Monthly Archives: November 2011

Identity of Mystery Person #2

  November 23, 2011 - 10:51 pm |
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Now this was a rather odd incident.  I’m still sort of mulling it over.

Thanks to Penny for playing along in the comments, and I think you’ll see that she had a couple of possible hits herself!  Good work!

I should mention that when I’m working with a photo of a person that I don’t know, I’ve noticed that my mind will often offer me an analogous individual that I DO know, by way of giving me a clue, I suppose.  I’ve been surprised at how accurate these comparisons have turned out to be, and I’ve learned to pay close attention to them.

So when I got the email from my boyfriend containing the latest mystery man (posted again here), I initially glanced at it briefly, and got the immediate analogy of Truman Capote (which turned out to be quite comparable in terms of time period, occupation, possible sexual orientation, etc).

Mystery Person 2Later, right before bed, I went back to the photo for a moment, and within about 30 seconds I got the strong impression of the name Raymond Chandler.  This idea had a sense of “ah-ha” or “rightness” that I am quickly coming to recognize.

So I looked him up, and although the sample row of images on the first page did not look EXACTLY like the man I had been sent, they were similar-looking, so I was inclined to explore a bit further.

I clicked on the image link, and sure enough, right at the top of that page was precisely the picture that Chuck had sent me.

This man looked enough like a somewhat older version of Raymond Chandler that I thought surely it WAS him, since it was mixed in with all his other photos, clearly from the same general time period, and they all had pipes or cigarettes dangling from their lips.

Quite understandably, I went to bed believing I had solved it.

But when I asked Chuck about it in the morning, he informed me that the man in the photo was not Raymond Chandler at all.

Well, I was flummoxed.  How could it not be him?  I had looked up that name, and there he was with all the other photos, looking much the same.  Even when I pulled up that image again on my iPhone, the caption read “Raymond Chandler, mystery writer.”

So what the heck was going on?

Upon further investigation, it turned out that the man Chuck had actually sent me was producer, screenwriter and director Billy Wilder, and his picture appeared in an article about Raymond Chandler because he and Chandler had collaborated on the screenplay for Double Indemnity in 1944, which turned out to be the film that really established Wilder’s career.

And that’s what he was doing in there, hobnobbing with Raymond Chandler and more or less looking like him, although apparently they didn’t even like each other that much.

Good heavens.

Could it get any Wilder?

I mean, how long do you suppose it might have taken me to work out who this guy was, without that extremely helpful clue, which led me directly to the specific photo I was looking for, right at the top of the page?

I’m not sure I’ve ever even heard of Billy Wilder, although I have heard of some of his movies, like Ninotchka, Some Like it Hot, The Seven Year Itch, and a few others.

I certainly had not the faintest idea what he looked like, however.

Obviously.

So the hit I got was not an identity, but rather a shortcut, which only goes to show how arbitrary this whole psychic thing can be, and how it can lead you in directions you wouldn’t necessarily anticipate.

Also it teaches me to double check my work, and not to make assumptions!

Because you know what they say about assuming stuff.

You know, it’s bad, or something.

More mystery people to follow – feel free to throw in your sixth sense cents!

Identity of Mystery Person #1

  November 22, 2011 - 12:36 am |
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Wow, where did last week get off to?

Did anyone see it?

Neither did I.

I assume it’s somewhere behind the huge pile of contract work I’ve been doing, or possibly in the even larger pile of clean laundry ready to distribute to the various critters that inhabit my house, including my equally delightful boyfriend.

Yes, I think I see it.

It’s under the towels.

In any case, it seems that I have neglected to reveal the identity of the first mystery man we were working on (well, I was, anyway – I think everyone else has more sensibly been planning their turkey repasts).

I promise to do better next time, right after I wake up from my carb coma.

And in my case, since I suffer from a pretty severe sensitivity to carbs, that coma may turn out to be fairly literal.

It has really been lovely knowing you.

Mystery Person 1

Anyway, as some of you well-informed types were already aware, the person in the photo above is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, who, according to this Wikipedia article, “ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy.”

For more information about the Shah, please check out the rest of the article – especially if, like my boyfriend, you are a big fan of what I call wikiwandering – the practice of jumping randomly from one Wikipedia link to another until you have lost all sense of time and reality.

And if you’re not, you should give it a try.

Because who needs reality?

I certainly don’t.

Now, while I was not able to positively identify the Shah on this first go-round, it was clear to me from the photo that he was a dictatorial leader of a middle-eastern country under Western influence, that he had a rather despotic and controlling nature, and might have been responsible for the death or torture of a number of people – all of which proved to be true.

