Whether we’re headed across town or across the world, travel removes us from normal routines and habitual thinking. We’re open to new experiences, uncanny encounters, and all the high strangeness the universe can muster. Travel is the door that opens us to synchronicity.
This travel synchronicity comes from T Thorn Coyle, teacher and author of several books on magic and evolutionary witchcraft. She’s also a pagan minister. What we particularly like about this story is that we’ve all been in the situation she describes – on a plane, seated next to a stranger. Is the seating random or synchronistic?As we wrote in a post way back in February, the seating may not be random at all.
Thorn tried to book a flight direct to Charlotte, North Carolina, but couldn’t find one. So she had a layover in Chicago. On the flight between Chicago and Charlotte, she and another woman were in the same row, with a seat between them that was filled with the other woman’s papers and books. Thorn settled in with her music and book while the other woman typed away at her computer. About an hour into the flight, the pilot announced they might encounter turbulence during the descent because of storms around Charotte.
In Thorn’s words:
This woman turned to me and said, “If I reach out and touch you, it is just to reassure myself”. I said that would be OK, and returned to my music and my book. Moments later, the plane shook and her hand reached out. The turbulence passed. Another jolt, and the hand reached out. I pulled off my headphones to tell her it was fine for her to hold the armrest, or indeed my own arm. I saw that she seemed frightened, so began talking her through breathing slowly and down through her feet. Between rounds of turbulence, it came out that I sometimes counseled people with anxiety.
“Really, you work with people who have panic attacks?” she asked.
Yes, sometimes, though not always. “I do spiritual direction,” I said. “I’m a Pagan minister.”
More turbulence. The plane rocked, she gripped my arm. At that point, things began to get much worse for the plane and for her. I leaned over, holding her arm, talking her through breathing. “Touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Imagine breathing down to your feet.”
She began to whimper and beg for help. It soon became apparent that though we were both trying, she was barely keeping herself together and was heading into full, hyperventilating panic. I told her to hang on, cleared the seat with one hand, got her computer out of her lap and to the floor and said, “I’m coming over.” And I did, buckling myself one handed into the new seatbelt, and pulling her toward me with one arm. The physical enfoldment was not going to be enough, so I threw my aura around her, and asked my contact, LVX, to help. As I murmured that she was surrounded by light and safety, she settled down, resting in my arms. We sat together and breathed as the plane bucked and shook, fighting the wind and rain. We kept breathing and
centering, breathing and centering, for about half an hour, until the plane finally touched ground.
There is more to the story, of course. More effort on both our parts, more snippets of words spoken and energy exchanged. But mostly, the story is, she was afraid and asked for help and I responded.
Once on the ground, she thanked me, calling me “a general among soldiers”. I gave her a few more techniques to try and told her she could contact me, and gave her a bit of LVX to call upon for the journey back to Chicago, and recommendations for Rescue Remedy. Mostly, I told her she needed to deal with this, because putting herself through such strain and terror was not good.
How are we like her? She had sought out hypnotherapy, but talked herself out of believing in it. She is busy. She works. She has children and a partner. She always manages to come last, leaving herself in panicked situations when she most needs the structure of some day-to-day support. What in us, right now, needs to
learn something new, or practice something old, so we are prepared for what may come?
In her crisis, she knew to ask for help. How often do we ask for help? How often are we willing to be vulnerable? How often do we know we have a need, but are avoiding it? What in us prefers the strength of our resistance, bolstering some part of self? What in us needs to control so badly we cannot trust that the pilot
will safely land our plane?
I feel grateful to this woman for all of these reminders, for these lessons, and for giving me both the opportunity to help her and the chance to reflect on the parts of my ego that still engage in the dance of avoidance. So today, I asked for help to face the tasks that are in front of me.
Vicki, re your question about the dangers of remote viewing, I just want to add something to the other comments, based on my own experience. As an intuitive person, I sometimes have to actively protect myself from draining energy (often from other people), because being sensitive/open is naturally draining. I have done remote viewing only a handful of times for that same reason: I found it highly draining, and even unnatural. It's not something I would want to do every day, that's for sure. Hope that helps—it's just my perspective.
