At five years old, I stood at the window of my bedroom in the Harlem high-rise my family lived in. I looked out at the apartment buildings, the hospital across the street, the suspension bridge in the distance, the train trestle crossing above the river. I wondered, why is this all here? What's its purpose? Since we created all this, who created us? It struck me that this must be the work of the "God" the grownups were all talking about. From there I acknowledged the presence of the Creator in my life; no one had to tell me to do so, or how to do it. Even now, when daily life causes me to want to control things, by "letting go and letting God" do I find peace and remember that everything has a purpose, season and time.

Please know that the above was not to meant as an attempt to proselytize or influence in any way.

So what's the purpose behind our sensory abilities? Are we to get a certain message out for general public consumption, or for only a special few? I wonder what institutions like CalTech would think of us if we called them to say, "We think a quake will hit such-and-such an area in the next 'X' number of days." Would they believe in folks like us, or think us nuts? I've come to just have faith that the answers to such questions will be revealed in their proper time; meantime, my gifts are simply what they are.

Reading a recent story about Colony Collapse Disorder among honeybees, I saw a chart indicating the last CCD cycles. I noticed how they all seemed to occur around major events on the planet, such as the Great Depression and World Wars. To me this is but one indicator, along with the economic crisis and these seismic upheavals, of the world going through another major change into a new age, whatever that age might entail. As Diane indicated, it's no coincidence I and others have "stumbled onto" this site at this time. Us sensitives are coming out of the closet, as it were, to use and share our gifts with one another. And I'm grateful this site is here for all of us to do just that.