Agent mulder i understand your skepticism, philosophically/intellectually, but i cant truly comprehend/appreciate it because my life is filled with the things you think are impossible. I dont know the answers to some of the questions but i do know that no one can say that psychic powers cant be genetic. We are still decoding all the details of the human genome and finding some fascinating things. We are also coming ot a better understanding of the power and detail contained within the human dna.
I dont know that no one has found the potential for psychic abilities. I doubt that this information would be made public immediately. But i do know there is no evidence that it is impossible.
The nature nurture debate is interesting I was over 50 before i found out that my mother and a longline of her ancestors had psychic powers. I knew i did from the time i ca first remember even before i knew wha they were or that not all peole had them Thus i suspect that i was not nurtured into my abilities but came by them physically somehow. Given that dna and genetics determines all other human potentials why should such abilities be any differnt
However in a family of doubt, skepticism, and put downs, such abilities may be put aside and never used, grown, developed, or encouraged. My parents encouraged imagination, creativity, reading anyhting i was capable of reading, and attemtping everything our minds could imagine. And so i was never put off the idea of psychic powers, until i realised that my peers were scared by them.
Humans can do much more than is commonly accepted. I have never had great control over the range of abilities i have, but i use them when they manifest, to good purpose.
I think that if i had studied pursued and practised these things, with the dedication time and effort i have put into, say, growing my knowledge base and intelligence, then i would have more understanding and control over them, even if they remained sporadic.
But life has too many things in it. I already live intensely more than 18 hours a day, every day and spend a lot of my nighttime working on lucid dream control and dreamscapes.Also this area doesnt offer as much hope for improvement as, say, increasing my physical fitness by exercising for 30 mins per day, so i prioritise.
But as a person from my generation might say, such abilities are cool. They are fascinating, and provide an insight into a largely untapped area of human potential.
Stay skeptical, but not so skeptical that you always conclude you are right, just because you have no evidence to the contrary.

Other people do have contrary evidences. Some of us, a life time of them.
Ps seriously. When you display psychic abilities, many people get very scared, others get very hostile. (some are intrigued and curious)
Try to imagine what it would REALLY be like if you knew things you werent supposed to know, and told people about them, even with the intent of helping them.
Ok telling a person where their lost /stolen wallet or mobile phone can be found can be almost accepted, but try telling a pregnant woman her child will die still born.
Try telling a person what every key on their key ring does, even when they cant remember what some of the keys are for themselves. I mean how can I explain that i know one key opens an old green wooden door at the back of a house.
And when a person comes to you with a locked guitar case and a 10000 option combination, try telling them how you know the precise combination and can open the lock on the first attempt.
Try watching the face of you best friend when first you begin naming cards as he turns them over and looks at them, and then you proceed to predict every card before he turns it over and looks at it and you do this for nearly a whole pack, before he runs away in fear.
I had to give up buying raffle tickets, in my local community, (and in some cases was banned from buying them) because i almost always selected the winning ticket.
No. I can understand true psychics never saying a word about their abilities.
Nearly everyone breathes sees and smells
Psychic powers/abilities differntiate, and people fear, envy, and distrus,t those who are different from them.
Edited by Mr Walker, 06 January 2011 - 10:25 AM.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world..
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.