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i3igRed
this might sound like a stupid question, but im interested. all i wanted to know is theres anyway to strenghten your abilities? iv always had the ability to see signs and numers and such in my dreams and sometimes life. but recently its been happing alot more often. just the other day out of no where i woke up at about 5 30 am and just heard a flock of crows outside my window. mind u we rarely see any crows round here let alone a whole group of them. when i heard it i automaticly knew it was a prediction for something bad that was to happen (cause thats what it usually means), and sure enought later that day i called one of my friends and she told me that her uncle died that morning. also iv been seeing alot of # recently. like, every day for whatever reason i keep lookin up at the clock at exactly either 11:11 or 1:11. this 1111 things been going on for months now. please let me know if anyone can help. i would really like to develep my abilities a bit more.
Promethius
Ah, here we are... I went away to get something to eat and forgot what i was replying too for a minuet there...

Yeah, as far as i know the only way of strengthening psychic powers is practice. thumbsup.gif

please excust the typos i'm in a red-bull induced hyperness. thumbsup.gif

Divinity
The main base of developing psychic abilities is to meditate. You should consider yourself lucky because you were born with enhanced abilities before developing them. If you want to be better or be able to control it is to meditate.
i3igRed
thanks! ill try meditating and see where it gets me. hopefully my abilities arent limited at where they are at right now. lol
Blind Atrocity
That would scare me... honestly. I've been waking up between 3:18 and 3:48 a lot lately...
Thisisnotmyname
I definitely agree with Divinity's response - meditation is the way to go. Going along with that, you may also want to practice concentration exercises (they work hand in hand).
Rosewin
I think that random number association that we notice is our own internal mechanism mirroring our own efforts and organizing our world or some aspect of it. If you are working on a relationship, cataloging your CD collections, I know those might seem ill examples but that is the frame of mind and those efforts manifest in us seeing patterns in other unrelated areas, such as numbers. It is also like when you buy a car you start seeing everyone else having the same type while before you did not notice it as much.
Dark Ninja Alien
i was in school near to the end of luch and i had this really weird felling that the fire alarm was gonna go off. and while i was in regesration afterwards there was i fire drill and all the alarms went off like they do but i was really freaked out by this. im convinced that everyone would have a vision or a feeling about something that will happen in the future
The Skeptic Eric Raven
QUOTE (dr alien @ Apr 24 2008, 03:14 PM) *
i was in school near to the end of luch and i had this really weird felling that the fire alarm was gonna go off. and while i was in regesration afterwards there was i fire drill and all the alarms went off like they do but i was really freaked out by this. im convinced that everyone would have a vision or a feeling about something that will happen in the future

Can you learn to spell right so we can understand what you are saying?
Blind Atrocity
QUOTE (dr alien @ Apr 24 2008, 03:14 PM) *
i was in school near to the end of luch and i had this really weird felling that the fire alarm was gonna go off. and while i was in regesration afterwards there was i fire drill and all the alarms went off like they do but i was really freaked out by this. im convinced that everyone would have a vision or a feeling about something that will happen in the future


Those are called hunches.
salvationisnowhere
Maybe you shouldnt dwell on things like numbers or thinking bad stuffs going to happen. I know it sounds silly but people get obsessed with things like this and it can end up ruining their lives. Wow I sound like im trying to be all superior. I dont mean it like that, and thats pretty extreme, but the mind is a delicate thing and easily manipulated into feelings that arent necessarily real.
Wombat
QUOTE (i3igRed @ Apr 19 2008, 07:27 PM) *
this might sound like a stupid question, but im interested. all i wanted to know is theres anyway to strenghten your abilities? iv always had the ability to see signs and numers and such in my dreams and sometimes life. but recently its been happing alot more often. just the other day out of no where i woke up at about 5 30 am and just heard a flock of crows outside my window. mind u we rarely see any crows round here let alone a whole group of them. when i heard it i automaticly knew it was a prediction for something bad that was to happen (cause thats what it usually means), and sure enought later that day i called one of my friends and she told me that her uncle died that morning. also iv been seeing alot of # recently. like, every day for whatever reason i keep lookin up at the clock at exactly either 11:11 or 1:11. this 1111 things been going on for months now. please let me know if anyone can help. i would really like to develep my abilities a bit more.

