Dear Lipstick Mystic:

I've been reading your posts on RumorMillNews.com for a while. You have insight (foresight?). I was in Genoa in summer 2001 for the protests against the G8. I went with "Globalise Resistance," but only so I could get a lift from the UK. (I don't want to be part of any “-isms.”) Anyway, after the awful weekend was over, we were standing on a hillside above Genoa, ready to board the bus to return home. The red planet was bright in the sky, brighter than I had ever seen. I turned to my new friends (I'd met them 60 hours before) and said "There's a war coming. Look," and pointed towards Mars. They were moved by my certainty. This was an unprecedented prediction from myself. I've never really said anything like it before or since. But I suddenly knew it. Then Sept 11 happened. . .

-- Safe, N.P.

Dear N.P,

Thanks for writing. Yes, it can be a shocking thing when you have one of those crystal clear intuitive moments where something just comes to you in a flash - especially when it's about unpleasant news. I had a dream about 9/11 a week or two before it happened. (I'm prone to having very lucid psychic dreams.) I had gone through a period of dreaming about all manner of depressing stuff, events I couldn't change, for a couple of years. I dreamt of the exact manner of Princess Diana's death 12 hours before it happened only, in the dream, I was the one in the car. I dreamt about a commuter train wreck in India before it happened and had a dream about being in the school building with those kids from Columbine as the shooting started (only I didn’t know the location of the event.) I even had a dream about Michael J. Fox going public with something major about a week before he announced that he had Parkinson's Disease. Eventually, I gave a severe lecture to my guides and basically said, "Look, don't show me something unless it is within my power to prevent the event in my dream."

But they sneaked one in, anyway, about 9/11. In the dream, I was looking at a TV screen where I saw this distraught, exhausted looking blonde woman holding up a photograph on a busy city street while pedestrians rushed by her, paying her no attention. I could tell that she was looking for a loved one and was holding up a photograph as a last ditch effort to find this person.

After 9/11, I saw this same woman on the news. She was in New York, one of those people in the background of a news broadcast desperately seeking a lost loved one during those confusing days after the event.

We are tuned in to global events. We DO feel them, even if we don't want to register them consciously. No matter how much we want to play hermit (I know I do a lot of the time!) and disassociate ourselves from other people's pain, our spirits truly are one. Our nervous systems pick up on everything others are going through via our psychic radar. Some people call this the collective unconscious. I think of it more as a human oversoul, a joint energy body which connects all of humanity. I like to call it the Cosmic Internet.

Modern terrorism aside, I've found that the real war going on here is one that is very ancient, and it is about regaining our spiritual sovereignty from parasitic energies who have long had a choke hold on our minds, our monetary and political systems, and even our very physiology. Some people call these demons, some call them ET's, some call them the negative powers of the subconscious mind, others call simply call it the "shadow" side of humanity.

For me, shamanic techniques, directed energy work, "power prayer" and direct intuitive download are my "weapons" of choice in taming this "beast" (which too often has very sharp teeth!) And a positive mental attitude doesn't hurt, either. How can you fight the powers of darkness when you've BECOME the darkness?

I've found that I can't expend too much energy on group thoughtforms of fear and depression.  If I have to read one more end of the world scenario that is predicted to take place TOMORROW - I tell you, I may bust a seam!  Seriously, it's one thing to be informed about things that might happen and quite another to give all of your personal energy away to feelings of panic and powerlessness. A lot of well-intentioned New Age sites convey this energy. It's the All Doom channel, all the time. Whatever happened to Comedy Central?

That's what THEY want (parasitic types.) THEY want us to sink into despair and distraction. What THEY don't want is for individuals to summon up the spiritual willpower within themselves to make a different choice on behalf of humanity, this planet, and the other beings who share this world with us. A choice for balance. A choice for peace. And a choice for joy.

Thanks again for reaching out, and keep centered in the visions you know to be highest and true.

-- Lipstick Mystic