Hey man! First of all, OSS ! Make sure to share with us a couple of flowing clips from your practices/techniques/events! Cheers!

I'll try to make this as short as possible. Since I was a kid, I've been known or pointed out as a person who isn't the best at socializing, but one thing I've always been good at has been reading/writing, and pretty much any form of audiovisual art, such as paintings/drawings/playing instruments... what has this to do with my strange ability? Everything. My main language is spanish and I've been learning english by myself since I was 11 years old, now I'm 32. One thing I've always managed to grow is my capacity to be aware of my surroundings, how everything, from animals, nature and people/societies and their machines/vehicles/companies is connected at some point, and can be named environment/situations and even conflicts/wars/fights. I've always been a straight forward person, and I have had near death experiences that prove it still isn't my time to leave this world.

I will only talk about the most difficult of them because it didn't only depend on my actions, but an entire nation/population/company. I live less than a mile from an oil refinery in Venezuela, and between this one and the nearest one, they used to be the biggest ref complex in the whole world, this of course, until year 2000, when things simply started to fall apart due to lack of maintainance and overall management. At year 2005 I started to make claims that this refinery (or both) were going to explode, and a terrible catastrophe could affect not only my entire region, but a big portion of Venezuela/South America, I need to add, that all of the refineries and a lot of infraestructure is connected through several gas lines, and althought this has a security protocol which can cut this lines supply, we could be speaking of a fire so big that it could be seen from Colombia and even Panamá.

Many people, especially former workers of the oil industry, specialists, engineers, used to bash me on public and in private because of course, when everything is well maintained and managed, you wouldn't face an accident as the one it did occur at year 2012. After I had already made up my mind that it would happen, the thing I wasn't so sure was the when.

One day I had this turtoise playing in my yard, and I completely forgot about it and she had the capacity to hide very well under leaves and rocks, so I couldn't really find her at all. The thing is, that I kinda "needed" to look out some more for her, this time, at 2:00 am: I was looking through the leaves and rocks with a flashlight, everything was very dark and after more or less 10 min, I finally gave up and decided to look to the sky, directly laying my eyes on the area above the refinery. All of a sudden, a big flame came out of the refinery and the lenght of the fire is something I won't ever forget. It was as big as a storm, and it didn't just reach a 1-2 miles ratio, but made the earth and all of the ground shake as an earthquake, I managed to run inside my house (after witnessing the end of the world) and screamed as fast as I could explain to my family that something horrible was happening. The earthquake feeling and something else that messed with your ears, like a sound blast lasted for at least 10 seconds, and boy were they long. Of course, the most difficult part at this moment was to explain WHAT did happen, because at this point the only thing I did see was a flame, and because of the impression I couldn't just say it had been just the refinery, at first, and to tell you the truth I thinked of missiles, bombs, aliens! I don't know, to me it was the end of my world, again, the end of my life suddenly passing through my mind. Several hours later, things were still falling, pieces of houses, paint of tanks, papers form offices, plastic, metals, and especially ashes. By then we already knew that a gas leak coincided with a rainy weather that managed to by gravity not allow the gas to go up but instead it stacked up/built more mass around the whole diameter of almost a couple houses from mine. Roofs fell out, many people inside and out of the refinery died, including a whole neighborhood and the fire within the refinery lasted for a week at the very least. This was a terrible accident and as much as many people didn't think it was possible, it happened. The president at the moment only made a press conference where he stated that the "show must go on" and nothing much was said. Until today noone has taken responsability for this and the refinery it's in its worst phase, of course. I still live very close to this place, and it's very sad, and at the same time lucky, how many families died and nothing was done to fix it, but a lot of people from the country miraculously lived to see another day. I have a couple of friends, one a photographer who went just minutes from the explosion to the place and managed to take these pics. I will leave you the link to the full compilation so I don't take your entire thread on my story.

http://www.noticias24.com/fotos/noticia/1487/la-tragedia-de-amuay-vista-por-las-imagenes-exclusivas-del-fotografo-hector-silva/

Do you want to know more about this story? About my stories, and how I can sometimes see the future? Talk to me and you realize it's not about me having powers, but my capacity to be aware of the present moment, to pay attention to what we do as societies, how we treat people, our surroundings, and what we do or not about it, for ourselves, and for our future, everybody else's as well. Thank you for reading this far, it could have been a better story, I would say. But still, thank you for allowing me to express myself, to create this opportunity for us to share and read other people's experiences. You, WE are all GREAT, and we deserve not just attention, but understanding and awareness of our struggles,, advantages and situations that can shape or catalyze our power to survive, to grow, to learn and to be resilient enough to make of change a reality. Have a great week and HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHALESHARES!