Archive for December, 2009

By Peter Perkins

(See Part One)

The Semi-Blind Leading the Blind
Part Two

Spirits

When I was young, Spirits were visible just like you might look around a crowded mall and see people. I was able to see them though they were faded, ephemeral. They lacked substance and often lacked color. They were defined though and had facial features. It was as easy to tell a male or female spirit as it is to see the differences in a living male or female. Not all spirits looked exactly as humans; some were frightening or bore the appearance of them as they died. Perhaps because they were holding unto those memories so strongly they could appear no other way.

During my youth seeing these spirits was quite involuntary; I did nothing to actively see them it just happened.

Now when I perceive spirits, it is more a feeling. I get the feel of a presence and can speak with them. I will sometimes get scents, or hear sounds that indicate the presence of a spirit. They can talk and I can, if they wish carry on a conversation. When I speak of spirits here I mean earthbound souls. I perceive Guides and Angels differently.

Guides

Guides are often for me heard and a mental dialog will take place. If I try to perceive them it takes some effort for me to raise my vibration to bring them into focus. It is at this point that a mental image comes to me of their appearance. If you closed your eyes and remembered someone you knew a few years ago, that kind of mental imagery is how I perceive my guides, when I wish to see them in a visual way. Even here I perceive them with this new vibratory and energy sense. Yet I am trying to describe it in terms that people can understand. This perception of them is one in which I am walking around and not Out of Body.

Now when I am out of body that’s when this new sense is stronger. I perceive my guides visually much easier. There is no need to raise my vibration or try hard to see them. Yet once again I am not really seeing them with my eyes; I am perceiving their energy. In fact it is so much easier and so much more unmistakable. I can also sense the balance of male and female energies. This doesn’t rely on sight at all. Here I am describing them in terms of this new sense. It is not that I see them as male or female, I instead feel it in their vibration, in their energy.

I have met other non-guides who appeared female but had strong male energies. Likewise I have perceived non-physicals with balanced or only slightly higher male or female energies. It is a sense beyond the common five, yet it is as easy for me to sense as smelling a freshly baked apple pie, or seeing a sunrise.

My guides too have their own energy and male/female balance of energies with some more male and some more female. I can also sense distinct individuals by their energy. It is not a matter of seeing them since appearances may change. The energy though is what stays the same no matter what the outward appearance. I would say that it is hard to describe but thankfully there was a movie called “What Dreams May Come”.

If you have ever seen it Robin Williams character encounters his children who had died and though their appearances were different then he had remembered them he knew them right away regardless of their outward appearance. This is that ability to perceive their energy and vibration that I am speaking about.

Angels

Angels are almost like guides but even though they are easy to speak with they are very hard to perceive visually. I have tried to do so and succeeded a couple of times but I need to raise my vibration way up and they need to lower theirs. Even so the image is fleeting. The angels I have seen have distinct colors but no wings as many are depicted in art and sculpture. Yet like Guides who can appear differently, I am certain if the angels wish, they could appear with wings.

When I did perceive the angels visually, colors came first followed by a brief solidifying of face and form. Yet I didn’t feel comfortable having them lower their vibration so low to be seen. I care about them and their natural state is very high vibration. This is why I have only tried to see them physically in this way so few times.

Their presence though is stronger then that of guides. I can easily sense the presence of my guardian angel, his presence is strong. Another female angel has an equally strong presence and it is easy for me to feel their vibration.

Also just like guides I can feel the male and female energies in my angels.
Some are strong to one side while others are more balanced. All of them though have some hint of both energies. This is as easy to sense as it is in my guides when I am out of body. Angels also have their own energy feel to them and it tends to be a little or a lot stronger then the energy feel of guides.

Dimensional Barriers

At one point while going out of body I perceived beautiful celestial music and gold ever shifting patterns of energy.

I was later told by one of my angels that what I was really experiencing is the barrier between dimensions; the vibrational separation between this reality and the out of body reality – like a wall of mesh if you will.

