Spooky synchros during UK radio interview

Happy Halloween from Nigel

We were interviewed recently by Mark Johnson and Irene Allen-Block for Paranormal UK Radio, a show based in Wales. As we talked about our new book, PHENOMENA, we experienced, well, phenomena in the form of three synchronicities during the hour-long interview.

We were talking about one of the chapters that focuses on people who hear voices and were discussing why some people find these voices terrifying and others consider them helpful guidance. Mark made the point that it depends on what those voices are saying to you. He noted that if they’re telling you to go kill yourself, that’s a good reason to find such inner voices disturbing.

As we were talking, I received an email from someone we’ve been corresponding with who not only hears voices, but records them, and has been sending the recording to us from time to time. These recordings are strange and require headphones with the volume turned up. They come through as almost metallic sounding, and are supposedly from inter-dimensional beings who our correspondent is in touch with during her 2-3 hour daily meditations that sometimes involve out-of-body travel.

She had no idea we were doing a radio show and talking about voices when she sent a very disturbing message about a being who can best be described as a dark entity. Here’s what she wrote: “It keeps trying to come in when I meditate or try to sleep. It fills my head with growls and when I threw it back yesterday it filled the house with roars of protest and anger. I tell it to f**ck off. The fight is on. I have faced dark energies, but this is different. I can do this.”

So the comment, which I read without identifying the source, fit right into what we were talking about. Several minutes later, we had moved on to talking about twins who experience telepathy, and Mark mentioned that he was a twin, but he and his brother only rarely picked up on something happening to their twin counterpart. Mark went onto say that his brother had died a few years ago and mentioned his name.

Seconds later, Irene spoke up and said that she had just gotten a Facebook request from a person with the exact same name – first and last. “That’s my brother,” Mark said with a laugh, “He’s coming through.”

We’ve been on their show a couple of times and it’s always enjoyable. It never seems like a formal interview, just four people talking about weird stuff that happens. However, we had forgotten that the show runs two hours and we hadn’t asked Mark beforehand. Unfortunately, we told him we had to bail out after the first hour because of other commitments. He and Irene said they understood and would continue the show without us.

The hour went by really fast and we didn’t really notice the time until abruptly the phone line went dead. Trish and I didn’t know what happened, but we both looked at the time and were amazed that it was exactly 5:00 p.m. Our time was up, but Trish called back and asked what happened. They didn’t know. Mark said he was asking us a question, and suddenly we were gone. I mentioned that we called back just to let them know that we didn’t just abruptly hang up because it was 5 o’clock. We said our farewell, noting that the show was ending with a third synchronicity, this one dealing with time.

The link to the show is  here.

 

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Mercury Retro Alert!

Happy Halloween and hello, Mercury retrograde! But, also take a look at the November forecasts in the masthead!

At 11:42 am EST on October 31, Mercury turns retrograde – in Scorpio- for the last time this year. This one lasts until November 20, when Mercury turns direct again in Libra

Mercury governs communication, travel, contracts, anything with moving parts. So there are a list of DO NOTs when this planet turns retrograde:

Don’t sign contracts. Otherwise, you’ll be revisiting the terms at some point.

Don’t make travel plans. Buy tickets on either side of the retro. But if you do have to travel, remain flexible because your schedule is apt to change unexpectedly.

Double check all appointments.

Don’t submit manuscripts.

Don’t buy anything with moving parts – a car, bike, electronics.

Don’t put your home on the market and don’t buy a place during a retro.

These retrograde periods favor revising, rethinking, reconsidering.

If you do travel during a retro, it’s likely that you’ll return to that location at some point.

The good news is that Mercury won’t turn retro again until Feb 17, 2020!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Skeptico Podcast and Alex Tsakiris

 

 

In our years of writing about synchronicity, we’ve done a lot of radio shows and podcasts, more than 50, with many repeats. Each show and podcast is different and appeals to a different audience. But what most of them have in common is a host who is intrigued by the paranormal. Today, we did one of the most interesting podcasts yet – Skeptico with Alex Tsakiris.

We were invited to the show as a result of a recommendation from one of his listeners, who had emailed me two really interesting synchros. I can’t remember the man’s name, please forgive me for that, but thank you for the recommendation! Skeptico was one of the best shows we’ve ever done and a lot of fun. Alex is well-versed in everything we write about. From synchronicity to UFOs, abductions, ghosts, hauntings, mediumship, psychics, you name it, he knows something about it. He also looks for the science behind it, specifically the tipping point in science. For us, the big question was what Rob and I have often asked ourselves: Who’s orchestrating  this stuff?

We talked with him for about two hours and at some point, it occurred to me that Alex had to be a Gemini or had a Gemini moon or rising because of his communication skills. So during private time at the end, I asked him what sign he is. I always feel sort of weird when I do this. It sounds like a silly, shallow question – Hey, what sign are you? But to an astrologer, it’s the one question that really matters because it’s a challenge: Are you the archetype I think you are? It turned out he was born on June 8, I’m June 7, so yes, he’s a Gemini.

