Interesting thing happened to me

[coolbreeze]

Over this weekend I had finished meditating and got to thinking about what I could do in my immediate area to help get people to pay attention to stuff thats going on in the rest of the world (the war in Iraq, the environment, stuff i care about) and the first thing that came to my mind was a vow of silence. I thought about it long and hard and decided not to do it now, I would wait a bit.

I went to school saw one of my friends. I went over and began to talk to her when she handed me a card. It stated that she was taking a vow of silence to bring people's attention to her fear for the world today. I was speechless. We don't talk too much, because she's older and in different classes than me. We just share mutual interests and I respect her a lot.

I just found it very interesting and it shocked me a bit at first.

[Empathic]

possibly while meditating you went into a subconsious state and then from there went into your superconsious (which has everything past, present, and future) and you foresaw what you would later come to pass.   Things like this happen all the time its just certain people who actually listen that notice how well it can work for them......meditate the same way again and see if it does it again.

[ARCHDRAGON]

the world is what we make of it, don't use fear to manipulate others, for the result could have reprocussions beyond what you were expecting.

[sweetbliss]

I suppose that, since you respect her a lot, you might have received her idea in a subtle way, through the subconscious, and that's why you wanted to do the same.
Sometime these inspirations can come from the unconscious, so they are pure/unconditioned/collective/divine, as you may call them. Otherwise they come from other persons we inter react with.

But this wow of silence is an outer expression of what is being called the thoughtless awareness, a state of unconditioned peace, which will neutralize all contradictions and conflicts. Since you meditate, it's more useful to let yourself go into that state of consciousness, instead of practicing something exterior. Even if meditation is not obvious for others, it does work on them.

Good luck!