The music and gold colored patterns were my way of perceiving the barrier and as I got closer to it the music became clearer and the patterns brighter.

Unlike the five senses we all have, this new sense the ability to perceive different vibration and energy is still being refined in me. I did not walk around sensing energy all about me, or the balance of male and female energies in people. It takes a bit of work on my part.

So in a way I feel like the semi-blind leading the blind. I am trying my best to describe a sense that is different then the five we all share and needing to use words better suited to the other senses, in order to explain my experiences.

If you are spiritually blind, or semi-blind, like me and you’re just starting to get glimpses and perceive with this new sense – I hope that this article helps you.

Thank you Peter!

‘Matthew, Tell Me About Heaven’ by Suzanne Ward. (C) Suzanne Ward 2001, Published by Matthew Books, ISBN 0-9717875-1-4.

Review by Peter Perkins

This book is one in which Suzanne Ward channels her deceased son Matthew’s spirit.

It is a series of question and answers in which she asks him questions about the accident that caused his death, which he described as part of his soul contract. Through his experiences between lives, he describes a realm called Haven which he says may be where people got the term heaven from.

The question and answer sessions between mother and son are clear and well explained. Often one question leading to others. So many different topics are covered in these question and answer sessions that one can easily find something within for their own knowledge, or verification.

I myself found a lot of verification on life between lives. The manifestation of matter. The thought of different vibrational dimensions existing within the same space and many other topics.

As a book on channeling it could stand alone. Yet it also holds many things that people may be curious about. Do animals have souls? Do pets join us in the afterlife? What is there to do in the afterlife realm?

If you have had experiences yourself and seek some kind of verification this book may be what you are looking for. It is also a good book for those who are curious about other realms and feel more comfortable hearing it from the spirit of a young man who had lived as one of us as opposed to other books where entities are channeled that have never been human.

I highly recommend this book to any interested in channeling, life after death or with a curiosity in the spiritual realms.

Thank you Peter!

By Dr. Irene Blinston, PhD

Dr. Irene Blinston, PhD,  is looking for participants who have had metaphysical, spiritual and/or paranormal experiences to do an in-depth questionnaire for her research.

She asks “Have You Had a Supernatural – Paranormal Experience? Did it take place before you were 20 years old?”

To view the questionnaire information page: Ongoing Research of Supernatural and Spiritual Experiences.

You can find out more about Dr. Blinston at her website, Divine Encounters.

(Yes, I did the questionnaire – Jan)

‘The Living Matrix: A Film on the New Science of Healing’ © 2009. The Living Matrix, LTD and Becker Massey LLC. (emginate). Video – 83 minutes.

I have not reviewed a video before, but after seeing ‘The Living Matrix’, I felt I had to say something.

I was intrigued from the moment the video began.

This video provides many theories; new research; techniques and shared experiences on different ways of healing the human body and taking into consideration the whole Being in the healing process.

Perhaps none of this sounds ‘new’ to you, and some of it was not ‘new’ to me. I will have to say I was excited to hear of researchers that ‘confirmed’ some of what I knew from energy-work; and was excited to learn new-to-me information.

Some of the speakers featured in this video include: Marilyn Schlitz, PhD; Arielle Essex, DO; James L. Oschman, PhD; Bruce Lipton, PhD, MD; Eric Pearl, DC; Rollin McCraty, PhD; Peter Fraser and Lynne McTaggart.

I recommend this for everyone – especially those who are ready to heal themselves…. You may find inspiration, hope and/or guidance in this information.

In affiliation with Amazon.

Last  Sunday, my sister and I went to a psychic fair in Tucson. We both signed up with the same lady and when it was her turn, we asked if we could do it together, and she said that  would be fine. She didn’t use cards, in fact it was more of a casual chit chat. I am not at liberty to discuss my sisters reading , however, I can say that it was pretty right on if you know what I mean.

