I rarely place my personal hat into the ring where the cross-roads of interests are concerned, even if I am present in that pathway where the belief in the aptitudes of psychics are concerned. My own beliefs remain my own, and little has ever been resolved from ever-present debating on a subject that some either believe in or those who simply refuse to. Little wonder, given the potential presence of an ability that can neither be measured, labeled or really verified beyond the testing methods applied by those who either arrange such announced or arranged placements of projected pseudo-parsimony or those who simply negate the existence of some reading, some vision or some detail that simply doesn't pan out for them through the experience.

It never fails of course that when someone connected with these senses that may have helped or rendered aid to some countless numbers of individuals, whether through some process of healing, some tender connection of feeling or a reading that induces or pulls out some insight to or from another and thus some added texture of being has been added to peoples lives, there does seem to be someone just waiting around that proverbial shaded tree in the park waiting with pen and pad to catch some scoop of some kind with the hopes of peeling away the curtains of supposed deception, where in many cases there are none to behold, just those to be fabricated as a means of some glorified self-satisfaction.

I can recall some of the days of the recent past, when such monikers of understanding of the psychic experience included phrases like, "extra-sensory-perception", as a way of attempting to place some grounded descriptors to these abilities that so many seem to have, and yet so many more for a lacking seem to not hold as a function of their experience of life. The ongoing debate, which I have openly made my own feelings well known about is that I stand in agreement with those who hold to the belief that everyone holds these abilities within themselves as a means of their experience, they simply have either shut themselves down to these senses, or they have yet to touch onto these senses almost as if they haven't yet "again" tuned onto that particular cable channel yet, where others have become quite familiar with this channel.

Validating versus not

There have been an abundance of individuals who have either had their particular skeptical suspicions set aside through some validating experience with one who unveils some detail or details of these persons lives, some experiences or even some nested inner thoughtfulness newly brought into the light of day, and these revelations are enough to begin to convince some that there just might be something to this so-called extra-sensory experience that as in the days of the Victorian fascination with the spirited, just seem to be the focus of so much attention yet again throughout the worlds cultures.

Then there are the particularly endearing souls of the skeptical mindset who regardless of how many informative experiences they might be availed of, they would never retract their foremost standing of the mind that none of it could possibly ever be real and that those involved were either casting their own beliefs to some fantasy of the mind, or they were simply deceiving others for some profit one way or another.

Validation and a repetitive existence of this validation is a good, a sound and a time tested method of convincing people that there seems to be something apparently real and qualifying in the presence of something that for the best of those trying to communicate their experiences, seems to be the presence of psychic abilities in someone. However, then another question arises that appears to be in the mindsets of many who claim psychic abilities with no other intentions connecting to them except in the want to help other people with their senses.

Why prove anything to anyone?

Qualifying versus not

Qualifying oneself and ones abilities is an understandable and for the client a necessary prerequisite for anyone providing a service to another. A Doctor or a Lawyer would obviously be asked by a first time client at an introduction to provide some legitimate proof that they have followed some course of study, that they have graduated and have the necessary credentials to provide their services to another. It is therefore understandable that the motive for asking for some qualification from one claiming some helping ability, psychic or otherwise with such ethereal origins, would also be asked for the same. The only obvious manner of providing qualifications in this case however, is in the conclusions drawn from observing the results of these souls doing what they say they can do.

Time, as its been said so often, will tell all, and the only best methods of proving the presence of ones abilities are through the validations and through the accepted qualifications rendered to those who accept that their lives have been affected in a positive and a spiritual way through the experience of and the contact with one who seeks only to help and never to hurt. This is a true qualification of a psychic's ability, and the rest of the provable in the end, really do not matter. Nor should they.

Look out! Here come the parapsychologists with their torches!

The world is currently encircled with the empiric seekers, the skeptical measurers and the gauges of the energy of the substances of reality that all work to reveal either the presence of or the absence of something purportedly paranormal in the world. Why, many might ask do so many engage in this practice?

