Do some people have psychic abilities?

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Now now boys, a little compassion for the more gullible ones among us please I was once told I was a Mayan Priestess who murdered her husband to gain power.

That would explain this sh..ty lifetime anyway....

The best charlatans are so smooth that not only do you never know you have been taken, but you will come back and let them take you again.

Story of my life..........

Aw! But we’re having such cynical fun!

That's what motivates me to dissuade them from superstition by exposing alleged "psychics" as charlatans.One of my former colleagues once told me that I was (in a previous life) a female member of a royal house in the Far East who was assassinated (by knife and sword) by members of a foreign occupying army because I refused to submit to their leader's authority. Then I saw her copy of "Korean Women in Resistance to the Japanese", which spoke of Empress Myeongseong of the Korean Empire. Obviously, my former colleague was suffering from kimchi on the brain.

Yeah, I absolutely believe in psychic abilities. That's why I win the lottery every week.

Oh wait, no I don't.



Seriously, I agree with Fnord. There is absolutely no evidence for it whatsoever. The 'readings' are so general that they can mean nearly anything. And then they cold read the rest.


As long as it is just entertainment, a bit of fun, that is fine.
But it gets alarming when people are desperate and pay for 'services' that aren't real. I mean sure, people should know better, but if they're desperate enough and look for say the cure for an incurable illness, or communication with a deceased love one or a pet they're concerned about, then they might not be thinking all that rationally.

Kimchi: not for cerebral application.

who'da thought?

I was gonna watch a horror movie called Patrick. It's about a guy in a coma. He loves a nurse, and has psychic abilities. I have been collecting horror movies for years, but now I only buy films that are hits. I used to collect films with sequels and prequels, but many of them were not that great. In fact, I ended up with too many and then I decided to chuck a lot of them out.

I believe some people are great at reading others & know how to "manipulate"(for lack of a better word) others into believing that they have psychic powers.

This sums up my experiences, as well.

Short answer: yes. There are people on a different wavelength from other people.

Evidence, please?What are these wavelengths and how do you measure them?

It's because i know people who had psychic experiences and i believe them. It's not something i can prove, but i don't doubt them since they're very close to me and don't have a reason to lie. I've also dabbled in some occult stuff myself so i believe in it.
I am well aware that there are lots of charlatans around that claim to be real psychics though, and being into this stuff has sort of became a trend. ( rituals, new age stuff that's a mixture of hinduism- western paganism and whatever else there is) So I understand people's frustration with this stuff.

My frustration with so-called 'psychic' phenomena is that when you get past all the myths, all the anecdotes, and all the legends, the only 'proof' anyone can offer is their own belief.

No one can give a valid demonstration under controlled conditions. No one can describe the alleged 'forces' at work in any terms requiring quantitative measurements. No one can describe the principles of 'psychic' phenomena in any meaningful (e.g., mathematical) way -- it's all superlatives and metaphors. as well as words that seem to change their meanings during the course of a single conversation.

Read up on Newton's Laws of Gravity and the Laws of Thermodynamics -- simple descriptions of simple phenomena that anyone can observe and verify are true.

What about 'psychic' laws?  There are none.  Correction: There are hundreds of 'psychic' laws, and each one seems to contradict or negate at least one other. It's all confirmation bias and wishful thinking, that's all.

I'd rather if "wavelengths" were defined, like given a definition. I've heard that people on the autism spectrum are on different wavelengths than NTs yet there's lots of posters in this thread who are not claiming to have psychic powers.