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If I told you, "I am psychic", would you believe me?

254 sats \ 38 comments \ @DesertDave 19 Dec alter_native

If I were to tell you I am psychic, would you believe me? Would you ask me to guess what number you are thinking of? How would you verify someone's "psychic abilities". Or would you even try? Would you assume they are full of it? Do you believe people can have abilities beyond the 5 senses?

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @DavidDobis 8h

This guy actually thinks he is psychic, by the way... Maybe slow down on the Ayahuasca?

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 19 Dec

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Classic. It's more of a trick online. Come a little closer..

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @crrdlx 19 Dec

This prompt reminded me...during COVID, I guess I got bored from being cooped inside so much. I started making some silly stick figure animations. I made three having to do with a crystal ball medium. For sake of frivolity...

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

These are great. How did you make them. Did it take a lot of time?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 20 Dec

Yes, I made them. I used a drawing pad and software called pencil2d and then phitoscape to make the gif. I'd say 1 to 2 hours each. It was actually kind if fun for a while.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @proeu 19 Dec

Who have you helped with your psychic abilities? Have you helped anyone with your psychic abilities?

Animals have additional senses that humans don't. So if you believe in evolution, it's possible that people can have abilities beyond the 5 senses.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

I think animals have a lot of sense that we don't because we tend to reject the flow of nature. We tend to think of ourselves as being outside of nature. For me, sitting in stillness in nature is huge for discovering this. I also work with shamanistic tools and practice fasting, meditation, sun gazing, yoga, breath work, etc. These types of tools and practices help me tap into my deeper gifts.

11 sats \ 6 replies \ @7e6e393a56 19 Dec

I believe in cold reading as a very efficient strategy for reading minds, and there is nothing supernatural about this technique. I am open-minded to certain paranormal phenomena, but not in this regard.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

What is cold reading?

11 sats \ 4 replies \ @7e6e393a56 19 Dec

Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line of questioning. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not. The reader then emphasizes and reinforces any accurate connections while quickly moving on from missed guesses.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 19 Dec

The movie Nightmare Alley features and discusses a similar technique. It’s very interesting to watch

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

That makes sense. I think that people that have these abilities are just sensitive an are able to take in lot of information. Thank you for sharing. I learned something new.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 19 Dec

It's my pleasure

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 20 Dec

This is called "heuristics" and everyone does this daily (not in a paranormal way). It's aka "common sense." Like everything though, there are wide ranges of skill levels. Some people pay attention to others, consciously or not, and can aggregate and assemble all those clues you mention. Some people pay no attention at all to others, like someone comes into work after a family conflict, stress onbtheir face, not "put together well", and Mr. Its all about me says, "Wow you look terrible." We all know people like that! An astute reader if clues would put things together, sense a hard time, maybe have empathy, then either ease into a kind word or simply give space and say nothing.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @asterisk32 19 Dec

I'd ask what psychic powers you've got and whether you can teach me

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

I am learning about my abilities slowly. I work with people to heal and do shadow works, so they may find out about their own abilities. I think we are all gifted in different ways.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @chaoticalHeavy 19 Dec

Everyone is Psychic.

Some are more skilled than others.

There are teachers and schools that offer Psychic Development Classes.

You can go to certain Churches and get psychic readings.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

I believe this is true. What words we use is a small portion of communication.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @rikbona 19 Dec

I would believeyou, but would that matters to you?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

I would never tell anyone if I had psychic abilities. So no. I just like hearing from people how they think about these things.

11 sats \ 11 replies \ @Coinsreporter 19 Dec

There are over 80 known psychic abilities. Some are pretty obvious like telekinesis while many others are immensely subtle. You can't just look at someone and know that they are a psi-- well, unless you are one too, maybe.

So you better tell which ability do you have?

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

I don't know, is my best ability. Not knowing, is how I surrender to flow. And then the universe seems to unfold exactly how I expect. It's kind of a difficult thing to conceptualize. But I know things by not knowing..

I had no idea they have come up with 80. Crazy!

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @chaoticalHeavy 19 Dec

universe seems to unfold exactly how I expect

My motto is "You get what you expect"

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Totally. Be careful where you focus. In dirt biking they say "don't look at the wall".

11 sats \ 5 replies \ @dtonon 19 Dec

I'm interested in this surrender mechanism, please tell me more.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

It's not an easy thing. It takes a lot of work at examining self. Understanding who we are. Which takes shadow work, facing our darkness. When we see ourselves clearly and are present, we can make a better assessment of our projections of the world. We surrender to what is vs. Fighting against it. Then we may feel like we see what is coming before it comes. Without knowing, there is a knowing. There's some words that may or may not make any sense. 🤷‍♂️

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @dtonon 19 Dec

Thank you for the reply. Did you read Oupensky or Gurdjeff? I feel some connections here.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Never heard of it. I am not much of a reader of books. Most of my lessons come through experiences with shamanistic tools, fasting, meditating, etc.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @dtonon 19 Dec

Direct first hand experiences are always the best ones, I agree.

Anyway, if you are curious read "Fragments of an Unknown Teaching" by Oupensky, he explain how you need to know yourself, starting from the mechanical machine, to free yourself, exit the mechanistic flow and become a real "man". This is a rally hard path that very few people can sustain.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Thank you for engaging and the suggestions. I agree that most people aren't interested in the difficult path of self-inquiry. It is truly exhausting... And super rewarding. We get back what we put in.

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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 19 Dec

You may read about a few here.

And a bigger list with description here https://www.buildingbeautifulsouls.com/psychic-abilities-powers-readings/ultimate-list-of-psychic-abilities-types-of-psychic-powers/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Nice. Thanks.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheBTCManual 19 Dec

Tell me how my skittles I just put up my butt

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

Zero is my guess. But you would have to ask a real psychic.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 19 Dec

LISAN AL GAIB

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec

This is one of my very favorite modern movies. Way better than that star wars crap. 😜

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 9h

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