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Do people think you are crazy?

Everytime I try dismiss because I can't


handle it more and more memories


come in It can't be real I say,


Then it hits like ton of bricks.


Why have such emotion if it wasn't real.


Looking my past picture put's it in perspective.


All visual pictures / movies are not flights of fantasy seeing


my past self commit suicide


that's something I really want to make up.
 
Being called crazy and weird is something I grew up with from peers; however, for as long as I can remember, I've taken it as a compliment, even when it's been intended as the height of insult. If some closed-minded ignoramus wrinkles their nose at me and calls me a weirdo, I thank them. I also thank God I'm not like them. I've always strongly believed in whatever I believe in and this is probably the reason I don't care if people think I'm 'crazy'.


It's only when pseudo-intellectuals who try and talk about things they have no experience in whatsoever, whereas I may have the experience myself, that really get my hackles up. Don't try and tell me there's no such thing as spirits, souls, demons etc etc when you have no experience in the matter! cover face
 
People may well think I'm crazy but probably not for my beliefs, such as they are. The people I talk to about these things are mostly open-minded, or perhaps, don't take it that seriously. If they're either atheists or fundamentalists I probably keep all conversations short anyway. :D But I don't have any beliefs that are that solid that I'd insist on sharing them with anyone who's not interested, I try not to natter about any subject to people who aren't interested in it, that's more to avoid being called a bore than crazy. (I remember an old guy we knew who nattered on and on about Atlantis, and managed to make something that I thought should be fascinating into something mind-bogglingly boring. :laugh: )


BriarRose - I think of you from time to time - I mean, when I'm ironing or something, not just when I'm on here - and...you aren't going to like this...I also feel you should move. I don't know why or where or anything useful, just a general feeling that you should move. I don't want to unnerve you and I don't have any great sense of impending doom, and I realize telling someone I don't know that they should up and move is rude, but do try and move, so the uncomfortable feeling I have will go away! Sorry!
 
Well, Sister Grey, I'm actually flattered that people think about me at all! :laugh: Thank you for telling me that - it's another vote for making a change, and I appreciate that you shared it. I've had a few PMs from people supporting that view also. I have no idea if the "warning" is specific to me, or to California in general, so I don't want to start some sort of unfounded psychic panic. I think it's specific to me. I started researching places to move on Zillow - I just dread the work and upheaval a move will involve. I'm thinking I'll go somewhere in the American Southwest. Guidance must have something more for me to do, somewhere else!
 
I have had comments I've made roundly dismissed, but I have not been called crazy to my face. The more active detractors of my previous comments have surprisingly never hesitated to listen to and consider the next thing that comes out of my mouth. I'm not sure what that says about others considering my sanity...maybe they just find me entertaining.


BriarRose...count me among those getting the sense a move is in order for you. The where and why may become apparent at some point, but so many arrows pointing in that direction from so many different sources means to me that there is an opportunity not to be missed elsewhere. My best wishes to you!
 
Thank you! Some of the problems are that if I go, averting disaster, we'll never know if we were right. If I stay, I might cease to exist in my current form. I can't do a test of the hypothesis, to find out if, indeed, we are all crazy! (See starry's original post) :laugh: I could "haunt" the site. Has anyone written a book called "The Ghost in the Website?"
 
Hi Starrynight,


If you really want to help people understand your point of view - back it up. ;)


Many people come to this forum with questions..more questions than answers and many feel they are crazy for even inquiring about reincarnation. Here's some information I came across a years ago.


Reincarnation and the Book of Life


Sylvia Cranston on October 17, 1979 was at at Harvard University. The original 50 page typewritten talk is now in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. If Harvard and Yale are taking reincarnation seriously..why shouldn't we?


Cranston's lecture came about after she read the book Reincarnation in Christianity, by Professor Geddes MacGregor, a professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Southern California. He is also an Anglican priest of forty years standing and among his other honors, he was a special preacher at St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1969 and at Westminister Abbey in 1970.


MacGregor not only wrote his book about reincarnation, but also has given courses at university level regarding it.


