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Premonitions of Death

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I’m writing to you about a recent experience that has shaken me to the core. It began when I dreamed that my best friend died in an earthquake. In the dream, we had talked about going to South America together, but I couldn’t get off of work to go so she went by herself. I then saw on the news that there had been an earthquake where she was. I saw film of buildings falling and the earth rising up and turning things upside down. People were running in the streets, panicked and crying. Then I saw her picture on the news as one of those who had been killed. I woke up from this dream badly shaken. When I saw her the next day, I told her about it, and we had this intense moment when she looked in my eyes and said, “You know I love you too much to ever really leave you!” The strange thing is that we both teared up at the thought, and spent quite a while talking about our friendship and how much it has meant to us both over the years. Eventually, we started to laugh at how somber and silly we were being, dried our tears, and changed the subject. That was the last time I saw her. Five days later, she was killed in a car accident. She was 44 years old. In addition to the devastation of losing her, I am reeling because I am wondering why I had that dream and if I was supposed to somehow warn her or prevent her death. Why do you think I had this dream? Thank you so much.

Diane

Dear Diane

My heart goes out to you. I have heard many similar stories over the years and had a very moving experience like this of my own. In my experience, dreams and premonitions of loved ones dying are not usually preventive warnings but rather profound gifts meant to comfort and reassure us that there is a higher plan at work.

I’m going to share the most precious spiritual experience I’ve ever had with you here. I almost never talk or write about this simply because it is so sacred to me. This is also the experience that first made me wake up to the truth that there is more to “reality” than can be perceived with our physical senses.

At the time this happened, I had been dating my first love, Todd, for several years. The first time we met, we had both had that karmic feeling of encountering someone already deeply familiar to us, of time stopping and something profoundly important taking place. Though we were young, we just knew we were meant to be together. Thus began a long and beautiful romance.

Fast forward a couple of years to the last night I saw him. He had moved several hours away with his family, so I only got to see him about once a month when he came to visit me. The last night I saw him, the whole world seemed strange. We spent hours talking about our relationship. We were both overcome with feelings of grief though there was no apparent reason for us to feel that way. It felt like we were breaking up, but we weren’t. We were both deeply confused by this since we were not arguing or upset with each other or anything like that. He felt the same way, and we both spent a lot of time crying for no apparent reason.

I will never forget the last moments I spent with him. Since he had come in on the train, I was driving that night. When I dropped him off at his sister’s house where he was staying, he opened the passenger seat and slid out, all the while holding my hand. Though he was out of the car, he wouldn’t or couldn’t let go of me. Ever so slowly our hands began to slip apart. When our fingers at last separated, it felt like something had been severed; if that feeling had a sound, it would have been that of a door slamming shut.

I was overcome with confusion and feelings of grief and exhausted from feeling that way. I told myself we were being crazy, and I forced myself to put the car in reverse and back out of the driveway. I can still see him standing there, looking at me pull away. His eyes were telling me not to go; my eyes were telling him I didn’t know what else to do.

That was the last time I saw him, for two days later he died suddenly. While there were many other amazing things that happened after he died that totally rocked my concept of reality, the first thing that hit me was how that last night we had somehow known that we would not be seeing each other again. We weren’t breaking up; we were separating for who knows how long. There was absolutely no rational way for us to have known that, however.

Words can’t convey how much this experience means to me and how much it changed me. Suddenly I knew without a doubt that there must be a higher plan. Though he was only 18 years old, for some reason, he was destined to die when he did. I still tear up when I think about this, not so much because I miss him still, but because I feel so blessed to have had this experience and to know that death isn’t random and meaningless. I see so much beauty in this experience. I don’t know who blessed me with it – if it was him or God or a spirit guide or what. I don’t even know why I was blessed with it, though it certainly launched me on a spiritual quest, and is at the foundation of what has become an amazing career. I just know that it makes me feel profoundly loved and cared for on a deep soul level; it makes me feel part of something greater than anything I’ve known in the physical world.

