Psychic Phenomena…
I certainly don’t place myself into the same basket as money-grubbing charlatans such as self-proclaimed psychic John Edwards or a certain ex-Playmate-turned-seer, but I’ve had more than a fair share of unexplainable phenomena.
One afternoon a decade ago, I had an overwhelming urge to speak to one of my best friends, Tammy. It was very strong and lasted all afternoon. When I got home from work, we chatted on the phone for about 45 minutes, and then hung up. Early the next morning, she flew out to Colorado on vacation where, just a few days later, she was struck and killed by a reckless truck driver. Our pleasant chat was the last she had with any of her friends before she left. Tammy Leilani Herrick was 26.
A few years later, the same type of strong incessant urge made me inexplicably change lanes on a small highway. Seconds later, a white pickup truck that pulled up alongside me in the lane in which I’d been driving was crushed by a falling tree. The driver was not hurt. Since I was in my Alfa Romeo convertible driving with the top down, I probably would have been killed.
Just after entering the new millennium, I had a strong nagging feeling about another one of my best friends, Margo, who had unfortunately disappeared from my life a decade earlier. I couldn’t get out of my head that she was sick or dying (or dead) and drugs were the cause, and that the drugs were connected with a man she knew — a boyfriend or husband. I wasn’t too far off. I learned from her very recently that at that time she “worked for an independent pharmacy that made a medication that killed 3 people.” I have also since discovered a related article in Chronicle archives that stated that one of her associates committed suicide after and because of the incident. I am blessed to have become even limitedly reacquainted with her, and I wonder how narrowly she made it through the incident.
There have been many other similar incidents, but these three are the most important to me. Unfortunately, these rare insights never seem to surface around events concerning the stock market, the lottery, or trips to Las Vegas…
