Miraculous Encounters

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On two previous occasions in 2008 and 2009, during periods of stress, I have experienced events in the physical world that I am unable to explain according to the causal paradigm as understood by science. In other words, these events appeared to happen without cause. Believers in the human-centred model of psychokinesis (PK) will argue that somehow my emotional (stressed) state 'caused' these events to happen at that time. However, the reason I feel unhappy with this explanation is that behind these events (particularly in the second case below) there seemed to be the work of some kind of intelligence. There was certainly a correlation with my stressed state, but I am unhappy with the explanation that I directly 'caused' these events to occur. It felt more like something was trying to communicate with me during these episodes of personal stress. In other words, these events were imbued with a sense of personal meaning and were another form of meaningful coincidence.

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The Tap Dance

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One day in Autumn 2008, while I was working in my own business in Crystal Palace, southeast London, I was feeling particularly stressed. To try to calm down, I walked to the rear of the shop and turned on the cold tap to full flow in a sink at the rear of the premises. I started to stare at the water and as I was doing so the flow decreased down to a slow trickle and then reverted back to full flow over a couple of seconds. There was no logical reason why the water flowing from the tap should have behaved in that way, there were no plumbers visiting and there was no problem with the water supply. It felt as though something was intervening in my physical reality. However, with the shock of what I was seeing, the immediate effect was to calm me down and make me less stressed.

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The Ideal Shamrock

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On one day in Spring 2009, I decided to take a day trip to the town of Brighton on the south coast of England to give me some space to think about a few things. At one point, I was walking along the Brighton beach when I received a phone call which I found quite stressful at that time. Following a fairly short and heated conversation I decided to go into a pub close to the seafront to order a pint of Guinness. After ordering, I collected the beer and went to sit at a table outside. As I was looking at the head of the beer a shamrock mysteriously appeared. It was perfectly formed, almost like a ‘platonic’ ideal shamrock, and was made up of different sized bubbles that graded from largest at the centre to finest on the edge. The person at the bar certainly did not put it there, and it was unlike any irregular ‘human-created’ shamrock I had previously seen on the head of a pint of Guinness. It was actually very beautiful, and I can quite honestly say that I have seen nothing like it before or since. I also think it says something that this event has remained clear in my mind for so many years.

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Muscular Pulses fasciculations)

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By early Summer 2009, I started to notice unusual muscular pulses in various parts of my body. These were not regular spasms in a particular place in my arm or leg, but they would occur as one-off pulses, or maybe double pulses and they would happen in places all over my body. There would also be occasions when I would feel my finger straightening as if by itself (i.e., there seemed to be periods when my fingers were not completely under my conscious control, as if something else was causing them to move). These muscular effects still happen to this day and often at times of personal meaning. In 2019, I started regularly recording exactly when the pulses happened, where on my body they were located, and what I was doing at the time. I kept a detailed record for almost a year of these occurrences, and still record other significant occasions, a selection of which are given below:

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25th June 2019: 7.20pm: Strong pulse in right thigh when I said 'God' in exasperation at something.

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16th August 2019: 10.05pm: Returning from a day trip to Cambridge. Get a pulse in my left thigh at the same time as an audible creak in the train between Tottenham Hale and London Liverpool Street stations.

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1st September 2019: 6.24pm: Reading The Science of Storytelling (Storr, 2019). At 8% into the ebook I get a pulse in my right tricep at the line: 'Religious people have apparent visitations.’

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29th December 2019: 6.46pm: Watching a video entitled Project Deep Quest (Schwartz, 2019). At 10:19 into the video, the thumb of my left hand twitches (I have my left hand semi-supporting my right arm under the elbow) at the shot of the submarine hydraulic arm and at the line: 'So I said well OK, and I extended my articulated manipulator and dug it into the bottom and pulled out the first artifact.’

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1st January 2020: 12.02pm: Reading Synchronicity & You (Joseph, 1999). On p.119, I get a quick double-pulse in my left tricep at the line: 'While the narrator stood in front of the cameras, on the very premises of Jung's Swiss home, lightning struck the same garden where the tree had been formerly located, followed by a dramatic roll of thunder.’

 

12th June 2021: 10.45am: Reading an article on the Psychology Today website (Levoy, 2017). At the line: 'This was orchestrated by something with wits.', I get a couple of pulses in my left tricep.

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18th April 2022: 1.09pm: Watching The Prime Reality of Second Sight: Making Wyrd Less Weird (Bricklin, 2022) on YouTube. At 1:45:14 into the presentation I get an obvious single pulse in my left thigh at the line: 'You are not bound by sensory experiences, but by fixation on them...Sensory appearances and consciousness of them are of one taste in nondual unity'.

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To discount any neurological issues, since I am also a type-1 diabetic and I thought that the pulses might be due to some form of diabetic neuropathy, I consulted my doctor to ensure there was nothing physiologically wrong with me. I was referred to a neurologist for an electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction study on 31st December 2019. The results from those studies showed that I have no adverse neurological symptoms – my muscles and nervous system are functioning correctly. For the lack of any better explanation, I was diagnosed with ‘benign fasciculations’, though that doesn’t really explain why these things seem to happen at times of personal meaning

 

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Erratic Electronics

 

I have noticed unusual phenomena associated with my personal computer, mobile phone, and electronic communications. One way this has manifested itself is as incorrect device locations. To give a recent example, when I was setting up this website and accessing it from my mobile phone to check the layout, my website analytics said that I was accessing the site from Edinburgh, 400 miles away from where I was actually located, in London. The problem with such occurrences is that it is impossible to discount 'natural' computer glitches or, perhaps in certain limited cases, hacking, so I don't currently place too much emphasis on these events as possible 'paranormal' phenomena. In other words, there may be a logical explanation for these glitches (though the location facility on my mobile phone is usually very accurate). So, while I won't dwell on every one of these electronic events, I will mention here any cases that seem to be more definitively 'paranormal':

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16th April 2022: 4.27pm:  During a quiet period at work I am reading a book called Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion by Darren W. Ritson (2021). On p.134, while reading the line: 'What happened next was intriguing', the screensaver on the company laptop flicks from black 'sleep' screen to a screensaver picture without me touching it. This only usually happens when keys are pressed or the mouse is moved. In this case it happened without me touching the computer and while I am looking at the laptop out of the corner of my eye. I later try deliberately knocking the desk but it doesn't cause the picture screensaver to activate. The section of the book immediately following the line quoted above involves a synchronicity of two fires described during a telephone conversation.

 

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