My brother worked with a lady whose husband Ronnie found a
way to make a living as a paranormal investigator. From listening to Ronnie, I don’t believe
that he ever set out to be a paranormal investigator. It seems to me that it was an interest of his
that grew into him authoring a couple of books, then co-hosting a paranormal
podcast and then being part of the research team on the Travel Channel’s program
Expedition Bigfoot. That’s the really
short story of how my boys and I became interested in sasquatch - my brother
promoted his friend Ronnie as Ronnie’s prominence grew in the paranormal
community. Now, my boys and I have
turned into small-time bigfoot enthusiasts.
I particularly enjoy the Monsterland podcast that Ronnie
co-hosts with Matty Blake, whom my family knows from the History Channel’s
program The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down.
In one episode of the Monsterland podcast, Ronnie and Matty traveled
from their homes in New England to Ohio where they went into the wilderness with
two others to see if they could get a glimpse of a sasquatch or find evidence
of any other “high strangeness”. Dr.
Rebecca Foster, a clairvoyant medium, was part of team on that outing. I had no idea what a clairvoyant medium was,
but when I did a web search for Dr. Rebecca Foster, I saw that she authored a
book called God Please Tie My Shoes.
The book was cheap to order so I ordered it promptly. Now, I can probably count on one hand the
number of times that I’ve ordered a book from the web without doing my research
to find out if it was available at a library or used bookstore, or even if it
was worth getting. It was odd how
quickly I purchased the book and received it; it was like something nudged me
to get the book.
Another peculiarity is how quickly I read the book. I’m not a fast reader but I tore through this
book in under a week. The book had
numerous grammatical errors and formatting issues, because of which, I would
not likely put much stock in it. The
content gave me a lot to think about though.
My interpretation of what Dr. Foster wrote is that she claims to be able
to see people’s souls and can read our purpose on Earth. She writes that most of us are reincarnate
souls that have been sent by God to fulfill a purpose, that purpose usually
being to learn something. We negotiate
with God, or make a contract with Him as the author puts it, to be able to go
back to Earth to learn something that we may have struggled with in a previous
life. In order to accomplish our goal,
our minds must be wiped at birth and God must give us free will, meaning that
we are free to make our choices, good or bad.
We are sent back to Earth with angels to guide us and stay with us, but
for every good angel that stays with us, there is a dark spirit as well, vying
to steer us to our destruction. That is
not a complete summary of the book, but only what I found most interesting.
Dr. Foster seems so good-hearted, sincere and “Christian”, but I
just can’t buy into her claims. There
are some interesting and encouraging concepts that she presents that I want to
believe, but it’s a stretch from the traditional Christian concepts that I’m
used to. Maybe I’m too
close-minded? With that being said, I
want to know why I was so drawn to the book, especially since I had just asked
God for knowledge. The Bible says that
God will generously give knowledge to those who ask (James 1:5). If I was nudged toward the book, as I feel I
may have been, then I guess that would support Dr. Foster’s claim that our
spiritual guides can line things up for us.
If this occasion was persuaded by a spiritual guide after my request for
knowledge, then how can I be sure that it’s the good spirits that orchestrated
it and not the clever dark spirits trying to dupe me? I know that I have a trust issue, but perhaps
I should also pray for discernment to be able to better judge what is good and
bad.
