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--------- Much of this information is subliminal or subconscious. How many of us have had an experience like this or one similar. You walk into a strange room, maybe a doctors waiting room, you sit down, relax, maybe read a magazine. After a while you notice the sound of a clock ticking or maybe a radio playing down the hall. Those sounds were there all the time but you weren't conscious of them earlier. Perhaps if you left the room sooner you never would have consciously heard them. Shamans believe that all the senses are connected at a single point within the human psyche and that all the information that is collected at that point is processed to create the world as we perceive it. They believe that because the senses are all connected if you improve one sense all the others are improved also. Shamans spend a lot of time trying to improve their senses, frequently by hunting. This is where I come in. Many years ago when I first became interested in hunting and wildlife photography I wanted to improve my ability to find wildlife in the forest and fields. This meant improving my senses, especially the ability to detect motion. As human beings we are all designed to be hunters. I know most of us get our meat at the market but our bodies have not changed all that much since we were cavemen. The ability to detect motion is primarily in our peripheral vision. That is the vision that is at the very edge of our sight and to our sides. The reason peripheral vision is out of focus is because a sharp image is not as effective for detecting slight motion or a change in scene. With peripheral vision you do not see something so much as you are "aware" of it. Try this yourself. Look straight ahead and do not move your eyes or head. Swing your arm back out of your line of vision then slowly move it forward until it enters your peripheral vision. You cannot see your arm as clearly as with your forward vision but you eyes are "aware" that it is there. One of the methods shamans used to train their peripheral vision was to look straight ahead at the horizon as they walked and to make themselves as "aware" as possible of the objects passing through their peripheral vision as they walked by them. That is how I trained myself to detect motion. If I was walking down a hallway or in the woods I would focus my eyes straight ahead and make myself aware of what was passing by the edges of my sight. When driving on a straight road I would do the same thing. After a while I got quite good at detecting motion and I believe I saved myself from a fender bender or two as a result. Shamans believe that because peripheral vision is well designed to make you eyes "aware" of things that it is the key to psychic vision. ----------- I have worked for the United States Postal Service since 1973. For the past eight years I have been in "Statistical Programs" which collects statistical data for the Postal Service's "Finance Unit". My job consists of driving to various Post Offices throughout Connecticut in the early morning hours, I start at 3:30 A.M., and collect a random sample of mail as it arrives. I then input various information about the sample pieces into a lap top computer. Such things as originating office, cancellation date, mail class, postage amount, weight, etc... Tests are conducted according to mail shape, for example one test for letter sized another for flats (magazines, newspapers, large envelopes) and another for parcels. A few years back I was conducting a parcel test at a medium sized office where they sort the parcels in the basement of the building. The building was probably constructed in prior to the 1940's and the old brick basement was not all that well lighted. I had collected my parcel sample and was alone when I had the overwhelming feeling that I was not alone. I shrugged off the feeling as I always got the creeps when I was down there even with someone else. As I was inputting the data into my lap top I noticed someone standing there watching me out of the corner of my eye. I thought, "Where the heck did he come from?". I turned to see who it was and to my surprise there was no one there. "These early hours are killing me." I thought and went back to data inputting. A while later it happened again and when I turned around no one was there. Over a course of several years almost every time I was in that basement working alone, out of the corner of my eye, and just about 10 to 15 feet behind me I would "see" a man's figure standing there and usually more than once on each occasion. One time after seeing the figure three times in just over an hour I said aloud and angrily, "Cut it out!". It didn't help. It's not that I actually saw the figure in my peripheral vision but that I was "aware" of the figure. Aware enough that I could tell it was in the shape of a man. I always had the feeling that he was creeping up on me but he always seemed to be in the same spot in front of a little back room. Sometimes I also would hear what sounded like someone sneaking around but I always attributed those noises to mice or rats. I told my wife about that spookey basement (omitting the part about the figure) and told her I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone had killed themselves down there. A couple of years ago the Postal Service moved several mail automation machines down there. Lots of noise. Lots of lights and a crew of about a dozen people always there when I was. I haven't seen the figure since then but even with other people around I still get a strong case of the creeps and the feeling that "someone else" is there and I don't mean the people operating the machines. Last week of July 1999 I was doing a test at another office with a woman who has been with my department (Statistical Programs) for two years and makes her time clock rings at the office with the creepy basement. She happened to mention that Postal Management was planning to move the mail sorting machines to another facility and I replied, "I hope not, I hate working down there alone that place gives me the creeps.". She said, "You aren't the only one. Someone committed suicide down there.". "Oh?", I said, trying not to sound completely bowled over, "Who?". She proceeded to tell me that the guy who designed the building, the architect, got into some kind of trouble for going over the budget and killed himself in a side room in the basement there. "They always keep that room locked because it's always cold in there. People have seen things down there.", she added. At this point too many questions were racing through my mind to ask any more but I plan to ask more questions the next time I see her sometimes in the next few weeks. I intend to keep this page updated with any new information. If this true story amounts to what is commonly called a "ghost story" then the scariest part for me is that it's not over yet. I know that sometime in the future I will have to be alone in that basement again, or maybe not. --------------- -Richard Carrozza |
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