Posted by IsoM on June 20, 2002, at 23:42:17
In reply to Elephants' temporal lo be and being a receiver , posted by susan C on June 18, 2002, at 13:01:15
Little mouse, this is the first time I've had a chance to read your post & the answers to it.
What this woman says is basically true, but only as far as we know it. And the thing is, we still know so little! How much more will we learn 20, 50, 100, or 200 years from now? How many times will opinions & thoughts be changed each time we learn something new?
I know with migraines, I see auras. A bright, scintillating line of light & dark as it moves & gets bigger till it overwhelms my entire field of vision. I can close my eyes any night & see intricate, twisting patterns. My youngest son who's now 20, woke up one night when he was 3, calling me as he was frightened. He saw little dots of coloured lights dancing about in his vision - he wasnted to know what they were.
I know we're not seeing anything miraculous.My Mom had many of the same things, her mother did, & one other son of mine does too. It's understood now why we see these things, but there's still much that not understood. Maybe one day we will learn more.
I had read too that one saint was said to see visions. Interestingly, she drew her visions on paper & they look amazingly like migraine patterned auras. It's thought that she suffered from them because after her visions, she was sick & had to recuperate for a couple of days. Not everyone who had auras thought them to be visions, but how many other visions weren't auras or anything like it at all?
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