time for a new spiritual thread about all things woo?

[angelelle]

Hello
new poster on this part of mn and noticed looking back on this board that there used to be a lot more threads about all things woo. Is there any interest to start a general discussion thread? Be really nice to keep this thread to discussing various topics within the realm of spirituality and ask for those who would like too debate whether I am crazy or believe in unicorns to start another thread if they wish to discuss this:) Ty.

So me? Well i am a reiki master...did my masters about 5 years ago but have sort of come away from it for various reasons. not sure if i want to continue with it. i believe in it but not sure its for me

At the moment I am quite into all things mediumship as i have found myself at a crossroads in life. amazing what a range of psychics there are out there. i have personally never had a reading where i thought the reader was completely accurate but i know many who have. my freakiest one was one who told me something about dd's appearance which i had mentioned to someone else recently. i have no idea how she knew it and still a bit freaked out!

I also seem to attract lovely woo people into my life. recently I met up with someone I did a course with. I had not mentioned anything about my interest in all things spiritual and she started to tell me about a reading she had and how her parents house is haunted. So now we meet regularly for coffee with our dds and have spiritual conversations.

Oh and i am also really into law of attraction.

So that's it from me. Please post if there is an interest in a thread of this nature. If not I shall ride into the sunset on my unicorn :)

indigo of all the posters to answer ! You have been the ine who inspired me to post !
Yes I do feel my dad has connected with me, in my dreams, state of relax and recipience, just wanted to share it to get some kind of response, which I got, thankyou.
He passed suddenly, I also know when he's not particularly happy or in agreement of how I live my life, choices etc
Since his passing I'm now divorced, have a new partner, his 2 grandsons ( now teens) now have a new brother , (our little ds)
I left my hometown and my family, was hard, is hard, moods up and down, PMD etc feeling insecure, understandable I suppose uprooting myself and 2 children 70 miles away, and starting a new life, suppose u feel a bit guilty on my sis who is back home with dm and I'm constantly reminded.

I apologise for my tiny keypad and spell checks !

Two sugars. i had a very similar dream about my dad who passed two years ago. he was sitting in a chair and i bent down to hug him and the whole room lit up. i have had around 6 dreams where i really felt he was visiting me and telling me he is ok. its lovely isn't it:)

Oh and never worry that he is judging your life. they see things very differently from us. they just want us to be happy . having said that i have been through a shit time the past year so wish he'd come a bit more often. lol

and don't worry about typos .i type on a small pho.phone while bf dd!!

Do you Bluebeard! I also notice how you to said a specific number of times this has happened, it's because they really are something very special and never forgotten, as the ''usual' dream is.
I could even feel the materiel of the sweater he was wearing, he never speaks though, but at the time there is never any need for words.
I go to bed most nights hoping for a 'visit'
It's lovely, and I lay in bed when I wake up going over and over it

Twosugars, thank you so much for your kindness :)
I think that what bluebeards has said (lovely experiences too) is right about your Dad being not so happy with your life, is correct. What I mean, is that, when we return back to our non-physical states, we just want is best for those who are still on earth. We are restored to a wholeness, not only in physical but all other aspects and this allows us to see without judging. He may very well have a point of view - but probably only wants the best for you. The best for you though, is how you discern what you want from your life, and if moving away and making any/all changes will achieve your happiness, then more power to you. It's all about being happy, and following your own heart. You don't want to get to the end of your life thinking, oh well - at least I did what xyz wanted me to. You want to know you did for yourself, what you could, while you could. Meanwhile, receiving visitations from passed loved ones, just adds to the whole life experience xxxx

Hi everyone! waves
Just found this thread - how lovely to see some proper woo on MN!

I barely know where to start but twosugars post really resonated with me. I've had a number of dreams in which loved ones have come to visit, both of my grandfathers appeared in dreams shortly after they died and as you say, they weren't like 'normal' dreams. In one my Grandad was with us in the funeral car, and I asked him if he could hear me when I talk to him in my head. 'Of course,' he replied, 'and if you are still and quiet, you can hear me too.' These dreams don't happen often but always stay with me vividly, they feel like a real blessing.

I've been called a little witch by my parents since I was a small child and could change the weather! (Sounds bonkers I know but my parents, both totally non-woo, still confirm it!) They bought me a Tarot set when I was 12 and from the word go I could read them, I guess some of this is what you describe as being an empath, I get very strong hunches and intuitive flashes of information about people and its usually bang on. I don't read the cards often now (my 'normal life is so non-woo I sometimes forget who I really am!) but I did a coupe of readings for friends a weeklr so ago and it felt like getting back into my 'real' skin IYKWIM? I miss it!

