Terry sez: > Are you familiar with the term "walk-in"? (Not referring to any known > hair salon. :)
I wuz wondering when someone would mention the W-I word. Yes, I'm quite familiar with the concept. In fact, I asked my witch doctor if that might have been what happened in my case. Curiously, when the experience happened to me back in my mid 20s it never even once occurred to me to entertain the notion that that might have been what happened. I certainly understood the concept, had read about it in various psychic literature, back then. It wasn't until my late thirties when, suddenly, it hit me like a brick wall, I began to speculate on the W-I notion since it seemed to be an absolute "shoe-in". It wasn't until several years after making that connection that I decided to ask a witch doctor. In my case - apparently not...unless one is willing to entertain the notion that two or three other MAJOR parallel-reality "self(s)" decided that perhaps it might be a good idea to recombine and give little old funky "me", the one in this troubled probable reality, a helping hand. If that WAS the case, I don't recall having to sort through several parallel memory lines to settle on a dominant thread, but perhaps I just chalked it all up to the vagrancies of my memory playing tricks on me. "Wasn't my first volkswagon a blue car? Why does this old photograph show it to be red?" Incidentally, it-is-said that the splitting and merging of parallel realities is actually a very common occurrence, that we ALL go through it numerous times in our lives. So, now everyone has the perfect excuse they were looking for when trying to remember why one's memory seems to be playing tricks on you! ;-) For those who might be curious as to what the term "Walk-In" is in reference to, I give you a short definition. Be warned! >8-0 ... We are now entering to the realms of irrational psychic territory: WALK-IN: A disembodied spirit who makes an agreement to trade places with a spirit currently incarnated in a physical body. According to the lore, there are occasions when it appears to be more expedient to go to the local used car lot and pick out an old clunker, rather than having to break in a brand new auto from scratch. After all, who needs to experience diaper rash if you don't have to. Typically the spirit disembarking is troubled, depressed, or exhausted in some way and needs a rest, or perhaps he/she has accomplished most of what he/she had intended to do, and has subsequently made the decision to "sell" a perfectly useable vehicle that still has several more decades of life left in it. When the title is "sold" the new spirit assumes "ownership" of the car, and typically, (though not necessarily ALL the time) assumes all the memories of the prior individual's vehicle. There tends to be a certain amount of disorientation at first, even a sense of disassociation. After a while, however, things settle down and it's back to business as usual - with a few noticeable twists. Externally, to the rest of the world, the individual typically appears to have gone through some kind of a transformative experience, as if they have taken on a new leaf in life. "What happened to you, Fred? You've changed!" Sometimes, "reentry" can be rough in the sense that one's prior life-style may be completely trashed, or a divorce ensues, or one makes a radical career change. It is assumed that the "purchaser" is someone experienced at purchasing used cars and knows how to drive them off the lot without ramming it into a telephone pole a mere block away. It is said that those adept at assuming the title of used cars are typically older souls who wish to continue working on some kind of life-task. Typically, such "life tasks" have something to do with improving the human condition. Final comment. Obviously, there are no valid statistics on the matter. ;-) Nevertheless, from a strictly subjective POV, I suspect "walk-in" phenomenon may be more common than many might assume... assuming one believes in this stuff. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
