The Spider Intuition – what I carry with me.

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The most important thing I carry with me –

One day years ago as I was driving to work, I suddenly had this thought. “There’s a spider in this car”. Ok, yep, sure, whatever. I laughed it off. “There’s a spider in this car.” said the thought, again. Patiently, but somewhat more urgent. I began to wonder if perhaps I was going crazy. “There’s a spider in this car”. Well, my gearstick is a large redback set into resin, so yes, you’re right. There is a spider in this car. “There is a spider in this car”. I thought we just established that?

It was then that I spotted movement above my head, and looked up to see this enormous huntsman spider at least as big as my hand run across the top of windshield directly above me. On the inside. I pulled over to the side of the road as fast as I could and jumped out of the car, screaming and shouting. As you do, if you’re like me with a spider fear.

In the midst of my crazy scared chills down my spine dance by the side of the road, I became aware that I was not quite alone. I saw a pair of feet appear out of the corner of my eye. When I looked up, I saw a policeman was standing next to me. He had a very large grin, and his hand on his weapon resting in the holster on his belt. “Do I need to shoot it?” he said. “It looked pretty big from where I was sitting. Well done on the pull over, by the way, I was worried you were going to slam your foot on the brake in the middle of the road”.

It turned out he did not need to shoot it, but he did attack it with a half empty coca-cola bottle that a friend of mine left in the back seat. By that time his partner had got out of the car too, and he and I were doubled over laughing as this spider ran all over the car avoiding the blows from the coke bottle while the original policeman read the spider his “rights” (you have the right to remain still while I squash you) in between telling us to stop laughing or he would make us kill it and he was laughing so much it was making it hard to outwit the spider.. meanwhile this spider was doing some crazy maneuvers in order to avoid death.

The policemen had seen it sitting above my head some kilometers back, and had been debating whether or not they should pull me over. That may give you some idea of the size of the creature. If not, I have a photo of a similar spider you could look at but I won’t publish it here knowing how scary many people find spiders. Email me, I’ll send you the link. The policeman eventually managed to kill it and I thanked them many times for their help and sense of humor before going on my way.

So, as the day went on, I tried to figure out – how had that little voice known? The spider was sitting above my head. I never saw it, the whole time I was in the car. It was not until I was driving home and I saw the sun glinting on a spider web trail that I understood – my brain had seen that web, and knew a spider must not be far off.

While you’re concentrating on the big picture, your subconscious is taking in many things in order to show you that big picture. My subconscious knew that web had not been there yesterday. My subconscious knows a million little things which it then adds up and if there’s something I’m missing, it chooses to communicate that to me. Yours does, too. This process is lightning fast and we’re not aware of it happening. We use it every day to survive without truly knowing that is what it is.

A book I read some time later expanded greatly on this concept. The book is by Gavin De Becker and it is called The Gift Of Fear. I highly recommend you grab a copy of this book because it will teach you how to listen to your intuition, not just in dangerous situations but in all situations. There’s also a lot of other good info in the book which will calm your spirit and teach you survival signals you can use, and how the media make us fear things we should not fear. He also has written a book that I believe is absolutely vital if you are a parent – Protecting The Gift.

“Intuition is the journey from A to Z without stopping at any other letter along the way. It is knowing without knowing why.” Quote from The Gift Of Fear

My intuition is the most important thing I carry with me. I take it everywhere I go.

The second most important thing I carry with me –

is the ability to be my own best friend. I don’t need to travel with an entourage. I don’t need the constant validation of others to validate myself. I like me. I think others would like me, if I gave them a chance to get close enough to know me. I rarely do that in real life. But even if they did not like me, it would not bother me. There’s a lot of people I don’t like, there’s no law saying everyone must be liked. You guys here probably are the ones who know me best, other than The Other Half and Sephy. I don’t think my parents know me as well as ya’all do.

The third most important thing I carry with me –

I can amuse myself, anywhere, anytime. As Thomas Harris wrote of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs –

Dr. Lecter amused himself — he has extensive internal resources and can entertain himself for years at a time….He was free in his head.

My thoughts are incredibly precious to me. You’ve no idea what goes on in my head, but if you could get in there and listen you would probably be rolling on the floor laughing. I usually am, in my head, at least. It’s like a really good episode of Seinfeld crossed with Jane Austen crossed with all the other authors on my bookshelf. I have a lot of fun right here in my own skull. That is one reason why drugs never appealed to me – why would I want to escape something so great as the insanity in my own head?

