Now that she’s a parent, she says she is curious.
Q : Did you ever tell your parents about the MERS, once they started? How was their reaction? Did you tell anyone else? Close friends, friends, romantic partners?
No, I told no one. I was too swept along by the yearly recurrences from late 14 years of age to my mid 30’s or more, (then they ended to be replaced by continuous practical guidance.
(This guidance was not of the human spirit, not even what Christians would call the ‘Holy Spirit’, but from something outside all human ability to know.
(Reality’s call is non-negotiable, beyond our ability to describe, invoke, or deny; in my experience).
Sadly, neither my father or my siblings and their eventual families have ever convinced me I could reveal myself to them. On reflection my mother might have listened but she would not not have been capable of doing anything else but keep my secret to herself and love me even more anxiously …
My first wife’s father warned her I should be a priest. He and I never had a conversation so I don’t know how he came to that conclusion. A girlfriend’s father accused me of being “deep” Another girlfriend pleaded with me not to keep “disappearing” even when she held me. She showed me a robust photo of us together coming up some country steps. She said I was “disappeared” even then.
When I met Sandra, my present wife of nearly 50 years, she was the only one with a shred of knowing Reality without having It explained to her. Even so, I was used to my growing alienation from the human condition by then so at first I never said anything even to her. Now she knows all about my MERs. She saved my human life, helped and still helps me cope with the alienation …
Q: How did the subject come up and how did they react or relate to you after that?
The nearest the subject came up was when my friends and I touched on the purpose of life or when I was asked by business acquaintances why I was a Quaker. After I ‘came out’ with the blog another acquaintance seemed upset at his conclusion he seemed to be “uninvited” by Reality …
I was never drawn into the human condition enough to reveal myself, to teach, preach or proselytise. There is more to existence than being merely human.
Q : Did they treat you differently?
I felt different but if others thought so it was not because they knew about my mystic experiences from me until I started the blog and published a book! Now, most people I know avoid the subject when with me!! LOL.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 
“I felt different” is true in my experience too from early childhood. I resonate with a lot of what you describe, but I have managed to live a fairly-well adjusted human life, only due to sheer good fortune.
I am not a mystic, merely a seeker, although have had a few glimpses that are certainly beyond reasoning or logic. I also wonder how many kinds of “feeling different” are there…because I come across so many who claim they have always felt different in some of the other way…that I have started suspecting that it might be more common than we think.
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If the Pareto Principle is correct 20 per cent of the world’s population at any one time is probably in one of the three stages of experiencing the non human mystic experience of the Reality that creates and controls all known and unknown existence.
The early stage involves experiencing first glimpses that are often ignored or stifled. The second is the more developed, passionate stage, of ‘hunger and thirst’ Seekers experience. The third stage is the full revelation of Reality that creates mystics. Apparently humans can be born into one stage or the other first, not necessarily in numerical order.
Keith.
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I should have included atheists and agnostics in the first stage of those who catch glimpses of their spirituality but ignore, stifle them or publicly react against any suggestion of such spirituality being properly represented by religions.
Best wishes, Keith.
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