I have never experienced a reading done in this way.  Usually, the reader doesn’t want to know anything  so that you won’t think they are “fishing” for information. However,  this lady asked a lot of questions, and she would tell you what she was seeing as you answered her. Her visions left you wondering  as she compared the meaning to a scene in a movie. It seemed pretty vague, however, the information had some deep roots that began falling into place the next day.

I would  like to say one thing to anyone that would like to have a reading done, but may be afraid of what might come out. A physic will only validate what you already know and what you are ready to hear.  At some level of your being, you  have to give your permission for them to see. Otherwise, they can’t . There are many counterfeits’,  however,  in my opinion, a good physic reads with the desire to offer guidance for the highest good, and has the highest respect for free will. A physic reader of light also accepts with honor, the responsibility that comes with reading.

That being said, I would like to share with you an amazing journey…

This particular reading that I got seemed to unfold one symbol at a time. I am most jazzed by synchronicity, where spirit manifests and becomes reality. It’s the stuff  that makes your hair stand up and you know it’s real.

Right off the bat, she asked me “how can I help you?  I  asked her if I was going to move?  She told me that she saw Wyoming around me, and that seemed cool because even though I live in the desert, I have felt homesick for the mountains and snow for some time…

Next, I asked about my mother. She died in Sept of 06 and I still really miss her. Rarely can I speak of her without crying. I have some sort of a void concerning her that has not been filled. Perhaps, it’s being filled now, as I will explain as this incredible reading slowly unfolds.

She told me that she saw my mother in swaddling clothes. I didn’t think too much about it, but I never heard of that before. I told her that my mom and I had an agreement on communication that has never happened, and therefore, it makes me think that she can’t honor our agreement. She said that my mom didn’t have to experience many of the things that most of us go through after death, because she already knew. I know this. She was a very enlightened being.

Next, she told me that she saw a very big bird feather. At that point I freaked because my  greatest fear in life is birds. There is no reason for this fear, but it is very real. All of my life, in kidding, I have said that I was pecked to death in another life. As a child, I didn’t want to die and go to heaven because I thought you got wings, and I wanted no part of that.

She confirmed that I was killed by birds as a form of torture in another life. She told me that they even pecked one of my eyes out while I was still alive. However, she said it went deeper. She told me a story about a very highly evolved being with wings, and they were my honor. Something happened  and I lost one of my wings,  it devastated me and  broke me, on a level so much greater than any feeling that we can experience on this earth plane.  She told me that I was of the bird clan, and that they want to talk to me, but have respect for my fear of them.

She went on to say that a feather would come to me to heal my past once and for all. It would also open the doors to who I am. The communication with my mother, in the way she and I agreed on will also be honored.

By the time we left, I felt like I had known this lady for a very long time. As with any reading, when something hits  you over the head as truth, but nothing rings true with you at that moment, rather than judge it, file it under later. Then, when it happens, if it does, you  will remember the words, and hopefully, find your own synchronicity.  For me, I didn’t have to wait very long.

The next morning, Gene {my husband} and I went to my brothers house for coffee and I am telling my brother Chris, and his lady Michelle, about our readings. Michelle hands me this big  hawk feather…

the feather  will find  to me…

And so it begins…

I began to tell them about loosing a wing, and as I did, I began to cry. I could feel the sorrow and the loss. I wasn’t afraid, I was very sad.  I felt as if I lost my true love, or my truth. It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. {She also told me that at one time I was not very nice,  but I can’t remember where that fit into the reading} Could that be where I lost my wing? Or perhaps that is why I was tortured?  I just know that I was devastated.

Next, I told Chris and Michelle about mom, and I had to call my sis to ask her what  the term was that the reader used. When I told them that the reader saw mom dressed in swaddling clothes, instantly, all three of them said “Mom has reincarnated back”.  Something hit me like a ton of bricks, and I thought about my  niece. She was born after my mom died and I always thought there was something weird about her.

