All editorial content by Zsuzsana Summer, www.arcanamatrix.comIssue date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ P A R A N O R M A L I N S I D E R ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Readers: I hope each and every one is enjoying a wonderful holiday season. I also hope you enjoy the potpourri of reader's submissions that I have selected for the last column of 2006. Once again, my thanks for everyone who has written in with wonderful stories and comments. If you have asked a question that I have not been able to answer yet, please post it to our forum at: Paranormal Insider Forum As we prepare to ring in the new year, let me share one of my favourite New Year greetings: Here's a toast to the future, a toast to the past, and a toast to our friends, far and near, May the future be pleasant, the past a bright dream ... May our friends remain faithful and dear. ------------------------------------------------------------ For Discussion - Readers' Questions and Comments (Note: I have responded briefly to these submissions, but your comments are welcome to any of these posts.) Silver Eyes Dear Paranormal Insider, I was really sick and depressed last week. I was emptying garbage cans around the house and I glanced up to see a pair of silver eyes floating in my bedroom. There was no body attached or even eyelashes or eyebrows, just 2 silver eyes about the height of a person floating in mid air. As soon as my eyes met theirs, they disappeared. I talked to a few friends about this and they say I am under a lot of stress. One friend told me it could be my guardian angel. I didn't feel scared or nervous just very curious like, "What the hell is that?" What is your opinion on this? Please let me know. Curious & Confused---Donna (Hi, Donna. We are usually more open to psychic and paranormal experiences when we are in an altered and/or weakened state. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these eyes were a spirit guide's.) Animal Spirit Guides Hi. I have a question that has been stirring in my mind recently. Many years ago, I was very depressed. I had a lot of confusion about certain issues in my life, and would frequently go to the local state park/beach to get some comfort. (I am a Pisces, and I find the ocean extremely calming) One winter morning, I got in my car to go to work, but instead found myself going to the beach. I was standing crying on the deserted beach, when a man approached me. He said he saw I was upset, and wanted to take me out for a drink (it was about 8:30 am). I declined, but he didn't leave. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large dog came and stood at my side. The man got frightened and started to walk away. The dog followed him until he got into his car, then came back to my side. After the man left, the dog ran off down the beach. I looked around for the owner, but the dog was gone, and the beach was still deserted. I never really thought too much about it, but lately it's come to mind a lot. I never doubted that it was a real dog, but could it have been sent to protect me from this man who might have tried to harm me? I was in a very vulnerable state of mind at the time. I have only recently started to delve into other forms of spirituality, and the more I think about that incident, the more I believe that the dog was sent to protect me. What is your take on this? Laurie (Hi, Laurie. I agree - it seems as if this dog was definitely sent to protect you. 'Dog' may be your animal spirit guide or totem, but it may also have been a one- time appearance or manifestation sent by your spirit guides/angels to protect you in that particular instant. Either way, I am very happy to hear you were so protected.) Large Plants Hi. I've never typed to you before, but read your columns all the time. I was wondering why you mentioned the large potted plants and ficus to the person that felt dizzy when he entered a room. I have a 17 year old that is giving us some major trouble, which I consider to be crossing the line of normal teenage problems. May this be the reason? He's asked for the plant not to be outside of his room and asked that the African violets I had in the bathroom be removed. Can you find an explanation for this please? Thanks and Blessings accompany this note. Laura (Hi, Laura. I mentioned the large potted plants because of a vision I had and it was specifically for the person who had written in. The only thing I know about African Violet is its metaphysical properties. This plant is used to create harmonious vibrations in love and friendship, and it promotes spirituality and protection. Perhaps some of our readers will have suggestions as to why your household plants have been troubling your son.) Hey Zsuzsana, Perhaps you and/or your readers can help a friend of mine. We've noticed that she has been developing a lot of negative energy within and around her over the years...this past year it is to the point that it is scaring her a bit. We've also noticed that some of our friends avoid being around her. She is a lot of fun to be around, but you can almost see the dark clouds or shadows hovering around her. No, we can't actually see them, but we can feel it. She laughs about it, but you can tell she's very uneasy about this. Do you or anybody out there have any suggestions on what we can do to bring back the positive energy that she used to have? We thought about going to a psychic in our neighborhood for a cleansing, but would like to get others thoughts on that. