My Spiritual Timeline (Part 1)

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For those that know me, I was always intrigued by what’s out there in the world. Although I’m naive by nature, I tend to give things the benefit of a doubt before I judge it. Nowadays a lot of ‘weird’ things have been happening to me that only New Age spiritualism has the proper answers for (unless I let science decide for me that I’m ‘crazy’).

This will be my formal introduction to the Spirit Realm but it will start off subjectively with my personal journey from birth until the now.

It all changed around the summer solstice of 2017.

But even before that – Childhood.

Childhood

I’ve always liked soy milk, so I guess that makes me a weird kid since I didn’t know any other black kids who drank it. But since I was raised Buddhist I was used to eating a wider variety of foods than my other southern peers (raised in South Carolina). That means I also believed in reincarnation and vaguely understood the idea of what a ‘soul’ was. Basically, I could’ve been a bee in a previous lifetime but when I die I don’t have to worry about becoming a slug (since any lifeform not human or ‘higher’ is considered a lower-life form and, apparently, reincarnation doesn’t work like that).

I wasn’t as skittish as I am nowadays but I learned to not leave doors unclosed due to a very frightening encounter with a relative with alzheimer’s disease…so any opening that has a closing apparatus must be closed where nothing can peek out at me if I’m to sleep in the dark. Oh, and I used to see spirits at times and ask my Elders about them. If I think really really really hard I can make out the outlines of some of them.

Typical shadows out the corner of your eyes – feel like you are being watched – etc. Your typical spirit shenanigans that most people experience. It was always spelled Berestein because before I read my first book in the series, I was afraid to read “The Spooky Old Tree”; I thought it was a children’s version/adaptation of Frankenstein (since they were both spelled stein).

Another experience with synchrosity (aka Mandela effect) was in a science class during a lab. We were heating up a beaker and we place a thin metal strip inside to heat it up or something (it was related to measuring the weight of smoke) and a mini fire started on the bottom. Thinking quickly, I went to the sink and put water into it. To my utter surprise…the bottom of the beaker shattered!!! And my teacher flipped because glass kinda exploded and my friends were laughing saying “You broke the glass!!!!” (we were 13).

I was so confused as to why that happened because according to my knowledge “a liquid, even when boiling, that is not acidic or abrasive, can be held in a glass container as long as it isn’t covered and has no cracks”. And that’s simply not true – hot tea will break a glass cup in a heartbeat. The kids were laughing even harder because I was known as the ‘smart, but still chill’ kid so seeing this rare flub shocked the teach and enthralled the homies.

Even till this day I have to beware that it’s just science that I “remembered wrong” – just like the Berenstein Bears.

Teens

Nothing too strange here – not like when I was kid. However…it is the time when I started noticing the “Bad Feeling”. At first I didn’t believe in it…and I chalked it up to pure coincidence. Because people with powers like that were only in anime and comic books or considered ‘crazy’; how could they walk amongst us? And they damn sure wouldn’t show a nigga like me. But I always made it a point to be on the weird kids’ side; the ones who could see what others couldn’t. I never thought they were lying, just wondered which were still sane enough to not do anything negative to me.

But I always wanted to believe that humans were capable of all we claim we are. Ah, the deja vu feelings started here as well. The sudden brow furrow and swift look around of surroundings as things ‘play out’ around you while thinking and saying simultaneously (oftentimes to yourself) “I’ve seen/been/done this before….somewhere…” Things would go missing around my house all the time and me and my siblings always fought over things like that.

College Years

Mary Jane is known as a spiritual herb – both now and throughout history. I was always comfortable around it growing up and dabbled a bit in high school; college is where I really expanded my mind for the first time. For some it’s a hobby, others as medicine – my usage of it definitely swings toward the ‘latter’ since I didn’t know that I was using it to self-medicate my Existential Depression until this year (2017).

College is where my ‘intuition’ started coming into fruition and the place where people started noticing my ‘Light’. It’s also where I first got enlightenment of the 5 realms (thanks Dr. English!).

The first time I actually started ‘sensing the others’ was when I was on study abroad in Japan (yes, I was there during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami) – there was a graveyard hidden in a forest near the apartment I was staying in. They felt a bit forgotten but they were nice and protected the ones around them, so I made them a promise to come back and give them some flowers the next time I return to Nagoya (I will).

Young Adult (Post-Graduation)

Everything changed when I got to Japan.

Everything.

(end of Part 1)

SR

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