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How do you know you have psychic abilities?

  • 23-01-2006 02:19PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭


    I believe everyone possesses some type of psychic abilities. They are hidden inner resources mankind has forgotten to use (some of us). By recognizing we possess them, we may be able to use them to improve the quality of our lives (and others).;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    mysteria wrote:
    I believe everyone possesses some type of psychic abilities. They are hidden inner resources mankind has forgotten to use (some of us). By recognizing we possess them, we may be able to use them to improve the quality of our lives (and others).;)

    So..... how do you know (referring to thread title)? Or were you asking?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭mysteria


    Just asking for people's opinions and experiences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    mysteria wrote:
    Just asking for people's opinions and experiences.
    I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    SkepticOne wrote:
    I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.

    I'd disagree there. I think that the general populace is less inclined to belief in such things and most people would be very slow to publically claim any sort of psychic ability.

    Of course, without any sort of statistics either way we're both just pushing about our own personal opinions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    psi wrote:
    I'd disagree there. I think that the general populace is less inclined to belief in such things and most people would be very slow to publically claim any sort of psychic ability.
    Except that I wasn't making a statement about numbers or proportions of people. Rather, that in my opinion and experience, many attributions of psychic ability are really cases of intuitive knowledge and hunches. I think there was an example on one of the threads here. I will try and dig it up.
    Of course, without any sort of statistics either way we're both just pushing about our own personal opinions.
    Yes, obviously I'm just giving my opinion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭stormkeeper


    SkepticOne wrote:
    Rather, that in my opinion and experience, many attributions of psychic ability are really cases of intuitive knowledge and hunches.

    It's an aspect of psychicness though... being in touch with one's intuition. Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.

    And how I knew I was psychic? I had multiple individuals (who are psychic themselves) tell me... after the 5th person, I was able to accept it better, as I had enough conclusive proof from independent sources to be able to at least declare that I have something to some degree...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Kennett wrote:
    Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.

    I'm afraid the "we only use 10% of our brain" idea is completely false, though it is a nice idea.

    What we do is use different parts of our brain at different times, depending on what we are doing. We only use certain parts of it for high consciousness, other parts for sub-conscious acts such as walking, and face recongision. Through out the day you will probably use all parts of your brain at some time or another.

    http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
    http://psychology.ucalgary.ca/factoid/lashley.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    from snope wrote:
    Even Uri Geller, who has made a career out of trying to convince people he can bend metal with his mind, trots out this little gem. This claim appears in his book Uri Geller's Mind-Power Book in the introduction: "Our minds are capable of remarkable, incredible feats, yet we don't use them to their full capacity. In fact, most of us only use about 10 per cent of our brains, if that. The other 90 per cent is full of untapped potential and undiscovered abilities, which means our minds are only operating in a very limited way instead of at full stretch. I believe that we once had full power over our minds. We had to, in order to survive, but as our world has become more sophisticated and complex we have forgotten many of the abilities we once had"
    Kennett wrote:
    It's an aspect of psychicness though... being in touch with one's intuition. Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.
    Kennett...are you in fact...uri geller? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    Kennett wrote:
    And how I knew I was psychic? I had multiple individuals (who are psychic themselves) tell me...
    Serious question, what can you do and what can your friends do? I want to know what you and your psychic friends definition of psychic abilities are. Note, I won't be demanding proof, just a definition please if you can.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭mysteria


    SkepticOne wrote:
    I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.
    And I believe people with psychic abilities often dismiss psychic information as a hunch or gut feeling so I guess we'll have to agree to differ:)


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    SkepticOne wrote:
    I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.
    You could equally say that many people mistake psychic ability for hunches and intuition :)

    In fact one of the major problems with picking up information pyschically, or at least a problem I have, is distinguishing it from the million and one other random thoughts that pass through your head during the day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    steven wrote:
    In fact one of the major problems with picking up information pyschically, or at least a problem I have, is distinguishing it from the million and one other random thoughts that pass through your head during the day.
    yea, but I find its not really a problem unless I'm not doing anything at all. If I'm anyway unoccupied a gazillion things will run through there so I try to keep my mind ccupied to prevent that from happening. Although I've been very restless lately.
    The internet is a bastard for transmitting information though. Its never a case of just reading words, for me its often sensing the thoughts behind the words and or feelings attached to them.
    you might consider that intuition or gut feeling.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    solas wrote:
    The internet is a bastard for transmitting information though. Its never a case of just reading words, for me its often sensing the thoughts behind the words and or feelings attached to them.
    you might consider that intuition or gut feeling.

    Now that I find interesting.

    One of the biggest problems I have with using email/MSN and even on boards, is you can never quite tell the demeanour of the person with whom you are conversing.

    Be interesting what feelings you associate with my postings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    I quite like how you think/feel. more?

    k...don't be embarressed :)
    I'm familiar with you anyway and your ideas, It's not a case of me agreeing with them or not but because you provide them with a sense of clarity. You know you don't know all there is to know, your not up your own hole, maybe its that whole buddhist influence going on there but you have a nice balanced perspective to life. Theres a sense of experience there. I understand your motivation and its genuine.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?

    edit:
    Psi wrote:
    One of the biggest problems I have with using email/MSN and even on boards, is you can never quite tell the demeanour of the person with whom you are conversing.
    I used to have that problem, but I've found the more I posted on boards the more I've been able to read people just from their posts. Part of that is getting to know some of the posters and what their 'default demeanour' is, but sometimes I almost think there's a bit more to it than that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    how does that compare in general?
    Everyone has an agenda, at any given time. some people want to inspire conversation, some are looking for information, some people just want to argue, usually those who have trust or identity issues and consequently need to validate themselves, some want to motivate others, some people don't know who they are and just respond or react to other people, some people don't give a fcuk either way and don't care how they are perceived or how they make others feel, some people really just want to say it as it is and some people can just be themselves, which I quite like personally.

