Psychic Feelings

[vernonk]

Do you believe that - maybe even have examples of - some people can somehow sense what you're thinking or feeling even if they're a long distance away and haven't seen in you in a long while?

[daisya]

Yes I have since a child so it is natural to me. It is nothing special we all have it but some can sense it more than others...it is inbuilt and really telepathy IMO. Nothing mysterious about it, those who have it accept and those who aren't aware of it obviously won't. No big deal either way.

[yogasun]

Haven't dogs been shown to have these feelings? Being asleep one minute and getting up and going to the door when their master/mistress is about a few minutes away and NOT at the usual time of return

[daisya]

Yes yoga lots of animals have a sixth sense.

[naomi24]

Dasiy & Yoga, I agree. Some animals do appear to have a sixth sense.

[jim360]

I think the key word is "appear". Goodness only knows how they do it, though.

[Iluvspikey]

Just beause something can't be explained by science doesn't mean it can't happen/doesn't exsist. I'v'e had too much happen to me to me to know it's not a lie, or a coincidence.

[daisya]

Same here spikey, people will only accept it if they have it happen to themselves and I think that's par for the course. I still question is for myself but know there is something that I cannot control or lock in to, it just happens. I don't ask others to believe me, everyone has their own opinions of such things.

[jim360]

How can you know it's not a coincidence?

There are too many reasons why your experiences are difficult to evaluate. Selection bias, for a start. The amount of premonitions I have had of my parents', or family's death in general is exactly as many as the amount of false premonitions. So if anyone else gets a premonition and it turns out to be right -- why is your experience psychic and not coincidental? How many false readings do you have? Possibly any you do have you discount or forget about, leading to a perception that you are highly successful in being psychic, but on a cold hard examination it's just more likely to be luck really.

So far the Scientific method has managed to explain a phenomenal amount about the way our world works. It has also barely scratched the surface in some ways. There are a number of principles, though, that suggest that psychic abilities ought not be possible:

1. There is no particular reason why you should have them and I do not. The "I just have a closed mind" line doesn't really work for me, as I am not usually in control of my mind.

2. Often psychic abilities imply communication between two points a long distance apart -- this violates causality and the assumption that causality holds has never yet been shown to be wrong.

3. There is no particular reason either, why psychic abilities never manifest themselves when we are testing them. The James Randi Challenge requires that people claiming to be psychic agree to conditions of a test of their abilities beforehand. To date, no test has been successful ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge ) even though before the experiments claimed psychics were happy with the conditions.

[Traci66]

Some years ago we were flying out to the Maldives in Boxing Day, a week before we were due to leave, daughter phoned me in tears saying she didn't want me to go on holiday, she said she had a bad feeling that something was going to happen. Fast forward a week, we were putting suitcases in the car ready to leave for the airport, dad rung me and told me to put the TV on, the tsunami had struck and the airport in the Maldives was closed.

[jake-the-peg]

The best evidence that psychic powers are nonsense is probably James Randi's million dollar prize.

This has stood for nearly 50 years offering $1Million to anyone who can demonstrate proof of the paranormal

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

There have been over 360 applications

Nobody has ever been able to claim it

Nobody has ever even passed beyond the prelimary test to the formal test

If psychics are real they must all be just too busy to claim a million dollars

[daisya]

"Psychic powers" IS nonsense, being psychic is different in my book, I don't have powers at all! It is all opinion and each to his own.

[RATTER15]

Im with jake-the-peg on this and the James Randi offer.

Personally I think it is all nonsense.

[islasmum]

I wrote to a friend of mine last week, as I haven't seen her for while, and had new contact details I wanted to pass onto her, so posted the letter on Saturday, and received one from her on the monday, saying that she'd tried to ring me Friday night, but none of my numbers worked, and had I changed them?! Coincidence or what?

[doctordb]

Yes, coincidence.

[naomi24]

TheFamousCash, Jake, Ratter,

I repeat, I don't think that's what the OP means. I'm assuming he's referring to inexplicable instinct - not to people who fleece the vulnerable with claims of psychic powers.

[daisya]

And I think that is what was meant too Naomi.

[islasmum]

Yes, naomi, that's how I read the OP as well.

[naomi24]

Jim, //Goodness only knows how they [animals] do it, though. //

If you think animals do it, why not humans?

[DTCwordfan]

or Rats......