A person who has abilities in perceiving information that are commonly hidden from a human’s normal senses through the use of ESP or extra sensory perception is a real psychic. In every generation, known psychics perform extraordinary abilities in getting information that are beyond the normal dimensions of sound vibration and sight. Usually, someone who can see the future, read another person’s mind and perform acts using their mind alone is considered a real psychic. Over time these paranormal abilities are developed from an uncontrolled state before its discovery and acceptance.
Among the most common type of psychic abilities are Astral Projection, Aura Reading, Automatic Writing, Channeling, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Divination, Dowsing, ESP, Empathy, Intuition, Levitation, Precognition, Psychometry, Pyrokinesis, Telekinesis, Telepathy and mind over body.
Psychics in the ancient times are people who tell prophecy and served as fortune tellers. The earliest form of fortune telling is astrology wherein a real psychic would base their predictions on the position of the celestial bodies which is believed to provide an insight into people’s lives and even provide visions of their future. Some fortune tellers are said to have the ability of predicting the future without using any elaborate systems at all. They predict the future through visions and direct comprehension. These kinds of people are called clairvoyants or psychics.
Early psychics performed a significant role in the early civilizations of man. Often, these people served as judges, priests and advisors to their respective tribes or community. Even the bible portrays characters with psychic abilities. Ra, a priest in Memphis, Egypt takes this role while in Ancient Assyria, as a real psychic called nabu which means “to announce” or to “to call”.
One of the most popular psychics in the world is Michel de Nostredame, commonly known as Nostradamus. He is a French apothecary
who wrote collections of prophecies which become popular worldwide. In fact, the works of Nostradamus hardly had been out of print since its first publication. The book “Les Propheties” has 6, 338 prophecies within eleven annual calendars. The book contains mostly prophecies of disasters, battles, wars, droughts, floods, murders and invasions, but without any dates.
Nostradamus’ psychic predictions have become very controversial since they have been credited to a number of major world events. However, many academic scholars say that the work of Nostradamus is misinterpreted and mistranslated.
In the 19th century, the Modern Spiritualism gained prominence in the United States and also in the United Kingdom. A common distinguishing attribute of modern spiritualism is the ability to contact the dead by using a medium. Moving to the late 20th century, psychic reading has become popular to the public worldwide. Psychic readings are offered in shops or booths, over the phone and in psychic fairs.
The general acceptance of the people with real psychic powers grew. In the United States, 41% of the people who participated in a survey expressed their belief in extra sensory perception, 26% with clairvoyance, and 31% believe in psychic communication and telepathy.
Also, it is believed that psychic abilities can be activated and enhanced through regular practice and training and the use of different techniques such as meditation. There are many psychic websites and reference books which teach these techniques.
Another significant psychic in history is Sylvia Browne. She is a certified real psychic and uses her psychic abilities in helping to solve murder cases and locate missing persons. Her work is said to be 85% correct. A study recounting the work of Browne serves as proof on the accuracy of her findings using her psychic abilities only.
Along with the growing popularity and acceptance of psychics worldwide, a number of real psychic organizations had been established. Some of these include:
- American Association of Professional Psychics that authenticates and certifies a professional psychic based on their ability, ethics and professionalism.
- The Berkeley Psychic Institute which is dedicated to psychic awareness by conducting psychic fairs, readings, entertainment and psychic courses.
- Psychic Fairs of the Future that gives various information on psychic fairs such as the upcoming dates, vendors, psychic readers, body workers and details that can be used by both attendees and workers.
Real psychic abilities come in different forms, among the widely recognized are:
- Astral Projection which allows the psychic to leave his body and make a trip to another location by travelling in spirit.
- Aura Reading is an ability that allows the psychic to see a living being emanating their energy field. In most cases, the psychic ability of a person is discovered through his abilities in seeing the auras of the living beings around him.
- Automatic Writing is a psychic ability that guides a real psychic to write through subconscious mind without personal knowledge of his actions or through paranormal guidance coming from some outside intelligence.
- Channeling. This is associated with mediums who allow outside intelligence to enter the body of the psychic and use it for the purpose of paranormal communication.
- Clairaudience. This ability allows a real psychic to hear inaudible sound even from a thousand miles. In most cases, it allows a person to hear a cry of distress of a loved one.
- Clairvoyance. This is commonly confused with precognition. This ability makes the psychic capable of remote viewing. Far from the common belief that a clairvoyant can see the future, the psychic with this ability is actually capable of seeing things that are located far from him.
- Clairsentience. The ability makes a real psychic get insight or knowledge of forgotten or hidden facts.
- Divination. This includes the ability to tell fortunes, prophecy, precognition and other methods that are used in predicting future events.
- Dowsing is also known as water witching. It involves using sticks, rods or a pendulum to locate lost objects or water.
- Empathy is the talent to sense the needs, emotions and drives of other people. Development of this ability helps the person discover his psychic gifts.
- ESP or Extra Sensory Perception is the psychic ability to gain external information that is not accessed by the normal senses.
- Intuition is the ability to direct cognition or knowledge without rational inference or thought.
- Levitation is the psychic ability to levitate off the ground.
- Mind over Body is the ability to suppress mental or physical needs like water, food and sleep.
- Precognition is simply the ability to know the future. However, because of time constraints, no real psychic has the ability to tell the exact detail of the events that will unfold in the future. What psychics have are glimpses of the things to come.
- Psychometry or object reading is the ability to pick-up vibrations that are left within an object by someone.
- Pyrokinesis is a psychic ability to start a fire using their mind only.
- Telekinesis is the ability to move objects using the mind.
- Telepathy is a real psychic ability to communicate with another person using just the mind.
