A UK teenager lost his sight, but soon after discovered that he had Psychic abilities.

As recently reported by the dailyrecord.co.uk, Dominic Boag was just a regular teen before he lost his vision.

Dominic was a normal teenager who dreamed of being a policeman before a rare disease which affected his nerves almost wiped out his vision.

But after becoming almost blind, he found he had developed a “sixth sense”.

And he has now qualified as a spiritual medium and started up his own business.

Dominic said: “They say that when you lose one sense, the others become stronger – and I really have developed a sixth sense since losing my sight.

“There are cynics but people tell me I have a talent. I am doing really well with something I wouldn’t have found had I still been able to see.”

Dominic, 20, from Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, runs his business around his day job at a call centre.

He said: “People ask me if I would give up communicating with the spirits to get my sight back but I feel like this has helped me through the journey of losing my sight and I could never turn my back on it.”

He added that his most memorable contact was with his late dad, ex-Morton Football Club captain John Boag.

He said: “My dad kept repeating, ‘I’m still here, I’m still here’. It was nice to hear his voice again.”

By Rajen Vakil

Everything we do requires energy – be it thought, emotion, movement, or the instinctive functions of the body. Our every psychic act uses up energy.

We relate to life through the five senses; impressions come into to the brain through them. Psychic energy registers what comes in through the senses, giving us the power of registration and focusing attention.

Take being on an extended holiday involving a lot of site-seeing, for instance. At a certain point although we are seeing everything, nothing seems to register. This is because we have used up all our psychic energy. Yogic texts say that our main source of energy is the food we eat. Food gives us the energies of magnetism, motor electricity, reflex electricity, and sex. But food cannot give psychic energy, which is only replenished in sleep. Hence, so much importance is given to optimal amount and good quality of sleep.

We have a certain quantity of this psychic energy when we wake up in the morning; we must learn to use this judiciously. This is stored in a large centre (or reservoir) which in turn is connected to two smaller centres. Suppose, we are reading a very interesting book, we can observe that after about forty-five minutes of reading, we feel a little tired and are not able to absorb the true meaning. This indicates that one of the smaller centres is empty. It takes a few minutes for us to connect to the other centre which is full. The best thing would be to walk a little.

Once we connect to another centre, we feel a rush of energy and can again read for another forty-five minutes. Perhaps, the reason why schools have study periods of forty-five minutes; it is the optimal period one can pay attention for. Once the other centre is empty too, we reconnect to the first centre, which by then has collected energy from the large reservoir. If we have not given it enough time to refill completely, we feel tired and debilitated sooner than later. Most of us are so overloaded with mental work that we overwork these energy centres, leading to exhaustion and mental breakdown.

Yoga prescribes practices which help to refill this psychic energy very fast, but that’s for another time.

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Originally printed by the dalymail.co.uk, this article discusses the question – do we all have psychic abilities? Are thought premonitions and telepathy more common than we think?

Like many mothers who feared for their family’s safety during World War II, Mona Miller was evacuated from London to the peaceful seaside town of Babbacombe in Devon.

It seemed like a wise precaution but, shortly after her arrival there with her young children, Mrs Miller became increasingly uneasy.
‘I had a feeling that I must leave Devon and return home,’ she told me.

‘At first I dismissed the idea; why leave when I was so happy and contented despite the war going on around me?

‘But the feeling increased. The walls of my room seemed to speak to me: “Go home to London.” I resisted the call for about four months then, one day, like a flash of light, I knew we must leave.

‘On a Saturday in late 1942, we travelled back to London and a few days later I received a letter from a friend in Devon.

‘“Thank God you took the children on Saturday,” she wrote. “Early Sunday morning, Jerry dropped three bombs and one fell on the house where you were living, demolishing it, and killing all the neighbours on either side.”’

Mrs Miller was far from the only person to experience such forebodings during the war.

Three years later, in the spring of 1945, U.S. serviceman Charles Bernuth took part in the invasion of Germany and, shortly after crossing the Rhine, found himself driving along the autobahn one night with two officers.

He described how a ‘still, small voice’ within him told him there was something wrong with the road ahead.

‘I stopped, amid the groans and jeers of the other two. I started walking along the road.

