Avoiding Train Crashes And Other Disasters

It's interesting that when there is some kind of catastrophe - such as a train crash, Titanic disaster, tsunami and so on - there are always stories about people who should have been involved, perhaps even injured or killed, but for some reason stayed away.

Lyall Watson talks about this in his book Supernature and quotes an American mathematician, William Cox, who completed a survey in an attempt to discover whether people really do avoid travelling on trains which were going to be involved in an accident.

The mathematician collected data on the total number of people on each train, at the time of an accident, and compared these with the number of passengers who travelled on the same train during each of the preceding seven days and on the fourteenth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth day before the accident.

His final results, which covered several years, show that people did in fact avoid accident bound trains. There were always fewer passengers in the damaged and derailed coaches than would have been expected for that train at that time.

The difference between expected and actual number of passengers was so great that the odds against it occurring by chance were over 100 to one.

Okay, as someone or other said: 72.6% of statistics are made up! But it does illustrate that sometimes we may be guided away from events, happenings and people. Oh, and the opposite of course. We are also guided towards 'things'. That is, if we trust our intuition and feelings or anything else in which we believe.

In other words, if something doesn't feel right - don't do it. If it does, go for it!

Quote: Revelations can be simple or complex. They usually carry a special feeling with them; some get goosebumps, tingling or other physical sensations. Sometimes you may have no physical sensations but you feel a mental 'click' as if a piece has just fallen into place. You can receive revelations in many ways - directly into your mind as insights, from reading a book or by hearing something.
Sanaya Roman - Spiritual Growth

Further Reading:
Titanic Coincidences

The Woman Who Communicates With Animals

Pea Horsley, the UK's first professional animal communicator, chats with animals and what's more they reply to her - and she understands what they say!

An example? Okay this happened when she had mice in her kitchen - and you must promise not to giggle.

Pea spotted one of the mice and asked him to come forward for a talk, they had been nibbling at her food. She began by sending him feelings of love and tried to talk to him, but he wasn't listening. He was in fact livid.

Pea said, "I'd like to talk to you about the food you are eating." He screamed at her and then answered, "I'm not going to stop eating! You humans are all the same - you're bullies. You don't care for us. What am I meant to do? It's cold and and I have a family to feed."

Pea told him, "I'm not asking you to stop eating the food; I just want to make a deal with you. I suggest that during the cold months I leave you and your family dog biscuits in a white dish. The rest of the food is out of bounds."

It seems that the mouse agreed to this compromise and all was well within the household.

Now some of what Pea Horsley claims does seem a little hard to believe but she has helped many pet owners. Such as a lady called Celia who's cat Joey had disappeared.

Celia emailed a photo of Joey and, while looking at this, Pea felt a sense of uneasiness and anxiety. She asked, "Are you okay?"

"No, I can't get out," Joey replied.

She asked him where he was and he said he was in the basement by the boiler. Pea asked for more information, "Can you show me more of this place?" She then saw a door and concrete steps. There was a green metal door hinged on the right with a handle on the left. She could see the cat in a dark empty space, lying by a wall and could make out a window with horizontal bars.

All of this information was passed on to Celia and, sure enough, the cat was found exactly as described, after having been missing for six days.

Celia has lots more tales to tell. There's Fred the goldfish who likes rock music, Scopino the tortoise who loves blondes and then there's Mr. Butch the rabbit with attitude!

As to whether you believe Pea Horsley or not is up to the individual but Pea says, "My journey into animal communication has brought me the very thing the soul longs for - intimacy - and I feel my life is so much richer for it because, in the end, connection is what life is all about."

"... connection is what life is all about" ... now that makes sense.

Pea's Book
Amazon US: Heart to Heart by Pea Horsley
Amazon UK: Heart to Heart by Pea Horsley

Date Coincidence At The Hospital

I had to go for a pre-operation assessment at the hospital today (August 29th).

The clinical nurse asked me loads of questions for the paperwork and on each form she wrote down today's date incorrectly.

She laughed and said words to the effect, "I don't know what's wrong with me today. I keep wanting to write 28/3 (how we write 28th of March in the UK) wonder why that is?"

"That's because it's my wife's birth date," I replied.

Karin was waiting for me anxiously in the waiting room.

Everything has a reason.

Teaching A Dog To Read On A Bank Holiday

How doth the Banking Busy Bee Improve his shining Hours? By studying on Bank Holidays Strange insects and Wild Flowers!
It was a public holiday yesterday (Monday Aug 27) in the UK, though we call them 'Bank Holidays'. We have to thank John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury for this time off work.

It was because of Lubbock, a Member of Parliament, that the very first British Public Holiday was given back in 1871. It was, and is, a day when even the British banks close.

But not many people have ever heard of John Lubbock (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), even though he was an interesting chap - who even taught his dog to read!

