Our friend Alexis did the audio recording for our book Phenomena. Her podcast, Higher Journeys, covers all the stuff we love here on The Mystical Underground.
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “David Strabala: What Is Synchronicity?”:
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David Strabala directed the award-winning feature documentary, “What Is Synchronicity?” The seed for the film came from a 15-year-old boy in a group home where David served as a therapist. They were discussing how to be in the right place at the right time. The boy concluded, “That was cool, you ought to do a book about that!” David couldn’t ignore the suggestion, and several synchronicities later the book idea changed into a film project.
His 2014 film features a young man, called the “Uncertainty Hero,” who provides a foil for the material through tips on synchronicity.
My desk has a hutch attached to it in which I keep a couple dozen books that I would like to read, but haven’t found the time. Occasionally, I will pick one up and open it at random and read a page for inspiration, or whatever.
I did that tonight (March 10) and randomly snatched a book called Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything from one of the shelves. The author is Ervin Laszlo, who is a philosopher, futurist, and former professor who has written 74 books. I’ve read a couple of them, but not this one.
I opened the book in the middle and found myself on the first page chapter 7, which is called: The Origins and Destiny of Life and the Universe. That sounds like a big topic…a really big one. The sub-heading is: Where Everything Came From and Where it’s Going. In the first paragraph, he asks if there is life elsewhere in the universe and will it evolve to higher states or dimension.
He also asks about the nature of consciousness. Did it originate with Home Sapiens or is it part of the fabric of the cosmos, and will it evolve further. Then he asks a really big question: Where did the universe come from?
That’s all I read before I put the book back, so I don’t have any answers to those questions. I’ll go back later and read more of what Laszlo has to say. I wouldn’t have written any of this here, except for what happened next.
A few minutes later, I picked up my phone and noticed I was on Facebook. I don’t recall going there, but I must have done so earlier. I scrolled down a screen or two and stopped. My screen was filled with a photo of an old bald man with lots of wrinkles, a fluff of white hair above his ears. His eyes were intense and I could see his intelligence and also could imagine him as a younger man.
I looked below the picture and was startled to see that I was looking at a pic of Ervin Laszlo. I’m not even sure why it appeared on my news feed. He’s not even FB friend. But hello, Ervin. Nice synchronicity. I guess it’s all part of the Akashic Field.
In the spring of 2012, we published a 9-part detailed story here of a French Canadian couple’s close encounter with a UFO and the startling aftermath involving a psychic explosion and emotional breakdown of the man, Charles Fontaine. The series of articles led to our book, Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions and Synchronicity.
The triggering event happened in March of 2011, so it has been ten years this month.
Recently, I contacted Charles and asked him how he now felt about what happened. At the time of the event, Charles had no interest or belief in UFOs. He thought that UFOs and aliens were something created in Hollywood and if there was any reality to them, the U.S. government or military would have told us by now. For those of us with a keen interest in the subject, Charles’ perspective a decade ago seemed quaint or naive, especially the part about the government. But Charles has evolved over the decade. Here are his recent comments.
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Glad to hear from you both…
No worries, I have not forgotten you at all . I do not read my emails that often. I have such work to do at the office that when I get home, I stay away from my computer.
I wanted to get in touch with you sooner but honestly, I thought maybe I would bother you.
You are right, March 28 is coming… 10 years have goneI feel peace now…I am no more frighten
I am no longer scared of death… since I know there are other dimensions nowI know for sure that both things: UFO or spiritual paranormal activities …could be in fact from the same source.
Because of my own experience and time passing by, it helped me analyzing the facts step by step and I found clues that confirm to me the possibility that those are probably from one single source.
Bonsoir mes amis
Charles
Years ago, our blogging friend Mike Clelland compiled the nine parts of the story into a single file and posted it on his blog – Hidden Experience. I attached that file here for anyone who would like to read the original story.
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Ralph Blumenthal: The Believer”:
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Ralph Blumenthal was a reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009 and has written seven books based on investigative crime reporting and cultural history. His newest book is “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.” It will be released on March 15, 2021, and is the first biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack (1929-2004) who risked an esteemed career to investigate stupefying accounts of human abductions by aliens.
Recently, Ralph has also written some fascinating articles on alien abduction, Robert Bigelow’s contest to prove that human consciousness survives death, and the Navy reports that describe encounters with UFOs.
The concept of reincarnation is accepted by two-thirds of the world’s population, including Buddhism and Hinduism. So it makes sense that Buddha had past lives. I had heard the story of Buddha’s most recent past live before he was Buddha, but had forgotten about it until I came across it recently in Catriona MacGregor’s new book: Secrets of a Celtic Mystic: Sacred Earth Prophecy. Once you’ve heard it, it’s kind of hard to forget. Here it is:
Before his incarnation as the Buddha, he was Prince Sattva, the son of King Maharatha. He was also far along on a spiritual path in that life, and while walking near the forest, he came upon a starving lioness and her hungry cubs. To save her life and those of her offspring, the prince offered his body to the lioness to eat. Through his supreme act of generosity, he perfected all of the tenets he held closely, such as renunciation and equanimity, to be able to move to a higher level of evolution and incarnate in his next life as the Buddha.
