Curious about Psychic energy

[Foggy]

I'm the type of person who has a difficult time believing that something I cannot directly come into contact with is real, and therefore have rejected most religious beliefs. The only reason that I have even considered the possibility of psychic powers is because I have seen Steve's desire to help people and also his honesty and although I might not agree with some of his perspectives, I have grown curious. Is there any truth to psychic energy? I have witnessed people from all sorts of faith convinced absolutely that their beliefs are true, but these beliefs require a perspective to understand them. A sign from God to one person may be happenstance to another. In order for me to believe that psychic powers are true I need to have a direct and concrete experience with some of phenomena here. Accepting that psychic energy is real would require a reconstructing of my current view of reality and I'm willing to give it a try, even lower my guard to the possibility, but I need proof that this isn't some sort of elaborate trick of the imagination.

Also...

My girlfriend talks about how sometimes she sees spirits. She says when she was a lot younger (2-3) she saw her dead uncle sitting on the porch of his old house. She has also described to me situations where she has sensed spiritual energy, or seen spirits in her house. I believe that she has experienced these things, but I am not sure I believe that they exist (I am assuming the existence of an objective reality). Do these experiences hold consistent with other peoples experiences here?

I'm mostly just curious about this. Describe your experiences to me. Try and convince me. Show me ways that I can test this out on my own to see if it's real.

[floslib]

Hey Foggy,

For people in your position, I recommend this page on A Little Weird to start out. It has links to both research as well as sites that have exercises you can try out for yourself and see your results. There are also some recommended books to buy or borrow from the library.

I personally recommend starting out with psi balls when it comes to experiencing something for yourself. While it's certainly possible they provide a placebo effect, I don't think it's the case that they do, given the reading I've done about them and other energy work, as well as my own experiments in which friends could tell me what the one I created felt like before I told them what I thought it felt like. In any case, for me, they've always been the easiest psychic feat to accomplish, and I've built my base around energy work since then.

Edit: Whoops, missed the second part of your post. Spirits and psychic abilities can exist in an objective reality as easily as they can in a subjective reality. The explanation for why they exist could change, but they'd still exist. Also, just because science hasn't found something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Einstein came up with the theory of relativity a little less than a hundred years ago. That doesn't mean relativity didn't happen before, just that no one understood certain things about the world yet. The same could just as easily be true of psychic abilities, except we still don't understand them very well. But someday, we likely will.

As for my own experience, I started out skeptical, and remain skeptical. By skeptical, I mean I refuse to believe something just because someone says it's true. With a convincing explanation, I'll give it some thought, and with evidence, I'll likely believe. Skepticism provides a defense against charlatans, which do exist amongst the real deal.

My interest in psychic abilities has always been there. I've always been fascinated by magic and fantasy. I just didn't think it was real. Then I saw a talk show with some psychics on about ten years ago, a mother and daughter, though I don't remember their names, and they claimed that anyone could learn to be psychic. So, I started looking for things online that taught how to be psychic, tried astral projection with no or very limited success, I'm not sure which, and tried a lot of remote viewing types of exercises with no success.

Then I came across energy manipulation. I had immediate success creating a psi ball, and when I found some like minded friends, they could confirm that they felt the same things I did. From there, I've been practicing lots of energy manipulation, though I've found myself still quite stumped on how to learn perceptive abilities like remote viewing and telepathy. No luck at all with telekinesis, and I've dropped my focus away from that for now, since it seems the most outlandish ability and is therefore the hardest for me to justify putting effort into when there is so much else to learn. As for astral projection, I think I'm on the cusp of doing it successfully, but time will tell on that.

[run_fly]

Foggy try this:

1. Loosen your beliefs and open up to the possibility.

2. Get in contact with a good psychic and get a reading.

[Destine4destiny]

There were times that I use to feel like whatever there is no such thing as higher power or something far more amazing then what meets the eye. But I caught myself asking god for help and still being a skeptic; when I cleasned my body and my aura I just new that the world is more than what the human eye can see. At that moment I new that I had to connect with my spirit because I was really out of balance and new if I did not do this I will be completely unhappy because I will be infiltrated by other poeple's energy. You are off to a good start you want to learn you want to believe and that my dear will allow you to because the mind is so much powerful then what we think so we fail to be in control of it.

[Nasir]

This is one of the easiest abilities to work: i can make clouds appear and dissapear!