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Laila and others,
Well, I'll go ahead and share my tale. The crux of this story is that my memories of the event differ greatly from my friends who were with me.
I remember it was a few nights after the Eclipse proper... My friends Matt, Amy, and Mike went to a park in Northern Kentucky together to just hang out and enjoy the wonderful night. There's this section of the park that is in a deep secluded valley. I learned later that a couple of Wiccan groups and a Shamanic Drum circle use the same area for activities on the weekends. All I knew is that it was a nice area and has always had a very positive "feel" to it. Yes, that's new agey and unspecific, however that's the best way to describe it. I'd also been involved in a few rituals with the circle of friends I was practicing with at the time, at that spot.
It's a nice place... In Devou Park... not too far from where the park overlooks the Cincinnati skyline and the river winds below it like a serpent.
But I digress.
So, we're wandering about and relaxing... it's about 10:30pm or so... and I notice something kind of neat in the valley. The light of the moon (What day was the moon full in August '99?) shining through the trees into the valley had created this beautiful silver raven. Well, it looked like a generic bird type thing but "Raven" is what popped into my head.
We look at at and discuss how cool that is and then I just go ahead and follow my impulses and lay down in it. So, there I am in blue jeans, a black shirt, boots and a light leather jacket laying in the image of the raven with my arms outstretched.
Seemed like the thing to do at the time. I generally do a lot better in life when I live by my impulses.
I then begin to relax, unclenching my muscles and just enjoying the beautiful night and the wonderful night. There's a nice warm breeze around me, ruffling my hair and everything is calm and peaceful... I stay like this for... 15 minutes or so by reckoning, just not thinking too much and soaking up the ambience, as it were. Also, during this time, I get two very distinct impressions, first that my friends (who had been walking around the outside of the valley just looking at stuff) left for a bit, and then that there were more people in the valley... like 10 or so. I felt... it's what some people call "magickal awareness".. that sort of "gnosis-y" feeling is the best way I can put it.
Eventually, I sat up stretched and looked up the hill towards my friends. One of them looks down and points. So I go up to chat.
"Where'd you go?", asks Mike.
"Yeah, head to the bathroom?" asked Matt.
See, what they describe happening in the 45 minutes since I lay down in the valley was that a trick of the light made it look like part of me was fading into the light. I'm wearing dark clothes, that's not too hard to imagine.
However, then they follow up with saying that when they looked back again, I was gone.
Supposedly, in these 30-45 minutes I thought were 10-15, I just up and vanished. My friends had assumed I had just walked off to do something and were not overly concerned. However eventually Amy spotted me down in the bird again.
So we walked about the park some more, talked, chided them on their time sense and brushed part of it off as my falling asleep. I don't recall going to sleep, but it's possible. I also am not a stranger to the occasional time dialation having done work with FOTAMECUS and Ragged Robin.
However the vanishing thing is still a bit odd. There were also some other discrepencies, like my feeling that more people where there and my feeling that everything was nice and warm with a breeze when in fact it was kinda chilly. Of course perhaps I was just getting a nice warm breeze where I was, that they did not.
There's still that vanishing with 3 witnesses thing. They didn't go down and check on me of course, figuring I was off doing my own thing, so it could have been a trick of the light.
Funny Addendum:
So I go home and pop into bed. Next night my ex-gf gives me a ring to tell me about this whacky dream she had about me and aliens the night before. She said that she dreampt I was in the woods, suspended in this silvery light with my arms outstretched. Of course David Duchovny does appear later in the dream but hey, the image was interesting in light of the timing and the previous night. |
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