This helps to explain his open mind on all things paranormal and his search for the tipping point in science that supports/explains psi. Right brain, left brain.

In preparation for the show, Alex created this image. He calls it Skeptico’s Jeopardy. It’s a PDF, so just click on it. It’s a really clever and creative way to select what you want to talk about – and to make clear what’s off limits.

Our show will be up in about three weeks. In the meantime, check out Skeptico’s interviews. Alex has talked with many of the heavy hitters in metaphysical field. He’s a man on a quest.

 

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NEW MOON IN SCORPIO

Usually, we can count on new moons ushering in new opportunities, new people, new experiences. But this new moon in Scorpio on October 27 is challenging.

In the chart above, you can see the moon and the sun together in Scorpio in the 4th house. Directly opposite these two planets is Uranus at 4 degrees Taurus in the 10th house.

Uranus is the planet of sudden, unexpected events that happen out of the blue and since it opposes this new moon, the impact probably won’t be good. You may hear jarring news –   a client no longer needs your services, your significant other reveals a secret that ends the relationship, you and a friend part ways. You get the idea here. A Uranus opposition isn’t fun.

To complicate things, Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio on Halloween, so there’s lots of intense energy to deal with at the end of October. Just hang in there, remain as positive as possible and know this, too, shall pass!

 

 

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Where Emotions May Drive Us

Paula’s Mini-Cooper with her dog riding shotgun

On August 1, 2019, Paula, a yoga teacher, was driving home to West Palm Beach from Fort Lauderdale, where she worked as an outreach coordinator for a drug treatment center. She was in her Mini-Cooper on I-95, an insanely busy road.

“As I was driving along, I was feeling that I was living unconsciously, I was tired of the drive to and from Fort Lauderdale, nearly an hour in either direction, and I was feeling anxious about work. I felt unfulfilled, like I was just going through the motions.”

And suddenly, her Mini-Cooper died in the middle of the three-lane interstate, cars whizzing past all around her.

In a dramatic and potentially hazardous situation like this, a kind of shock seizes you. WTF just happened? Your brain slams into survival mode. Your heart pounds, your mouth goes desert dry, you look around frantically for a cop car, for someone to help. Paula kept turning the key in the ignition, pumped the accelerator, but the car refused to start.

She called 911 and for the next 10 minutes, waited for a state trooper to arrive. “It felt like an eternity. I was basically a sitting target.” Her car eventually was towed. The miraculous part is that she wasn’t injured. No one rear-ended her, she wasn’t run over. “I felt it was divine intervention because I was protected.”

But three weeks later, on August 21, she received her last paycheck from the treatment center. She wasn’t fired; she and twenty of her colleagues just weren’t paid after that. In late September, they met with an attorney, who filed a civil suit on their behalf against the owners of the center. Two months after that event, her car is still in the shop because of one snafu after another in getting parts, a new engine. She has been driving loaners.

That day on I-95, she was thinking about how much she wanted to leave her job, but the potential loss of income scared her, so she didn’t do it.  “So the universe did it for me,” she says. “It was a dramatic turning point for me. Lots of changes and internal introspection.”

The experience also proved to be precognitive – and a synchronicity.  Just look at the connections. Her car dies unexpectedly on a four-lane interstate – full stop, she can’t even pull to the shoulder of the road – while she’s thinking about how much she wants to leave her job and feeling so unfulfilled, like she’s just “going through the motions.” Full stop means no movement. No motion. Lots of movement around her, in front of her, behind her, but her car is dead.

The events were so in her face, so immediate – and such a reflection of her emotions at the time – that she was forced to change directions. She continues to teach yoga but  is now carving out a new direction for herself professionally. Interestingly, as of mid-October, she still has a loaner car, which changes periodically. “The universe is still having a field day with my car.  The shop called me yesterday to say they had received, yet again, another wrong part.”
It’s likely that when she gets her Mini-Cooper back, she’ll be on that new career path, wiser and more heart-coherent about where she’s headed.

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Angel numbers

I don’t know which angel created these meanings for repeated numbers, but it’s a good starting point. Some of them are close to the meaning of the singular version of the number in numerology—particularly 8 & 9.

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Happy Birthday Buddy!

Today my dad, whom we ultimately called Buddy, would have been 106. Born on October 20, 1913 in Quincy, Illinois, one of five siblings, he grew up during the great depression. His childhood wasn’t ideal. He was the third of five kids – three sons, two daughters, one brother killed in WWII.

In the midst of the depression, he was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a numbers guy unable to find work, so he and his brother, Joe, applied for accounting jobs with Standard Oil in Venezuela. I think he was 25 or 26 at the time. Standard Oil’s subsidiary, Creole, hired him and Joe.

