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Felix the Cat: Slightly off topic, but Psi-Links has a good forum…

I’m not skeptical in the sense that I don’t believe in psychic abilities - I am a natural empath, work with energy on a regular basis, do OBE-related practice nearly nightly, and have in the past had some success with RV and micro-PK. I’m quite the opposite of a skeptic when it comes to psi!

I think I can express what I was trying to say more coherently and succinctly tonight.

Sean says that we shouldn’t differentiate between “psychic” and “non-psychic”. That’s fine; it’s a perfectly valid point of view, and one that works when interacting with fellow psions. One natural effect of rejecting that difference is that “psychic” loses its meaning.

Then he goes on to describe how he uses his psychic abilities on a daily basis. This contradicts his other statement, since if there is no functional difference between “psychic” and “non-psychic” actions, then there is no basis on which to discriminate between (to borrow NeoPsychic’s turn of phrase) OBE and taking a crap.

Sean is indeed (probably) correct that there is no theoretical, physical, unversal distinction between “psychic” and “non-psychic” stuff. However, there’s certainly a socially defined one, and one that he uses in the second half of his post.

Personally, I’m not bothered by the distinction between “psychic” and “non-psychic”. I feel the same way about “psionics” that a certain Supreme Court justice felt about “pornography” - “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” As long as my “know it when I see it” mostly overlaps with yours and everyone else’s, then we’re fine.

While I’m clarifying, I might as well give an example of what I feel the difference between your “subconscious” and your “inner voice” is.

Your subconscious is what makes you want to chuckle when someone introduces himself as “Dick Cox”. Your inner voice is what tells you that you shouldn’t, and that you’re a sophomoric fool for even subconsciously considering it.

…that’s enough about my thoughts - I try not to use others’ blog comments sections as places to share my own thoughts on things, but rather as places to react to the blog. Then again, this is sort of filling a void left by the demise of the PsiPog forums. (Simply put: there’s nowhere else to discuss psionics, dangit!)

On the surface it’s a social question. But how many people internally think of it as a reality question? Just stating something like, “Psychic abilities don’t exist”, or “Psychic abilities do exist”, now turn it into a question about reality.

Similarly, I wouldn’t consider communicating with what you call your subconscious to be psychic, either.

And if I get psychic information from my subconscious? Like the location of winning lottery tickets? Or if I get help leaving my body from what I label my subconscious?

Perhaps something that you could consider in a future post, if you would find it of interest, would be exactly what constitutes “psychic”.

I’m trying to do the opposite with this post. I think it’s better if we release the label, and just accept reality as reality. Our label has acquired too much crap, so I recommend individuals just let it go.