In an age where people seem to be looking for things to make them feel special, psychic ability is often represented as a rare “gift” which only a few people have access to. While it’s fair to call heightened awareness and other talents a gift, it’s entirely inaccurate to revere such things as rare or mystical.
The truth is you are psychic. But that alone doesn’t make you unique.
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The ability to know things without any logical basis (and to be correct!) is something we all have. Think honestly and objectively about your own life and you’ll surely find a number of instances where you had a flash of intuition, a strong bad/good feeling, or an unexplained impulse that led you in the right direction.
Sadly, a lot of people will bend over backwards to justify such occurrences as “chance”, “coincidence”, etc. How many times can you have the same experience and just write it off as chance?
Mathematically, the odds of our intuitional experiences being happenstance are extremely slim. In fact it would be more amazing from a statistical or probability point of view if such events turned out to be mere flukes!
Scientists have identified parts of our brain that sense and react to danger, even though we might not even notice this process on the conscious level. Additionally, studies have revealed an amazing commonality in the way our brains work and even synchronize on a regular basis, making it possible for us to know what others are thinking with relative ease.
Do these things qualify as psychic? According to most dictionaries absolutely.
The fact is there are things we can do which are not yet fully explainable by science. Some people seem content to pretend events and phenomena simply do not exist until lab experiments and formal university papers can reconcile them, but this seems like an incredibly limiting way to live.
Manned flight was physically possible before the Wright brothers proved it.
Think about it; the physical laws of nature were not altered in 1903 when the first airplane confirmed the plausibility of this type of travel. The scientific realities that allow planes to cruise through the air today existed before 1903; our species simply couldn’t prove it until that time.
So choosing to pretend that psychic ability isn’t real doesn’t change the facts. This form of denial just allows people who are scared of their own power and upset by notions that violate “normal” thinking to remain comfortable… for now.
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