As I jump ahead to more recent times, a lot of life changes have come my way over the past 4 years. One major life experience was losing my father in September of 2012. My father Richard, had passed away in his sleep due to complications from ongoing heart disease. I had just recently moved 3,000 miles from the east coast to the west coast to the state of Washington. My father had suffered for many years toward the end of his life, very severe depression, and on occasions had actually attempted suicide.  At times he would just sit and stare at the walls, as if his normal self was not present in his body.  When he was well, he was jovial, witty, liked to joke around, would talk your ear off and tell strangers on the street his entire life story if they allowed it. Surprisingly a month before he died, he called me out of the blue for my birthday. He was back to his old self, joking with me on the phone and we had made plans for him to possibly move out west and li...

The Ghosts that Haunt Me "There's a skeleton in everybody's closet I can think of one or two in my own room But I would like to introduce them both to you You'd shake their boney hands and so dispel the gloom.." "..Cause you're so kind I know you would not mind You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now.." ~Crash Test Dummies One of the more frightening chapters in my life, would have to be my own personal encounters which the paranormal.  While I have had experiences with visitations and spirits from beyond the veil of a more spiritual and loving nature. This is documenting more so strictly my experiences with ghosts, or disembodied energy while dreaming, and more importantly while fully awake.  Having an experience with a ghost, rather than with "spirit or clairvoyant" visitation, I believe are different, albeit, related. My experiences are not the norm.  They started when I was a young child.  I may...

I believe that in the dream state, perhaps between being fully asleep or awake, that we have the ability to in a way, leave our bodies, travel to another dimension in our mind-spirit, while the body in remains here. It is in this state that our deceased loved ones can visit more easily, or even at times we can travel to higher planes to meet with more evolved spirit beings. Last night / early morning was such an event. I found myself standing on a hill over look a valley near a home. On the road coming toward me drove a car, with my grandmother and her husband (both passed) They pulled up and we went inside the house which they referred to as the meeting place. I do not remember too much of our conversation other than casual greetings and asking how I was doing.  A few other people starting coming into the room.  A skinny man with grey hair who I recognized as my grandfather but I had never met him in real life as he died in 1972, 4 years before I was born. Had a dri...

Dreamt last night I was back in Pennsylvania, had drove there in my SUV, Jacob was along. Although I was in Middleburg / Selinsgrove area for some reason. Got to middle burg and my SUV died,  stopped by a dealership and they were having a promotion where they give you a key and sit in a new car and see if the key works.  My key did not work, so they let Jacob try a key too.  His key turned the car on.  Then the dealership said "Well shit, you get a new Hyundai." So I told him about my SUV and he said look up the blue book, I can probably fix it up and resell it for 13,000, and just buy it off you and then you pay the difference to what you still owe to the loan.  You and grandma showed up because I had called you to come pick me and Jacob up.  You actually helped me talk the mechanic into buying my SUV So it worked out great.   Jake and I went over to Tastee Freeze in between Kreamer and Middleburg and got milk shakes. After we w...

Artwork by Lorna Paquin Last evening I had what can only be explained as a vision. It was not a dream, as I was awake and could still see what was going on before me, it was more within my third eye but could see it with my physical eyes as well / or rather one scene overlapping my natural surroundings, seeing two things at the same time / or perhaps dreaming while awake. Around 2-3 in the morning I woke up to use the rest room, like normally its dark in my bedroom here. As soon as I sat up before my eyes I see a painting about 5 feet wide and 3 feet tall hovering in front of me. Above the painting I see the words "the new Trail of Tears." The painting at times seems alive as colors change, images move. Ok what I see is either the Rocky Mountains or the Cascade mountains in the background. In the foreground I see what appears to look like the mid west, with long wavy grains and smooth hills, along with dry parched desert to the sides. In forefront I see a line of peo...

I was called up last minute to take my son and youngest daughter up to see the Halloween Parade that my oldest daughter would be playing clarinet in. It's a haul. I got to pick up my kids, my ex wife has not even 5 minutes to leave and get to work in the opposite direction. I unlock all the doors, leave the vehicle for 2 second and then suddenly all the doors for no explainable reason lock behind me with keys in the ignition and power running, music blasting... so we miss the parade and sat around the diner we were at for almost an hour. I wonder why things happen the way they do. If any lesson I learned is to have a spare key on hand located on my person or car, heck maybe I should even make you a spare key. I don't like that its about a 70 mile drive from my place up there... wish I could just hop on over and see kids during the week but don't know if that will happen any time soon You know that I would do anything for you and the kids and drop what I a...