path_of_one
Embracing the Mystery
Hey Flow. The interesting thing re apparent psychic abilities is whenever I've heard of purported psychics, the vast majority have been women. My wife is what those kind of folks term an empath, meaning she both "psychically" picks up on the emotional and phsyical state of others. Most often it's physical. For eg getting an excruciating pain in a particular part of her back & then calling around to eventually discover that her father some 500 miles aways had fallen and broken his back in that particular area. She has told me she suspects her now 80 yo mother had some psychic ability given the few things she's said in passing, but never has discussed it much-as a Swedish-american of that generation, not particularly open to that concept.As to this notion, not uncommon to hear of folks having 1 or 2 similar experiences whereby they may have what used to be a premonition-"uncle Joe's in trouble-" only to later discover that at that time he was. Interestingly again, most of the time when I hear those stories again it's women. To me this is a deeper confirmation that all of life is indeed a "web" with some folks just more deeply attuned to how interwoven all of life is. I suppose if you assume that we can use every resource at our command in the future to make it as a planet & assume these sorts of abilities will be essential to that, then you'd really have an argument for turning things over to the women.
Well, earl- I had a nice long post but it disappeared into cyberspace.
Suffice it to say that I'm glad I don't feel the physical pain of others, though physical pain/stress has a certain vibration to it (hard to explain what it feels like, but it's more like I can just sense it than I feel or see anything) and I have had modest success in healing humans and animals. Nothing like cancer, but just your ordinary inflammation, soft tissue damage, infections and the like.
I had a long paragraph about how, in general, life is tough these days because there is so much suffering in the world that I just get totally exhausted, but it was probably a fairly whiny paragraph anyway.
I guess I'm just going through a "tired" phase right now, and working full-time I have little time left to do all the things that help me renew more positive energy in the face of all that pain. But there's nothing much to do but press forward, and soon I'll be living in Seattle where at least the global warming is not so apparent and killing off all the old trees through drought (which is highly depressing to me).As for the generational thing...
For me, it's a fairly obvious connection through my mother's side. Not sure about great-grandparents and so on, but grandpa was the one that passed on both the mental gifts and the mental illnesses. Out of the five kids, two aunts I don't know well enough, my uncle is highly intuitive but not sure if any of that is concentrated into the types of things I experience, and my oldest aunt and mother have empathy and a few other gifts, including healing and an ability to feel earth/nature energies. This seemed to become more concentrated in my sister and I. My father is highly sensitive and very much a "nature" guy, but I think his side is also more tempered and it helped keep me not too far afield in my experiences (there are many things I very occasionally experience but are not regular occurrences, as opposed to the fairly constant stream of other types of input). My sister had a different father, who was a medium and also had precog and retrocog. He actually is a detective with the sheriff's department now (was ex-special forces in military) and uses the retrocog to solve murders and such. At any rate, my poor sister is doing well but got just slammed with abilities, many of which are scary and hard to use effectively.
I'm curious what will happen if my husband and I have biological children (we plan to adopt at least one child either way). He has the same abilities I have and then a few others, particularly precognition. We also both had a plethora of dreams as kids of all sorts of visions and other places/times and so forth. Not sure where it came from on his side of the family. One other of the four kids is empathic, but the other two seem pretty average in that area and the parents and grandparents all read very normal. My husband always wondered where he came from since he struggles to relate to the rest of his family. Not sure why some kids just pop up with it.
