Intuition

Have you ever had one of the gut feelings when you meet someone or go somewhere? How about smelling flowers or some other scent that wasn’t there? Feeling a cool breeze when no breeze is present? All of these can be signs of clairsentience or clear feeling. Dogs seem to have amazing clairsentience-they pick up on a person’s or place’s vibe and either like or dislike them. There are a lot of people or places that give people the heebie jeebies or bad vibes.

My aunt wore a very distinct fragrance, Giorgio, for years. It was definitely her scent, like mine is a patchouli hippie dippie one. I used to pick on her about it because it was so strong. To be honest, after she passed away in 1989, I lost track of whether or not it’s still manufactured. Every so often, I can be somewhere and I get a whiff of it. Same with certain food smells-just out of a clear blue sky. I know a lot of police officers who call clairsentience their spidey sense. It’s like they are tuning into some cosmic radio and can sense things that others don’t.

I have a lot of clairsentient ability. There are situations that I have been in that I got one of those gut feelings that this was just bad news. The problem for me was I ignored those feelings or discounted them, and as a result, had a negative outcome. Sometimes I get that feeling that something bad is going to happen, and it does. I’m not predicting the future, I just get that spidey sense. It’s the same when I go certain places. I can walk into a place and my head will spin or I will feel nauseous. Even creepier are the times I feel I am being bathed in incredible sadness. I used to volunteer as a docent at the Washington Pavilion’s Visual Arts Center. One time I was leading a school group through a particular gallery and I felt like I was walking into a wall of sadness. I had never felt anything like that before. I was telling this story at my book group one night a few years later and someone told me that allegedly that was where a worker during the renovation was killed. Whatever the case, I didn’t like going into that particular space after my incident.

As I trust my gut more, I am avoiding a lot of negative things happening in my life. It may be I am picking up on warning signs of trouble, or it can be I just tune into my spidey sense. The Big Man still thinks that I am nuts, but I usually am not wrong.