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Comment by Debbie Deal on April 11, 2012 at 10:35am

Love the video!

Comment by booklover on April 11, 2012 at 8:57am

sk8eycat, thanks for sharing that beautiful video. :)

Comment by sk8eycat on April 11, 2012 at 1:51am

Ruth, I hear Mom say my name. 

I took care of her off and on for the last 9 years of her life (she made it to 87, despite metastatic cancer, and various other ailments after she was cancer-free), and I also still simetimes wake up thinking I have to go in her room to check on her before I'm completely awake.

Another weird thing...in the fall of 1957 I was 17, and on my first tour with HOI, and about half the show had come down with the first wave of Asian Flu.  I did NOT write home about that.  By my 18th birthday, I was pretty sick, but I decided to splurge and call home, anyway (from Macon, GA. Remember how much long distance calls cost back then?).  The first thing mother said when she picked up the phone was NOT "Happy Birthday!"  She said, "What's WRONG?"

Spooky. 

Comment by Barend van der Merwe on April 11, 2012 at 12:45am

Beautiful video sk8eycat - wish it didn't end...

:-)

Comment by Barend van der Merwe on April 11, 2012 at 12:42am

Hello - I think that is just awesome Ruth.

Always something new and amazing about the natural world and ourselves.

Thanks everyone - love the discussion.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on April 11, 2012 at 12:19am

Sk8eycat, I'd like to reply to your hearing your mother's name. We have language only in the higher brain, with one exception, recognizing the calls of mothers to children. Just like the penguin who can find her chick in a colony of tens of thousands by recognizing his cry, mammals know their mother's call with the lymbic system. I had a similar experience once, when I was lonely, and just as I was falling asleep I thought I heard family quietly moving about in the house (as if I were not alone). It was comforting. We have these primitive brain memories of being loved, and can call them up involuntarily with an inner voice. I've learned to be comfortable with these primitive parts of myself.

Comment by Steph S. on April 10, 2012 at 11:36pm

Hello everyone! How are you doing? Cool discussions here.
I'll check that vid out sk8eycat.

Comment by sk8eycat on April 10, 2012 at 10:40pm

I don't mean to interrupt the discussion about "supernatural" feelings and illusions, but a friend just forwarded this to me, and I think it's GA-LOR-IOUS!

ss video done by Alberta, Canada. I’m stunned by the quality of the video. You’ll probably watch it several times. This is fast paced but the hi def scenery is awesome in what is as close to 3-D without wearing special glasses.

 

 

www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ThFCg0tBDck

Comment by Sarah Walton on April 10, 2012 at 6:52pm

What about the feeling one gets when  experiencing something uncanny or strange? That feeling of being so weirded out you're not sure how to react? And I mean, really weirded out.

I'll give you two examples. Once, when I was about 5, I saw an opossum on a neighbours' back patio. They are not native to the region I grew up in, and he was likely an escaped pet. I had never seen an opossum before, and it was like seeing a freaking unicorn. It was so bizarre, and I'll never forget how weird that felt. This must be how people feel when they think they've seen Bigfoot.
 

The second time, I was 12, star gazing with my family at my aunt and uncle's house and we saw a UFO. No really--it was flying, it was in the sky, I didn't know what the heck it was. Now I know I probably some sort of US stealth or flying wing aircraft, but at the time I was unfamiliar with them. Mix in the fact that it was night, flying very high and UFO themes were popular on TV at the time, and well, there's yer problem. ;)

I'd sort of like to be able to have that experience again. I see things that confuse and astound me, but I haven't been put in my place by weirdness in a long time.

Comment by Paula T. on April 10, 2012 at 6:10pm

I like watching clips of the Atheist Experience on YouTube. In one particular clip, the caller explains how good she felt after going to church, listening to hymns, hearing the sermons, etc. The host asked her if she ever felt chills while listening to anything else...any type of secular experience and she replied that yes, she had. He explained it just as Ruth did - the mind plays tricks on us and what we may feel is the "holy spirit" is just an emotional and physiological response. I just wish more people would see the connection - there is nothing spiritual or supernatural about these feelings.

I really wonder what goes on in one's life to be so indoctrinated to truly feel they have a 'personal' relationship with god or that he talks to them. As they say, when one hears voices, they should go see a psychiatrist...not go to church...

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