How Did He Know?
Sometime ago, I asked whether people believed in the afterlife, and other things supernatural, and I went on to tell a little story that sounded puzzling. Its that time again. Let me ask you this. Do you believe in people who can see things. For instance, they can see the future, or they can see what happened to someone who has gone missing? Or do you view this gift of clairvoyance as being just so much shit?
Yesterday I took MBJr. to visit a cousin of his. I sat for a while with my aunt who was telling me some stories of family members who have long since died.
She was telling me about her mom’s brother, who went away to sea serving on a ship. He was not heard from for quite a number of years. A number of years passed, and one day she was talking with her husband about how he had disappeared. She asked him what steps could be taken to find out where he was or what might have happened to him. Her husband told her that he thought it pointless to try to find out because so much time had passed, and no one had heard anything from him, and they didn’t even know where he had gone. “Its pointless.” he said. “He must have died, or else he would have contacted us by now!”.
Still Granma never gave up hope. Eventually, World War II started, and one day, a clairvoyant passed through the town and put on a show, not unlike some of those we view on cable nowadays. During this show, Granma apparently passed a note down to the stage asking the clairvoyant if he could tell her the whereabouts of her brother. He read the note without knowing who it came from, then he announced that the person who had written it should contact a man living in Los Angeles by the name of Abe Brandt for information pertaining to the writer’s brother.
Granma went home and told her husband what the clairvoyant had said, but he pooh-poohed the idea, and so no action was taken.
Soon after, a lawyer from Los Angeles named Abe Brandt contacted the Records Office in Jamaica, seeking to find out if her brother was indeed a Jamaican citizen. Apparently her brother had been living in Tahiti, and when hostilities (WWII, remember) broke out, he had been arrested and held as an illegal alien who might have been on the side of the enemy.
He had given his name and nationality, and they were investigating the veracity of his statements. Unfortunately his birth certificate merely stated that a male child had been born to our great-grandparents. The Jamaican Records office therefore contacted Granma for her to verify that she had indeed had a brother with the same name this man said he was, and she also had to get depositions from people who had been neighbours of their family who could attest to the fact that the un-named male infant of the birth certificate had indeed been named Alvin, which was her brother’s name. As a result, Granma was able to free her brother from jail.
So, what do you think about the whole clairvoyance thing now, huh? How could the clairvoyant have known about this lawyer, Abe Brandt. He didn’t even know who gave him the note… What do you think?
BTW, I am verrryyy happy with the activity over at the Tower of Babel. Y’all should check it out.
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Who knows?
But I’m not really one to subscribe to the ‘reading’ or clairvoyance suppem. Maybe I doubt too much.
Divine inspiration perhaps?
I wouldn’t rule it out. I know that the FBI and many other organizations use psychics, so who am I to call BS? I actually have a pretty open mind about stuff like this. It’s hard not to believe in hauntings and ghosts and such if you’ve ever been to New Orleans. So, I guess psychics aren’t out of the realm of possibility either. I do maintain, however, that most of the ones you see at the fair or whatever are just full of it.
I believe that they are people who can “see” things. They are definitely not the average person however. I am not sure that I’d like to have that “gift” either. But sometimes, there are just no rational explainations.
well, I do believe there are true psychics out there, seen to much not to belive…however, like almost anything else, finding a real one, vs. one who’s just after your money, ect…is the tricky part!