He states:

Death is but the end of a chapter; it is not, as the nihilists suppose, the end of the story.
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I find more people believe than do not theses days. Maybe it's just California but it's cool to come across so many where I am.


Professors, Deans, students in College. NICE!
 
I love so many of you have thought about this one. A big thankyou. wellllllcome


Thanks for the reference Deborah. I do think the planet is becoming much more open minded & accepting but many people where I am find the concept difficult.


I think you should listen about the move Briar but don't panic!yikes. I got a gut feeling to move to where I am now a number of years ago. The feeling was right but it still took me forever to get here. I believe w're protected so long as we take notice of the gudance & actively do something to follow it. Great so many people get the feelings for you. ;)


Those demons Skye- I have been there & had those & yes it's like a double blow to be told "Ah just imagination"!saywhat


I think I mentioned something about the universe or angels in a job interview once (I know it might not be apt but it must have come into it for some reason) and got a long sermon from the person doing the interviewing how anything related is a load of rubbish. I knew I hadn't got the job & really just wanted to go home for a cup of tea but politely sat there letting him ramble on and have his say. He did go on for a while and didn't change my point of view but decided it was easier just to keep quiet. I hope i'm learning to be more assertive & now would agree to differ. :rolleyes:


A good point also Briar- if we were all crazy we wouldn't be questioning it! LOL
 
starrynight said:
I realize I just talk about spiritual things in normal converstaion. Not just re incarnation;
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I started recalling my 'teen years' and the subject of reincarnation. I recall the association I made to 'reincarnation' and sexuality. I had a friend and we both had spontaneous recall of a past life together. We were corned by a group of our peers and they started asking questions about the subject of past lives. We had told our parents and our parents had told the other of kids our age to try get them to get the two of us to open up and talk about our memories together. I was trying to find the proper way to tell them why we couldn't. My friend said, "It is taboo." I looked at my friend and asked, "Were did that come from?" He said, "I don't know. It just came out of me." The core definition of taboo is 'social prohibition or 'socially unacceptable.'


Struggling with the issues of sexuality as a teen - you learn it is unacceptable to walk into certain social groups and start talking about your 'sexual experiences.' If a classmate stood up and started describing what he did in the bathroom when his Mom was pounding on the door - in intimate graphic details - the whole class would have been running for the door covering their ears. (This actually happened in a class when I was in High School. Trust me, that boy became an outcast afterwards.)


I felt that exploring our 'inner spiritual nature' was akin to the exploration of our inner sexual nature. Both had a taboo nature to it. Everyone has their own 'kink' when it comes to their sexual nature - and there are ton's of 'kinks' - I don't appreciate hearing about in a social setting. That is how I started looking at my 'past life' memories and reincarnation. I had my own kink with it - and I had to find the right minds of understanding to express that 'fetish' with. If someone came up and tried to talk to me about their personal 'fetish' with 'woman's shoes' and imposed that sort of desire onto my mind - I would be deeply offended and look at him as if he was out of his mind. If he found someone who shared that interest - they probably could talk for hours and hours about it and have very pleasant conversation between the two of them. A fetish is defined as a strong and unusual need or desire for something. I had a strong and unusual need and desire to understand reincarnation. Other's don't.


I feel I found a group of minds here on the board that share my spiritual 'kink'.' Outsiders to our group will probably look at us as if we have an obsession with 'dirty old' smelly shoes and give us a 'very' crazy look as they are running away because of the taboo nature of the subject of our desire to know.


LOL


Sincerely,


DKing
 
I have believed in reincarnation for most of my life, because my mother talked about it sometimes when I was a kid, and it made sense to me instantly. And I felt that I had memories and strong connections with certain places and eras.


However, I grew up in a rural/suburban town in the Southeastern US, and I was a Southern Baptist, and talking about reincarnation had me instantly labeled as a freak. When I was thirteen, I told a girl I knew that I believed I was a particular person in a past life, and she told some other kids, and they made fun of me for it. I really believe they thought I was crazy. That's how they talked to me.


