tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post2137794034361663627..comments2024-01-29T00:20:13.608-08:00Comments on Holes in My Soles: Terror at the "Red Terror" Martyrs' Memorial Museum, Ethiopia.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-35754697958783018542011-11-28T12:20:36.458-08:002011-11-28T12:20:36.458-08:00Hi Emme, no, it's not just you, and the joy of...Hi Emme, no, it's not just you, and the joy of the internet allows us to discover so many people experience similar, so it's not unusual.<br />Imagination may be the key to 'connection' to whatever other worlds or dimensions exist, that we have no comprehension of.<br />These days when I sense that feeling, I let my imagination go wherever it wants rather than fighting it. Perhaps that openness creates an empathy that 'spirits' may then decide to reveal themselves to...if they want to.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-40414349516627889322011-11-28T10:18:34.800-08:002011-11-28T10:18:34.800-08:00Always find it amazing how the energies of some pl...Always find it amazing how the energies of some places can hit us so hard with strong emotions.<br /><br />Always wondered if this was just something in my own over-active imagination or if it happened to other people too.<br /><br />Thanks for letting me know that 'it is not just me'.<br /><br />EmmeEmme Rogers @ Roamancinghttp://roamancing.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-28272015779471315522011-11-28T01:52:41.292-08:002011-11-28T01:52:41.292-08:00Quite apt and moving.Quite apt and moving.Easy Hikerhttp://easyhiker.co.uk/who-is-frau-holle/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-41622727951283249312011-11-27T22:26:20.082-08:002011-11-27T22:26:20.082-08:00What an experience, Wow. I do love your posts they...What an experience, Wow. I do love your posts they are always interesting and enlightening. I think Debra is right BTW. <3<3<3photos by janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04931922143998773384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-52223529856239682122011-01-12T15:21:32.382-08:002011-01-12T15:21:32.382-08:00Cheryl, how kind! But gee, with only 2 years high ...Cheryl, how kind! But gee, with only 2 years high school education, that would be a flight of the imagination... :-)<br />Mind you, if they're just as crazy then why not?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-46578919611475467552011-01-12T13:35:58.494-08:002011-01-12T13:35:58.494-08:00Um Jim, you should be a College Professor.Um Jim, you should be a College Professor.Cheriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08511536163668122532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-38740769152267860352011-01-12T11:31:21.334-08:002011-01-12T11:31:21.334-08:00S21 and the Killing Fields is another story. I hav...S21 and the Killing Fields is another story. I have written about it elsewhere, and the story belongs on this site. But I'm really interested to hear of your stories to. Have you written about them?<br />I have noticed that when other people are around, their distraction stops any ability to connect. But in quiet moments, no one else around the mind can let go. <br />Just imagination I'm told. Used to think the same , myself, until I realised that it is imagination that makes humans unique, and so perhaps allowing the imagination to wander, creates the right conditions for 'connection'?<br />Prayer, meditation, shamanic rituals, mind altering substances all affect your imagination, and are they not all methods of trying to achieve a contact with an other world?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-80556239984135066382011-01-12T08:05:13.244-08:002011-01-12T08:05:13.244-08:00You had me on the edge of my chair, mouth wide ope...You had me on the edge of my chair, mouth wide open, waiting for the end results! I have to agree with Michael Schuermanns comment, but YOU were the one that communicated the results of this extrordinary experience, through your post.. to me, so I was able to cast aside MY straight jacket around my imagination, for a few moments and walk with you through this psychological experience! How Awesome!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-71202575912544489192011-01-12T03:52:04.362-08:002011-01-12T03:52:04.362-08:00wow jim- what an intense experience! we went to th...wow jim- what an intense experience! we went to the killing fields in cambodia and it was really tough to take. so important to learn about these histories though!Lorna - the roamanticshttp://www.theroamantics.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-48140528286413327262011-01-12T03:30:06.589-08:002011-01-12T03:30:06.589-08:00Very interesting post, Jim.
