So, I have said that I co-habit with ghosts (unwillingly). One of these ghosts has a knack for speaking through my mouth occasionally, which annoys me. Not in conversation, but in reaction to things. (Another intrusion).
Sometimes I can laugh like my dad, if he's around and there's somethng he finds funny! (My dad has passed over). (Clearly I can't say he's dead, because he isn't!) This is one way I may know he's around - he doesn't always speak 'to' me and thus let me know he's there.
I must be a very absorbent kind of psychic person.
In this post I just wanted to say that I can seem to have imaginary friends. Imagine if your every thought is heard - including every humourous thought. Sometimes (quite often actually) I chuckle to myself because I'm sharing a joke with the world of spirit!
One of my neighbours at university thought I was more than eccentric because I could be heard laughing to myself very frequently (this was at a time when I my medicine was making me 'high' - I wouldn't want you thinking me 'more than eccentric'! ;) ).
One time I was on the brink of bursting out laughing in an optician's treatment room, and a spirit friend mischievously tipped me over the edge into full hysterics! (I always have a real problem getting though eye tests - I don't like it when they come very close to my face to look in my eyes.. it always makes me want to laugh!)
But really, I have few friends in the outside world. I fell out of the social loop when I got ill, and because of my condition I find it hard to get on with others. When I'm alone (- or more properly 'alone') - there are ghosts to contend with who very often provide a focus for my attention, and there are also my friends from on High who come and visit out of love, in a spirit of service. So my mind is often busy when I am alone and my heart is satisfied for friendship.
I believe my health will improve. In another ten years or so, I may have a lot of friends again, as I did one day. I think in some time I will be ready to be natural with other people again, and be able to enjoy myself with others. I also have to find out who I am before then, and come out of the inner world more. But for now, I'm grateful for my 'imaginary friends'.
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Psychicness: The Social Standing of Psychic People
It's probably easier to be affiliated with the spiritualist church, here in the UK. They seem to be good people, nice people, decent people, and, most importantly they of all psychic people seem to me to have the best reputation. They are, although slightly mysterious in their supernatural way, respectable.
The Social Standing Of Psychic People. If only 'psychic' was easy to say. I have hear people use it in a way that suggests they think it to be acceptable, but also something more than controversial... also something illicit. Could be this harks back to our more religious background, when anyone slightly witchy was condemned and killed. Or brutally tortured and killed. And not long ago, mediums were prosecuted for witchcraft.
Still, the spiritualist church is in the lead for the respectability stakes.
Oh, and one more thing: there's the other connotation lurking behind the word 'psychic' - a connotation of craziness, of madness. This could just be through the ability of psychically active people to see and hear things that 'aren't there', just like someone insane talking to him- or herself. This does not help me much! Me in my quest to be recognised as a borderline insane individual with pronounced psychic abilities!
There is another side to 'psychic' - its scariness, having higher knowledge others can't seem to attain, and being able to communicate with ghosts, with the dead (spirits).
Lastly, it seems it's not too hard to fake being psychic - to basically lie about having special knowledge - which is itself a cause for disbelieving these people who claim to see and hear things that aren't there...
All of this means that 'psychic' is not an easy thing to claim to be to anyone, be it a friend or the doctor.
And writing this I'm starting to have doubts about the appropriacy of using the word 'paranormal'; - although psychicness is certainly not most people's normal, it is my normal and that of many others. Psychicness feels perfectly normal to me!
However, if I'm not confusing myself!, the word paranormal is helpful in indicating why psychicness is not very well understood, officially, the reason being that it is not common to be psychically active.
The Social Standing Of Psychic People. If only 'psychic' was easy to say. I have hear people use it in a way that suggests they think it to be acceptable, but also something more than controversial... also something illicit. Could be this harks back to our more religious background, when anyone slightly witchy was condemned and killed. Or brutally tortured and killed. And not long ago, mediums were prosecuted for witchcraft.
Still, the spiritualist church is in the lead for the respectability stakes.
Oh, and one more thing: there's the other connotation lurking behind the word 'psychic' - a connotation of craziness, of madness. This could just be through the ability of psychically active people to see and hear things that 'aren't there', just like someone insane talking to him- or herself. This does not help me much! Me in my quest to be recognised as a borderline insane individual with pronounced psychic abilities!
There is another side to 'psychic' - its scariness, having higher knowledge others can't seem to attain, and being able to communicate with ghosts, with the dead (spirits).
Lastly, it seems it's not too hard to fake being psychic - to basically lie about having special knowledge - which is itself a cause for disbelieving these people who claim to see and hear things that aren't there...
