A Disturbing Doppelganger

This image comes from a Stephen King book/movie. I love King’s work, but this book – It – freaked me out and I couldn’t finish it. Maybe it’s the clown weirdness. Maybe it’s something else.

At any rate, I was clicking around in blogland and ran across Dan Mitchell’s fascinating blog. This seems to be a multilayered synchro – a  doppelganger, a kid, a possible alien abduction. At any rate, I didn’t sleep well after reading this and that’s usually a good indication that synchronicity and other sorts of weirdness is prevalent. But let Dan tell it; he tells it well, powerfully.
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Back in 1982 I had a situation erupt in my childhood that was the first time I felt as though I had been lured into something either ominous or simply unexplainable. At the time it was so confusing that when I told my parents about it, they did what they usually did, laugh it off.  When I was six there were only two things on my mind really, my family and going outside to play.  I wasn’t raised in the best of neighborhoods, but for some reason, my parents felt that it was ok for a 5 or 6 year old kid to simply walk around the neighborhood and be free. Admittedly those were different times, but to this day I find it troubling.  I don’t like my kids being out of my sight, and there isn’t a chance I would simply let them “run free” as if my neighborhood were a hippie commune.

Admittedly there was some fun to it. I was able to explore on my big-wheel and get into all sorts of boyhood adventures.  There were railroad tracks a short distance from my house, often times I would simply lay down and go to sleep in the field that those tracks ran through when I got tired.  One day my oldest brother found me and had convinced me that I slept there the whole night.  The sun was setting and he told me it was morning. “Oh man, Danny, you’re in deep. Mom and Dad have been looking for you all night! The cops were looking, too!” I was terrified.  My brother walked me home and when I went into the house practically in tears, he let me in on the joke.  I never slept outside in that field again, even though it felt strangely natural for me to do that.

One day I was hanging outside on the porch with my brother Christopher, when a huge blue buick pulled up to the house with my Mom in the passenger side.  She kept waving strangely to me, almost like she was waving too forcefully. She kept repeating herself, “Hi Danny. Hi Danny. Hi Danny. This is mom, I love you.”  I waved back. My brother was also puzzled by this.  I didn’t know who the driver was, in fact his face is still something of a blur to me.  I didn’t feel right because I was certain that my Mom had just made me lunch, and I didn’t know she left the house.  I began to feel uneasy.  I felt as though a thought was being beamed into my head that my Mom was leaving forever and she wanted me to get into the car with her.  I turned around and went into the house to ask my Dad why she was leaving only to have the shock of my life. My Mom was standing in the kitchen.  “Mommy, I thought you were outside?”  She looked at me puzzled and said, “No, honey, I’ve been in here all day.”  I told her that I saw her outside and she just kind of laughed. My brother Christopher ran in and repeated what I had said.  At the time my mind made it seem as though the driver was one of my uncles, but clearly it wasn’t.  He didn’t even drive a buick at that time.

Whoever had been in the car that afternoon was not my Mom. It had, however, pulled off a rather awesome disguise in an attempt to possibly lure me into the car.  It failed for numerous reasons. Firstly, I could smell bullshit and guile even at that young age.  I don’t mean that figuratively, I mean it literally as well.  I have the odd ability to smell when things don’t seem right.  In the past, I have smelled even the scents of people and have learned who I can and cannot trust.  And though I know that sounds incredibly odd, I assure you that this ability is very real. That afternoon, I smelled something very nasty.  Secondly it failed because I sensed I was being tricked, I could immediately tell by the movements and mannerisms that this was not my mom. That is why I didn’t blindly run up to the car.

I do have serious concerns about this phenomenon.  My concerns are not so much for myself, but moreso for my own children.  I firmly believe there is an aspect to this that is very dangerous.  While I can’t be certain exactly what that is, I do know that it is foolish to believe in the new age interpretation of this issue that these are all beneficial entities giving man a push toward evolution and development.  If this were the case, individuals like Mark and others wouldn’t have their self-identity splintered into a million pieces and end up living off the grid in a state of constant fear.  I’m not saying that fear is always a bad thing, or that it doesn’t lead to growth, I’m saying that it is unwise to jump into an explanation without first closely examining every aspect of it.  Furthermore, I firmly believe that NOT all of it is dangerous, in fact I believe some of it has the potential to be beneficial depending upon its reception by the individual or society.

