A large part of what I do for folks, usually via the phone, sometimes through writing, is based on my ability to really listen well and intuitively. Oftentimes, when I phone someone whom I *feel* needs a phone call/listener/help, they will answer with surprise and say something like "I was just thinking about calling you!" This has happened too many times for too many years to say it is just coincidence. It is something, an ability, I have cultivated through paying attention, meditation, study, and allowing myself to *feel* what some people may brush off as nothing. Whatever one chooses to call it, I know, from direct contact with those I help, that it is consistent and more than just a good friend calling for a visit.

As to some of the other things mentioned in this thread, I have seen/sensed ghosts, the newly departed, spoken to and listened to my houseplants (gardenias love being next to crown of thorns, if I remember rightly), and my pets.

BillDarlin' knows we will never agree and that it pisses me off that we have never been able to have a discussion on such things without naysayers and/or ridiculers, but he also knows I still luv'im.:-)

kat