Why Do Some Of Us Have Extra Sensory Gifts?

feywon said:
Thing is a lot of scientific progress as been slowed by peer reviewed, establishment accepted studies/conclusion that later were found to be not just mistaken but distorted or fabricated like the one linking Autism to vaccines. Tectonic plate theory was not just questioned the proponents were ridiculed. Real scientific!
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You make some good points, the scientific process is slow and mistakes get made for sure. However with time it has proven our best way of making progress in understanding of things. Good science is self-correcting of the kind of problems you mention. Plate tectonics is a really good example, a lot of people were wrong about it, but it did not take long after the compelling scientific evidence arose for things to change.

I have been on both sides of the peer review process, been peer reviewed and served as a peer reviewer, and I know its not a perfect process, and it can take a long time. Some papers make it through peer review that should not, some are rejected that should not be. However these are in the minority and in the end better more reliable papers get published through the peer review process than would be otherwise. So again it ain't perfect, but its better than anything else we have been able to figure out. If a paper has been peer reviewed it tells you some mostly well qualified smart people looked at it, often made useful comments, and approved. If its not peer reviewed you have no assurances at all.
feywon said:
People don't stop to think that scientists are humans prone to all human flaws--ambition, greed, attachment to their 'status'. And all that can work to bury unpopular results. Eventually truth will prevail but how much damage is done in the meantime????
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Yep, you are right scientists are at least as prone to human weakness as the rest of us, when it comes to ego maybe more so. And it is true that damage has been done as the result of the slowness, but I don't know of any other way to get to the truth. Without science superstition would prevail.

Science tends to be two steps forward and one back, all the time.
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People tend to talk derisively and dismissively about 'anecdotal' evidence but a lot of research gets done when a lot of such evidence accumulates
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I think anecdotal evidence is at the beginning of a lot of what eventually becomes settled science. But that takes time and good scientific testing. The problem with anecdotal evidence is it often makes a good story, but can be misleading. It has to be balanced and tested.
Shero said:
There are many things we do not understand about the brain and the mind. Scientists have barely scratched the surface.
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For sure! I don't think we will ever fully understand it. Makes it all the more interesting!
Shero said:
People’s experiences are “real” to them and the goal should not be to take that away from them.
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Absolutely! And I think they are interesting, the experiences are real. What is unclear is what they really mean or what caused them. I have read this thread and believe all the personal experiences folks have described to be honest, real and interesting.
 

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Shero said:
People’s experiences are “real” to them and the goal should not be to take that away from them. There are many things we do not understand about the brain and the mind. Scientists have barely scratched the surface.

I posted on page 2 that everyone has these “gifts” , I wish people would stop using the word “gift” though – it is an ability. We all have this ability, a sixth sense, some call it a gut feeling, a hunch and so on. Depending on where we live, our lifestyle, our childhood, influences from our grandparents and parents, these abilities are heightened.

While scientific research hasn’t found evidence to support the idea of prophetic dreams, people claim to have them. That is okay, the problem arises when some smart alec wants to interpret your dream.

No one can give an explanation for their own precognitive dreams, let alone somone else’s. In order to interpret, one has to feel the dream, be in the dream and know the person intimately.

Identical twins come to mind, they not only feel each other’s emotions they have the same dreams and sometimes the same nightmares. Some very interesting studies have been done with identical twins.
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As a Mom of twins i can vouch for that last paragraph.
 
feywon said:
i can understand that, but i do recall and have seen evidence of reincarnation in my own children.

When i share things it is not about convincing those who don't believe it is about letting others who've had similar experiences know they are not alone and if they are interested to try to help them understand and accept their experience.
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could you elaborate on your first sentence please?
 
@RobinWren Some elaboration on "but i do recall and have seen evidence of reincarnation in my own children." Even without a lot of specific details this will be somewhat long, remember it was requested.

i have had memories not only of past lives but of 'between' lives. i remember my consciousness choosing to inhabit the infant my mother was carrying; talking with a 'guide, advisor' of some sort about pros and cons of those parents to foster my soul's progress. i very much wanted the father, but was concerned about how 'needy' the mother was. i was told--"It's a package deal, to get him you have to take her." And i risked it, worth it.