I visited the Choeung ...Very interesting post, Jim.<br />I visited the Choeung Ek "killing fields" memorial in Cambodia and I was surprised that I didn't "feel" any kind of presence. Even when I realised I'd stood on a little piece of human bone that had just pushed up through the ground. But I did feel very very sad as I read about the history of the pllace.<br />You seem very sensitive - in more ways than one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-488227886634399642011-01-11T23:05:15.014-08:002011-01-11T23:05:15.014-08:00That's quite interesting Debra...hadn't th...That's quite interesting Debra...hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks for the encouragement.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-54086583523633095742011-01-11T22:51:58.757-08:002011-01-11T22:51:58.757-08:00The collective unconscious of these martyrs remain...The collective unconscious of these martyrs remain, their spirits beckoned your prayer, as much for you as for them. Grand post Jim.Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02273349436461781371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-74097467018425721272011-01-11T22:25:37.497-08:002011-01-11T22:25:37.497-08:00And no...I didn't walk past a heater...And no...I didn't walk past a heater...Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-76977526773771288182011-01-11T22:22:35.775-08:002011-01-11T22:22:35.775-08:00". Maybe it was psychological, just for the f...". Maybe it was psychological, just for the fact that I already knew the history behind it and how dark it was. " A possible explanation.<br />Could be... but then we've been to many battlefields,cemetaries, concentration camps etc in our travels, and odds are similar things would have happened there if there was the psychological driver. In fact I would have more in my mind about the castles in Scotland we visited last Sept,and their violent history over centuries, than I would of a 2 month old museum in Addis Ababa, and it was not until we went there, we learnt the full horror of that period. <br />. What I have noticed is that it's the places where traumatic events have happened very recently in history that have more <br />aura or psychic influence around them for me. I once read the book 'The lost world of the Vanishing Kalahari' where Laurens Van der Post wrote about San reverence for their sacred Tsodilo Hills. And he wrote that while Bushmen could go there and practice their beliefs there, it kept the spirits there strong. But now the area is hardly visited by modern Bushman, and the spirits wane or leave the place.<br />In some ways I think that happens with many places.Over time any spirit influence departs or dissipates... because there is no reason to hang around if you're a spirit. Could be a better party kicking in another place, so to speak LOL><br /><br />Many of us will recognise the aura when entering a church, and that it's quite different than going to the ruined remains of a church in England. They are both churches, but one still has a warmth about it, the other cold...nothing. Perhaps our devotion to religion there keeps spirit influence strong?<br />I'll chat further about divination by sensing 'warmth' or 'cold' when sensing a place or even buying a mother of peral frog as a present for my wife from a pearl jewellery store. The pearls left me cold, but as I walked past a counter I felt a warmth come over me, so I recognised the feeling, looked down and there they were... frogs... mother of pearl. So bought one. Crazy eh?<br />Not cheap either.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-73131771145343557232011-01-11T20:31:01.889-08:002011-01-11T20:31:01.889-08:00Jim, I have the impression you are very perceptive...Jim, I have the impression you are very perceptive when it comes to these "unexplainable phenomenas".<br /><br />I haven't had an experience like that myself, but when I visited the Warsaw uprising Museum in Poland I got a heavy feeing inside me. Maybe it was psychological, just for the fact that I already knew the history behind it and how dark it was. <br /><br />What I know is that "dark" places like these tend to have a strong impact in our self. <br /><br />Thanks for educating me on a part of Ethiopia I didn't know about.Norberthttp://www.globotreks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-33259903595212400752011-01-11T20:10:04.999-08:002011-01-11T20:10:04.999-08:00"Perhaps spirits sense a mortal's ability..."Perhaps spirits sense a mortal's ability to sense them, so reveal themselves...?". I've wondered about that....<br /><br />John, I'm 99% after that re-bore. Thanks for asking. No leopard will have a chance of getting me now! Oh and the bathroom cabinet which I managed to put upside down, has been re-positioned correct way round!Things don't fall out of it now! LOLJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-10502453956260742472011-01-11T18:55:21.533-08:002011-01-11T18:55:21.533-08:00"Perhaps spirits sense a mortal's ability..."Perhaps spirits sense a mortal's ability to sense them, so reveal themselves...?". Fabulous article. There's a lot science can't account for! On your own health issues I hope you are feeling nearly 100%.John in Francehttp://thefrenchway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-74863972806092347862011-01-11T13:30:38.571-08:002011-01-11T13:30:38.571-08:00I'll post a lot on Intuition/perception on thi...I'll post a lot on Intuition/perception on this blog, but need to lead into it otherwise I'll get dismissed as a weirdo, and I'm certainly not. With my feet firmly on the ground :-) .