It's a Metaphysical World is a collection of over one hundred extraordinary short stories drawn from everyday life. Although names, locations, and incidental details have been changed, the salient facts are true. Each story deals with some aspect of metaphysical phenomena such as intuition, synchronicity, astral travel, bilocation, time warps, past lives, cell and soul memories, healings, hauntings, miracles, and sightings. Psychic sightings include everything from angels to ghosts. The strangeness of the stories led authors Marion K. Williams and Elena J. Michaels on a fascinating journey of discovery trying to understand the world they thought they knew. All stories offer insights, and many challenge conventional scientific and religious beliefs.

IT'S A METAPHYSICAL WORLD

Extraordinary Stories from Everyday LifeBy Marion K. Williams Elena J. Michaels

BALBOA PRESS

Copyright © 2011 Marion K. Williams & Elena J. Michaels, M.Ed
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-3411-4

Contents

Preface....................................................................xiIntroduction...............................................................xiiiPart One By Marion K Williams............................................1The Ouija Board............................................................3Flying High................................................................6Intuition..................................................................10Devilish Dealings..........................................................14Mind-Cross.................................................................17Rosie......................................................................17Baby-Cross.................................................................18Labour Problems............................................................20People Skills..............................................................21Court Antics...............................................................21Mike.......................................................................22Conversationally Speaking..................................................23Cate's Mind-Cross..........................................................25Remote Viewing.............................................................27Snippets...................................................................29The Trouser Tale...........................................................29Janna's Monk...............................................................30Deb's Entity...............................................................32At the Farm................................................................33Visiting an Old Friend.....................................................34The Death Mask.............................................................37My Friend's Stories........................................................41That Tribal Connection.....................................................45The House by the Sea.......................................................48The Home on the Coast Road.................................................52The Aftermath..............................................................65Mel's Ghost................................................................69The Tudor Brick House......................................................71Afterwards.................................................................75Rosie's Reprieve...........................................................81The Bridge.................................................................83The Stone House............................................................86Martha's Jump..............................................................89Diane's Near-Death Experience..............................................91Diane's Encounter..........................................................94Samantha's Visits..........................................................97Cassie's Stories...........................................................100Cassie's Family............................................................105Our Reflexology Course.....................................................108Taking Ways................................................................111At the Hairdresser.........................................................113The Office on Main Street..................................................115At the Centres.............................................................121The Smallest Seer..........................................................125The Easter Bunny...........................................................128Great-Uncle August.........................................................130Louise's Encounter.........................................................132The Psychic................................................................135Electrical Interference....................................................138The Medium.................................................................141Marie Claire's Houses......................................................145Hal........................................................................150Healing Surprises..........................................................152Judith's Ring..............................................................156Judith's Dad...............................................................160Synchronicity..............................................................162Life's Butterflies.........................................................165Time Warps.................................................................168Unidentified Flying Objects................................................170Time-Tracks................................................................173Auras......................................................................177Negativity.................................................................181The Good and the Not-Good..................................................185So, What Now?..............................................................189Template: The Chakra and Auric Systems.....................................193Part Two By Elena J Michaels.............................................195Bedside Visit..............................................................197Chocolate Delight..........................................................200Divine Intervention at Play................................................204Going the Wrong Way........................................................205Late One Night.............................................................207Stairs.....................................................................209Evidence from the Past.....................................................212Screaming in the Night.....................................................212Death in Another Life......................................................214Historic Trauma............................................................216Uncovering Past Lives ~ Reincarnation......................................219Spiritual Mentor...........................................................219Same Past Life; Different Regression ~ Prolonged Grief.....................222Lost in This Life..........................................................225Ghostly Real Estate........................................................228An Uplifting Experience....................................................233Out of the Mouths of Babes.................................................237The "Other" Mother.........................................................237How Did She Know?..........................................................239Angel Protection...........................................................240Heavenly Look..............................................................241Roadside Angel.............................................................243Synchronicity in Dying.....................................................248The Man in the Room........................................................253Trusting Your Gut..........................................................256Bear-Wise..................................................................257Message from Across the Miles..............................................258Car Trouble................................................................258Mother-Child Connection....................................................259Just Knowing...............................................................260Dying Message..............................................................262Twin Love..................................................................266Spirits of Children Helping Children.......................................269Moving Energy..............................................................273Hot Time in the Summer.....................................................273Tree-Hugger................................................................274The Pesky Goat.............................................................275Hiding the Pain............................................................276Negative Presence..........................................................278Working the Night Shift....................................................279Dark Visitor...............................................................280Keeping a Watchful Eye.....................................................281Highway Motel..............................................................286Pet Spirits................................................................291Ellie the Guide Dog........................................................293Gidget, the Tortoiseshell Tabby............................................294Kitty Love.................................................................295Fleeting Moments...........................................................297Ghostly Snippets...........................................................302Home from Work.............................................................302Hospital Visitor...........................................................303Deadly Fire................................................................304Whispers...................................................................306Out of This World..........................................................311Hovering...................................................................311Time Out...................................................................313Making Sense of It All.....................................................317Part Three By Marion K. Williams & Elena J. Michaels.......................321Postscript ~ Convergence...................................................323Glossary of Terms..........................................................327Notes......................................................................328Bibliography...............................................................333

