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The other day, friend of mine told me about an experience he’s been having with this female spirit that he ‘dreams’ of several times now and then, that seems she’s trying to communicate with him. In his latest experience, he fell out of bed which naturally woke him up, but he soon discovered that he was only dreaming that he fell out of bed and woke up because when he opened his eyes he was still lying in bed. He tries to first find logical explanations for this and that first, which is good, because even I practice that to help keep my balance – one foot on the ground. Now like I previously said, we are each created of a physical and spiritual self, and when we are in a rested state, it’s not always hard to experience something of the spiritual once in a while because your physical self is asleep, leaving your spirit to experience ‘something’. Not saying this is his case, but sometimes when you’re experiencing a spiritual experience, long story short, say his case, it could very well be ‘his spirit’ that fell out of bed, not his physical that was still asleep on the bed. When we are rested, sometimes we reach that special level that bridges our physical awareness with the spiritual, and sometimes it’s a really weird and sometimes uncomfortable experience, making you feel like you can’t move because a spirit is holding you down, or you can even see the person sleeping next to you, you’re looking around in the room you’re resting in and everything is clear, crisp, and bright (and sometimes very quiet), all of which are common experiences of that bridge, or (ahem) “connection” that enabled you to experience. Certainly not everything that may seem to be a spiritual experience is a spiritual experience. But if you’re experiencing something like my friend that seems out of the ordinary, try allowing yourself to ‘go along’ with what you’re experiencing – as an “observer” - just to see what’s happening and what it’s about, IF you want to, taking baby steps. Again, always start off as an “observer” and know that you have your own control over your own self and what you want to believe or not believe. Maybe you prefer to spend your time trying to dig for physical logic and certainly nothing’s wrong with that, but then the question comes down to what do YOU personally consider to be valuable – to spend all that time hunting high and low, and left and right for answers and explanations, or do you value what experiences may be there for you to learn from? These are two very different levels, and no matter which you personally value is by any means grounds for criticisms because we are all different and we are all on different levels.Because of our personal hang-ups inside ourselves that we haven’t found peace with, we foolishly place judgments other people’s business of what they do and why, when it’s really none of anyone else’s business because in reality, we all have very limited information about any other person, whether it’s someone very close to you, your spouse, family member, kids, etc, and why I say that is because while you think you may know so much about another person, realistically you do not, simply because there are WAY too many factors that you cannot know and do not know – physically and spiritually – all that has contributed to molding a person the way he or she is today. It’s easy for us to bitch and vent, but let’s all try to remember our time here is short, so try to live and do things in life that make you feel happy and sometimes do things to make others happy. And while we cannot always live under the rainbow like that, if you feel like doing the negative from time to time, fine, that’s your kuleana... just don’t involve other people.

Several years ago, I found myself walking around somewhere one night. Walking past what looked like a public hall or room with a bench, sat a man with a dark blue hoodie. I walked past him and was stunned to see it was “Tupac”. Yeah, the famous rapper, "Tupac Shakur"… of all the spirits to run into. “Why him” was the million dollar question. I mean why not Elvis, of all people, right? He was just sitting there, hanging out. Then he looked up at me and humbly said, “Hi.” I said the same and we just small talked. What I found unpleasantly surprising was that he ‘smelled’; not the B.O. type smell from not using deodorant, but more like he hadn’t had a bath for several days kind of smell. But what I did find that was very pleasant was his humbleness, and that he was a really nice person, something I didn’t expect from a ‘gangster’. If I had to sum him up in one word, it would definitely be “mellow”. Hands down. Before I left, he asked if I wanted to ‘go to the movies’ with him one day. In my mind I thought, ‘whaaaat??’ but to be polite, I just said, “I’ll have to see,” but really, l don’t think so. If I can help it, I don’t want to put myself in any awkward position, and frankly, although I know he’ll be more of a gentleman, I just didn’t feel comfortable about the idea, so nuh-uh. If you read my post that was the latest visit (update) to “The House Where Evil Dwells”, in it, I mentioned how the common ground on the spiritual side is like a flip side of this side except this and that, well there are spirits that enjoy doing things that they used to do here, whether working in a job they enjoyed, shopping (shopping but not needing money!), whatever, all the happy and enjoyable things. So going to the movies is something that is accessible over there too. Anyway, since that experience, I thought a lot about why in the world would I experience him of all people. I enjoy a few of his ‘songs’ but that wouldn’t even warrant even seeing him on the other side from afar. The only thing I knew was that I experienced him for ‘some reason’. Never knew why for about 2 years, until one day I was on the phone talking stories with my son who lives in Las Vegas, and then he started talking about Tupac. Long story short, I had no idea that for years, Tupac was his favorite rapper and that he knew a lot about Tupac because he always felt spiritually connected to him. And I told him, “NO WONDER!” and told him, “You’ll never guess what happened,” and told him about the experience I had, running into Tupac – of all people. Needless to say, he was tripping out, and for me, I felt like I had that mystery on the backburner for a long time, and now that mystery was solved. Case closed.He mentioned seeing some biography and reading some book about Tupac where he claimed himself to be very spiritual and connected with himself, also knowing that he was going to die before too long and how (if my memory is correct). I know right… a spiritually connected person who lived the kind of life he did…? How’s that? Well, everyone has their lineup of experiences that influences how a person is molded – how he thinks, how he feels, and what he does or doesn’t do. Experiences encountered in life ‘conditions’ a person to be who and what he is today, and not condoning the kind of life he apparently lived as a ‘bad boy’, you can still have your personal connection with inner yourself – your spirit – when you’re in your own private space and alone time away from the world. Also, people need to experience certain experiences in order to see or realize ‘something’. Here’s an example that can help shed better light on what I mean; my mom used to sometimes say, “Sometimes you have to experience the bad to appreciate the good.”

Of All People...

Years ago I experienced one of those “night visitors”. One night at home, I noticed there was this wicked looking lady outside across the street in the tree. She wasn’t young, she wasn’t old, just wicked looking with long, kind of wild hair. This happened during my beginning years of my ‘spiritual journey’ so when I saw her outside in the tree, I figured she was just hangin’ out and didn’t concern myself with her. What a mistake.Sometime after falling asleep, I suddenly woke to that lady sitting on me by my stomach area, bouncing up and down, causing me to suffer in agony with the weight and all. It was hell. In the midst of that agonizing experience, I thought, where the hell are my ‘spirit guides’ when you need em, but quickly thought that I’ll think about that later because I’m being terrorized and tortured by this spirit and I’m lying there, suffering. Because I know experiences like these are “spiritual experiences” and not a physical one, all I had to do was to was realize that and immediately I able to move, and I swung my right arm up to grab her by the hair to yank her off me so I could get up, and right away she disappeared and it was over. I felt, like ‘shucks’ because I wanted my chance to get back and spirits like these because I’ve heard quite a number of people that become victims to this kind of horrifying and oftentimes torturing experience, and what, she disappeared. And needless to say, I also felt relieved too. Well, the next day, I told my spirit guides, “Gee THANKS for last night uh??” Long story short, they cannot always ‘catch my back’ all the time because certain things I have to experience to learn and know. So okay, I can accept that. Still, for all those people that fell victim to these negative spirits, some repeatedly, I felt the need to counter what is expected and “get em” so I tracked that ‘night visitor down’ and when I did, I saw that she wasn’t that far away, and she was like a… how can I explain, looking like those women back in Salem, Massachusetts days…? Not saying she was a witch but just going by the style clothing. (I’ll look online if I can find a dress similar to what this spirit I saw was wearing.) Anyway, she was surprised I was able to track her down, and the surprising part was that she began changing a little, into a less wild looking lady, and I could tell that she was a pretty lady with long black hair, and why she became like that in spirit is because of all what she had to endure from others when she was physically alive and because her experiences was bad, she harbored those feelings in her spirit and wouldn’t let go of it. And, I guess after what she did to me and seeing that I could have had her put where she belongs but instead had compassion for her, she began letting go of her negative feelings and her appearance began changing. It’s like being in that locked mode where all you see is ‘red’ until something/somebody causes you to blink. Soon after, she sincerely apologized and