For me I view this overall in one way-whatever is occuring is happening because it is a part of the creative process, or as the Tao Te Ching calls it, the great going forth.  From that perspective, I see this as something of a final crystallization of events leading to something far bigger, mainly the dissolution of the present order of things. I am not hopping on the 2012 bandwagon, I am simply saying that something has been implanted into the collective consciousness of modern humanity.  I say this based upon my own personal experiences, my personal communications with things that defy rational explanation, and more importantly my own growth during my pursuit of truth.  While I am sure that not all people would agree with what I say here, and that’s ok, I just ask for people to hear me out, at least for the sake of a fresh opinion on the matter.  Nobody is obligated to believe what I write or the ideas I put forth, I simply offer them up for your consideration on the matter.
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Tulpas

‘Tulpa’ art

 For the past several months, I’ve been writing a novel, called EXTREME DREAM, that deals with an obscure phenomenon called tulpas. In case you’ve never heard of them, and chances are you haven’t, tulpas are thought forms–beings, animal or human, that are created by advanced meditators.  The word is Sanskrit and means to build or construct. Tulpas are a part of ancient Tibetan wisdom.

The most famous tulpa story comes from the writings of Alexandra David-Neel, who wrote Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. David-Neel learned about tulpas from a lama in eastern Tibet. She had doubts that the story was true, but David-Neel was an adept meditator herself, and under the tutelege of the lama she eventually was able create a thought form – an odd-looking woman. However, she had considerable difficulty dispersing the tulpa and the woman dogged her for months.

In her book, she says: “What becomes of these creations? May it not be that like children born of our flesh, these children of our mind separate their lives from ours, escape our control, and play part of their own.”

I have not read the book, only second-hand descriptions. Until very recently, I had not read that particular passage until it appeared on a link from Daily Grail. For me, it was a synchronicity to come across information on tulpas, especially when I wasn’t looking for it, and then finding that particular passage.

The reason being, in Extreme Dream, the tulpas rebel and break free and find they are capable of living independently.
-Rob

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1:26

Yesterday’s post was on 11s, so today we’ve got a new set of numbers -126.

The  synchronicity, oddly enough, involves Diane Keaton, heavy metal, and the numbers 1-26. It comes from Jesse Ryan, who has been following our blog for a couple of months.

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“I saw the 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton recently –  after I read mention of it in Tom Robbins’ Wild Ducks Flying Backward.  There’s a scene where Keaton’s character, Theresa, dreams that her father is dead, and a Catholic funeral hymn plays in the background.  It’s a hymn that I guess is well-known in the Catholic community.  I instantly recognized it as the hymn that opens Deathspell Omega’s 2004 album Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice, which is arguably one of the greatest black metal albums of all time, and one of my absolute favorite records.

It’s not only the same song, but I’m convinced it’s the exact same track (ie from the same source).  The only difference is there are funeral bells ringing in the movie, possibly something added for the movie or taken away in the album.  I just thought this was a really cool Easter egg at first, but when I began to look into it further so I could share this with the only friend I thought would appreciate it, I realized there was a cool synchronicitous happening here. The hymn starts playing 1 hour and 26 minutes into the movie, and 1 minute 26 seconds into the album/song!”
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If you Google 1:26, you get  Genesis 1:26, which is entitled All the Wild Animals. It reads:

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'”

So we started with Wild Ducks Flying Backwards and ended with a funeral hymn linked to our stewardship, or dominance, over the creatures of the earth. There’s something telling about that synchronicity, considering the unprecedented loss of species over the past two decades that is directly related to human activity.

Imagine if the animals started rebelling?

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Those 11s Again!

Jung considered numbers to be archetypes. In his scheme of things, repeated synchronicities involving the same numbers suggests those numbers have become active in your psyche. With that in mind, here’s another synchronicity involving 11:11.

 We’ve done several posts on the numbers 11, 111, and 11:11. This synchronicity story comes from Hilary Carter,  who has written a book about the phenomenon.
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I can handle coincidence when it crops up in a reasonable way but when the number11:11 first appeared in my life, it was not in a reasonable way. It was Armistice Day 2004; the 11th day of the 11th month. A friend and I had gone to visit a small country church in an English village. This church had been built on the site of a Benedictine Priory and dated back to the 13th century. As we pulled up outside the church and switched the car ignition off, my friend pointed to the milometer. It showed the car had reached exactly 111,100 miles. Not only that, the trip meter displayed 111 and the time was exactly 11:11 am. That was not reasonable. It was
 frightening. All those elevens! It was too much for my rational mind to handle.

Looking back I can see that that day was a pivotal moment in my life because I know that what I had experienced that day was something exceptional.

Through my research on the internet I soon discovered that I was not the only person in the world who was experiencing the 11:11 phenomenon, though nobody seems  to have yet come up with an explanation for its appearance.

