{"id":921,"date":"2009-08-30T18:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=921"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:44:26","slug":"amazing-powers-of-women-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Amazing powers of women (and others)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the power of women&#8217;s intuition and psychic connections.<\/p>\n<p>One day last  week I got up, got dressed and came in to work here at the paper. The two women  advertising reps were joking about how they came dressed alike that day. Both  were wearing black slacks and gray tops. Before I got there one said to the  other, &#8220;Wait until Judy gets here. &#8220;Sure enough, black slacks and a gray top,  nearly identical.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_924\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/dells-events-friends.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-924\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-924\" title=\"dells events friends\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/dells-events-friends.jpg\" alt=\"dressed alike with no communication\" width=\"432\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/dells-events-friends.jpg 432w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/dells-events-friends-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">dressed alike with no communication<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, we are all well past our teenage years and no  longer call a girlfriend to discuss what to wear &#8211; we are just women on the same  wavelength.<\/p>\n<p>A coincidence? Maybe. But consider this: women who work or  live together know that after a time their monthly cycles become coordinated. In  Minneapolis I worked for Chrysalis, a therapy clinic and chemically dependent  treatment center for women and children. We had a few men on the staff, brave  souls that they were, but the workplace was overwhelmingly female.<\/p>\n<p>Often  we compared notes, as we couldn&#8217;t help but notice simultaneous PMSing. Gradually  we realized that most of the 20 or so women were pretty much on the same cycle.<\/p>\n<p>If this is not evidence enough of the unconscious connection between  women, here is a story that cannot be explained any other way.<\/p>\n<p>About 15  years ago, my daughter Cully, who was in college, and I spent time together on  some beautiful woodland I owned in northern Minnesota. Although there was a  half-finished cabin on the property, we always stayed there in a full-size  tepee.<\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful to sleep in this round structure with a cozy  campfire in the center for cooking and beds arranged on the ground around the  back, opposite the door flap. One night we were talking back and forth from our  sleeping bags. Eventually I dropped off to sleep, but Cully stayed up and read  for a time with a battery lamp. Eventually, she turned off the light and  slept.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning I awoke from the strangest dream. I began to tell  it to her, a complicated and unusual story in which a man was trying to get a  group of reluctant people to sing in a chorus. They avoided him by hiding in  closets and other places in a house, but eventually the man began to have  success as he brought the odd assortment of people into the open and helped them  sing in beautiful harmony.<\/p>\n<p>As I told this story, Cully&#8217;s eyes got bigger  and bigger. &#8220;Mom,&#8221; she said, &#8220;that&#8217;s the story I was reading last  night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We looked at each other in amazement. The book she had been  reading was a Russian novel, recommended, as I recall, in one of her college  classes. I had never heard of the book, much less read it. We opened the  book together and she found the passages that were indeed, the same as the  strange dream I had.<\/p>\n<p>In some societies it is taken for granted that  these unseen connections are real. I have a friend whose French mother knows  when her children are in trouble or hurt, even though they are grown up and  living far away. The family takes her abilities in stride.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is  many women (and probably men too) have these experiences, proving there is more  to the world than we now know.<\/p>\n<p>Science may eventually catch up. Ever  wonder about that unseen phenomena when a man or a woman is available to date  someone new after a break-up? It&#8217;s as if there is some sort of unseen  advertisement that says, &#8220;I&#8217;m available.&#8221; Suddenly members of the opposite sex,  who never did before, begin to show interest.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists have found that  humans, like insects and other animals, give off something called &#8220;pheromones,&#8221;  molecules designed to attract a mate.<\/p>\n<p>The human mind and spirit are vast  and mysterious &#8211; nothing surprises me anymore.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 6, 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the power of women&#8217;s intuition and psychic connections. One day last week I got up, got dressed and came in to work here at the paper. The two women advertising reps were joking about how they came dressed alike that day. Both were wearing black slacks and gray tops. 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