Dear Soul Arcanum:
Since I was an adolescent, I’ve had a lot of things go through my mind and then happen seconds later or perhaps the next day. Now that I’m older, I see things like this when I’m very relaxed, like when I’m about to fall asleep. Sometimes I’m talking to someone, when out of nowhere this happens: I see people in my mind that I’ve never seen before, and sometimes locations and such, and then I encounter them later. It’s freaking me out, as I have no idea what’s going on, or why this is happening. Please help!
– Janessy
Dear Janessy:
What you’re describing is basically the front end of deja vu. We’ve all had the experience of feeling like we have lived some brief moment in time before. Usually, we can’t remember when we lived it or how we know what’s going to happen next, we just do. We may assume we dreamed it, but not be able to really remember the dream – it’s like there is a thick fog in our minds that we can’t see past as we try to unravel what’s happening.
As we awaken psychically, we naturally gain more and more awareness of things beyond the physical dimension of space/time, which leads to more intuitions and experiences of deja vu and synchronicity. While everyone has memories of the past running through their heads on a regular basis, people who are awakening psychically begin to transcend linear thinking and have what I call “memories of the future.”
These memories of the future are usually just brief flashes, but the more we’re paying attention, the more we will recognize them as something more than fantasies. In addition to the classic experience of deja vu, memories of the future may include meeting someone and sensing that we are going to know them, thinking about someone just before they email us or call us on the phone, knowing what someone is about to say, having an ominous feeling just before something bad happens, knowing how things are going to turn out, thinking about someone just before running into them, pondering an idea and then reading about the same idea in a book, etc.
These flashes of what is about to happen occur so quickly that it’s very easy to misinterpret them. For example, we might assume upon meeting someone who feels very familiar that we know them from a past life, but it’s equally as possible that we know them from a dream encounter or from the future.
The reason this happens more as we awaken psychically is because we are becoming more aware of the metaphysical. As we evolve spiritually, our personal vibration rises, and we naturally begin to think more about esoteric matters. This leads us to focus our attention beyond this plane, and as we do this in a state of reverie (an alpha brain state), we naturally begin to become aware of the subtle energies and influences that surround and influence us all the time.
Further, as our vibration rises, we become more adept at consciously affecting physical reality, so the number of “coincidences” we experience (and create) goes off the charts. It’s mind boggling, but I believe we are both sensing what is going to happen, and making it happen at the same time by thinking about it.
Of course, experiences of deja vu tend to be minor; if they involved life changing events, we’d call them prophetic visions. Sometimes these little “coincidences” can be added together and interpreted to reveal a higher message or meaning, but at other times, they simply arise from our train of thought, like memories of the past do. Past memories are often triggered by something in the present, and the same can be said of memories of the future. Further, just as we frequently are not conscious of what triggered memories from the past to come to mind, we may not be aware of what triggers memories of the future. Since “remembering” the future seems far more extraordinary than remembering the past, however, we may tend to imbue such experiences with too much meaning.
Most of us have run into trouble at least once by assigning more meaning to a strange event than it warranted. When we have a striking experience of synchronicity, it’s natural to ask ourselves what it means, and then to take action based on our interpretation of it. Let’s say that we think about a certain acquaintance, and then we run into that person on the street a few minutes later. We might ask ourselves what this means and then decide that Spirit or our own higher self is trying to tell us something about this relationship. If we are romantically attracted to that person, we may decide that Spirit is trying to tell us that this person is our soul mate, and that we should pursue a romantic relationship with them.
Now, this could actually be the case, or it could just be that we are psychically tuned in and picking up on what will happen next the same way we might be driving down the road and see another car heading our way. If we ascribe the wrong meaning to such experiences and take action based on our interpretation, and then things don’t work out so well, we may end up puzzled as to the higher purpose behind our experiences, which in time could lead us to distrust our “intuition.” So when we notice something synchronous, it may not be because we’re supposed to do something about it – it could just mean that we are tuned in to the near future.
At the same time, sometimes when memories pop into our heads, it’s because our subconscious is trying to tell us something. It could even be that a spirit is trying to get our attention. This is especially true if the memories involve a loved one in Spirit in some way. For example, I often have images of my grandmother’s house run through the back of my mind, and when I notice and then tune in, I realize that she is reaching out to me from Spirit. Since this is true of “past” memories, it could also be true of future memories. We may at times receive glimpses of the future designed to warn us, prepare us, or draw our attention to something because it will help us in some way.
There are lots of perks that come with paying attention to subtle events, for when we discern patterns and trends, we can use that information to help us create what we desire. The more we pay attention to strange feelings, impulses and intuitions and act on them, the we more we imbue our decisions with higher awareness.
If you think about it, it makes sense that when we act on impulses to talk to people, go certain places, explore certain ideas, etc., we open up to new and greater possibilities than we would if we stuck to our usual routines. By paying attention to subtle feelings and experiences and working with our impulses and intuitions, we open our lives up to the magic of synchronicity. Further, the more we notice synchronicity, the more it tends to happen!
When we are experiencing lots of synchronicity and deja vu, things also tend to flow very smoothly for us. When we have a need, it is often fulfilled in an amazing way. For example, we may desire an answer, and right after we determine this need, discover that answer while watching the news, reading a magazine, or overhearing a conversation. We may have a health problem, and as soon as we identify the need for healing, meet someone who has struggled with the same problem in the past and knows how to cure it.
So in summary, it’s natural for someone who is psychically awake and spiritually healthy to experience lots of deja vu and synchronicity. It generally suggests that we’re tuned in, paying attention, and dancing in harmonious partnership with the cosmos.
– Soul Arcanum