I am a man. I have many experiences of a spiritual and /or psychic nature, also. Through my mother I have a Sicilian folk-healer connection as my great-grandmother was very skilled in healing herbs and spells. Also through my mother's line is the Choctaw line by way of the Varnados(and French). They used to say it was the Strickland line from Ulster(No. Ireland) that had "the touch", which, for me at least, is the same line the Varnado line comes through. I feel strongly, however, that some of that "touch" comes from the Choctaw line. It's almost as if the ancestors are telling me this. Then also there is the spirit of place. I live in Robert, LA between Hammond and Covington, less than 30 miles from where the old Lacombe Choctaw community was. Perhaps, in my case it is a blending of all these lines. We are all who came before us. At a place north of here, near Amite, LA, at an old market gathering place for the local tribes long ago, I had a past life flash from a well-worn to a polish rock that fit my hand perfectly in two ways. It is a gray rock, maybe granite. I knew I had held this stone in a previous life. It was given to me by a lady, without my asking and as my only payment, whose house I had tried to calm because of a spirit that was not making itself known, but just being very obviously there. She still had some uneasiness later and was contacting folks in California about it. She would smell the lady's perfume. I could sense her in a rocking chair sewing in a room. Well, there goes my credibility. Wee-hoo! Kevin Frindik Please note I have another e-mail address now. It is [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Dodie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:20 AM Subject: [CHAHTA] Question >I am 1/8 Cherokee so I am on a Cherokee list. The subject of dreams have >come up. Most of the people have dreams that come true and they know at >the time they are like predictions. My mother who was Cherokee was >amazing at this. I have this gift also but not as strongly as my mother. >Have any of you had this experience? Trying to decided if it is a >Cherokee thing or if others have this gift also. I am am much more >Chahta than Cherokee and consider myself Chahta so naturally wonder if >our people have this gift also. My father never did this, but it seems >to be more a woman thing anyway. >Dodie > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== >Choctaw Home Page: >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm