October 2011

Five Less Commonly Known Types of Psychic Abilities

When people think about psychic abilities, they commonly think of Extra Sensory Perception (E.S.P) which is a broad 

term that encompasses several abilities which have to do with being aware of events (external to the individual) without using the five basic senses or deducing them logically from earlier experience, such as telepathy, precognition and clairvoyance. These are just a few of the many types of psychic abilities that some people are gifted with.

Psychic abilities aren't only about seeing the future or “knowing” what someone is thinking. A psychic ability or occurrence is a communication that doesn't involve physical, spiritual or mental abilities and can't be explained by modern science.

Michel de Nostradame

His prophecies gave a glimpse of the future - and still do.

There is no need to even discuss the impact Nostradamus has had on the seer mythos. His book, “The Prophecies” has

 been in print since the 1500s and is still read to this day. Few people realize that Nostradamus wasn't always a seer and that his beginnings were not unlike anyone else living that time.

He was born in December of 1503 to Reyniere de Saint-Remy and Jaume de Nostradame. He has and at least eight brothers and sisters. Yeah, they had big families back in those days. There is little else know about his childhood, but he was no seeing the future as a child. At least, he wasn't writing it down.

He entered the university of Avignon at the age of 25 and studied the usual courses of grammar, rhetoric and logic. He had to leave after only a year because of an outbreak of the plague. The university shut its doors when the students started dropping like flies.

The Many Faces Of Prophecy

The future is a funny thing. How can someone predict something that hasn't happened and how does telling is about

 keep it from happening or cause it to happen. Every time I think about this paradox, I think about The Matrix.

As Neo waits sits with the Oracle in her kitchen, she tells him not to worry about the vase. A second later, he runs into it and knocks it over. He looks at her astonished thinking she predicted it was going to happen, but the Oracle tells him how much of what happened was because she told him.

Edward Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet

Since childhood, I've always been interested in the paranormal and how the universe really worked. A big part of the reason I studied physics was 

just to learn about the nature of time and the universe.

Through the millennia there have been those who've claimed to have the ability to look into the future and see coming events. Some have been as far reaching and prolific as Nostradamus, but the visions of many have been much more mundane. The first person I was truly interested in learning more about was psychic Edgar Cayce.