Paranormal Romance, For Real

         Sometimes truth really is more extraordinary than fiction. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m going to share the story of a true-life romance where intuition and psychic connection played a major role. I know the story is true, because I was in it—along with my husband.

         The tale actually begins 6 years before the two of us met—when his name turned up in a journal of mine. As an avid explorer of the paranormal, I kept a record of unusual experiences, dreams, and psychic impressions. One day I jotted down his name, and the words “He’s coming! Yes!” In all honesty, I didn’t think much about it after that. But that entry did turn out to be precognitive. And it was just the first of many uncanny occurrences involving him and me.

         Six years after that journal entry, I was living in the Northeast, single and disenchanted; he was stationed on a military base over 900 miles away. Amazingly, even though each of us almost didn’t make it, we both ended up on Paradise Island, Bahamas at the same time—in the same disco, on the same night. I sat down at a table behind him. And, he says, he got a sudden, overwhelming feeling that he had to turn around and talk to the person behind him; he knew that if it was a man, he would become his best friend—and if it was a woman, she would be the love of his life.

         So he turned around and asked me to dance. I said “yes”, and that’s how it began. As I said in a previous entry, I was amazed at the immediate, potent mental connection we made. He already seemed so familiar on the first night we met. And by the next night, I knew I was falling in love with him.

         In the following months, as we dated mostly by phone and letter, intuition continued to play a huge role between us. Even though we hadn’t known each other for very long, I had a deep sense that he was the right one for me; that was the major factor in my decision to marry him. I’ll never forget the night when we shared the same reincarnational memories of each other, with him describing the same details I was seeing in my mind (See my blog entry “Other Lives”, June 21, 2011). And on the day of our wedding, I had a profound feeling of being in exactly the right place, for the first time in my life.

         Now, nearly 26 years later, my husband and I still have a beautiful romance. We have our challenges, of course. But in the end, we always come through them better off than we were. Intuition and psychic connection have continued to operate in our relationship. And marrying him has turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made.

         Having been a very real part of this amazing story, I’ve come to believe that my husband and I certainly didn’t meet by accident; I also believe that we were connected, on a psychic and spiritual level, long before we met. I think our story also demonstrates the potency of intuition. We humans really are so much more than we appear to be on the surface—and the connections between us run far deeper than we usually know. The Universe truly is an amazing place.

Vast Potential

         

         In my novel Between the Sun and the Moon, I explore some of the “what-ifs” about the power of the mind—for telepathic communication, self-protection, and influencing weather, plant growth and other events. Do I believe we humans are actually capable of all this, and so much more? Absolutely. Why? Because there is, in us, this amazing interface between brain and mind. I believe that these two parts of us are much more powerful than we realize, and that they create in us a vast potential for amazing things.

         Medical science acknowledges that the full power and capability of our brains isn’t fully understood; this less tangible thing called “mind” seems even harder to delineate. But I believe that the power of each is considerable. And, working with and through each other as they do, they give us the capacity to accomplish remarkable things, including the heightened mental powers I described above. The vast majority of us aren’t using our minds in this expanded way because we truly don’t realize it’s possible. But, in American culture, at least, there seems to be another factor, too.

         We Americans seem to have a great deal of skepticism and fear holding us back. Most of us don’t seem to believe that we could have these incredible capabilities—or we’re terrified at the idea that we just might. Over the years, I’ve seen and experienced enough to know that the power of the mind does extend beyond the limits we’ve created for it. I’d love to see more of us recognizing our potential and using it in a constructive way. We could make some truly amazing changes in our world. Wouldn’t that be an awesome thing?