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Acknowledgements
Without the constant encouragement and belief in me from my friend and editor Pat, this free e-book would have never been published. Thank you my friend.
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Gratitude also goes to my spirit teachers who have, by their guidance, taken my knowledge beyond our normal five sensory world and opened up other realities I previously never knew existed.
Annette de Jonge
Contents
Introduction 4
Awakening: The Early Years 6
By Trial and Error 9
Séances and Psychics 11
Growth is the Way 13
Spiritual Churches and Groups 15
My First Psychic Development Class 16
A Cautionary Tale 18
Earlier Writings 20
Psychic Drawings 23
Mixing Personal Energy Fields (Auras) 25
Other Spirit Contacts 27
My Inflated Ego 30
Receiving Messages for Strangers 31
Learning Continues 34
Rastafus 36
The Shadow People 39
Michael 40
Do Animals Have Sixth Sense 41
Damaged Auras 45
Protection from Psychic Attacks 47
Moving On 49
Introduction.
The world’s ancient mythologies have legends portraying spirits in various forms. Supernatural beings of different shapes and sizes are recorded as having assisted or scared humanity over the millennia. Many of these experiences were spread by word of mouth, recorded in holy works or in forms of art.
Each epoch and culture had their conduit; a priest, Shaman or holy man making contact with unseen spirit dimensions. It took a lot of dedication, preparation and personal energy for that to happen. Contact was mostly in altered states of consciousness using incantations, mind enhancing drugs and even particular forms of dancing. Special preparations were needed and spirits were invoked for guidance on such things as crops, weather and the well being of the tribe or community.
There have been various attempts to make contact and interact with the unseen spirit realms but it was toward the end of the nineteenth century that communication gained popularity in Europe and the Americas. Madam Blavatsky, a gifted channel, influenced many with her occult teachings and inner knowledge, said to be given to her by advanced Eastern spirit teachers.
In Great Britain, there was so much public interest in life after death and people communicating with spirits that in 1892 the British Society for Psychical Research was formed in an endeavour to investigate scientifically the validity of all forms of paranormal happenings. Some well known members of the Society were the writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the philosopher William James, naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace, scientists Williams Crookes and Oliver Lodge, philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick and poet and philologist F. W. H. Meyers. Conan Doyle, with his second wife Jean, held many séances to communicate with spirits including many of the souls of those killed in the First World War. He was such a believer in life after death and that the souls of the dead could and did communicate with the living that he stopped writing fiction to focus the rest of his life on the paranormal. Séances were popular methods of communication between spirits and some members of society. Ouija boards, table rapping and ghostly materialization were only a few of the creative ways communication was achieved. A medium or 'sensitive' was necessary to make contact and many had spirit overseers who protected them from any unwanted unseen elements. Depending on the strength of the medium and the spirit connection, sometimes her/his voice and mannerisms changed to that of the spirit being channeled. That didn't help the credibility of the profession, many of whom were genuine channels seeking to help those in need and to prove there is indeed consciousness, life after death. Monumental shifts in insight and consciousness have taken place since those early days and it is now easier to communicate with energy realms interpenetrating our own. Eastern philosophies and other previously unfamiliar beliefs opened up awareness and helped shift much of the old fears and superstitions.
A plethora of books on the paranormal, spirits, extraterrestrial visitation and quantum physics have continued to open up a vista of learning not previously available to the average person. What is becoming apparent to more and more people is that at all times, wherever we are on any dimension, we remain a soul, a consciousness having experiences chosen by us prior to incarnating.
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This is my story, one of growth told as a factual account as remembered of my journey from ignorance and fear to an understanding of how we are all part of a marvellous plan of evolution. There have been many 'ah-ah' moments in my life and one that stands out as a life changer for me is the understanding that during all experiences anywhere, we are always learning no matter what happens. Bed-ridden or an elite athlete, you cannot ' not learn ' and the knowledge gained through those experiences is what we all chose to experience in our incarnation on planet Earth.
Also gained was the understanding that there are no mistakes or misadventures, even if my third dimension thinking wants me to see myself as a victim. If I accept, as I do, that whatever my choices in life are or were, they were chosen by me for whatever experiences to be gained, I was never, could never be, a victim. This awareness encompasses all who come into my life for whatever the growth path lessons offered and were preplanned by me prior to incarnating for the opportunities they would present to me.
Disappointing experiences and disagreeable people still happened, but understanding they were there because of my wanting to learn from them has taught me acceptance. However, this understanding and acceptance all came with the benefit of hindsight and much later in my life. Very little, if any of this knowledge was there when I started my journey. My wish for you is whatever experiences you have chosen for your particular journey may they be as enlightening, rewarding and inspirational as can be.
Namaste [ roughly translated to mean the soul in me honors the soul in you ]. Whatever you have chosen, enjoy your journey.
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‘There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural, particularly regarding relatively rare occurrences. We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance’. Edgar D Mitchell Sc.D., Apollo 14 lunar-landing module pilot.
Awakening, the Early Years
‘All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and entrances…,’
Shakespeare ‘As You Like It’ Act 2, Scene 7.