As part of my personal research into the meaning of the 11:11, I have just completed a journey along the 11th line of latitude in India. My journey ended in  Kozhikode, Kerala. That night I met a German publisher at an Ayurvedic Temple. I told him about my book The 11:11 Code and he couldn’t believe it because his son
was born on 11th November at 11am!
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We’ve asked before for synchros involving 11s. Anyone have new ones?

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The Geese and the Grave

We’ve posted a number of synchronicities about animals as messengers. The next story involves a pair of Canada geese and was sent by Phillip and Maureen  of Atlanta. It’s a stunning example of how we all are intimately connected – not just to each other, but to animals as well.
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 This isn’t really a synchronicity, not in any classic sense, but I wanted to relate  something I found uplifting and odd.  My wife and I went by the cemetery to place flowers on my parents’ graves the day before Easter.  This is a large cemetery located along a busy street and lies adjacent to the constant rumble of Hartsfield
International Airport in Atlanta.  This is very much a developed area with no ponds or creeks – no body of water or grain field anywhere close-by which might attract waterfowl or other wildlife.

But there at my family’s grave sites were two Canada geese waddling around very regally and purposefully.  With no water, food or other attractant in the vicinity, this was strangely comical – sort of like finding a
buffalo or aardvark or something wandering around a mausoleum–  it struck me as that incongruous.  They stayed nearby, practically underfoot, while we “visited” and arranged the flowers on the headstone.

It was as we were driving away a short time later that I remembered something I’d heard about Canada geese – that they mate for life – and the symbolism really struck me then, my dear mother and father having spent their lives together and my grieving mother having died within 6 months of my father’s passing. This pair of geese: were they there that day to highlight, to honor their memory?

I have no earthly idea how the two geese came to be there at the family plot but saw them as a fitting tribute at Easter for my folks, a devoted couple – may God keep them close.

Thanks for allowing me to share,

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Volcanic Eruptions and Empaths

The volcanic eruptions in Iceland are having an impact on several of the planetary empaths we have written about in previous posts.

For several days,D page has been exhibiting some of the same symptoms that we wrote about in the linked post.  Connie Cannon, who dreamed about these eruptions several weeks before they happened, wrote this morning to say that her throat is “burning,” and that she feels uneasy about the possibility of an eruption from a second volcano in Iceland. D’s 24-year-old daughter, who is also sensitive, has reported persistent ringing in her ears, one of the symptoms these individuals feel about pending earthquakes.

There’s speculation that Katla, a more powerful volcano  8 miles east of the present eruptions, could blow as well. Katla erupts about twice a century,  the last time in 1918, when it triggered glacial floods. The New York Times has a good article on the situation here.

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Volcano synchro

Short after the Icelandic volcano,Eyjafjallajökull, blew open, Jeremy Warner, a writer for the U.K. Telegraph wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog post suggesting that the Icelanders had summoned up a Nordic god in revenge for Britain’s use of strong arm tactics to get Iceland to repay a loan, related to the collapse of its banking system.

Then the Icelandic coast guard photographed the three main vents of the eruption, using special cameras.So Warner followed up his blog post with a new entry and photo. “If this is not the face of some fallen deity summoned up from the underworld, I don’t know what is,” he wrote.

We agree. Pretty spooky! Thanks to Jim Banholzer for alerting us to this emerging entity. Let’s see, it could be Thor, god of lightning and thunder. Or maybe it’s Vali, god of vengeance. But I think there’s more involved than paying back the Brits.

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UFOs and Synchronicity, Part 2


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It started with a Ouija board, led to a late night search for UFOs at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, only to find out the next morning that police officers filed a UFO report after sighting an object hovering above Perry Airport ten miles to the south.

So the next night around midnight Trish and I drove to Perry Airport hoping to catch a glimpse of the UFO.  After all, that was our UFO. But would the entity that seemingly contacted us wait for us? We had our doubts. But it was worth a try.

When we arrived at Perry Airport, we were surprised that it was totally dark. No runway lights, no night lights in the main building. Closed for business. But it made a good spot for a UFO to appear, better than the busy international airport. We sat in the dark waited and watched.

After an hour or so with nothing to show for our wait, we figured that the aliens had their own agenda and we weren’t part of it. Besides, we were already impressed with what had happened. After all, if I hadn’t been called to cover a story at the school board that morning, I might’ve been assigned the UFO story instead of the reporter at the desk next to mine.

So we called it a night and drove off. I’d barely gone a quarter of a mile when I was stopped by a red light at an intersection. I switched stations on my radio and was about to switch again when I heard something unusual. It was an old fashion radio drama, the kind that radio was famed for in the days before television. I couldn’t ever remember hearing such a program on late night radio so I listened to the story.

