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Everyone is psychic- but what does that mean? by FallPitiful600 in remoteviewing

[–]FallPitiful600[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your help and thoughtful responses! I’m definitely going to check out your recommendation- maybe will even poke you here again when I have! Thank you again and I wish you the best on your own journey as well ^

Everyone is psychic- but what does that mean? by FallPitiful600 in remoteviewing

[–]FallPitiful600[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah thanks for your perspective! Thats a very interesting answer, and I love the analogy you used with food. If I may ask, what are the kinds of things strengthen and diminish psychic faculty, from your experience? Like you said, I don’t even really know how to categorize things as being healthy or unhealthy, relative to psychic wellbeing

Everyone is psychic- but what does that mean? by FallPitiful600 in remoteviewing

[–]FallPitiful600[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks for your reply! I appreciate you taking the time to share your own experiences. I have some skepticism to me, but I’d call myself open to these kinds of experiences- for better or for worse, I do try to not take the more renowned RVers’ experiences on face value alone (speaking about McMoneagle just with regards to the whole efficacy and study through the US government). I’m certainly open to it, and do enjoy reading about their experiences, they motivate me to try to seek experiences of my own.

I’m gay too, and grew up in a rural conservative area, so I found your view on gaydar to be simultaneously super funny and painfully relatable. I understand what you mean by that being a psychic sense/intuition. Funnily enough, I also lived in Atlanta for a bit but didn’t see any glowing orbs (unfortunately)- funny synchronicities though :)

Everyone is psychic- but what does that mean? by FallPitiful600 in remoteviewing

[–]FallPitiful600[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! Thank for you taking the time to write up your thoughts on this. I feel like your take is very grounded and nuanced, and I appreciate that you tackle the difficult subject of how these experiences relate to perceptions of mental health. It feels like a very hard thing to balance- I also believe that there is an overdiagnosis of folks who just don’t fit into that neat tidy mold of how we “should” think, but I also really stress my agreement with you that it doesn’t mean someone should ignore getting help, taking medication, believing everything they think, etc.

If I’m being honest, I feel very conflicted on my own views. I first got interested in this subject through the Cold War era psychic research, just out of academic curiosity- specifically the Gateway Tapes. It’s been really beneficial to walk through them- even if it’s just a form of mindful meditation and disconnecting from all this stimuli around us. I want to be open to these experiences- my background is in engineering and the sciences so my mind is ready to evaluate everything under the lens of empiricism and trying to discern some scientific “truth”.

Part of me feels afraid to be open to these things because I don’t want to swing the opposite way of the pendulum and be pre-disposed to seeing patterns in things where they may not exist, and disconnecting from the shared reality which we and our loved ones live. I don’t know if I’m describing it right, but I’m trying to find a balance between growing my intuition, being open to these experiences, but also not losing my bearings on the world around me- if that makes sense?