Psychic Powers
January 14th, 2009 by hyuilalsdPsychic Powers
What does “Psychic” actually means?
It is derived from the Greek word “Psukhe” or “Psyche”, meaning soul, Therefore anybody who has a soul, and a mind is, literally speaking, a psychic.
Is everyone psychic?
If you’re really curious, the answer’s Yes. Who has not experienced deja vu, or has sensed that a friend or a family memberwill phone you moments before they call? unfortunately, people tend to dismiss such events as mere product of their imaginations, or as mere coincidences. This is because we have been conditioned from childhood to be rational, and to believe that imagination, dreams have no value and that they are of no practical use.
If you have ever used your sixth sense, you have used your psychic powers or ESP(Extra Sensory Perception). Humans have five physical senses that we frequently take for granted: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. We’re so used to them that we don’t even notice how much we depend on them. There are many form of ESP s, these include Telepathy(Ability to send or receive thoughts from other individuals), Clairvoyance(Ability to see with the inner eye or spiritual sight) and other psychic abilities.
For a start, it can be very difficult to define this, because we can’t see it, smell it, or even touch it. Some or few of us refuse to develop thee talents because Western culture has conditioned us to refute anything which cannot be measured by rigorous scientific analysis. The fact is, Many of the examples of psychic powers were often coined by some Christian as work of the devils, I tend to disagree, because St. Paul even called it “Gifts of the Holy Spirit.”
The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit that St. Paul enumerated in I Corinthians(12:4-11) are really psychic powers. Here i the relevant passage:
“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit, and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To reach I given the manifestation of the spirit of the common good,
To one is given through the Spirit of the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gift s of healing by one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
All these are activated by one and the same spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the spirit chooses.”
Psychic powers therefore are not works of the devil as some Christian evangelists and preachers would have us believe. Psychics or the “Sensitive” also do not consider their abilities super-human but simply an acute sensitivity to the subtle energies around us.
It is my contention that every human being possesses psychic powers in some form, and in varying degrees of development.