Following Their Intuition Saved Their Lives

Invicta International Airlines Vickers 952 Vanguard

Sometimes an intuitive feeling can save us from danger and, as this post shows, it's important to follow those premonitions, no matter what.

We are turning the clock back to 1973.

It was to be a very special day out for some of the women from Axbridge in Somerset, England. They were about to fly to Basel (sometimes spelt Basle) in beautiful Switzerland. It was all going to be a very memorable occasion: shopping, sightseeing and so on. Women from the Axbridge Ladies Guild and the Congresbury Ladies' Skittle Team had been saving for ages so they could have this quite adventurous day trip. As were many others.

As the day finally approached Madge Pye and Connie Wookey both decided they didn't want to go to Basel. This meant they would both lose their money, so their friends tried hard to persuade them not to miss out. They also had to put up with a lot of playful leg-pulling about why they wouldn't fly - but Madge and Connie stuck to their guns and were adamant that they wouldn't be joining their friends on their special day out.

Connie said about the flight, "Don't ask me why I changed my mind, I just had a funny feeling about the trip. A voice told me to stay home." As for Madge she had a premonition about the flight which was strong enough for her to cancel her booking.

On Tuesday the 10th of April 1973 at 8.30 a.m the flight to Basel took off on time with 148 passengers and crew. A few hours later came news which sent the whole of Axbridge into mourning.

At 10am the pilot, Captain Ivor Terry, flew the plane over the Hericourt radio beacon at an altitude of 7000 feet. This was the final leg of the flight into Basel.

At 10.10am Basel Traffic Control lost contact with the flight, code named Oscar Papa. There was a great deal of turbulence and Oscar Papa dropped through a cloud base into one of the worst blizzards that had been seen for ages.

At 10.18am fire chief Hansreudi Voegtli phoned the airport to say he had heard a plane flying low overhead followed by the sounds of a crash. He was at a small hamlet called Herrenmatt just nine miles from Basel.

The plane had ploughed into a snowy, forested hillside near Basel, somersaulted and broken up. Due to confusion on behalf of the authorities rescue teams took until 12.05 to reach the site of the disaster - which happened just a few hundred yards away from the phone where Hansreudi had made his phone call.

108 of the passengers and crew were killed. In one heart-breaking moment fathers had lost their entire families, scores of children their mothers.

An awful, almost unthinkable, tragedy but somehow the premonitions of Madge Pye and Connie Wookey saved their lives. They listened to their inner voices and were spared.

For more information on the disaster itself see: Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 Disaster and BBC: Memorial Flight.

Photo at top of post of the Invicta International Airlines Vickers 952 Vanguard by Richard Vandervord [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) or CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Basel Photo source

The Dog Who Knew She Was Going To Die

Today's post features several themes I have written about previously: white feathers, butterflies, dog's intuition and signs from those who have passed away.

"A few years ago my mother came to live with me. She was ill and couldn't leave the house. My beautiful Samoyed dog, Diamond, and she became devoted to each other.

In early 2007, Diamond started refusing to go for a walk, which was unusual for her. She would only go into the garden then return to lie near Mum all day.

A few weeks after this began, Mum took a turn for the worse. She died in July of that year.

The next morning Diamond was at the door wanting to go for a walk - something she hadn't done for months. It was as if she'd known that Mum was going to die and wanted to stay with her. When I opened the door, there was a white feather on the step.

I'd read that when a butterfly lands near someone, it's a loved one trying to make contact. When diamond and I reached the garden gate a beautiful red butterfly landed on my dog's head, between her ears, and stayed there for the hour long walk. Diamond didn't mind and it flew away when we reached our gate.

Tears were streaming down my face. I felt sure it was Mum wanting to be close to Diamond and telling her that it was OK now to go for walks.

Over the past few years I've found white feathers in strange places at times that were important dates for Mum."

~ Marian Rusby, Ramsgate.

Other Random Posts:
Miles Of Smiles And The Flap Of A Butterfly's Wing
The Meaning Of White Feathers As Messages From The Dead
The Sixth Sense Of A Dog Who Could Sense Ghosts

The Library Angel And The Game Of Life

I've recently got into the habit of picking a book at random from my office shelves, opening it up and seeing if there is anything relevant for me on the page I've chosen. It's surprising how often there is. Perhaps this is the 'library angel' at work - which Trish & Rob, from Synchrosecrets, have mentioned on their blog several times.

My books cover a range of subjects but there are lots on spiritual, mind and occult themes. So it would be easy to argue that there is a good chance of finding something meaningful. I think, however, it is more than this.

