Is the Psychic Real?

Written on 2010-02-15 06:54:43

This article (#1) is based on a series of video posts featured under the "Videos" tab, at left.

My interest in the psychic really began when I met a woman named Leslie in Coffs harbor, Australia, many years ago. Leslie ran meditation classes, and was a practicing clairvoyant. She seemed to have the ability to intuitively sense things about people. I had been a skeptic till that time, but I saw enough evidence from my time with her to consider the possibility that I might be wrong.

I decided to go to the local library and get some books on the subject. As I browsed the shelves, I picked up a book by James Randi, called Psychic Investigator. Thumbing through the book, I found page after page rejecting the possibility that people might have psychic experiences. On the last page Randi concluded with the definitive statement that psychic abilities do not exist. End of book.

I was rather stunned. I’d been hoping for some positive arguments and evidence for psi phenomena. But there it was in black and white: an intelligent man had dedicated decades to the subject and found it to be a load of “hocus pocus” (the name of another Randi book, by the way!). Later I found out that the field of parapsychology – which in investigates psychic experience scientifically - was hopelessly polarised. Red faced skeptic s and offended believers typically faced off at each other, accusing each other of ignorance, bias, and a whole host of other nasty things.

 

On that fateful day, after I’d put James Randi’s book down, I could have given up on my quest, but something drove me on. I decided to try investigating the psychic myself, by recording my dreams, and exploring non-ordinary ways of knowing. One particularly useful process I learned involved meditating and slowing my mind right down till I was almost asleep. Then, when I was about to drop off, I would ask questions, and observe answers as they came to me in the form of words, images, song lyrics and subtle feelings.

 

It was this personal exploration of Integrated Intelligence (as I prefer to call the application of psychic potential), that allowed me to move from being an open-minded skeptic, to be a daily practitioner of the psychic. Later, I began to work with my deep emotional body, and as I began to heal the lost parts of my soul, something miraculous happened. Suddenly I was able to see, feel and sense things that I never could before. I was able to feel contrasting consciousness fields as readily as I could tell the difference between hot and cold days. I developed the capacity to intuitively read the energy of possible futures as they emerged. And I was able to see and hear things in my inner mind which I had never noticed before, and then apply the knowledge in my everyday life. In short, I had developed Integrated Intelligence.

 

If I had stayed reading books and listening to the heated debates of professionals, I would not have had the direct hands-on experience to see the truth for myself. The problem with the rational mind is that the very way of knowing it employs is inadequate to genuinely understand the higher reaches of human consciousness. Integrated Intelligence requires a person to let go and allow something greater than the ego direct the mind. In that sense developing your psychic ability is scary. I certainly experienced a lot of fear myself as I took to the deep, dark psychic ocean in a row boat, so to speak.

 

It is also true that the exploration of the psychic has its dangers. I would not recommend it to anyone who does not have good mental health. Others become obsessed with the psychic, and they see it as a source of entertainment. They pursue it for the “Ooh-agh!” effect. Others think psychic development is the same as spiritual development. It is not, although there is often a general correlation between the two (more about this in a later post).This is not the purpose of developing Integrated Intelligence, as I see it. The ideal purpose is to develop a greater understanding of your spiritual journey, and to begin to work with Spirit to create a better life for yourself and the world.

 

So, if the psychic exists, why aren’t we being taught about it school, at work, or hearing about it in our daily news bulletins? Is there some kind of conspiracy at hand?

 

No, there isn’t. The silence is a reflection of modern culture, and the mechanistic paradigm which dominates science and education. Parapsychologist Dean Radin calls this “the psi taboo”. After the 18^th century enlightenment, science moved rapidly forward by eliminating the subjective and emotional aspects of the physical investigation into nature and the world. It was a tremendous success at a physical level. Just look at the way the world has changed in terms of science and technology! But in other ways the enlightenment project has failed, and this has yet to be fully acknowledged by those who have benefitted most from the success of mechanistic science – scientists, engineers, IT specialists, educators and academics. Our teachers know almost nothing about Integrated Intelligence, and those who do are not permitted to share their knowledge. They teach students using the limited ways of knowing of rationality, and students grow up ignorant of the spiritual potential within themselves. Graduates then go out into a society dominated by materialism, work, and mass entertainment. This has created a kind of collective amnesia.

 

Then there is the resistance of mainstream religious organisations, which have long persecuted those with a mystical bent.

 

This is why we have forgotten our spiritual roots. This is why mainstream science and culture is ignorant of the psychic, even though it exists.

 

You can believe or disbelieve what I write. But either way, you won’t know the truth until you make the commitment to use Integrated Intelligence in your life.

 

What are you going to do?

 

(Next video blog, # 2: “Can you Learn to be Psychic?”)

 

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by Rob MacGregor
2010-03-26 09:20:03