There are no psychic abilities, or at least no reason to believe that they exist.
BlackFrost
I agree..... meditation is an excellent tool to increase psychic abilities.... also, journaling dreams keeps the mind sharp towards tapping the subconscious mind and its ability to help you manifest.
The Skeptic Eric Raven
QUOTE (Wombat @ Apr 27 2008, 02:39 PM) *
There are no psychic abilities, or at least no reason to believe that they exist.

Thankyou. My advice for the opener. Take up a hobby. It will be a lot more productive.
Wombat
QUOTE (BlackFrost @ Apr 27 2008, 08:45 PM) *
I agree..... meditation is an excellent tool to increase psychic abilities.... also, journaling dreams keeps the mind sharp towards tapping the subconscious mind and its ability to help you manifest.

On what do you base these assertions?
Showgirl
QUOTE (BlackFrost @ Apr 27 2008, 08:45 PM) *
I agree..... meditation is an excellent tool to increase psychic abilities.... also, journaling dreams keeps the mind sharp towards tapping the subconscious mind and its ability to help you manifest.

and using ur ability. dont get freaked out by the things u see or even the things u think u see. don't try to not do it. but also u need to keep ur feet on the ground over this.

Min xx
Esus
Abilities you can get through a meditation, but correct meditation. Many abilities are more available, like telepathy, telekinesis, astral travelling, prevision. In several months or a year.
And are abilities great, but heavily available - siddhis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi
Sporkling
Practise guessing for example, you meet a stranger, try to guess their names and stuff.
Wombat
Why are people so eager to learn all the "techniques" before they bother to find out whether it is even possible?

I guess reality is too boring or complicated for those people. Living in a senseless delusion might be more fun.
Sporkling
QUOTE (Wombat @ May 1 2008, 06:08 AM) *
Why are people so eager to learn all the "techniques" before they bother to find out whether it is even possible?

I guess reality is too boring or complicated for those people. Living in a senseless delusion might be more fun.

Not quite so. We know these abilities are real because we have exprienced them. An exprience which you don't have. Which is, therefore, the difference between a believer and a skeptic. I have exprienced some intuition. Which I know that is better for me if I follow my instincts. Thats why I know. But I also know its not really strong. Therefore the practise. But you won't understand I feel. As in the same way, I don't understand you either. If you want to ask me why I believe in a totally unproven ability, I will say, I have proven it to myself. And if you ask, why not prove it to you too, I will simply tell you. I don't have the wish or the time. Nor do I think I need to prove it to you. You want proof, prove to yourself. If you won't, I will know you don't have the intrest to do so either.
Wombat
QUOTE (Sporkling @ May 1 2008, 05:04 PM) *
Not quite so. We know these abilities are real because we have exprienced them. An exprience which you don't have. Which is, therefore, the difference between a believer and a skeptic. I have exprienced some intuition. Which I know that is better for me if I follow my instincts. Thats why I know. But I also know its not really strong. Therefore the practise. But you won't understand I feel. As in the same way, I don't understand you either. If you want to ask me why I believe in a totally unproven ability, I will say, I have proven it to myself. And if you ask, why not prove it to you too, I will simply tell you. I don't have the wish or the time. Nor do I think I need to prove it to you. You want proof, prove to yourself. If you won't, I will know you don't have the intrest to do so either.

No, you think you've experienced something. Just about anyone can be convinced about just about anything, no matter how crazy. But they are never able to provide any evidence for their assertions.
Sporkling
It is me who exprienced it. Not you. How do you know for sure I think. Cause I wish to tell you. I don't "think" I know. Evidence, is gathered by me, for me. If you don't believe, theres nothing I can do. But I believe. There is nothing you can do. Remain by your own beliefs and I shall remain by my own. We shall see who is right when the time comes.
eight bits
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Why are people so eager to learn all the "techniques" before they bother to find out whether it is even possible?

Technique serves at least two functions. First, it creates the role of teacher. There is some truth to the saying "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."

There is no prize for finding the teachers-who-cannot hereabouts.

Second, technique provides a built-in excuse for failure. You did the ritual wrong.

I mean, you just have to laugh, no offence meant

QUOTE
Abilities you can get through a meditation, but correct meditation.

Meditation is the evocation of the relaxation response, a physiological consequence of sitting down, shutting up, and staying that way for a few minutes. Yes, you have practice a few times to get the hang of it. How unusual, so different from other skills, like riding a bicycle.

But you would be hard put thereafter to do it incorrectly. Yet signs and wonders do not ensue.

