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Randles, Jenny - Supernatural Pennines - Lets go
Identifier
003917
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This is an accidental but extremely effective example of the use of contemplation and detachment, although it may not seem so on first reading.
A description of the experience
Jenny Randles – Supernatural Pennines
I was walking down the street, desperate to remember the name of my last family doctor before we moved house. Try as I might I could not do so – except that I knew it was an odd name. But I needed it to fill in a form.
As I strove to recall my doctor's name I was in a street on a run-down Merseyside estate and it was the middle of the day, but I believe that my subconscious acted much as it would have done in a dream and shuffled reality in order to guide me to the truth. All I can say is that I was suddenly overcome with a completely weird sense of certainty.
I just 'knew' in a feeling that came out of nowhere that if I 'let go' and did what my subconscious was telling me I would find the answer.
It was one of the most eerie feelings I have ever had but it was not at all frightening. I succumbed to the certainty and walked across the street, letting my feet take me into a building. It was a library. I had no intention of going there or any idea what to do when I entered. I just walked towards the desk and within seconds saw the first woman in the queue put a book on the check out counter. The name of the author was Pattinson. Instantly I remembered that my doctor had been called Pattiniot.
I smiled, not even surprised, and left. I had been spared the task of trying to find the name of the doctor. But how? By this incredible two or three minutes in which I seemed to be 'led' towards the answer to a hardly earth-shattering question.