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I was about 17 and my friend and I were walking through the woods at night. We had gone to this particular wooded park many times at night and were completely familiar with it and not spooked at all by the woods at night. This particular night though my friend kept on thinking he was hearing something behind us. I thought he was being paranoid and told him to knock it off basically.

When we got to the end of the trail and it opened up into a large field, I suddenly got the most horrible feeling. It was like time slowed down, and I felt my adrenaline pump, my ears start to roar, and the whole world tipped a little bit I’m assuming from the sudden adrenaline rush. I heard in my head a voice. I have to emphasize - this was not the thought of a voice or imagining a voice. This was a sound that was loudly being broadcast in my head. Nothing like that had ever happened prior and nothing since. It was a commanding male voice that was shouting like a drill instructor almost - it was saying “GO! GO! NOW! THAT WAY! GO! NOW!!”

I turned to my friend and I said “do you feel that?” And he said “Yeah let’s get the fuck out of here.” we went in the direction that the voice had told me to go in, which was not the closest way to get back to our car. As a matter of fact, it would’ve been a five minute walk back to our car, but because we went around the whole park, it took about 45 minutes to get back, but it was very specific which way I was supposed to go.

We’ll never know what would’ve happened if we had stayed. I do wonder if there was somebody coming up behind us through the woods. My friend said he didn’t hear any voice, but he felt something really bad and the look on my face really scared him. He said that it was like this horrified, confused, WTF type face. I’ve kept the story all these years, but just read a story about somebody hearing a drill sergeant type voice in their head that told them to do some thing that saved their life, and it got me wondering if this was a thing. I decided that I would post this to see maybe if somebody else has had a similar experience.

I know nothing about Buddhism or eastern religion, nor have I had interest in or contact with the topic. I was in a deep, meditative state and I saw, with eyes closed, a woman floating about 2‘ above me, facing down as I was facing up (I was laying on my back). She was made of a green/blue light and had teal glowing lines of energy running down her arms. She was ethereal and bathed in a blue/green light. She pointed out places in my body where she said I had “poison stones”. Then she showed me a hand position and said something along the lines of “use this to connect with me/call to me.” When I came out of this experience I immediately drew a rough sketch of the shape of a body and drew small circles at the three points where she said were the locations of the “poison stones”.

I googled the hand position and found “mudras” which is a term I wasn’t familiar with. I was sure that this was a mudra. I searched hundreds of yoga mudras and nothing matched. The mudra she showed me had the look of two eyes with a jeweled crown.

I thought this must have been dream or imagination and I let it go. About a month later I began urinating blood. I went to the ER and got a CT scan and found I had a tumor on my left kidney. It was exactly one of the three locations I had circled. What ensued was a cancer hell that I barely survived. I’ve now been in remission for almost 2 years.

Recently I was thinking about this experience and discovered that there were other Tantric mudras and mudras associated with specific gods. I found one that is associated with a being called Green Tara. I looked at artists’ images of her and this is her - but more importantly the mudras matched.
I also learned that helping people suffering from poisons is a particular interest of Green Tara.

I’m trying not to draw too many solid conclusions even though this experience seems like it may be very significant.

I can’t talk to anyone about this - it’s way too far out.
What do you think? How should I react to this? What should I do? What are “poison stones”? What the heck is going on?

Does anyone have a child with this issue? She admits that she feels that she has to go but she’s having fun playing, or with friends and doesn’t go and pees her pants. She forgets to go before bed and wets the bed. She doesn’t stop to poop and gets constipated and eventually poops her pants. It’s been going on for years. We’ve tried everything. She resents our constant reminders. Her self esteem is so affected by it - but she only thinks about it when there’s an accident.

Went for our anniversary and the interior and decor and everything were amazing - I mean truly, it’s incredible. Staff look ROUGH. Bartender was sulky and made us two drinks that were cartoonishly bad neon batch-cocktails that tasted like bottom shelf vodka mixed with Hi-C and were $18 each.

Ok, rough start but we were ready to power through it. Garlic cheese bread came and was similar to wonderbread - stale, had a freezer burned taste, and the cheese was waxy and dried out. Clearly something that’s premade and then heated up for service.

At this point, we were like maybe we should cut and run, like cancel the entrées pay for the second round of drinks and bust out of there, Asked the manager if we could cancel the entrées and he said that they will probably be out in a few minutes, so it’s probably too late. I said OK and hoped for the best.

When they came, steak was overcooked, dry, with a grainy texture. My wife’s chicken was unbelievably overcooked. Like I’m not sure if I’ve ever had chicken this dried out. It was really truly shockingly bad.

I was polite about it and asked if we could just send back the meals pay for the drinks and go - that it just wasn’t working out. The manager came over super pissed off and snarky and I’m trying to tell him “look we came here for anniversary. We came here to have a good time not to mess with you guys” and he’s like “I think you are messing with us get out now.”

Reading some of the comments and reviews, I think we might now be part of an exclusive club of people who have been kicked out of Cava. Apparently that’s their move when people have a bad time there.

I really don’t know if what I’ve experienced is Waiting Room or full breakthrough - but my first time I got sent to a neon cartoon city where the buildings were made of Mayan runes - with no memory of how I got there or even who I was. It was just “you live here now.” It was fucking terrifying. Since then I’ve tried it twice and I see that same fucking city after two hits and I nope TF out. Don’t want to go back there. Wish I could meet golden gods on top of ziggurats but apparently for me it’s neon cartoon cities or nothing.

I get it. It’s easier to play with little kids. She holds all the cards they look up to her. They do what she says, and they have a way of interacting that she can easily understand. Kids her own age are tricky. But we worry that if we let her keep choosing kids much younger than she is that she will fall further and further behind and become more and more isolated from her peers. She struggles so horribly with loneliness, and when she is seen choosing to hang out with younger kids, it just alienates her further from her peers. We try to explain all this to her so many different ways, but she just argues argues argues.

Article yesterday on “How to Fight Back Against Gen Z Socialism” with terms like ““threat to prosperity”

“destructive”

“fight back”

“infecting mainstream centre-left thinking”

They’ve never had that tone or that philosophical/political bent. Now all of the sudden? Their book critic mentioned JD Vance’s Hilbilly Elligy as her honeymoon read. Regardless of one’s personal politics, i find  it hard to believe that any book critic would mention choosing that book.