Why Do Some Of Us Have Extra Sensory Gifts?

David777 said:
Many are quite confident about such powers until visiting Las Vegas. :giggle:
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It is interesting that you mention this. Because, in the real world, all the gambling casinos in the world, actually employ psychics to catch other psychics. Not joking.

And some of the professional gamblers, like the poker players are not poker players...they are psychics trying to work an advantage.

You would think they could just clean up.

But it is more complex than that. Getting psychic impressions often requires a great deal of calm and concentration. Very very very hard for even top level psychics to be able to get an impression in a loud noisy hall. And to do so very very quickly.

Psychics can try, but the establishment is hip to their game...and nothing says, "I quit" like a couple of broken legs from a Mafia enforcer. Well, I mean generally hip. There are folks out there, trying to use it to game the system. I am sure a few sneak through.

Also, it is such hard work....that the process tends to be very mechanical and it really sucks all the joy out of the experience.
 
I am a very logical man, I always want proof to believe. Yet I have experienced events I can't explain.

One time my wife picked up our toddler and I knew I had to grab her. Sure enough my wife lost her grip and my daughter tumbled backwards out of her arms, I managed to trap her body against my lower leg and stopped her from falling on her head.

Another time I woke up around 2AM and sat on the edge of the bed. My wife asked what I was doing and I said waiting for the phone to ring. A few minutes later my mother in law called to say my wife's dad was being rushed to the hospital, he had a heart attack.

Most resently I was at a stop light when a group of motor cyclist turned the corner in front of me. I said out loud "those guys are in trouble". Instead of turning I went straight the same direction they had, a few miles up the road one bike had crashed on a curve, the man didn't survive.

There's been other things but those three really stand out for me. It makes no sense to me anyone could have predicted those things, yet it happened to me. I can't explain it.
 
Nathan said:
You seem pretty defensive and hostile, did somebody crap in your cereal bowl this morning? Nobody here cares what you think, and certainly have no desire to "change" anybody's mind, especially yours.
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Nathan, I saw this today and thought of you...

WORDS OF WISDOM
''Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,
since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.''

THOMAS À KEMPIS
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Nathan, I saw this today and thought of you...

WORDS OF WISDOM
''Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,
since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.''

THOMAS À KEMPIS
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Thank you for thinking of me, I do hope you try to follow those words, as they are good advice for a happy existence.
 
I have been watching a guy named Henry Tyler on a program about Life after Death on Netflix--the Hollywood Medium--not sure how to think about this.
 
feywon said:
I resisted my 'gifts' for a long time. My screen name basically declares my being what my Irish ancestors called 'fey'.
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Does it mean Fae like in fairies? And does the "won" signify that you let your "Fey" side win? I always wondered how you chose your screen name and maybe you told me a while back but I don't remember.
 
I was watching a movie and a couple were trying to decide on their new babys name, and I thought Oliver. Well they couldn't decide then but a bit later someone helped them so they wanted to name their baby after him, they asked his name but his first name was something goofy. Guess what his last name was? Oliver!
 
feywon said:
Most of us have to work at living totally in present. And generally only the best and worst of our past is fully with us day in/day out. I once heard trauma defined as a stasis in time, because when someone's PTSD, regardless of type (childhood abuse, combat experiences, or sudden trauma--usually as victim of violence), is triggered they are not just remembering the event they are reliving it.
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This occurred to me somewhat recently while also thinking about an incident I experienced with a family member (veteran)- not a matter of reliving the events (flashbacks), but reliving the time-frame when the events took place.
Does that make any sense?
 
I am psycho not psyche, sometimes I can't tell the difference. Does that improve my online presence?
 
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.I remember the sopranos and the guy who could speak to the dead. That kind of power could really help the living. Or embarrass them.

"You're mother saw what you were doing last Tuesday with that married woman!" Naughty naughty!!
 
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?"
@feywon @chic @Gaer
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so it pees me off when people dont get it--I think they are stupid, but in fact I have an insight but didnt realize it until late in life empath-instinct intuition synchronicity
 
boliverchadsworth said:
so it pees me off when people dont get it--I think they are stupid, but in fact I have an insight but didnt realize it until late in life empath-instinct intuition synchronicity
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PLEASE NOTE: Had to edit first sentence, added what is bold. Sorry for brain glitch -- and not proofreading better.
When younger i would get upset with those who got all pompous insisting 'no such thing', but over the years I've come to feel sorry for them. And take the postion that i will respect their feelngs as long as they respect and don't try to invalidate my experiences.
 
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I still recall, after 50+ years, a guy we used to know in Toronto, (a South African of East Indian origin), telling us quite seriously that he was speeding along the hiway (with one bald tire) and had a premonition of a blow out.

(We all responded with the 1960s equivalent of "Well, Duh". ) ;)
 
JaniceM said:
There are two specifics that are most distressing, wondering if you or other folks here might have input...

1. I've been bothered by precognitive dreams since I was young. There's one that's particularly mindboggling:
It occurred shortly after I turned 17 yrs old. It was about untimely tragedies involving individuals- two by name, and two others that were represented by a person who was in the dream. Around two decades later, the named individuals committed suicide, and the two others did also. The catch: when I had the dream (nightmare, actually) the two named individuals hadn't yet been born.
There's no mistake about who they were. Does anyone have an explanation?

2. It doesn't help that I don't know the correct words/terms- I think it's called linear time?? As far back as I know, it's never been the case for me. My entire lifespan thus far is as 'present' as the present day. Any input?
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Sorry I'm just responding ...I must've lost track of this thread. I don't have a technical or scientific explanation for your premonition. I can only say that it was indeed a premonition, albeit a nightmarish one! And no need to apologize for anything you've posted in this thread!
 

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