‘About 50 yards from where I had left the jeep, I found out what was wrong.

‘We were about to go over a bridge — only the bridge wasn’t there. It had been blown up and there was a sheer drop of about 75ft.’

Both Mrs Miller and Charles Bernuth had experienced presentiments — feelings that something was going to happen without knowing what it would be.
These differ from premonitions, where the person involved has an insight into what lies ahead, as when 16-year-old Carole Davies visited a London amusement arcade during the Seventies.

‘While standing looking out into the night, I had a sense of danger,’ she recalled.

‘Then I saw what looked like a picture in front of me showing people on the floor with tiles and metal girders on them. I realised that this was to happen here. I began to shout at people to get out. No one listened.’

Together with her friends, Carole hurried out and went to a nearby cafe.

As they sat inside, they heard sirens in the street outside. A weakness in the arcade building’s structure had brought its roof and walls crashing down on those within.

‘We all ran down the road to see what had happened,’ Carole remembered.

‘It was just as I had seen. A man I had shouted at was being pulled from under the debris.’

Like Mona Miller and Charles Bernuth before her, Carole was convinced she owed her life to her mysterious sixth sense, a notion which you might expect a scientist of my background to dismiss out of hand.

I am a biologist who has studied, researched and taught at both Cambridge and Harvard, and held senior academic posts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Yet I’ve long believed that presentiments, premonitions and other psychic phenomena such as telepathy should be taken more seriously by my scientific colleagues.

My fascination with this subject began during the Sixties when I was a graduate student in the biochemistry department at Cambridge University.

This was not long after the South African writer Laurens van der Post had published his accounts of life with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.

Like most traditional societies, theirs was one in which telepathy was not only taken for granted, but put to practical use, as van der Post saw when his hosts hunted down and killed an eland antelope many miles from camp.

As they were driving back in a Land Rover laden with meat, he asked one of the Bushmen how those back at camp would react when they learned of this success.

‘They already know — we Bushmen have a wire here,’ he replied, tapping his chest. ‘It brings us news.’

He was comparing their method of communication with the white man’s telegram or ‘wire’.

Sure enough, when they approached the camp, the people were singing the ‘Eland Song’ and preparing to give the hunters the greatest of welcomes.

Many other travellers in Africa have reported that people seemed to know when loved ones were coming home.
The same would occur in rural Norway, where the inhabitants developed a special word — vardoger — for the anticipation of arrivals.

Similarly, accounts I read of the ‘second sight’ of some inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands included visions of arrivals before the person in question appeared.

But none of this convinced me, converted as I was to the dogma of ‘materialism’ which has dominated scientific thought since the late 19th century, and still does so today.

According to materialists, science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry.
And anything that cannot be thus explained can be dismissed as illusory.

Educated in this tradition, I adopted the standard dismissive attitude when the subject of telepathy came up in the laboratory tearoom one day.

I was gently taken to task by Sir Rudolph Peters, one of the doyens of British biochemistry. He was a kindly man with twinkly eyes and more curiosity than most people half his age.

He told me of an ophthalmologist friend who had a severely disabled and mentally retarded young boy as a patient.
Although he was almost blind, he seemed able to read the letters on the optician’s chart very well, but only when his mother was looking at them.

The only explanation appeared to be some form of telepathic communication between the two, and in 1968 Sir Rudolph conducted an experiment in which the boy correctly guessed many of the written numbers or words shown to his mother, even though they were sitting on either side of a screen which prevented him from picking up any visual or auditory cues.

Sir Rudolph concluded that this telepathy had developed to an unusual degree because of the boy’s extreme needs and his mother’s desire to help him.

But, as I discovered, even laboratory experiments involving strangers had produced results which, if less marked, were still compelling.

For example, the years between 1880 and 1939 saw something of a boom in early psychical research, with the publication of more than 186 studies involving trials in which subjects guessed which randomly selected cards a ‘sender’ was looking at.

When the four million individual results were combined in a statistical procedure called meta-analysis, the overall results were hugely significant because they were considerably more accurate than would have been expected from random chance.