Oh dear. Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
wv – nesswaki ~/~ awareness, wake up.
Okey doke!
Thank you so much for your answer and suggested reading I will have to check them out.
I have heard of the viewers becoming unbalanced but why? I'll have to read up.
hmmm…cogfuze – confusion?
Vicki, I don't mean to stereotype remote viewers, but the history of the U.S. govt's program is ripe with individuals who became unbalanced. Joe has related many such stories (privately) and while he remarkably lacks the paranoia that has plagued others, he is not without his own issues related to the work.
Besides Joe's books, Remote Viewing, by Jim Schnabel and Psychic Warrior by David Morehouse are two good ones.
Here's a list of remote viewing books:
https://www.remoteviewinglight.com/html/remote-viewing-books.html
Surprisingly, the list includes two of mine, even though they are categorized as fiction.
Nancy, Trish is sitting in LAX right now waiting for her plane. Synchronistically, she's flying into Charlotte, the same airport as in this post! Hopefully, she won't encounter any such turbulence.
yes, deb, that red and blue fabric i buy by the bolt – and as for my bracelets and lasso, they are as much a part of me as the air i breathe – then, there's my invisible airplane….
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and nancy, you mean, you DON'T have to be in charge and create all the things you're working on?!! OMG, to let go of the outcome!!!
one can see how and why i had such a response to this post!
wonderful to see everyone else's responses here!
wv=dosed [hmmmm…looks almost like "closed" to me…]
Good lesson for me. I keep thinking I have to be in charge and create all of the things that I'm working on, yet one of the first things I remember reading was to ask and then let go of the outcome. Why can't I trust in that? I think it's a concept that is hard, especially for people who have been brought up to be self-sufficient.
I have to add that Trish has been an enormous help to me over the last many months. She's been my angel in disguise for many issues, coming into my life at just the right time. Thanks, Trish!
What a great story, you can feel her gentleness. This came at such a timely moment for me. I was supposed to have a test done this morning and I kept feeling that I didn't need it and instead of blindly going forth with it I questioned the Dr. and when she reviewed all the recent data she agreed with me and said "see you in 2 months!". I was shocked. I felt so much stronger because I spoke up for myself. I have been trying to take care of myself more and sometimes that means speaking up and questioning things.
I too have been drawn to books and info. on remote viewing yet something always seems to hold me back. Your comment of "be careful what you wish for" interested me, could you elaborate on that? I had heard before that remote viewers are not happy, why? I would appreciate any light you can shine on this subject, as again I feel a pull to this subject matter.
Thank you.
this is a fascinating story. I truly believe we receive what we need when we are in most need of it and ready to accept it. This realization always gives me chills.
And, after reading Gypsy's response I shook my head – I was just wondering this morning how and where I started believing that I had to do it all,in a very determined way and asking no help. It seems, Gypsy, that we are cut from the same Wonder Woman cloth!
What a great story! Thank you (and Thorn) for sharing.
when i began reading this story, my body responded physically – and more so the more i read – a literal visceral response from cold chills to near-tears – asking for help has never come easy for me – i suffer from a severe case of deep-rooted wonderwomanism, especially heightened by always having had to do and to be and to do more myself by myself – obviously, a much needed lesson for me at this moment in time – the truth of it overwhelming – and i am grateful to you all for having posted it – time for – uh, more – deep inner reflection for me!!
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Ah, watch out what you wish for. Professional remote viewers typically are not happy campers.
Thank you. Very timely as ever! Hee,hee.
I am reading Joe Mc Moneagle's 'Memoirs of a Remote Viewer'……OMG!!!!! I am SO into this book.
Thanks to you, I recognised his name at the library. Once again, the book was in the wrong place and seemed to 'jump out at me'. When I grow up, I wanna be JOE!
wv = gesse