I knew

Published on August 29, 2006 By dharmagrl In Current Events

John Mark Karr has been released by the Boulder County DA because his DNA did not match that found at the JonBenet Ramsey murder crime scene. Apparently his confession was all a big hoax.

I'm not surprised. I had a feeling that I can't explain when I first saw Karr at the press conference in Thailand. I KNEW he didn't do it, that he was lying. I don't know how I knew, I just did. When I saw the news of his release last night I jumped up out of bed yelling "I KNEW it!! I KNEW it!! I TOLD you so!!!" at my husband.

This 'knowing' things happens pretty often. It used to happen a lot when I was a teenager, and it was accompanied by regular incidents of deja vue. The deja vue doesn't happen much anymore - I've had two episodes in the last 5 weeks but before that there was almost a 6 month break where it didn't happen at all - but when it DOES happen, it's very strong. There isn't a feeling of 'I think I may have done this before', it's a feeling of 'wow, I KNOW I've done this before'.

This deja vue isn't about significant scenarios. It's about seemingly insignificant - trivial, even - moments. Like when our washer broke and we had to go to the laundromat to do a couple of loads of laundry. We walked in and I sat down to knit and watch the washing go round and round, and as I was leaning over to take my needles out of my bag it hit me with amazing clarity and certainty; I had seen/felt/done this before. I sat there, slightly stunned because the feeling had been SO strong, and I told my husband "Woah. Deja vue. HUGE deja vue!". He wasn't impressed. He never is.

The 'knowing' things happens regularly too. When Dave deploys he sometimes has to call home in the middle of the night because it's the only time he's off work and is able to use a telephone. The time and the days vary, but I'm always awake 5 minutes or so before he calls. Somehow I can feel that he's thinking about me and is getting ready to call me and I wake up before the phone rings. It's not just limited to him, either. I can sometimes tell who's calling (or going to call) me before the phone rings or before I pick it up. I can tell things about people just by looking at them - like this John Mark Karr guy. I knew that he didn't kill that little girl, even before he was extradited and flown back to the US.

Some people call this ability I have 'psychic'. I don't think that I am; I've never had a conversation with a dead person's spirit. I'm not clairvoyant or even clairaudient. I've had some success with Tarot cards readings, but that could be attributed to luck rather than psychic ability. I don't know what to call this ability that I have. All I know is that it happens to me, and it's been happening much more recently. It hasn't happened this much since I was a teenager, and I don't know why.

I don't know why it happens, and I don't really care why it happens. All I know is that I hope it never goes away.

What about you, JU? Has anything like this ever happend to you? Can you tell things about people just by looking at them? What about deja vue? Has that ever happened to you? Do you have psychic abilities? Can you read Tarot cards?

I look forward to your responses!

Comments

Dr Guy

on Aug 29, 2006

Only when I am not trying.

As for Karr, I think many people did. And many wanted him to be guilty. He is one sick puppy though.

dharmagrl

on Aug 29, 2006

Only when I am not trying.

Me too. When I try to make it happen, it doesn't. When I don't try, it just comes naturally. It's like meditation - when I TRY to meditate, my mind becomes a hoard of chattering monkeys, all squawking at the same time and I can't do it. When I DON'T try and I just sit for sitting's sake I'll be meditating before I know it.

As for Karr, I think many people did. And many wanted him to be guilty.

I think that people WANTED him to be guilty, yes. JonBenet's mother died from ovarian cancer 2 month's ago, and I think that affected the public psyche. People wanted him to be guilty, they wanted JonBenet's murder to be solved. With Karr being cleared, we're no closer to a solution than we were before Kreepy Karr surfaced in Thailand.

He's a fekkin' weirdo. Manipultive, controlling (as most pedophiles are)...he delivered his sons and daughters at home. There were twin girls who died - he had delivered them at home without medical assistance, I believe - and they died. I wondered why criminal charges weren't brought against him then - if we can charge a mother who refuses to have a C-section to deliver her baby (that happend in Utah a couple of years ago, I'll try and find the link to it), why can't we charge a father who insists on delivering his own kids at home without medical assistance? I'm all for home births, but at the end of the day all that matters is having a healthy baby. If the midwife that attends births decides that I need to go to a hospital in order to have a safe delivery, then I'd go. I don't understand how he got away with delivering his own twins like that. I don't think I've ever heard of a home delivery for twins, there's too much that can go wrong. That's why they have mom's who are having twins deliver in the operating room rather than a regular room; if anything goes wrong or mom and babies look like they're having trouble they can anesthetise them quickly and deliver them via C section. I think that it was Karr's wife's first pregnancy too - and I don't think there's a midwife in the country that would say a first time mom giving birth to twins at home without medical assistance is a good idea.

Wow. That was pretty wordy, huh?

