The way to know you were psychic

First of all, for reference, just because someone calls themselves a professional psychic, doesn't mean they are psychic. I've seen far too many skeptics on Quora, just call themselves psychics and answer questions, just so they can try to debunk the profession. 

Someone told me that "I'm not sure I ever had a defining moment about knowing I was psychic, but there was a defining moment when I was "told" it was okay to think outside the box.

When I was 6 or 7, around the age we start knowing that the world judges us and we get psychic ideas beat out of us, I was driving with my parents late one night. My father was telling my mom that a friend of his was committed to a psychiatric hospital.

My mom asked why, and my dad replied, "I guess he just lost touch with reality."  At that, eavesdropping from the back seat, (remember, I was only 7 or so) I said,  "how do you know that what he sees isn't really reality, but what we see is not?"

Both my parents got very quiet. They looked at each other, then turned to look at me in the back seat. My father finally said, "I can't tell you that's not the case."

With that, I was given the message that thinking outside the box was okay. I got my first tarot deck at 16, and simply developed my abilities. I never stopped.

There was one moment, however, where I was 'told', not that I was psychic (I'd already worked professionally on and off), but was told of a direction to go. I woke up one morning and, clear as day, I heard a voice in my head say to me, "you need to become a medium and a healer." 

I was already a tarot reader and animal communicator. I didn't really know a lot about mediumship, and knew practically nothing about energy healing, but you don't ignore a voice like that. While animal communication is my main business, reiki is a huge part of that and my mediumship skills help me regularly, even outside of the straight mediumship readings I do.

I was headed for a very different direction in my life, but kept hitting roadblocks. Clearly helping animals and people with my psychic skills was what I'm suppose to be doing. I'm grateful for the opportunity. "

Other opinions said that " It all started when i was young and had daydreams and ideas and wishes . About things i figured were normal or i believed were possible, like being a kid and thinking i should be able to clean my room with my mind and turn on lights why would we have to flip a switch that seems kinda like a waste of time cause i can feel electricity or energy and i recognize that energy in me , but at the time like age five i could not do it and soon began to all the doubt in thr world , literaly. I would cry cause there was no magic here on earth and i had these vivid ideas that seemed more real to me than anything this world had offered me yet . Except little clues that led the way to my finding out that my thoughts create reality, i am loved, time does not exist if i can see the future.

So i was in my moms truck in the back and constantky thought of magic and psychic things and i spoke to my self . Now knowing that something else was with me and guiding me which i call god .
And i got a vision of me holding a silver ball
I said how will i ever know if im psychic( besides my broken heart without any evidence of having it at the tine , life was hopeless)

Whats something they here on earth tells me is impossible?
And i said when i can move a ball in my hand with out moving my hand thats when ill know im psychic.

And saw the vision

I had long forgot about this due to the horrid dreadful reality i was in depressed with no magic.

Many years later i found some boading balls a few more years down i eventually on july fourth i think three or four years ago i had done it after i belief in a feeling i had in my hands and a desire to keep going i made them move from left to right with only thought. I did this for three hours to before i showed ANYONE I had to make sure i wasnt trippin, and keep testing it to make sure it would work when i wished .

So theres one way although that is telekinesis, but the vision many years before is clairvoyance and manifesting.

I would be thinking of a certain food and my dad in the other room would say honey hows dennys for dinner which taught me what was going on.
A learnt experience over time.

And probably a very special mission because ever since i could remember i starved for it , withered without it.

And if i died right now i would be still so blessed and fascinated at this journey that has unfolded.

Anythings possible.
You can do anything you set your mind to.
Knowledge is power.

These shouted loudly above any other words spoken in a sentance at any given time.
Didnt know why but i did definetly recognize the difference and amazing call to attention they demanded .

Yes feeling a little rush right now getting a little moved so i hope i answered your question i could go on with many more accounts but they are kinda special and they are like treasure maps over my like so its a lot to erite and people usually get lost upon my explaining cause they jump from time to time connected by things only i notice in my mind , but they prove true .
And ive helped a few people see magic and i believe thats my purpose ."

