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Below are a few of the many stories from my life that have
included many coincidences, synchronicities and psychic
happenings, in no particular order:
My first wife Nancy passed away from ovarian cancer in January of 2004. About a year before (and before she got sick) she suddenly had the urge to go out and buy paints, brushes and an easel. She wanted to try painting wildlife. After a couple of frustrating attempts, she gave up. Around the same time this happened, she also applied and was interviewed for a job as a picture framer at a local art gallery. She never got the job.
Six months after Nancy passed away I met my second wife, Deb. On our first date I asked her what hobbies she had and what she did for a living. She told me that she painted (wildlife) and that she was a picture framer at an art gallery. Right then I knew that things were going to work out for us.
Later on we also learned that both art galleries (75 miles apart) had the same number (44) for their address.
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You can hear the psychic tape of this part of the session here.
On one of my recent 45 minute walks I started to think of my
Dad who passed away in 2007. I wondered if he could show me a sign he
was still around. The first thing that I thought of was a
banana, as my father was always jokingly saying "Yes, we have no
bananas..." I
asked for a banana peel to be on the road on one of my walks. The
next couple of walks I was looking all around for a banana peel but
soon forgot about the
silly request.
Then one day, I started out on my walk and a few minutes into it a bee came out of nowhere and started to buzz around me. I hate insects with a passion and I took off my spring jacket and tried to swat it away but it kept bothering me. I suddenly ran across the road to the other side to get away from the annoying bee and about three steps later I saw before me a banana peel on the road. A few seconds later I remembered about my request and there it was before me. I would never have seen the banana peel if the bee had not chased me across to the other side of the road. Thanks Dad.
silly request.
Then one day, I started out on my walk and a few minutes into it a bee came out of nowhere and started to buzz around me. I hate insects with a passion and I took off my spring jacket and tried to swat it away but it kept bothering me. I suddenly ran across the road to the other side to get away from the annoying bee and about three steps later I saw before me a banana peel on the road. A few seconds later I remembered about my request and there it was before me. I would never have seen the banana peel if the bee had not chased me across to the other side of the road. Thanks Dad.
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The Internet is pretty amazing for finding old friends, and
even old girlfriends (with the wife's knowledge and approval, of
course.) My very first girlfriend was from California. I had gotten to
know her (and meet her) thanks to being in a fan club for one of my
favorite bands, Sparks, starting out as pen pals in 1978, and then her
visiting Canada for a week, and me also visiting her city of California
for three weeks. We broke up in the summer of 1980. I was so sad that I
put a personal ad in a Toronto newspaper (actually a column called
"Have Your Say") asking for pen pals to write to. One of the pen pals
ended up being my first
wife, Nancy.
Anyway, after finding my first girlfriend on Facebook a couple of years ago, I contacted her. When I was doing this I had to type the usual gibberish for the captcha code (you know, when you have to type in stupid letters and numbers which you can sometimes
never understand...)
The captcha I had to type in was "sparkz".
I am known online for my comedy videos and stories but I have a more spiritual, serious side also. About ten years ago the first line of what was to become my poem "Salvation" came to me, although I believe it actually came to me from an unknown source. I got on the computer and more lines came to me. This certainly did not seem like my writing and some of the lines I was either confused or even embarrassed to write, but I went with
the flow...
At the time I was on a music site uploading my comedy songs and with each song I uploaded I would receive several comments from other artists. Occasionally I would get a negative remark and one day I had a very nasty comment and I decided to reply to this person. However, for whatever reason, instead of writing him back a nasty email, I just sent him the Salvation poem I had recently written.
He wrote back the next day and said that the poem had really affected him and made him cry. He apologized to me for his actions. This really surprised me, as I was not expecting that kind of reaction and I then realized the power of words.