For example, today I chose - with eyes shut - The Game of Life and How to Play it. On page 61 I immediately saw the words 'sixty-seven'. As regular readers may remember these are 'special' numbers in my life - thus one of the reasons for the title of my blog.

This is what I read:

"... God is supply, follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or man is separated from it.

For example: I knew the case of a very rich woman, who hoarded her income. She rarely gave anything away, but bought and bought things for herself.

She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once asked her how many she possessed. She replied, 'Sixty-seven.' She bought them and put them away, carefully wrapped in tissue paper. Had she used the necklaces it would have been quite legitimate, but she was violating 'the law of use'.

Her closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and jewels which never saw the light.

The woman's arms were gradually becoming paralysed from holding on to things, and eventually she was considered incapable of looking after her affairs and her wealth was handed over to others to manage.

So man in his ignorance of the law, brings about his own destruction."

So for me it's now declutter time for my office, and I know my wife will be pleased!

I see choosing a book at random and then a page as a form of intuition. I remember years ago always trying to 'guess' who a letter was from, before it was opened or who was calling when the phone started to ring. I'm sure we can develop intuition if we bother to use it regularly. But, as I mentioned in my post A Power To Give Direct Access To A Superior Knowledge it's also a case - with intuition - of 'use it or lose it.'

Other Intuition Style Posts:
Distinguishing Between False And True Signs
A Child's Precognition Saved His Family From Death
A Power To Give Direct Access To A Superior Knowledge

With Synchronicity And Intuition The Glass Slipper Has To Fit

I feel that with the likes of synchronicity and precognition we sometimes try too hard to make them into a pattern that we ourselves want to recognise. In other words we make the pattern fit to our liking and perhaps ignore or mould other pieces into the shapes that we want.

I see synchronicity and precognition as being more spontaneous. We can tell if it's the real thing by how we ourselves feel. It's intuition if you like, a gut feeling and we should know, absolutely know that whatever we have witnessed or experienced rings true.

Yes, everything is linked: the past, the future, other realms, the living, the dead and so on. But this also makes it possible to be led astray and head for the wrong direction, answer or conclusion - and just because we have insisted that those pieces must fit as per our vanity or ego demands.

There is meaning in everything but the meaning we make fit - like the ugly sisters feet into Cinderella's glass slipper - may not be the whole truth. It's a foot but not necessarily the right foot and fit. It's why cultivating intuition and being guided by our senses is important.

We are all seeking answers but these have be the right ones, the slipper has to fit.

Other Random 67 Not Out Posts:
A Power To Give Direct Access To A Superior Knowldege
How To Recognise A Cosmic Master And His Message
A Message From The Harry Potter Owls

A Power To Give Direct Access To A Superior Knowledge

I remember ages ago, while in the Rosicrucians, being told that man is an intuitive being. It's something that I agree with entirely, though so much of the world mocks such an idea.

When I was managing an office of a finance and loans company they were always sending me on courses where I felt like a fish out of water. At one time the subject was all about recruiting the right staff. I said I used intuition. This caused a massive negative reaction from everyone concerned, it seemed I was on the edge of insanity! They went on to try and explain how to recruit 'properly'. It seems that there is a special formula to follow - but I immediately 'forgot' this once I was back to my office.

Anyway, the following is from my ancient cutting's file.

"Man has within him a latent faculty by means of which he is able to have immediate and direct access to a knowledge that is superior in range and quality to that which he is able to acquire through discursive processes.

While it is true that in most people this intuitive faculty is dormant and needs to be awakened, the potential is there waiting to to be recognised and employed. No doubt one of the most wasteful practices of the average individual is the constant neglect of this inner faculty we call intuition.

Intuition is a natural integral part of man's nature, and it will function freely and effectively if one does not interfere with its performance.

This faculty is generally much more evident in the lives of children than in most adults. This is because intuition is a natural attribute of the inner life which is all too often ignored or stifled as a result of negativism and by squelching opposition from the outside world during years of maturity.

After years of failure to recognise and exercise this capacity for intuition, it becomes dormant. Just as a muscle in a person's arm will tend to become weak through lack of exercise, so will the intuitive faculty lose its strength and effectiveness through continued neglect and inactivity.

When one is caused to realise the inactive status of his intuitive faculty and wishes to reactivate it, he will need to pursue his goal with fixed purpose and constant effort.

When the first efforts are made to restore this hidden power of insight to its proper function in life, its diminished voice is scarcely heard amidst the clamour of the objective world.

As the individual continues to listen and respond to this quiet call, then that which was heard only faintly and indistinctly at the beginning is heard with a constantly increasing degree of clarity.

If we fail to gain that knowledge which is available only through intuition, we deprive ourselves of the highest and most authoritative knowledge."