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How can you know if you are a psychic?

Check out these symptoms and signs that may be a prove that you have psychic abilities.

Higher levels intuition - You likely know who is calling on the phone before picking up, who a text is from before it chimes though, or if you have ever predicted an event before it occurred

You have experienced deja vu countless times - Constantly feel like you have been somewhere before even though you haven't, and if you have a great feeling of familiarity with people, places and things, you may be experiencing déjà vu. Déjà vu is a sure sign that you have some sort of psychic ability.

Visions are normal for you - If you have had visions of future events, either of something happening in the next hour or three days from now

A gut feeling that is always accurate - If you just "know" something before it happens, and you can sense the events of what is happening or what is about to happen, this is a strong sign of a psychic.

Telepathic instances - Reading someone else's thought process

Grand scale predictions and premonitions - If you have taken the time to write premonitions down or tell someone about them before they actually happen, and then they occur, you have a psychic gift.

Psychometry is evident - Psychometry is known as the psychic ability that allows an individual to sense or experience the history of a person or object by touching them or it.

Powerful vivid dreams - The symbols in their dreams have deep rooted meanings and they usually offer some sort of great understanding for the individual's life experience.

You sense trouble -  It hits you with great impact and sometimes with a great feeling of intense fear.

You tell the future - Telling the future to your friends and family, then having it actually happen is one of the number one ways that proves you are psychic.

You can heal - Many people that have psychic abilities can also heal others with their energy.

Hearing - Sounds can actually be an indication of a near future event and they can tell you about certain events that will occur.

You can see two places at once - This is definitely one of the stronger psychic abilities and signs that you may be psychic.

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Morever, Validation, primarily.  You need to be able to repeat the action (or sensing) several times, and have the results validated by other people who have ability.  Being able to repeat it at will is the best way to ensure that it isn't merely coincidence. And validation will rule out hallucination.  Be sure to do research, as well, so you aren't falling prey to mistaking a normal physical phenomenon for a psychic one.  It is often difficult to be certain of what you can do, unless/until you actually train your abilities to develop control over them.

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Are psychic phenomena illusory?

How do you prove the existence of psychic phenomena to people:

1. that have never directly encountered a realistic example of it?
2. that doubt it is a real thing, and thus, never put themselves in a position to properly analyze it?
3. when it is simply difficult to nail down the physical processes leading to it?

Of course psychic phenomena could be illusory.  It would be ridiculous for me to argue against that possibility.  However, I've had enough experiences to know that something is really happening in those moments.

Furthermore, I believe the people that experience psychic phenomena are not all created equal.  Some have extraordinary gifts.  Others, are not as gifted but still have real (although probably more vague) experiences.  There are also those people that are charlatans, using illusion and chicanery to appear they are gifted when they are not.  Heck I've met one person in particular, who I think had some level of giftedness (although I'd still question that), but she was negative and lazy.  She certainly was incorrect about my life when she talked to me.

Aside from trying to determine who really experiences psychic phenomena from those that don't, there seems to be a list of observations that also contribute to the doubt and confusion.  

1. Psychic phenomena is difficult to isolate.  Many times it seems to happen to people out of the corner of their eye, or in a moment they would least expect it to happen.  On another note, how could science work to understand something this fleeting?  Without knowing exactly what you are studying, it becomes easier to alleviate the confusion by assuming the phenomena doesn't exist.

2. Being too skeptical may be an obstacle to having these kinds of experiences.  To put it another way, does our day-to-day disposition have an impact on whether we experience psychic phenomena?  

It seems to me that the people that experience psychic phenomena are able to naturally put themselves in a position of openness through relaxation techniques.  In reality, these people are primarily (and maybe only) seeking the peace and spiritual feelings associated with these techniques.  Therefore, psychic phenomena only seems to be a residual aspect of seeking spirituality.  

It seems that there is also something in conscious experience that makes the more scientific/analytical types disconnected, less spiritual (often more religious), and more distant. It's an oddity of spiritual experience that really needs a remedy.  To me, the very people that could give a proper analysis of the psychic phenomena landscape are the ones that are least capable of experiencing it at all.

