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| Love-in-a-Mist |
Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 09:48:52 AM
Just wondering if anyone has had any ghostly experiences? Please share you stories.
Farmgirl and mother of 2
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 3:51:57 PM
You got it, as far as I am concerned, Jan! 150 years ago some people thought electricity was the work of the devil. (pull a switch and the light comes on? Must be Satanic!)Can you imagine what wonders we'll be talking about 150 years from now? You're right, your faith grows as you grow. It can't be dimished by that growth. I think God is constantly growing and becoming more because we are growing and becoming more and we are enriching God with our discoveries. I believe we were created because God sought to know more and we are Her little information gathering creations. Plus, with each revelation or scientific discovery, we have more to be thankful for. Yes, life certainly is exciting!
Farmgirls do it organically! |
| owwlady |
Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 12:47:29 PM
Patricia, my daughters are Christians, I'm a Christian, but I'm not going to pretend I know it all. I know God hasn't shared everything with us about the spiritual realm. I believe He gives us what we need to know and we accept that by faith, but I also believe there is far more than we can imagine "out there". I don't feel this compromises my faith, just makes me realize that there is so much we don't understand and I am in awe of the glimpses He gives us. Some, more than others seem to be given this gift. I believe when you open yourself up in faith, you'll receive. I know there can be deceiving spirits as mentioned in the Bible, but we need to ask for the gift of discernment. Isn't life exciting!! |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 10:58:00 AM
Jan, unfortunately, this is a very young world filled with mostly very young souls. (They're still killing each other, for instance!) They think anything other than what they believe is wrong, which, of course stems from fear. Believe me, I've been called everything from nuts to a tool of the devil (lol). Doesn't bother me anymore because I know where it comes from (fear) and that it can be overcome with love. Eventually, they'll widen their perspectives, but I'll probably not live to see it this time around!
Farmgirls do it organically! |
| owwlady |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 3:39:26 PM
Patricia, I'll have to tell my daughter about what happened to yours. She'll be real interested. I know she thinks people, at least some, think she's nuts when she tells them. It will help her to know that this has happened to others. She's very intune to spiritual experiences and spiritual energy. |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 12:25:51 PM
Of course she does, dear Katie! When my Nonnie died, she came to say good-bye and I could smell that special scent she always had. They do things like that if they can so we know it's really them.
Jan, the same thing happened to my daughter on an L.A. freeway. The car next to hers lost a tire (the whole wheel!) . The car careened into the median and the wheel aimed right for my daughter's car. The next thing she knew she was driving on another freeway in the direction she was going originally. Gradually, other cars and scenery filled in around her and she continued on home. It was like a giant hand picked up the car and put it on another safe road. Angels? Or the hand of God? One or another, I'm sure. We always put white light (an ancient metaphysical protection technique - white represents God) around our cars and ourselves when we go out and declare that we are protected by God. It works, for sure. Again, like attracts like. If you believe you're protected, you will be.
Farmgirls do it organically! |
| katiedid |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 09:44:16 AM
I seem to have alot of spiritual experiences with people who have passed on...one is very special to me.
Our Granny, Lula, was a very important part of my life. She was my husband's grandma, and from the first time I met her, at our wedding, we were fast friends and kindred spirits. We spend alot of time together. She was such a sweet, wonderful person. For 12 years I saw her a few times a week, and talked to her everyday.
She passed away on my birthday, in 2004. I had made a promise to her that I wouldn't let her be mistreated or neglected if she became infirm, so I stayed with her for the 4 days she was in the hospital dying (she had a major stroke) I was watching her, in the hospital bed, full of tubes and IVs and just wanted to hold her...so I did. I climbed up on the hospital bed and put my arms around her. My tears fell down my face, onto her soft white hair.
One year after she died, to the very day, (My birthday again!)I was in the hospital giving birth to my fourth daughter. I had made up my mind to name this girl after her Granny, but I knew that Granny never really liked her name..Lula Bell. So, I was trying to decide between two names, Emmeline Lula or Isabelle Lula. After the baby was born, Eldon and I were discussing the names and which we liked better. We liked the shortened version of Emme better than Issy etc...but never made a firm decision.
