Have you ever been talking to a friend when you hear yourself say something you realize is beyond your own wisdom? Did you recognize the message came from somewhere outside and beyond yourself? I believe we all have access to this deeper sense of knowing
I’m always surprised, delighted, and awed when wisdom speaks from my lips and in my voice. An insight I’m certain doesn’t belong to me and yet I received the message to deliver. At times, it’s during a conversation and other times when I write.
I love receiving help. I always say thank you, especially when this occurs while I’m working with a client.
Messages from beyond. A deeper sense of knowing something. A deepening understanding of our lives and our world.
I’m positive some of these thoughts and words speaking through me are because I am supposed to deliver a message. This knowing comes through a sensory, visceral feeling from a realm beyond my normal way of accessing information and knowledge. It has happened enough times throughout my life that I recognize I am the vessel to deliver the message someone needs to hear.
I don’t have control over when I’ll receive a message. Before I deliver it, I check to discern whether it’s my idea or coming from somewhere beyond myself. I do this by asking and when it’s clear the message has arrived from a place beyond my normal thoughts, I am impelled to share what I heard.
Sharing wasn’t always the case. I learned this the hard way.
In 1969, I experienced my first ominous warning. A wordless, dark sense of foreboding surrounded me. I didn’t understand. I’d never read or heard about premonitions. My oldest friend and next-door neighbor, Phil, and I were in my bedroom talking about a trip to San Francisco he planned with friends that weekend. A darkness filled the air, my stomach roiled, and my throat and chest tightened. I didn’t want him to go. I brushed it off. He left on Friday. The next day I received the call: his car had rolled down an embankment on Pacheco Pass, killing three of the five passengers and leaving Phil paralyzed from the chest down. He was 19
1982 was the next time I experienced that now recognizable foreboding sense. My then husband was planning a trip to New York. I shared I had a bad feeling about him going. He thought I was being silly. When I said the last time I had this type of feeling Phil ended up paralyzed, he cancelled his trip.
One person died and 16 injured when a crane fell in Manhattan, at the exact time and location he would have been if he had gone to New York. We can’t know if my premonition was a warning about this crane falling on him. He wasn’t there, so we’ll never know.
In December 1993, my German Shepherd Samantha had a bloat. Emergency surgery saved her that night and early the next morning, a friend helped me transport her from the emergency facility to her vet. A couple hours later, while walking to my mailbox, I heard, “Dead, dead.” I yelled, “No,” and brushed the words aside as fear talking. The phone was ringing when I entered my house. “I’m sorry to tell you that Samantha had a heart attack and died.”
On two occasions, I heard warnings for myself. The first happened when I fell asleep while driving and a male voice told me to open my eyes now!
The second was an ugly feeling I had while waiting for a woman to meet me to drive us to a grief training. I shook it off as my not wanting to go. A half hour later, the car to our left hit us, sending us skidding back and forth across all the lanes of the freeway. When our car tilted to the left, I thought, “I could be badly hurt.” I still find it interesting I didn’t think, “I could be killed.” The next thing I knew, the car was straddling two lanes, all the windows and everything we had blown out. If I’d listened to my gut, I wouldn’t have suffered three broken ribs, massive bruises all over my body, and my new outfit shredded in multiple places.
I later learned witnesses saw our car tossed up into the air, then plummeted top first to the ground two times. We were lucky we weren’t killed.
Years later, I was in an airplane that experienced a mechanical malfunction. We had to dump gasoline, and the pilot informed us we’d see ambulances, fire engines, and white stuff on the runway. He said there was no cause for concern, as it was a required procedure. As soon as he clicked off, a warmth I recognized as my mother enveloped me. She’d been dead for years. When she said I would be okay, I relaxed, certain I would be fine even if the plane crashed, and I died. A deeper sense of knowing.
In 2003, I had a wonderful premonition. I had a strong desire to meet someone and knew that feeling wouldn’t exist unless someone was out there for me. That’s when I met Bob. I posted about it in Love Story on February 13, 2024.
I’ve experienced no warnings since the car accident in 1995. Not even about beloved people or pets. I’ve had no idea until I received the call or watched them die. Life is more precarious without clues helping me prepare. I was blindsided when my husband’s body turned against him, and an ambulance rushed him to the hospital where he almost died. Not a clue any of the three times this happened.
Recent messages are more about imparting wisdom, acknowledging the person is in the right place, or pointing them in a direction.
Sometimes it feels as though the person I’m speaking with had asked the Universe for help and I was chosen as the delivery person. Occasionally, my messages are premonitions about their future.
How can I explain these inexplicable and uncommon messages?
I sure wish the voice would offer me the level of advice it gives others. If it does, perhaps I’m deaf. I believe the truer answer is that I don’t get to know. I get to live the mystery and find out.
I don’t understand any of this other than to say I believe we receive guidance and inspiration beyond our daily understanding. I wish I could call forth this deeper sense of knowing whenever I want, but it doesn’t work this way. It arrives on its own volition and not because I’m begging for help. I guess the messenger decides when I’m ready to hear and then I’m gifted with a higher wisdom than my own lived experience.
I believe we live in a multidimensional world, and everyone can access a deeper sense of knowing when we pay attention.
Have you ever heard yourself speak words that didn’t feel like your own? Were you surprised hearing yourself say things you’re certain you never knew before? Have you received guidance when you most needed it? Do you believe we live in realms beyond our usual and we sometimes access a deeper sense of knowing? If so, please share.
We learn from each other.
I have had many similar experiences throughout my life. I met my husband’s cousin before I met my husband. She was from Massachusetts and was visiting her aunt for a few weeks. My grandmother asked me if I would be willing to spend time with her and show her around Los Angeles. I picked her up at her aunt’s condo and saw a portrait of her cousin Gary hanging on the wall. I had a strong feeling that I would marry him some day. We met that December when he was home for a visit. We both felt so comfortable with each other as we went on dates every day for two weeks. He moved home to Los Angeles in February. We were married in June.
I have learned to trust it when these kinds of things happen. I often hear myself imparting information to another person when asked for advice. As I speak I know that the information isn’t mine. I am merely the messenger. I know without a doubt that what I am saying is true. I often learn something for myself as I share it with the recipient. When this happens I am so grateful to the source of this wisdom.
Powerful! Thank you