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

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

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!!