EdgyDolmen
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I too have known some good psychics.
I am sure the same is true regarding prophets.
I believe it is a craft and some people are better than others...
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I too have known some good psychics.
I am sure the same is true regarding prophets.
I believe it is a craft and some people are better than others...
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It has been my experience that 'good' psychics are simply better at cold reading people than 'bad' ones. Most people do not understand the mechanics of how the mind works well enough to be able to make a educated choice about such so called abilities.
People, as a rule, think they know enough to know when they are being conned. And most of the time they are oh so wrong! The reality is quite the opposite. Most people haven't a clue how to tell the one from the other.
A great test was done fairly recently. Groups of six people at a time off the street volunteered to have a psychic tell them all about themselves, and what they desired for the future. The psychic talked to all of them as a group and again each individually. He then went to another room and spent several hours writing up a synopsis for each individual.
When he came back out, he asked them to take their reports and every one of them were astounded at how much this man knew about who they were, what their desires were, and so on. All six said the psychic nailed it.
The psychic then asked them to each trade off their report with another person in the group, so that every one had someone else's report. He asked them to read them to see what they thought.
The six found out that it was the exact same synopsis for all of them. All six reports were exactly the same. With each new group the event went precisely the same way. Incredulous belief in the psychic at first, sheepish acknowledgement at how easily they were fooled afterwards.
The moral of the story is not that people are stupid. Or that they are too gullible, or any of that. The moral is that it is very easy for someone trained in how the human mind functions to mislead someone who has no such training. The large majority of us are in the latter group.
People, as a rule, think they know enough to know when they are being conned. And most of the time they are oh so wrong! The reality is quite the opposite. Most people haven't a clue how to tell the one from the other.
A great test was done fairly recently. Groups of six people at a time off the street volunteered to have a psychic tell them all about themselves, and what they desired for the future. The psychic talked to all of them as a group and again each individually. He then went to another room and spent several hours writing up a synopsis for each individual.
When he came back out, he asked them to take their reports and every one of them were astounded at how much this man knew about who they were, what their desires were, and so on. All six said the psychic nailed it.
The psychic then asked them to each trade off their report with another person in the group, so that every one had someone else's report. He asked them to read them to see what they thought.
The six found out that it was the exact same synopsis for all of them. All six reports were exactly the same. With each new group the event went precisely the same way. Incredulous belief in the psychic at first, sheepish acknowledgement at how easily they were fooled afterwards.
The moral of the story is not that people are stupid. Or that they are too gullible, or any of that. The moral is that it is very easy for someone trained in how the human mind functions to mislead someone who has no such training. The large majority of us are in the latter group.
Nick the Pilot
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Edgy, this brings up the question: What is the difference between a psychic and a prophet?
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I can give you my sense of the two. (Short version)
Today the prophet is found primarily in the bible and the psychic in the yellow pages!
The prophet depends on historical events, current events and relies on intuition and ambiguous explanation while the psychic directs peoples thoughts, reads facial expression and body language and offers their own elucidation. Both would surely be extremely difficult crafts/skills to master.
I think a psychic is someone who is extrasensative where a prophet gets information about future events directly from god.
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The purpose of prophecy is to use of metaphorical language in the type level of understanding while pointing to the truth in the archetype level of reality.
Hence, prophecies usually come by means of dreams, parables or allegories. As we have in Numbers 12:6, "If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream."
The so-called prophecies in the book of revelation are not really prophecies but Christian plagiarisms paraphrased from the scatological books of the Tanach especially Ezekiel and Daniel with the intent to enhance the status of the Christian Church.
I have never read the book of Mary Magdalene but, with regards to the book of Daniel, the "stands up of Michael" in Dan. 12 has nothing to do with resurrection but awareness of the end of the exile when the Jews were inoculated so to speak with love for Zion and incited to return to the Land of Israel. (Ezek. 37:12) It could not be literal bodily resurrection because a real prophecy inspired by the Lord could not point to what could contradict the Scriptures. We have in Isaiah 26:14; II Sam. 12:23; and Job 10:21 that, once dead one can never return. So, the term can be used as a type but the archetype to point to, must be of the realm of reality and, literal bodily resurrection is not real.