In the wee hours of the morning, I was up nursing the baby, and I glanced at the rocking chair. There was granny! Sitting in her apron, slowly rocking. She said, with her voice choked with tears "Don't name that sweet little thing after this silly old Granny. Well, if you do, don't name her Isabelle, I had a cousin named Isabelle and she was always whining." It was her voice, and her words...I am certain, it WAS her. So we named the baby Emmeline Lula.
I don't know if there is any "science" to prove it, but I know that we have a connection to the people we are closest to, and I have heard of other people having things of significance happening on certain dates.
There have been other times, when I am so overcome with sorrow, and missing Granny so bad, that I can *feel* her presence so close. It's like I can smell her...the mix of laundry soap, perfume and just "her" I know she watches out for me.
Kate
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| Love-in-a-Mist |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 2:08:37 PM
I'm glad to hear it was not real! It has always freaked me out!
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| Persephone |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 1:00:26 PM
Angelic encounters? I've had one. :)0
I was elementary school aged, and I was at a thing at church. (GAs, does anyone remember those? :)) I was sitting backwards on a table, my butt on the edge. I lost my balance, and almost fell backward, but then it felt like someone behind me pushed me up. No one was behind me. Considering how far I fell, I shouldn't have been able to regain my balance. I figured it was an angel. :) |
| owwlady |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 11:02:45 AM
My middle daughter was driving alone one night on the freeway when right in front of her was an accident. She didn't have time to stop or go around, so she started praying (fast!) and then closed her eyes waiting for the impact. When she opened her eyes, she was on the other side of the accident!! She had seen a silver streak flash by her right before she closed her eyes. She was safe, but to this day has no idea how she ended up past the cars blocking the road. An angel? |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 10:50:27 AM
Shannon, this illustrates what I said earlier. This face your mom saw reflects her beliefs in devils and the war over our souls. She was very upset over your brother and whether or not he would live and her fear manifested this way. Our minds are wondrous things. God bless your Mom and your brother! (and of course, you)
Let's hear about some angelic encounters - either people who acted like angels or otherwise.
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
| Love-in-a-Mist |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 8:01:42 PM
I have one more that happened to my mom.
My brother got luekemia when he was 4 yrs old. My mom said one night when he was really, really bad she was up rocking him in a chair. Up in the corner of the room a devil-like face appeared. It just stared her down and she glared back. She said it was like they were fighting over who got my brother, with out saying anything. Spooky. My brother is 34 now. My sister saw something like that too in the same house, but I don't remember the details.
Farmgirl and mother of 2
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| Aunt George |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 5:01:15 PM
Great experiences! I have more up on Chillblanes and Kim sent me a great one too. If you have time, please check it out. I also have an angelic encounter posted. The sit is not just "ghosts" There will be many more to come. You can access it from my blog listed below. Look on the column to the left and click on chillblanes.
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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| JudyBlueEyes |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 4:25:08 PM
Well, I'm a believer. As in, I believe in spirits who come to visit us to help us or offer comfort. First thing I would say isn't really about a spirit, but telepathy. My first husband's nickname was Butch. After we divorced, I fell seriously in love with another man whose nickname was Butch. During the course of our dating, Butch2 went on vacation. He called me and we had a falling out. After I considered that I had been mistaken and was wrong, I wanted to tell him so _just then_ and not whenever he got home. So I started sending out message, Call me,Butch, Call me, Butch, Call me, Butch (this was WAY before cell phones...) Wierd thing was that very evening I got a call from my ex, Butch1, who had not called me since the divorce several months before and said that his mother said that I had called and wanted him to call me...now his mother, I am sure, had gifts...and I believe that she intercepted that message and passed it to him. So that's one thing. Something in the supernatural world...
Then. Dreams. My maternal grandmother died when I was about 5 years old and my sister was 3. I believe my "Busia" - she was Polish, had met me as a baby, but had not met my sister Joann. So, mind, she must have died in about 1956 - and in sometime in the 1980s, both Joann and I had a dream about her the same night. We have seen pictures of her, of course, and could identify her, and it was just funny...we were talking one day and I think I mentioned it first and then she looked at me weird and asked what night and I told her and she said she'd had a dream the same night. It was a benevolent visit from her to both of us, kind of with an "all is well" message.