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions we can use. L.W. (Hi, L.W. Definitely I would recommend that your friend consider a cleansing, either with a reputable psychic or Reiki practitioner, or something along that line. Please bear in mind, though, that the holistic approach should be used in conjunction with professional advice or treatment, and not as a replacement for qualified medical or therapeutic care.) ------------------------------------------------------------ Dreams of My Mother I wanted to comment on the person who saw her mother after she had passed in dreams. I was 18 when my mother passed away. She was 38 years old. I was homeless for awhile after she passed and just after the funeral, I was asked to be a live-in nanny for someone I knew. They knew I was a good person and wanted to help me out and had no place to go and I could help them out as well. Anyhow, the first night I was there, I woke to see my mom in the room with me. This wasn't a dream. She scared me so bad that I asked her to leave even though my world was crushed at her death and passing. She knew I was gifted. I have been gifted since child birth, however, I never liked seeing the spirits. Feeling them I can deal with but seeing them always scared me. She had told me that she had to tell me a few things and she would go...she said she loved me and to tell my brothers she loves them and to especially watch and take care of my older brother. He was going to have problems. He does to this day. She died in 1992. My older brother is a drug addict now and a lot is blamed on my mom's passing. Then she was gone. Since then, I have dreams of my mom. Her face to is blurry or unclear. She never looks at me or speaks to me. It's almost as if I am not there. I always hate this because I can't communicate with her and the one chance I had, I told her to leave. I have vivid dreams, always have, some repetitive, some warnings, others just dreams from the subconscious mind. Most of my dreams are nightmarish, not pleasant. I partially know why. I have read several dream books but all are bogus to me. I would like to hear what others have to say as well. I have been a member of The Paranormal Insider for years and have written many times. Welcome, Zsuzsana!!!! Can I ask what happened to Gus? Peace to all! Peace, Love, and Light - G (Hi, G. Thank you to you and all our readers who have made me feel so welcome here! I am sorry, I have no idea what happened to Gus but I am grateful that he paved the way for me so expertly here at The Paranormal Insider. Dream interpretation, in my opinion, needs to be specific to what is going on in your life, your past experiences, your emotions, your subconscious, etc., so while dream dictionaries and guides are helpful, they certainly cannot answer all our questions. I am planning a future issue on dreams and dream interpretation, but as you can imagine, it is a huge topic! I hope one of our readers will give you some comments and insights in the meantime.) Crows Is there any meaning to crows who seem to gather in groups, stare and caw at a particular house? We have a neighbor who is rather shady and appears to be involved in some kind of illegal activity. This neighbor's house is subject to crows landing on power lines and watching their house. If someone comes out they start to caw loudly. Sometimes it's one to three crows, but there have been as many as twelve at a time. Just curious if this has some kind of paranormal meaning. Charlie (Hello, Charlie. The crow is a symbol of conflict, war and death and destruction. Its skill is wisdom with trickery. It is also a protector of sacred records. The crow comes to help you to learn from the past, and it also comes to help you when you need a bit of cunning and trickery. The crow's shape-shifting quality is: cunning, watchful of others and noisy when there is a threat to its territory. These crows could be there as spirit messengers for you, or your neighbours, but I suspect they are there for your benefit.) Dream names I wrote to you and you published my story of Penny telling my mom when we'd be home. I am a firm believer. My niece reads Tarot and so did my sister. I have seen deceased people, as my relatives have, also. But now I have a question--why do I dream names? I do not recognize them and have no idea why it happens. One of the first names was Connie MacViolet. Then there was Fideladoon, and a dog named Normie and the list grows. I went to Google with some of the names, but they came up blank, so there is no connection. It does not bother me, but I am curious as to why I dream these names and if there is any significance. Any ideas? El (Hi, El. This happens to me frequently as well, and like you, I usually go to Google and type in the names to see if anything comes up that might ring a bell of recognition or lead me to a message. I remember a few years ago I dreamed of some strange sounding names at the time the police were looking for the snipers in Virginia and when I researched the words, they were actually street names right in the neighbourhood where some of the shootings had occurred. As for the names that I can't connect to anything, I just put them down to happenings or people in places that I am probably never going to know about - but that doesn't mean that they aren't relevant, just that waking life isn't going to afford me the opportunity to find the connection:>)) Hi Zsuzsana, I have a question that may be related to an animal guide. All my life I have felt close to wolves. I have many statues and representations of them in my home. I feel the closest connection to the arctic wolf itself but feel a connection with all wolves. Now I grew up and spent all my life in the city. I enjoy camping on a regular basis and have noticed that I sleep better and feel more content in the woods. In fact when I am at home I usually have a CD of recorded forest sounds including wolf howls playing when I sleep. I would like to get your opinion and your readers' opinions of what this could mean. I eagerly await your response. Justin (Hi, Justin. It certainly sounds like wolf is a major guide for you, and/or than you have wolf medicine. Wolf people are friendly, social, and highly intelligent, great teachers and often very psychic. Just type 'wolf animal guides' or wolf medicine' into your search engine and you will find tons of info.) Dear Zsuzsana, I've been reading Paranormal Insider for several months and it's my favorite e-mail to open, every time. I'd like your take on something that happened to me a few weeks ago. Whether it's the paranormal or something else, it haunts me terribly. My only sibling, my brother Steven, took his life a few years ago, which has made a terrible impact on my own. One night, I don't think I was sleeping yet, but in what I thought was a dream, Steven came to me. He told me I could ask him anything I liked, and as I tried to think of what I most wanted to ask, he cautioned me that he hadn't much time. I asked him if this was a dream and he assured me it wasn't, and pressed my hand so hard he convinced me, as well. So I blurted, "Are you happy? I mean, are you glad you did it?" And to my horror, he replied, "No. I wish I hadn't; this is terrible." This has been on my mind so much since it happened. I