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During my early years strange, sometimes frightening, unexplained phenomenon had me searching for answers of what was happening and how could it be stopped. Why, for example, in the darkness of the night when my family had gone to bed did solid images of fearful creatures materialize in my bedroom. One that visited often was a luminous green Cyclops with a red eye in the center of its forehead. It stood at the end of my bed and we stared at each other until eventually my exhaustion won out over my apprehension and sleep overtook me. Like the Cyclops, these apparitions never spoke or touched me but their presence was frightening and their images terrorized much of my childhood. Fortunately their visits receded as I grew older but self preservation and peace of mind made it important to learn the reason why they were around in the first place. It was only years later that I understood these apparitions were not seen with physical sight but were perceived through an inner vision referred to by some ancient teachings as the third eye.
It became apparent that there were also unseen presences about too. One day, in a bad mood with my brother and thinking of doing something petty and unkind to him an unfamiliar voice spoke seemingly from out of the blue 'you know better than that' it admonished. Glancing around for the speaker and seeing no-one my assumption was it must have been from my guardian angel taught to me by my Catholic mother. Experiences continued but unknown then were the group of spirit people who were with me and would later be of tremendous support when several times my life became really difficult. However, at this time of my life all occurrences appeared to be trial and error that I had no control over but of which I still had a strong desire to understand.
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Life in those days was simpler in many ways. No computers, televisions or cell phones of any sort meant people amused themselves with other alternatives. By getting together, entertaining family and friends in respective homes with social activities like card or other games, sing-alongs, gossiping.
Still a child, I remember one day eavesdropping, sitting quietly out of the way so not to be seen, listening to my mother discussing with one of her friends their respective experiences dabbling with the Ouija board. The friend of my mother's explained a small group of her friends were sitting at the kitchen table asking questions to an unseen presence. They were using the Ouija board and everyone had a finger lightly resting on an upturned glass as it moved slowly around the alphabet letters, spelling out answers to the questions asked.
The questions and replies spelt out were entertaining, often titillating, but banal until a woman asked a random question about the whereabouts of her husband who was on night shift at his work. The answer spelt out was a surprise to the woman as the reply was her husband was not at work but with a woman. A name was given and when home the woman challenged her husband who eventually admitted he had lied and was with the woman mentioned. My mother then spoke of one of her experiences using the board. As with the other group mundane answers were given to mundane questions. My grandfather came into to room to watch what the group were doing and the board started to spell out unfamiliar words. The members of the group decided the messages were now rubbish and were going to stop for the night but my grandfather instructed them to keep going.
According to my mother, the words spelt out were now in Spanish, a language my grandfather was quite familiar with because he had lived for many years in South America. It then became a conversation between my grandfather and the unseen spirit both communicating in Spanish with the group, not understanding a word but still needing to hold the unseen contact and keep the glass moving. When the session finished my mother said no matter how many entreaties were made to my grandfather, he would not divulge what had been said.
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My father, an invalid from injuries suffered during the Second World War, said that sometimes the spirits of three nuns would appear at the end of his bed. Seeing them was a premonition, letting him know he would soon have to go into hospital for a major operation.
Dad said the nuns never uttered a word. Instead one of them would extend her arm and offer him a pristine white handkerchief. Each time this happened, my father refused to take the handkerchief and the nuns faded away. My father died when I was fifteen years of age and it left my family wondering, did Dad take the white handkerchief just before he died?
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When sixteen I believe a gut feeling not to go out with several friends on a particular night saved my life. The young inexperienced driver of the car my friends were in lost control and the car rolled several times. One of my friends was sitting in the seat usually occupied by me. She was thrown from the car and crushed. Was this premonition a warning from my guardian angel that had impressed the sense of foreboding on my inner thoughts? Or was it some other unseen and unnamed spirits with me who had communicated the feeling? I didn't know.
One night I nearly became a rape statistic. Being chased through a park by an opportunist, I was running in stiletto heels on damp grass. The male was in runners and I could feel his outstretched arms grasping at the back of my coat. Never being a fast runner, I should have been easy prey but something kept me just that tiny bit ahead so he could not grab on and drag me down. It seemed like an eternity but it must have only been a matter of minutes before I made it to the busy highway and salvation.
In this instance there had been no prior warning of danger, but it is my absolute belief that an unseen someone had to have given me the necessary speed to keep out of the male's grasp. Fear alone could not have done it.
By Trial and Error.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Dr Wayne Dyer
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Books on the paranormal were hard to come by in those early days. Any found dealt mainly with the sensational. Apart from giving me chills up the spine and a few sleepless nights, they offered little in real value. Plus there was the fear factor of contacting unfriendly spirits like my childhood experiences and that conditioning was something I needed to overcome.
The books read only added to my apprehensions. They warned their readers that all sorts of unfriendly spirits were out there, waiting to possess any unwary physical body and control a person's mind. The information only fueled my trepidation.
An inability to find enlightening books on the paranormal, where minds were opened to infinite possibilities, changed with the emergence of the Flower Power Movement and New Age phenomena. Books on Eastern philosophies and religions opened up a world of previously unknown knowledge to me. I was also starting to get bits of information about my friends and realized it was meant to be passed on to them. At first my lack of confidence, concerns about getting the message wrong and of maybe being seen as eccentr