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The Esoterica Challenge!

January 29, 2012 by fpdorchak

I don’t want this site to just be about me.

I really don’t.

I want others to visit and leave a personal “Just Plain Weird” or otherwise “esoteric” story or two about yourselves! For YOU to share weird things that have happened to you. Things that just didn’t “traditionally add up” in your lives. It can be large or small, doesn’t matter–but it has to be true. I’m not looking to pass judgement, may not even comment (unless asked!)…but I’d really like to bring up the “daily weird” into a more open forum in our lives. I believe we all have at least one or two things that have happened to us during the course of our existence that “just didn’t make sense” in the more traditionally viewed mindset most of us have been brought up in, or work in. I’d also prefer these stories to be more fun or curious.

That’s what ‘d like to see!

NOTE: I’m not looking to focus on the dark and negative, nor am I a “go-to” person to fix any such dark and negative experiences. I have no experience there and there are plenty of others out there who do have that experience. That is not the purpose of this site, so please respect that. The purpose of this site is to focus on the positive and constructive.

And–in the realm of the esoteric–I’m not considered any “great shakes.” I don’t speak, hunt, nor work with ghosts (though I have seen ghosts of two of my dead dogs…and some I know have actually heard a “ghost” of me!). I don’t channel (uh, that I know of…). Don’t interpret dreams (see my post and views on dream interpretation). Don’t paranormally consult. I don’t even make any claims that I’m more advanced than any of you out there. My only real claim is that I’m just like many of you out there…except I may be more aware of some of the weird that “happens” to us…am more open about it. I openly allow the “paranormal” to manifest in my life–but in constructive and positive ways, and I’m a proponent for others to be the same. Sure, many of you are like this too–so this might be more like preaching to the converted for those like you–but I really hope that each of us can be more open to the so-called “paranormal” in all our lives, to not fear it, even laugh at the humoursly strange things that sometimes happen to us (see The Grape)….

So, please, feel free to stop on by and conversate–even if it doesn’t necessarily match the current post. I’m really looking forward to seeing what kinds of cool things have happened to others out there, allowing each of you to acknowledge the esoterica in your lives, since we really don’t get a chance to do so in our so-called “normal society.” I would like this site to be a “safe place” to allow each of you to come and talk about things you might not otherwise be able to…without anyone passing judgement.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

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Filed Under: Dreams, Esoterica, Just Plain Weird, Paranormal Tagged With: channeling, daily weird, dead dogs, Dream Interpretation, Esoterica Challenge, Ghosts, weird, weird things

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  1. Karen Lin says

    January 30, 2012 at 12:25 am

    I’ve felt thefts before they’ve occurred. I’ve felt doors unlocked when someone else left them that way. I can’t stand to be pinned down, nor cold…so I figure I might have died in an avalalanch in a past life…And here there is that nervous laughter over severed limbs…

    • fpdorchak says

      January 30, 2012 at 4:22 am

      Wow–neat! And, yeah, about the dismemberment discussion we had earlier–tres fascinating! Have you also given much thought to the “precognition of thefts” and the “unlocked doors” issues?

      Thanks for sharing, Karen!

  2. Ron H says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:17 am

    For long time, I stopped listening to the radio. I’d be driving along and turn it on, or walk into a store and the music playing would be at exactly the same point as the song I was currently hearing in my head.

    The exact place in the song is pretty weird, but being that I am NOT a top 40 kind of person, the song itself was pretty serendipitous.

    ONE time in my life it was actually a song I was involved in the recording of… on KBCO.

    • fpdorchak says

      February 1, 2012 at 3:44 am

      Rock and roll! :-]

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