My mother died Sept 20,2006. My niece was born Sept of 2007. This is third generation. They have many similar mannerisms and they look alike. Tell you what, it would explain why my mom doesn’t write. Ha.

I inherited my moms dog Munchkin. He wouldn’t leave my moms side  during her last year on earth. I plan to take him to see that niece and see what Munchkin has to say.

Reincarnation is something that I have put on the shelf for later. I know that it’s real, however, as with most things that offer little proof, it’s one of those things that “ya just don’t know”.  I do believe that we are at the beginning of a new age, and have thought that there are many many highly evolved spiritual beings that live in human bodies, and as they get old, they die, only to come right back in new and improved bodies because they still have a job to do, and need the younger body.

None of this came to me until the feather came. My brother braided the back of my hair with the feather so that I could feel the energy without getting freaked out.  We will see how all this unfolds.

I have no idea about Wyoming and what that means. However, if anyone is a reader, and you have any insight, I would love to know. In the meantime, I am jazzed by the reading that I received.  I would love to give her credit, but I never got her name.

Warm wishes of Peace and Love

Liz

By Peter Perkins

Part One

I felt this article come to me when Liz sent me a comment about one of my other articles.

I thank you for your response as it helped me find another article within me that was waiting to be written.

There are many times I feel like I am the semi-blind in regards to the metaphysical. As many of the things I have experienced or learned have been intuitive or come from within. As I was growing up I didn’t have anyone to teach me about spirituality and metaphysics at all. While I did attend church, that was not a place very conductive to asking questions.

There are many people infinitely more well read in the metaphysical than me. Though I am fortunate to have friends share with me their books, and in so doing I find similar experiences to my own.  It is a nice verification for me, to see other people have experienced some of the same things I myself have.

It is not like in the distant past where a shaman would come along and help explain or interpret the things I was experiencing. In ancient times these shamans were respected and acknowledged within their tribes and within their cultures. Often revered as being able to perceive and interact with the spirit world.

I am not sure exactly when this changed around. Indeed in some parts of the world shamans or people very like them have not lost the ability to perceive clearly these other aspects of reality. They have also not lost their place of respect.

Somewhere along the lines though, things changed. Progress or the rise of science, or perhaps even the rise of the major religions might have been responsible, but at some point those who could see became persecuted. It became dangerous to speak about such things as communication with spirits, or learning herbal wisdom from ancestors or gods and goddesses of nature. Any number of people who could see spiritually became hunted sometimes outright killed. Many who had the gift to see the spiritual hid their abilities for fear of what would happen if people found out.

We truly did enter a dark age; a dark age not only of education, but of spirituality.
People were taught not to trust themselves but to trust in the church; to trust in their local lord. Indeed personal responsibility and enlightenment were replaced somehow with obedience, conformity and dogma. People began to close their eyes to the spiritual world.

It wasn’t this way everywhere in the world, there were still places where shamans and seers and visionaries and those who taught these ways to others could still be found. Still for a great many people this was an age where being blind to your own experiences and blindly accepting leaders either nobles, royals or religious leaders replaced peoples natural tendency to trust in themselves and their own senses and experiences.

The years rolled by and blindness persisted because no one knew that they were blind. The people who could see were often regarded as primitives, or out of touch with the world, when these people were indeed very in touch with the world and with themselves.

The ways of accepting religion and leaders swept the world further and more people who had the ability to see spiritually fell under persecution. It became a time to remain secret about such things and so, sadly even as the age of scientific enlightenment swept the world. Spirituality dimmed. Science sought to explain everything, religion was being replaced and spirituality was thought of as largely unnecessary to the educated man or woman.

Thankfully the sparks of spiritual enlightenment didn’t fade away completely; leaving us in the darkness, blind to our own truths and the universe around us even as science and technology rose to distract us. Indeed how could one claim to be blind when science showed us new wonders with every passing year? It was full steam ahead for science and religion was being replaced as science pressed onward sweeping the world the way religion had before it.