Most Westerners who accept the concept of reincarnation have a hard time with the idea that we might reincarnate as an animal or especially an insect. Yet, we’ve had three golden retrievers, and with each one I’ve thought that they might have at least a fragment of human personality within them. In other words, it’s not like Uncle Joe is my dog now, but that a part of the spirit or soul of a human might exist within a dog as a means of experiencing physical reality from a perspective other than human. Supposedly, the Hindu god Vishnu had past lives as a fish, a tortoise, a boar, and al lion, as well as previous human incarnations.
Christianity, of course, doesn’t accept reincarnation, except for one person, Jesus, and that supposedly will be a future life rather than a past life. You might’ve heard the argument that reincarnation was part of the Bible until was removed possible in the Second Council of Constantinople (A.D. 553) or the Council Of Nicaea (A.D. 325). If either of those are true, they forgot at least a few passages that sound like reincarnation. I’m not one to cite Bible quotes as the truth about anything, but here is one that sounds somewhat like reincarnation. It’s Job 14:14. If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
If Jesus will be born again, it’s certainly a valid question to consider that he lived earlier incarnations. Has anyone mentioned his past lives? Actually, the answer is yes. Edgar Cayce, the renowned Sleeping Prophet.
According to Cayce, the man, Jesus, underwent several past lives before he assumed the role of Christ. Previously, he was Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, Joseph, Joshua, Asaph, Jeshua, and Zend. There were several other names Edgar Cayce mentioned, but here are those eight personalities.
1) Adam, of course, everybody knows as the first man created by God as mentioned in bible’s Book of Genesis, who lives in the Garden of Eden along with the first woman, Eve. They were banished from Eden, according to the bible, when they disobeyed God and ate the “forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
2) Enoch is found in the Apocryphal Book of Enoch. He is briefly mentioned in Genesis (5:15-24). “The Book of Enoch describes the fall of the Watchers into materiality and Enoch’s heavenly sojourns, as well as his transfiguration into the angel Metatron.” The Book of Enoch is considered by some as a sacred book.
3) Melchizedek was a priest-prophet during the time of Abraham. He is also mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls (which was discovered in 1947 at the Qumran Cave near the Dead Sea), and the Nag Hammadi Codex texts found in Upper Egypt in 1945, along with other Gnostic gospels.
4) Joseph, son of Jacob, became the priest of Egypt. There are many parallels between the life of Joseph and that of Jesus.
5) Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land. One of Joshua’s roles was as a scribe of Moses.
6) Asaph—The Cayce readings give little information about Asaph, except that he was the music director and seer who served under David and Solomon.
7) Jeshua (or Joshua) was the high priest who helped organize the Israelites’ return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple (as recounted in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah). Edgar Cayce claimed that it was Joshua who compiled and translated the book of the Bible.
8) Zend was the father of Zoroaster, the founder of the Zoroastrian religion.
As Edgar Cayce said, “One can read reincarnation in the Bible, and another can read it out again.” Descriptions of these supposed past lives seen by Cayce, an ardent Christian, came from this article.
This spirit contact story comes from Prissy, about her fraternal twin.
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“My twin started this summer with everything tasting yucky. Little by little it got worse and worse and she couldn’t stand the taste of anything. All foods made her gag and she got very thin.
Finally , she had some tests in December and it was lung cancer. Patricia had her first chemo on January 12 and died on January 16. I was leaving the next day to go over to see her.
It’s hard because I talked to her many times a week. We did everything together and I’m just not sure what to do now but yes she has been here. I felt really bad that she didn’t get to see Biden sworn in. If anyone hated Trump more than us it was her. She had a big cowlick in the front of her hair which I didn’t have and two days after she passed away the front of my hair went into this big cowlick and won’t do anything anymore.”
A permanent reminder that her sister’s spirit is with her? I’ve heard of a lot of odd spirit contact stories, but never one like this.
I asked Prissy if she could send me their birth data so I could look at their charts. She didn’t know what time either of them was born, and wrote:
“We don’t really know what time we were born. We were born at home because it was after the war and it was hard to get into the hospital so the doctor suggested my mother just have us at home. The problem was he thought there was only one baby and he gave her some shot after my sister was born and started wringing his hands that both my mother and I were going to die So my mother just started pushing really hard and so I guess right after I was finally born he went running out the door.”
But they were both Libras. I erected a solar chart for Patricia and ran transits to it for the day she died.
My reply: As an early Libra, it means Jupiter would have been in the early degrees of Aquarius, trining her sun. That aspect and Jupiter aspecting someone’s sun sign, can mean an easy death. Easy in the sense of: I’m outta here.
“That fits. She told me she was ready to go. She was buried in her PJ’s. Her youngest son died suddenly in his sleep at 28 in Jan 2006. He had given her a pair of pink pajamas for Christmas. She put them away and never wore them and never told anybody that she was saving them to be buried in.”
About her sister’s son’s death: “He was healthy as could be with no signs of anything wrong with him. It was similar to crib death in babies. It happens sometimes to young men between 25 and 35. It’s not really talked about much but if you look it up you can find it online.”