So there we go: use it or lose it!

Random 67 Not Out Posts:
Are We Simply A Bunch Of Memories?
Avoiding Train Crashes And Other Disasters
Presentiments Sent To Warn And Advise Us

Are We Simply A Bunch Of Memories?

Just a few meandering thoughts today.

I was walking around our garden this morning and I realised it was full of memories. There's Toby's bush, where our border collie is buried; bricks in a flower bed wall which came from Germany - they are from the house where my wife was born; there's Spikey a sharp succulent that our son gave us - and there is a story attached to this about how it was thrown in a river.

And so it goes on. There's the flower bed surrounded by Cornish stone, that was meant to become a fish pond. No matter how I tried: with polythene, barrow loads of cement I couldn't stop it leaking. So it became a slightly raised flower bed instead. And there's a story about a goldfish that goes with the reason as to why I tried to build the pond in the first place.

There's lots more besides, but I won't bore you.

Then I remembered, for some reason, a piece I once wrote about how 'memories are the food stuff of the old'. This got me thinking about memories in general: Is this all we actually are? A bunch of memories?

Even if we believe in a Soul or Spirit, call it as you will, what use is this without memories? If we don't have any stored away moments accumulated over time we, as individuals, don't exist.

If we believe in reincarnation, it's not much superior to an atheist's death if we can't remember past lives. Some will argue that we can remember, of course.

Everything about us is memories: we remember how to walk, talk, do certain things and the experiences make us what we are. There will be good memories and some sad or bad ones as well - and without these we wouldn't be as we are now.

Or maybe there is something more to us. Our intuition, for instance. Has that been learnt and so a stored memory? Or is it something completely different. But even if things like intuition are separate from memory, they are not a lot of use if we don't remember who we are.

I'm actually going to leave the post there as food for thought - at least for me.

Take care of your memories. When your body returns to dust these may be all that exists.

Further Reading:
Prime Your Memory Search Engine
Death Is The Secret Of Life
How To Recognise A Cosmic Master And His Message

Coincidence Near Misses

This blog has published a lot of coincidence or synchronicity examples, some being more impressive than others - but none about the 'near misses.'

By this I mean situations where a coincidence could/should have happened but somehow didn't quite materialise.

As regular readers will know, my wife was recently in Germany visiting her brother who hadn't been too well. While there she also contacted a cousin and paid her a visit. At the cousin's house was also another cousin, who my wife hadn't seen for about twenty years.

On talking to this other cousin they got chatting about travel and holidays and she mentioned how she had been to the Canary Islands this year. My wife told her that we had also been to the Canary Islands.

They then compared notes. It seems we - my wife and I - were in the islands at exactly the same time as this cousin, but there was more to it than this.

We were actually in hotels next to each other, at the same time, and visited many similar places probably on the same days. The cousin even had a drink or two in our hotel.

Somehow though we never all met up. So this was a near miss coincidence.

I got to thinking about this and realised we'd had a few other small near miss coincidences recently. I've been trying to think what this means. Perhaps we've been slightly out of sync or maybe the coincidences didn't happen for some other reason.

Coincidence near misses, of course, may be happening to all of us and we simply aren't aware of them. If only we had been a couple of minutes later or taken a different route and so on, then who knows what we may have experienced.

Perhaps it's a lesson to bring our intuition into play a little more. To ask ourselves what time we should go somewhere or what route to take ...

Who knows what we could be missing out on and what a difference this could make to us. Coincidences or synchronicity can change lives.

Following And Cultivating Intuition

A road I walk most days
I suppose, in a way, this carries on from yesterday's post. I'm not following feathers this time but using intuition instead to guide my morning walk.

I'm a great believer in intuition and relying on feelings when there are decisions to be made. Though this is far from the norm for many people.

When I had a 'proper job 9 to 5' - that was over 15 years ago now - I was a finance manager. At a company seminar I mentioned using intuition. The response I got was unbelievable. I was shot down in flames for mentioning such a thing. It was far removed from company policy to say the least.

Anyway, I digress, a small example of intuition happened this morning on my walk. I was on my way back and for some reason I suddenly had an urge to take a short cut. I usually walk for an hour and this would cut off about 15 minutes.

The sun was shining, and it was lovely out, but I followed my feeling and took the short route towards home. After five minutes my stepson pulled up in his car next to me. We had a chat about various things including my wife being stranded in Germany.

We said goodbye and five minutes later there was my son and his fiance in his car!

If I had taken the longer route I wouldn't have seen either of them today. Intuition, coincidence - call it what you like. It's a useful thing to follow. It can help with little things that enrich the day or really big decisions.

Intuition, I find, is worth cultivating.