A close friend of mine, whom I shall call Karen throughout this essay, was often the subject of strange paranormal activity. When she was twenty-one years of age, she had three of her closest relations pass away. In the midst of her college career, this young woman was devastated and thrust into adulthood early. This short anecdote, however, would end here if it were not for the strange course of event to occur on the fortieth day after their deaths.
Karen experienced what might be referred to as a psychic vision (in the context of science: a para-psychological experience.) One night, while sleeping, she awoke to a sound, and a bright pink light floating in mid air. It was warm, as the sunlight hits one, on a fresh spring day; it made her feel intrinsically happy and complete. When she told her mother about the occurrences of the night before, her mother, being a strong believer in paranormal activity, consulted a psychic. The psychic explained that this warm pink light represented the energy of love that these people had for her. Further, that this event's occurrence concurrent with other separately reported cases, of a time span of 40 days after the death of a loved one if the subject of this paranormal activity was psychically inclined.
This story, and others like it, spurred my investigation of psychic experiences which lead me straight towards the goddess based religion of Wicca, or Witchcraft.