Later experiments during the Seventies involved subjects sleeping in a soundproofed laboratory while a ‘sender’ in another room, and in some cases another building, opened a sealed package containing a randomly selected picture and concentrated on it, trying to influence the subject’s dream.

Sometimes the thought transference was very clear: one subject described having dreamed about buying tickets for a prize fight while the sender was looking at a picture of a boxing match.

Occasionally, it was more symbolic, as when the subject dreamed of a dead rat in a cigar box while the sender was looking at a picture of a dead gangster in a coffin. But in 450 such trials the overall results were very significantly above the chance level.

My research has included more than 4,000 cases of psychic phenomena. Many, like Mona Miller’s near-miss in the Blitz, involve mothers.

Hundreds told me that during the months they were breastfeeding, they’d know when their baby needed them, even from miles away, because they began secreting breast milk.

With the help of a midwife, I studied nine nursing mothers in North London during a two-month period, and found that their unexpected ‘let-downs’ of milk when they were separated from their babies very often coincided with their infants experiencing distress.

The odds against this occurring by chance as often as it did were a billion to one, and this telepathic connection makes good evolutionary sense.

Mothers who could tell at a distance when their babies were unhappy would tend to have babies that survived better than those of insensitive mothers.

Such connections often seem to continue even when the children have grown up, with many stories on my database concerning mothers who had an urge to get in touch with their children when they could not have known by any conventional means that they were in trouble.

Many would do so by telephone, the method of communication most commonly mentioned in reports of telepathic experiences in general.

Many people told me they had thought of someone for no apparent reason, and then that person rang in a way that seemed uncanny. Or they knew who was calling when the phone rang, even before they picked up the receiver.

I designed an experiment to test this, a simplified version of which you can try through my website.

This involved asking subjects for the names and phone numbers of four friends or family members before placing them alone in a room with a landline telephone with no caller ID.

I then selected one of the four callers at random and asked them to phone the subject, who had to say who was on the line before answering.

By guessing at random, subjects would have been right about one time in four, or 25 per cent.

In fact, the average hit rate was 45 per cent, very significantly above the level of chance, and these results have been replicated independently at universities in Germany and Holland.

In attempting to explain such phenomena, we need to look far beyond the traditional scientific view that everything is essentially material or physical, including the human mind.

That materialist approach was summed up by Francis Crick, who in 1962 shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA.

‘You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,’ he wrote.

Crick spoke for the scientific mainstream, as did influential neuroscientist Susan Greenfield when she described seeing an exposed brain in an operating theatre.

‘This is all there was to (the patient) Sarah, or indeed to any of us,’ she reflected in a paper published in 2000.

‘We are but sludgy brains and somehow a character and mind are generated in this soupy mess.’

Yet this idea that our minds are fixed physically inside our heads, and that consciousness is nothing but a by-product of the activity of the brain, runs contrary to our everyday experience.

When we look around us, the images of the things we see are outside us, not in our heads. The feelings in my fingers are in my fingers, not in my head.

The human intuitions I have described fit better with the ‘field theory’ of minds.

We are used to the fact that fields exist both within and outside material objects such as magnets and mobile phones, and there is reason to believe that our minds have similar fields which have their roots within our brains, but also extend beyond them.

Extraordinary though this sounds, it’s supported by studies of another remarkable psychic phenomenon — the sense of being stared at.

Most people have felt someone looking at them from behind, turned around and met the person’s eyes.
And most people have experienced the converse: making someone turn around by staring at them.

In extensive surveys in Europe and North America, between 70 and 97 per cent of adults and children reported such experiences.

In a series of interviews with police officers, surveillance personnel and soldiers, I discovered most felt that some people seemed to know they were being observed, even though the watchers were well hidden.

‘A lot of times the crook will just get a feeling that things aren’t right,’ I was told by one narcotics officer.

‘We often have someone look right in our direction even though he can’t see us. A lot of times we’re inside a vehicle.’

Surprisingly, laboratory tests have shown that the sense of being stared at works even when people are looked at on screens, rather than directly.

Our emotional response can be measured by the activity of our sweat glands and this increases in many subjects being watched on CCTV, even though they are unaware of their response.

All this suggests that, whether through direct staring or CCTV, we are capable of ‘touching’ each other with our sight — further evidence that our minds are not confined to the inside of our brains.

