I am curious as to how each of us may have felt "guided" in their everyday lives this year. Have you had a special day or any events which "wowed" you, even if the events themselves seemed like they could have been ordinary occurences?

For instance, did you feel a prompt to do something, and did it turn out unusually well? Or a prompt not to do something, and it also turned out for the best?

Or a fortuitous meeting. Or a series of events which are unlikely together, and yet took you exactly where you needed to go.

Or a dream, or series of dreams. I am interested in evidence of the 24/7 presence of guides in our lives.

love, blink

Lots of 'coincidence' is my usual mode. How about I got a call out of the blue from a friend to haul me in to see Ingemar Bergmann's 'The Seventh Seal a few hours ago. He's a film buff, there's a fstival on.

An incredibly atmospheric film that's a classic but more to the point it turned out to about the knight who is the central character's search for knowledge of God - something which would take him beyond the need for blind faith to I guess Gnosis.

He's returning after years away at the Crusades through a countryside swept by plague  and filled with people blaming themselves for what's happening - fuelled by catholic preaching and the like.

Completely coincidental - and yet I've recently been posting and thinking a lot about how important a Gnostic (personal experience based) spirituality is for the future of the world in recent times. Thinking how it is that without personal experience we are easy meat for those pushing a fear based system based on the idea of a vengeful God who must be bought off, who demands blind faith. A sort of faith which in absence of experience of PUL makes possible the most grievious error as history has amply demonstrated.

It's easy to think we've escaped this when exchanging messages on a forum like this, but we're in truth only just into territory where this sort of spirituality can be publicly discussed.

There's plenty out there indulging in all sorts of fundamentalist preaching who have no problem whatsoever denouncing this sort of view. Our local protestant rector just last Christmas denounced Buddhism as a dangerous cult in a church sermon. Given just a small shift in climate there's many would stoop toop to excesses we've though are in the past....

Well Blink,
yes matter of fact there has been something that happened to me a few back.
I havent talked about this ever yet, I think I should now.

Shortly after I had started searching for answers concerning the afterlife. I had a lucid dream.
It was really nice for me. Because I had had contact with my in 1998 deceased father in this dream. I dreamt this consciously , but it was unintentional.  My father was a remoldler, building houses and such in his time here. And in my dream he was renovating my bathroom. (of all things...lol..)

In any case, in my dream I peeked around the corner of my bedroom, from which you can see directly into the bathroom into. I startled for a min or two in my dream and thought to myself "Woe, but dad you`re dead, huh you dont look it though".. And I could see other souls around him, they were passing material and working and he said that too: "I am here working". I started to say something to him. But he interupted me in a flash, by telepathically telling me "Don`t ask, just pay attention"... and I started to open my mouth again (as usual.. ) and then he let me know:  if I were to ask him questions that he would leave right away! I shut up like quick like! I was amazed at what he looked like, he appeared to be younger, healthier and filled with joy at the time. I will never forget that dream. I took that as a "wake up call" to get educated more.

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Another incident:
In 95 I moved back to germany and my boyfriend at the time was a Motorcycle driver. He wanted me to get on the bike, so he could drive me to his place and "something"   inside told me not to get on the bike, so I said NOPE, cause your gonna have a wreck! I got in the car behind his bike, we all drove off. About 2 miles into city limits - he got side swiped by a little red car. MY GUIDE was there with me and must have induced that "Nope".

To add something funny to my little story: We married 3 years later and he didnt think I was a witch until we divorced in 2001.
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