The Dark One
Auror
Not sure exactly where this thread belongs. I'm putting it in world building as it strikes me that ideas people might have along these lines would help with world building, so...
Have you ever had experiences which suggest to you that just maybe there is something deeper (if that's the right word) than the apparent, physical world. That there are unexplained or misunderstood phenomena which are hard to see except in rare and special circumstances and constitute evidence of a secret world where the rules are entirely different...
I regard myself as a rational and scientific chap but I have had glimpses into the secret world (as I call it). Mostly these are weird coincidences which resonate with my personal myth system but once or twice there have been situations, shared by others, which are entirely inexplicable by current knowledge.
The most spectacular of these - to my mind - involved my old cat Sauron (aka Blackie). He was such an amazing cat - super intelligent and full of character. Anyway, Blackie and I had lived in a tumbledown cottage in a small street for six years but then I met a new girlfriend (1992) and we decided to move into a new house together.
So, we moved almost everything to the new house. There were just one or two last things to collect, plus Blackie, so we went to dinner at a local restaurant then went back to the tumbledown cottage for the last time. As we pulled up out front, the yard was full of cats. Every cat in the street was there, sitting in a rough circle around Blackie - as though they'd all come to say goodbye.
And they didn't all scatter in panic as we walked into the yard. They calmly walked away in ones and twos as we stood there in amazement - the hair totally standing up on our necks.
I have never seen or heard of anything like this but that GF and I often discussed it.
When Blackie died in 2000 it was like losing a brother.
But I've long pondered what that was all about and what it means for phenomena that appear - somehow - to offer a glimpse into the secret world. Does anyone have any similar stories?
Have you ever had experiences which suggest to you that just maybe there is something deeper (if that's the right word) than the apparent, physical world. That there are unexplained or misunderstood phenomena which are hard to see except in rare and special circumstances and constitute evidence of a secret world where the rules are entirely different...
I regard myself as a rational and scientific chap but I have had glimpses into the secret world (as I call it). Mostly these are weird coincidences which resonate with my personal myth system but once or twice there have been situations, shared by others, which are entirely inexplicable by current knowledge.
The most spectacular of these - to my mind - involved my old cat Sauron (aka Blackie). He was such an amazing cat - super intelligent and full of character. Anyway, Blackie and I had lived in a tumbledown cottage in a small street for six years but then I met a new girlfriend (1992) and we decided to move into a new house together.
So, we moved almost everything to the new house. There were just one or two last things to collect, plus Blackie, so we went to dinner at a local restaurant then went back to the tumbledown cottage for the last time. As we pulled up out front, the yard was full of cats. Every cat in the street was there, sitting in a rough circle around Blackie - as though they'd all come to say goodbye.
And they didn't all scatter in panic as we walked into the yard. They calmly walked away in ones and twos as we stood there in amazement - the hair totally standing up on our necks.
I have never seen or heard of anything like this but that GF and I often discussed it.
When Blackie died in 2000 it was like losing a brother.
But I've long pondered what that was all about and what it means for phenomena that appear - somehow - to offer a glimpse into the secret world. Does anyone have any similar stories?