(276) Ferry accident with high school students on board

By Janet Shin

I couldn’t sleep since last weekend. I even had a nightmare and had to call my son in Canada, crying to ask him whether everything’s alright. He of course answered nothing was wrong and asked why I was so psychologically uneasy.

It was Monday morning when I contacted him in overseas at 5 a.m. Owing to the time difference, it was his evening. I cried and cried. Apparently it was an unusual incident as I have never been so nervous and emotional like that.

It was caused by my dream. I had an awkward dream where I saw many high school students were in danger. I couldn’t recognize the exact clue but visited the teachers’ room wailing miserably and asking what happened. The teacher seemed very embarrassed saying that let’s hope they were fine. I was sobbing as I felt the pain and sorrow. Since then, I kept contacting my two sons every day, one in overseas, and the other working in Navy.

On Wednesday morning, I was driving to an important lecture, listening to a radio broadcast about an accident near Jindo, South Jeolla Province, Korea. There were passengers including 325 students from a high school, traveling to Jejudo Island on a school trip.

It wasn’t so personal until that moment as I tried to focus on my presentation. I was just like one of other mothers or other people, hoping the students were okay and nobody was hurt. It didn’t sound that serious as I heard all the passengers were rescued, which turned out to be a false report. After I finished the lecture, I kept listening to the radio as I was driving, wondering what was going on.

That evening, I turned on television, watching the breaking news to finally realize that things went quite seriously as there were many missing. I was astonished by the television coverage that the school teachers were saying the same words, as what I heard from my dream, to the mothers in lamenting.

Surprisingly I got a call from my son in the Navy. He said it was the vessel that he was going to investigate this week. He had been inspecting local vessels as part of naval affairs. He was working hard to rescue and report on the situation.

I just realized what my dream was trying to say. It isn’t seemingly so personal, but every mother might have felt poignant about the heartbreaking incident. I am one of them. It might be because I am a fortune teller. My son actually told me that he was very horrified as he sensed the way his mother was tormented in advance.

Some people ask me if we could foretell the upcoming calamity and whether it was predicted by the saju of passengers onboard if it was an aircraft or ship accident. I usually answer that’s not feasible to tell, whereas it might be prophesied by reading the saju of the captain.

Nevertheless, I am very cautious to say that when it comes to the disasters involving hundreds people. It can be more with other determinants. I would say it is more with the sentimental connection that we are with a certain incident. It is not a matter of good and evil. It is not fair to individual fate.

Although it wasn’t something to be prevented, I pray for the peace of all students onboard hoping not many were damaged and not much sorrow to the involved families.

Information : Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? For further information, visit Janet’s website at www.fourpillarskorea.com, contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com.

The writer is the author of “Life’s Secrets”.