I suppose that in some ways I am superstitious. But only because these things really happen to me.
I’m a precog, someone who can see into the future, but like most precogs it’s a fairly useless power and not at all reliable. I will get an image in my mind. Something pops up for no reason at all. No trigger mechanism, no casual mention by anyone, just appears in my head. Within a week an event relating to that image will occur.
In the past this mostly this took the form of predicting TV show reruns. I would see a scene or character from a TV show and sure enough within a week, there’s the episode. Now that I have for the most part abandoned TV watching this type of precognition has for the most part faded.
Now it takes the form of omens in my life. Good example, this week. I thought about my car’s extended warranty less than a week ago. No reason at all. My car’s in the shop right now for transmission work. Hopefully the warranty will cover it.
Not at all a useful power. It’s hard to sift between the real omens and the random thoughts and it’s not something that can be accessed at will. I’ve discussed this phenomena with some of my more philosophically and metaphysically minded friends and acquaintances. Their thinking points mainly to the writings of Jung and his concept of synchronicity and meaningful causality. That these are not just random events but an expression of some sort of deeper organized pattern. I just try to ignore it as best as possible.
Symbols are another matter. I suppose they’re an expression of those things in life that I’ve come to sort internally as good/bad, better/worse, positive/negative. They can range from the rather inane and pedestrian to esoteric and deeply personal.
Take some of the more banal symbols out there. Coca cola for instance, not the drink but the logo, the colors, the font. Comparing that to the Pepsi symbol. When I was growing up the Coke symbol was good and Pepsi was bad just based on the logos. Bizarre I know but that’s how a kid thinks. My universe was sorted along strict lines and things like coke and pepsi were well and truly separated by an unbridgeable gap. Of course now that I am free from my cola and fructose addictions I see all of these as “bad” symbols.
Over time I have added and disregarded symbols as time passed and as situations changed. As much as I try to disregard these symbols and keep an open mind about things I find that they do sneak in and flavor my thinking about some things. All I can do is to try to remain vigilant and keep my mind as open as possible.
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