Are more people becoming psychic?

[Mato Kinze]

So, maybe it's just me and my own awakening; or maybe it's the magic of the internet and easily accessible, instant, global communication, but it seems to me that more and more people are becoming - to varying degrees - psychic.

So the question becomes, have this many people always been in touch with what the Toltecs call the Nagual, and we just haven't all gotten together? Or has something changed and now we are truly having more enlightened individuals? OR is this a cycle that causes Spiritual awareness to ebb and flow?

Thoughts?

[RTF671]

Is that your LoA at work? Anyways, the internet is great because the resources on it are so vast yet one click away. It's possible that people have honed their skills online with others were they would never have been able to without the internet.

[John Freestone]

Hi Mato Kinse

The Internet is, I believe, a wonderful boon for people's general education - everything from the most practical to the most profound - but at the moment I'm sceptical about anyone being psychic at all, ever.

Working backwards: if we had the potential to evolve psychic abilities, it seems odd to suggest that we had to wait for a non-psychic means of mass communication to begin learning it from each other. The Internet also provides us lots of opportunities to fall in love with each other's daft, but promising, hopes.

Your thought process is interesting. You begin with 'maybe it's just me...but more and more people seem to me to becoming psychic'. Then you say, 'so the question becomes...' and various possible theories to explain the phenomenon. Maybe the question should become 'Is it me?' Maybe 'maybe it's just me' is enough to spend a while thinking about. It's like you could ask "I have recently started to think I can fly. So the question is, how many people have always been able to fly and didn't know about it until Carlos Castanada wrote..."

Hate bursting bubbles. Hate seeing people squished on sidewalks.

[Jennihul]

Everyone is psychic. It's not a special state. It's a state some people choose to use, have an accidental or natural aptitude for, or reject.

I think more people are becoming aware that they can use this power.

Age of Pisces ending. Age of Aquarius beginning. It's always been there, it just seems more obvious now the fishies have swum away.

Jennifer

[Calisto]

I do things, find things, read people, I have family and friends joking that I am psychic, I'm not. I'm just every intuitive and perceptive. I don't believe it is the 'odd' things that happen that make someone think they are psychic, I believe it is their own perception of what happened that makes them think they are psychic. This is where the delusion comes in. And you know what some people say about other people's delusions - "Don't take them away, they may be all that is keeping them alive." No one, not one single person in hundreds of years, has been able to demonstrate a genuine psychic ability.

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[Mato Kinze]

No one, not one single person in hundreds of years, has been able to demonstrate a genuine psychic ability.[/INDENT]
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Not to say that you are wrong, but what criteria would you use to support that statement? What, to you, would "demonstrate a genuine psychic ability?"

[Calisto]

I wouldn't. I'm just not interested enough in the subject to know what would "demonstrate a genuine psychic ability?"

[Mato Kinze]

With all due respect, if you are going to make the assertion that something hasn't been done, then you should have at least a personal notion of what would constitute success. Otherwise, you are deniying the possibility. Certainly it would be your perogative to deny the possibility. It would also be your perogative to state that " No one. Not one single person in hundreds of years has been able to demonstrate genuine psychic ability - TO ME," and still not have an idea of what would. Basically, you'd know it when you saw it. To me it's akin to saying you don't believe in the color Blue and then saying, "No, that's Cyan, not Blue," or "That's not Blue, that's Powder Blue." But again, this is your perogative. However, being a little more thoughtful in your word choice would enhance communication - provided that's your goal.

I guess what I don't quite get is if you are not interested in the topic, what brought you to a discussion forum entitled "Psychic and Paranormal"?

You say that you are just a very intuitive person. What's the difference between that and "psychic"? Perhaps it's semantics. Does it matter what your gift or level of intuitiveness is called? It is what it is. If I, or your friends call it psychic versus intuitive, does it lessen its effectiveness or legitimacy? "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."