With telepathic communication, it seems that these fields somehow interact at a distance, picking up feelings, needs or thoughts across space.

As for presentiments and premonitions, these imply links across time, as we tune into our future mental states.

That such links are real was suggested by a series of experiments in the U.S. and Holland over the past 20 years.

These measured responses to a series of noxious smells, mild electric shocks, emotive words and provocative photographs, interspersed with calming stimuli which had no physiological effect on subjects at all.

No one, not even the experimenters, knew what kind of stimuli the computer involved would produce next, but in a significant number of cases the subjects reacted to the unpleasant stimuli some three or four seconds in advance, somehow connecting with their future selves who would be experiencing the stimuli for real.

These findings are fascinating in themselves but, as I will explain in Monday’s Mail, psychic phenomena are not restricted to human beings.

There are amazing stories of telepathy and premonitions of disaster in many other species, including pet dogs.

As for exactly how such phenomena operate, it may be years before we understand them, but an important first step is for scientists to acknowledge that they exist, and that the minds of both animals and humans interact in as yet unexplained ways.

Article source: dalymail.co.uk

Dr. Stephen Farmer

was invited a few months back to be a guest on a show that’s on A&E called Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal. I had never seen the program so I checked out a couple of re-runs. Typically they’d have two or three children with identifiable psychic gifts go through various situations using their intuitive and mediumistic gifts, such as visiting a house where there were suspected ghosts or spirits, or helping find missing persons.

I watched a couple of episodes and found they were produced to maximize their shock effect and entertainment value, with odd angles and very quick cuts along with the music that lent an eerie quality to much of program. Typically they would take the children to a house that was supposed to be haunted and see what they came up with, usually with results that confirmed that the kids truly were psychic.

The production was a little too over the top for my tastes, but it apparently worked as they were now on their third season; plus the program gave considerable validity to the fact that some children have these remarkable God-given gifts. And I’m sure it helped these children and others who saw things other people didn’t see know that they weren’t messed up or crazy. The guidance provided by the two hosts, an experienced psychic/medium and a spiritual psychotherapist helped them further accept their gifts.

I was asked to come on as a guest to work with the kids about spirit animals. One of them, Anissa, reportedly had a spirit animal, a wolf she naturally called “Wolfie”, that sat at the end of her bed at night. She was somewhat frightened of him although he never did anything to harm her. She just didn’t know what to make of it. The other child, Nick, was frightened about various apparitions that appeared to him, apparently spirits of deceased people.

That afternoon a driver picked me up from the hotel and transported me to the “haunted” house where everyone had gathered to investigate strange noises and happenings. I met Nick and Anissa, as well as Anissa’s mother and Nick’s father. I was feeling nervous but confident that I could be of service to these children, particular Anissa, who already had a spirit animal, Wolfie, that unbeknownst to her was actually serving as a guardian spirit.

My assignment while here was to talk with Nick and Anissa and offer them some guidance about spirit animals. I brought with me soapstone carvings of a wolf for Anissa and a raven, for Nick, that they could use as their totem animals to help them feel protected. In addition I gave them copies of my Power Animal Oracle Cards and Animal Spirit Guides.

I met separately with each child and talked with them about spirit animals and animal spirit guides. Anissa was particularly keen on learning that Wolfie was actually her main spirit animal, a strong guardian and protector. Nick was receptive but seemed distractible, most likely because of the intensity of the filming schedule and the work that they had been doing (I’m sure it can be exhausting dealing with spirits of the deceased all day long!) They both loved the totems of their spirit animals as well as the books and oracle cards.

Alas, due to the constraints of the filming, I was later informed that the segment they filmed with me and the kids would not be part of the show. If you want to view a sample of this particular show, go to www.aetv.com/psychic-kids/episodes and look for season three, episode 17. In spite of not appearing on the show, I was very gratified that I could have some impact on each of these children, as evidenced by an email I received from Anissa’s mother, Kim, several weeks later. She wrote:

Even though the time Anissa spent with you was short it made a huge impact on her (and me). Anissa continues to grow and learn about herself she is really getting into knowing other’s spirit animals and she calls upon them when she needs. Anissa continues to use her oracle cards you gave her and she even started to share readings with her trusted friends.