Did you pick up on these traits as well?  Or anything else?  Drop me a comment and let me know.

In this first experiment, I tried a technique that proved to be useful, and which I have since used several times with good results – I ask the subject of the photo a question.

“What are you all about?” is the general gist of the inquiry.  They almost always have something to say in reply, and although it sometimes surprises me, it’s quite often revealing in some important respect.

“I like to conquer and destroy,” was the Shah’s reply.

And from what I can tell, I suspect that he did.

And now, for someone completely different:

Mystery Person 2In selecting our next mystery person, I’m going to jump well out of sequence to the case I was given just yesterday, because the way that his identity came to me was quite unusual, and I feel like sharing.

I will tell you all about it in the next day or so (promise – coma or no coma), but if you’d like to play along, here is his photo:

If this person interests you, feel free to shoot me a comment or an email, and tell me what you think of him.

What does he do for a living?  What sort of a character does he have?  What time period does he belong to?  What is his name?

And most importantly, of course:  What is the deal with that overcoat? 

I mean really.

I would of course be thrilled if my readers would like to participate (yes, I mean both of you!), but if not, I’ll report on the hits that I got on each person, and how I was able to identify them, because it’s been quite a fascinating intuitive journey thus far.

And I do love a good mystery!

Don’t you?

Mystery Person #1

  November 10, 2011 - 11:17 pm |
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For my intuitively inclined readers, here is a little game that my boyfriend and I have been playing recently.

Don’t worry, it’s safe for work.

Most likely.

Now, I will freely admit that I blatantly borrowed this idea from Anna Sayce’s lovely blog, Psychic But Sane.

Anna offers intuitive development courses through her website, and also occasionally posts psychic experiments on her blog. These consist of a photograph of someone who is reasonably famous, but whose face is not well-known to most people.  Readers are encouraged to comment on their intuitive perceptions about the person, and then Anna reveals the subject’s identity after a few days.

Since I had some success with the experiments she posted (I correctly guessed the first names of the two that I tried), my boyfriend offered to help me with my intuitive development by providing similar photographs of people whose names I might recognize, but whose faces I would not.

This exercise has turned out to be an excellent confidence builder for my intuitive tendencies, and after practicing it for while I thought it might be useful for other people too.  Not to mention a lot of fun!  We’ve been having a great time doing this.

Fortunately for me, due to an extreme fondness for Wikipedia, the aforementioned boyfriend possesses far more information about practically everything on earth than anyone actually needs to, so this task was surprisingly easy for him.

We have been playing this game for a few weeks now, and thus far I have been able to positively identify 14 of the 15 people he has sent me.

In order to do this, I look at the photograph to try and see what initial psychic impressions I get about the person, if any.  I try to identify what sort of character they are/were, what time period they belonged to, what type of work they might have done, and what kind of contribution (or detriment) they may have made to humanity.

Once I have gathered enough pieces of psychic information to really narrow down the search, I then employ the resources of the Internet (yaay, Google!) to try and actually identify the person, and I am not satisfied until I have found the original photograph that I was provided with.

I typically run my initial impressions past my boyfriend, and he is allowed to confirm any hits I get, but not to lead me in any specific direction, or to give me any concrete details whatsoever.  I insist on locating the target without any direct guidance.

One specific technique I like to use is to mentally ask the subject of the the photograph a question about what kind of person they were, or what they were all about. I have gotten some surprisingly accurate and interesting responses using this method, which I will tell you about as we go along.

Another method I have used with some success is to try and interpret the aura colors that I sense around the person in the picture; this has also provided me with information that has helped me to locate at least one of the individuals I was given.

If you would like to play the game too, I will post the photographs I’ve already identified here, and give you a day or two to look for the person yourself.  Afterwards I will let you know who they are, and the psychic hits I received when I investigated him or her.  I will let you know which of your impressions were correct as well.

As an initial example, just so you get an idea of what I’m talking about, below is the very first picture my boyfriend sent to me.

This is the only individual so far that I was not able to positively identify, although I was very close, and would have done so if we had not ended the experiment a little early.

See if you can do better than I did!

Mystery Person 1

Have a look at this person and see what you think of him. What era does the photo belong to? What sort of person is he, where is he from, and what is his role in the world? Do you like him, or not? Why? What do you think his job might be? Did he do the world good, or harm? Don’t discount any seemingly random words or impressions that may arise – as you will see, they can often be accurate.

Drop me a comment if you have any questions as we go along, or email me at info@jeniferflint.com if you think you have identified who the person is.

But only if you find them using your intuitive skills, not if you just already happen to know who they are! And if you do, please don’t give it away.

Happy reading, and I hope to hear from you soon!