Psychic Abilities Options

Okay, so a lot of people on here have abilities of some sort or another. Empaths, telepaths, healers, psychics, many with Sight and other magical senses... my question is, do you think these abilities are something you need to be born with? It seems that most of these people have been able to See or whatever it is they do since they were very young. Can one develop these with practice? Is there anyone here who in fact *wasn't* born with an ability, but gained it through their own effort? Any thoughts or methods, throw them in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wizard.gif)

I definitely think that there is a genetic predisposition to having spiritual gifts. I have them, my dad has them, and his father had them, and his father had him (and so on, and so forth).

Can these abilities be learned? Absolutely. Depends on how much willpower you have(to not give up, which again is genetically predisposed)

Personally, I beleive all of these 'abilities' are just manifestations of a single 'additional' sense that everyone has. Some people are better at connecting this sixth sense to other senses, so we get Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, etc. - it's a holographic sort of sense, or rather, a sense which interprets the holographic nature of our reality. But, we have either lost, or not developed yet, a common experiential language of common parlance - such as colors, notes, textures, tastes, and smells - which we can use to teach one another to experience this other sense in it's own pure right, as it's own sense experience.

For instance, you can experience texture just by looking at something. You know what, say, wool feels like, so you look at it and can imagine that you are touching it easily. However, you may mistake something that simply looks like wool for the actual thing just by looking. The same thing goes for interpreting your sixth sense according to another sense. In my opinion, this is why so many so called 'psychics' have so many 'misses' - their brain is creating representations of holographic information that they have not learned to interpret in a pure sensory way.

Most so called psychics do have this component to their experience - most will say that they not only see something, but recieve some kind of information along with it that isn't represented visually, audially, etc., but which is simply 'intuition'.

I think that the inability to properly express and thus exchange purer information regarding the sixth sensory experience, it what generates these abilities in some people. In those who are not naturally able to connect one sense with another - not everyone, for instance, can interpret texture using their eyes, or distance using their ears, even though we do so subconsciously all of the time - they simply do not develop the necessary neural connections to interpret their sixth sense visually, audially, somatically, etc. Empathy and/or telepathy could be, in my opinion, considered closer to the actual experience itself, but still this is pasting another experience on top of it to make 'sense' of it (pardon the pun.)

So, this is to say, some people have a natural predisposition to connecting their senses, some people do not. Those people that do can develop clairvoyance, etc. Those who can't, will not develop that so called gift. On the one hand it's a hinderance, because there is so little common language to lead them towards embracing the experience of the sixth (and theoretically seventh+) senses. On the other hand, those who do explore that elusive sense that literally transcends most common human experience entirely, are usually the more accurate 'psychics' with far fewer misses. Like the interpretation of any other sensory experience, it can be 'read wrong' - you can misread a word, mishear a sound, less commonly but also mis-smell a smell, etc.; you can mis-experience the sensory input on the sixth sensory vector as well.

I believe that the sixth sense, and others, are a simply reality of the human experience. Being less 'tangible', or more properly, just ignored, of our sensory experiences, we don't talk about it. If no one talked about the sense of touch, we would all take it for granted as well and would have difficulty discussing our experiences with the somatic sense - if indeed we tried to discuss it at all.

peace
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