I'll go look for that link now....

foreverserenity

on Aug 29, 2006

I have deja vu all the time, too frequently than I want because it's so weird. Not just with being someplace, also conversations and knowing what's gonna happen next, too weird. I usually have a good sixth sense about most things. I guess I would be better at it if I didn't hold myself back so much, or get so caught up with daily living. But it's always been that way with me since childhood, seeing things, hearing things, the works. My daughters have it too.

Zoologist03

on Aug 29, 2006

I have deja vu moments...not as often as I used to. They were never anything significant or helpful...no burning building or lottery numbers in mine.

But I do occaisionally see those little events that pop up. Like walking down a certain path or seeing people...well, you know how it is.

~Zoo

AngelaMarie88

on Sep 03, 2006

I frequently have deja vu's, but I've learned to chalk it up to something normal that goes on in the brain that science hasn't figured out yet. I used to get really hypped up about them and was sure that I had some sort of special powers...but I know that's not true.

I had a tarot card reading once (don't know how to read them...in fact my religion tells us to avoid such practices like the plague because it invites evil into our lives), but it was amazingly accurate. Strangely after that my life started going downhill, by the way.

Apart from all that, I had an interesting metaphysical-type experience years ago that I ought to blog about to see what other people think of it. But I'll share it with you here since you opened the forum for us to share such experiences.

It was a very spiritual time in my life, I was keeping every single one of the ten commandments, and then some, living a very good life and working very hard at it. Communing with God so closely that I experienced at least one huge miracle that defies scientific explanation. Anyway, one day during that time, I was in my bedroom doing nothing in particular, I got off my bed & stood by my nightstand looking for something, then crouched down to look in the nightstand drawer. I was listening to some uplifting music on my stereo which was across the room directly across from my nightstand.

It took me a few moments to notice, but when I crouched down by my nightstand, the volume on my stereo decreased. I didn't notice until I stood up and the volume returned to normal. I thought, "That was weird," then crouched down again. Sure enough, the stereo volume lowered, I stood up and it went up again. After I caught on to what was possibly happening, I played with it for a bit, standing and crouching several times and pausing to marvel each time as the stereo volume lowered and raised with me, no matter how long I paused or if I changed up my pace.

It stopped following me when my mood became such as, "Wow, I'm really cool, look what I can do." At that moment the stereo went back to normal and I had no effect on it.

Since I was in a highly spiritual state of being during that time, I chalked it up as something metaphysical, like my powerful spirit being able to affect the magnetics around me or something. Then upon becoming sort of "proud" at what I was doing, the spiritual connection was cut off. That's my only guess what was going on. Can't be sure though. I've never discussed this with anyone who could explain it to me. Or who seemed to care. Heh.

Have you heard of anything like that? I think I've heard of such phenomena but I can't remember the name for it. Anyway it hasn't happened since then. No big deal. Frankly it just took more energy to describe the whole thing than it took to experience it :

AngelaMarie88

on Sep 03, 2006

P.S. I just used the word, "metaphysical" up there twice although I don't really know what it means. The word just came to me. So I looked it up.

I guess I mean it in a "supernatural" sense. But I don't like the word "supernatural" because it makes me think of ghosts and well, the word is over-used I think.

AngelaMarie88

on Sep 03, 2006

Oh gosh, one more thing (then I promise to shut up!):

Similar to what you said

but I'm always awake 5 minutes or so before he calls. Somehow I can feel that he's thinking about me and is getting ready to call me and I wake up before the phone rings. It's not just limited to him, either.

I have occasional experiences like this, but unlike your experiences which are useful, I refer to mine as "useless" because I can only predict something a fraction of a second before it happens. So of course that gives me no time to sit and ponder on it before it happens, much less tell anyone my prediction, because by then it's already happened! I wrote an article on that once. I called it something like, "My Useless Powers of Precognition." :

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And of course I can't control these things, they just sort of happen sometimes, like you & Dr Guy said. But they don't happen to me often enough to be noteworthy. Although I sure shared a lot of notes just now, ha!

OK, bye now

MasonM

on Sep 03, 2006

I suspected that he was just some sick nutcase, but you can never know for sure.

I'm not psychic at all. Most of the time I don't even know what's going to come out of my own mouth until it's too late

I did used to drive my mother crazy when I was a kid though. I could always guess what she had bought me for my birthday or Christmas before ever even seeing the package. Drove her nuts. It became a game for her to try and surprise me but I always guess it right off.

I later drove girlfriends and my wife (now ex) crazy the same way.

It's not psychic though, just a basic understanding of people.

I've also always had a talent for finding stuff that's been misplaced around the house. My last girlfriend would search the house top to bottom for something or other and then finally come and ask me to find it. 9 times out of 10 I could just walk to wherever the item was and retrieve it. Again, not psychic, just logic. I would always apply the "if it isn't where it's supposed to be, where is the most likely place it isn't supposed to be" principle and was usually correct.

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