Obviously, there are two possibilities. There are no signs and wonders, or you're doing it wrong. Guess which one is going to be "taught"?

With elaborate ritual, it will simply never happen that an unbroken record of failure will ever have to be examined. Besides, it won't be an unbroken, there will be endless "it almost worked," and the occasional success, where the greatest pattern-recognition device in the biosphere, the brain, manages to anticipate some real-world event.

You can see the same little drama played out for things that uncontroversially do exist, like lucid dreaming. That's really safe to teach: there is no way anybody else could possibly know whether the teacher can do it or not.

At least with fake psychic gurus, sooner or later somebody will notice that teacher always has an excuse for not demonstrating his or her skills. What really happens in dreams will never get out.

You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that is proposed as "techniques" for "inducing lucid dreams." "XYZ-ILD" (acronym names for techniques such as MILD, WILD, ...) is an in-joke in that community, like "XYZ-kinesis" is a joke around here.
Wombat
QUOTE (Sporkling @ May 2 2008, 08:47 AM) *
It is me who exprienced it. Not you. How do you know for sure I think. Cause I wish to tell you. I don't "think" I know. Evidence, is gathered by me, for me. If you don't believe, theres nothing I can do. But I believe. There is nothing you can do. Remain by your own beliefs and I shall remain by my own. We shall see who is right when the time comes.

Well now you are just declaring you have evidence, but you aren't able to produce any. Pretty sad really.
Mia Camille
QUOTE (Sporkling @ May 1 2008, 12:04 PM) *
Not quite so. We know these abilities are real because we have exprienced them. An exprience which you don't have. Which is, therefore, the difference between a believer and a skeptic. I have exprienced some intuition. Which I know that is better for me if I follow my instincts. Thats why I know. But I also know its not really strong. Therefore the practise. But you won't understand I feel. As in the same way, I don't understand you either. If you want to ask me why I believe in a totally unproven ability, I will say, I have proven it to myself. And if you ask, why not prove it to you too, I will simply tell you. I don't have the wish or the time. Nor do I think I need to prove it to you. You want proof, prove to yourself. If you won't, I will know you don't have the intrest to do so either.


Amen to you Sporkling..... wink2.gif
yvan
gut feeling?
Nik Xues
these arnt really psychic abilities

just good data analysis
do alot of mind games to keep fit [try brain age]
and let your mind rest occasionaly so it doesnt over tax.

i suggest meditation without drugs. so you can learn to screen out or become aware of normal bodily functions. drugs scew perspective. that and any thing your body can do on drugs is already available to you when sober. [just train]
Raines
Yes, you're psychic (But don't let it go to your head, everyone is.) Practise using your abilities, that's really the only way to get them stronger. Meditation helps, too.
Also, 11:11 is a number that indicates great change, usually through destruction.
Raines
QUOTE (Wombat @ May 2 2008, 07:54 AM) *
Well now you are just declaring you have evidence, but you aren't able to produce any. Pretty sad really.

See, you're completely missing the point.
His argument was that he's felt things that prove to HIM that psychic phenomena are real. However, he has no way of showing you these pieces of evidence, because they're not external. There's no numbers to write down, or videos to make, or pictures to take, because it's all internal phenomena.
Get it?
You skeptics are the most close-minded people on Earth, I swear to god. You're really no different than the religious extremists of any religion who believe, no matter what, that their way is correct, regardless of other arguments.
Rosewin
QUOTE (Sporkling @ May 1 2008, 11:04 AM) *
Not quite so. We know these abilities are real because we have exprienced them. An exprience which you don't have. Which is, therefore, the difference between a believer and a skeptic. I have exprienced some intuition. Which I know that is better for me if I follow my instincts. Thats why I know. But I also know its not really strong. Therefore the practise. But you won't understand I feel. As in the same way, I don't understand you either. If you want to ask me why I believe in a totally unproven ability, I will say, I have proven it to myself. And if you ask, why not prove it to you too, I will simply tell you. I don't have the wish or the time. Nor do I think I need to prove it to you. You want proof, prove to yourself. If you won't, I will know you don't have the intrest to do so either.


Amen Sporkling!

QUOTE (eight bits @ May 2 2008, 05:07 AM) *
Second, technique provides a built-in excuse for failure. You did the ritual wrong.

....


