The Word Cloud

Amazing reading this thread between all of you. I am sorry not to have time to join in at the moment except to say there is more to life than a lot of people imagine. I think having the time to tune in - people had much more time in the open air years ago, and were not bothered by humming fridges or the hum of a motorway. All I think can distract from that space we need.
Yes, Spangles I was amazed the kind of people who attended the listening skills course, my own GP went on one because his receptionist had been to one of mine, plus genetic counsellors etc. I wanted to write a book for doctors but I think people are more aware now. Doctors are really bad at listening. I have a real gripe about that.
I know Le Shan's work, and Sheldrake, went to a lecture by Le Shan but was disappointed, he was clever in being among the first who wrote about the paranormal. I was part of a project run by Sheldrake asking whether my dog knew that I was looking at him when he was asleep. Dogs often wake if you glance their way.
When my 10 year old grandaughter was our shopping in Queen's Centre in Peterborogh on Saturday a man collapsed onto her and she had to go to hospital. It was very traumatic. She has injured her knee and can't stand on it. A lot of the trauma was the suddeness of the man dropping onto her. I asked her what was hurting, her heart, her spirit or her knee? She said all of it, and I can't go to church today for healing cos I am too poorly, so I told her that I would do some distance healing and talked her through self healing but I don't think she will remember to do it. I told her that I would ask some friends to do distant healing for her, so Spangles could you please do some healing for Jess's knee? I will too. Thank you.
Lovely to hear/speak with you all on wordcloud. Thank you.
Bren

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I wish I'd come across this thread before, but I'm glad that I have now, and I will be ordering The Psychic's Bible as soon as possible. It didn't occur to me that it might be of this nature.

The reason I find this rather curious is simple. I sometimes visit a woman who does various readings, ranging from aura readings to crystals, numerology to angel cards. Initially, I was quite dubious, although I've always tended towards a belief in something. However, after visiting this woman twice, I was astounded at her accuracy. Not just in terms of facts, but also in terms of how well she could read my emotional state, both present and future.

These days, my faith in these things is absolute and unwaivering. I was reminded of how important this faith is only recently, shortly after I'd joined this forum. It was something that I had completely forgotten about until a close friend reminded me of it.

Each time that I have visited this woman, she has told me that I must write. I had always brushed her comments away, regardless of her insistent tones. But last time I saw her, she told me that it wasn't a matter of 'if' anymore - it was a matter of 'when'. Things had changed for me and something had clicked (I wasn't aware of it at this stage, but she was adamant); I would, at some point in the not too distant future, be suddenly struck by the desire to write and that desire would remain intact permanently. The end result would involve me writing for a living.

Now, I must stress that I paid little attention to this at the time, because she was also discussing with me the very recent and sudden passing of my uncle. Still, I do remember a different energy surrounding me from that day forward - and that was last February, almost a year ago. I was shaken after that visit as she was frighteningly succinct about my uncle, every little detail was there including idiosyncracies (spelling) that no one other than our family could have known about. Due to my heightened emotions, again I paid little attention to what she said about my future.

It was about three weeks ago now that I found myself suddenly struck by the very desire she had warned me about. It arrived utterly unannounced, without contemplation or forethought - I simply had to write. And so I did. A short time thereafter - at the point where in the past I've just given up - I decided it was time to enlist some support and advice. That's when I found The Word Cloud.

I was talking to a close friend about joining when she started to laugh. I was quite offended, assuming she thought me foolish to consider myself worthy of working on my writing skills. But I was wrong - she was laughing because she had been with me at the time of the medium visit. She said to me, 'Don't you see what's happening?' and I just shook my head, wondering what the hell she was finding so funny. She then reminded me of what I had been told last year, and it all came flooding back (odd for me, as my memory is shockingly poor). I remembered everything - she had described this sudden urge to write, followed by dabbling in various forms of writing (fiction and non-fiction), a number of fictional novels and a piece of medically-based non-fiction (obviously over a period of some years!).

Now, clearly I've yet to realise this actually happening, but in remembering those words I felt like I'd been given an extra boost of confidence. And, oddly enough, though I probably thought she was mad to suggest that I might write anything medically related, she may just have had something there. My youngest daughter suffers from an as yet undiagnosed connective tissue disorder which has also caused her scoliosis and hip dysplasia; she's unable to walk and we're unsure as to what the future holds for her. My experience with the medical profession became so frustrating by August last year that I began to research this area, eventually getting to the point where I knew enough to fight back a bit and transfer my daughter's treatment elsewhere. I have also apparently mentioned documenting these experiences for the benefit of other parents who go through the same situation.

So, in retrospect, it all makes perfect sense, no? I think it does - I find it heartening.