Echoes from the Future.
You know that sensation, when something new in the world leaps out at you, and you think to yourself, “yeah, I like the sound of that.” It could be a new song you’re hearing for the first time, it could be the idea of taking a vitamin each morning, or promising yourself to do laundry more often, or swearing to be more compassionate to the people you care about. You know, that feeling.
Now, imagine that that feeling is actually some part of your future self, calling back and asking you to change something in your life, or calling for clarity where you might be overlooking some fruitful experience. An echo, if you will, from the future you.
That is something that I experienced last night. Kind of a reverse deja vu. It wasn’t that sensation that I’d already been here, seen this, said these words. No, it was more like I was receiving some subtle transmission from the near future that said, “hey, just go with it. You’re taking something very important from this time in your life, from this experience.”
As it turns out, and this is no joke, a few hours after discovering this feeling I met a man who claimed to be a Shaman. I’ve studied Shamanism on a scholastic level, so I’ve got a pretty good idea of what it entails, and I’ve also seen any number of Discovery Channel documentaries on similar and related subjects, but there was no way I was going to believe that this sixty-something year old man with the wandering eye and soothing voice fit for a storyteller was communicating with spirits on a daily basis.
And so it was, with a bitten tongue, suspended disbelief, and thoughts that my future self was asking me to listen, that I sat and allowed this “Shaman” to say his piece. It was as soon as I decided this that his tone changed, and he became overly jovial, relishing in the “positive energies” around him, a child’s splendor in this old man before me.
I didn’t know what to think. I still don’t. But on some level I took something from the experience, something that infected my dreams last night, and caused me to wake convinced that my future self was right.
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