SALVATION
the foundation of spirit is beyond the light
it can be seen even in the darkness of night
feel it in your heart and see it in your soul
salvation of love is the only goal
angels may appear to you in a moment of distress
the beating heart holds all the truthfulness
remember lies are deceit and torment is pain
thunder is lightning and snow is rain
merging together and falling apart
the soul separates again from the heart
dearly departed into the skies above
all fear vanishes into final love
prayers may go unheeded or so you think
for what is a chain without a link
smiles are forthcoming to all the sad faces on earth
as time is at hand for the rebirth
On another walk I started thinking of a YouTube friend of mine,
who goes by the username TrickyRicky77. He had come down to our house
from Toronto a few months back to have a reading with my wife Debra,
who is psychic. I was thinking that he should call her again and have
another reading, although I don't know why I was thinking that.
After my walk, I went on my laptop and entered my YouTube account. I
was
rather shocked to see an email from Rick and he was asking if he could
possibly get another reading by phone with Deb. Also around this time I
had two more rather strange coincidences (or psychic connections...)
One day I started thinking that my wife had never had a teddy bear negligee or top and I thought she would look really nice (er...sexy) wearing one. A few hours later I was once again on my laptop and Deb came up to me and asked me "What do you think of this?", and I looked up and she was wearing a teddy bear top that her daughter had just
given her.
On another day around the same time I had taken my stepdaughter to her work. Later in the day I was thinking that she was going to phone home saying she was sick and needed to be picked up. I quickly disregarded this thought though, as she had not done that in a few months. A few hours later I was on my walk and I noticed my wife coming down the road in her car. She pulled down the window and said she was going to pick up Elyse as she called from work saying she was sick.
wife, Nancy.
Anyway, after finding my first girlfriend on Facebook a couple of years ago, I contacted her. When I was doing this I had to type the usual gibberish for the captcha code (you know, when you have to type in stupid letters and numbers which you can sometimes
never understand...)
The captcha I had to type in was "sparkz".
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I am known online for my comedy videos and stories but I have a more spiritual, serious side also. About ten years ago the first line of what was to become my poem "Salvation" came to me, although I believe it actually came to me from an unknown source. I got on the computer and more lines came to me. This certainly did not seem like my writing and some of the lines I was either confused or even embarrassed to write, but I went with
the flow...
At the time I was on a music site uploading my comedy songs and with each song I uploaded I would receive several comments from other artists. Occasionally I would get a negative remark and one day I had a very nasty comment and I decided to reply to this person. However, for whatever reason, instead of writing him back a nasty email, I just sent him the Salvation poem I had recently written.
He wrote back the next day and said that the poem had really affected him and made him cry. He apologized to me for his actions. This really surprised me, as I was not expecting that kind of reaction and I then realized the power of words.
SALVATION
the foundation of spirit is beyond the light
it can be seen even in the darkness of night
feel it in your heart and see it in your soul
salvation of love is the only goal
angels may appear to you in a moment of distress
the beating heart holds all the truthfulness
remember lies are deceit and torment is pain
thunder is lightning and snow is rain
merging together and falling apart
the soul separates again from the heart
dearly departed into the skies above
all fear vanishes into final love
prayers may go unheeded or so you think
for what is a chain without a link
smiles are forthcoming to all the sad faces on earth
as time is at hand for the rebirth
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One day I started thinking that my wife had never had a teddy bear negligee or top and I thought she would look really nice (er...sexy) wearing one. A few hours later I was once again on my laptop and Deb came up to me and asked me "What do you think of this?", and I looked up and she was wearing a teddy bear top that her daughter had just
given her.
On another day around the same time I had taken my stepdaughter to her work. Later in the day I was thinking that she was going to phone home saying she was sick and needed to be picked up. I quickly disregarded this thought though, as she had not done that in a few months. A few hours later I was on my walk and I noticed my wife coming down the road in her car. She pulled down the window and said she was going to pick up Elyse as she called from work saying she was sick.
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About three years ago I was on a music site and had many of
my comedy songs there, which always made the music charts. Along came
another
comedy artist who did not seem to like me very much, probably out of
jealousy. There was a lot of bickering back and forth between a lot of
people about the charts and cheating. I was also accused by him of
chart manipulation with fake accounts.
