I’m excited to continue with the second part of our interview with Akemi. Thanks for joining us again!
For anyone who has not read Part 1 please check it out. The topics were intuition, the ego and spirit guides.
Today Akemi will be talking about déjà vu moments, light bodies, dreaming and out of body experiences. Ok, let’s get started then….
1. Akemi, I’ve had many déjà vu experiences where I’ve been doing or saying something that I felt I’d done before. What is happening when a person experiences this? Is it a memory from a recent dream or perhaps a soul confirmation that they are connecting with “part of the plan”?
This is a very interesting question. I do think some of our déjà vu experiences and sticky dreams (the kind of dreams that you remember to be so real) have something to do with our soul memory.
Davina: So, you are saying we could possibly be connecting with part of a preconceived plan that we made before incarnating?
Akemi: Maybe. Or maybe we did or said something very similar in our past lives. Can you share an example with us, Davina?
Davina: Nothing specific comes to mind. But generally it happens when I’m having a conversation with someone and suddenly I feel like I’ve been with this person before. We were doing the exact same thing, sitting in the exact same room, even wearing the same clothes. A lot of information flashes at me in a split second. It’s like we’re acting out a rehearsed scene.
2. You’ve mentioned that we are moving into a new style of existence called “light bodies.” What does this mean?
This is something I’m hoping to happen in year 2012. Just joking. It would be nice if it were that easy (if we could become light bodies just waiting for another several years), but I guess it takes more spiritual work for each of us to achieve such high level of existence.
It is a fact, however, that we are evolving fast spiritually these days. This is why so many people are seeking help like mine to get past the existing roadblocks in their growth. And many of us sense that spiritual growth will lead to a new style of “physical” existence as well.
Currently we have this physical body, which is very dense and heavy. I’m only 112 lbs so I’m not “heavy” but still, for my soul, this body feels small to fit in and cumbersome to carry around. I heard that we are evolving and ascending to a less dense existence called a light body. It is probably similar to our astral body, but because I haven’t achieved this yet, I don’t know what it is like. It’s something I look forward to in my own spiritual development.
Davina: Hmmm. Ok, this makes me wonder if this does come to pass, (says my other self as I go completely out on a limb here), what use will our bodies be then? I mean, we won’t need our bodies then? Will we need food? How important will the environment be in that case? I don’t even begin to expect an answer to THAT one! But if you do have a comment I’d love to hear it.
Akemi: Oh, I think it will be fun! I imagine I can move so much faster as a light body (I’d fly, or move even faster than flying!!). Food? Why bother? I wonder how long a light body would “live”. Now remember, I don’t claim to know this – I just think this may be a possibility, and I resonate a lot with the idea.
3. Can you say more about why this is happening or what this means by saying that spiritually we are evolving quickly these days?
I think it is pretty obvious that we are accelerating our spiritual evolution these days. Just look at the increased interest in spirituality or “paranormal” phenomena! (I think the term “paranormal” is discriminative because it comes with the preconceived idea of what normal is.)
A few years ago I might have been sent to a mental institution if I said I could see or hear what others can’t. Now there are universities that teach spirituality (not religions) and metaphysics. Many doctors are embracing the idea of medical intuitives or reincarnation, and “ordinary” people are practicing meditation and experimenting with the law of attraction. Pretty cool.
4. Life has become fast-paced and circumstances can change in an instant. Would a person be wise to reconsider an intuitive decision based on this?
Davina, intuitive messages are not like the 10 Commandments carved on a stone. (Davina blushes.) Spirit guides don’t get upset just because we fail to follow their advice and they don’t punish us for not following through. They are helpers. Yes, they have higher perspectives than we do and therefore are incredibly helpful, but they also respect our initiative. We are the players in this world and we hired our own spirit guides who can help us.
Any decision, made by intuition or logics, is best served when it is updated as we go along. Now the good news of intuitive decision making is it’s the fastest of all. It’s so useful in this fast-paced society!
I’m confident that, as the world becomes increasingly accelerated, more people will find intuitive decision making to be useful and valuable. The time when we can sit back with logic and “proven” facts or methods is ending.
5. I dream quite frequently and sometimes they are very vivid dreams. Once I dreamed I’d won the lottery. I woke up and the dream had been so real that I was laying there planning what I was going to do with the money. When I finally “came to my senses” you can imagine how disappointed I was.
What role do dreams play in our lives? Why can they often be so unrealistic, yet feel so real? And what is the difference between dreaming and lucid dreaming?
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear you missed the lottery 😉 What were the things you wanted to do with the money? If I were you, I’d still put them up in my vision board for the law of attraction. . .
There are many kinds of dreams. Some dreams are just our mind re-processing what it experienced. The experience may be real or something you saw in a movie or in a book, and it may be a recent or old experience, or a combination.
