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[quote]That reminds me of a dream I had (in 2009, I think). I believe I posted it on MQ somewhere. Anyway, I dreamed I was being shown around in India or a similar culture, and I saw girls--one of which was about 5 years old--dressed in a gold gown, face fúlly covered. I was apalled because she was to be married to some older man; she would have been raped. Her value was in being very young and "untouched".

[quote]Now this particular dream you had I feel could have been a past life memory, especially if you did not have prior knowledge of these things that happen in India.

That happens in India and in the middle east…. They are married off to old men at a tender young age. In India when the man dies the poor women becóme homeless, their families reject them, and I think they are not allowed to marry again. It’s a shocking aspect of India. They spend the rest of their days homeless and having to find food, shelter and clothing up until they die. There are thousands and thousands of these homeless child bride women in India. I read a long story about it a few years back and it broke my heart to think of these children and later women that are suffering in such a manner. This world is so screwed up!

I had heard about adult women having their faces covered with fabric and young girls and boys expected to marry when they are older, but I do not believe that some man would want to marry an infant! Surely, they aren't really trying to have intercourse with these children! :mad:

I found the account and it was NOT India but Africa where the dream seems to have taken place [Dream Date: Feb. 27, 2010. From Page 3 of Penny's Dream Journal]:

[quote]Today, I had two back to back dreams of Africa.

First, I'm standíng in the midst of a grass-less plain and a very young girl is walking toward me. Her head is covered in a gold, cream and peach damask fabric which is banded around the head (or was it the neck?). I know that in this culture, girls as young as 5 and 6 can be wed to older men (arranged marriage). I think the girls wíll (be) sexually penetrated. This particular girl is to be married shortly, that is why she is wearing the cloak. Her face is not seen. A tall, light skin woman arrives to take the girl and prevent the ceremony.

. . . The name of the land where the girls were wed young (and, possibly the prisoner's country) was Umbutu. I found a Google map that says this:

[quote]This place is situated in Tambawal, Sokoto, Nigeria . . . and its original name (with diacritics) is Umbutu.

[However, when I do a Google search it keeps coming up as Unbuntu ].

Now I'm wondering if what happens in India with young girls also happen in parts of Africa, as well?

[quote]I read a story yesterday of a doctor who studied the brain waves of murderers, and was shocked to find when checking his own brain waves, that he had the brain waves of a murderer. He did some checking into his family history and found out that he did have family that were murderers’. But he had never gone that way himself and he put it down to the fact that he was brought up in a very happy home, and had a wonderful childhood. So if he had not had a happy childhood he may well have been a murderer.
That's so interesting! It would be interesting to know how many (if any) of those murderers did not have the Killer Brain Wave and what their family and childhood to adult life had been.

I[quote] do agree that abuse in the home, carries over. I had a girlfriend when young whose husband beat her up unmercifúlly on a regular basis. He was an absolute animal! His mother was a lovely quiet lady, and there did not appear to be any abuse in the family… then one day the mother up and disappeared. Apparently she had been abused by her husband all their married life, and the son had treated his wife the same as his father treated his mother.

Err...did she disappear because he killed her or because she'd finally had enough? It may be important to note that not abusers cóme from abusive backgrounds. Hmmm...maybe they have that Killer Brain Wave or a similar one for Abusive behavior. Anyway, what a sad, horrible way to líve. Abuse is an absolute snare. Imprisonment by fear.

[quote]These spírits that do this I believe are what the ancients called God’s and Goddesses. Some angelic, some good, some evil, and some just down right sick. They can get into the orifices of a person’s body and know a person intimately. A person may not even realise they are there. Once they know a person intimately they can create havoc for that person. The way to discover them is to know ourselves intimately. At one time I found myself in the most dreadful state…. I was bashing myself up, and putting myself down, and was sinking lower and lower, then suddenly I thought… Hang on, this isn’t me! I realised I had got one of these hanger oners. So I sat down and with the powér of my mind forced it off me. I felt it literally pop off the back of my head. The moment it was gone I felt almost pure and angelic…. Like a new born baby. It was the most wonderful feeling. I wondered then just how long that cretin had been stuck too me. I must have been doing something that was not giving it enough food (I stíll can’t figure) so it started an intense attack on me. But since getting it off me I have never beaten myself up like that again. So knowing yourself is a good way to find these cretin that get into our bodies and auras.

Of course too I believe if we have had a bad experience, being co-creators we could build up some bad spírits of our own. It’s all to do with energy. If we continually focus our thoughts around a bad experience/s we have had the build up of energy wíll create a spírit that is a part of us. I saw that during an intense time of spíritual epiphanies. We are co-creators, but due to our focus on línear time we don’t see it. But we can see them psychically.

That's deep, there, Pen. Over the decades, my stepmother has often said similar things and about like attracting like. Because of her (and others) I'm not nearly as negative as I used to be. :confused: Now, when I start putting myself down, I say, "Okay, so what are you going to do about it? And when are you going to get started?" And that's that, I move on.

[quote]Water holds emotional energy so it could be water. And yes previous things that have happened at the place of residence too could be a factor. We can never really know what happened in a home prior to our renting it. The people could have been doing something to attract that particular type of spírit.

Right! And as you know, it's also the land...the space that the property is built on that has its own history--a sequence of events and possible cultural actívíty that took place long before that house or building was built.

Just like the old apt. complex where I had líved was built on a former reservoir that was part of a huge plantation. But who knows what cultures existed and what rituals and behaviors played out in that area since the beginning of Earth?

[quote]A powérful spírit told me that we are here to be challenged because there are no challenges in the spírit realms. We are here to experience life and all its myriad differences and be challenged by them, although it’s pretty hard to swallow when nothing but bad things seem to happen.

Which brings us to the $64,000 question: Why? What is the point of these so-called challenges that potentially damage the spírit? What are we being prepared for? For what use is rape and physícal torture and misery? Are we being toughened up for some particular vicious battle? What are all these experiences for? Why the need to experience male and female points of view? And I assume we've had pleasant lifetimes. :confused: (I just know that this isn't one of them. Urrgh. But I'm certain there have been far worse lifetimes we've limped through.)


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