I've also trodden the Reiki path and became a Reiki master about 8 years ago. Since then I've done some other training with psychic / mediumship teachers including Gordon Smith, and attended one Spiritualist meeting but haven't found a group in RL that I feel comfortable with. I'd love to have these kinds of chats in RL!

Am also a big believer in law of attraction etc and very grateful for this thread reminding me to use it.

Really interested in the toddlers / past life thing too. No experience of that myself but when I was pregnant with both my DCs I knew who they were, if that makes sense, and i dreamed of them as the people they had been in my / our previous lives.

I've had so many woo experiences I could go on all night, but I won't .

Lovely to meet you all!

A lady I just did a play with said she had the gift and practised it. I asked her if she could reach my Dad and ask him if he was proud of me.

The next day she said all evening she could hear a voice saying "Why wouldn't I be?"

I thought it odd

Ooh I'd love to hear some of your experiences potionmaker

Hi twosugars
Well, related to your dreams etc, the first 'visit' dream I had was from my other grandfather who died when I was 16. A few weeks later I dreamt that I was in a marble hallway (getting goosebumps as I'm typing this!) and was led to the bottom of a flight of white marble steps that wound upwards - I couldn't see the top, just a bright light. My grandpa came down the steps from the light, and I knew instinctively that he didn't have long to talk and that this was a huge effort for him. He told me to look after my mum and grandmother, and then he 'put' into my head a vision of golden stars twinkling in a black sky. He said 'even in the darkest darkness there is always light' and then he faded away. It's always stayed with me, and when life is tough I 'hear' his words and see that vision again and look for the golden sparks of light that are the good bits of fortune in my life, if that makes sense? It was amazing.

Another wonderful healing experience I had was having an acupuncture session when I was pregnant. The acupuncture released a huge knot of grief in my back and I found myself sobbing (weirdly it was related to my grandpa and his death - hadn't made that connection before tonight, ooh I do love a coincidence ) Afterwards I became very calm and a chant of words went round and round my head:

Those things that matter will be resolved. Those that do not, will fall away.

Again, when I am in a muddle or anxious or obsessing about things, these words ring through my head and I feel reassured.

One thing that someone said upthread that I think is really important about all of this is remembering to be grateful. I am incredibly blessed (she said touching wood) but I find that things always go better for me when I remember to say thank you to the powers that be.

Potionmaker your post gave me the goosebumps too. What an amazing experience seeing your grandad. The golden stars sound just blissful.

thanks for sharing that

Ive only read the first couple of pages so need to catch up, but just want to share a couple of things that are a bit woo (i think)

First, a few years ago i read about cosmic ordering and thought id try it, at the time i had a MASSIVE crush on a guy that used to come into the restaurant i worked in, so deciding to be a bit cheeky i asked for love and discribed my 'ideal man' so i discribed this guy, short but bit taller than me, dark curly hair, green eyes and lovely smile.

A few months later i actually got the guys number and we arranged a date, but he changed his mind last minute and cancelled. He never came in the restaurant again. I thought cosmic ordering was a load of baloney and forgot about it.

About 3 years later i changed jobs and met somebody i really liked, we got together and can you guess? He is short but slightly taller than me, has green eyes and a gorgeous smile and although he keeps his hair short once it grows a bit its really curly! I remember the day he told me that his hair is naturally very curly and at that point i remembered the cosmic order and couldnt believe it! We've been together 5 and a half years now

Anyway, i got pregnant with our first child in 2007 and was worried that i would pass on a genetic condition i have to our baby, so i asked the universe for a healthy baby. Unfortunatly i was already 5 months pregnant by this point and the condition had already been passed on to DS1.

When i got pregnant again in 2011 i was told that the gene mutation i have is a 'dominant' something or other, so basically any children i have will more than likely inherit it. I was devestated, but a part of me also felt really positive for some reason.

And in 2012 i gave birth to DS2 who has not inherited my condition, dispite odds being really high. And i often wonder if, because i done the cosmic ordering too late in my first pregnancy, the universe was still listening and passed it over to my next pregnancy.

So, i dont know if them 2 stories are just coincidence or if i sound a bit bonkers, but part of me thinks that, cosmic ordering really can work. And it fascinates me.

Wow that was long, sorry!

It was amazing oopla, I feel very lucky to have had experiences like that.

Sometimes it's easy to forget the magic in life isn't it when you're herding children round Tesco and juggling a million things - now I stop to think about it there's been so much magic in my life, I need to remember to welcome it in and notice it more often! This thread is a great nudge in the ribs from the Gods, I think...!