Some people “work” through their dreams. They have many dreams but the dreams don’t make sense to them. It’s a way their soul is helping other souls, and my advice for this kind of dreamer is “Don’t over-analyze your dreams.” (Davina sighs with relief.)
Some go to the wrong side of the dream world either by accident or by negative energy interference. This is really harmful – the person ends up having some kind of sleep problems such as nightmares (the negative side of the dream world is a very ugly place), insomnia (because the mind is so afraid of going there again), night terrors in children, or dreamless sleep (because the mind dismisses the horrible dreams immediately at waking up). It is one of the energetic issues I clear with my Akashic Record Readings.
Then, there are dreams that are spiritual messages. They would feel special. It may be the soul memory of its past lives, or it may be premonitions.
Lucid dreaming is a situation where you are aware you are dreaming while you are dreaming. Because you know it’s a dream, you can choose to do things you can’t do in the “real” world. Some people seem to really enjoy this.
Davina: Wow, I had no idea there were so many different types of dreaming!
6. Ok Akemi, here is a personal story that I’m hoping you can shed some light on.
This happened to me many years ago during a meditation. I was lying down, feeling completely relaxed and listening to a meditation exercise on a cassette tape. Suddenly my feet started to feel heavy, numb and tingly. Like that feeling you get when you sit on your legs and they fall asleep. However, I wasn’t sitting, I was lying down.
This feeling quickly moved up my legs and I felt my body start to sit up effortlessly. I fought against this in fear. Then gently and in slow motion, my head “appeared to turn” and look at the bedside table. I know my head did not move physically; I was too paralyzed with fear to move! I know, I know… this sounds crazy, but it happened!
I saw on the table some greeting cards (that also were not there physically). While I looked at these cards they quivered slightly as if a light breeze was passing over them. I was totally freaked out!
This experience ended with me staring at the ceiling thinking I was losing my mind. It was the middle of the afternoon and I was not dreaming. Do you have any insights about what might have happened? Was this the beginning of an out-of-body experience?
Akemi: From your reading, I see that you are one of those lucky people with extra gifts for that kind of out-of-body or astral projection experience. Some people seem to enjoy this – you can travel to far off lands fast! Just don’t come to my bedroom to surprise me at night *smile*.
We have an astral body, which can look like our physical body but is far less dense. It is usually with the physical body, but it can move out from our physical body either by your intention or by accident, like it happened to you.
Davina: Thanks for this explanation Akemi, and don’t worry, I’m not planning on taking any astral trips (at least that I can be aware of) anytime soon. As intriguing an idea as this sounds, I’m not comfortable with it. Funny, I never enjoyed air travel either *smile*.
On that note everyone, I’d like to conclude our time with Akemi. Thank you for sharing all of this with us. It has been quite interesting and has certainly challenged my logical mind. I’m sure the ego is a little uncomfortable too, but I’ll be having a talk with him or her soon.
If you want to learn more about Akemi and her Akashic Record Readings or her Spirit Guide Readings, please check out the provided links.
I hope you enjoyed Part 2 of our interview. If there are any questions, again please ask Akemi below in the comments section. Thanks again for reading, and sweet dreams!
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November 10, 2008 at 9:59 am
Akemi Gaines On Intuition, Dreams And Spiritual Guidance–Interview Part 1 « Loving Pulse
[…] with you and your guides *smile*, let’s close the door for now. We will continue on Monday with Part 2 where Akemi talks about déjà vu moments, light bodies, dreaming and out of body experiences. […]
November 10, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Betsy
Wow, I loved the discussion on the different types of dreaming. I’ve thought that the Lucid Dreaming state might just our when we are lose to waking. I’ve awakened and have actually been able to say, no I don’t want to wake up, I want to return to the dream and have done so. Fascinating work, Davina and Akemi. Thank you.
November 10, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Urban Panther
With dreams, I wake up knowing which ones I need to pay attention to. Those ones don’t occur very often, although I dream vividly nightly. I’d be exhausted trying to interpret them all, and really it could be the espresso I had before bed. So, instead, I just listen to that voice that says “This one you need to pay attention to and figure out.” So, I work on it until I have an Ah-ha! moment, and it always leads to some block being busted.
Akemi, I find your approach refreshing. I believe that any belief system needs to be balanced with common sense. Sometimes it is good to act immediately on intuition, sometimes you should ponder it a bit first. Sometimes it’s good to interpret dreams, other times it is a very active imagination. Sometimes it is good to ‘feed’ the body with light (I have an excellent exercise for immediately turning my body to pure light), but for the most part you need to feed it with food. Any belief system that leans too far in one direction or another causes me to become suspect.
November 10, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Akemi "spiritual entrepreneur" @ Yes to Me
Hi everyone,
Like with part 1, if you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask here. I’m subscribed to the comments so I will be checking back.