It can best be described in that age old parable that has been uttered since the age of the Greeks and the myths have spoken of that driven human drive and desire to seek the ultimate of all answers to all that was around them, and in them. Why was it that Icarus flew too close to the sun when his father Daedalus warned him not to, lest his wings coated in wax would melt? Because he sought to push his limits and his knowing of the nature of something he did not understand. From the tales of the voyages of Odysseus to the songs of Sophocles, from the advent of the industrial age that gave life to the engines of a new commerce, to the dawning of the technological age that gave humankind a means to route to the moon. Throughout the waking history of human-kind has existed the belief that there was something of a spiritual quality that was present and that it enhanced the realities of all of life.

As people have grown in both their awareness of the world, of the ruminations of the universe and of the core basis to life itself, there has been a growing prevalence of those seekers who wish to unveil the curtains on the spiritual and to place some measure to the most mindful parts of their own existence, of their own interest in what is never entirely provable or quantifiable. Not that most matters of existence are ever entirely provable!

In the end, they question and they search and they measure and they disprove because it is in their nature to search for the spiritual within themselves. This is the cause of all of the angst, of the criticism, of all of the judgment and the cause of all of the questions. People search for the spiritual within themselves through the spiritual in others. It was, is and ever will be the bane of the psychic. It is also the prime reason that most seasoned psychics now look to this last reasoning as a reason to not get all wound up about it all any longer.

The needs of people and the world are much more important.

"To err is human.."

Sometimes, even the psychic doesn't get everything right and this is some of the cause for much of some people's criticisms. It is usually referred to for posterity that when the psychic gets something right, all seems amazing and yet the criticism still remains, but when they get something wrong, or miss a detail in their own thoughts or inner vision, this is usually cause for a resignation of any belief whatsoever. The statement that "to err is human..." speaks to the tendency of all people and even in the world of the psychic. After all, who the heck ever said that being psychic was a perfect science?

Some feel the attention unwarranted and unnecessary, while others think of it all as a necessary bother if it means helping people above all other considerations. Some yet still, might view it as the collective vision of some Boris Karloff film showing the villagers all marching up the roadway with their torches in hand ready to brand the fictions and to promote their own fears of something they do not quite understand. Some would rather not understand, lest it shuffle the foundations of their own set and comfortable spiritual foundations just a bit. The familiar is always a comfort, while the unfamiliar and the undetectable will always remain the vision of a skeptic's mission and the motive of fear. Even if the chief and single aim of a spiritual act is to promote a spiritual vision of the holy to the world and to all of what is the psychic.

Using these senses versus not

Many who are psychic consider the soulful proposition that if they do not use their talents for the best in peoples lives and for the good of society as a whole, they would eventually feign in their abilities over time considering this an abuse of an awareness of being the universe provided along with those other more prevalent physical senses. Some assert that if their abilities were to be abused or used in an ill natured way, eventually their own internalized moral construct vision of themselves would cause these abilities to give way to their own internalized criticisms and they would in time, dull their own senses to the energy of life itself. There are spiritual constructs of all types that place definitions onto such asserted talents that some seem so connected to over others in the world. As revealed earlier however, even with the presence of and the application of these abilities as singular talents, most who consider themselves psychic are the first to claim that everyone, each and every person has the ability to open themselves up and to engage these senses as a means and a purpose of their own being.

Perhaps it is this very same awareness of the presence of some latent tendency within the self that causes some in the world to signal abject and outward criticism of others with these abilities?

Perhaps it is the reasoning that we have become so comfortable with our mechanized and measured world as we all have, that many have simply left these abilities behind their aware consciousness, buried somewhere deep within their signified selves?

Then again, perhaps it is just what many throughout the skeptic's world state and it's all just a snake oil salesman's trade after all?

If the latter is more the case in someone's mind, then perhaps it just might be that there is more to all of this than had ever been really considered. After all, why even bother asking a question if you're not expecting a fascinating answer?

It is worth some thought.

As Always,

WD

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