Dunno if u found anything, but this is the exact story i was talking about...

http://anquoe.com/GourdDance.html

When I was around 14 years old, some buddies of mine & I thought we'd mess around with conjuring spirits. We were using a deck of cards & were using them to ask questions. We asked one spirit for a sign & a card moved about four inches across the table.
After that, we called on the devil & asked for a sign. There was a chandelier above us with one light in the center and a bunch surrounding it in a circle. The middle light went out the moment we asked. Freaked us out so much that we immediately stopped.

Back in my druggie days, some friends of mine & I went to a guys house we'd never been to before for drugs. Pretty hardcore dealers lived here & the father told us that if we told anybody about them, he'd kill us & was serious about it. His son that stayed there (I think he was his son). The kid was friggin crazy & talked very strangly. Well, we got all messed up on a few different drugs & left to go to another friends house. This kid came with and started acting very weird. He touches one of my friend's many cats on the head and it stands stiff as a board. He then starts controlling it, as if the cat was a robotic toy or something. Freaked me out so bad I left in a panic. My friends other cats all start jumping on me as I leave. Very bad trip!!!!

The last time I ever did drugs, I overdosed for the second time, taking too much meth & marijuana. I found myself wandering the streets in the middle of the night & felt like I was going to die. I stopped at a church & knelt down asking God to spare my life. I looked up & seen thousands upon thousands of birds circling not too far above me in the night sky. That night, the meth we got was taken from a plastic baggie with a picture of the devil on it.


I seen a huge UFO when I lived in Oregon. I was maybe seventeen years old. We were riding in the back of my parents truck when someone saw it and had them pull over. We all got out and stared up at this thing, about five or six of us in all. It was a V shaped craft that could have easily been football field size. Large lights formed the V shape & it didn't make a sound as it slowly hovered away. Freaked the sh!t out of me!!! The skies were filled with planes that night after we seen it. Never seen so many airplanes in the skies there.

Paranormal experiences :)

Ive enjoyed reading ppls experiences, and im sure there will be lots more to come!

I, myself have had a few paranormal experiences.....quite a few actually, so im not sure which 1 to tell u about first!

One of my earlier experiences (when i was around 5/6, it was in the morning) was seeing a guy in a black cape/hood, walking towards my bed, i got scared, closed my eyes, and when i opened them again, he had gone.

A couple of yrs later, i remember being sat in front of my dressing table, in front of the mirror, i was just staring at myself, and i felt my head go fuzzy, and for a few moments, life felt 'unfamiliar'. It scared me and i can still feel that feeling even to this day.

When i was in my early to mid twenties, i used to meditate whenever i could, by then i was reading tarot, and was gaining a fast growing reputation in my neighbourhood.

I stood looking out my window (12 floors up) and a cloud of smoke was blown in my face...nobody around, I sat and sent up thought to my spirit guide, asking wat his name was.....the colour 'red' and 'wolf' were the only things i kept getting. I only ever told 1 friend about wat i did, cos i knew i could trust her not to laugh at me!

A few months later, i was given a reading from a medium from the local spiritualist society, and i was told i was gonna be given as book, and it would provide answers.

I forgot about it and 2 or 3 yrs later, i was given a book on Native American Indians, called 'way of the spirit' In it, it describes all the different tribes and their history. My friend had also given me a bookmark which was a pair of praying hands.

I took it in the bath with me a couple of weeks later, and i decided to read it for the first time....i opened from the middle and just started reading the page in front of me.

It was the story of "Red Wolf", i was actually quite stunned, as it not only described the story of 'red wolf', but it also had pictures of diff tribal wear. I have been told by a good few mediums, that my guide is an Indian, and that his headress only has 1 feather in it. The story relates to the Kiowa Indians, and they wore a single feather in their headband.

Some may say this is coincidence, but to me, i know my question was answered.

Ive got more stories, but i would never get round to posting them if i done them all at once!!

Tribo, slight hijack here, but i posted in ur other thread, would like to hear ur views :)

I will.

Well now isn't this special.....I help and have always helped others because it is something that is in me, myself and I. It's not because I get anything from it....to the contrary it's because I see a need and I fill it. I have been like this since I was little both with human beings and with the animals of this planet.

When I came to the Lord what that did for me was for me to know that it was a great thing to do for others. This brought me to the ministry in India, the Operation Christmas Child that I just did, and all the other stuff I do for community as well as on an international level....and frankly for me the thanks is the annoying part....if I can be a silent worker bee and no one the wiser that is what truly makes me happy.

