Student of the Universe - Part III - 3/8/07

For several years I accepted my choice not to go more deeply into my psychic abilities. I simply enjoyed my family. In 1972 I gave birth to my last child, Matthew Jonathan. He was a big baby, almost eleven pounds at birth and what a joy. For the next few years, I worked at taking care of my home and raising my children. I failed to say that when my husband, Jonathan, graduated from UVA he went to work for State Farm Insurance. That's important, because they had some control over where we lived. When we were tranferred to St. Paul, Minnesota in the winter of 1974, I made my first move ever away from Virginia. The day we moved in, it was -30F - what had we done!? After a short time, I realized that it was a wonderful place to live - it had everything the kids could ever want including excellent schools, Winter Carnivals, and much to do. It also had great shopping, great health care, the symphony, and the ballet. I found out so much about myself there, away from the family I dearly loved. Even though my mother had died when I was 19, I was still close to my aunts and my cousins. I wrote and called frequently.

Back to my psychic abilities: Thankfully I found that the University of Minnesota had an amazing "parapsychology" area with classes on Altered States of Consciousness, Prophets and Healers, Hauntings, etc. I enrolled there and joined The Minnesota Society for Parapsychological Research (if I remember the name correctly). I was blessed to meet like-minded people and begin to practice psychometry (using an object to read the energy of someone), take yoga classes, and read enlightening books. My years in Minnesota were great (except for the blizzards, cold temperatures and tornados) and I learned much. To the disappointment of my two older children, we were transferred to Salem, Oregon where the schools were terrible and there was much less to do (no after-school sports, etc.). But, we settled in and enjoyed going to the Oregon Coast frequently. We also regularly visited Mt. Hood and Mt. Bachelor to ski. While there, I enrolled in a small Native American College called Chemeketa College. Fortunately I found a professor who was working on all things psychic and past-life regressions. Through him and another group of like-minded people, I learned much and became skilled in hypnotherapy (later got my certification) focusing on past-life regressions. After five years in Oregon, we returned to Virginia. To be continued...