Friday, May 30, 2025

The spiritual sixth-sense

I've never had many supernatural experiences in my life. The only two that might qualify were when I was a child. I tend to think children are naturally more sensitive to the spirit due to their innocence, which is probably why I experienced them. They were more like spiritual senses than anything, but on opposite ends of the spectrum.

The first occurred when I was really young. It was in the morning; I think I may have been going to daycare. My parent, I can't remember which one, pulled the car out of the driveway with me in the passenger seat. They got out of the car briefly to do something, I don't know what, and left the engine running. I was left alone for a moment, and a strange feeling came over me. It was a sense of urgency, like something was about to happen, but I didn't know what. I have not felt anything like it before or since. Then, suddenly, the car started backing out of the driveway into the street. This, of course, freaked me out. I was too young to know about stepping on the brakes to make it stop. I only knew that it scared me. Luckily, there were no cars coming, and the car gently backed into a chain-link fence and stopped. I believe this was an angel trying to warn me, but I was too young to know what to do with it.

The second one occurred in school; I was maybe in the third grade. This time was darker. I was minding my own business when another strange feeling came over me; it was more like an impulse. I had a sudden, intense urge to jump onto this other kid's back. Mind you, such things were out of character for me. I was a shy kid, and it wasn't in my nature to jump on other kids' backs for no reason. But I acted on the feeling, and unbeknownst to me, he had several sharp pencils in his back pocket pointing up. Luckily, it only left some red welts, and I didn't get into any trouble. In retrospect, I believe this was an evil, mischievous spirit trying to do me harm. And that's it. Not very spectacular, I know, but there it is.