I wish so much they would have showed the work you did with the kids on their episode. I was surprised it didn’t make the show, but what I do know is that what you did for her is a huge part of why she is doing so well and seems to have overcome most of her fears.

Supporting Your Children’s Intuition

This experience gave me some ideas about how to encourage children’s intuitive gifts. All children have intuitive capacities, some stronger than others, yet without support and encouragement, these will either diminish over time or else be tucked away for safekeeping out of fear of being labeled crazy or weird. And frankly, not all children are destined to be gifted intuitives or mediums, yet encouraging these in any child will help them cope with their world more effectively.

I have two stepdaughters, Serena, 8, and Ari, 6, who have a very gifted intuitive mother, Jesseca. We both encourage their listening to that inner voice and recently came up with what we’ve dubbed “the psychic game”. I hide a small stuffed animal somewhere that is visible but not easily seen. When they’re called to come out and find it, we coach them on moving slowly, listening closely to their bodies, and letting their bodies take them to the hidden object. It’s a fun way to encourage the ongoing development of these capacities.

I’d suggest use the following guidelines to support their intuition, especially tuning into their physical sensations, paying attention to their “in-sight”, and listening closely to that still, small voice inside. You can show them how to meditate, starting with just one or two minutes, and definitely support their imagination through any artistic or creative expression.

Our world needs more and more of us to heed the voice of Spirit as it expresses through our intuitive capacities. What better way than to teach your children?

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Watch this interesting video interview of Psychic Helene Olsen of Salem, MA.

In this interview Psychic Helene talks about how we all have natural Psychic abilities which we can learn to use.

About Psychic Helene Olsen:

elene is a licensed psychic with the city of Salem, Massachusetts. You can make an appointment to meet with her at the beautiful & spacious office of A Higher Balance Healing Center in downtown Salem. Or you can choose to connect with her by telephone. Please refer to the “Salem” tab for directions.

Helene is a multi-dimensional Psychic Medium and Reiki Master who is able to “hear”, “see”, and connect to many Realms. Each connection is more proof to Helene that Love never dies and that Love alone is the most powerful force in all Universes.

Recently reported by STARpod.org, reported documents are said to confirm that an American Professor sought to create a Psychic intelligence unit days after the 9/11 attacks.

According to the documents, on or about September 19, 2001, Professor Gary E. Schwartz was actively seeking funding to set up a “Precognitive Intelligence Research Unit” to prevent future tragedies, bring terrorists to justice, and reveal “the reality of ‘invisible’ assistance as received by sensitive people in dreams, day dreams, meditation, guided imagery, and spontaneous openings.”

Schwartz cites UK “Dream Detective” Chris Robinson, who produced warnings of planes deliberately crashed into buildings during the month prior to the September 11 attacks. In one document, Schwartz notes that Robinson “worked undercover for Scotland Yard and British Intelligence.” Schwartz also confirms having spoken “at length” with Robinson’s intelligence contacts in the UK, noting “they swear to his authenticity, accuracy, and utility,” and that Robinson “works part time as an undercover agent.”

Regarding Robinson’s nightmare warning of planes crashing into buildings in New York City, Schwartz writes that he was initially skeptical of Robinson’s alleged psychic skill and had not taken the warning seriously.

According to the documents, after working with Schwartz at the University of Arizona in August 2001, Robinson returned to England, and on September 9, 2001, contacted his UK intelligence handlers about the plane threat. He then sent a letter about the impending 9/11 attack to the US Embassy in London.

According to Robinson, shortly after the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, but before the Pentagon was hit, he was called by an American Colonel concerning his precognitive warning.

The documents note that following 9/11, Robinson was “haunted by continued dream information about future tragedies, the location of bin Laden, and other key information that the FBI and CIA are ignoring.”

Schwartz notes the need for secrecy, as “previous efforts to investigate remote viewing and precognitive skills and apply them to military and humanitarian needs were conducted by the CIA and defense, in secret,” and “much of this information is still classified.”

Schwartz received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was a professor at Harvard before teaching psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, where he became the director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center. Schwartz joined the University of Arizona in 1988, where he conducted dream precognition experiments with Robinson.

