I’ve heard about benevolent spirits
– usually deceased loved ones –
that have intervened with warnings
or with consolations
in one’s mind
or via apparitions
for example,
“Don’t go there tonight!”
and there’s a mass shooting
killing many people that night
or,
“Ask the doctor to run the tests again.”
and what was going to be an operation
is cancelled because the original tests
were inaccurate
and,
“You need to leave that man now!
He’s going to harm you!”
she doesn’t heed the warning and
he almost strangles her to death
I’ve never experienced anything like that
though I’ve seen dead people in dreams
and I believe sometimes ghosts or spirits
act like guardians.
Bob Boyd