3. The last observation I want to address has to do with the confidence we have in the language we are already using to describe psychic phenomena.
I would argue that since we do not have the experience pinned down in a way that is acceptable for more serious discourse, we need to be careful about attributing language, social conditions of the past, and other assumptions that would derail the potential progress of understanding this elusive issue altogether.

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Is psychic ability hereditory?

It definitely does run in families (doesn’t even slow to a walk), but some actual science would have to be applied to confirm that it’s hereditary. If we’re lucky, they won’t be applying that science anytime soon. (Given the mental climate of the world today, you can’t imagine they’d be too happy to find out it’s proven that some people can untraceably read or influence the minds of others, among other things? No, that would not be in our best interests).

It’s less common for individual abilities to be present in the offspring of psychics than it is for the simple innate psychic ability itself to be present - people may have different abilities from those their parents had, but they most often have something, at least if both parents have some ability. With no real study done on this, how these traits might be inherited is just a guess. It appears to be that psychic ability runs stronger in some families than in others. It’s hard to say how much of this a genetic disposition and how much of this is just a familiarity with psychic ability. If you grow up without the negativity and superstition typically surrounding this ability you’re going to have an easier time of it than most people.

There are definitely personality and physiological traits that make it more likely that someone will be psychic. These include: heightened sensitivity of the senses, synesthesia, heightened emotional sensitivity, high intelligence, high creativity and a high tolerance for ambiguity.

Additionally,  There are a lot of people who think they have psychic abilities, but they do not. Psychic or “paranormal” abilities do not exist. This has been exhaustively tested.

No one has ever displayed paranormal abilities when tested under controlled conditions. The James Randi Educational Foundation for many years offered it’s “Million Dollar Prize” to anyone who could manifest ANY paranormal abilities under controlled conditions. No one ever won the prize.

Most of the people that tried were frauds. They were quickly unmasked by the use of proper scientific protocols and the extensive knowledge of conjuring techniques by Mr. Randi and his associates.

Some were merely deluded. They sincerely thought that they had “powers”, and often maintained this belief even after spectacularly failing the test protocols, protocols that they themselves agreed to.

From the 70s through about the mid-80s, all manner of major universities had “Parapsychology” departments, or at least a lab and a “chair” to conduct research.

This was all spurred by the advent of the New Age thinking of the 70s, which was itself just a re-hash of the similar silliness that rose around the turn of the century with the “Golden Dawn” and Madame Blatavasky and others.

Try to find a parapsychology department now. Dried up and blown away… Nothing to see, folks, move on. People are prone to “magical thinking”. They see correspondences where there are none, and coincidences are treated not as coincidence but as evidence….

If anyone is interested in this area… Skepticism or skeptical inquiry, I recommend one single book above all others. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

Sagan lays out the basic rules for critical thinking and the use of logic, in a very entertaining manner.

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The reason why people deny psychic abilities

There are three main areas and reasons why some people deny psychic abilities:

a), It is possible to simply not have realized this ability in yourself. For years I was aware that I was able to perceive a lot of things but I hadn’t thought too deeply about it. The first time I had an inkling of telepathy was when I had gone to a fortune-teller, whom I had seen a few times and never really got any thing much. On that day I had a lot of worries occupying my mind about some nasty politics that was going on at work. They affected me and others at my work. That day maybe I did appear a bit preoccupied or worried but I doubt it as I went there more to get my mind off things than anything else. On that day this fortune-teller told me all about the politics at work and who was affected and what bad motives there were and even described the people posing problems. I was shocked but as I couldn’t explain it I dismissed it from my mind.

Some years later, at a public talk about some healing technique, I don’t remember right now what it was, a guy stopped me in the tea break and said that he wanted to demonstrate that I had ESP ability. I thought to amuse him maybe I’d play along. He held up some cards, one by one, with their back facing me and asked what I thought. He said just say what immediately comes into your mind. Each time I said something, like apple, tree, tall building etc., he flipped the card and I could see I got it correct.. every time! I laughed and said there has to be a reason. I thought there was some trick. He said I addressed you mentally and mentally said the word for each card.. apple, tree, tall building etc. I was stunned.

