Category Archives: personal

I Quit!

Posted on June 15, 2015 by cdsmiller17

Going through some papers this week, I found a dream diary entry that has interesting implications: it occurred during a period of time just before I moved to the UK… Back to School (Again) Straight Pins I’m in class and … Continue reading →

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Who Am I? My Search for a Family Name

Posted on June 1, 2015 by cdsmiller17

As I pointed out in the poem, “My Father’s Heir” (see “The Miller Saga: Family Reunion”) I grew up thinking that my father was dead. That was before Mom wrote me “THE Letter”, which laid out some of the details … Continue reading →

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Who Am I? My father’s son

Posted on June 1, 2015 by cdsmiller17

If you’ve ever been in the unfortunate position of having an absentee father for most of your life, you’ll know how interesting it is to finally catch up with him when you are an adult: not only are your perceptions … Continue reading →

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Angus Manse: a ghost story

Posted on May 31, 2015 by cdsmiller17

Although I believe in a lot of ‘other worldly’ stuff, ghosts tend to be a bit too far out for me. But I have to admit to having a brush with one when I was 15 years of age. Let … Continue reading →

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Astral Travelling?

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

Have you ever had a feeling of flying, while asleep in your bed? As a child, this would happen frequently. Now, however, it would take an act of will to achieve astral projection. Childhood Dreams Christopher and Columbus One of … Continue reading →

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Dreams: is there a higher education?

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

I never did attend university, but I finally graduated from high school, in my dreams. It may have been much, much more than that. Graduation Dreams figure greatly in my learning processes. The one that seemed to recur regularly was … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Healing

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

In 1987, I joined a healing circle. The method involved moving one’s hands up and down the back, but not touching anything. In effect, one is healing the person’s aura. First Hints In 1976, my then girlfriend, Mona, suffered a … Continue reading →

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Expanded Consciousness

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

We don’t realize that we’re on a spiritual path when we are young. It is only later that the ‘strange’ events add up to a significant number of coincidences. Here are a few of mine. Scared of the Dark When … Continue reading →

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Hypnotherapy: a Personal Journey

Posted on May 30, 2015 by cdsmiller17

There is a saying, “Life is a journey, not a destination”. This is mine: what I will attempt to do is connect the dots of the events along the route that became the spiritual signposts of my inner growth towards … Continue reading →

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To Everything There is a Season

Posted on May 29, 2015 by cdsmiller17

When we were young, we thought that we’d work forever, or at least as long as our health held out. But then there comes a time to lay the burden of work down. For me, the time is now. Ecclesiastes … Continue reading →

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