How to Know If I Have Some Sort of Psychic Ability
From time immemorial, human beings have relied on hunches and intuition. People lend interpretation to all kinds of things--from a cat crossing the road and the patterns of clouds to tarot cards and "mind waves." These psychic abilities, which are not based on our five senses or our reason but are (so far) unexplained, are know as extrasensory perception (ESP).
There are hundreds of psychic abilities, which, however unexplained, have not been scientifically disproved. Daryl Bem, emeritus professor of psychology at Cornell University, created a stir in the scientific community in 2010 with a paper in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology asserting that human beings are capable of precognition, a psychic ability that enables one to anticipate the future.
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Test for telepathy. Telepathy is psychic ability that empowers you to read other people's thoughts. Ask your friend to sit in a different room with a deck of cards. Tell him to pick a card and send you "thought signals" about the card. Try to pick the same card from your own deck of cards. If you are telepathic, you will pick up his thought signal and choose the correct card. It is possible that you will pick the correct card purely by luck. Repeat the experiment a few times to be sure you indeed have telepathic ability.
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Test for telekinesis. Telekinesis is the psychic ability to make physical things change with the power of your mind. Sit in a quiet room and place a small object, for example a spoon, on a table in front of you. Focus intently on the object and try to make it move. Experiment with different objects, light as feather and heavy as a rock.
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Test for levitation. Sit cross-legged in a quiet room and meditate. Levitation is a form of telekinesis popular among Hindu yogis and Tibetan monks. Empty your mind of all thoughts except a single image: picture yourself growing lighter as time flows through you. After you feel light enough, concentrate your mental energies on lifting off the ground. This psychic ability is supposed to require a lot of meditation and disciplined practice. If possible, consult a mystic.
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Test for precognition. Shuffle a deck of cards, pick a card, and try to predict its suit without looking at its face. An ability to predict the cards successfully means that you have precognition, which refers to the ability to "predict" the future and know things that have not already happened. It is considered the most common psychic ability.
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Tips & Warnings
Psychic abilities require a particular personality: cool, graceful under pressure, and taciturn.
Psychic abilities are different than superpowers. Don't jump off tall buildings to test your flying prowess.
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