Betsy,
Glad you enjoyed it… the topic of dreams is indeed so fascinating!
Panther,
You are so right. The meaningful dreams usually stand out.
I’m interested in your exercise to feed the body with light — will you tell me more about it? If you’d rather whisper me, just email me personally ^_^
November 10, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Urban Panther
@Akemi – it’s a meditative exercise I learned when I was formally studying Druidism. You start at your toes and imagine your toes becoming pure white light. I generally do this on an intake of breath. On the out breath, I move up the body to the next part, say the foot (short of the ankle) and imagine the light moving up and consuming that part of the body. You keep doing that with each in and out of breath until your entire body is white light. After practice, you completely lose any concept of your physical body. There is no physical body. You are simply pure mind. Then after a lot of practice, you can sometimes invoke this with much larger ‘chunks’ of your body. For example legs, torso, arms, head. Poof! Pure light, no physical body. I can invoke the transformation within seconds now.
Warning: the first couple of times you are successful, when you come out of it DO NOT stand up quickly. You will fall over 🙂
November 10, 2008 at 7:49 pm
davinahaisell
Hi Betsy.
You are welcome! That happened to me once too. When I was much younger, I was having a really nice dream about a guy who I had a crush on. I remember waking up and being angry that my dream was interrupted. I wanted to finish the dream. So, I fell back asleep and did go back to that guy. The rest is private 🙂
Hi Urban Panther.
I think you are smart to be suspicious of a belief system that leans too far in one direction. That kind of system sounds cultish to me.
I’d also love to hear more about that exercise you do to feed the body with light.
November 10, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Urban Panther
@Davina – see comment above yours *smile*
November 10, 2008 at 9:00 pm
veredd
You guys are way too spiritual for me. 🙂
Nonetheless, this was an interesting read. Thank you.
November 10, 2008 at 9:23 pm
davinahaisell
Hi Urban Panther.
Sounds powerful. I can’t wait to start! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Vered.
I know… it’s gets kind of tiring sometimes! 😉 Thanks for coming back for Part 2 though…
What does spiritual look like to you Vered? It’s really all about what “moves” you in particular ways; such as that feeling you have when you are appreciating your children for example.
Doesn’t have to be about the white light and spirits and dreams (a part of me sometimes says, ya this is way too out there for me, but then I come back for more anyway); to me, that’s just another classroom of experimentation.
November 10, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Akemi "spiritual entrepreneur" @ Yes to Me
Panther,
Thank you! I’ll try that. Are there any closing procedure for this other than being slow to check out?
November 11, 2008 at 1:16 am
Evelyn Lim
Thanks for the interesting read. I’m trying to figure out some of my personal experiences into an understandable manner and your post here lends an added perspective.
November 11, 2008 at 3:15 am
Urban Panther
@Akemi – no, just slowly become aware of your body again.
November 11, 2008 at 3:49 am
Cath Lawson
Hi Davina and Akemi – I had to come back twice to finish reading. The thought of not eating food in four years time worries me. I like food and folk like poor old Gordon Ramsay would be out of a job. Also, I don’t know if Akemi has thought about this but there would be no berries.
I was going to those negative places in my sleep but Akemi cleared them. But now I am a bit scared to sleep again. My husband read somewhere on the web that if we die in our dream – we will die in real life. Do you know if this is true?
It is brilliant that you had an out of body experience Davina. Evelyn had one too – you probably read about it. I have tried a few times but didn’t get too far. I would really like to fly to so many places – Egypt is first on my list.
I was just thinking about what UP is saying and I might have a try at doing that tomorrow.
November 11, 2008 at 4:00 am
Marelisa
Hi Akemi: Thank you for answering my question in the first part of the interview. I know what you mean about people thinking you’re paranoid when you know they’re lying to you even when they’re standing there with a huge smile on their face and pretending to be sincere.
I have a book on lucid dreaming and I started to practice it but then I got involved with other things and put it aside. I think I’m going to go brush it off 🙂
Hi Davina: I’m sorry you didn’t actually win the lottery 🙂
November 11, 2008 at 5:35 am
davinahaisell
Hi Evelyn.
You are welcome. Glad you’ve found something here! I look forward to reading about more of your experiences.
@ Urban Panther.
I just reread your instructions cause I want to try this meditative exercise tonight. I had missed that part where you said you can do this in just a few seconds. Wow!
Hi Cath.
Too funny about the food! I don’t think it’s true that if we die in our dreams we die in real life. Could you imagine if it were true??? A lot of people would be afraid to fall asleep 🙂 Makers of sleeping pills would go out of business… If it were the case I’d be dead, cause I’ve dreamed about it before.
