A blank slate

Many years ago, I learnt the term, tabula rasa, or blank slate.  Are we really born into this world blank?  Do we really know absolutely nothing?  Watching a new born baby this is easy to believe.  If a baby could talk as soon as it is born, I wonder what it could tell us.

Due to a cat charm on my bracelet, I’m having premonitions, being able to change destinies I’m not sure if its a curse or a blessing.  The last few weeks have been an education, after visiting Mrs Zintalis in her quaint shop with Paul, it appears I’ve been chosen.  A messenger between God and the devil, preventing things that shouldn’t happen from happening.

Mrs Zintalis believes that we are not all born blank.   I’ve always believed John Locke’s tabula rasa theory, this was in conflict. A great philosophical debate and why was I chosen?

Today I’m going back to the shop by myself. There’s something greater here, and I need to discuss it, without Paul sniggering at her bizarre beliefs.  Gazing around the room I can hear Betsy and Paul giggling, life is good.  If I didn’t have this gift then I would never have had a premonition warning me about Paul.  It seems there is a thin line between life and death.

Savouring the last dregs of my coffee, I pick up my phone and car keys.  Shouting bye to my family, I grab my warm coat and race out of the door.

The shop

Thirty minutes later I’m stood in the musty smell of the shop queue.  Nodding at me, Mrs Zintalis, waved her hand and  called her assistant to help at the checkout.  She then motioned me into a small but organised back room, and pulled up two wooden high backed chairs.

“So, what is happening, more premonitions?” she asked,

“Yes, but I’m so confused, how does this all work, why me?”

“As we are alone, I can talk to you properly. Months ago, I had a strange dream, I saw a woman bring me a charm to be sold in my shop.  It had to be given to a tall man, about forty called Paul, and it was meant for his partner.  I asked the woman why, and she said, she has a job to do.  Life on earth has gone wrong, the spirits are needing you to help us find her.

People are coming to heaven too soon, we are sending people back and they are telling stories back on earth.  We need to get the right people to heaven, those truly destined and ready to die.  A few days later the same woman arrived in my shop with the charm, she said she had found it and she knew she must bring it to me.  At the time I was surprised, but I’ve had time to understand this better”

“So, this is more than a messenger, its putting people on their right life timelines.”

“Yes, that’s more like it, the premonitions you are having come from the spirit world.  If you are a sceptic it’s hard to believe but please do believe.”

Having seen Paul’s death and saving him and others since, I know she is telling the truth. There’s so much I think that we can’t begin to understand.

Old souls

“Can you explain again about tabula rasa”?

“John Locke’s blank slate?”

“Yes, why aren’t we born blank?”

“Some are, but have you heard of an old soul?”

“Yes, so what does that mean?”

“I believe that when people die, they go to heaven which is all around us.  They are on a different plain but are with us, hence why medium’s can communicate with them, or people report seeing signs from them.  People can stay in heaven for many years but at some point, they may decide to come back to earth.  This is reincarnation as they are reborn and a baby.  That soul still carries all the memories from previous lives, hence all the stories of reincarnation.”

“Wow, you believe all that?”

“Well, I haven’t heard a better explanation, this life is too complex to just end, surely.  There are babies born blank, but they are brand new souls, how many are new or old that’s a whole other unknown.”

“So, will our loved ones that have gone  before us, give up waiting for us?”

“Unlikely, time is different in heaven and they are still with you, I assure you they will wait.”

A job

I thought of my grandmother and my religious studies lessons, I still didn’t know why me, but I did understand more about what had happened.  I never thought that I would ever be communicating with the spirit world and literally changing lives, but this is exactly what I am doing.

Sobbing and wiping my eyes I said,

“Thank you for talking to me about this, am I alright to talk with you again.”

The little lady smiled at me warmly,

“Of course, love, you are doing the Lords work just carry on and follow your visions.  There is so much we don’t understand but we need to work together with the information we have got.”

Standing up I picked up my coat, and thanked her again.

Walking back to the car, I replayed our conversation.  This whole thing is unbelievable and its happening to me right now, all I can do is follow the messages and continue changing the world a life at a time. If I explained all this to Paul he would laugh, so for now I will keep it to myself, this is my job now and I’m strangely happy to be a link between God and earth.

For first part of this story see, A charm bracelet and a strange shop

Written for Blog Battle – Blank