All of this means that 'psychic' is not an easy thing to claim to be to anyone, be it a friend or the doctor.
And writing this I'm starting to have doubts about the appropriacy of using the word 'paranormal'; - although psychicness is certainly not most people's normal, it is my normal and that of many others. Psychicness feels perfectly normal to me!
However, if I'm not confusing myself!, the word paranormal is helpful in indicating why psychicness is not very well understood, officially, the reason being that it is not common to be psychically active.
Stubborn Ghosts
I co-habit with ghosts.
This is not such a nice situation, because a) it's intrusive b) they can be unpleasant c) I don't approve of their presence.
On the other hand, the fact that I know they are there and can sometimes hear their voices is a good thing for me, as it indicates I have a psychic gift, which could be useful to others.
This is a post about the phemonon of spectral stubbornness, the refusal of these spirits to go to the light.
I had read that if you sense earthbounds, you are to send them love and tell thm to go to the Light. This has not yet been succesful for me. Either they want to be here, they're afraid to go on, or they don't know how to go on to ascend in the Light.
I don't know. I don't know what professional people do to move on ghosts - although I remember that they use the help of celestial allies - and I don't have that capability at present.
PS "b) they can be unpleasant" above can be anything from grindingly bad / frequent bad jokes to bullying - since they know my thoughts, they know my sensitivities. Still, they're not as bad, generally, as The Ones Who Watch from further away, who seem more intent on hurting me...
This is not such a nice situation, because a) it's intrusive b) they can be unpleasant c) I don't approve of their presence.
On the other hand, the fact that I know they are there and can sometimes hear their voices is a good thing for me, as it indicates I have a psychic gift, which could be useful to others.
This is a post about the phemonon of spectral stubbornness, the refusal of these spirits to go to the light.
I had read that if you sense earthbounds, you are to send them love and tell thm to go to the Light. This has not yet been succesful for me. Either they want to be here, they're afraid to go on, or they don't know how to go on to ascend in the Light.
I don't know. I don't know what professional people do to move on ghosts - although I remember that they use the help of celestial allies - and I don't have that capability at present.
PS "b) they can be unpleasant" above can be anything from grindingly bad / frequent bad jokes to bullying - since they know my thoughts, they know my sensitivities. Still, they're not as bad, generally, as The Ones Who Watch from further away, who seem more intent on hurting me...
My Psychic Disturbances: Frequency and Quality
Frequency and quality - some vaguely scientific words! Frequency = how often; quality = of what nature.
Just a note to say that the frequency of disturbance can be as bad as the quality of it. Disturbance need not be outright and obviously objectionable to cause injury, but merely be an intrusion into the mental space. Having someone around all the time, (I mean a ghost, or ghosts), someone who you hear speaking to you within seconds after you wake up in the morning, is a kind of disturbance. Too much mental traffic is painful - the frequency of thought activity must be within comfortable boundaries; this is especially true on hard days, days when the quality of disturbance is particularly burdensome.
Strangely it is a rare occurrence for my celestial friends and relations to intrude on me. I hear them often, but they do not injure me - either because I have become accustomed to thinking of them as allies, as desirable presences - or because they know to respect my boundaries, or some other reason. (Still, the frequency of hearing my celestial friends is much lower than that of the earthbound uninvited and unapproved presences).
Here I'm making a division between wanted and unwanted presences, and this is what defines 'disturbance'. (A disturbance is technically an unwanted psychic phenomenon caused by another being).
Finally, this excessive frequency of mental activity is irritating at least and very painful at worst; it's tiring and can be painful.
Just a note to say that the frequency of disturbance can be as bad as the quality of it. Disturbance need not be outright and obviously objectionable to cause injury, but merely be an intrusion into the mental space. Having someone around all the time, (I mean a ghost, or ghosts), someone who you hear speaking to you within seconds after you wake up in the morning, is a kind of disturbance. Too much mental traffic is painful - the frequency of thought activity must be within comfortable boundaries; this is especially true on hard days, days when the quality of disturbance is particularly burdensome.
Strangely it is a rare occurrence for my celestial friends and relations to intrude on me. I hear them often, but they do not injure me - either because I have become accustomed to thinking of them as allies, as desirable presences - or because they know to respect my boundaries, or some other reason. (Still, the frequency of hearing my celestial friends is much lower than that of the earthbound uninvited and unapproved presences).
Here I'm making a division between wanted and unwanted presences, and this is what defines 'disturbance'. (A disturbance is technically an unwanted psychic phenomenon caused by another being).
Finally, this excessive frequency of mental activity is irritating at least and very painful at worst; it's tiring and can be painful.
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