Dr. Ray Catania survived a workplace shootout by following an internal voice that told him to leave his hiding spot behind the bar and run for the side door. He describes the message as a non-sensory download, not heard or seen but felt as pure information, that overrode his instinct to stay put.
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I can remember shootouts in the place where I worked, and one in particular, I hid behind the bar and I was just trying to figure out how am I going to get out of this place? And I got this overwhelming feeling that there was a being that was telling me how to get out of the situation. And he said, "Side door, side door." Now, I don't hear this with my ears. I don't see this with my eyes. It's just information, like a download, and it says side door. So I, I know there's a side door right there, but in order for me to get there, I've got to come out of hiding and the shooter's gonna see me. So I don't really know if I'm gonna make it there. It really didn't sound like a good idea to me, but I kept getting this again and again, so I went with it and I ran for the door and I pushed the door open and I did— I made it, obviously.