I too am fascinated by this topic. In regards to awareness of time and nearing my 70th year, I look in the mirror and see my mother's face. It surprises me every time. While I can accept the theories of time posited here, yet that face in the mirror seems to suggest some linearity. No?
@jeanne-mayell - I have found Thom Hartmann 's theories on ADHD makes sense: he explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world”--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society.
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Yes, yes and yes to the Inattentiveness and Intuition post!
I love all this, including asking what you are actually paying attention to. This is a revelation for me.
In high school I gazed out the window a lot during discussions of Silas Marner and diagramming sentences etc – looking at the view of the city and the colors of the leaves on the trees. I can still see that view and it has been half a century. Later in graduate school in a required class on “Assessing Children” I would gaze out the window at my town – completely absorbed in things like trying to discern whether the winter trees on the hills were indigo-gray or warm gray or whether the river was blue or yellow or silver (the instructor asked me if I had a seizure disorder). Likewise, if someone is giving me instructions or directions I can get rattled by perceiving hurriedness in their voice, feel like I am imposing on them, then feel silly for asking, and then not "hear" the instructions.
Schools: truly child-centered systems of schooling would be such a benefit for children, rather than pressing them with conformity, test scores, grading, comparing, and sorting. Such models exist.
Seeing the future and other intuitive abilities, these could/should be recognized as valid ways of knowing that western science hasn’t figured out (yet) but there is progress. And like Jeanne does with classes, these other ways can be supported with awareness and training just like meteorology and physics and all the other things. Maybe kind of updated, modern, integrated with science versions of ancient mystery schools.
I can vouch for the intuitive and inattentiveness. A few years ago I found out that along with the rcent discovery of bipolar disorder I have ADD. This caused me to have raging insomnia for decades and interfered with processing speech. I often zone out or hear only partially what is said to me.Coupled that with being a psychic and sometimes a medium and you get one lonely sensitive girl,
Honestly I have always felt defective and deficient. This thread might help me to see myself in a better more flattering light.
@ghandigirl I have a friend I check in with every six months or so who is a nationally recognized educator for the gifted and talented. She writes white papers, she travels around the country and is hired by school systems. I have shared these ideas that I’ve mentioned about ADD and intuition with her over the years, and she totally agrees that it applies to gifted and talented kids. our school systems are archaic, although improving but very much in need of finding ways to teach the gifted and talented. So many of these children with exceptional gifts, who don’t fit into the square box, get bored and then they do poorly in school and then they think they’re stupid and it can go downhill from there meanwhile they are exceptionally gifted and talented kids who is the schools have failed.
A case in point: a younger close relative of mine was shunted to special education classes in elementary school until his mother fought effectively to mainstream him again. In high school he was considered disruptive and made C's and D's. In college, D's in English A's in physics. He now has a PhD from an Ivy League University and is often interviewed by various media outlets about his highly important research. I think he is intuitive in big picture thinking and solving big problems.
Wow. Just reading this now.
The idea that we are picking up energy that is traveling into the past triggered some memories for me. I was hired into my current job in 2018. At first I hesitated to even apply, but I kept having the thought that it would be a much easier job to “work from home if needed”. That thought struck me as weird at the time, but I chocked it up to being able to accrue extra comp or vacation time. I think now I may have been picking up subtle signals of the pandemic and shutdowns.
There is also another story (non-pandemic). My husband and I were driving down a local road maybe circa 2012. I remember looking at one of the houses thinking “That house will be hit by a tornado.” Three years later a tornado did come through. It missed the house I had been looking at, but struck two across the street from it.
That said, I have always been able to “feel” local tornadoes. I have had similar experiences with some hurricanes who I was in the path of. I get very restless, unable to concentrate on anything other than the storm. I even woke up from a dead sleep in 1988. I was about 7 at the time. I could feel the energy. I did not realize until the next day, but an F3 tornado level part of Raleigh that night, about 25 miles west of me at the time.
I have wondered if I am feeling the energy and just innately understanding what that energy means. Or if I have someone whispering this information into my consciousness.
This is a fascinating topic and like many others, I am drawn to explain our reality in light of the time space continuum. Time does not march down a straight road, ticking off minutes, hours, days and years. The past is not really the past and the future is not really the future. Instead of conventional interpretations of time, I think the future is not a year or 53 years away, but rather the future is two blocks over and three blocks down. If I stood atop my house (or meditated), I could see it.
Similarly, if we recognize the possibility of other dimensions existing simultaneously, think about the nearness of our ancestors, the closeness of our descendants. I feel my departed close relatives nearby frequently. In the Circle of Light meditation last night, I saw my Scottish great-great grandfather looking back at me. I recognized him from and old photo that’s tucked away (lost and forgotten) somewhere in my art closet-and there he was, clear as day and in color.
Consider other strange experiences: My sister has medium abilities and always picks up ancestors and spirits and tells me who says what on the other side. For the last year and a half, she has been trying to sell her business and retire. Prospective buyers came and went. Brokers came and went. Nothing ever materialized. In January, my sister decided to call in reinforcements. First she chose a date and time that had special significance for her: the 11th of January at 11:11 am. Then she meditated and asked our ancestors to help her sell the business. A few hours later, my sister talked to a customer and discovered that the woman was a business broker. She signed a contract immediately and within a week, she had a prospective buyer. My sister closed her sale the first of March.
Nine or ten years ago, I was in San Diego touring an historic building and randomly asked the docent what was the strangest experience she had ever had. The docent pointed to a closed door and said that once she had entered that door and found herself surrounded by people dressed in the attire of another century. She watched in disbelief as men and women talked and transacted business. None of them seemed to see her. The docent appeared matter of fact and level headed telling me the story. I believed her. How do you explain that, except by time existing in a different dimension?
I imagine most readers of this site have had their own unexplainable experiences or know of others.
Many of you have written about problems with attention. I have that, too. Nothing like sitting through a meeting adhering to Roberts rules of order for my mind to wander constantly. It’s embarrassing. I even have trouble with meditation and letting all those busy thoughts go. Writing and painting help me focus and in the painting process, I completely lose track of time. My son is probably ADD and his sons are diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Medication helps them learn and has been a real game changer. After reading this discussion, I need to think about whether they are intuitive.
My days are spent in constant awareness of nature and our connection to this Earth. I marvel at our minds and bodies and think all of Earth and reality is beyond our ken. My intuition tells me that eventually we will all have better understanding of our reality and other dimensions. For now, I am content to live with the Mystery. The reality of suffering brings an aching burden to life. People I love have endured terrible physical suffering. People I love have endured mental torment and addiction. I don’t know the purpose of that except that our spirits can be refined through pain and our hearts can grow in deep compassion. My intuition informs me that we are deeply spiritual beings and it reminds me of the Lakota prayer. I think of the Lakota people and their connection to the earth and one another, in a spiritual life handed down from one generation to another over centuries and centuries:
Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery,
Teach me how to trust
My heart,
My mind,
My intuition,
My inner knowing,
The senses of my body,
The blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
So that I may enter my Sacred Space
And love beyond my fear,
And thus Walk in Balance
With the passing of each glorious Sun.