Leading to this age we are all in. Science has pushed so far that they have discovered things known by shamans, Tibetan monks, visionaries and seers for years. We are not alone, nor have we ever been alone. There are other universes, other dimensions, the world about us is an illusion and god or a creative force must indeed exist.

Even as scientists are starting to use science to prove things known and never lost to many people, it is amazing that many of these discoveries are not better published and available to people through the media. While it is true that books are being released on many new aspects of quantum physics it is rare to see these things spoken about on prime time television spots.

It seems many like sitting in the darkness of spiritual blindness. After all they can’t be blind, can they? Not when they get to vote on American Idol, they just can’t be blind, they get to vote people off the island! How can we possibly be blind, we receive news from around the world send pictures and email in a few seconds and hear all about the wars every night.

I am speaking of a blindness of spirituality. If you will, a willful closing of the third eye.

Yet there are people who are starting to see again and unlike ages past, while they may still be ridiculed or persecuted the age of killing people over such things, as having spiritual visions and seeing spirits is very rare.

People are starting to open that third eye again to perceive the truth behind reality. It is a gift, that even though many turned their back on their own spirituality, their own divinity; that our spirits, our higher selves and guides have never turned their back on us. The truth has always been there, patiently waiting for us to set the distractions aside and look within.

I feel very much like I am semi-blind. I am a product of modern America.
I like fast food on demand; I can be distracted by the latest shiny gadget to come along. Yet somewhere along the line I started setting the distractions aside.

When I was younger I could see more clearly, and seeing ghosts was something not uncommon for me. I blinded myself to such things but time and again my third eye would open and give me peeks beyond the three dimensional world we all find ourselves in.

I am starting to see again and though my spiritual vision is starting to clear up it is hard to explain some of my experiences. Indeed describing this new sense, this ability to perceive spirits, and energy is very much like feeling vibrations.

It is to me, a new sense, something that is hard to describe to others. In some of my experiences I have seen worlds where everything is the same bright white glow and yet it is very easy for me to make out objects and people within, yet to the normal vision of sight in our world it would be like seeing nothing but pure white. So it is that this new sense, this new ability to perceive, can distinguish vibration and energy.

How does one describe a new sense to those who don’t perceive with that sense?

I liken it to the following.  Imagine if you will the whole world was blind. Suddenly sporadically and briefly you could see. Sometimes fleeting, sometimes lasting longer. You want to tell other people what you are experiencing, what you are seeing. Yet you have to describe it in words they would understand. With everyone being blind, you can’t describe things as colors, and other things which are strictly the provision of sight. You have to explain these wonders with words that people who can hear, smell, taste, and touch can comprehend. Then they will understand.

It is sometimes frustrating as you want to truly share what you are experiencing, in the words that you are now defining for yourself. Sometimes when enough people say they can’t understand what you’re describing, you wonder if these brief bouts of vision are real.

If they are real, how come no one else can understand what I am experiencing, how come no one else can see?

I was lucky to run into other people who could see. I was lucky in finding books and videos where people brave enough to speak out, about their own spiritual experiences; their own ability to perceive with this new sense was shared with others.

Thankfully I am not the only one who is lucky, for we are all living in a day and age, where we can go out and find others who can perceive the things we are experiencing. Even if you have never remembered any of your own experiences of spirituality, it is a great boon to be able to read about others experiences and perhaps sparks from those writings, and sharing will ignite the fire of our own sense and light the way for us to see.

So here I am, the semi-blind, getting glimpses of the spiritual. Unlike the shamans of the past my spiritual eyes are not wide open. I am still coming to grips with my own experiences and trying to learn what lessons I can from them.

Yet I have been asked, what do I see when I talk about, spirits, guides, angels and other non-physical entities. I will do my best to answer that but please realize I am trying to describe a new sense using words that may be better suited for other senses.

Next week: Peter continues with Part Two of ‘The Semi-Blind Leading the Blind’ – where he describes how he perceives non-physical entities.