Chapter One

The Ouija Board

Insights: Entities invited in may be reluctant to leave. Bad entities are uncomfortable around people with higher/good vibrations.

Just before I left New Zealand for an extended overseas trip, I became fascinated with the Ouija Board. In playing it, a couple of my friends had made contact with someone whose existence and life story they had been able to verify. They were intrigued with their ability to reach the other side and communicate. I, too, found this interesting and asked to attend their next séance with them.

I remember rushing home to tell my parents about this otherworldly experience and my father was concerned for me. He warned me not to get involved; that these things could be dangerous and move beyond our control, but I reassured him that my friends were both bona fide scientists and that I would be conducting research with them. However, time was against me, and I left for overseas knowing the theory of Ouija board séances but without having experienced one firsthand.

Once I settled into my new job, I decided to explore the matter for myself. A few friends joined me and we set up our own makeshift board and began. It was early evening, and we all sat around laughing and joking, and accusing each other of moving the glass and spelling out silly answers to equally silly questions. We were all young women, curious about our futures, and for a time, it was fun. After a while, I noticed a subtle energy change in the room. One just knows these things. The atmosphere around us thickened and became more electrical; more charged somehow. Apparently I was not the only one to notice, as a couple of the girls became uncomfortable and decided to call it a night. That left two of us—Joanne and me.

I remember feeling intensely focused as I asked the board questions about me. It was exhilarating to be communicating with spirits. The answers on the board by this time had moved beyond "Yes" and "No" and the entity spelled out whole sentences which we were eagerly transcribing. He stated that he had recently died, but had known me and had lived in my hometown. I was excited by this because it meant that we could verify his existence in life. I asked him who he was but his name meant nothing to me. Then he told me that he used to watch me walk down Penelope Lemans Road.

Something about his response sent shivers down my spine. Firstly, I didn't like his use of the word "watch" and secondly, there was a section of Penelope Lemans that always bothered me and so I avoided walking it alone.

As I reacted to the street name, my friend glanced over at me and said, "Oh, God, there's a man standing behind you." The spirit had manifested. We tried to end the session. We took our hands off the glass but nothing changed. The glass kept whirring around spelling out letters which we stopped transcribing. We watched on in horror. The entity became furious when we stopped writing and literally heaved the glass across the room. First it hit the wall and then shattered on the floor. This entity was not just angry, it was enraged that we had broken off contact, and we were frightened. It is one thing to communicate with spirits through a board and quite another to have an angry one manifest beside you, especially after you have attempted to end the session. This spirit had taken control of the room.

Joanne shoved her chair back from the table and made for the balcony. She wanted to get as far away from the thing as possible. I restrained her from opening the balcony door. We were a few stories up and I didn't want any accidents. She saw my point.

Our flat felt horrid. The atmosphere was thick, angry and seething. It was palpable. I didn't know how to dispel it or get this dreadful thing to leave. Joanne told me the man was wearing black but I refused to look in his direction. I didn't want to acknowledge him further, or know anything more about him. He just simmered and fumed behind me.

There was a knock at our front door. A friend turned up unexpectedly to invite me out for a late supper, but even before he stepped inside, he read the atmosphere and said, "I don't know what you've been doing in here, but I don't want any part of it," and left. His reaction spooked us even more. We hadn't said one word to him about our visitor and yet he knew. This clearly wasn't our imagination. This was real.

