What about the children who see imaginary playmates who tell them certain things which come true at a later time in physical reality? The skeptic will demand (or ask if they are polite) to provide a detailed documented report to prove it. I sympathize with their desire to map subjective experiences to repeatable physical terms. However, the difficulty is that most experiences are personal and internalized and difficult to recreate for other people. So I or anyone will never be able to prove “most” subjective experiences to that standard. To the skeptic, that explanation of frustration is just another cleverly worded cop-out which “proves” nothing. If one is limited to perceiving things from one perspective, it is difficult to believe that another perspective is indeed real. This happens all the time in physical reality. The key and usually scary solution is to open oneself to the possibility that something you currently believe is not real may be real.
Finally I believe, you should ask 3 questions and answer. If I can say “yes” to 2 out of the 3 questions below, my psychic experience can probably be trusted as genuine:
- Did the experience leave me feeling more calm, stronger, and more at peace?
- Did the experience leave me with a sense of wonder or optimism?
- Did the experience convey useful or interesting information with no particular emotional content?
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