We are now entering the “Dark of The Moon’”, which is an imaginative way of describing a New Moon. Astrologers tell us that we all become more psychic for the couple of days each month that the moon is so near the sun it becomes almost invisible.

Nothing so romantic for Mercury, however, when it starts to slip slowly “backwards” through the zodiac in a few days. That occurrence, which happens for three weeks or so, three times a year, is described as “Mercury going retrograde”. It suggests delays with communication, transportation and commerce.

The advice, then, is to act on strong hunches in the next few days before Mercury starts to play havoc with our communications.

The cast of the BBC’s Sea of Souls.

The latest episode of the BBC’s Sea of Souls supernatural thriller series, examined the little-known phenomenon of High-Voltage Syndrome (HVS). The syndrome is related to PK, or psychokinesis: mind over matter. Subjects manifest sudden huge electric charges which endanger anyone near them, and set off electrical instruments.

But does this syndrome actually exist?

There are many cited instances on the Internet. Here are two of them:

“[In the] 19th century D. D. Holmes was known for his ability to levitate and to handle hot coals without being burned. But, also during this time, there were individuals known as ‘electric people’ who experienced a ‘high-voltage syndrome’. They made knives and forks cling to their skin, and with a touch could send furniture flying across a room.”

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I wrote a post on “the library angel” on our blog, Spiritual Nirvana a little while ago and it seems appropriate to bring this up here.

Have you ever walked into a library (or bookstore) and found your gaze being drawn to a book which contains exactly the information you’re looking for? Many people do, including your truly. Most recently I went to my local library to dig out a particular book. Out of all the volumes on display, my eyes alighted like magic on another book I had been looking forward to reading, but thought it hadn’t yet been published.

The book just leapt out at me (not literally, of course). This phenomenon has been called “The Library Angel”. Strangely, you only have to mention it to other people for them to say: “That always happens to me!”, or, “Oh, is that what you call it? Is it a real Angel?”

It seems to be a real “supernatural” force, though purely anecdotal, so not really scientifically assessible. Here’s another example:

Some years ago I bought a book which turned out to be full of academic footnotes and terms I didn’t fully understand. I put the book in the bookshelf and assumed I’d never read it.

Recently, I was glancing along the shelves looking for something to read, when this book seemed to light up (again, not literally). My attention was riveted to it. When I took it down and started to read, it had information I wanted at that time, and the technical terms were completely understandable. I read it through in a day and gained much from it.

If anyone has any anecdotes on the library angel, Please feel free to send them to me, or put them in the comments section.

I put this post on my personal blog a little while ago, but I think it deserves an outing here:

I awoke this Sunday morning with a curious image in my mind. It was the Sphinx.

In that blissful hypnogogic state between sleeping and wakefulness, I began to receive images and intimations about its meaning. Of course, we now know that the Sphinx is much older than the pyramids it seems to guard. So it has a very ancient message for mankind.

This is what I learned from this thought-stream: the Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of a god. There is no essentially “human” part to it, yet it represents the nature of humanity.

If that seems a bit opaque, the answer is that humans are provisional creatures having the attributes of both animals and gods. Each one of us is on a path which rises from the ground of nature, beyond what we think of as human, to a kind of divine status above the mundane confines of this Earth.

People can be classified as less or more developed by reference to the Sphinx. We all know folk who are almost indistinguishable from animals. Their humour is based on sex and bodily functions, and their aspirations don’t rise much higher. These people have their centre of gravity right down at the tail of the Sphinx. Others, further up the body, have rather more cerebral or emotional attributes.

But the highest humans are centred up in the head of the god. These are the ones ready to pass beyond the physical to the various spiritual realms, which themselves are progressive. Each of us has an imperative to lift up those who are below us in the chain, as the price of further progress.

The way to get on top of this process is to become aware of it : to make the unconscious conscious. Then we can ourselves aim at higher consciousness. If we don’t do this, the process will force it on us ~ and this will be very painful. Being forced to reject earthy and physical modes of being is a kind of death. We all die many times in a single lifetime. By taking control of our progress, we avoid these distressing adjustments which “nature” makes from time to time, and we move onwards to our destiny.

So, there you have it. Quite a “dream”, but, as with all such Grade A visions, very useful for the future.

Now, where are the Sunday newspapers?