The morning my mother died, my father called me about 5:30 am saying "something bad's wrong with your mama" and all I could recall was that when the phone woke me up, I was hearing a song, country song, that wasn't really "You were always on my mind" but something like that, and had a strong sense of my mother visiting me. Of course, in the craziness that ensued of waking my (then) husband and getting dressed and driving the 10 minutes (that seemed like 10 hours) to my parents' house, I have never been able to recall just what song it was...but I believe my mother was saying goodbye to me, bless her soul!
Lastly, Angels. My sister Joann was driving out with her husband to visit my dad when he was in the nursing home, and she was driving probably the speed limit (no faster) on the surface street, but she heard my mother say "Slow down, Joann!" and she thought it was strange, but she did (my mother has that kind of power over us, even in death), and if she hadn't, the car that drove through the stop sign at a cross street would have hit them....
So,yes, I believe, and I am what someone a while back last summer described as an Earthy Christian....Judy
The Rooster crows, but the Hen lays the egg. ~ Texas Proverb |
| Kim |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 4:24:47 PM
Hey Randi!
Thanks for visiting my live journal! It was good to hear from you!!
Blessed Be!
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow
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| Rosenwalt |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 4:21:47 PM
I don't believe in ghosts, only apparitions.
Rose Marie,
Central New York
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| verbina |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 4:10:02 PM
OH YEA i do believe spirits ,ghosts those that have gone before us.why should death be the end/ thats just fits in my thinking. Besides my brother in law is driving me crazy since he crossed lol.as long as he behaves himself and not go OOOOOOOOOO or anything like that its cool.i have seen ,feltand heard things.i do have 10 house cats thou lol. really i do believe.theres more to this but i wont bore any of ya with details, randi |
| a rose |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 4:08:13 PM
I am a believer of spirits and ghost good and bad. Many years ago I dreamed that my stepmother was screaming for my help. I thought I had awakened. I saw the drapes in my dining room ablaze. It was still a dream because I did wake up and everything was okay. Though I did have a creepy feeling about my stepmother. The next morning I got a call that my stepmother died in a house fire. She was all by herself. See why I believe!!
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 12:36:33 PM
I am also a believer for many reasons. There is so much about the spiritual realm that surrounds us that we do not understand and is very possibly beyond our limited comprehension. I am also a nurse that worked nights for many years and can tell you there are things that happen at night. It's a humbling experience to be able to be present both when people are born and when they die. Have you ever asked yourself why those two things happen so often at night or in the early morning hours?
That house where we lived for the past 30 years had at least two spirits that visited or lived there...I was never sure which. One was an older woman and one was a boy. I didn't ever see them personally but they would appear to two of my children. They kids didn't seem bothered by it much but would mention it from time to time. People who had lived there before us also mentioned seeing the same two.
An angel appeared to my grandpa a few months before he died. He described it as a bright light at the end of his bed and a being spoke to him. I don't remember the message but none of us ever doubted that it happened.
Probably the oddest thing that ever happened to me was this...and I believe I mentioned this about a year ago in another post.
I dreamed of my youngest child 20 years before he was born. I dreamed of a little boy about age 2 with dark brown hair and eyes standing in my mother's kitchen looking up at me. He asked me for a cookie. I remember telling my mom about it and we both laughed. Funny thing was I eventually had 3 kids who looked nothing like him at all and had completely forgotten about him. Twenty two years later and married to a different man we had a little boy. One day when he was 2 we were standing in my mother's kitchen and he looked up at me and and asked me for a cookie. It was most definitely him but I didn't recognize him until that very moment. I told my mom and she remembered the dream too.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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| Luzy |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 12:16:42 PM
I have a strange story.....Many years ago my DH and DS and I stayed at the Starr Hotel in Truckee, Ca. It's an old hotel from the gold rush era, I believe. When we got to our room, my DH took his key ring and hung it on a hook on the door. Those keys swung hanging there for hours. I came down with the worst headache I've ever had in my life in that room. We slept with the lights on cause I was so freaked out. We were there for an air show so there were no other rooms available. We stayed and toughed it out. As we left, we asked the clerk if the hotel was haunted and she said they only tell people if they ask. She told us that there is a little girl that died in the basement and she's always playing tricks and other guests have seen her in the hall. A journalist did a story on the place and the clerk said that when he developed the film, the little girl was looking out from the upstairs window dressed in her period clothes. Spoooooky!!!!!