just let her go on her way, just being glad that she was a peace now, and that was one less ‘night visitor’. Since that first experience with a ‘night visitor’ – I guess in my case – a “pressing spirit” that was a good 16 years ago, I’ve been fortunate to be attuned to such spirits ahead of time (knock-knock-knock), like I was that first time but didn’t know, because since then, I came across, maybe 5-6 spirits out there in the vicinity, waiting for the right moment, and I’d tell my spirit guide(s) just to let them know that I see them (cause my guides aren’t ‘always’ with me) and they’re taken away and I sleep with no ‘night visitors’. Thank god.Now for those of you out there that have experienced spirits like these, whether during the day or night, whether just once, more than once, repeatedly, or never did but hoping you’ll never, always remember what I said, that those kinds of experiences are “spiritual experiences” not a physical experience, that’s howcome you cannot move because your physical body is asleep and it might seem like you’re conscious because you are conscious, just that your conscious awareness has become your spirit’s conscious awareness – you are seeing, hearing, and experiencing from your spirit self not your physical – so if you can get that straight then you’ll be able to be the “controller” and not fall helplessly to these types of spirits. See, these spirits know just when to catch you and how because they know that physical people are not accustomed, practically at all, to even their own spiritual awareness and connection, and that puts ‘you’ at their advantage. Some of those spirits are there to vent their negativity by terrorizing you, drain you of your spirit energies for their own, while some just love the experience of being in control of you. Hopefully you won’t ever experience these ‘visitors’ but it’s always good to keep this tip I’m sharing with you on your mental ‘back burner’ because you will never know if and when they’ll be coming around to visit you, but if they do, you’ll know how to take the control. Like on the physical side, say you’re lying in bed or just resting, and somebody comes up to you and just starts slapping you, jumping on you, choking your neck, whatever… and you’re just lying there like a dummy – literally, like a lifeless dummy. Unless you’re physically paralyzed, even the gentlest people cannot just lie there without moving to block or even fend off in some way, right? Then why would you spiritually, cause that’s exactly how it is with your spirit self, so take your control and FIRST recognize and realize that to be a “spiritual experience” and whether you believe that it is a spiritual experience or not, play-the-part, and do what you have to do to get that spirit to back off, whether you want to just move to consciously come back to your physical awareness, whether you want to shove them off or away from you, or just smack em one, do it. It’s not being negative, it’s defending your attacker in a non-malicious way, even if it is spiritual, and that may very well teach them not to come around you a second time too. You just do what comes naturally to you, whatever it is. If you can remember that go with that flow, you will be able to best take your own control over such spirits and bring yourself out of it. I will note that sometimes, these type experiences where you’re ‘at least’ being in that state of paralysis but not being terrorized by a negative spirit, like seeing your surroundings, hearing your surroundings, everything may look bright even if it’s night, etc., or even seeing a non-threatening spirit in the room but you cannot move, whether it’s an experience with any of that as well as, like with a choking ghost, say, this is a state of your physical self being one-step or two down from being in full conscious control and your spirit is the one being in the limelight, so to speak. Physically, you must have established a certain level of relaxation that enabled you to – knowingly or unknowingly – achieve a connection with your own spirit on a certain level, enough to experience ‘something’ quite out of the every day. And just as I mentioned above, remember that it’s a “spiritual experience” not a physical one, and go with the flow if you are comfortable with it. Never force yourself with anything in life if you’re feeling uncomfortable, physically or spiritually, unless of course, you have no choice. Practice good judgment. I know some of you might be thinking that a spirit is not of ‘material matter’ where your spirit can, say ‘hit’ another spirit and that other spirit will feel it, but ‘can’. If it was your physical to a spirit, cannot because there would be no common ground, that connection, but if you’re both on the same level, whether physical to physical or spirit to spirit, oh yeah, that’ll be on the same level – eye to eye – and what one does to the other, that other will experience. Matter-to-matter. Same, same. And since we’re on this subject, howcome then, can spirits move physical objects, for example? It’s because, like I said, anything to do with the spiritual has to have some kind of connection, like for spirits to move physical objects, it’s done from the spirit having some connection