Originally Posted by
Summerlander
But I completely admire your courage for choosing compassion over fear. I do believe that, morally, you did the right thing, and not just because of the fact that children being in close proximity of a sex offender would have been a violation of the court order, but also, because your cousin's girlfriend, as a mother, deserved to know what she was up against regarding the safety of her kids. It is easy to let your guard down with a questionable someone when you see other people apparently vouching for, and pretending, for this person. What followed after you warned the mother was not your fault—it was your step-grandfather's doing, for if he had not offended against others in the first place, there would have been no reason to hide anything or putting others in the awkward position of having to conceal such an ugly truth.
I feel that you are quite spiritual and might have stumbled upon discoveries made long ago by practitioners and gurus of Eastern traditions. There have also been reports of energy flowing through the spine, kundalini and buzzing auras by shamans in South America. I think Carlos Castaneda, an avid lucid dreamer, also stumbled upon worlds made of energy ligaments when he separated from his body. I find this fascinating and it is always good to hear that people discover these phenomena for themselves. For me, it was happening since childhood, where fear appeared to prolong out-of-body experiences, but I think my practice didn't really take off, with more control and less fear, until I read Michael Powell's Mind Games back in 2008 and discovered a chapter on Robert Monroe's prescription for how to induce an OOBE.