Psychic Abilitys

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Just to add to what he was doing there - the reason he was *missing* the hit was because you have to get the angle. Everything has an outer rim - every shape has one - so it's right there that you have to concentrate on its movement, I like to work with 3-d objects - and work with heavier materials. Personally haven't tried the paper - but looks easy enough. Try for yourselves.

I'm suppose to be psychic, in fact, very psychic. I myself am very skeptical that psychic abilities are what people say they are. I don't doubt some people confuse coincidence and chance to their own alledged "abilities." it's funny how people always seem so eager to decieve themselves, especially if they're tying to ascribe "special powers" to themselves.

I say I'm suppose to be psychic because I've been tested twice, once in a psychology study when I was in college, and at a later time by a parapsychology expert (who also had a master's degree in psychology). In both tests, which were quite different, I rated very high for clairvoyance, although each test defined clairvoyance a little differently. So I have my doubts about those results. I also rated high in other forms of ESP in both tests, but clairvoyance was said to be my strongest. Those results intrigue me, but I wouldn't put much stock into them. I mean, supposedly, according to one of these test, I'm "clairaudient." But how do you qualitify that ability? How do they know it's not just a combination of my synesthesia, eidetic memory and hyper fast deduction skills? In that case it's not so much me having "paranormal" perception of sounds, but a neurological advantage that I've intuitively learned to use since childhood by ordinary trial and error.

In some cases, like how I'm able to tell you some curiously detailed personal things about someone by only hearing a recording of their voice or them playing music - there is a strong intuitive part, but I am also aware that I do also go through a very brief and fast process of deduction that is unobservable and difficult for me to articulate to someone else. Another "amazing" thing I can do is called "clairsentience" - I can touch someone or something and "know" things about them I seeingly wouldn't know otherwise (paranoid people probably shouldn't shake hands with me ). I've also had several prophetic visions and dreams that have come to pass, and I have had many lucid dreams, sometimes where I learn something that I can later verify to be true. When I was younger it did seem like magic but I'm older and less guillable, and nor do I wish to be "special" in that way. So it's easier for me now to set my ego aside and say that while these things make for a neat "party trick," none of it is as paranormal as it may seem.

I also know, because I do have certain gifts that can be mistaken for paranormal abilties, how that "Oh wow, you're psychic!" reaction plays on a person's ego. I've caught myself wording my supposedly psychic reactions to be more vague and general yet sound convincingly "on target" and have learned how easy it is to fool people that way. Seriously, many people simply want to believe you, even if you're way off, and they'll unconsiously bend over backwards to let you be right. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. But the desire of the power that has on people, to power to amaze and dazzle, is very seductive, and I recognize that desire in pretty much every person I've met who claims to be psychic. (Another trick these frauds use to convince people is sheer passion - how intensely they believe in it sometimes convinces others too.)

Most of my supposedly psychic experinces I believe can be explained in more mundane ways. Some are definitely weirder and perhaps more impressive than others, and a little harder to explain. But I'm sure there's rational, non-paranormal explanations for all of it. I believe a lot will eventually be shown to be nothing more than mental perspective, suggestion and cognitive biases that color one's perceptions, both in the mind of the "psychic" and in the minds of the people who believe them.

When I said *you* I was referring to the general *you* not you specifically first person...But fine - let the guy debunk away. I think it really defeats the purpose of the whole concept anyway - I mean what IS the purpose if not to further along humanity and heal people - i think....and for distraction - though ultimately my own belief is that this is a jumping board for bigger things - like an apprenticeship...before the Real Work...

Jj, he has made it clear that he believes he does not have Psychic powers, why do you insist that he does?

I'm suppose to be psychic, in fact, very psychic. I myself am very skeptical that psychic abilities are what people say they are. I don't doubt some people confuse coincidence and chance to their own alledged "abilities." it's funny how people always seem so eager to decieve themselves, especially if they're tying to ascribe "special powers" to themselves.

I say I'm suppose to be psychic because I've been tested twice, once in a psychology study when I was in college, and at a later time by a parapsychology expert (who also had a master's degree in psychology). In both tests, which were quite different, I rated very high for clairvoyance, although each test defined clairvoyance a little differently. So I have my doubts about those results. I also rated high in other forms of ESP in both tests, but clairvoyance was said to be my strongest. Those results intrigue me, but I wouldn't put much stock into them. I mean, supposedly, according to one of these test, I'm "clairaudient." But how do you qualitify that ability? How do they know it's not just a combination of my synesthesia, eidetic memory and hyper fast deduction skills? In that case it's not so much me having "paranormal" perception of sounds, but a neurological advantage that I've intuitively learned to use since childhood by ordinary trial and error.

In some cases, like how I'm able to tell you some curiously detailed personal things about someone by only hearing a recording of their voice or them playing music - there is a strong intuitive part, but I am also aware that I do also go through a very brief and fast process of deduction that is unobservable and difficult for me to articulate to someone else. Another "amazing" thing I can do is called "clairsentience" - I can touch someone or something and "know" things about them I seeingly wouldn't know otherwise (paranoid people probably shouldn't shake hands with me ). I've also had several prophetic visions and dreams that have come to pass, and I have had many lucid dreams, sometimes where I learn something that I can later verify to be true. When I was younger it did seem like magic but I'm older and less guillable, and nor do I wish to be "special" in that way. So it's easier for me now to set my ego aside and say that while these things make for a neat "party trick," none of it is as paranormal as it may seem.

I also know, because I do have certain gifts that can be mistaken for paranormal abilties, how that "Oh wow, you're psychic!" reaction plays on a person's ego. I've caught myself wording my supposedly psychic reactions to be more vague and general yet sound convincingly "on target" and have learned how easy it is to fool people that way. Seriously, many people simply want to believe you, even if you're way off, and they'll unconsiously bend over backwards to let you be right. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. But the desire of the power that has on people, to power to amaze and dazzle, is very seductive, and I recognize that desire in pretty much every person I've met who claims to be psychic. (Another trick these frauds use to convince people is sheer passion - how intensely they believe in it sometimes convinces others too.)

Most of my supposedly psychic experinces I believe can be explained in more mundane ways. Some are definitely weirder and perhaps more impressive than others, and a little harder to explain. But I'm sure there's rational, non-paranormal explanations for all of it. I believe a lot will eventually be shown to be nothing more than mental perspective, suggestion and cognitive biases that color one's perceptions, both in the mind of the "psychic" and in the minds of the people who believe them.

Everybody is psychic its the matter of meditating and trying to open your charkras which isnt easy but once done you should show signs of psychic abilitys from what i have read,

Everybody is psychic

You started the thread; be prepared to hear the opinion that everyone is not psychic, unless of course you're willing to prove otherwise, meanwhile making yourself $1,000,000 richer at the expense of James Randi.

Well . . . ?

it is all over the web saying everybody is psychic