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I was invited to an Automatic Writing class.
For anyone not familiar: You relax, do a little meditation, and put pen to paper. You think about what you want to ask, and watch as your hand writes the advice or answer your spirit guides need you to see.
That's the story at least. We could debate the forces involved, but that's how it was presented to me.
I went in with an open mind and followed the directions. After about a half hour of nothing, I decided to give it a test. I spotted a fruit bowl in the other room, I could see that there was fruit in it, but I couldn't tell how much, so I asked how many pieces of fruit are in the fruit bowl. My pen slid across the page and down. Clearly, I had drawn a seven. I went over and checked the bowl and there were exactly 7 pieces of fruit in the bowl.
I later also asked if a promotion that I was sure I was going to get, was going to be good for me, and I wrote "nonononononono" which I thought was nonsense at the time. About a week later, I did not get that promotion, but because I didn't get that job, I was able to take another, better position that opened up at a location much closer to my home.
I can't explain it, but it's all true.
The promotion thing is a fun one to ponder on, like you (probably?) could not have known to even make an educated guess about the other job, so unless you're prone to self sabotage, that was a pretty cool 'prediction'.
I tried automatic writing a few times in my teens, I think I was doing it wrong though as I was just letting words flow stream of consciousness style in shorthand or typing, and it mostly just produced a bunch of poorly written trauma dumping or half baked ideas for short stories, lmao.