The documents also suggest possible involvement by US persons connected to intelligence services, noting, “For reasons of security and other matters, some supporting and collaborative members will do so anonymously.”

Sources, including Robinson and intelligence sources who must remain anonymous due to the nature of their working relationship with the US government, have confirmed Robinson’s involvement with Thomas Drake, the former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official who had been under indictment for espionage by the US Justice Department. One source identified futurist John L. Petersen’s Arlington Institute as the center of a network of US government persons and private citizens collaborating on precognitive research. Mr. Petersen’s institute produces the WHETHEReport, which attempts to track trends in future threats from dream reports supplied by the public.

The documents note the need to provide “immediate protection of Mr. Robinson so he can devote his primary attention and energy to national and global security.”

Other independent sources have claimed that the US National Security Agency maintains a covert psychic intelligence operation and manages private research at Johns Hopkins and through The Monroe Institute.

There is a long history of the connections between alternative science and paranormal researchers to the intelligence community. In 2004, the CIA released a selection of redacted documents on official government paranormal activities called the STAR GATE files. According to the files, the late Richard Helms, former Director of CIA, sought paranormal research for operations at CIA shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the 1970s, CIA funded psychic research at the Stanford Research Institute. In the 1990s, the Defense Intelligence Agency moved research to top ten defense contractor SAIC.

Robinson told STARstream Research founder Gary S. Bekkum that he suspected British Intelligence Services were unhappy over his cooperation on psychic intelligence and may have intervened to sabotage the Precognitive Intelligence Research Unit. Following 9/11, British Intelligence set up their own psychic research experiments, as was reported by BBC and other mainstream media sources. UK-based author Jon Ronson also claims to have been told by Ur Geller in October 2001 that a man named ‘Ron’ had reactivated his psychic services for the war on terror. Ron is widely thought to be Ronald S. Pandolfi, a senior CIA analyst known to be involved with persons involved with alternative science and paranormal research. Another source related that private intelligence sources were looking into the use of fMRI brain scans for mind-to-mind communication.

Several researchers have died under questionable circumstances. Larissa Vilenskaya — a Russian paranormal researcher who later moved to the US and worked with Dr. Ed May, the head of secret Defense Intelligence Agency STAR GATE research in the 1990s — walked in front of a train and was killed in June 2001. Vilenskaya had accompanied May to former Soviet Union research centers to collect intelligence that was forwarded to DIA, according to declassified documents. John Mack, famous for his research into so-called alien abductions, was struck and killed by a vehicle in 2004. Cold fusion advocate Eugene Mallove was murdered by an intruder the same year. Pat Price, one of the CIA’s star psychic spies, was struck down by apparent heart failure shortly after CIA tasked him with operational spying against Soviet targets.

Professor Gary E. Schwartz recently authored the book “The Sacred Promise” in which he explores non-mainstream ideas in the Spiritual and Psychic Realms; from his book overview:

Are there sources of invisible information and guidance waiting to be tapped and harnessed if we are just willing to listen?

If we, in our essence, are spirits too, can we come to see this possibility when we look at ourselves in the mirror? And can we draw on this great inner potential and power with wisdom and love to change our ways accordingly, before it is too late for humankind?

I believe that science not only can address such questions, but in the process can potentially help increase our ability to receive spiritual information accurately, and we can then act upon it safely and wisely.

With one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University say they are unlocking the process our brain uses to make these everyday near-future predictions. But hold on stockbrokers, Wall Street analysts and crystal ball readers: The study also discovered why we may not be as good at predicting events down the road.

It’s about what Jeffrey Zacks, associate professor of psychology at Washington University and lead study author calls our “stream of consciousness.” When his team focused on the mid-brain dopamine system, an evolutionary ancient system that signals the rest of the brain to predict events, they also found the brain encodes prediction error when we are forced to choose what happens next. That’s why we’re sometimes wrong.

“I can predict the future, and so can you,” says Zacks, “and it’s not extrasensory perception. It’s just using the information in front of us to predict what’s happening all the time. It’s so ubiquitous that we don’t even notice. But from time to time, we mess up, and what we’ve found here is that messing up corresponds to a fundamental element in our stream of consciousness.”

