About Elke Babicki, Author of Making the Connections

MEET ELKE BABICKI

Elke grew up in a small historic town called Straubing, in Bavaria. Her mother Ottilie, a German Catholic, was born in this town. Elke’s father Alexander survived the concentration camps in Poland and Germany during the Second World War. In the last weeks before the war ended, the Germans more furiously than ever killed the rest of the people in the camps. This is when Alexander and some of his friends decided to hide among those already dead. Everybody else from that camp was gassed. Alexander’s mother, father and four siblings perished in the concentration camps. His family had been an educated and wealthy Jewish family in Poland and he was ear marked for the life of a scholar and landowner. Straubing was the nearest large town to the camp Alexander escaped from and he landed there with nothing.

The Gestapo arrested Elke’s grandfather on her mother’s side, Johann, a conscientious German citizen in 1944 for distributing anti-Hitler propaganda. He was sent to Dachau concentration camp and released at the end of the war. He then helped survivors like Elke’s father.

Elke felt very attached to her birthplace, but was intrigued by many places in the world. Growing up in Europe, she had explored many European countries and at the age of seventeen, spent six weeks in Israel. The year after she explored New York, Toronto and Montreal. It was in Greece on the next vacation, she decides to take a leap and come to Canada for a longer time. The expansive nature of people and land had appealed to her. Elke enrolled at the University of Toronto and chose to study psychology, languages, and literature. Soon it became obvious that her specialty was psychology and she decided to pursue her Masters degree. During that time she completed a three-year Gestalt training for leaders and therapists and co-led a training program for doctors with the founder of the Scandinavian Gestalt Institute. It was then she really learned to trust her intuitive perceptions, and to express them with confidence. After completing her Masters degree Elke worked first in Family Therapy practices and later in businesses as a consultant to executives.

Throughout her work, Elke always felt most at home using her intuition. In her 50th year she started to deepen those skills even more and as a result began to shift her perception of reality significantly. Starting in May 2004 for a period of about one year, she had numerous dreams out of the ordinary. She could not explain them logically but they were very clear messages, pouring out of her pen as soon as she could get hold of it. She turned her experiences during that year into a manuscript. It turns out, that because she had recorded these dreams and others also witnessed them, she could see the predictive nature of many of those dreams. She discovered she had in fact followed her clairvoyant great grandmother’s footsteps. Her book serves as a documentary of a journey to a much more rewarding universe.

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