On Sun Apr 06 2014 at 10:27:49 PM, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote:
> My friend the mentor asked me, "Your grandfather, is he now living?" > > Remember, I had seen my grandfather alive and apparently well only 2 weeks > earlier. > > But I stopped, and thought, and, it seems, I knew. "No", I said. "I don't > think he is." > I've had a similar eerie experience when I lived in Kenya. I was teaching in a small women's college in Kenya through VSO - the Commonwealth equivalent of Peace Corps. I was living in an old, disused building that used to be the living quarters for the order of nuns that ran the college. The nuns had moved to more pukka housing, leaving the old quarters as a guest house. The building was tucked away in one corner of the compound. One night I awoke with a start. I heard my name being called in a voice that sounded familiar. I went to door, opened it and did not see anyone outside in the darkness. I went back to bed and as I was getting back to sleep I wondered who it might have been. The voice had sounded very much like that of my aunt - my mother's older sister. That weekend when I spoke to my parents they told me that my aunt had passed away the previous week. Right around the time I was having this vivid experience, my aunt was dying or already dead. I doubt know if this was really a spiritual experience. At that time I was on Mefloquine - a powerful anti-malarial medication. Quoting from Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimalarial_medication#Medications>, side effects of Mefloquine include, "affective and anxiety disorders, hallucinations, sleep disturbances, psychosis, toxic encephalopathy, convulsions and delirium". There were several vivid dreams I had during this period. This particular episode has stuck with me because of the odd timing. After one too many strange and scary dreams, I decided to stop taking Mefloquine. Thaths