Just as confronting traumatic memories from one's current life can help one put them safely in the past (not necessarily painless, but memories not moments one relives full force) where they have less negative influence on our emotional states and behavior. i have said elsewhere on SF that from childhood i was a mostly fearless person--i respected natural forces etc but didn't fear them. The one exception was claustrophobia, that i often forgot about until in a situation that triggered it. Usually if i could see 'out' i was ok--so glass elevators were never a problem, but traditional ones took an act of will (and i have a strong one). Busses and surface trains ok, subways--especially when crowded were difficult.

When i was active in the Silva Graduates group i had 2 past life, actually more like past death ones, that somewhat mitigated my one big 'fear' response. i was able to take MRI's with just a little meditational prep and not break out in a cold sweat. But i had the nagging feeling there was 'more', because small windowless rooms still made me a bit anxious. i went thru one of my periods of backing off but after my 3rd divorce i stepped up my meditation practice again. In early 2000s my then 17 year old daughter and i were on way to library and i was talking with her about feeling like another traumatic past life recall was trying to bubble up during meditations---when i felt it coming on and had to pull over (fortunately quiet street early on a weekend, little traffic). The recall was brief but emotionally draining and then liberating. i did not 'see myself' being killed, i 'relived' it i looked out of the eyes of that past body at my murderers. Have never experienced claustrophobia since--in any setting. i still prep myself when going in hospitals because i'm empathic and pick up anxiety/fear/pain/grief others in the building are feeling if i don't but i don't have to anything additional for tolerating small, windowless exam rooms.


When i'm intensively meditating several times a day i have had times when i met people and superimposed (like an old double exposure photo) on their this life self, i will see who they were when we knew each other in past lives.

My first husband had problematic relationships with both his parents but the one with his father was extremely complex for several reasons, likely they had been together in previous lives and were still trying to work things out. Daddy R died before we married and went to Guyana for an extended visit. But all the family there--from my MIL to BILs and SILs kept saying "He would have loved you, how you think, how you care. (A good Hindu, he was generous with what he had, but he also had an alcohol problem my DH inherited or copied despite the fact that as a 12 yr old he had castigated his father for it). There were a couple of nights when MIL and SILS were very agitated and fearful because they felt his ghost was visiting. DH dismissed it as ignorant superstition. He did not believe in any way/shape/kind of afterlife.

We had a troubled relationship, largely due to his alcoholism. On/off/on again. When we reconciled in 1974 we agreed to have a child. We got a bonus--twins. Because the doc had only expected one there was only one baby cart in the delivery room. i delivered 3 weeks early so first born Owen was only 4lbs 14.5 oz and the nurses were checking him out carefully, while Doc went for 'afterbirth' but surpise "There's another one i there." the nurse who was a former midwife and i burst out laughing and Seth (4lbs 9.5 oz) came out like someone going down a water slide. They had to lay him on my chest till they could bring cart for him. The minute our eyes met i knew he was Balkisoon--Daddy R. i would have insisted on E. Indian middle names anyway since the last name not as clearly Hindi as some family name. i knew hubby want simple 'European' type names for first name--and that made sense. So Owen got their great-grandfather's name as his middle and Seth got their grandfather's.

