The Premonition

How would you feel, if someone reasonably close to you informed you that they had been having repeated dreams about your dying? That's exactly what happened to me yesterday. My mother-in-law told me that she's been having these dreams recently on a regular basis and what is troubling to her is that now this premonition has been coming to her when she is awake. She was able to say that it pretty much happens the same way, each time and that it happens at my workplace.

The interesting thing about all of this is that recently I too have been having a vague feeling of something could happen to me. I didn't bother to discuss it with anyone, assuming that it was the normal stress of my job and reality that I deal with a section of the population that are in some instances gang members and prone to violence, not just suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction. At the same time I don't consider myself a superstitious person and so bypassed my own intuition/feelings, but one of my close friends began talking to me about premonitions, describing how he listened to "a voice" that cautioned him to be "careful" and avoid a situation wherein one of his friends had in-fact died where he might have met the same end, given the nature of the accident. Buddistically I am very aware sometimes in practice clairvoyance or premonition is a "by-product" of training. Often as one progresses in their practice and their mind changes frequency you can sort-of hear... see... things that the normally unfocused, distracted mind cannot.

I asked my mother-in-law why she was telling me about the dream and what she thought. She stated "by knowing, I believe negative things like this can be prevented." I suppose premonition is like a fork in the road and gives one an opportunity to give things more consideration that usual.

While I was sitting this morning what came to mind was, "Whether tomorrow or the next life, which comes first? We really don't know." Another expression that bubbled to the surface was, "The causes of death are many, yet the causes of life are very few." So what am I to do?

In all honesty I'm not sure what my actual response to all this will be. Debra and I have talked a little bit about it, mainly because the interaction with her mother was so direct and the thought so unnerving. I expect that I'm going to have to go at some point, I just don't think of it as being around the corner.

Namaste'

Jaye Morris, Curator
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