Not bonkers at all vito I agree with you, sometimes we don't get what we ask for in the timeframe that we want or expect but just because we've forgotten about it doesn't mean the universe has!

I dreamt of my DH for about 2 years before I met him. I the dreams I would be with this man who I knew was right for me, but when I woke up I could never remember his name or what he looked like, just the 'rightness' of the feeling I had being with him. When we met it was like a thunderbolt, and when he kissed me I wanted to shout out 'oh god its's YOU!!' because I recognised that feeling of rightness. Just as well I didn't though becaus DH is as non-woo as it is possible to be . The universe clearly has a sense of humour!

Gosh, so many things I want to address here but just to go back to the dream thing. I can always tell the difference between dreams where my dad 'visits' and dreams where he just appears randomly (as you would expect if you had lived with someone your whole life:)). The visit dreams have a completely different feel, he rarely speaks but sometimes touches me like holding my hand and I feel really good when I wake up.

Potion, that is a lovely story about your DH, sigh, wish that would happen to me :)

potionmaker that's lovely.

bluebeard that's exactly it, you can just tell can't you.
I feel so lucky to have had them, and I know he will 'visit' again

Thanks bluebeard it was quite bizarre, and classically enough the dreams of the-man-who-was-DH were during a time when I was involved with a string of wrong'uns and no-goods! After a while I decided that enough was enough, I was better off single than wasting my time on people who didn't treat me well, so swore off men for a summer. At the end of that summer, lo and behold, just as I was properly enjoying being single, there he was. Bam! The things you want always arrive when you let go of the 'wanting', don't they?

potionmaker, that's wonderful!

I can add my experience.... a long time ago, when I was a student, I went abroad for a year....after a few weeks of hating it I walked into a bar one night, and saw my soulmate. I looked at him and thought "you are the reason I am on this planet". We eventually got together (for a while ) and he said that when I walked in that night he nearly dropped the glass he was holding.

A few months later (and I've talked about this before on coincidences threads) my friend came to visit. In the bar where he worked and we had met there was a huge painting on the wall, with some real people (including him) and some unreal people dotted around to make up the numbers. We were talking about the painting with the landlord and my friend said, "but when was this painting done?" The answer was about a year before I arrived there. My friend said "but that's Grapes standing next to him". And it was. And I was. On this painting, next to my boy, and very recognisably him, is a woman the spitting image of me.

I haven't seen him for many years, but for many years I've had dreams, utterly weird ones about me being with someone who has a physical disability. I've had these dreams for about 20 yrs. Last summer I had contact with a mutual friend who told me that my boy now has a degenerative spinal condition which means he has some mobility problems. I just wanted to say "I knew that already" because I felt I did.

In other news my copy of The Secret arrived yesterday

Great thread, I love the secret and power of attraction. I have used the secret to move sell and move house and a bit of help from a pagan friend too, as I needed a bit of guidance with my cyrstals.

Have drummed being positve ito my kids that they pull me up now if I start on the negativity slide.

Have been to a clairvoiant with my mum and was impressed..

I have done Reiki too but got quite disheartened by how much people where charging to train to reach the higher levels, it just did not seem right somehow, so not practising but beleive/know it works.

Not read Magic book yet so off to search for that now.

Grapes that gave me goosebumps!

Grapes me too!!!

Blue i know what you mean re reiki. I was lucky that my teachers all took a very reasonable amount, and were very honest but when i read about people doing distance attunements I'm like what!!!

Oh and the magic is great :)

Did anyone do anything yesterday for the Equinox?

Dp and I cleaned and smudged the house, then went to our local sacred site to clear our energies. There are some fabulous yew trees that we work with. And then in the evening went to an Oestre ceremony where we connected with the Goddess Artha.

I really felt the fire energy coming in and we did a lovely meditation where I planted seeds for the things I am manifesting.

I'm really feeling a big shift in energies and from what I've read and felt, we have all been held in a space in the past couple of months where stuff from the past seems to have come up to heal. It's felt like wading through treacle to me. But from yesterday things have changed and there's a rush of manifestjng energy around. My guidance has been to really focus on your goals and dreams to make the most of it.

Hope that may help someone!

pink I always celebrate on the 21st, am I wrong?

I didn't really take much notice of the actual date - it was the day I had been invited to the ceremony and my facebook was full of Equinox greetings and pictures yesterday. I think the day can change, it's not always the 21st and I know that the actual time varies each year.