    I can feel when someone is pissed off with what I've written, even if they haven't responded verbally to indicate so and I can tell if I have someones approval.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    stevenmu wrote:
    That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?

    Do me! do me!

    (well maybe not Solas or Psi, since we don't get .. er .. on :p ... but anyone else)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    stevenmu wrote:
    That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?
    I dunno, but I wouldn't usually make open judgments about people, psi asked me what I thought, I could be wrong and what I've written is just my perception.
    But I think everyone could practise really saying what they mean..and meaning what they say. Would make life easier for all of us and there wouldn't really be a need to "interpret" each other.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    wicknight wrote:
    Do me! do me!

    (well maybe not Solas or Psi, since we don't get .. er .. on ... but anyone else)
    as a mod its a task to maintain a forum in balance to satisfy everyone, any issues you have with me or psi is mod related an not personal, you should understand that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,399 ✭✭✭✭Thanx 4 The Fish


    I think that you are not open to accepting any new ideas and are one of the most negative people I have never met.

    That's just my feeling from your last post. How was that for you, perhaps the very fact that you are open to such a reading puts the lie to how I felt of it but that is not what the challenge was about. As this is surely a very subjective thing I would like to see how others thought Wick was feeling when he posted or what type of person we felt would make such a post,we can compare and contrast.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    heh, well in all fairness I think he was genuine in his request but I doubt he really cares what we think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    I think that you are not open to accepting any new ideas and are one of the most negative people I have never met.
    Sorry, we've met?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    solas wrote:
    I dunno, but I wouldn't usually make open judgments about people, psi asked me what I thought, I could be wrong and what I've written is just my perception.
    Yeah, I though about that, I'd started writing about a few people but then thought better off it.

    But Wickight, seeing as you asked, I'm not really sure what to make of most of your posts I've read, and I'm not entirely sure you do either. I think you tend to be thinking of a lot of different things at once (possibly reading other threads/sites at the same time or watching tv or other real life stuff), and only parts of that make it into your posts. Possibly you have a stammer in real life (not that it's any of our business of course) ? There's a lot of energy behind your posts, I'd imagine your not hyperactive, but always doing something. There's a kind of feeling of 'now I'm doing a post', 'done', 'next thing', 'done', 'another post', 'done' etc... I think you do get emotionally involved in the posts you make to a degree, but that only lasts for as long as you're reading/typing a post, when you move on to the next thing you cut away and become emotionally attached to that in a different way.

    Close ?

    (edit: you wouldn't have been my first choice, there's a disjointed quality to your posts, no real continuity of persona, that makes it hard to read the person behind them. That's just as I read your posts though, others may see them totally differently, as might I if I was more used to them, or knew you better.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Wicknight wrote:
    Sorry, we've met?
    Read his post again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    psi wrote:
    Read his post again.
    Sorry, "astral" meeting, got ya


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    he's just young. sorry man, don't really like talking about anyone in the third person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Hehe, this could get nasty lads :)

    Seriously though, ermm thanks solas. I think though that might be how I'd like to be thought - but its not really a posting "demeanour" is it? I mean generally my state of mind posting his somewhere between curiosity and indifference, with a detour through boredom or mild amusement. I'd never be angry or emotional, I might be thinking fast, but it'd have little to do with emotion, yet that is how I would have thought I'm mostly taken.

    I know I certainly have no psychic ability if this is an acid test though. Mind you, I don't imagine it'd be rampant throughout boards either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    curiosity and indifference, with a detour through boredom or mild amusement.
    somewhat balanced imo
    mature enough to know better (experienced)
    I was going to add a little more, like the fact that you don't take compliments too well..or too close to heart. better safe than sorry :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    stevenmu wrote:
    I think you tend to be thinking of a lot of different things at once (possibly reading other threads/sites at the same time or watching tv or other real life stuff)
    Does work count as "real life stuff" :D
    stevenmu wrote:
    Possibly you have a stammer in real life (not that it's any of our business of course) ?
    No stammer, but I am crap at public speaking, is that the same thing?
    stevenmu wrote:
    There's a lot of energy behind your posts, I'd imagine your not hyperactive, but always doing something.
    Actually people (especially my mother) would consider me lazy, but I do get spurts of energy to do something
    stevenmu wrote:
    I think you do get emotionally involved in the posts you make to a degree, but that only lasts for as long as you're reading/typing a post, when you move on to the next thing you cut away and become emotionally attached to that in a different way.
    True, I get very worked up in my posts while reading and writing them, and then an hour later I will be like "its just a stupid internet bulletin board"
    stevenmu wrote:
    Close ?
    Close-ish


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Ah but in fairness - wouldthat be classed as some innate ability to read the person, or just an ability to read between the lines of the post. Or do you think that they are one in the same thing.


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