Re: John's suggestion

There is currently an ad on Oz tv for a reverse call service. The ad shows a little dog being inadvertently left behind at the beach, noticing the reverse call billboard ad and getting on the phone to call for help. So the answer is: installing a phone service. Might end up being used for room service requests as well, though. "More fish flakes, please!"

I believe that the psychic and the "listening to subtle subconscious messages" are related. Some people are tuned into both (or either) and listen to the little voice and some people aren't. Where the messages originate is another question.

I have told this story before on Mudcat but here it is again, because I can't explain how I knew what I knew, but I did.

One lunch time, when I worked at the library, I was standing at a street crossing waiting for the lights to change so that I could go over to the supermarket. I was suddenly overcome by an overwhelming sense that something terrible was going to happen. I tried to pinpoint it, tried to work out what the problem was. I looked around to see where it would happen, but I couldn't get a fix on any one place. I looked at all the people I could see, near me and across the road, and along the footpaths, and I couldn't pinpoint any one person or even group of people.

I thought maybe a truck was going to come careering down the busy street and crash into the footpath or something, but it seemed that everyone I could see was going to be affected. I tried to work out if I could do anything, warn anyone, but there was nothing I could do because I couldn't get any more information. Or more specifically, I was being told that it wasn't something that anyone could do anything about.

Same day, a week later, standing in the same spot at lunchtime, I looked around at everyone and we were all totally shell-shocked. At 10.27am that day we had had a major earthquake, which had caused major damage, but luckily only a couple of fatalities. We don't get major earthquakes here so this one was totally out of the blue. (We were extremely lucky because it was between Christmas and New Year, when school was out, and many activities are wound down and a lot of people take holidays, but also there was a bus strike, so a lot of people stayed home who would normally be out. The club which was the building worst hit by the quake and completely collapsed, and which is normally packed for a bingo session, was hardly full at all.)

Why did I know that something major was going to happen a week before?   I could have subconsciously been aware of seismic activity, but there was a definite psychic prediction of where I would be and what I and everyone would be feeling at exactly the same time, seven days later.

So, I don't know where the messages come from but that one was definitely not just a subconscious awareness of seismic activity.

Helen