Then I remembered the incident with the fortune-teller. I realized that while I was thinking and worrying on some level, she must have been able to perceive my thoughts. And I would say that judging from what she had said, she must have posed questions to me, carefully phrased to appear as simple thinking, to prompt me to think about the people involved and think about their features, what they looked like. Thus she was able to give me what appeared to be an incredible “reading”. She had literally fished me for the information. I began to realize that we do have abilities that we don’t normally think about. The average person, like I did, doesn’t realize their own abilities. And I could see that such abilities are discouraged in childhood.

b). There are people, who play foul games, to gain power and influence over others, with whom they are related. The presentation of ideas is a key part of the foul game play. I have used many, many occasions to test out these people. I have made it appear that I was presenting them with an idea to try to influence them or trip them up. Invariably I have seen the same sort of reaction. They have not reacted with ideas, possibly to not give the game away, however in every case they have given me looks that said plenty. Looks of irritation, annoyance, a“don’t think you are going to put one over me” look, cunningly looking back as if to say “you think you’re smart, I see you”, a bully look and so on. And I can say none of these looks were consistent with the conversation. All of them were made after I presented them with an idea, addressed them mentally with an idea, just as the guy with the cards had said he’d done.

Some time later when I spoke to these guys again, in each case I brought the conversation around to ESP and telepathy and direct mental perception and every one of them without exception flatly denied the existence of ESP and claimed it a hoax or said the person who claimed to have psychic abilities was either a phony or crazy. Pressed, most of them became angry and even belligerent.

c). The mainstream scientific community, with a few exceptions, deny ESP and all psi abilities. I would say the reason is because they uphold the view that reality is the material reality and that there is nothing else. Thus the very means by which psi abilities can be explained is denied.

The biomedical community in particular strongly deny psi abilities and the official position of psychiatry is that a person who claims to be able to mentally perceive ideas presented by others is insane., psychotic. I would say in the case of biomedical sciences it is their funders, who have a problem, i.e., the pharmaceutical companies. For the drug companies to make huge profits and to continue to make huge profits, disease has to be seen as physical, which is brought about by physical causes. Thus the nocebo effect is not researched. The fact that ideas and beliefs lead to adverse bodily reactivity is being denied. So it is little wonder than ideas that may be mentally presented through the abuse of relationship be acknowledged. Thus psi abilities are denied. Some of the research that is done is done with the view to water down or to apply the most difficult conditions possible to weed out the majority.

Those studies that do get done well and which show a striking effect are either rubbished by the so-called skeptics or tampered with by other scientists, those who supposedly seek to repeat them. IMO they make sure that they do not get the same results. And it is possible that they may get a fairly rich handshake for doing so by the drug companies.

For example Dr Sheldrake’s experiments about dogs knowing when their owners are coming home were supposedly not reproducible. I would suggest that it only takes a hidden threat to the dogs to cause them to not wag their tails. If the dogs are focused on a threat, and dogs are keenly aware, then it would hold all of their attention. They may still be aware of their owners coming home but would not show the signs.

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Do most psychics lose their abilities after reaching adulthood?

 It’s not that children lose abilities, it is that many people have it beaten out of them by their parents and society at large. Around the age of 6 or 7, children start to have a concept of how the outside world thinks of them.

The parents of a child that tells his or her parents, “I saw grandma at the edge of the bed last night”, have two options. They can say ask the child about his or her experiences, or they can shut them down with, ‘that’s ridiculous, you know grandma is dead!’ Shaming the child and forever making them feel it is ‘nothing but their imagination’ or that they are ‘crazy’ if they see something like that.

Those whose parents don’t shut them down keep an open mind to developing those abilities. Those who have been shut down, don’t lose those abilities, but they lose their belief in them and, hence, they never develop them.