That’s when things turned truly strange. The story was a detective mystery with a 1930s flavor. But astonishingly the story was about aliens and ufos and an alien had a speaking part. Trish and I had driven in separate cars to the airport, because of the location of the airport. She was right behind me at the light and I wanted to run back there and tell her about the alien on the radio, but the light changed and I didn’t get a chance to tell her about it until the next day.

But it was another synchronicity. That made two of them, one in the morning at the newspaper office, and this one on the radio outside Perry Airport. Nothing quite like that has ever happened to us since then, but at the time both of us were so wide open and searching. We were empty tables, waiting to be filled.

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UFOs & Synchronicity, Part I

When Trish and I first met, the most interesting point of connection was that we had been read Seth books and neither of us knew anyone at the time who had read those books. So one night we were discussing the Seth ideas, and one of us mentioned that Jane Roberts, who channeled Seth, had started getting messages through a Ouija board with her husband, Rob. So we went out and bought one, and here’s what happened a couple nights later.

The ‘spirit’ that came through told us he was communicating with us from a UFO. We laughed about that. Being a reporter for a daily newspaper at the time, I was naturally skeptical. But I was also impressed that we were receiving any kind of message. So I asked for proof.

The response was that if we wanted visual evidence, we should drive out to the airport between 1 and 2 a.m. I still had my doubts. From what I’d heard, Ouija boards were known for leading people on wild goose chases that came up empty. Trish felt the same way and said she wanted proof right now before we left the house. She’d no sooner asked the question when the light in the room blinked off and on.

We looked at each other. Okay, that was something. So off we went to the Fort Lauderdale airport to look for UFOs. The airport was smaller in those days and we parked outside a fence just beyond the tarmac…and waited…and waited. We felt kind of stupid when nothing happened, but it was an adventure of sorts. We just weren’t looking forward to getting up early the next morning and going to work.

About quarter after two, we gave up. So much for listening to guidance from an alien communicating through a Ouija board. I dropped off Trish and on my way home, I started wondering the location. Why would a UFO appear near a busy airport? Maybe the trickster-spirit of the board wanted to see if we would confuse an airplane for a UFO. None of it made much sense. But the light did blink when we asked for proof.

The next morning I was in the office by 8 a.m. and immediately assigned a breaking news story with a 10:30 a.m. deadline. I can’t recall what the story was about, but I remember I called it in from the school board administration offices. So it was an education story.

I went back to the office, and wrote a longer version of the story for the second edition. As I wrote it, the reporter at the adjacent desk was typing furiously to meet her deadline. As I finished my story, I asked her what she was working on.

“There was a UFO sighted by cops late last night. It was hovering over Perry Airport.” My jaw must’ve dropped. I muttered something about that being a good story. Little did she know what it meant to me! I remember the reporter, Susan, being a somewhat caustic young woman and a chain smoker. She blew some smoke my way and said: “Yeah, it came from Uranus.” Then she went back to typing her story.

Her story appeared at the bottom of the front page that day. (It was an afternoon newspaper, a thing of the past.) As soon as I got off work, I called Trish and told her what happened. Perry Airport was a private facility, located in Hollywood, Florida, about ten miles from Fort Lauderdale International.

“We went to the wrong airport,” I said. Even though, I was tired after a short night of sleep, we agreed to meet that night at Perry Airport.

Part 2 tomorrow…

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Another Doppelganger

Some people seem to have a knack for experiencing  certain kinds of synchronicities – clusters of names or numbers, for instance. Or hearing a tune on the radio or a voice on TV saying something that answers a question or concern. Mike Perry,  whose synchros we’ve posted here before,  seems to experience a lot of synchronicities when he travels and apparently has a talent for experiencing doppelgangers. On March 2, we posted a doppelganger synchro he’d experienced, and now here’s another one.

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I forgot to mention one strange experience while on my holiday to the Canary Islands.  I saw a double of my best friend who died a couple of years back – a doppelgänger, I suppose.

My wife and I were in our hotel about to have our evening meal when in walked the double of my friend – someone I had known for over 30 years.

My wife and I looked at each other and both said, “Doesn’t he look like Colin.”

To be honest it felt very unsettling when this man sat down on his own quite near our table. In a way I wanted to find an excuse to talk to him but then I felt I shouldn’t. I couldn’t, however, stop looking at him.

When the waiter came over to the man it was if I was dreaming. Colin had a habit of putting two fingers of his right hand in his top pocket when he was slightly nervy. This is exactly what this duplicate did as he placed his order for a drink.

After a few days the double went away. I almost felt relieved. Then, as we were at Tenerife airport to fly back to England, there he was waiting for the same flight as us. This particular flight was heading for Bristol where Colin was born – an airport we don’t normally return to when returning home.

Very strange.
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I sometimes wonder if doppelgangers are parallel selves.

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