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Gave Me Psychic Powers
by Martin Smith
I work as a freelance stage manager for touring theatre companies. On Sunday 2 April 2006 I was traveling from Northumberland to Weston Super Mare for a show the following day. The show was a children's pantomime, which was on a tour of the UK. There were seven people in all involved in the show and we were all traveling together in a large van with a crew compartment and separate storage hold for all of the scenery and technical equipment. We traveled through heavy rain for most of the journey, and after six hours driving we pulled in to a service station to change drivers.
By now we were on the M5 motorway in the midlands heading south on the last leg of the journey. Just after rejoining the motorway, the driver reached 70 miles per hour and pulled out to overtake a car in front of us. As we crossed the lanes, a heavy gust of wind caught the side of the van and we started to swerve across the road with the driver fighting to regain control. The van swerved across all three lanes and then rolled over on to its side. I remember seeing the road spinning as we turned over and it was almost like watching an episode of “Casualty,” only this episode I was in. Then everything went silent for a moment and everything seemed to be in slow motion. The next thing I knew, I heard the terrible sound of the windows smashing right into my face and the sound of tearing metal as the van skidded on its side down the motorway still traveling very fast. The screeching and tearing sound was followed by an overpowering burning smell and we eventually came to a stop amazingly without hitting anything else.
As we lay there on our side, we all realized that the van could be on fire and we had to get out somehow. The van was lying on its side and all the passenger doors were blocked. The only way out was to climb up through the driver's door, which was now our roof. We all clambered up to the door one after another and jumped down onto the motorway. Everyone escaped uninjured and most got out without a scratch. When we looked back at the van from the side of the road, it became apparent just how amazing this was as the van was torn to shreds and there was debris all over the motorway. Our personal belongings, which were in the crew compartment with us, were strewn across the carriageway. Most incredibly, I remembered the glass shattering in my face and being centimeters from the road surface as we skidded along on our side. I felt my face and was amazed that I couldn’t feel any blood.
When the ambulance and police arrived on the scene, they couldn’t believe that we had escaped from the wreckage unharmed either. As we all sat in the ambulance together, it began to dawn on us exactly what we had just been through. The tour went ahead with a new van and damaged equipment replaced and in the best traditions of the theatre “the show must go on.”
We all had a tale to tell that we would remember for the rest of our lives, but for me the story was just beginning. When I arrived home after the tour I felt strongly that I was protected somehow during the crash and knew that I should have died. How my face escaped being torn to shreds by the glass and the road surface I will never know.
One day while thinking about the crash and just sitting at my desk, I looked at my pen on the desk. Almost instantly it moved all by itself! I thought I must have imagined it, but it did it again. For the next few days, objects would move as if controlled by some invisible force. I had experienced psychic encounters before, but nothing like this. I wondered if I could control the movement and set about experimenting with various objects. I found that I could move small objects just by looking and concentrating on them. As I learned more about my new ability, I learned its name: “telekinesis” and learned that it is very rare.
I have now captured being able to move objects through thought on video and have several clips of it happening. I am now learning to develop my abilities and feel that this is the beginning of a whole new journey for me. I believe that the crash awakened this ability in me and that I now have a new purpose in life. I also believe that I was spared death for a reason, and I see each new day for the wonder that it truly is. I am continuing to study my new gift and hope one day that I will understand its full purpose, but I do know one thing. My life will never be the same again.
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