Death and Reincarnation

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If someone tells me they believe they are the reincarnation of someone else then I'll believe that they believe that but I tend to file this sort of thing under 'manifestations of the human brain's difficulty in imagining it's own non-existence' along with afterlives.

Looks like I'm more of a skeptic than you. I wouldn't even necessarily believe that they believed it. Sometimes people tell fibs to seem more interesting, to get attention. But sure, sometimes people genuinely believe things that I don't, so they can have the benefit of the doubt as long as I don't happen to catch them red-handed.

Oh its not just the officers. I think most mediums and psychics who believe they manifest these abilities don't understand why they have these abilities.

It's interesting to read what a psychics thinks themselves
https://www.forbes.com/sites/yolarobert ... nsolvable/

According to an experienced police psychic -While receiving messages or seeing images in my mind wasn't something new to me, it wasn't something I really understood.

Back in the early 1970s the CIA and Stanford University invested time and money into a phenomena called "Remote viewing". The CIA consider the practice of remote viewing is seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance

What is interesting is that all humans are supposed to have the ability to remote viewing but some are more in tune than others (these are the ones employed by police).

My point was that the use of psychics by the police is not evidence for the validity of psychics or for the police being believers. Also that the police don't usually use psychics. I'm not sure whether we're in agreement on those things or not.

Most psychics are frauds.
Like I said, I think the ones who are truly genuine have little to no control over their abilities.
I'm sure there could be rare exceptions.

Actually, I'm kind of reminded of something...there was an episode of Ghost Adventures, I think it might've been in Las Vegas, where Zac met a woman who knew a few things about him that she shouldn't have (one was that he had recently bought a new white car, and another one he said was too personal to share).

Anyway, they were going over the footage and the audio, and right before she made her predictions, you could hear a voice whispering single words to her, like "white" and "car", right before she said them.

The failed to put this together, but it made me wonder if some people are not quite as psychic as they think they are, but merely have a spirit friend who slips them the answers.