Seth was not a cuddler, nor much interested in breast feeding tho i tried for several weeks. His bond was stronger with their Dad from day one. After their father was murdered, because he had been living with my estranged DH and Owen with me in different towns my sister K. had a couple of days with him before bringing him to me. They were 3 1/2 but pretty verbal already. One day at bank drive thru, she was telling him how anxious i was to see him, that i'd let him be with their father because it was what he/Seth seemed to want. He said "I wasn't much interested in the mother then." Not Mama, or even my/our mother but the mother. She didn't press him further, but did share with me.

i've talked on another thread about how their Dad, Dean's (Americanized diminutive of Thakurdeen) spirit visited us. Angry at first that i was right there's 'more', after life. After i read him the riot act that i would not tolerate him scaring the boys with his displays He was silent for months then came back---ready to talk, if we'd talked like that while he was alive everything would have been different. When we'd made peace and he seemed ready to move on we talked about 'what next'. i told him that considering his issues with women i thought he should choose to come back female next time. Then i surprised myself with extraordinary invitation: "If i get pregnant within the next 5 yrs you can come back as my child if you wish."

Again i knew the minute i looked into her eyes. i talked with boys about it. Despite Owen paying her more attention from before she was born really--she gravitated to Seth, who had little interest until started to get his jokes, and was showing how smart she was. (Talking complete sentences by 14 months. Shocked my older sister by demonstrating understanding of prepositions--which K insisted comes later for most--at a year old.)

The most evidential things for me--she has had maybe 2 wine coolers and no other alcohol in her life. True there's a family history of problems with alcohol in parent's families--but that was true of my boys too and they went thru the usual experimenting with it. She periodically will have a pain in her left hand and her chest almost simultaneously. It took me years to be sure, because often we were driving or walking side by side when she mentioned the intense but fleeting pain and i didn't look to see where she was indicating. Then one day in early 2000s she was at living room computer and i was watching TV and she swiveled the chair as she indicated where those mystery seemingly causeless pains hit her and i saw clearly. The Autopsy report and illustration of Dean came back to mind, and the details i'd been told. He was trying to close the door against his assailant who fired the gun. The bullet went thru his hand and into his chest as he shouted to Seth to get in the other room. He did manage to close and lock door, the guy went around and fired another bullet thru kitchen window. i'd have to dig out the report to see if it made a 3rd wound, but Dean was already severely injured and loosing blood by then. That hand/chest 'connected' pain, tho.

Sorry that's all i can do right now. i have to go split and bring in firewood. This is in part what i meant on my thread about defining reality when i said for me it has layers, dimensions.
 
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We are more than we know.

I am an old soul with no past life memories or experiences. Just a natural empath who was born old, but young looking, 🤣, feels the pain of everyone and everything and does what she can in this life to help others help themselves. This may be my last life's journey if reincarnation is even real? :unsure: IDK. It may explain why I am this way because nothing else does.
 
Feywon, thank you very much for your detailed account. In my 20's I enrolled in a couple of parapsycology courses, have experienced regressive hypnosis, and have a firm belief in reincarnation. I have always believed that those I encounter in this life I have met in previous lives,( mainly family members) but that I still have lessons to learn. But when does it end? When this life of mine has come to its end I don't want to come back, although during hypnosis I did experience a past life.
I may have mentioned this before, my friend once mentioned to me that her son said to her one day "do you remember when I was your father" she was very close to her dad who died when she was a child. Asked as a grown up, her son did not remember.
What I found of interest was your "between lives" If we can chose whose body we are to enter why would we chose to inhabit the body of a child who would have a hard life, who might not have a home, whose parents may not be the best? to learn a lesson?
And now young couples are deciding not to have children so there will be fewer to come back.
 
RobinWren said:
Feywon, thank you very much for your detailed account. In my 20's I enrolled in a couple of parapsycology courses, have experienced regressive hypnosis, and have a firm belief in reincarnation. I have always believed that those I encounter in this life I have met in previous lives,( mainly family members) but that I still have lessons to learn. But when does it end? When this life of mine has come to its end I don't want to come back, although during hypnosis I did experience a past life.
I may have mentioned this before, my friend once mentioned to me that her son said to her one day "do you remember when I was your father" she was very close to her dad who died when she was a child. Asked as a grown up, her son did not remember.
What I found of interest was your "between lives" If we can chose whose body we are to enter why would we chose to inhabit the body of a child who would have a hard life, who might not have a home, whose parents may not be the best? to learn a lesson?
And now young couples are deciding not to have children so there will be fewer to come back.
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YouTube has several compilation videos, usually with the words 'creepy'or 'chilling' in the titles of such statements by children. I don't personally find most of the posts either of things but they are interesting.

