I could hardly believe my eyes: A yellow car with its front end wrapped around a hydrant... a gusher shooting 20 feet in the air... and water everywhere!
What I had seen Sunday night occurred Wednesday morning!
Had this precognitive experience been a dream or a conscious psychic vision? It is sometimes difficult to differentiate between the two since, in a broad sense, they are both psychic experiences. What is more important is to recognize the parallel elements in each of these paranormal occurrences.
All the psychic events that took place after the seminar-the restaurant occurrence, the tennis court visualization, and now the precognitive event with the fire hydrant had several features in common. Each had been solicited, each centered on a dramatic event involving an accident or injury, and each concerned people or situations on the periphery of my life. The fact that the choking, the ankle injury and the auto accident had all been negative events was most unnerving.
Why was I being forewarned? Was I supposed to have interceded and prevented these occurrences from taking place? Would there be more?
Research parapsychologists would likely agree that one's initial psychic experiences often occur around negative events. Why? Negative situations are often threatening or act as a warning and, therefore, are more noticeable. As an example, a nightmare is the dream most often remembered because it deals primarily with a fear or negative images. Nightmares are often simply dreams that are dramatized in an attempt to get our attention. We pay more attention to negative news-just tune in to the evening broadcast or examine the headlines of a local newspaper if you have doubts.
In my particular case, the choking lady in the red dress certainly caught my attention. Had I been presented a more positive event, it might have gone unnoticed or been dismissed as a hunch or lucky guess.
Survival and well-being are basic human instincts, and fear is an emotion that often triggers, or results from, the natural functioning of our inbred psychic intuition. Though fear is usually perceived as a negative feeling, a psychic warning is more likely to accompany a fearful situation than a positive one. Primitive people knew this and perceived fear as their natural ally. In our modern society, unfortunately, we often ignore this psychic input in our haste to avoid fearful situations.
An unnoticed psychic perception has little value. As religion requires faith of the heart, psychic intuition requires acceptance and belief. Both provide well-being and comfort if we are willing to open to their messages.
So... why did the fire hydrant event take three days to occur? Because, although I had accurately precognized this event, I forgot to specify the time frame!
CHAPTER 8
Learning a Major Lesson
In the weeks following my experience with the fire hydrant, I paid constant attention to each thought, daydream, or idle mind chatter that came to, and through, my awareness. Although introduced to a new source of knowledge with an unknown purpose, I was beginning to enjoy the distinctive feelings which accompanied iL
I was discovering an unknown part of myself, and I was eager to explore it, except, of course, its dark and scary corners. The little kid in me viewed all of this as if I had suddenly and inexplicably been caught up in a d ream, or as if I were an actor in a movie playing a part
At the same time, it was disconcerting to be "different" How many years had I conformed, doing what was necessary to be like everyone else-joining the correct college fraternity, dressing in the accepted style, blending in?
Several weeks passed and, other than basking in the glow of my newly discovered emotions, nothing of a psychic nature occurred. Then, as "coincidence" would have it, business required that I be in Reno, Nevada.
Reno is the "Greatest Little City in the World," or so we're informed by the motto em blazoned on local brochures and cocktail napkins. One of Reno's main attractions involves green, felt-covered tables where people wager on the number of dots showing uppermost at the eventual stationary position of two small, six sided, dot covered cubes thrown by one of the participants-a.k.a. craps tables!
The idea had not been entirely lost to me that if I used my psychic ability to determine the eventual outcome of a pair of dice before they were rolled, my chances of winning could be greatly enhanced. I decided to put my newfound talent to good use, while also having a little fun at the tables.
As I entered the main lobby of one of the casinos, I was aware of the drama of the moment. If this were a movie, Robert Redford would enter and look slowly around the room. After narrowing his eyes and setting his jaw, he would saunter to a table and stand next to a gorgeous woman wearing a low-cut, sequined dress.
I couldn't find the gorgeous woman!
I wandered over to a nearby table and wedged myself into a group of players who seemed to be winning, judging by the rows of chips displayed in racks in front of them. As I became absorbed in the action at the table, I had a "feeling" I was about to receive instructions of a psychic nature.
I waited.
"Don't bet until you have the dice,"suddenly whispered a firm voice inside my head. I turned around to assure myself that the voice did not originate from a nearby player... or the gorgeous woman.
"Not yet," it seemed to caution.
The dice had been held for an extended period by several players who, along with almost everyone else except the casino management, were winning a great deal of money on the majority of rolls of the dice.
Now, if you have ever been at a craps table, you know that you are in control when you throw the dice. It is an extremely exciting moment if you do well because not only are you winning money, but everyone who is betting with you is also winn ing and shouting encouragement; you become a local folk hero.
"Wait until it is your turn," nagged the inner thought. Eventually the dice were placed in front of me. It was my turn.
I placed a sizable wager on the line, picked up the dice and immediately rolled a 12.
"Craps, you lose," said the stick man to a chorus of groans. The odds are more than 30 to 1 against that happening, and, ironically, it's the most unlikely way in which to lose!
"Maybe I wasn't ready; maybe I didn't hold them right," I muttered to myself, placing a new wager, larger than the first.
I tossed the dice again, this time establishing a point of eight. All I had to do was make another eight before I rolled a seven and I would win. It was a good number because there are many combinations of ways to throw an eight.
Listening quietly, I heard the inner voice in my head say, ''You are in control!"
So I took the odds, thereby increasing my bet to the maximum amount allowed. I placed bets on all the numbers other than seven, the only number of the 11 possible which could cause me to lose all my bets. If I could roll any number other than a seven, I would win.
I rolled a seven!!!
To make a very long and painful story short, I played for awhile, attempting to isolate the same special knowing which had previously guided and informed me so successfully. I was apparently experiencing some severe technical difficulties with the audio portion of my programming because every bet I wagered I lost!
I decided to relocate to the roulette table and bet on red or black, basically 50/50 odds and much less confusing.
I bet on a color and promptly lost. I bet again. I lost again. Then I bet opposite what I thought was going to happen. I lost. I then bet opposite what I thought was going to happen, but before the ball stopped bouncing around the wheel to land on a color, I changed my bet to the opposite of that, and I still lost.
Ten times I bet; ten times I lost!
I remembered reading that the odds of winning or losing 10 times in a row are many millions to one. Was some higher source trying to tell me something? Were there lessons