with the place or environment, and/or even the person(s) involved, where they are able to connect and harness that energy (that is mainly physical energies) and there you have it, physical movement by the unseen. Now even with the strongest spirit trying to exhibit its power on the physical level, it’s not a consistent exhibition because the spirit may be on the physical side but it’s not OF the physical side and need breaks to refuel then put on their show again, so to speak. This is why even with spiritual possessions, say, the invading spirit as well as the exorcists work at each other in spurts or phases because they have to take time out to gather and harness their strength to battle each other, again, because they are not OF the same side. Each party has a connection to the other, which is how and why the battle can take place and become affected because the evil spirit is using what connection it has to the person it has possessed and/or if the spirit has a connection to the place, as well as the exorcist(s) being physical people but having a “spiritual connection”. If both parties were OF the same side, there wouldn’t have to be time out sessions. So now can you better understand that when I bring forth my spirit, venture out there and encounter other spirits, it is possible for me to interact with them the same way as you would physically interact with others you encounter because on the physical side, we interact with our likeness, physical-to-physical. Spiritually, though I’m still physically ‘alive’, by bringing my spirit forth, interacting with them is made possible because that level is same… spirit-to-spirit.Again, thanks for being patient with my postings. I cannot always find the time to get them posted here as often as I would like to, and try to take a ‘rush advantage’ of when I am able to, which is why I find it more important to just get them posted here and not spend the time checking over and watching what is grammatically correct and within the proper writing guidelines. Why I find that way to be most important is because with my many years of journeying down my spiritual path, while there is always more to learn, I’ve reach a point of fulfillment inside of me from those years of so many experiences that I just cannot cover in what remaining years I have left (no, I’m not THAT old) but I gotta tell you that, virtually 99% of the spiritual is not what I expected or could even imagine – at all. Growing up, I’ve always felt a connection with the spiritual side but couldn’t connect the dots to gain the understanding ‘to’ connect the dots to see the big picture. My spiritual story is very long, and many times – just like our physical experiences - it wasn’t easy, and long story short, I just want to share with you what I experienced instead of hoarding it to myself. And really, it doesn’t matter to me if you believe me or not, think I’m “nuts”, or think that I’m looking for recognition and fame, because I’m not that type of person – just ask people who know me, including the more prominent folks in our local paranormal community. They’ll tell you that I’m a “homebody”, and that’s been true - I’m just a mom with three grown kids and a rather young “gwamma” of three young grandchildren also with an 8 year old niece that oftentimes want to come and take over my weekends with sleepovers. I just feel good sharing what I experienced with you, that's all.Oh, I haven’t forgotten about sharing my next big story about my experiences at "H3". I shouldn’t have posted what experience I’m working on next because that one is a kinda long story (and I know you’re catching on by now that I don’t know how to leave a short story, short) but I’m new to this side of the website because I never thought I’d be sharing my experiences with you here online, so I will be making changes and adjustments now and then but later on when time permits, to better this side of the website. So meantime, I took down the “H3” story coming up next because I could be posting up other smaller stories than that one first to keep you from waiting too long for the next post, like this one, being that one I’ll be taking more time to write the H3 story being I'll have to think back and remember what I experienced years ago at that place and on up to the more recent times. But I will get to it. Anyway, feel free to drop me an email anytime to comment or let me know if you like or don’t like, “The Other Side of Haunted Hawaii”, if you understand or don’t understand, or if you have a particular question or two, I would enjoy hearing from you! Meantime, I hope you’re enjoying all this because I know, if not yet, right here in “The Other Side of Haunted Hawaii” you will find definitely find “something”.

The Night Visitor

Almost forgot. Here's a picture I found that resembles my "night visitor" after she was "transformed" to her better self. Before then, she looked so negative she looked like an old hag. I added in the crisscross ties around the waist. My night visitor had a white top with puffed sleeves, a black corset, and long red skirt, fuller than the one pictured. (Note: All my images found here are clickable to its rightful link.)

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