One day I found out that he had many other accounts and was using these to rate his songs and get them placed higher on the charts. I decided to make a video regarding this matter, with snapshots of the various accounts. As I was editing the video my wife Deb was in the kitchen saying "I am getting that you should not be doing this". She felt it was a warning from my first wife Nancy. Being the typical man who doesn't listen to his "wives", I started to upload the video when suddenly the computer shut off completely. This really shocked me and was further proof that maybe I shouldn't upload the video. Being thickheaded and slightly stupid, I restarted the computer and uploaded it.
Needless to say it really was not worth doing and I regreted what I had done. This artist and myself finally apologized to each other and moved on with our stupid comedy songs...and I also learned to listen to Deb and Nancy more often.
chart manipulation with fake accounts.
One day I found out that he had many other accounts and was using these to rate his songs and get them placed higher on the charts. I decided to make a video regarding this matter, with snapshots of the various accounts. As I was editing the video my wife Deb was in the kitchen saying "I am getting that you should not be doing this". She felt it was a warning from my first wife Nancy. Being the typical man who doesn't listen to his "wives", I started to upload the video when suddenly the computer shut off completely. This really shocked me and was further proof that maybe I shouldn't upload the video. Being thickheaded and slightly stupid, I restarted the computer and uploaded it.
Needless to say it really was not worth doing and I regreted what I had done. This artist and myself finally apologized to each other and moved on with our stupid comedy songs...and I also learned to listen to Deb and Nancy more often.
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This is one of my favorite wacky stories from my life...
A couple of years ago my wife and I went to the local WalMart to get a few items, including a couple of windshield wipers for my car. We place everything in the cart (with the wiper blades in the top little basket.) As we put the items on the conveyor belt we noticed that one of the wiper blades was missing. We looked in the cart and the surrounding area, but it was nowhere to be seen. We figured it must have fallen out on the way to the check out.
A couple of years ago my wife and I went to the local WalMart to get a few items, including a couple of windshield wipers for my car. We place everything in the cart (with the wiper blades in the top little basket.) As we put the items on the conveyor belt we noticed that one of the wiper blades was missing. We looked in the cart and the surrounding area, but it was nowhere to be seen. We figured it must have fallen out on the way to the check out.
As my wife paid for everything I went to get my glasses
adjusted at the Optometrist department. I came out and Deb and I
proceeded to leave the store and we noticed that there were two wiper
blades in the basket (although Deb only paid for one.) We got to our
car and I opened the trunk and we started to put everything into the
car, including the two wiper blades that we both could see in the
cart. I turned to grab the wiper blades but suddenly there was
only one wiper blade again (and we were both a witness to this.) It
seems to have once again vanished into thin air and we still have never
seen it.
My late wife Nancy and I loved the Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes ("She's Not Pretty", "The Things I Do For Money", "Kiss Me, You Fool".) Around 1999 we actually got to know the band, as I was helping out their guitarist Bryan Potvin with his website. When they were recording one of their albums they let us visit the studio and we had a very nice visit for a couple of hours. We also saw them in concert in Toronto a handful of times.
They were very supportive when Nancy passed away, and Bryan dedicated the song "Snow In June" to her at a concert in Kingston, Ontario.
After I remarried, one day while I was at work I started thinking that I should get rid of all of the Pikes cd's. Not that I did not like them anymore, or that it brought any kind of bad memories. It was just something I was contemplating, with no real reason behind it.
On the way home from work that day, which was a 15 minute drive, I switched on the local radio station (although I usually prefer to listen to CD's) and there was a Northern Pikes song playing, which of course got me thinking about my thoughts earlier at work. After the song was over, another Northern Pikes song came on the radio. They never play the same band twice in a row on the radio (unless it is some kind of special, which this wasn't) so needless to say, I still have all my Northern Pikes music.
Many years ago a nephew of mine commited suicide and it was of course a very trying time for all family members. A few days after his passing, my late wife and I took our two sons to their weekly swimming lesson. Nancy and I were both surprised to see a new swimming instructor there who looked 90 per cent like my nephew. He was teaching a different group of children than our boys. Both of my young sons also noticed the similarity and mentioned it to us. The next week my nephew's lookalike was teaching our two sons for their lesson and that was the last time we saw this young man.
