Once as a child I was a victim of the evil eye ,I was momentarily struck blind and almost killed. There have been premonitions over the years and once my guardian angel saved my life ( at least he said he was my guardian angel,saved my life and then he was gone).
You know,more things than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Have you ever experienced the inexplicable?
I HAVE had an occult experience of sorts, Horatio!
I was watching television, you know? And, like, this big, tall -- but not-at-all-portly -- guy came on the screen, you know? And he told us all that he wanted to make America Great Again!
And his hair? It was like an occult, truly spiritual, shade of orange-gold!
Could he have been your Guardian Angel? Admittedly, I didn't notice any wings. Do Gaurdian Angels always have wings? Or is it enough to be married to an angel?
Earlier in my life, I read Donald Duck cartoons and the Karl Mai stories about Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. In it, I was briefly and perhaps badly introduced to the concept of manitou, which I interpreted back then simply as "oh ok so big manitou is god, got it". Later in life, I learned more about the native roots, and that in fact the manitou are a way of thinking about reality and so they are much more than that projection onto a Christian pattern. Too much to get into here. But one time I was thinking about this manitou idea while walking home deep in thought, and nearing a zebra crossing. And not looking out.
And because the driver also hadn't seen me, I was almost run over by a big construction truck, being so close to the massive speeding vehicle (I estimate 50 km/h) that I felt the wind of it while standing frozen straight with my hands beside me while it sped by. It was a crane truck and on the side of the crane itself I could see the word "MANITOU" in big letters.
Apparently it's a brand in the industry. As a skeptic, I think the lesson was that you cannot expect every speeding truck to respect a zebra crossing. But there is a mystical aspect to the coincidence of it, where I survived while thinking about a thing and almost being run over by something else entirely with that first thing written on the side, that I still find intriguing but inexplicable.
@s2numbuq35i I have to wonder -- indeed suspect -- that your subconscious mind (which operates, for all of us, much faster than our conscious minds do) -- had picked up the danger and already read "Manitou" and was restraining you in a way that was lucky for you but not yet picked up by your conscious mind.
Either that, or some Guardian Angel, likely without wings but with spiritual orange-gold hair, stepped in to pull you back from the brink.
Either way, it's a cool story. Thank you for sharing it.
Sure do mister!
I ate me some okra with salt yesterday.
Mighty fine grub !
I once witnessed a runaway coffin crash through a chemists’ window. The body shot out,and from the depths of its soul , a voice said to the pharmacist...” Can you prescribe me something to stop this coughin’.
i got into a fight in a bar,as i entered the bar this guy was looking at me agressively,i slapped him and entered the bar,someone touched me from the back,i turned to see who,it was that guy in the entrance,he slapped me,i was young and didnt know better so i started punching him,than suddenly abaut 8-10 dudes attacked me all at once,the weird part of me getting beaten up was that i didnt feel any pain at all from any blows ,punches,i didnt even bleed,i still dont understand what happened?were they just hitting me with very soft punches or i just didnt feel the pain i was supposed to?
I was playing in a small Rock band in the '70.
The group ended 4 years later when we finished our school and entered the work market. However, I remained close to Denis, the keyboard guy; we could say that we were like twin brothers.
One day he announced me that he was accepted by the Royal canadian air force to become a F18 pilot and that he was moving to the British Columbia province for his training. We knew, from that moment, that we will quite rarely meet in the future. So, he moved.
A few weeks later, I dreamed a stange dream. Our drummer was walking alone in the dark and was come visiting me at home, what was quite unexpected. Then, still in the dream, I realized that it was not our drummer who was walking in the dark, but Denis.
Then I woke up remembering this stange dream and went back to sleep. This strange dream left in my mind the days after.
One must know that the communications were made either by phone or by letter at this time.
A couple of days later, the phone rang and it was Denis speaking. I told him that his call was quite unexpected and I, of course, asked him how his training was going. He answered me that he was back at home and left the army. He told me that he was unable to deal with the obedience and the hierarchy; what was not surprising knowing him. :)
I have called this event a premonitory dream.
@Oportunist said in #7:
> i got into a fight in a bar,as i entered the bar this guy was looking at me agressively,i slapped him and entered the bar,someone touched me from the back,i turned to see who,it was that guy in the entrance,he slapped me,i was young and didnt know better so i started punching him,than suddenly abaut 8-10 dudes attacked me all at once,the weird part of me getting beaten up was that i didnt feel any pain at all from any blows ,punches,i didnt even bleed,i still dont understand what happened?were they just hitting me with very soft punches or i just didnt feel the pain i was supposed to?
They were pussies. Also 8-10 dudes on you , they mostly hit each other... Judging they needed that much people for 1 explains my weak punches theory.
Contrary is also true, me with a friend against a whole pub... Sure we got some hits but we left them all on the ground with tables and chairs destroyed and pool cue etc, up to the terras of that pub. There a motorized cop came in (they always alone) and catched my homie and put him on ground., gave him a kick on his face and went walking away saying or is me or him. My friend was an ex para commando and me I'm a bokser and learned it from my 13 year old. Dodging ashtrays, bottles attacks to whomever came in my proximity, most need just 1 punch on the chin> no occult here. MOst of those dodging came into another behind me.
@Dukedog said in #1:
> Once as a child I was a victim of the evil eye ,I was momentarily struck blind and almost killed. There have been premonitions over the years and once my guardian angel saved my life ( at least he said he was my guardian angel,saved my life and then he was gone).
> You know,more things than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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> Have you ever experienced the inexplicable?
Yes, many times