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| RachelLeigh |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 6:53:47 PM
I have had many experiences and am a definite believer. I grew up in a house where many exeplainable things happened and it continued after I moved out. Right before my husband and I got married, I woke up to find a man standing by my bed surrounded by a green glow. I wasn't scared because I instantly knew it was my future father-in-law, who died in 1980 (25 years prior.) The next day I described him and what he was wearing to my husband which freaked him out because what I described was his father's work uniform. Turns out, my mother-in-law has seen him in the same clothing at her house! Needless to say, I'm a believer. |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 6:44:05 PM
It is so thrilling to hear all these beautiful stories! And to hear how open-minded Farmgirls are. That's what we need in the world - there'd be no wars, especially in God's name. Thanks for sharing, everyone.
My husband is a scientist (theoretical physics) and when we met we were very surprised to find out that we both were saying the same thing, just from different perspectives. Isn't that grand? I'm excited that science is getting to prove what we spiritual people have always known! Stuie and I do a lecture together on things like the nature of God, the big bang, and so on - from his perspective and from mine.
For example, they have now proven that there are 11 realities - 10 of space and one of time. We exist in more than one place at a time. I've been teaching that for years. It explains deja vu, for one thing.
Georgann, nope, not me, but thanks for thinking of me!
farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
| jo Thompson |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 6:12:11 PM
Laluna, that reminds me of a time when I cared for a woman who died from a stroke with her daughters at her side, I attended the birth of a child that evening. (I worked in a tiny rural hospital where there were only three nurses on staff!) Anyway, it was rather magical watching that child take it's first stuttering breath. I think that was the first time I saw the similarities of birth and death, it was so remarkable. Color leaving and color coming to life, we live a cycle of life. jo
"life is drab without a lab"
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 6:08:02 PM
thought I'd share my happy mother with you.......... she's in her rose garden here...... her name was Joyce...
"life is drab without a lab"
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| laluna |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 6:03:06 PM
Oh Jo, what a powerful story - thank you for sharing it!
When I was teaching ESL, my Bosnian students told me about a belief that many of them hold relating to the idea of birth and death, which is that when a baby is born into a family, it can often be the "re-incarnation" of a family member who had passed on - but that was only true in instances of shared dates, etc. (e.g. if a woman's father died on the same date that her child was born, etc.). In fact, in my own family, my sister's son was born on my late-grandfather's birthday. Now I'm not particularly religious or superstitious, but I also don't think it was a coincidence. Could it be that it just brings me some peace or comfort to believe that, since I so loved my grandfather? Perhaps, in which case, why not believe? ;-) |
| jo Thompson |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 5:50:15 PM
This is an interesting one, I haven't told this story in a long time but it is true......... My mother passed away in 1979 around christmas time. I was expecting my son, only a few weeks pregnant at the time. He was born that August and I grieved for my mother in a terrible way. it is very, very hard to lose your mother as you are becoming one yourself.
My ex husband had a wonderful younger sister, lovely, blonde, kind, so very beautiful. I dreamt my mother came to me, told me she was going to die the next day in a car accident, I SMELLED my mother in my dream....... I woke my husband up, even called my mother in law the next day out of worry..... She died at 3 pm in Springfield Missouri in a car accident that day. I swear to you this story is true.
So do I believe in ghosts? my life is science and the earth, I am not a religious person in any particular way. But I believe in very powerful presences in the world, and it made me a much more spiritual person. I had terrible amounts of guilt after this. If I had not told people of it before it happened, I would have thought that I probably imagined it. I've never dreamed something again like this, but sometimes I walk into a room in the emergency department and I smell death before the diagnosis is made. We have intuitions beyond our imagination that we do not pay attention to. I am not sure where or what this dream was, but in my heart I believe my mother came to me that night.
jo
"life is drab without a lab"
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