Everyone has those abilities. Whether or not they choose to believe or develop them is dependent upon their own experiences, and their own ability to be an individual, rather than ‘run with the pack’, because of what the ‘pack’ believes. When a child’s psychic gifts are developed and nurtured by the adults around them, they will grow to staggering levels.

Unfortunately, however, children with gifts are often called crazy, or imaginative, or even liars, if not worse.

Regrettably this teaches the child to suppress these gifts, not to disclose what they see, feel or hear.

Eventually then life takes over: school, college, university, a job, family life all contribute to suppress and repress these innate gifts.

However, these gifts never disappear. A person will find that they know things, feel things, and see things without knowing why.

The unlucky ones end up with mental and emotional issues related to this and to the fact that psychiatrists, psychologists, and doctors never consider the possibility of psychic gifts. So prescriptions are written, medicines are taken. Some fall into drug and alcohol abuse. Most end up isolated, and labelled as weird, crazy, psychos, schizos, etc.

Some luckier ones will eventually go through some mental and emotional processes that will enable them to recognise, admit, and embrace their gifts, and will start using them later on in life, develop a support network, and enjoy a happy life.

The luckiest, however, are those that are nurtured and developed as children, as their gifts will simply grow unhindered, and their stability, maturity, happiness and self worth will be uninterrupted.

Morever,  what most people refer to as “psychic ability” is a highly focused and developed intuitive faculty in which connections are sensed among seemingly unrelated persons, events, and phenomena without the apparent employment of conscious reasoning processes. Such insights can manifest initially in the conscious mind in a wide number of ways: as images, sometimes literal (“clairvoyance”, “automatic drawing”), sometimes symbolic; as sounds or voices(“clairaudience”); as word-strings (“channeling,” “automatic writing”); or as apparent changes in body temperature, a sense of unseen presences, and/or feelingsof danger, immanence, or extraordinary significance (“clairsentience”). Then, when the receiver of these impressions concentrates upon them, they often resolve into comprehensible meme-strings, “hunches”, complex ideas, or stories best perceived and expressed by the adult mind.

As long as that adult mind isn’t blighted, dwarfed, or closed by (1) religious prohibitions against psychic experience or (2) materialist prohibitions against psychic experience arising from the assumption that all phenomena perceived by the brain of necessity must originate in the scientifically testable universe.

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Do you believe in psychic abilities?

Someone have some psychic experiences, but the problem is that it is not strong enough to call on at will, and is therefore pretty useless. However, those experiences have caused me to research into others who claim to have psychic abilities of some sort. In every case I discovered that such claims were false. They were simply using the art of magicians or mentalists to deceive people into believing that they had real psychic abilities. Uri Geller is one such con man, John Edwards is another. Look into the work of James Randi, who was a magician, to prove that those so-called psychics were complete phonies simply using trickery. In fact he had a standing offer to pay anyone one million dollars who could actually demonstrate any psychic ability at all. No one has ever succeeded in claiming the money because he set up conditions that would make it impossible for them to use any magicians tricks. If they actually did have some psychic ability they would have been able to demonstrate it without having to resort to trickery and thus claim the million dollars, but no one ever could although many tried to fool Randi to get the money.

If you see someone claiming some psychic ability you can be sure it’s all about them getting money out of suckers.

Morever, unfortunately, the human brain has evolved with certain faults built in. We see patterns where there are none. If something happens, we always think there’s a conscious mind behind it. Our brains make certain assumptions without us even being aware of it and some people are willing to lie to make money.

‘Psychics’ use a technique called cold reading. They say something and then use a person’s response to give the appearance of knowledge. This skill can be learned and is therefore not a ‘psychic’ ability.

It’s a trick. Death does one thing, really well, and that’s stop people talking. Graveyards are very quiet, there are no graveyard debating clubs. Death is very efficient when it comes to stopping people talking. Death is almost like some sort of conversational off switch :P

James Randi has offered a million dollars to anyone who can prove they have any special power. Plenty have tried and all have failed. The only millionaire ‘psychics’ are the ones who tricked the money out desperate people’s pockets 

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