I recently was invited to join Dr. Bernard Beitman’s Coincidence Project, and several of the other members of the group will be guests on The Mystical Underground in coming weeks. This story comes from Chris Mackey, a clinical psychologist in Geelong, Australia. Chris is also the author of The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity .
“One time in Bali a butterfly landed on my head and stayed there for well over an hour. My friends were amazed and took a photo of it on the left lens of my sunglasses. Just recently I noticed that in a similar position near the other lens there was a heart shape in the background.
The heart symbol is another powerful synchronistic symbol for me. There was something synchronistic in the symmetry of these two symbols in the photo. I love these little touches that we can experience, and it’s terrific to be with a group of people who get this stuff and have lots of experiences of their own like that.”
Butterflies represent transformation, so I asked Chris what was going on in is life at the time. And this is where the story becomes intriguing.
“A key thing on that holiday was meeting Sarah, the wife in a lovely couple we met through our friend who organized the trip, who is one of the most psychic and spiritual people I know. She was right into synchronicity and she and her husband had just read my book and related strongly to it. I only learnt later that Sarah was a spiritual healer. A few years later I accepted her offer to come through my two psychology practice buildings in Geelong to clear the rooms of any negative energy.
“Sarah went from room to room, told me her impressions of what she noticed about the energy in each room, did a brief ritual when she spoke in tongues, and later described visual images of a snake like presence/energy leaving the room.
“Her comments on each room uncannily overlapped with how I perceived the psychologist in each room (how confident or experienced they were, whether there was conflict with me or others, etc.) There were a couple of striking examples. In one room she described a sense of mourning – a very idiosyncratic comment and different from any other comment she made.
“I was specifically wondering whether she would say anything that related to that consulting room previously having been the bedroom of a previous owner who had died in that room decades earlier. Neither she nor current colleagues knew that story. The psychologist using that room spontaneously commented the next day how smoothly everything had gone that morning, suggesting that she felt an extra positive energy in the room.
“In another room, I wondered whether my psychic friend would pick up the one example of strong conflict I felt with a colleague. She immediately described a feeling of long-term stuck resentment and strong negativity and resistance around the desk of that colleague. Her comments led me to be much more confident in forcefully challenging that colleague about aspects of her attitude and behavior.
“It led to a complete resolution of our conflict and we still get on very well now, 2-3 years later. This is an example where acting on synchronicity might not seem rational, but I don’t think I have ever regretted doing so. I think it is rational, because it works!
“I hadn’t connected meeting Sarah in Bali with the butterfly so much, but even at the time the butterfly landed on my head I was less surprised as it felt more of a synchronistic holiday with Sarah present.
“The link below has recordings from my synchronicity segments on local radio in 2019 (we did the segment, “Talking Synchronicity” twice monthly for a few years until the end of 2019). The segment from 8th May includes a conversation with Sarah and how she met her husband (the synchronistic matchmaker at work).”
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Davina Kotulski: Manna From Heaven”:
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Davina Kotulski is a licensed clinical psychologist, life coach, spiritual counselor, award-winning author and speaker, and nationally known LGBT rights leader. She received her Ph.D. in psychology in 1996 and worked for 13 years in a federal women’s prison. Her novel “Behind Barbed Eyes,” based on her prison-work, won the 2016 Nautilus Gold Award for Fiction.
Dr. Kotulski received the Saints Alive award from the Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco for her leadership in the marriage equality movement and for her seminal book “Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage.”
In 2018, she was on “Please Understand Me,” a Sarah Silverman production, where comedians hash out the problems of their fake relationship with a real therapist.
Her book “It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self: Follow Your Inner Compass and Take Back Your Life” won the 2018 Nautilus Silver Award for Self-Help and was a finalist for self-help in the 2019 International Book Awards.
Now she has a new book out that we want to talk about: “THE MANNA PARADIGM SHIFT: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom.”
She has a private therapy practice in Los Angeles and an international life coaching practice. She facilitates spiritual and psychological self-empowerment webinars and workshops around the country.
This one is from Carol Bowman, author of Children’s Past Lives and Return from Heaven.
Every Christmas, Carol’s editor at Harper Collins, Larry Ashmead, would give out a notebook filled with photocopies of weird newspaper articles, letters, and photos. Carol’s husband, Steve, was cleaning out their attic and and came across one of the notebooks. He had it on the kitchen table for them to look at.
“After we read a page, we used it for paper on the floor of our bird’s cage. Steve came up to my office late this afternoon. I was on FB and showed him this article about a French woman who lived to be 122 (or close to that). When she was 90, a lawyer agreed to buy her apartment for 2500 euros a month for the duration of her life. The lawyer was 47 at the time. The lawyer ended up dying at 77, and the woman lived on. The lawyer’s widow had to keep paying the old woman because they had a contract, which stated they had to pay her until she died.”
Steve went back downstairs and looked at Larry’s notebook. It was opened up to the story of the French woman from an article from the year 2000.
What are the odds?
Carol felt it didn’t have any particular meaning. But my take is different. I think it refers to the new book she’s starting.
Here’s the story about the French woman.
