In regards to scarey things that go bump in the night, well, I admit I've taken a lot of Tips from Bruce here and if I had not gotten a lot of tips I could hardly have remained on this forum which I did not create and which he did some years back. I'm still feeling grateful that it was created, so thank you again Bruce, for writing your books for I suspect very little compensation monetarily!
as for those boogie monsters...heres one of my run ins with a monster. just a funny story but showed me a great truth about my path, which looks the same as other paths really. I like to share these stories because then I think maybe others will post their experiences as well, and I like to read about their accounts. face it, we are sociable creatures (I highly promote respectfulness towards one another here and personal experiences I also desire.)
I had a recurring dream in my youth and I couldn't figure out why each night I had to run from a horrible monster, but there I would be running so fast and this thing would be breathing down my neck. Finally one night I thought, well, I can't take this any more. I became terribly lucid. I turned to face my monster and stood my ground. I even spoke to the thing. I said, "ok, this has to change, this pattern, every night I run from you and every night you do not catch me even though you come very close. Tonite you can catch me. What are u going to do to me? I'm so sick of running, so do your best shot. I was resigned to becoming it's toast, yet there was a chance I thought, that I would NOT become toast. I just didn't know how it would go but was willing to take that chance to break a pattern of which was a mere reaction on my part. fight or flight is an instinct the body is born with. I could no longer flee as I was disgusted with this pattern, yet I wasn't in defensive posture either. I was simply standing there to see what would occur and ready for whatever.
pretty soon, this is the funny part...this monster comes loping up out of the darkness; at first it looks fierce and ugley and hairy and brutal but I keep looking anyway because my decision to square off has been made, as I continue focusing on it, I see that it looks a little distracted while continuing to chase me; it didn't expect me to turn around and face it. it sees me then and gets this really surprised look on its face because it knows the gig is up and it says by mental telepathy, I thought u wanted me to chase you?
and instead of ugley, it looks like a cartoon and all fear leaves me. I get my first clue then about astral matter, or emotions creating my reality pictures for me. the thing now looks scared of me, instead of vice versa. huh? it seems to be saying huh? as my creation, it begins to dissolve in front of me losing it's identification with myself, it no longer has existence.
the same philosophy is inherent in Bruce's books when encountering something that seems to want to do harm to you, you can "see it not there." by not believing in it. the same philosophy is found in ACIM books in that "fear is an illusion."
There are only two emotions: love or fear, and there is nothing in between.
if u start to notice yourself coming from fear you can choose to come from love instead and experiences enter your life based on this viewpoint of what it is you choose to see. we are basically computers insofar as belief systems go. do not be a machine. life is too short to just react to it. turn around, look it squarely in the eye and say "whats yer best shot?"

Quote:


Hi Alysia,

Thank you so much for posting your story.  I've quoted part of it above as I think this is so important to all of us. 

I, too, have lived a lot of my life releasing fear and replacing it with love and thereby learning, understanding, growing, maturing... healing myself as I believe that is what healing is all about.  It is also what I believe each of us is here to do. 

No matter what a negative thought, word or deed is... it comes from fear.  No matter what a positive thought, word or deed is... it comes from love.  And these are based on belief as you say.

Love, Kathy
 

hi Nipper! it's amazing to me, but I do hear stories like this all the time of an item being moved by spirit and showing up elsewhere. I guess it's one way for the spirit to get noticed that they do still live. I know they can hear you in your head talk to them as thats how I began to talk to family spirits, by mental telepathy and feelings. maybe someone else here has an experience like yours. I often wonder if they can make the item disappear in it's atom and re-manifest once they know where they want to place it. excellent idea for him to put the ear ring on your kitchen floor where he must of known you sweep everyday! ha ha!
love, alysia

Nipper,

Thank you very much for sharing your experiece, I needed that.  I love the way that you continued to connect by visiting in the garden on a regular basis.  It's like a daily phone call to check in with family or friends.  I think that some who have left really need to continue to touch base with us down here.  Some on a regular basis and others only at critical times.  Of course we can always request they leave if it's a problem for either of us.  A few posts back I mentioned that I had just read Feathers Brush My Heart by Sinclair Browning about daughters, mothers, grandmothers and mother-in-laws who let their daughters know they were still around. Your experience had the same flavor of some of the womens in the book and was about the same length of most of the chapters.  The author kept the contributers original tone in each of their tales.  It was as if I could hear each different woman speak in  her own special way. I loved that book but hungered for tales about the many fathers, grandfather, and father-in-laws who also returned to let us know the're still about.  Mine came to visit in a lucid dream.

At the end of the book the author put out a request for more encounters between family members still here and those who have died.  I wished that I had her web address handy for you check out and maybe cut and paste your tale to her but I got the book out of the library. She copywrited each author to give credit at the back of the book.  I think as I recall, it was just www.sinclairbrowning.com/

Thanks again, Jean

Jean, I logged on to Sinclair Brownings web site and posted my experience but when I tried to submit it there was an error on the page, I`ll try again later. My husband uses the library often, I`ll ask if he can get that book for me.
Thanks

Quote:


_____

I think some of these recurring dreams can be past life glimpses although being tied to RR tracks is quite an unusual way to exit stage left, fright alone would propel me from the body in such an incident!

yes I agree boredom is quite a motive to change a pattern of thought or behavior. I believe I was terribly bored with never getting caught! ha ha!

love, alysia.