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Issue date: Saturday, August 5, 2006
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Warm greetings to everyone and once again, thank you to
all my readers who have responded with amazing and
wonderful stories about psychic and paranormal behavior in
pets. I will be sharing more of your letters in today's
issue, and please keep those emails coming!
Before we get to your letters, I thought I'd scout out the
latest paranormal news for you, so here's a brief look at
the weird and wonderful things going on in this world ...
and beyond.
Witch School Comes to Illinois
ABC News reported recently that Hoopestown, Ill. has become
home to a brick and mortar school for students of Wicca,
aptly called Witch School. The small community of
Hoopestown (population 6,000) hasn't exactly offered the
warmest of welcomes to the school, which is housed in a
former brick horse stable right in the center of town near
the Hoopeston Civic Center, but perhaps they'll have to
start getting used to the idea that the face of the town
is changing. Witch School is not the first New Age business
to move to the area. With the town's low real estate
prices, it's an attractive place for businesses on a
budget, and besides Witch School, there is a Botanica and
a Wiccan owned bookstore, giving rise to the idea that the
town could soon be known as a Pagan colony. It will be a
drastic change of character for a town which until now has
been known for its Sweet Corn Festival and the National
Sweetheart Pageant, which has produced eight Miss America
winners. Witch School's director, Ed Hubbard, says that
the online school has roughly 120,000 active students
studying topics such as Druid and Celtic history, crystal
and gem magic, and with 30 to 50 new students registering
online daily, the schoolhouse itself could soon be bulging
with students too. ABC says that The American Religious
Identification Survey counted approximately 134,000
Americans claiming Wicca as their religion in 2001, up
from 8,000 people in 1990.
Crop Circles
Hungarian Media has reported the appearance of 2 giant
crop circles in a field between 2 small northern towns,
Mezokomarom and Lajoskomarom. A local newspaper, Fejer
Megyei Hirlap, says that as is expected with real crop
circles, the stalks of wheat were bent without being
broken and it is unlikely that this would have been a
stunt, as it was in such an out of the way location. The
head of the League of Hungarian U.F.O. Research, RYUFOR,
who investigated the anomalous circles says that their
shape, which is slightly oval, suggest that the circles
are indeed of alien origin, as man-made circles, made
with a rope and planks, would be perfectly round. Experts
continue to investigate and radiation measurements may
provide further information soon.
Ghosts and Ghoulies For Your Viewing Pleasure
Malaysia's The Star Online reports that the Shah Alam
State Museum in Kuala Lumpur opened its doors to a new
exhibition called Mysteries, Genies, Ghosts and Coffins
on July 4. Museum director Mohd Lotfi Nazar and other
museum authorities claim that the displays, which include
ghosts, genies and many supernatural beings, are real -
and many of the spooky creatures are actually alive.
Ustaz Safuan Abu Bakar, the owner of the genies and
ghosts, is a Sufi religious teacher and healer who says
he has mastered the art of capturing and trapping the
supernatural creatures. Having received spiritual
revelations on a meditative retreat in the mountains many
years ago, he has become an expert in collecting ghostly
artifacts and along with a 15 man team called Paranorma,
devotes much of his time to capturing genies and ghosts
in haunted Indonesian and Thai locales.
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Now, I'm delighted to share some of your letters:
Pets and Memory Genes
I have 2 topics to comment on. One is the pets. I have 2
cats; one was a stray who found us 12 years ago and the
other was rescued from an abusive owner. Our stray,
Buttons, is a large cat and he loves to be snuggled and
cuddled but not picked up and I found that with him if you
rub his belly he will let you as long as you do not comment
on his belly fat. If you do, he will bite and scratch. If
not, he will let you rub to your heart's content. My other
one, Mookie, came with her own guardian ghost kitty. I have
heard this from other people who own rescued cats that
they have a ghost kitty that they play with. All of us in
the house have at one time or another seen this ghost cat -
it is very large and orange. It regularly jumps on the bed
or rubs against your leg. I have even heard it meowing on
occasion. Last night I saw the ghost kitty walk into the
living room and disappear in front of me. Both of my cats
see it and play with it.
Buttons will watch TV with us and if we are watching a
show with birds or, of all things, winter sports and it
goes to a commercial he gives us heck thinking we changed
the channel on him. Quite often he will lay on the remote
so we can't change the channel. He absolutely loves to
watch the winter Olympics especially skiing, hockey, and
curling. He prefers women's curling.
The other topic I wanted to touch on was the idea of the
memory gene. Science for the longest time has suggested
that cro-magnon man, with their larger brains, actually
inherited their knowledge of what plants were edible and
food preparation through their familial genes, so this
idea is not so far-fetched at all.
Kahlest Tiger Eye
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Kitty Speak
Many years ago, my daughter rescued a kitten about 5 months
old. She was having trouble finding a vet (it was a Sunday)
and she called me. As I was listening to the tale of woe,
I kept saying to myself, "We'll fix him up, we'll find him
a home" but when she finished I was amazed that what came
out of my mouth instead was, "We have 5, so we'll have 6."
