Student of the Universe - Part II - 3/07/07

Here we are back in 1968. In the Fall of that year, I began to have vivid and very frightening clairvoyant episodes. The first one was late in the evening when I got a very clear picture in my mind of a car accident. It was like a TV screen in the front of my mind showing me a very clear picture of an accident. I told my soon-to-be-husband, Jonathan, about it and told him I thought I was dreaming. He said, "Dreaming? You were talking to me a few moments ago, you couldn't have been asleep." Well, that was pretty scarey to say the least. I then described to him what I had seen which included a blue car and a white car; a head-on accident; kids toys scattered about the road; five trees on the side of the two-lane road, etc. I felt there were injuries but no deaths. I even looked at the clock because the time seemed important for some reason. It was all so strange and I thought that was the end of it until the next day when Jonathan went to his fraternity house (Phi Psi at UVA) to learn that one of his fraternity brothers had been in an accident at the exact time I "saw" an accident - odd; he drove a blue car - odd; the woman in the other car had children but they were not in the car at the time - odd; they hit head-on and they were both injured but no one was killed; it happened on a two-lane rural road, etc - odd, odd, odd. What a strange "coincidence" (no, I don't believe in coincidence anymore). So after more investigation, we drove toward the accident site and I picked out the five trees and was able to confirm my experience as being true to fact. Well, of course I thought I was losing my mind (wouldn't you?). Several weeks later a similar expereince showed me the suicide of a young man (ended up being my cousin's boyfriend whom I had never met). I decided that this had to stop so I went to UVA and found a wonderful professor who advised me about what was happening. He explained what a clairvoyant experience was and told me I could learn to be in control. Thankfully, he was right. I read every book at UVA's Alderman Library on ESP (the word of the 1960's for such experiences). One of the most important realizations to me was these clairvoyant (by the way that means you see things when they happen and not before or after) episodes were shown to me in very vidid color. So, when I began to "see" colors in my mind, I would walk around, drink caffeine, etc. to keep alert and not give these visions any room to occur. It worked quite well. But, my research into my own experiences sparked a life-long interest and I knew that my life's work would one day involve such things. More later.