He was born into a banking family, and worked in banking besides being a Member of Parliament. His interests were varied and included entomology, botany, biology, archaeology, and ethnography. One of his mentors from childhood was Charles Darwin.

Lubbock saved Stonehenge! In the late 1800s a railway company wanted to run a railway with tracks right next to the stones. Lubbock put a stop to this, and it's horrific to think what might have happened without his intervention. Luckily he was interested in ancient civilisations and actually created the words 'neolithic' and palaeolithic.'

As for his dog that could read: he was sure that his dog, Van, was as intelligent as any child so he set up some experiments.

First he attached cardboard with the word 'FOOD' to Van's empty food dish. To get his meal Van had to take the cardboard to Lubbock. This went on successfully for several weeks.

Lubbock then hid the dog's dish and instead left ten pieces of cardboard each bearing a different word including, written on one card, FOOD. Van was able to select the right word to enable him to get his dinner.

Once Van had fully mastered this Lubbock taught him WATER, BONE and TEA. This moved on to OUT for when the dog wanted his daily walk. Sadly his dog died and his replacement was unable to repeat Van's success.

Lubbock kept bees in his sitting room - they had access through an open window - and also an ants nest in a glass case to observe insect behaviour.

The Victorian era is often much maligned in history but it created some interesting, pioneering individuals who altered Great Britain for the better in many ways - and perhaps had an influence on the rest of the world too.

Lubbock was interested in the average workers. One of his aims was 'to secure same additional holidays and to shorten hours of labour.'

Wonder where the politicians are today with such fervour and aims? I don't see too many about at the present time. In the UK the top echelons are filled with cloned posh boys with little knowledge of the real world. But once they retire, like Tony Blair and his missus for instance, they suddenly know how to cash in - ker-ching!

P.S. The verse about Lubbock at the top of the post was from Punch magazine in 1882.

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The Mars Curiosity UFO Photos Plus A Pinch Of Salt

Nothing too serious today. I was looking at the NASA web site and saw the photo below - this is the link. It is from a selection of raw images sent back from Mars by Curiosity.

There is something - a small dot - in the sky, which I have circled in the second photo.

And if I enlarge the image, as per the photo on the right it has a definite shape.

The technical, official answer is that these are simply dead pixels on the imager. But if we want to float off into conspiracy land then they would say this, wouldn't they?

I did a bit of a search on Google and I found that the Daily Mail had similar images of something which seemed to be heading across the Mars sky.

As the pics are by NASA I understand that they are in the public domain, so here they are below. If you look closely there is a white dot that starts about an inch from the left of the top photo and gradually 'moves' across the horizon to the right when we reach the bottom photo.  Obviously more dead pixels!

Click on the photos to make them bigger.

Okay, the thought of UFOs over Mars may be taken with a pinch of salt, but there again who knows ...

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The Aircraft Swallowed By A UFO Mystery Updated
The Bizarre UFO Mystery And a Man Found Dead

Big Foot Spotted With Loch Ness Monster!

It had to happen one day, didn't it? Big Foot has been snapped riding the Loch Ness Monster!

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Lessons On Faith And Life In A Phone Call

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple, North West London

I was on the phone to Luke last night, who lives in north-west London. We got talking about religions and the like.

He told me how his father, Matthew, had Hindu leanings, though born into a Christian family. This came about because of his life long interest in yoga.

Luke and his father didn't see very much of each other in his early life and they only really got to see each other after Matthew had become terminally ill.

Matthew lived on the south coast of England and was determined to go and see his son in London so, despite his poor health, he went by coach on a day trip. He had faith that he would make the journey safely, which he did.

Towards the end of his visit he told Luke that he would like to visit the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple which is in north west London. Luke told him that they wouldn't have time as he would miss his coach. Matthew insisted they would have time, so off they went despite Luke's reservations.

The temple is quite a spectacle, the carved pieces that make its entirety were carved in India and then shipped over to London.

Luke and Matthew viewed the temple though Luke was anxious about them missing the coach. Matthew again insisted they would have time - and had absolute belief in this.

Being familiar with the London traffic conditions Luke thought they would never get the coach connection at Victoria. When they were ready to leave the temple, they had just over twenty minutes to make the journey. "Have faith," said Matthew, "We will get the coach okay."

In Luke's words the journey to Victoria was 'almost creepy'. Every traffic light was on green and they sailed on through the traffic without any hold ups.

They made it to the coach station but were still a few minutes later than the coach's departure time. Again Matthew assured Luke everything would be okay.

They went to the pick-up point and the coach was just pulling in to pick up passengers. It had been delayed by about five or ten minutes. "I told you we would make it," said Matthew, "Have faith."

This was the last time Luke saw Matthew alive and he is still amazed about the faith his father had that he would make his coach connection. He 'knew' he would make it on time.

By the end of my phone conversation with Luke I felt I had been reminded of several lessons of life.

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