I’ve shared this story with you because I feel this is what you’ve experienced yourself. Your earthquake dream was designed to bring you peace after your friend died. It was something you could look back to as a sign or message that her death was destined to happen. In the dream, she was going to a faraway place. You couldn’t go with her because you still have work to do here on Earth. The earthquake was symbolic of your world being turned upside down. I feel this represents both the loss of your friend and your whole spiritual belief system and understanding of the nature of life and death.

That last tearful conversation you had with your friend was your opportunity to say goodbye and express how much you loved each other. It was the conversation so many people long to have with someone they have lost; you got to have it before your friend died. It even included her telling you that she loves you too much to ever really leave you, by which she perhaps meant that she will always be with you on some level. This was a tremendous gift; I hope it brings you comfort and reassurance that your friend’s passing was no accident but rather part of a divine plan.

Soul Arcanum

 

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The Purpose Behind Premonitions

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I’m highly intuitive. Sometimes I experience dreams and premonitions that end up coming true. Sometimes these events are seemingly insignificant, while at other times they prove to be very important. My question is why do I get these images? What am I supposed to do with them between the time they come to me and when they occur? Usually they involve other people contacting me and other events over which I have little control.

Sonia

Dear Sonia:

When we first start having psychic experiences, it’s normal to be amazed to see evidence of a higher plan at work and all sorts of things happening around us that we were previously unaware of. If we have a premonition of something happening and it actually occurs, we assume that the event was destined and therefore important. This revelation can be so mind-blowing that we begin to question the whole nature of reality and if everything we experience is meaningful.

People are often surprised when I say that our psychic senses are no more “important” than our physical senses – they are simply rooted in metaphysical dimensions of experience instead of the physical plane. If you look out your window and you see the mailman coming up your street, do you ask yourself why you’re seeing the mailman and what you’re supposed to do about it? If you push your cart toward the cash registers at the grocery store and you notice that all the lines are really long, do you wonder about the deeper meaning of that experience? I’m not trying to make fun of your question by any means; I’m just trying to illustrate that being able to perceive something doesn’t mean there is a deep message in it for us.

Many people assume that premonitions are meaningful because most people ONLY have psychic experiences when something important is happening. In fact, many people only have a few extraordinary experiences in their whole lives. Those experiences tend to involve warnings of danger, encounters with departed loved ones, or instant recognition of a soul mate/future spouse. As these are all highly charged, potentially life-changing events, many people assume that psychic experiences are designed to warn us of some potential harm or lead us toward some important choice or turning point.

Though people may assume that all psychic experiences are important or meaningful, the truth is that most people only have conscious psychic experiences when that input is so charged or intense that it breaks through their normal state of consciousness to get their attention.

In our everyday lives, it’s like we are totally engrossed in a television show about life on Earth. In fact, we are so absorbed that it’s hard for anything in the universe beyond this show to get our attention. A person’s mother (in Spirit) could be calling their name over and over, and they wouldn’t even blink. It would take a sudden loud noise like an alarm or someone jumping in front of the television to get their attention, and only then would they have the extraordinary experience of perceiving something from beyond the physical story of their lives – something “paranormal” or “supernatural.”

Psychics are different in that they aren’t so locked into that physical story on TV. Since they are very sensitive, they tend to keep the volume turned down on the set, which means they’re able to hear and see things around them that most people can’t. As a result of this, it’s much easier for metaphysical influences to get their attention. The more this sort of thing happens, the more psychics tend to look beyond the physical show instead of gazing right at the TV, and the more they look into the so-called unseen, the more they tend to see. When they learn how to “shift into an altered state of consciousness,” they turn away from the TV set and open up to whatever may be happening on a metaphysical level.

You’re like someone who is highly sensitive but is mainly focused on the TV. Though you’re not purposefully exploring the unseen world around you, you are picking up input from it. Like many people, you’ve assumed that you are receiving these impressions because someone or something must be trying to get your attention for a good reason.