Yes, I did read about Evelyn’s experience; I admire that she is so comfortable with it. Quite frankly, as much as this idea intrigues me, it scares me more. If I did “travel”, I think I’d want to leave the Earth. I had a vision when I was a little girl that I was looking back at the Earth while floating in space. It was beautiful.
Hi Marelisa.
Thanks… me too 😦
November 11, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Akemi "spiritual entrepreneur" @ Yes to Me
Evelyn,
Great!
Panther,
Thank you.
Cath,
I hope I didn’t misguide some people about 2012. That was a joke, or a wishful thinking. You don’t have to give up foods if you don’t want to. And I like Gordon Ramsay — I like cooking and sometimes read BBC’s magazines. So don’t worry and enjoy your biscuits.
I think I’ve been killed many times in my dream, so I have a hard time believing that. Just ask your astral guide to be with you throughout the night while you sleep.
Marelisa,
I know. Coming out as psychic is such a big deal. . .
Davina,
Your dream of looking at the Earth from space is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
November 11, 2008 at 7:33 pm
davinahaisell
@Akemi. Yes, it was beautiful. This was actually a vision that I reconnected with years after it happened. At the time it happened, I was playing outside on a bright sunny day and for a brief moment, I was suddenly in space looking back at the Earth. I was not playing in the front yard on a bright sunny day anymore. Everything was dark except for the Earth in the distance.
I was so young that I must have not really realized what had happened. Then years later that memory surfaced for no apparent reason, and I realized that it must have been a vision.
November 12, 2008 at 3:52 am
Lance
More great stuff here ladies!
Especially for me, the section on dreams. I’ve had dreams like this too, where I will wake up, and it feels like I’m there. Like it’s still happening. Oftentimes, when this happens, I’m in some mode of panic. I think the key here for me is to not over-analyze these dreams… But the whole idea behind the different types of dreams really is fascinating, thanks for sharing this look into our “dream world”.
November 12, 2008 at 5:00 am
davinahaisell
Hi Lance.
Yes, Akemi did a great job of explaining this didn’t she? I had no idea that dreams could fall into so many categories either. So you are having a nightmare and you wake up in the middle of it? Am I right? I’m curious…
My grandmother had a funny dream experience. She was in the woods and was being chased by a wolf. She ran and ran and ran until she came to a lake. She jumped into the lake to escape. Then she woke up and had wet the bed. 🙂
November 12, 2008 at 7:14 am
Liara Covert
Akemi makes some fascinating points that readers can or may already begin to explore for themselves. I find dreams to be fascinating subjects. I enjoy exploring astral planes. I interact with beings I know and those I have yet to meet in the physical world. I find it humorous that people’s roles are switched around. I am always invited to rethink something so I expand my awareness in ways Ihad not consciously foreseen.
November 12, 2008 at 10:02 am
davinahaisell
Hi Liara.
That is really neat that you interact with beings on the astral plane who you have yet to meet in the physical world. Thanks for sharing that. Yet another perspective I had not considered.
November 12, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Akemi "spiritual entrepreneur" @ Yes to Me
Hi everyone,
It’s so interesting to discuss our nightly dreams, isn’t it? I’ve had creative dreams, like dreams of unbelievably beautiful music. I so wish I could remember and write them down.
Sometimes I dream in movie format, complete with credits running at the end with music . . . Sometimes I dream in the internet format . . . I can scroll down or click on links to move in the dreams. Sometimes I dream in comic book format . . . I need to turn the pages. So much fun ^_^
November 13, 2008 at 12:04 am
janniesue
Number 6 was a total OMG for me. I wonder if I’ll ever have that happen to me?
I used to be really good at interpreting my own dreams but now, not so much. I wonder what has changed in me. I think it’s maybe that I am a very happy person now that I am a mother (which I longed for a long long time,) so I don’t have many turmoils to get worked out. Wow! I just now figured that out – cool! This blog has enlightened me on my first visit here. (I think this is my fiirst visit, isn’t it? )
November 13, 2008 at 3:57 am
Akemi "spiritual entrepreneur" @ Yes to Me
janniesue,
I think I saw you at Barbara’s blog? Good to see you here.
Out-of-body is tough and you probably won’t experience it . . . Not sure if this is disappointment or relief to you?
November 13, 2008 at 6:23 am
davinahaisell
Hi there Janniesue and welcome to Loving Pulse! Yes this is your first visit and thanks for sharing your comment. I really like your avatar!
About that number 6 OMG…. I can understand your curiosity and sure, I believe anything’s possible. However, I strongly sense that this experience has a purpose and you have to be really clear on your motives and know what you are doing. This happened to me by accident and I didn’t enjoy it.
I can’t offer you any advice as I’m not an expert. But if I were you, I would do a lot of reading first, and talk to someone with experience who can give you some good guidance.
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