Now, at 33, I am much more selective about the people I tell my beliefs about anything, not just reincarnation. Luckily, most of the people around me now are very open to these ideas or even believe it themselves. I am surrounded by freaks, and I like it that way. :D
 
seagreen said:
However, I grew up in a rural/suburban town in the Southeastern US, and I was a Southern Baptist, and talking about reincarnation had me instantly labeled as a freak.
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That may be changing slowly. James Leninger's father, Bruce, is an evangelical Christian. He and his son James have appeared on Fundamentalist TV programs and they were actually listened to. And one of the families on the episodes of "Ghost Within My Child" is Southern Baptist. This is good, because "New Agers" would be immediately dismissed as "flakes".
 
It's such a comfort to be "here", where we can all be ourselves. If we are "crazy", it's much more interesting than being "sane".
 
Deborah makes a good point that makes me think about how we present ourselves and our theories impacts how others take us, and that applies to all subjects. If we sound sane and knowledgeable we’re more likely to be taken seriously. Listen to my sisters-in-law argue over the one and only correct way to make a salad and you will come to the logical conclusion that they’re crazy (and not in any remotely fun way) and making a salad isn’t anything you ever want any part of. I know a few people who’ve said something along the lines of ‘listening to endless stories of someone’s current neurotic life is enough, I don’t want to hear about their four hundred and eighty-six previous neurotic lives, even if they do include Mary Queen of Scots’, or versions thereof. I know that with reincarnation and spirituality we’re struggling to put nebulous ideas and feelings into voice and it does take both speaker and listener to have a dialogue.


BriarRose - Oh good, you’re not upset. :D For what it’s worth I don’t think it’s a state-wide ’California is sliding into the ocean’ and everyone should immediately panic sort of thing, I think it’s either personal to you or possibly something local. It's just something like ’tell her movemovemove’. Usetawaz put it so diplomatically, maybe it is that you will do better or feel better elsewhere. I think the Southwestern U.S. sounds nice for you. Hope we aren’t coming across as ’ya should get outta town if ya know what’s good for ya, cookie, ya know what I’m sayin’?’ but I feel much better knowing you’re going to move. :laugh:
 
Sister Grey said:
BriarRose - Oh good, you’re not upset. :D For what it’s worth I don’t think it’s a state-wide ’California is sliding into the ocean’ and everyone should immediately panic sort of thing, I think it’s either personal to you or possibly something local. It's just something like ’tell her movemovemove’.
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Of course the move could just be across town.:laugh:
 
No, the message was specific. It has to be another state. I am leaning towards Albuquerque. I feel sad about moving, and "drained", but the thought of getting bigger closets puts new life in me. I think the house will fall on me if I don't go. I have warned my daughter to be sure and retrieve the Ruby Slippers, should that happen! ;) Oh, dear, I am crazy! :laugh:
 
Yeah a friend from another site is calling me crazy in a joking matter, idk now I'm starting to agree. Idk, it's almost like a little child seeing a ghost but no one notices, the little child is totally how I feel. :(
 
I very rarely talk about my beliefs to anyone, except family, simply because I don't want to be thought of as crazy. I have one friend who I talk about it a little bit and she is receptive / interested, and I have come to believe that possibly we were connected in a past life (or lives) in some way.
 
I couldn't find sage sticks to cleanse my house where I live but I did find a shop selling sage incense.


When they asked me what I wanted it for I told them there were spirits in the house. They asked if I'de seen anything so I told them about the man at the bottom of the bed. They asked me more but I said the man didn't bother me I was more concerned about the woman whose baby had died and the malevolent spirit that keeps visiting & I'm not happy about. That was why I wanted the incense.


They didn't speak to me after this. My mother said she had to leave the shop because they were giving me strange looksLOL


Well they did ask!


I think they thought I was crazy:razz::razz::razz:
 
You probably could get sage bundles from Amazon, starry. It sounds like you need them. It was brave of your mom to go in with you! :D Maybe, you should go back to the shop, and exorcize them! That is a great story!
 
LOL, like it briarrose! Maybe i will.


Yes i think i will get the sage from amazon, was waiting for the bank hols to be over with first.


Don't think my mum will be going shoping with me for a whilecover face
 
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