However, just as is true when we are caught up in watching a television show, most of the things we might see and hear around us are just part of the metaphysical backdrop to this world. For example, when watching television, you may hear other people in the vicinity getting a snack from the kitchen and a lawn mower in the distance. In your peripheral vision, you may see birds flying by the window and neighbor kids running through your yard. Most people do perceive these things but they don’t do so on a conscious level because their conscious minds are so absorbed in what’s happening on TV. That you are aware of these things while the other people watching television with you are not just means that you’re more aware of subtle energies and influences.

Of course, there are times when something or someone is trying to get your attention, just as is true when you’re watching television and the phone rings or someone comes in the room to tell you something or ask you a question. These are the psychic experiences you have that seem to be important or meaningful.

So how can you tell the difference between a psychic event that is just background and a meaningful experience? The main thing is to pay attention to how you feel. The more important a psychic impression is, the more of an energetic charge it will carry. At one end of the spectrum, we have warnings of danger, which throw our entire being into hyper-alert mode and usually feel so compelling that we act on them without hesitation. At the other end of the spectrum, we have niggly little thoughts and feelings that simply let us know what’s happening beneath surface reality.

To determine what we’re “supposed to do” about the premonitions we may experience, it’s helpful to develop our abilities to the point where we can ask for more information and get clear answers. By intuitively asking why we’re receiving this information and if we’re supposed to do something in particular with it, we can make the most of our psychic senses.

Of course, at some point, this simply becomes impractical, for the deeper we move into psychic territory, the more psychic impressions we tend to receive. If every day is chock full of little visions and psychic impressions, it’s too hard to both fully engage in our physical life story and at the same time take in everything around it and dialogue with sources of intuitive guidance to determine if there is something important we may need to know.

This is why I recommend relying on how we feel and trusting that if there is something we need to pay attention to, we’ll be alerted by a strong feeling that something important is happening or soon to occur. Of course, when we do have a sense that something important is happening, it’s immeasurably helpful to have developed our abilities to the point where we can then ask what we’re supposed to do with that information. I therefore recommend that you dig into expanding your psychic senses so you can purposefully use them to interpret and work with the visions that come to you spontaneously.

Soul Arcanum

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Unsolicited Psychic Information – To Tell Others or Not?

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I have kitties, and some are not doing too well. One has been diagnosed with oral cancer, the other has no definite diagnosis, and almost all of them developed upper respiratory infections. I recently learned about Quantum Touch, and had been using it on them when I got the feeling I should meditate. To shorten the story, a person in my meditation told me a certain thing about the infections they were all experiencing. I accepted what he said to be true, even though it’s a bit “out there,” and the next day, they were all basically “cured.” What do I do with this information? It sounds pretty wacky, but it seems to work. There are many ramifications to letting people know about it, however. I am really confused. I am thankful I was told this, and amazed at how well it’s worked, but what do I do with this spiritual information now? Thanks and many blessings!
– Joanna

Dear Joanna:

Welcome to my psychic world!

Your question reminds me of the television show Medium, which I started watching recently, even though I don’t generally watch TV, and certainly steer clear of shows that are dark with violence such as those about crimes. Everyone kept telling me about this show, however, so I checked it out. As soon as I saw it, I told my family, “They definitely have a real medium consulting on this show!” (I didn’t know yet that the character of Allison Dubois is based on a real medium of the same name.)

So many elements in the show’s storylines ring true to me. For example, no one knows what Allison does for a living, or that she is even a medium, except for her husband and the people she works with. Even her kids are basically in the dark about what she is really doing. Due to society’s general view of “psychics” as either nuts or frauds, many remain “in the closet” about their ability for a long time � some never come out.

Allison also often doesn’t know what to make of the dreams she has or the information she receives herself. Instead of being all-knowing, she is usually just as baffled by her experiences as everyone else. When we first open psychically, this is just how it is. We don’t know how to explain what is happening or how to figure out what our experiences “mean” – we just know that we had them and that when we pursue their meaning, it usually takes shape in amazing ways.