cannot seem to shake the feeling that it wasn't a dream at all, and my brother is in a state of discontent. I hope you can shed some light here; I'd appreciate it more than you could know. Sincerely, T. Goddard Moon (Hi. I'm so very sorry to hear about your brother, and your distress about what appears to be a unhappy 'visit' from him. In this type of situation, many people would consider having a session with a psychic medium who could attempt to contact Steve's spirit. I hope any of our readers who have had similar experiences will write in and share their advice.) For the Woman Who Saw Her Mother in a Dream 3 Times Zsuzsana, This woman is very fortunate. Yes, her mother was trying to tell her something, but because most of us don't pay attention to our dreams as we get more "tech savvy", we pass it off. Anyway, this is what I can tell from that short letter. The woman does miss her mother, and if you don't miss a parent when that person dies, you are not normal in my book. I would recommend that if this woman ever sees her mother in a dream again, to just ask her mother to speak to her. Nothing grand, I admit, but it will be soothing to her nerves. Before our technology became so advanced, some people got their news via dreams (trust me, I'm no loon. I have read this somewhere). As for the pet ghosts, we all have a favorite pet that we miss. Maybe they miss us too. Good luck, MR. Shannon D. Freeman (Emphasis on the Mister, I get mistaken for a woman every time. Who knows, maybe I was a woman in a past life, if such a thing exists), Benton, KY (Thank you, Shannon. I agree that dream messages are very important and a great method of communication with both our subconscious as well as the world of spirit. I also think that speaking to spirits out loud gives us a better 'connection'.) ------------------------------------------------------------ Live Hauntings The first few months of 2005, I kept on having dreams about the house I grew up in, in El Paso. I knew it was my house but sometimes things had been changed about it. In some I was sort of floating, as if I was a ghost. Sometimes I was a real person and the house had been moved, once I felt I was in upper New York state, which I've never even visited. In one dream the house had been moved to where I now live, over 700 miles away, and I was living in the house with my husband, son and one of my coworkers and her kids. And several of my other coworkers were living in the house next door. In another dream, the front door had been moved to where the large picture window is. When I went to float thru the door I felt like I hit the window and bounced off. I then saw a woman inside and I had scared her really bad, I could even feel her fear. Another time I was floating in the corner of the master bedroom but it had been redecorated. I still wonder if the new owner had painted the walls mauve and I was in the room as it is now. In another dream I tried to go through one of the many French doors and got through but made a loud bang in the process. I felt someone's fear and woke up. Another time I was floating in the upper corner of the kitchen and there was a woman with curly black hair fixing something. She turned around and looked up at me. I don't think she really saw me but she saw something and it scared her. Again, I could feel her fear and again, I woke up. I had these dreams every night, sometimes several times a night, for 3-4 months and it happened to be while I was going through chemo. I got so tired of these dreams because they weren't comforting at all. I had them so often, I felt I was obsessing about the house and wanted to stop. I even jokingly remarked to my mother that I wouldn't be surprised if I was haunting our old house. What really was strange is that a few months later my friend, who still lives in El Paso, asked if my old house was haunted. She heard that the new owner had called the police because she kept on hearing noises and was thinking the house was haunted. She started having encounters about the same time I started having the dreams. Can a live person haunt a house? (Hi. Yes, many people believe that you can 'astral project' and your spirit can wander both the earth and other planes. You may want to research astral projection and OBEs as a start, and I hope to be discussing these topics in an upcoming issue.) Bed Position Hello, A friend once told me that if you place your bed with the feet facing the doorway to the bedroom, it opens a doorway into the spiritual realm and you will experience more "ghostly" appearances. In all of the places that I have lived, I have found that I have had more ghost visits when the foot of my bed faced the doorway. Have you heard about this? Dore (Hi, Dore. Yes, the placement and directional orientation of your bed is said to have some pretty profound meta- physical effects, but I am not familiar with whether the bed direction would produce more 'ghost visits'. Hopefully some of our readers will comment.) Dear Zsuzsana, Your detailed description of how spirits make themselves known in the wee hours of the morning was more simply put by my spirit guide. She tells me that they're able to make themselves known much easier because of the coolness of the night air. It facilitates their energy and, as you said, especially on the night of a full moon. I thought you might like to hear what spirit had to say about the subject. Thanks for going into detail for us! Paula (Thanks, Paula.) Light Beings From the time I was quite young until I was well into my early twenties I was visited by people I dubbed early on as "Light Beings". These beings were opaque, very white and glowed. They would sit on my bed at night talking to me. I can not recall what they told me, however, all my life I have felt an urgent need to tell people something I consider very important. That is to accept others as a fellow human being not a label, such as a specific religion, no religion or political party. We are people above all and should be respected as such. (Thank you for sharing this.) ******************************************************** Happy New Year to Everyone! Look forward to seeing you in 2007! Carpe diem, Zsuzsana ------------------------------------------------------------ End of PARANORMAL INSIDER - Another Gopher Central Publication http://www.gophercentral.com Copyright 2006 by NextEra Media. All rights reserved.