I've heard my name called..when I was totally alone..and sometimes when not.  Happened today..I never considered that it was my higher self..interesting.  And..it was a most stressful day today too..

Yesterday morning at 5:22 am I was awakened with a man's voice saying 'Marilyn'.  I sat up and looked around but of course no one was here. It sounded like the third housemate that lives here, Rod, but he had been gone to work for over an hour.  I also saw him (Rod) as he said my name with his arms outstretched and that's when I woke up. Hmmmmmm. ???

Love,
Mairlyn 

       In my youth, as a teenager, I was trying to meditate, have relaxed continuity-of -consciousness, throughout my daily life. (this is still an aim). I had made up a focal point of concentration, I would imagine a sun shining in my chest and try to rest there during the day. (This was in the beginning, before I met my zen teacher, or any other spiritual teacher, I had  made up this excercise for myself.) Eventually I stopped using the feeling of a sun shining in my chest as a point of concentration, I wasn't sure it was the right way to go. ( A book I had read offered other suggestions and made me wonder about my made-up excercise). One day at work, a very clear voice said "Tim! Work on your inner sun!"  It was as if someone was standing right next to me saying this.  It was very striking at the time, hasn't happenned again since in such a  way....           Tim

btw, do u want me to tell u about the time an exorcist attempted exorcism on me? hee hee hee. u must encourage me if so  of course, that is easily done these days. love, alysia   
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Alysia, I'm encouraging you. Please, please, please. LOL    I'd love to hear about it.

Love,
Mairlyn   

 
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Alysia, I'm encouraging you. Please, please, please. LOL   I'd love to hear about it.

Love,
Mairlyn  

thought you'd never ask
will start a new thread; it's lengthy, from my book. it's not about negative entities though but u might like it

yes, I agree Tim about the sun visual is marvelous, especially in that a sun radiates energy out into the world. who knows why this would work, to simply hold an image like this, but once it caused an experience for me, yet not a sun, but I was imaging energy covering the world, like a healing energy blanketing Earth, so the sun, yes, may very well be the heart of some infintisimal being and we but the natives basking in it's warmth. cool. I mean warm .
Shirley and Marilyn: now I acquise, although I cannot spell it! how shall I write a book if I cannot spell? just joking. I will drag the thing from the trash and put it up about this onery character and my equally onery 1st husband who had the audacity to try and exorcise yours truly. sheer folly as I was not possessed for heavens sake! ???

interesting topic, very interesting.

i would say at least once a week i will be drifting off to sleep and hear 'Chris!' rather loudly. it's always a variety of different voices, sometimes it sounds like my friends. it's as if i'm hearing it inside my head but not at the same time, hard to explain.

the funny thing is, my brother and my dad are both rather spiritual aswell, i spoke to them about this the other day and they both said that they get it from time to time too. my mother and friends have never experienced it.

i also have a habit of being half asleep, and dreaming slightly, and then it feels as if i literally float back down into my body before i wake up. the weirdest thing happened to me last night, i was very conscious, lying on my bed, eyes closed, just relaxing, then i started to think of things, and then before i knew it i was in an almost dream state, but i was completely aware of it......sometimes i will be lucid, but i've never been aware right from the start of the dream! anyway, i was in some queue for a night club (i was going there that night) and somebody in the queue said something along the lines of 'i can't tell lee yet', i felt compelled to ask why, so i did, then before i knew it, whoever it was, stood behind me, placed their hands either side of my head, and pulled it back, instead of falling over, my legs came off of the ground and i started floating and flipping really slowly....i felt like i was upside down, my eyes being closed as this was happening. i felt trapped, i felt claustrophobic, and i kept thinking to myself that whatever this person did to me, it will stop me from waking up, but then i opened my eyes and realised that i was back in my body, and in the exact same position that she had put me into in my dream state. hmm.