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My late wife Nancy and I loved the Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes ("She's Not Pretty", "The Things I Do For Money", "Kiss Me, You Fool".) Around 1999 we actually got to know the band, as I was helping out their guitarist Bryan Potvin with his website. When they were recording one of their albums they let us visit the studio and we had a very nice visit for a couple of hours. We also saw them in concert in Toronto a handful of times.
They were very supportive when Nancy passed away, and Bryan dedicated the song "Snow In June" to her at a concert in Kingston, Ontario.
After I remarried, one day while I was at work I started thinking that I should get rid of all of the Pikes cd's. Not that I did not like them anymore, or that it brought any kind of bad memories. It was just something I was contemplating, with no real reason behind it.
On the way home from work that day, which was a 15 minute drive, I switched on the local radio station (although I usually prefer to listen to CD's) and there was a Northern Pikes song playing, which of course got me thinking about my thoughts earlier at work. After the song was over, another Northern Pikes song came on the radio. They never play the same band twice in a row on the radio (unless it is some kind of special, which this wasn't) so needless to say, I still have all my Northern Pikes music.
THE NORTHERN PIKES 2004
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Many years ago a nephew of mine commited suicide and it was of course a very trying time for all family members. A few days after his passing, my late wife and I took our two sons to their weekly swimming lesson. Nancy and I were both surprised to see a new swimming instructor there who looked 90 per cent like my nephew. He was teaching a different group of children than our boys. Both of my young sons also noticed the similarity and mentioned it to us. The next week my nephew's lookalike was teaching our two sons for their lesson and that was the last time we saw this young man.
During another psychic reading I had something strange
happened, but I never noticed until the next day when I played back the
recording at work (listening on headphones)
I was shocked to hear someone say "Larry" right after the psychic said "you'd better have a chunk of change"... and the voice is of my late wife Nancy. Also, there was no one near our table (the rest of the tape it is all just muffled background noises...)
Audio here
In 2007 my oldest son wanted Deb to try and contact his mother. He asked her a couple of questions and Deb recieved the messages back from Nancy. The last question he asked Deb, she struggled and struggled to get the answer but Deb said that his mother seemed to be getting very frustrated and upset, and Deb could not figure out Nancy's message.
I was shocked to hear someone say "Larry" right after the psychic said "you'd better have a chunk of change"... and the voice is of my late wife Nancy. Also, there was no one near our table (the rest of the tape it is all just muffled background noises...)
Audio here
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In 2007 my oldest son wanted Deb to try and contact his mother. He asked her a couple of questions and Deb recieved the messages back from Nancy. The last question he asked Deb, she struggled and struggled to get the answer but Deb said that his mother seemed to be getting very frustrated and upset, and Deb could not figure out Nancy's message.
There was a chakra wand made of amethyst on the table and it suddenly broke in half with a large snap. (I was a witness to this sound...) Deb picked up the two halves and it had broken at the point of the heart chakra. She turned to Ryan and said "She says your being sad is breaking her heart, but did she have to break my wand?"
The next day I videotaped my son as he told the story about the rod breaking. A few weeks later I played back the tape (which was taken directly from the hard drive on my camcorder...) and I was surprised to hear music in the background while he was talking, as the TV or radio were not on at the time I was taping. The music had a certain "new age" sound to it and it seemed to build and build as he talked about the experience. At one point he says the word "chakra" and right after there is a mysterious voice that repeats the word in the background. It's all a mystery...and you can watch the video here in three different formats:
mpg quicktime windowsmedia
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I had discussed looking at a house on Colonial Road with this co-worker previously but had not seen the house yet. The next day it was time to have a tour of the house and it was perfect and we have lived here very happily for the past five years. I also know it is the kind of house that Nancy would have loved also.
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My wife Debra is psychic and can sometimes hear or sense spirits around her. One day out of frustration I said to her "I wish I could hear voices!", as I have such an interest in all of this new age "stuff".
The next morning I was laying in bed after waking up and I heard a male voice say "good morning". I knew it wasn't my wife's voice or my cat...
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