Meditation is the evocation of the relaxation response, a physiological consequence of sitting down, shutting up, and staying that way for a few minutes. Yes, you have practice a few times to get the hang of it. How unusual, so different from other skills, like riding a bicycle.

....

At least with fake psychic gurus, sooner or later somebody will notice that teacher always has an excuse for not demonstrating his or her skills. What really happens in dreams will never get out.


1) People should develop their own techniques.

2) Meditation can be shutting down. All the meditation I have ever done was the complete opposite. Energy, emotion, and thought manipulation, the mind did not shut down for any of that but rather was on overdrive.

3) Teachers are cool and all but do for self first before trusting in others. There is written material which might be better than any teacher. Not everything in this world when it comes to the psi is based on teachers and students.
eight bits
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Meditation can be shutting down. All the meditation I have ever done was the complete opposite. Energy, emotion, and thought manipulation, the mind did not shut down for any of that but rather was on overdrive.

The mind doesn't usually "shut down" in the relaxation response, although having arrived there, in a physiological state different from sleep, someone might pass through it and nod off.

People do, or experience without "doing," all sorts of mental states once they reach the relaxtion response.

Some people prefer restricted and patterned activity to "sitting down." Similarly, the "shutting up" can take the form of restricted and patterned thought, such as mantras or mindfulness.

And some people just look at their stamp collection. But not everybody who looks at their stamp collection is meditating. Then again, not everybody who sits down mute is meditating, either.

Meditation is something like the intentional stepping away from ordinary involvement and concerns, while retaining wakeful consciousness. If it is done at all, then it is done correctly. The physiology, left to work for itself, works by itself.
Nik Xues
actually meditation allows you to watch the subconcious work.

man blending is awesome but maintaining awareness of self is importantvif you want to stay sane. seriously its to much info plus somtimes the concious you assumes data is [or shold be] there [this is what causes madness when blending]


blending:
my term for it
the process of merging both concious and sub. this is most likely what allows all the freaky psychic stuff. naturally happens in your sleep dreams are the side-effect.
annsie

Psychic ability is a gift which should be respected. Its not for fun nor to try to predict the future. Before you go on asking questions on how to develop it more, you should ask yourself first what will you be doing with it ?

Psychic ability allows you to make connection with things and other dimensions that the normal concious human minds are unable to see or experience. You do not know what these things can be. They can be bad and they can be good. If your own mind is not strong enough to handle the new information it will get exposed to, you will be at risk of developing mental illness such as anxiety.

You need to first develop a strong mind by building up faith in God or in some other Divine Power to help guide you, and you need to be very clear what you are going to do with such ability. I can tell you from personal experience that unless you do so, a keen psychic ability will only scare you and affect your mind equilibrium.

Good luck.
The Skeptic Eric Raven
QUOTE (annsie @ May 4 2008, 03:57 PM) *
Psychic ability is a gift which should be respected. Its not for fun nor to try to predict the future. Before you go on asking questions on how to develop it more, you should ask yourself first what will you be doing with it ?

Psychic ability allows you to make connection with things and other dimensions that the normal concious human minds are unable to see or experience. You do not know what these things can be. They can be bad and they can be good. If your own mind is not strong enough to handle the new information it will get exposed to, you will be at risk of developing mental illness such as anxiety.

You need to first develop a strong mind by building up faith in God or in some other Divine Power to help guide you, and you need to be very clear what you are going to do with such ability. I can tell you from personal experience that unless you do so, a keen psychic ability will only scare you and affect your mind equilibrium.

Good luck.

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Shankpin
QUOTE (Clovis @ May 2 2008, 07:03 PM) *
3) Teachers are cool and all but do for self first before trusting in others. There is written material which might be better than any teacher. Not everything in this world when it comes to the psi is based on teachers and students.


agree.
John A Spera
QUOTE (annsie @ May 4 2008, 04:57 PM) *
You need to first develop a strong mind by building up faith in God or in some other Divine Power to help guide you, and you need to be very clear what you are going to do with such ability. I can tell you from personal experience that unless you do so, a keen psychic ability will only scare you and affect your mind equilibrium.


It is always good to be mindful that we are energy beings first and formost. Energy can not be harmed.

The human experience is about reality perception. It is intended that we feel the emotion of our perceptions. It is also intended that we find a way to balance our energetic expression so that we are not fearful of our experiences.

I also wanted to mention that meditation and reflective thinking (introspection) are both pathways to the 6th sense.

John

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