The fourth most important thing I carry with me –

I find and appreciate beauty anyplace I look. Whether it is a really gorgeous piece of fabric, or a stunning sunset, or even just the every day, I look for beauty in it. I waste as little time on the unimportant as possible. I have so little time here that I do not want to spend one minute watching the evening news or pandering to people I cannot stand.

The fifth most important thing I carry with me –

The tips I have been given from so many different sources. Like I said the other day about the Oprah tip –

Years and years ago she did a show on travelling and security and little tips. One of the things mentioned was going to the toilet in an airport, and it’s actually changed the way I view using public toilets anywhere. As in – I always walk to the very last cubicle. People are lazy in general, they will usually use the first ones they reach, so the last cubicle usually is cleaner and has more toilet paper. So even some seemingly silly advice like that can make for lifelong habits that can be of benefit. She was right, especially in Australia where not every woman watches Oprah. I bet in the US it meant the last toilet was the most used! ;)

Some of the really important tips have come to me from books, and many of them library books that I don’t own. So I can’t always give the proper attribution or name where they came from. I was going to try and list some of them here but I’m blank now. I’ll have to post them as they come to me. ;)

As far as literally carrying things with me –

The older I get, the less I want to carry. If I can get out of the house without my handbag and mobile phone, I will do so anytime. I prefer it that way. It might have something to do with me sometimes forgetting to pick those things up when I’m out. So far I haven’t lost anything but it is wiser for The Other Half to be in charge of important things like money, cards you use to get money and keys.

Aussie Police really do have a fantastic sense of humor, which is why I am so sad I cannot listen to them on the radio scanner anymore – they’ve gone digital. ;( I miss you Policemen!

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14 thoughts on “The Spider Intuition – what I carry with me.

  1. Oooh I had the same experience with a car and a spider, without the policemen and the intuition. When I discovered the spider, the garbage truck men who driving slowly behind me and retrieved the spider from the car said they were astounded how quickly I ditched the car. One of them said it seemed like I was out the door before the motor stopped! I’m not that scared of spiders I can see around the house, it’s just when they creep up on me I get this reaction.

    Cheers
    Joh

  2. Good lord, I do not want to see the spider. My heart is pounding already.

    I love how you handled this post. Great topic.

  3. I have spidey sense too! I used to walk into rooms and start looking around. People would say “what are you looking for?” and then would be so baffled when I responded “for the spider.” Because, in their minds, why would you know its there if you have to look for it?

  4. Oh fantastic approach! From amusing to insightful! The spider story made me LOL. As far as breaking it down into how what you carry with you is good, love it. I am beside myself with how you describe your ability to amuse yourself! I am never bored and am surprised when others are…how do they manage to get time and mental space to be bored? Seinfeld meets Jane Austen LOL.

    I maintain Patty Simcox and Dorothy Parker. For now. :)

  5. Was the spider dangerous? :)

    Fear.. as an acronym.. I once read somewhere, long since forgotten: False Evidence Appearing Real.

    With you entirely on worrying. It doesn’t solve a bloody thing and only wastes energy. It’s not as though our fondling a thought, rubbing it raw, is going to change the outcome of any given situation.

    Peace,

    ~Chani

  6. I loved that story. I am totally OK with spiders (although not ones approaching feline size), and so I thought my kids would be too. Yesterday, my son said he was going out to play in his little plastic house. Great. But then he stood at the door and stared at it. He wouldn’t go near it because there was a spider on the door. Where did he learn to fear spiders? He isn’t even 3! Perhaps it is as you said — his fear is there for a reason.

    And, yes, life is way too short for people who piss you off.

  7. I’ve seen those spiders before so now I’m incredibly creeped out! But I can picture the scene with the policemen & it’s making me giggle, so that helps. (-:

    You said – “While you’re concentrating on the big picture, your subconscious is taking in many things in order to show you that big picture.” Have you read the book Blink? Someone mentioned it on my blog once & I bought it. It talks about how your mind does this in laymen’s terms, incorporating research. I highly recommend it!

  8. Great post – thankfully, living in the land of insy-winsy spiders I can only imagine the horror. :-)

    I once similarly ‘knew’ there was a mouse in the cupboard under the kitchen sink for no apparent reason – upon opening it I discovered a new but empty packet of wild bird seed which I’d just put in there that afternoon. No sign of the mouse, but it, and friends, had obviously been in there! Mousetraps galore, then, with three caught in a week.

  9. I love the spider story! (Easy for me to say since I didn’t have to live through it!) I like that you were able to connect the dots when you saw the spider web. The brain is truly amazing.

    The rest of your list is great, too. Good job on this post!

  10. What a terrific post. I love the imagery you used when describing the spider attack (I could SEE it happening). I thought you were going to say the policeman read the spider his “rites”…hehe

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