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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