Last night I awoke at 1:30 in the morning, Christmas morning, as it was. I remembered that this is a great time of night to be awake and to do spiritual work. So, I tried a retrieval, mumbling a little grumpily at my "guide" that I would sure like it better if I could see him better and know who he was, but okay, yes, I would like to help out somewhere, anywhere, and I didn't care where.  I ended up in a very barren looking couple of rooms, no furniture, gloomy looking. There was a little boy there. I could see into a side room that there was a window with some light coming through. I told the little boy there was someone there who would like to take him to a better place. The experience ended rapidly.

I went over to my computer afterwards and noticed on CNN that James Brown died but didn't note the time, just noticed the headline.  This morning, I noticed that he passed away right around the time I awoke, that he passed away in a hospital in Georgia, near where my travels to visit ancestral graves with relatives occurred last spring. I remembered that I had made a post (December 1, as it turns out) in which I quoted some lyrics of his on one of B-man's threads.  I have none of his music and have never made note of him otherwise in my 46 year history, except to relate a story on that thread about my sister, in which a song of J.B.'s is a prominent and pleasant memory.

Apparently, he knew he was going that night. At least, that is what they are saying.

It is these kinds of coincidences which make me take pause in my life. Coincidences that would mean nothing to anyone else but me, but which make my senses prick up......what do they mean? Just more signs that so many things are connected, in ways we just don't understand yet.

But we're trying...

love, blink

Ya know, I guess I just don't care anymore if anyone thinks I'm an idiot here for posting these things, but, hey, they happened to me....so, if it's a figment of my imagination, then perhaps you will just enjoy the diversion.

I went in half-heartedly for a "belief system" retrieval. My neighbor began drilling something in his apartment next door. He stopped. I continued meditating. I decided I didn't really want to try very hard.  You know, if I'm needed out there somewhere, and if I can really do retrievals, it seems to me that I ought to just allow "them" to encourage me as they will.  So I'm just not going to worry about it anymore.

Anyway, I end up sitting in a huge, overstuffed leather "club" style chair.  There are three chairs. Seems like a bar or club of some kind.  I look across from me and this fellow is talking to me, and it sure does seem like James Brown.  Okay, go ahead and move to another thread to something more believable.  I don't blame you.

Anyway, he's smoking a cigar, and I don't know if he ever did in real life and don't really care, and he was looking very happy and pleased with himself.  I tell him that I'm from Moen's place here on the web and, well, he's just where I happened to end up and I really didn't know why, except that someone with me must want to talk with him. I look over to the other chair and dadblast it if I still can't see my "guide" and that still ticks me off a little.  

So, he starts talking to me about belief system territories.  He says lots of people really love their belief systems, including him.  He seems quite happy exactly where he is.  Apparently, there were plenty of fun things to do there, where he was, and he was kicking back having a great old time.  But, I tell "James" that there is someone here and "James" says he's willing to hear whatever my "guide" has to say.

So, that was it.  Is this an example of induced false memory syndrome? Wishful thinking? Playful imagination?

Or could I have been sitting with James Brown calling me "Sugar" and really being kind of sweet for someone who just passed away.....funny, isn't it....or maybe it wasn't James Brown at all, but someone who seemed a little like him and it's just my own skewed perceptions?

Or could it have been my guide himself, and this was some kind of exercise? Or could it have been....SATAN?

Ooops, sorry.  Didn't mean to scare anyone out there.....I'm just in a funny kind of mood today.....just my warped sense of humor talking.....

love, blink

Hi blink ;),

Boards are rather quiet due to the holidays, I suspect.

I don't think you have to think up weird causes for your connections to James Brown. Somehow some cause exists with or without any rationalizations that are added after the fact. Personally I like one where you and he are renewing an previous, and on-going, relationship that you are not currently conscious of.  :)

Discussions here have already covered whether our Disk/families are diverse in their interests or more specialized. I don't know you very well but from the tone of your previous posts, I'd have to say :D that you and James have not shared alot of similiar experiences this time around. So be it!
Could you go back and ask him why he is sharing this special time with you?

You've got me curious!

Love, Bets

Blink I guess I know this... to be not certain what it "really" was, or who it was. Of course we can try to ask for something which brings us more clarity. In my experiences it takes a lot of time, little coincidents coming my way, and some bits in meditation verificated; and maybe there will be never the final certainty, at least as long as we live here.
But of course it's not impossible to have such an encounter with a known person- why not? I probably would not call you "Sugar" if we're just introduced to each other, but maybe JB would.
And yes, what he said about that some enjoy their belief system, I have similar experiences. That there are "designed" belief systems. I would say they are to some degree similar to some private places of Focus27, but the inhabitants of the belief systems are more thinking of cheap fun, without much interest in the whole picture yet. So they're positive enough to not end up in a fear/guilt/jail area, but instead in a sort of mart-pleasure area. However, moving to another area can be difficult, but not necessarily, depending on the person.
About the boy, I just today had a maybe-retrieval of a girl, which I interpreted that this girl was an aspect of a person, split off in a traumatic situation.

So, a lot of maybes here... maybe Satan? But S. "can go swivel", as I have read on the board a little while ago. So, if it was a test, sounds to me you have mastered it.


Spooky

Thanks, Spooky and Bets, for your replies. I really appreciate them. Yes, perhaps JB and I will meet up again sometime, Bets...but I am sure he is surrounded by loved ones by now....if that is what is right for him.

I like your thought, Spooky, that the little boy may be an aspect, a fragment, so to speak. It was such a simple, small retrieval, with no identifying characteristics that I could distinguish, except for the idea of gloom and loneliness.

I agree with you both that it is not always necessary to identify a cause or reason....to do the work is the goal, after all...to get the job done, wherever the journey takes you.

love, blink

I think that perhaps JB was very poor when a child, and this was his memory recall just as he was passing. A reflection of where he came from.  You picked up on it because it meant something to you.  I don't know much about James Brown, but I think your spirit guide gave you a little "sugar" that night!!

Thanks, that's another interesting scenario, cat....a memory fragment of some kind...

And you know, I always do like a little "sugar" with my tea....so, I'll have to thank my guide when I see him....

Where's my swivel stick, Spooky?  Gotta stir this tea around a little bit to get it tasting just right...

love, blink :)