<br />But if anyone's interested, bookmark or follow and we'll have a great read. And anyone with similar experiences, I'd like to read about them.<br />That's why my header sub-title refers to "...within the Id"Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-17166571281930912682011-01-11T13:23:21.826-08:002011-01-11T13:23:21.826-08:00Yeah, one could think that Michael and I agree, bu...Yeah, one could think that Michael and I agree, but we hadn't even viewed any exhibits, I had just walked through the door and I could feel 'it'. Viewed many graphic images of atrocities, battlefields, etc, but this experience is much as I described...otherworldly.<br />And we later visited the Mekele memorial museum...and I was trying to sense things there, similar displays, same graphic photos and I felt nothing.<br />The difference was those coffins with the exhumed remains, which we never knew about until we walked around to them. Other things have happened, and these days I accept that we just do not know what our sub-conscious, or intuition is capable of, and like Barbara, I'm prepared to go with it.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-66109206744083182682011-01-11T13:13:25.851-08:002011-01-11T13:13:25.851-08:00Yes, Jim. . .I agree with Alejandro. I was comple...Yes, Jim. . .I agree with Alejandro. I was completely absorbed!!!! There's been so much hatred and suffering inflicted on humanity there must be anguish left to be expressed only in the spiritual realm.Pamelahttp://pamanner.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-43703846162296246282011-01-11T12:58:59.367-08:002011-01-11T12:58:59.367-08:00If you had felt the way you did, the museum's ...If you had felt the way you did, the museum's curators have done a pretty good job of communicating all that anguish and suffering of a people that reaches even your subconscious.Michael Schuermannhttp://easyhiker.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-34678525939836042662011-01-11T12:50:48.797-08:002011-01-11T12:50:48.797-08:00Hi Barbara, when I first came across you online, I...Hi Barbara, when I first came across you online, I did get a sense of -I suppose I could say 'familiarity' in the sense that we think alike. I seem to remember you saying something back to me like that. On these issues I like to encourage discussion because a lot of people are sensitive to other senses.But often won't talk about it. Agree with you comment' I have no control..' ...they just happen...and can't be turned on for science to measure. Kay now just leaves me to it. But she's also very sensitive , but more with family issues.<br />Barbara, where have you written about your experiences?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-11492675909374152612011-01-11T12:04:03.104-08:002011-01-11T12:04:03.104-08:00Hi Jim: I have had similar experiences and they al...Hi Jim: I have had similar experiences and they always happen unexpectedly, in places that are surprising, such as a lighthouse on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I have no control of these experiences but I allow them in when they happen and in every case I am glad I did. Others may see this all as hogwash, but I know they are very real. We all have access to higher source information, if we are willing to be open to it.Barbara Weibelhttp://holeinthedonut.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-85068286580569637182011-01-11T11:29:01.321-08:002011-01-11T11:29:01.321-08:00Thanks everyone. It was a totally unexpected exper...Thanks everyone. It was a totally unexpected experience. Unlike other places where I have deliberately tried to 'connect' (with some success) we were just expecting the usual sort of museum. I cannot understand how I sensed that there was 'death' there in the form of those exhumed remains in the coffins. It had just opened, and possibly they were awaiting interment in the mass grave exhibit that Redvelvet rocket blog speaks of. <br />We later visited the Memorial Museum in Mekele, which contains copies of many of the photos and exhibits on display as in the Red Terror Museum. And I could walk through there with no weird feelings, it was just a museum.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618511960243841803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839632013669425872.post-59700746316749154222011-01-11T03:57:10.375-08:002011-01-11T03:57:10.375-08:00how intense! great article.how intense! great article.Mary Hudak-Collins livingthescripture.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18181851742870395058noreply@blogger.com