I said to Joanne, "I think we need to get someone really good over here." Of all our acquaintances, we only knew one person who fit the bill. I phoned our friend Mike, the man I'm now married to, and begged him to come over to stay with us. I told him we were scared. To give him his due, he never asked why, he simply arrived and, as he walked in, the spirit left. We made Mike stay the night, and his presence dispelled the atmosphere for good.

I put away the Ouija board that night and vowed never to play it again. However, many years later when I was relating this story to friends, they laughed, and I found myself becoming irritated. I told them, "I'm not prepared to do this in my house, but if you want, I don't mind conducting a séance in your home and you can see for yourselves." They took the challenge.

I made another homemade Ouija board and set it up on their dining room table. Shana, Derek, Mike and I all sat around the board. I told them I would summon the entities and then leave the rest to them. They were content with that. I remember watching the curtains blow in, and feeling the atmosphere change as we made contact. I removed my hand from the glass and said, "You're in control now; not me. You'll know whether you're moving the glass or it is." And I sat back. The glass continued to move. They transcribed the message it was giving. The ghost spelled out, "Tell Mike and Derek to leave the room."

That was it—the board was overturned and the game was over.

I recently met up with those friends again. I told Shana I was putting together a collection of ghost stories, and she reminded me of this one. She commented on the strange wind that blew the curtains in, and how spooky the evening felt. In reminiscing about our experience, my husband didn't recall the wind but remembers being appalled by the message, and Derek had nothing at all to say on the subject. We were all there, and all paying attention, yet we all remember different aspects of the event. It was interesting to me that once again a spirit did not want to be in the presence of my husband. I put that down to his vibrations.

Flying High

Insight: We are capable of multi-tasking with our minds and bodies to a much greater extent than is generally believed possible through astral projection and bilocation.

The idea of astral projection has always unnerved me. Whenever I felt myself spinning out of my body late at night, I desperately clung on trying to stay conscious and waiting for the spinning to stop. I always believed that I had never astral projected; my sister thought otherwise.

Late one night, when I was already in bed in Canada, my sister Rosie phoned from Australia to say that she was sick and taking a day off work. As I hungupthetelephone,Ithoughtaboutsendingheradistancehealingtreatment1 and then fatigue overwhelmed me and I drifted off to sleep. Sometime later I awoke and thought: I'd better send that treatment, and promptly went off to sleep again. That night I believed that I had failed to treat Rosie.

So, what is distance healing? This is when the practitioner is in one location and the subject is in another. You imagine you have the subject in front of you and sense their auric field in your mind, noting any imbalances. You then mentally adjust and rebalance the field. Believe it or not, distance makes no difference to energy-sensing capabilities or the effectiveness of an energy treatment.

That night I went to sleep with Rosie on my mind, and the next morning she phoned to thank me. She said that I had appeared in her room and she watched me give her a head-to-toe treatment. Well, I do know I was trying hard to visualize her to give her a distance treatment, but I thought I had slept instead. Back then I did not understand that it was possible to appear there. Rosie was insistent that I had, and I was thoroughly perplexed. I shelved the experience in the back of my mind and was grateful that, whichever way it was achieved, Rosie reported that she felt better. The next day she was back at work.

Conventional wisdom on astral projection dictates that when we soul travel, we remain connected to our bodies by a silver cord. My fear has always been that if I leave, something else might step in to replace me. Could that happen? I don't know. Like I said, I have a fear of astral projecting, and if I have done it, it was inadvertent on my part.

An acquaintance of mine, a former policewoman, told me that she quite often astral projects and does so wilfully. She has mastered her flying technique and visits friends and houses that she is interested in seeing. I asked her how she knows that she was actually there and didn't just imagine it. She told me that her previews always match the fact. It's the little details that she notices, the things she couldn't otherwise know, that confirm her travel experiences for her.

Another friend, a university professor, also used to astrally soul-fly. She told me that the difficulty for her was not in taking off, but in returning to her body gently. She complained that she often crash-landed back with a thud and felt crooked until she was able to straighten herself out. I felt her aura on one of these occasions, and she was indeed crooked—literally half in and half out of her body. I repositioned her to the centre of her auric field.

Yet another friend reported that she has occasionally woken to find herself floating through her house. Like me, she has a fear of leaving, so she immediately thinks herself back to her body in bed. Apparently, that is all that is required to return.

