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.