However, not everyone has a good stream of consciousness, and that’s what happens to people who are aging, or suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, neurological diseases or brain injuries. Scientists believe they can use this information about how we segment events to figure out how to treat people who have trouble making these connections.

Predicting the near future is an important part of guiding behavior, language processing and learning, says Zacks, whose research will be published in the December edition of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Zacks and other researchers asked a group of healthy, young volunteers to watch movies of everyday events such as someone washing a car and doing laundry. The volunteers were asked to predict what would happen next when the movie was stopped. When it was stopped in the middle of a scene, participants were more than 90 percent correct in predicting what would happen next. But when shown a completely new scene and asked to predict what would happen in the next five seconds, they were less than 80 percent correct, and much less confident in predicting the outcome.

Researchers then used MRI exams to watch midbrain activity, and discovered the brain responses “really light up at hard times, like crossing the event boundary and when the subjects were told they had made the wrong choice,” Zacks says.

“A big chunk of the brain is devoted to figuring out what is going to happen next,” he says. “These studies show that mechanisms operate when we understand everyday activities. The parts of the brain that are specialized for tracking predictions are on the job, and they tell us when a meaningful event has ended and a new one has started. When they go south, it has consequences for understanding and memory.”

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Develop your Tarot Card Reading ability with these great tips!

Intuition and psychic abilities are skills not taught in a classroom setting but are crucial ingredients of receiving and giving tarot readings. The symbols on the tarot cards give understanding and insights into different issues. Commonly done without intuitive insights, nevertheless, card readings become stronger and deeper if done with a stronger intuition.

Using meditation to increase psychic skills

Meditation is a great way to strengthen your intuition and increase telepathic abilities. Your mind may tend to hold on to preconceived ideologies and mind conditioning that people have received over time. Life has its pressures and variations that often make it difficult to concentrate on other things. By setting aside approximately 20 minutes daily to meditate, this will help you to unwind and empty the mind. With time, this not only becomes a habit but a lifestyle.

Meditating for a few minutes before a tarot reading session clears away distractions and enables an individual to be relaxed and at ease, this essentially heightens their sensitivity. Paying attention when you are reading tarot cards is very critical to your trust and the outcome. When you get a feeling that a card has a meaning then you should trust your intuition, often this is true.

Another means through which your intuition can reveal tarot card readings is by revealing connections between cards. The card reader may be focusing their attention on a client’s career path and a card comes up that points to emotional or psychological issues. The card may seem to be out of place however, this could mean that the person has emotional issues that are a blockage to their career success and growth.

As an individual gets more acquainted and proficient with tarot card readings, they automatically learn how to use their subconscious mind to connect with life and to sense, hear and see messages form the spirit world through the card mediums. This enables an individual to concentrate on the collective consciousness giving knowledge on present past and future.

How to improve tarot card reading skills

Telepathic skills take time and efforts to develop and become effective and accurate. Nevertheless, with a few tips one is able to grasp them easily. For one to learn the cards well one can refer to a book to figure out the meaning, however, this will ruin the whole flow of the card reading. It is important to get a well-rounded interpretation of each one of the cards and learn the spreads as well.

You need to learn and get away from book descriptions and explanations of tarot cards. You should allow your instincts to help you develop how you visualize the cards rather than assuming the conventional meanings, which often are radical. The other way that one can learn is by reading for others as a way to practice. You will always find friends who need tarot card reading on a regular basis, just like with any other skill, it takes practice.

Spending substantial time with the cards will also help you understand them better. This may mean carrying them or sleeping with them under your pillow. Lastly, keep journals of your tarot card reading, especially where there are future events predicted.

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People across the world often ask – Are Psychic Children Real?

In this article written by Joan Charles and posted to express.co.uk, the question is pondered as to the meaning of the premonitions and sometimes baffling sixth sense that children and even toddlers seem to often experience.

AS A leading psychic medium I’ve lost count of the number of times someone has said to me that their children have spoken accurately of ancestors who died long before they were born. They can describe both their character and appearance. It doesn’t surprise me in the least but it can shock those left behind. Children, especially those who are spiritual and attuned to spirit, know so much. One woman told me that her son kept saying he could see a man. He would talk about this man, telling her what he was doing. He called him Joe and chatted as if he knew him very well indeed. In particular the little boy said that Joe had shiny buttons on his coat and this was a point he kept repeating.