Recently saw one that really got to me. A 3 or 4 yr old had taken to laying next to infant sibling (month or two old). When asked why she said the baby still knew how to.talk to God, "I'm forgetting."
 
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I am not qualified to answer the question but those of us who do have this ability seem to be more 'open' and sensitive than others. It amazes me how many people seem to go through life blinkered. They miss so much of what is going on around them. There may be more of us than we realise but many are afraid of ridicule and keep it hidden.
 
I have had perception from very little on. I clearly have memories from 2 past lives. One of my first memories was...where are the ladies who dress me. My mother thought I was nuts. But, I remembered clearly being dressed and fed without any of my doing. I remember feeling very frustrated that no-one was there to dress me.

My second most vivid memory was of me as a child, again. I can clearly see myself as a small child, beautiful brown skin, flowing dark hair....standing on a beach, looking out into the ocean, waiting for someone to return. It is a beautiful memory, as I'm certain I was waiting for someone I loved wholly.

I am a very pale white skinned Swedish person in this life, but when I was young I prayed for dark skin. I didn't understand why I was this white. This is the first time I ever told anyone other than my mother about these indescribable feelings.
 
OopsieDaisy said:
I have had perception from very little on. I clearly have memories from 2 past lives. One of my first memories was...where are the ladies who dress me. My mother thought I was nuts. But, I remembered clearly being dressed and fed without any of my doing. I remember feeling very frustrated that no-one was there to dress me.

My second most vivid memory was of me as a child, again. I can clearly see myself as a small child, beautiful brown skin, flowing dark hair....standing on a beach, looking out into the ocean, waiting for someone to return. It is a beautiful memory, as I'm certain I was waiting for someone I loved wholly.

I am a very pale white skinned Swedish person in this life, but when I was young I prayed for dark skin. I didn't understand why I was this white. This is the first time I ever told anyone other than my mother about these indescribable feelings.
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Fascinating recollections! My best friend is Caucasian (Italian) but she probably isn't as pale as you describe yourself. She was regressed at least once and has had memories of a previous life as a little Black girl with braids. We talk about this from time to time. She hates bigotry of any kind but when it's racism toward Blacks...she gets particularly incensed, sometimes even more than I do.

During a metaphysical exercise in the second metaphysical course I took, the instructor guided us through a meditative, regression type exercise. I saw myself as a White woman, long brown hair parted in the middle, with a burgundy gown on. I was running through a dirt road that seemed to be on the edge of a forest. I was being chased by a man on a horse and carriage. He had on a top hat. It was clearly from a time earlier than the 20th century. @feywon Our instructor also told us we choose who to come back as, even if that baby (person) is slated to have a difficult life...part of the lessons needed. I feel the same way about waiting until I'm on my desktop to respond to posts...finding it easier. I stay signed in on my tablet so SF will show me as being here even though I'm really not. @Pecos @chic

@RobinWren You said "enrolled in a couple of parapsycology courses, have experienced regressive hypnosis, and have a firm belief in reincarnation. I have always believed that those I encounter in this life I have met in previous lives,( mainly family members) but that I still have lessons to learn." Like you I took a couple such courses. I enjoyed the first course much better than the second. The teacher in the first told us the same thing you pointed out about people we encounter in this life being those we were with in a previous one. She also mentioned we reincarnate because we have more to learn...we need the growth. I believe @feywon has mentioned the same thing.
 
