I keep tellin' him that, Aces!
Nice to have another here who sees it, too.
Hey Debi. I know your prodding on this point is only a sincere way to show you care, are interested, and are supportive. I appreciate all like expressions.
I've got about 30 minutes before I have to bail for work. So let me see if I can share at least part of the single most - though not nearly the only - extreme case of empathy I've had.
Back in 2000 to 2001, I was very actively trying to find more fulfilling explanations for and even greater control over my psi. As mentioned in other threads in this forum, one thing I did was work with a mixed group of Wiccan witches and a couple of shaman to learn more about the universe and myself; plus I did some classroom studies too. But all of that paragraph is about other events told already or to be told in other threads.
What else was happening during that same time was I was very involved with a now defunct paranormal forum on About.com. That forum had much more going on than just "sharing" and "trolling". Something else was happening there that I could feel but could not explain; there seemed to be a very sincere effort being made to either sensor or at least dis-empower or discredit some of the most open posters there. After some long time lurking activities, I opened up enough to post just a couple of comments in support of two specific and prolific posters. They were in contact with me via email almost immediately and made it know that they were leaving the forum because of some rally bad mojo they were feeling.
I only communicated with each of them (separately I believe) probably twice over the course of a month. But it was clear that I had some kind of sudden and deep rapport with them both. Though I was no longer emailing with them, I was back to lurking on the About.com forum and neither of them were posting there.
In September 2000, I was unemployed and without insurance coverage. I started to have episodes of extreme burning and stabbing pain in my chest just behind and to the right of my sternum. Because of time I can't share here the details of the occurrences but suffice it to say they occurred randomly about every two to three weeks and the pain lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to four hours. These occurrences were debilitating and I tried to hide them from everyone. Unfortunately I had a date with two friends and my oldest niece for Halloween and one of the worst occurrences of pain happened that night. The pain ramped up when I was on my way to pick up my friends, I essentially collapsed in their living room but pleaded with them not to call for help. Stupid I know. But, I was able to stay away from my niece, claiming I was "sick" and the four of us wouldn't be getting together. After a couple of hours, I was strong enough to get up and my friends drove me home at my request.
One note about these pains were that I could feel them "coming" - they would kind of develop over the course of about 30 seconds. And the same was true when they would ebb - I could feel the pain receding over a 30 second period. I was always relieved to feel the first few seconds of that sensation because I knew I'd be feeling better quickly.
This continued until January. One of the last episode was so severe that I couldn't do anything to relieve the pain - and I had several techniques for it too including immersing myself in a super hot tub so that I'd essentially pass out by having the heat drain my energies. After 14 hours of continuous pain I called my brother and asked him to take me to an emergency room. They did every test they could within the confines of the ER and everything came back negative or normal. Even though I was still in extreme pain, they couldn't find anything in my vitals nor my blood that indicated I had any sickness or injury at all. My brother and sister-in-law cared for me through the next day. The pain had ebbed this time while I was passed out from hospital-administered drugs.
Probably about a week later, I was checking my email and I was hit with the same familiar sensation of the growing pain. I knew another incident was less than 30 seconds away. I was about to close my email when I noticed an unread one I'd received from one of those two About.com posters I'd communicated with in the prior year. I opened it. And it was from the female (the other was a male and they were not to the best of my knowledge related ... not by blood nor marriage at least). I will attempt to accurately and quickly paraphrase her email in bullets:
1. Hi again.
2. I've been notified by the other (male) poster's wife that he just died of cancer in this throat, trachea, and esophagus this past weekend.
3. This widow was reviewing his past emails and found the few emails between you (me) and him. She was impressed by the deep bond that seemed to grow between you both so quickly. It is clear that you (me) had a caring for his well being.
4. Though his widow didn't know you (me), she was aware of his connection to me (the female poster). So she reached out to me (the female poster) and specifically asked if I (female poster) would contact you (me) to let you know about his passing.
I was in the 30 seconds of growing pain as I opened that email. By the time I finished reading the email, I was in the 30 seconds of the ebbing of the pain instead. This was the only instance up to that time where the pain started and stopped within the same 90 second period.
The episodes of pain didn't continue after that. However, many many months later I was driving just entering onto a highway when the pain - so very familiar and so very unique - from the past started to grow again. I knew I had 30 seconds before I'd be debilitated and so I needed to get to the side of the road quickly. Then it hit me, it had been exactly one year since his (the male poster's) passing. And, the pain immediately started to subside. I've only felt that same pain once more - it was exactly one year later again on the second anniversary of his death.
I share this because I believe it was one of my many empathic events. It was certainly the longest. It was at least as strong as any other empathic event. This one came with real feelings of physical pain instead of emotional pain. And most strange to me is that I believe I felt the pain of someone succumbing to a deadly disease over many months - someone I had never even met in person.