I had a run in with the paranormal/supernatural, after many years of atheistic belief and attitude. My girlfriend witnessed it, and continues to witness it.
After leaving the JWs i pretty much gave up on all things spiritual. However, about a year or two ago i started meditating in order to relieve stress. Nothing happened at first but there would be times when i feel like i was vibrarting, kind of like a washing machine does. Or i would feel a sensation of some kind. I didn't pay much attention to it.
One night after falling asleep i woke up in the middle of the night with my girlfriend staring at me quite perplexed. She asked me what the hell was i doing and I said nothing. I had been sleeping. According to her i had been doing "yoga". I was doing weird movements with my arms and my hands were doing some sort of sign-language. I had no memory of it.
Needless to say i decided to pursue it a little further. I would meditate, and gradually my hands, then arms, then my entire body would assume yoga-positions. I've never been to a yoga class, and yet i would move around like i was in a yoga class. Headstands, arched backs, you name it, followed by weird hand gestures.
One day i began speaking. It wasn't English. It was Sanskrit. My girlfriend typed the words into google and the results came back "Sanskrit Mantra" the words were "Ham Tham" "Sa-Ham" things like that. Crazy. I've never had one lesson in the ancient language of India.
Well, that triggered that night an avanlance of paranormal phenomena. I began breathing very hard and deeply and lost all concious control of myself. I didn't even have to meditate to bring it on, it happened by itself. I began rambling in Sanskrit, doing all the postures, hand movements, etc...I began crying uncontrollably and laughing and yelling. It was horrible.
I thought i was under demonic attack. After years of trying to de-program myself from JW thought control, i found myself in front of my computer on the JW website. I thought i was fighting for my life at the time. I managed to not call a JW elder, although i certainly thought about it. I said Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah over and over again. I even called an old friend who recommeded me to head to the Catholic church and get an exorcism.
The night wore on and eventually the symptoms stopped, although I kept crying. We went to an emergency room. I thought maybe i was having a nervous breakdown, a schizophrenic episode or something. The doctors and psychiratrist found nothing wrong with me. They did reccomend seeing a therapist with a background in Yoga, which is what I started doing.
I eventually found out what happened is what the Hindus and Yogis call a "kundalini awakening". Its a long story but needless the say it's a lot like what the Christians call "Holy Spirit".
Weird huh? Well needless to say, It changed my views on the supernatural for good. The good news is I don't have to become a JW again. Instead, I'm seeing a hindu renunciate who helps people undergoing these experiences. I've been able to control them now.
I'm going to be undergoing some medical studies done by a Psychiratrist and members of the University of Washington. They're going to hook me up to a machine and monitor my brain-waves when i undergo these experiences. Apparently they've tested other people who undergoes the same experiences I do and they've discovered that the brain will often shift erraticaly and sometimes even register waves that are reminiscent of someone in deep sleep, although the patient is awake.
In any case, as far as proof goes the best i could is take a lie detector test and show you what happens to me. When i'm speaking sankrit or doing yoga postures, it's happening without my concious control of it. Whether or not you want to believe me is up to you. In any case, I could care less. It's not the same experience as seeing ghost or talking to the dead, but i'm certainly at a place in my life now where i no longer think those experiences are impossible to have happen.
a former sceptic,
dolphman