And with all I do and whatever happens in my life I always ask What Would Jesus Do....It makes it a no brainer for all I do.

Within my belief system, there is a very good explanation as to why an OBE can be extremely frightening to people. The explanation relates to reincarnation.

Because moving out of the body is exactly what happens when your body dies, having an OBE can remind one of dying. And since death is so highly feared and avoided by most people, anything that seems like death can be very upsetting, just like being reminded of any other highly upsetting experience can be upsetting.

That's the theory anyway.

I heard about this on the Bill Handel show this morning. The father is calling for the viewers and site owners to be held responsible, however, that's not going to happen. It's not a crime of any sort to NOT report something. You can watch a crime or suicide all day long and you are not required to report it. However, I am still wondering about the people who encouraged this guy. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

The poor kid was crying out for help otherwise he would not have done it in such a public manner. People who are driven to suicide be it mental or becuase of their circumstances are not doing it for attention. If someone is talking about killing themselves, TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. Five years ago i started having seizures and my diabetes got so unmanagable i could not take care of myself anymore. Then all at once my life was destroyed,I had an insulin reaction and ended up hospitalized for a month.My fiance couldn't handle it and left me and when i got of the hospital all i had was a bag of clothes, eviction notice, dear john letter, $1200 in medication and medical bills and the news that my employers no longer needed me. So i spent the next six months on the streets, sleeping in a cemetary in downtown KC becuase homeless shelters don't take people with health conditions and tell you to go to the hospital. News flash, you cant sleep in a hospital emergeceny room 30 minutes before security asks you to leave or they will have you escorted out for loitering. So there i was jobless,homeless, broke and wasting away on the streets. Government,family,friends and average people refused or said they could not help. I got to the point i realised no one cared what happened to me and that it was only a matter of time. I tryed to kill myself six times. In each case i would have succeded if not for some quirks of fate intervening. Regular people, strangers and people who certainly had more important things to do would find me as i was dying and go get help. To this day i can't thank them enough for saving me.
To all those who would have done nothing take a good look at yourselves and ask if i was dying and had no hope would i have needed someones help. There is an old axiom: Evil happens becuase good men do nothing.

I was lying in bed. I heard a sound inside my head which I can only describe as being like an enormous electric motor starting up. It began as a low pitched whine and increased in frequency until it went above audible range. At that point, I knew I was not "attached" to my body anymore. I sat up and swung my feet around to the right side of the bed and sat there on the bed with my feet on the floor for a couple seconds (Note: The bed was up flush against the wall on the right hand side.) Then I began to float upward. When I stopped rising, I was lying prone on my back. I though to myself "I can't see anything". So I made motions with my hands as if I were floating face up in water and wanted to turn over, which I did. At that point I was facing downward and looking at my body lying on the bed. It's eyes were open wide. At that point, I started floating down towards the body and rotating. As I reached the point where I was in the same location as my body and facing upward, my body inhaled, and I was once more "attached" to it.

I have

I agree with you on this Sam, in the most abstract philosophical way.

The existence or non-existence of a God is impossible to prove or disprove.

However, when it comes to religions that have been carved in stone via dogma I totally disagree. Logic can indeed be used to show that these religions are false.

The Bible contains so many self-inconsistencies and contradictions that it can't possible true. Period.

It has proven itself to be false beyond any reasonable doubt.

The Biblical God is supposed to be unchanging. Yet in the Old Testament God tells people to stone sinners to death (this automatically requires that people judge other people!). How can you stone a sinner to death without first judging them to be a sinner?

So clearly the Biblical God told people to judge each other and even stone people to death if they judge them to be sinners. He also told them to seek revenge; an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This was the teachings and commandments of the God of Abraham.

But then in the New Testament Jesus tells people not to judge others, not to stone others, and to forgive people.

Clearly Jesus and the God of Abraham can't possible have been the same unchanging God.

They had totally different ideas of how people should behave.

This religion is false. Period. It's not a matter of faith. It shoots itself in its own foot. It contradicts its own premises.

It may be impossible to prove whether or not there is a god "abstractly". But when it comes to dogma written down, it's pretty clear that the bibilcal version of God is a farce.

It can't be true.

Just wait till JB posts here. She has lotsa paranormal experiences.

No problem. I'm glad to share my experiences with those who are interested