Elessar
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I'd post my story, but unfortunately to do it all full justice I would have to give all of the events in question proper context, and without that they will invariably lose their full impact, immediate as they have been for me. And to do that it would must needs become a full novel, where I would have to disclose a lot of more confidential information than I would feel comfortable with.
Suffice it to say that I've been in intimate contact with some Force (for 23 years now) which has been guiding me, healing me (I was a total emotional basket case when young) and transforming my life into this surreal waking dream which is now my daily existence. They typically take the form of synchronicities involving wild animals, and now my favorite songs which will often synch (on random shuffle mode) with external events.
The most numinous recent examples have involved repeated encounters with a great egret (see avatar), which I have seen locally perhaps more than 2 dozen times now. Unlike other egrets, "she" (can't sex them tho) tends to hang around on dry land, not water, where she hunts lizards with a head wiggle, and is very approachable. 4-5 of these encounters happened in very peculiar circumstances.
But to do her full justice I would have to relate a bunch of other information, which is all interrelated with my path and life, and I'm not sure how to do that in the format of this forum-IF I should do it in the first place. But I will relate the most numinous of them here, matter of factly:
1. Dec 2012. I had already seen her twice in the last week, in the parking lots of a restaurant I frequent and my work place. I was heading out to go have dinner with my two mothers in point of fact (I'm adopted), and one of my favorite songs, "As You Will", by my favorite band, Australia's The Church, came on as I pulled out of my parking spot.
As I got to the exit from my apartment complex, out of the corner of my eye I see this white shape approaching my car. She lands right in front of my vehicle, looks in at me through the windshield as she walks around my car to the right, where she grabs a lizard from the stop sign.
Lyrics:
Summer rain falls, head for some shelter, close to a wall
See the lady dressed in chance-you try to help her, she heeds your call
On the way to paradise
Find a hidden door that leads to a garden, and venture through
Sunshine's bright, a witness to pardon the world that you knew
On the way to paradise
Ornamental
Or warm and gentle
On the way to paradise
Ornamental
Or warm and gentle
On the way to paradise
As you will some day
Egrets of course are well-known for their ornamental breeding plumes...
2. I see her off and on near my apartment for the next month or so. My adoptive mother has a condo at the beach, 8 miles away. I am eating lunch at a diner across the street one day, when I see a great egret land in the garden right outside the window.
But that was just the warmup. One day about a month later I am done with some shopping and about to go home. But then I get what I term "The Call"-as some upthread have said it, an unworded thought or suggestion, one which I have heeded a number of times over the years, and when I do it usually leads to something wonderful.
The Call to go to my old house on the river, 25 miles inland, where I (among many other things) had a close encounter with a peregrine falcon which got me started on all of this in the first place.
I arrive, and see a great egret in the shallows below the seawall. No biggie, seen them there a number of times. But then instead of hunting in the water for minnows or frogs, she instead stabs at something on an overhanging tree branch. Then flies up on the seawall, wiggles her head, and yes grabs a lizard.
I was so boggled that I couldn't at first believe that it could be the same bird. But apparently it was.
3. I do go for almost a solid year without seeing her, but then I get the Call one day this past fall (driving to the condo at the beach again) to take a route I usually don't take. And there she is on the sidewalk near a pond wiggling her head as she walks down the side of the road.
Seen her 4 times since then, last time 2 weeks ago back inland in a construction site along the road.
Like I said, there is a lot more to tell here to do it all full justice, which must alas remain confidential. All I will say is that yes it apparently involves a woman...
Suffice it to say that I've been in intimate contact with some Force (for 23 years now) which has been guiding me, healing me (I was a total emotional basket case when young) and transforming my life into this surreal waking dream which is now my daily existence. They typically take the form of synchronicities involving wild animals, and now my favorite songs which will often synch (on random shuffle mode) with external events.
The most numinous recent examples have involved repeated encounters with a great egret (see avatar), which I have seen locally perhaps more than 2 dozen times now. Unlike other egrets, "she" (can't sex them tho) tends to hang around on dry land, not water, where she hunts lizards with a head wiggle, and is very approachable. 4-5 of these encounters happened in very peculiar circumstances.
But to do her full justice I would have to relate a bunch of other information, which is all interrelated with my path and life, and I'm not sure how to do that in the format of this forum-IF I should do it in the first place. But I will relate the most numinous of them here, matter of factly:
1. Dec 2012. I had already seen her twice in the last week, in the parking lots of a restaurant I frequent and my work place. I was heading out to go have dinner with my two mothers in point of fact (I'm adopted), and one of my favorite songs, "As You Will", by my favorite band, Australia's The Church, came on as I pulled out of my parking spot.
As I got to the exit from my apartment complex, out of the corner of my eye I see this white shape approaching my car. She lands right in front of my vehicle, looks in at me through the windshield as she walks around my car to the right, where she grabs a lizard from the stop sign.
Lyrics:
Summer rain falls, head for some shelter, close to a wall
See the lady dressed in chance-you try to help her, she heeds your call
On the way to paradise
Find a hidden door that leads to a garden, and venture through
Sunshine's bright, a witness to pardon the world that you knew
On the way to paradise
Ornamental
Or warm and gentle
On the way to paradise
Ornamental
Or warm and gentle
On the way to paradise
As you will some day
Egrets of course are well-known for their ornamental breeding plumes...
2. I see her off and on near my apartment for the next month or so. My adoptive mother has a condo at the beach, 8 miles away. I am eating lunch at a diner across the street one day, when I see a great egret land in the garden right outside the window.
But that was just the warmup. One day about a month later I am done with some shopping and about to go home. But then I get what I term "The Call"-as some upthread have said it, an unworded thought or suggestion, one which I have heeded a number of times over the years, and when I do it usually leads to something wonderful.
The Call to go to my old house on the river, 25 miles inland, where I (among many other things) had a close encounter with a peregrine falcon which got me started on all of this in the first place.
I arrive, and see a great egret in the shallows below the seawall. No biggie, seen them there a number of times. But then instead of hunting in the water for minnows or frogs, she instead stabs at something on an overhanging tree branch. Then flies up on the seawall, wiggles her head, and yes grabs a lizard.
I was so boggled that I couldn't at first believe that it could be the same bird. But apparently it was.
3. I do go for almost a solid year without seeing her, but then I get the Call one day this past fall (driving to the condo at the beach again) to take a route I usually don't take. And there she is on the sidewalk near a pond wiggling her head as she walks down the side of the road.
Seen her 4 times since then, last time 2 weeks ago back inland in a construction site along the road.
Like I said, there is a lot more to tell here to do it all full justice, which must alas remain confidential. All I will say is that yes it apparently involves a woman...