My friend, Cate and her husband had some interesting escapades that challenge conventional thinking. Cate's first flight occurred while she was walking outdoors at York University in Ontario, Canada. She suddenly found herself up in the air, looking down on herself as she continued walking along the pathway. As quickly as she was up, she was down again, but she did find the experience interesting. She was obviously wide-awake at the time. Her view from above could not be duplicated from below—but how did she keep walking? What part of her flew and, more importantly, can the body be fully and actively functional without the spirit? This could redefine consciousness as we know it. Her story was so extraordinary that it sent me scurrying for answers. I had never heard of such a thing.

Cate had a friend who was a psychology major, but when she tried to discuss it with him, he didn't want to hear about it. He told her the story made her sound quite mad and if she had any sense she wouldn't repeat it or the experience. She didn't mention it again until now, some thirty years later.

Her second story is even more odd, but has been verified. Some months after she returned from her tour of duty in Germany she found herself dreaming about the place. In her dream, she returned to Lahr and went shopping in the marketplace. She said she met many of her old friends there, and when she awoke, she distinctly remembered talking to them, as well as the texture and smells of the fruits, vegetables and flowers in the market. Her dream was so real that it took her a few minutes to reorient herself to being back in Canada, in her own bed and in her own home.

Some weeks later she received a letter from her friend in Lahr, who had heard from mutual friends that they had seen Cate at the market. She wondered why Cate had not called or visited her when she was in town. Of course, Cate was incredulous. She immediately wrote back stating that she had only dreamed she was there. Her friend replied that if Cate's dreams were such that other people could see her, perhaps the next time she could dream-visit her. Point taken!

Interestingly enough, Cate's husband, Dave also experienced an unusual event. He found the whole thing so alarming that he thought it best not to mention it to anyone, so he didn't, not even to his wife. Dave was a miner. One day while he was busy operating a scoop tram, he saw himself quite clearly standing a little distance away diamond drilling. He could not believe his eyes. He told me that he refused to face himself on the drill and concentrated instead on his driving.

So what is going on here? How was he physically functioning in two selves, in two skilled jobs at the exact same moment? How was I seen in Australia, and Cate in Germany? Were we actually there, or did we think-send one of our many vibrations in lieu? Some belief structures, including religions, hold that we are capable of bilocating or multilocating other selves.

Bilocation is different from astral projection. In bilocation (and multilocation) we appear to split off one or more full body, appropriately attired, holographic versions of ourselves, with each one capable of independent thought and action. In astral projection, we have an out-of-body soul-flying experience and remain connected to our resting physical selves. The operative word is resting.

In the case of Cate she clearly did more than astral project. In the first instance, she separated mind and body, yet remained functioning. She watched herself walking. It was astral projection with a twist. In her second situation, while resting at home, she projected physically to another country where she was seen by others. This leads us to the conclusion that ordinary people are capable of multi-tasking with their minds and bodies to a much greater extent than we generally believe possible.

Dave's situation is again somewhat different. He manifested another fully functional self, working alongside himself. Neither one was resting or simply a spirit version. Was he envisioning himself in the past, or the future? Was there a time overlap or warp? Was this yet another example of bilocation?

I have no recollection of physically projecting to Australia, only of attempting to distance treat my sister. I do not know how to interpret her sighting of me there or the fact that some part of me completed the distance treatment. As there is a close familial connection between us, it could have been achieved by many means—mind-cross, higher self, astral projection or bilocation, or it could quite simply be presumption on her part.

The higher self is a term I use for the alter ego that miracle workers or psychics such as Edgar Cayce tap into. This version of self functions at a higher vibration and in this higher state can perform miracles or other extraordinary feats.

Of the four scenarios, only Cate's distance travel case is clear-cut and provable, yet the other stories lend credence to it. If something extraordinary happens once, we term it miraculous, but if it happens more often, then there must be an explanation for it. Cate remembers being in Lahr and other people saw her there. It appears quite certain that she managed to naturally bilocate, which is an extraordinary feat and one usually reserved to exceptional people or those who have undergone intensive mystic study or training. Some Catholic saints are said to have mastered this technique. For someone to stumble upon this ability is truly amazing. Dave's story is also extraordinary. For anyone to twinhimselftooperatetwodistinctpiecesofcomplexequipmentsimultaneously challenges conventional belief. This is the stuff of Samurai soldiers.

(Continues...)

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