...I’m just reading that around a quarter of the world population believe that people have psychic abilities, which is quite a staggering amount...I do believe that we all would have...(..potentially and in a level world, type thing..)...the same power of ‘control’ over our minds...when you say, different world cultures etc, Redway...?...people like the Shaolin monks, for instance...?...they train through their lives, through their very disciplined and focused lives to ‘harness’ that power and that focus, which I’ve always found fascinating...do they have any ‘special powers’ over anyone else..?....hmmmm, it’s my own belief that they don’t as such/they’re not ‘born that way’... they just have a lifestyle/belief system/culture that ‘facilitates’ more because their minds and thought processes are given ‘confinement and isolation’ from the distraction of other outside worldly things...they devote their lives purely to their minds and thoughts, I would say...their minds aren’t distracted with the things that so many ‘ordinary’ minds are...obviously they’re not ‘ordinary minds’ they’re just very busy minds with so many different layers of thoughts...so to be able to live ‘layer free’ from those every day things that most of us have and to be be able to be more single focused, is more a ‘culture or tradition’ type thing that can only be practised by a few because of specific circumstances ....and also, when there is a culture of a more ‘simple life’ as within a smaller tribal system...?...I would say that also allows more for isolating and harnessing thoughts and therefore would be more powerful over the mind’ ...which would also be a path leading to things like a feeling of psychic ability.../...all fascinating anyway....

...oh the thing with Shaolin monks as well, just because they popped into my head for some reason...(...I would say...)...that ‘Shaolin’ would be instilled in that person, that they were indeed ‘special’ in their potential ‘mind powers’...and I think that could also apply in some cases of ‘psychic’ as well...if the mind believes it is, then it is in its belief...?...and many personal thoughts etc will be adapted and fitted around that self belief...?...not necessarily in a conscious minded way...

...and then there’s the Barnum/showman effect as well, so all very interesting in ‘psychic’...

So you started a thread and asked people to be respectful of other views...then refuse to share those views.

I predict this thread isn't going to progress very far then.

I am a psychic and if I can be profound to say, EVPs and psychic abilities are just as normal to me as walking.

Mmmmmm you’re gonna have to expand on this revelation !!


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this prophet exists so yh...

I shared those views. I just didn't elaborate on them and that's fine.

What kind of psychic are we talking?

I'm a huge sceptic.

However, my sister did once go for a "reading" from a psychic (not local, never met before, went completely anonymously without notice/booking) and what the guy was saying was scarily good.

Like he knew the family names AND more importantly nicknames/pet names of certain relatives, a recent incident that had happened with my sister's car, he knew that I was quite ill at the time with depression and agoraphobia and picked up on that. Very accurate stuff that nobody would know - streets people lived on, items/ornaments we have etc. My Gran was "there" apparently and told me to get my ass out of bed and sort my life out basically. :joker:

Spooky.

To MBTI-code a ting, still, INFJs are also often scarily good at predicting what’s going to happen in t’future, or at-least getting a vague feel for it, via the power of introverted intuition. So good to as at times be borderline clairvoyant-psychic. I should know.

Sometimes it’s just little things like getting a hunch for banana bread in the first 2020 lockdown before it became a trend on Instagram (I experienced that). Sometimes it’s a forewarning of experiences (including highly toxic/narcissistic ones) that are going to happen to you or a certain kind of ill-health that may (or may not) affect a loved one in the years to come.

Either way, when you’re like that, chances are you’re an extremely intelligent person with an inner world even people who know you quite well might not get more than 70% of the gist of half the time, even if they’re on the same level of spiritual discernment as you. You’ve just got to hold onto your intuition and watch how events play out in the future, whether people believe you along the way or not. And that’s a truth you can take anywhere you like, whether you’re in Chester, Wrexham, Buckingham Palace, Budapest, Tokyo, Ena Sharples’ backyard, Greenville or in communion with a bunch of flowers (green carnations, most-probably).

As for what I was saying throughout this thread four years ago, meh. Let’s just say I’m not as driven by the “my opinion is my opinion; I ain’t really tryna spin it out further” mantra as I was at that particular time. Hope you people are well. Including (dare-I say it) the kizzy I obviously don’t get on with. Never have done and probably never will do but then I remember that we’re both just decent people trying to get on with life. We don’t really have to see eye-to-eye to be worthy of some basic compassion. We ain’t beefing like that, still.

I'm on the "yes side of agnostic" with this sort of thing.

Nobody is able to do magic.

Go and see a "psychic" at a local theatre, sit down and just have a look around you

that will be enough to tell you all you need to know, and you don't have to be psychic to do this

:joker:

Do psychic abilities exist?
 

What a load of bollox !

Do a google/ wiki search on the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge .


It ran since 1966 and a million dollars was the prize to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.

So anyone who could prove any form of GIFT … mind reading , spoon bending , levitation - the prize was obviously open to psychics and mediums as well etc etc


Not one person even got close to claiming the prize . Just imagine how much €1 million would be in today’s money !

Edit

That high profile scam merchant Uri Geller attempted to scam his way to the million dollars but he was unsurprisingly caught cheating each and every time .

On one occasion he turned up with his own selection of spoons to show off his legendary ‘spoon bending’ skills but he refused to go ahead when he realised that they had purchased a set of new spoons for him to use !!

He claimed at the time that “ he just wasn’t feeling it “ … of course the adjudicators knew that all Uri’s spoons were pre-bent repeatedly to dramatically weaken them ..


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No I don't think so at all

I was really into James Randi for a while :love:

I completely disagree. My belief is that life is more spiritual than physical. And if you're used to seeing key elements of the world through the lens of introverted intuition (like I outlined earlier), that makes more sense, irrespective of your religious, esoteric or sub-cultural background.

I don't believe we have spirits.

And that's where you and I are completely, completely different people. That's not a belief I could get with in 10,000 trillion years.

Why not? There's zero proof of spirits. We are our brains, that's it, chemical reactions, electric pulses and organic materials, there's nothing else.

You're welcome to have that opinion but I'm welcome to disagree with you completely and utterly. Our experiences of life are completely different.

precisely and of course those who "say" they believe in such things can never explain how it may work beyond "its magic innit"

:laugh:

You haven't changed a bit, have you?

It's not an opinion, it's a straight up fact but I think people should be able to believe what they want so I'd never argue about it.

Tell that straight-up fact to all the millions of people in this world who have faith. People who have seen things in the spiritual realm that you with your particular purview of life experiences can’t even begin to imagine.

Are you drinking ?



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They have convinced themselves that they’ve seen things .. usually out of sheer desperation


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