it's a residual until I see it for the second time. There is a good article about residuals on History's Mysteries blog, it's worth a read.

On the rare occasions when I am talking to someone about ghosts and such, more often than not, I get to hear a story about a negative experience, either the thing in the closet that scared them as a kid, the visit from the scary lady in white just before grandma died, the haunted house up the street where the witch lived (kids, don't go there)...

I often wonder why most people have little to no paranormal activity around them, and of the few that do, why does it nearly always seem to be negative or scary? Another thing I notice, is on the rare occasions when I'm discussing this sort of thing with someone, they often start getting scared, jumpy, looking around, it's as if merely talking about might make it happen, or perhaps for a few minutes, they are more open to the spirit world and that scares them. Just about the time I really start getting into the conversation, it's clear that they want to stop talking about it. I know of a few people who don't mind discussing this sort of thing, sadly I don't get to converse with them often enough, at least not often enough for me. That's probably a lot of my motivation for writing this blog.

Fortunately, or not depending on your point of view, with the populatiry of shows like Ghost Hunters and shows like it, it's easier to talk to people about spirit stuff, I can generally figure out is someone is open to the subject merely by asking if they watch that show (or other's like it), if they have watched it, they usually have strong opinions about it, either they think it entertainment only, or they really get into it, either way I can tell by what comes out of their mouth right after that. :-)

Oh well, life goes on... this is message number 49 for this blog. I tend to focus more on my other blogs, about living off grid, something I do every day too. I will give more attention to this blog, post more of my paranormal history, as well as posting my day to day experiences, good and bad.

All Hallow's Eve

Well, it's Halloween, I would be remiss if I neglected a post today/tonight... so here it is.

Honestly it's been fairly quiet, I was at my neighbor's house last night, as usual there were things vying for my attention over there, I was alone, watching TV, a couple of times I could see movement in the hallway, nothing too wild though. Then on 2 occasions, I saw a spark of light, too bright to be mere reflections. I saw them in a pretty short period of time and they happened in nearly the same place. Don't know what those were, they were different from what I usually see over there.

Halloween isn't really a big deal, for me it's Halloween every day, at least that's what I think other people might think of my life. Of course, on Halloween, it's OK to talk about ghosties and goulies, no one looks at you sideways when discussing these things, least of all on this night.

So now I go home from a quiet day working the Country Store. Had a bunch of Halloween candy, you know the really cheap stuff that you used to hate seeing in your bag at the end of the night... ;)

There aren't many children out here so I figured it wouldn't matter THAT much, a few people took some of the candy, perhaps it will remind them of their childhood on All Hallow's Eve.

Shadow Person Sighting

Just a quickie tonight, I worked at the Country Store today (Saturday), I was talking to a friend, he owns property in the neighborhood but doesn't live here, just visits on occasion, maybe the lure of the neighborhood will convince him to visit more often. We have interesting spiritual discussions, these discussion are too few and far between. but it is just how it works out. Anyhoo, we were sitting on the front porch chatting about our latest ghost related subjects, I could see into the store, no one was in the store. I kept seeing a shadow person walking back and front of the drink cooler. I figured my friend would want to know what I seeing right then so I mentioned it. He seemed to be a bit excited about it, he kept looking in the store, trying to see it I think. I did see it again several times after that, each time I would look away from my friend and looked in the store window, he wanted to know if I saw it again. :)

My friend is very observant, especially about people and human interaction, I suspect because of the type of work he did. It was important for him to be able to tell if the people he interacted with on a professional basis were telling the truth, and I believe that many of them were probably highly motivated to lie, or at least stretch the truth from time to time. I'll not go any further in that, but let's just say that it's interesting to interact with my friend as he learns about how much I see into the spiritual world. My friend asked me if things like that ever scared me, and honestly the answer is no, living people scare me more, these shadow beings and other things such as this are no threat to me. Sometimes I get startled, but even that is a fairly rare occurrence any more.

To describe what it looked like, it was short, perhaps 3-4 feet tall, the height of a child, I could see the rounded top of the head, but no other features like shoulders and such. It looked like a very solid, 3D shadow that was walking in front of the drink cooler. I didn't get any feelings from it, I didn't feel like it was good or bad, it was just there. I have never seen this particular one before, at least not that I can recall. I don't know why it was there or what it may have wanted. I guess I need to start carrying my camera and voice recorder with me for these occasions, in the past up until now, I would just observe, I rarely interact except for the occasional comment I might make, like "Yes, I see you...", or "I heard that...", or if they do something like knock something over, I might say "Wow, that was impressive..." or something like that.

I could only see this one for a few seconds at a time, I have successfully trained myself not to look directly at the things I see in my peripheral vision, usually if you look directly at something like that it will usually vanish immediately, the longer I can go without directly looking at it, the longer I can usually see and watch it.

The other thing I feel I should mention here is that I don't control this, I can't make it happen, it is random, often daily, sometimes multiple times a day, I don't go looking for it, I don't try to make it happen, it just does. Now I can make more things happen if I talk about it, but for the most part, it is random.

OK, so this wasn't as much as a quickie as I thought it would be. :)

Corners Collect More Than Dust

I realized today, something that I have seen most if not all of my life, corners seem to collect more than dust. I see more spiritual activity in corners, I am speaking about the corners of rooms, inside corners. I remember as a teen, living in the house where I spent most of my growing up years, there were at least 2-3 corners in the house that had "doorways", places where spirits seemed to come and go. The other corners in that house were not active like those specific ones. I have seen this activity on the floor side of the corners as well as the ceiling corners. Typically where three surfaces come together, not so much in the middle.

At my neighbor's house, there is a particular corner in the hallway that always attracts my eyes. When I am sitting over there, watching TV, doesn't matter if it's day or night, the hall is always fairly dark, but there is a part that is darker than the rest, the darkness seems to become almost 3D, it isn't just a shadow. It appears to be a darkness/shadow that is separate from the wall, actually floating out from the wall. I don't believe that is an entity itself, it appears to be another doorway between this reality and the spirit world.

I have seen these doorways since I was a teenager. I used to see them outside, up in the trees, the limbs of the trees would not grow into these doorways, they would grow around it, framing it. If I stood under one, looking up through it, the sky looked different, usually brighter or a different shade of blue. I would also feel a pulling sensation. I used to feel fearful that I might be pulled right through, so I wouldn't spend too much time directly under them. I'm less fearful of this now, I figure that if it happens, it happens and it's supposed to. I am not trying to make it happen though. Just to be precise, not every corner is a "doorway", not every corner has this energy (that I have seen). not every tree grows around doorways. I think I'll start looking up in the trees again, it's been a long while since I've seen a doorway within the branches of a tree.

Back to the corner thing, I wonder if the act of building a room, and making the corners has anything to do with this? Is this intention in action? Does the act of making the corners create the energy that makes these things happen? Or is it just a natural occurrence that energy AND dust collect naturally in corners...So many questions... maybe I'll dowse for the answers, I just need to make a good set of questions. I am discovering that having good and precise questions helps to get accurate answers.

Do you, my dear readers, have any experience with this sort of thing? Do you have any theories? I know that this is true. it happens, I just don't have the why's and how's of it.