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I have always resonated to Victorian times. Since I was a child, I liked drawing pictures of little girls in old fashioned clothing. People would marvel at my subject matter and want to know where I was getting the pictures from. I would reply, indignantly, "In my head!" I also begged my father for high topped buttoned shoes and pinafores. He didn't quite know what to make of that.:unsure:

I haven't taken any courses, but I once participated in a group activity where we were guided into a mediation where we would see ourselves in a past life. I saw myself as a little girl in a pinafore, with long braids, and I was Caucasion. I was walking on a beach with my shoes off, holding my father by the hand. I was aware that he was a merchant, something to do with shipping. There was a very English feel to the whole scene. I also consulted with a psychic once, who told me that I'd had an incarnation in Victorian times.
 
Lavinia said:
I am not qualified to answer the question but those of us who do have this ability seem to be more 'open' and sensitive than others. It amazes me how many people seem to go through life blinkered. They miss so much of what is going on around them. There may be more of us than we realise but many are afraid of ridicule and keep it hidden.
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I resisted my 'gifts' for a long time. My screen name basically declares my being what my Irish ancestors called 'fey'.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
It's been said that everyone has intuition...some just don't follow it. But some of us go beyond regular intuitive abilities. We have precognitive dreams and knowings, we can predict a future event via psychometry (or tell of a past one particular to our subject(s), we are empaths, healers, those who see shadow people and ghosts. What makes us so special? Why can we do these things and see these things? I am friends with people who do and have done all of the above. There are also people who claim to be able to communicate with the dead. I've often read that Pisces (my sign) tend to be psychic. But of course not all psychics are Pisces.

I've been meaning to post this for quite awhile, procrastinator that I am. One of @JaniceM's replies to my thread about premonitions is the catalyst for me finally doing so. She wanted to know the same things I've been wondering about. Part of what she wrote:
"The part I bolded above sums up my concern- I'm very much bothered by anything that doesn't have a logical, rational explanation. Not only 'where' do these abilities come from, or 'why' do some people have them, but more important to my own personal experiences 'how exactly' do they happen, and 'what' is the reason/purpose???"

For those of you who also have these gifts, I would love to read your thoughts and theories about "why us?"
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Here is my question: Are they premonitions or manifestations? It's a question that has plagued my mind for most of my life.
 
from my reading, I think Hinduism would say it is based on experiences in past lives. That these were things we consciously worked on and developed in past lives...and are now "poking through," even without some kind of directed work to make them happen.
 
RobinWren said:
People believe others are sceptical on this subject, many have faith while others are nonbelievers. I read a book "Mary's Message to the World" many years ago and it scared me. These readings were told between 1987-1991, many of them have come true. Was Mary chosen to be the Mother of God for her ability to warn the world ?
I hope that this ties in with this thread.
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I wouldn't worry about such things. I don't think those kinds of implied threats or warnings, come from Divinity. I think they come more from superstition. Mary already gave her message to mankind, through her Son. Love each other. Be compassionate to each other.
 
Another child recollection which is so profound I can smell it is....I was a small child. My mother and I were on a very big ship. At least it feels like a very big ship. I can remember her telling me to make myself small, so as not to attract attention. I remember making myself as small as I could, fetal position. This boat was very crowded, and I know that I had done a good thing by trying to make myself as small and inconspicuous as possible. I have a dream about this often.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
They are premonitions that manifest themselves as reality, if that makes sense to you. But I'm going to ask my dear friend @feywon to answer this one. If anyone can explain it better...she can.
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People try to explain things away. But there are premonitions which are direct visions of the future, which are impossible to have seen through anything but supernatural means.

I personally know two people who have had those.


St. Anthony of Egypt said directly that the devils cannot predict the future. They can seem to predict the future, but they can't actually do so.

So, I know two people who, let us say, saw a vision of a room. A room with people and furniture and dialogue. So, that would be, you know, hundreds of different things going on. And they saw those things years before they happened.

Or maybe a better way to get the tone of it would be like saying, someone had a dream and saw the entire movie Star Wars, in their head, before George Lucas was even born.

People will want to assert that they were deluded and just think they saw that, that they remembered wrong and etc. But that is just an assertion. There is no proof that is what is happening.
 

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