It wasn’t until this had been going on for some time that it all fell into place when the woman decided to look into some family history and construct a family tree. She went around all her relatives collecting photos and finding out who was who. When she was given a photograph of her great-grandfather in his army uniform with shiny buttons she was shocked to discover that he was called Joe. Her little boy used to tell her that Joe was singing and he would repeat some wartime songs in a drunken voice, apparently copying what he could hear. There was no way a child would have known these songs.

Also the boy often appeared to be in fits of laughter over nothing. When his mum asked what he was laughing at he’d say it was “the funny man carrying on”. This man was having fun and sharing good times with his great-great-grandchild. The boy would sit for hours playing happily with no one his mother could see and he continued to talk about the happy man and sing his songs. Given that I was a child who possessed psychic gifts and that some of my own children and grandchildren have also been blessed I have never doubted the many tales I have heard or cases I have witnessed in which children make contact with those they love, whether on this plane or on the other side.

In America there are reportedly even Psychic “camps” to help and nurture Psychic kids and children who display psychic abilities.

In America, the home of the summer camp, there are even programmes for psychic children to take during the school holidays. Since 1999 camps have been held in the Appalachian mountains for those endowed with psychic talent. During these weeks children are encouraged and helped to develop their spiritual intelligence in a loving, nurturing environment and their inner senses are brought out. But I believe that every child – and therefore every one of us – has the ability to communicate with spirits and, when they pass, to retain contact with those they love who have been left behind.

Many children who have passed over become guardian angels or spirit guides to the family they have left behind. In one case I was doing a reading for a woman called Laura who had lost her daughter Sophie many years earlier. She had kept her room exactly as it was before she passed away and it was having a very bad effect on her and her family. When I started to read for Laura I got a very strong sense of Sophie being with me in her bedroom where I was doing the reading. The corner next to the window buzzed with spirit energy and Sophie was desperately trying to get my attention.

Laura told me that every night she could feel Sophie in the spot I told her about. As I connected with the girl she told me: “My mummy is very sad. I try to let her know I’m here but she can’t see me.” I asked Sophie if she was there for any reason and she quickly replied: “Yes, she’s not well. Mummy needs to go to the doctor – she needs to go very quickly.” Sophie was very agitated when she said this and added that she’d tried to get Laura’s attention by knocking things down and breaking them but it wasn’t helping. She also revealed that Laura was in an abusive relationship which was getting more violent and that there had been many times she had watched her getting hurt very badly.

This was a tricky situation for me. I had to weigh up the consequences of telling Laura that I knew something so private but felt I had a duty to encourage the woman to seek help. Fortunately she did agree to visit the doctor the very next day, where it was discovered that she had diabetes. When I met Laura again two years later she was a changed woman. Her health problems had been addressed, she had left her abusive relationship and she was training to be a bereavement counsellor for parents who had lost a child. Her guardian angel Sophie had done a marvellous job.

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‘Psychic Girls’ Recognized By Vietnam School

Recently reported by monstersandcritics.com, a small school in Central Vietnam has recognized three girls claims of being ‘Psychic’ after they claimed to be possessed.

A school in central Vietnam has given special dispensation to three school girls after they claimed they were possessed by the spirits of soldiers who died in the area, according to media reports Saturday.

The girls were allowed to graduate even though they didn’t write an exam, after they made the claims between April and May, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported.

They also had good academic records, the headmaster of the school was quoted as saying.

One of the he girls who claimed they were possessed by soldiers whose bodies were buried in the school yard ‘fell into a trance’ and pointed to a spot where she believed remains to be buried. Excavation revealed only some porcelain, the report said.

The area around the school used to be a hospital during the Vietnam’s war with the United States, according to the newspaper. Authorities are investigating the case.

Although the government in communist Vietnam doesn’t approve, many families of soldiers missing in action are known to seek the help of psychics who profess the ability to talk to the dead.

Of the estimated 3 million Vietnamese who died during the war, 300,000 of the missing have never been found.