Ailz is always sensing presences and seeing things "out of the corner of her eye", but I'm about as psychic as a house-brick. I don't know what it is. I've sought out "paranormal" experiences, but maybe my inbuilt scepticism acts as spook-repellent.
I have, however, had experiences similar to yours with the telephone book. They're what make me a Fortean. When I was a curate in South Manchester we had an entirely unexplained "rain of coins " in the churchyard. For about a week we were picking up small change in a area about two foot square. You'd go over the ground and gather up everything in sight and then go back half an hour later and there'd be more. I believe such happenings are actually quite common.
But what do they mean?
Most reported cases of reincarnation can be shot down, but there remain a few that are hard to dismiss. There was an American woman who remembered an earlier life in Ireland and went in search of her "children". She found them- all by now old men- and was able to tell them so much obscure personal stuff that they came to accept her as their mother. I once came across a very small boy who seemed to remember a life as a German tank commander in WWII. He had vivid memories of people throwing Molotov cocktails and the tank crashing into a wall. Mind you my information here is second-hand. I knew the kid, but the story was told me by his mother who was not altogether a reliable witness. (Shrugs theatrically.) So who knows?
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Date: 2004-08-22 01:41 am (UTC)I have, however, had experiences similar to yours with the telephone book. They're what make me a Fortean. When I was a curate in South Manchester we had an entirely unexplained "rain of coins " in the churchyard. For about a week we were picking up small change in a area about two foot square. You'd go over the ground and gather up everything in sight and then go back half an hour later and there'd be more. I believe such happenings are actually quite common.
But what do they mean?
Most reported cases of reincarnation can be shot down, but there remain a few that are hard to dismiss. There was an American woman who remembered an earlier life in Ireland and went in search of her "children". She found them- all by now old men- and was able to tell them so much obscure personal stuff that they came to accept her as their mother. I once came across a very small boy who seemed to remember a life as a German tank commander in WWII. He had vivid memories of people throwing Molotov cocktails and the tank crashing into a wall. Mind you my information here is second-hand. I knew the kid, but the story was told me by his mother who was not altogether a reliable witness. (Shrugs theatrically.) So who knows?