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I went to a psychic fair here in Austin, a fundraiser for the Battered Women's Shelter. Astonishing accuracy. This one psychic (who didn't look like what I expected her to look like - she looked like a banker) had a stream of consciousness verbiage that just went on and on and she said things like "I see you are trying to get pregnant oh no wait that's your friend Jackie she has something weird about her right eye I see you are worried about your mother's arms in some way, there are red spots on her arms you are worried about, don't worry that's nothing I see your husband hunching over in some way and holding on to something I think it's handlebars and he's about to have a sort of serious accident doing whatever that is but it will turn out okay" on and on and on and on.
I later heard her talking with another psychic. To her, these visions are like trying to remember details of dreams. It's exhausting for her, and they come in snippets as if they're memories, not projections.
I didn't go back again. I don't want to know. Everything she said was dead on.
Austin? Sounds like I need to make a trip to Austin. Did you get her card?
My waiter played a game ...''If you can guess my name I'll give the person a free dessert''...I blurted out, 'Madison'...you should have seen his face!
A massage client said, 'You know those squeeze balls you use to relieve tension?"
I said, "Oh, you got a rosary?" ( I quickly jotted down the color.)
After he was done freaking out, wondering if he told me...no...
I asked, 'What color is it, cuz I wrote down the color already"....he said like a pink...
He wanted me to go look in his right pocket that second!
Well, I held it under the small lamp...it was as Lavender as anything...
I showed him the paper that said, 'Lav'.
He was scared of me after that ...I apologized, 'I'm sorry, I usually don't blurt things out like that.'
Accurate enough?
That sort of thing has happened to me a couple of times, and once, a friend did that to me. There's got to be an explanation for it. Where someone gets a thought in their head, and is full of energy about it (enthusiasm, usually), they start to say something to lead into their topic, and for some reason, people can pick up on what the thought is that they're so full of, just at that moment, and they say the person's thought before s/he's had an opportunity to say it themselves.
I've done that myself, and I've observed someone doing it. Kind of like a "contact high", except it's a "contact thought". It seems to have something to do with the level of enthusiasm the person holds for a sudden thought that came up for them. Something about that energy. And I'm not talking about psychics; I don't consider myself one, and certainly that one friend I mentioned isn't one.
BTW, Miss H, I'm sure you've noticed that massage work is highly intuitive. One of my massage school instructors said that he sometimes inadvertently picks up past life information about people, while he's working on them. The energy field holds all manner of personal information about us, but I've never heard of someone picking up on past life info that way, before.
My waiter played a game ...''If you can guess my name I'll give the person a free dessert''...I blurted out, 'Madison'...you should have seen his face!
A massage client said, 'You know those squeeze balls you use to relieve tension?"
I said, "Oh, you got a rosary?" ( I quickly jotted down the color.)
After he was done freaking out, wondering if he told me...no...
I asked, 'What color is it, cuz I wrote down the color already"....he said like a pink...
He wanted me to go look in his right pocket that second!
Well, I held it under the small lamp...it was as Lavender as anything...
I showed him the paper that said, 'Lav'.
He was scared of me after that ...I apologized, 'I'm sorry, I usually don't blurt things out like that.'
Scientists still don't totally understand how all areas of the human brain work. I think most of us have a little pre-cog ability that keeps us safe: some folks call it "listening to your gut" and the like. I think it's part of the human make-up.
I also think that it takes a true "emergency" before it kicks in for a lot of people, so we hear the "I have no psychic ability" a lot. They do, but it hasn't been needed.
I think when it happens, it's accurate. I do think it's limited to the person or occasionally the parent-child bond. "I told my son not to drive there. I *knew* he was going to get into an accident! says one mother.
This sort of stuff is real.
However, as for the TV psychics and others who claim to "read" for you, it's hooey. Anytime money is changing hands is pretty much a sign to me that it's fake. Anyone who claims to know the future (beyond the gut feelings I wrote about above) is fake.
I'm starting to think there may be a few people out in the world with enhanced abilities, but they don't charge money. In fact, they are in hiding because having real ability is not a blessing and better kept hidden.
There are a lot of experiments where a group of people are all given the same reading and most of them say it was very personal and accurate. People look to turn generality into hits. This is where psychics get in to cold readings. If they were real they would be not only taking James Randi's money they would be making billions. There is no evidence that its real.
Using one's gift for personal gain can lead to loss of the gift.
There was a guy in NM, who, according to a newspaper article on him, was able to intuit which slot machines were about to pay out. He didn't use this for his own gain, though; he would tip off elderly players, and they'd switch machines and win big. I don't know if he was banned from the casinos after the article came out. But he definitely had a special kind of intuition.
I wonder why some people don't believe in psychic ability, at all. (I get there are hucksters out there, and fakes, and people who will take any horoscope thing and think it applies to them).
One of my kids has psychic abilities. I could make this a very very long post with the stuff he knows, but to keep it short, I'll just name a couple. One time when we were all in the car my husband was reading a book and came across the word "camouflage" and his eyes rested on the word as he thought it's kind of a weird word, and my 5 year old piped up from the back seat, "what does camouflage even mean, anyway"? A couple times when we arrived at some place he would say "oh good, Woody is here today" "or oh my teacher isn't here today, I'll have a substitute". How do you KNOW that? Approaching a school building, he could feel whether his teacher or best friend were in there. It happened often enough that I know it's true.
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