Some people when they close their eyes see nothing, but some people when they close their eyes they see images. I see images. For a while when I was younger I didn’t see anything, but as I tried to develop it, it has become natural. These inner sights I will call visions for lack of a better word, and are usually of mental objects. One of the new ideas in psionics is that we each have a mindscape, like a miniture reality inside of our minds. Microcosm is an old idea but this mindscape thing is more specific and a bit different. I decided to believe that I can view mental energies and mental creatures aswel, besides viewing my own thoughts. I considered my mind a receptor for anything mental, not only its own signals but that of outside signals too.
Usually whenever we access a new level of ourself or reality, it is clouded over with garbage and demonic forces. The newly developed psychic sensor is so garbage ridden that it is hard to decifer between truth and falsehood. I believe human evolution basically aborted spirituality because of how it starts out so toxic and the body didn’t know how to fix that. So most people are “off”.
Interesting. I looked at the wikipedia article on psionics and one website referenced there that was a skeptical debunking. I see images sometimes when I close my eyes. i thought everybody did. Hypnogogic states are particularly generative of such images. These usually occur before and after sleep. they are known to be productive for creativity. I see nothing necessarily false about the possibility of paranormal phenomena although I do see people apparently exaggerating them as anon alludes to. On the other hand, many people do have such experiences from time to time including myself. The claim that one can develop greater and more reliable experiences of psi phenomenon is the question. What you are suggesting i think is that attending to our internal imagery might be a means for doing this. Seems possible to me.
I often feel i am picing up subconcious signals from people… as if we all broadcast we just aren’t all as aware of it, and if you open your mind looking for those thoughts in your head that don’t arise from any logical point then you have a thought that was picked up from something or someone else… who knows…
Spirituality seems to be primarily a bundle of “right brain” abilities wherein intuitive fuzzy-logical processes dominate. These phenomena get pushed into the background where “left brain” concrete logical processes rule.
Like yesterday… i get this certain feeling of excitment-negative from this one girl i work with and suddenly i got this feeling when she didn’t appear to be around… then she walked through the door… its just a matter of attention to detail…
Neurologist Oliver sacks relates how a physician began to experience people’s auras after being struck by lightning through a phone. I have had these experiences where on recollection I notice that there seemed to be an aura around a person, but in the moment it actually was taking place I wasn’t conscious of it even though I was reacting to it. Those experiences are more frequent than ones where I am conscious of the aura in the present. Present tense aura experiences are rare for me.
I tend to be very sensitive to the energy given off by other people, but I always assumed this was fairly normal, just that some people are aware of it and others aren’t.
Why do you think talking about it would make it happen more often?
I’ve often wondered about doing the opposite. As stated, I’ve always been fairly sensitive to others, and I’m aware of it. That has always come naturally to me, so I wonder more about getting other people to sense something I project at them. I’ve played with it a little bit, but only one time was I sure I was able to do it, because he brought it up to me afterward, but it seemed it only worked when he looked at me and our eyes met.
In case you happen to be curious, I was trying to project to him a steady calm. He said that whenever he looked at me, he felt himself begin to calm down, but then he’d look away and freak out again. It was interesting.
I think this is just the tip of the ice berg, so to speak.
First we realize we can sense an energy, then we realize we can effect it, then we realize, maybe, that we can get more advanced, almost indefinitely.
I hope to never repeat that particular experience. Dude was crashing bad after a meth binge and had worked himself into hysterics and become convinced that he was the flesh-and-blood Anti-Christ. It was difficult to watch.
But yes, I have only toyed with it to see if I would notice a reaction, but nothing very conclusive. There would need to be some serious testing done before even I was convinced it was more than a coincidence or a one-off, and I’m sure it would be exhausting. The thing I remember most clearly about that night with my friend was the intensity of my concentration, and as that is the only indication I have of success, I would imagine it would take more of the same.
I think you’re right, which begs the question – do extreme/extraordinary circumstances create the right environment for a paranormal experience, or are we deceiving ourselves in order to better cope with those circumstances?