Premonitory Paintings & the Daemon voice

I came to Anthony's book after a tragic and unexpected loss of a loved one and some subsequent strange experiences. Several days after my loved one's death, I made a plea to god or the source for some sort of sign to help me deal with this loss and to my surprise a clear calm voice responded with "You painted this". It was at that moment a memory came to me that indeed I had done an impromptu painting that depicted the death as it occurred. This painting was done fourteen years prior to the actual death. The painting was a 20 minute sketch completed under some pressure in an art class I had attended. I had no time to think or dwell on what the subject would be. There was no time for left brain analysis - just do it! I remember having shocked the instructor as well as myself with the result, but I rationalized the content as having been inspired by the film, Jacob's Ladder which I had recently seen. That evening the painting went into my bedroom closet and was not shown to anyone, and it was put out of my mind until fourteen years later when the memory came to me with the prodding of the voice.

This experience left me wondering how could it be possible to paint the future event and what was that voice? I have never been one for premonitions-no epiliepsy, no schizophrenia, no migraines, no psychic ability. Now I was being forced to rethink this. I haven't been able to shrug it off merely as coincidence especially since there was also this strange voice! I needed to research premonitions by painting, the meaning of Jacob's Ladder and voices. This ultimately brought to me Anthony's ideas which seem to provide a viable theory of how this could come about.

My own research on prophetic paintings has uncovered three other examples:

The first was at http://www.angel-drawing.com/ where a fellow named Aster presents his and other works. Anthony I'm sure would argue that this site could be called daemon-drawing.

The second example I uncovered came from a New York Times article on surrealist painter, Victor Brauner link to article. The writer notes that "The odd thing is that for many years Brauner had a fixation on mutilated eyes, which revealed itself early in a 1931 self-portrait showing him with his eye put out. The portrait and many other traumatic eye images predate a singular accident. Trying to break up a fight between the Spanish-born Surrealist Oscar Dominguez and another painter in Dominguez's studio, Brauner was hit by a glass thrown by Dominguez. It literally ripped out his left eye. "

The third example I found was a painting that Georgio de Chirico did of the poet Apollinare. The writer in this article points out that "It was a prophetic vision. In 1914, de Chirico painted Apollinaire in silhouette with what looks like a target drawn on his cranium. Apollinaire enlisted in the French army in the first world war and in 1917 was severely wounded - in the head. He underwent a brain operation in the difficult period before his death. You add it up." link to source.

I also learned that Georgio had migraines and possibly epilepsy which ties very much to Anthony's work. I found this website that discusses Georgio's migraines and the influence on his work. link to migraines-aura.org.

There have been some very strange coincidences/synchronicity in my exploration of these ideas. Sometimes I feel like the character in Paycheck puzzling over some clue that has been left for me as when I stumbled upon this quote of de Chirico and other references to him in unlikely places, "Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly aspect which only rare individuals see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphsysical abstraction". I was not that familiar with dc Chirico, but somehow knew it was relevant to my experience.

Thanks again to Anthony for the ideas he has brought to me.