I think Joe and his wife Rosie, traveled to Venezuela first, then my dad followed in 1937 and settled in an oil camp in the town of Las Salinas, on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, which contained large reserves of crude oil.

When WWII broke out, my dad signed up and his travels sent him all over the world. On a leave in Tulsa, he met my mother on a blind date and six months later, on December 12, 1941, they were married. He returned to Venezuela with my mom. I mention this because to do this back then required guts. You essentially became expatriates who worked for an American company in a foreign country that was as wild as the wild west in this country in the 1800s.

And there, my sister and I were born, attended American schools, learned the language, the culture, and were always guided by our parents’s values. Work toward what you love, love what you do, love the people who are closest to you, be honest in all you do.

In the early 60s, I remember standing on the balcony of our apartment, watching a procession of cars fleeing the country, the dictator – Perez Jimenez – in one of those cars with $13 million embezzled from the government. He settled in Miami Beach. Not long afterward, Venezuela nationalized the oil industry and droves of Americans, including my parents, left the country. It was November 1963, a turning point in my life.

We have returned to Venezuela twice since then. In 1987, Rob and I traveled there with my parents and experienced a powerful synchronicity that was one of the earliest we posted on this blog. hWe even found the house in the oil camp where we’d lived in Maracaibo, the city where my sister was born.

We returned when our daughter was old enough to windsurf with Rob on the island of Margarita. In the years since, Venezuela has fallen into a black hole. Greed is to blame – not socialism, not the Republican talking points. This country, because of its natural oil resources, has always been prone to corruption.

In the 1990s, my mother developed Alzheimer’s, we had to put her in a facility, and my dad eventually moved in with us. Those years were pretty dark, involved a move to a larger house so everyone could have a room, and in retrospect what stands out for me is CHESS. My dad had been playing chess since he was a kid, and he and Rob, then he and Megan, played almost nightly. My dad never went to college. But he was a member of MENSA and Megan definitely follows suit.

Buddy died in late September 2005, just five years after my mom, a few weeks short of his 92nd birthday. He was tired. He had Parkinson’s. His wife had been dead for five years. He was in an assisted living facility in Georgia where my sister was the head nurse. A few weeks earlier, I had show him a video of Carol Bowman’s interaction with James Leiniger, a young kid who reportedly remembered his life as WWII pilot. At the end of he video, my dad was crying. “That’s the most convincing evidence I’ve ever seen for reincarnation.” I believe that video   released him.

So, dad, happy birthday. And thank you and mom for all you did back then and since…

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Acts of KIndness

This story  really underscores the fundamental kindness of human nature. It involved Celebrity Cruises and their 3,000 guests who helped  the cruise employees prepare 10,000 meals for delivery to the Bahamas. And they cut the cruise short to do it. The guests were fine with it.

Read it. Your heart will burst with gratitude.

And have you noticed how quickly the disaster and its aftermath in the Bahamas has dropped out of the news?

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Celebrity death synchros

The Trickster strikes.

In the 1982 film, Blade Runner, Dutch actor Rutgers Hauser played a replicant who dies in the year 2019. Thirty-seven years later, 75-year-old Hauser died on July 27, 2019.

Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, was born just after Haley’s Comet appeared in 1835. The comet only appears in our skies once every 76 years. In 1909, he wrote: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’”

Indeed, Clemens died one day after the comet appeared in the sky.

Will Rogers, humorist, actor, and writer, died in a plane crash with his aviator buddy, Wiley Post, shortly after taking off from a lagoon in Point Barrow, Alaska. Rogers’s typewriter was found in the debris, a piece of paper rolled into it, and the last word he typed was death. Even Rogers probably got a kick out of that one.

Hours after famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton proclaimed in an important meeting with religious leaders that the times ahead were electrifying, he died by electrocution while sitting in the bathtub.

The last movie that John Huston directed before his death was called The Dead.

The last book of poetry that Anne Sexton published before she committed suicide in 1974 was entitled The Death Notebooks.

At the time of his death, Philip K. Dick was working on a novel entitled The Owl in Daylight. In esoteric traditions, the owl is considered a messenger between the living and the dead.

The last song that Hank Williams wrote was Angel of Death. When he died, he had a hit single at the top of th charts: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.

This is the really weird part of synchronicity, the kind of stuff that makes your arms erupt in goose bumps.

 

 

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PHENOMENA

It seems like this book has been in the works for a long time. But it’s finally available!

As humanity’s collective consciousness evolves and expands, more of us are experiencing phenomena – voices no one else hears, visions no one else sees, intense intuitive feelings that presage the future or enable us to telepathically connect to loved ones. Some of us communicate with the dead,  see inter-dimensional beings,  claim to have been abducted by aliens. And some of us experience synchronicities that defy the odds.

Are we outliers? Or are we, as a growing number of psychiatrists, scientists,  and researchers now recognize, tapping into a matrix of reality far more vast and complex than what science currently recognizes?

 

 

 

 

 

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