I’m mentioning all of this because one of Allison’s many struggles with her psychic perceptions is figuring out what she should do with them. She often doesn’t know if she should share the information she receives via visions and dreams. When she does share them, the people who receive her insights usually don’t know what to do with them either. She faces a lot of judgment and rejection by skeptics, yet she always finds a way to trust her own truth above all else, and when she does, things work out.

If you haven’t seen the show yet, I encourage you to check it out, for it will help you to make sense of what you pick up and the best way to deal with it. I must warn you, however, that it’s not for super sensitive folks who lack faith that all is well, for it centers on solving violent crimes.

Like Allison, if we trust that we receive information for a reason and we trust our own intuition when deciding what to do with that information, everything will work out just fine. This doesn’t mean that everyone will be open to hearing what we have to say, or that our lives will be simple and carefree. If that’s what you’re hoping for, you might as well ask Spirit to turn your psychic abilities off right now – and move to fantasyland while you’re at it.

When we first begin to have amazing spiritual experiences such as the insights you were given and the healing that followed, it’s natural and kind to want to tell the whole world about it. After all, when we figure out that we are the creators of our own experiences, and thus there is no need for anyone to suffer ill health or lack of any kind, we want to tell everyone who is still walking around in a dark cloud of disempowerment how they can use our truth to create something better in their lives.

It can be especially hard to watch loved ones struggle with problems that we know how to solve, such as the health issues you describe. Similarly, it can be very hard to watch loved ones heading for a huge mistake and not try to warn them, even if we know they won’t listen. If we do try to warn them, it can be even harder to sit back when they refuse to listen to us.

On top of all this, we have to figure out what to do with the information we pick up for perfect strangers. We have less at stake personally there, but how in the world does one begin to approach such a subject? Perhaps hardest of all is determining what we should do with messages for people we don’t like very much, or who don’t like us for some reason. For a couple of months now, I’ve been sitting on a message about impending health problems for woman who really resents me. We never speak, so I’m not about to ring her up with the “bad news.”

To make matters even more complicated, because we create our own realities, we are juggling a lot of responsibility for how our words will affect others’ outcomes, for if we tell them they’re heading for disaster, it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We don’t want to be proven right just because they believe our dire prediction and go on to manifest it.

To figure out what we should do with certain information, we have to develop a clear conscious connection to Spirit. This is where a spontaneous medium like Allison Dubois’ character is at a disadvantage. Her impressions come to her randomly, spontaneously – it’s like she is at their mercy. By contrast, a developed medium will have cultivated strong relationships with guides in Spirit, and know how to receive answers and guidance at will. A medium who has mastered her abilities like this will then just ask Spirit what she should do with certain information, and receive a clear answer. For example, when I ask Spirit what I should do with that health information for the woman who doesn’t like me, I hear, “wait, watch and see.”

Anyone who has spontaneous psychic experiences or receives insights and information from Spirit like you did should further develop their abilities like this, so they can ask Spirit for guidance on what to do with their perceptions. There are no hard and fast rules we can learn, for each individual and situation is unique. We have to be able to ask our intuition in the moment, and trust it enough to act on it.

Ponder this possibility: sometimes we are actually meant to deliver information to someone who will reject it, because this will prove more powerful than preventing a “mistake.” When they realize we were right and wish they had listened to us, their spiritual belief system could be blown open. So even if our impressions are rejected up front, it doesn’t mean it was all for nothing. Some people have to walk through a lot of pain before they’ll change their ways and views.

As for what you might do with general spiritual epiphanies, such as knowing that we can heal with the energy of our minds, again – ask your intuition. Perhaps this experience/knowing was a gift just for you. Perhaps you will feel compelled to share it with certain individuals you meet along your journey. Maybe you’ll end up writing a book about the knowledge you’ve been given, and enlighten the world at large.

If you feel compelled to share your insights and experiences in some way, then there is nothing more important for you to do. So long as what you are sharing is of love and light, and your overall intention is to be helpful, you can’t go wrong.

Whenever you don’t know what to do, remember: you can always ask Spirit!

– Soul Arcanum

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