He was very badly injured. The wonderful vet I found in the
yellow pages would not let us visit him for 2 days; he
wasn't even sure that the kitten could survive. When I
first could visit him, I knelt down in front of his cage
and he looked into my eyes and I had this overpowering
feeling that I had known and loved him always. I've always
talked to our cats, but from the time I was able to bring
him home, I found myself answering him more than anything.
The strangest thing was that sometimes the thought would
come into my mind to feed him a particular food (not at any
regular feeding time), and I would, and he would always eat
it. There were many times that this would happen and I
would ask my daughter to give him that particular food. She
would say, "Yeah, Ma, like he won't eat anything else."
Well, guess what, she would give him 5 or 6 different kinds
of food that he liked, but he would never eat any of it
until she gave him what I had said. After this happened
8 or 10 times, she gave up and just gave him what he
wanted.
a reader
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The Dog Knew
Many years ago, when my boys were young, we went to Florida
for the winter break. My mother stayed at my house to care
for Penny, my pedigreed boxer. They got along great
together and played hide and seek very often. After a nice
vacation, we were stopped in Virginia by a highway police
officer out to make his quota. Many, many out-of-state cars
at a kangaroo court. We were going to spend the night in
Maryland and travel home to Long Island, NY the next day
but my husband was so enraged he just wanted to get home.
When we arrived home, rather late, my mother had prepared
a welcome-home snack for us, although we weren't due until
the next day. I asked her how come? "You expected us
tomorrow."
"Oh, no," she said, "I knew you would be here tonight
because Penny told me!" Yes, animals are connected to
humans, Thank heaven!
El
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My Cat, MeMe
My cat MeMe, whom I had for many years, and was loved by
everyone, one morning crawled up in my car engine for some
God-forsaken reason, and when I turned on my car that
morning, she was injured very badly. A couple of days later
she died at the hospital. It was very, very sad for all of
us.
MeMe used to stand at the top of the stairs where her
litter box was and when I would go around the front door
and look up and see her I would say hello every time. The
morning after her death I was doing something and I looked
up and she was there. Forgetting she had died the day
before, I called up to her and went about my way. A few
seconds later I stopped right in my tracks, remembering
she had passed away. I ran back to the stairs, but of
course she was not there anymore. I quickly called my
mother and told her, she told me that MeMe had come to
say good-bye and show her love once more.,
Ellen M. Lopes
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Lazarus
Dear Zsuzsana,
I read with great interest your column on pets sharing
psychic bonds with their human companions. I too had a
strong bond with a cream ginger cat whom I named Lazarus.
I got him fully grown from the Cat Haven. Not wanting a
full grown cat, I'd gone looking for a kitten, but when
I passed his cage and he said, "Take me!", I did.
Right from the start he refused to sleep in the cat bed I
bought for him, insisting on sleeping in my bed, curled
in the crook of my arm just like a baby, and I'm sure that
at times he actually thought of himself as a human child.
He'd obviously been fed only cat biscuits during his
previous life, as that was all he would eat at first,
but gradually I managed to interest him in a wider variety
of foods. It was our Saturday afternoon treat to share a
pound of prawns. He'd sit patiently while I peeled them in
front of the fire, and fed us both on a one-for-you-one-for-
me basis.
He appeared to have been badly treated by a man before I
found him, as he hid under the settee when my son was
around, but Vince soon gained his trust, and became as
close to him as I did. Never shy, Lazarus adopted all my
friends as his, and he eventually learnt to trust men
again.
Lazarus had a disconcerting habit of suddenly stopping
whatever he was doing, to stare fixedly with eyes wide
open and ears laid back at a certain spot just above my
front door. Vince and I became convinced that Lazarus
could see a spirit there, though we felt it must have
been a benign spirit, as Lazarus never fled its presence.
After I moved to a new house, he never did this again, so
I know there's no spirit here.
One night I was awakened from a deep sleep having "heard"
Lazarus calling me desperately for help. I found that he
was still, limp and not breathing, with his face buried
in my armpit, suffocated. I panicked and shook him
desperately, shouting at him to wake up, upon which he
began to breathe again. A vet later told me that was the
best thing I could have done, and that I'd instinctively
known the correct way to resuscitate my much loved pet.
After that, Lazarus was like my shadow, and stayed very
close to me until the day he died. Five years on, I still
grieve for him, and though it's taken 2 little girl cats
to replace him, both loving and loved in return, even they
cannot fill the void he left in my life. I know we'll be
reunited in our next lives.
Telling you this has been a bit of a catharsis for me, as
I've been typing through my tears, but on re-reading it,
I feel more at peace. Thank you for listening to me.
Yours sincerely,
Sandy Parkinson
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Thanks again to all my readers for your wonderful emails.
Please comment or send your stories to me at
zsuzsana@arcanamatrix.com and make sure to put Paranormal
Insider in your subject line. Best wishes and see you next
week!
Carpe Diem!
Zsuzsana
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