do psychic powers, as such, exist?

Question

Do psychic paower, as such exist? I don't know how to like say this, but I mean can people have psychic abilities?? I was discussing this with my friend, as he seems to think he does, but I am not totally sure. He seems to predict when his mobile phone will go off, like recieve a text message, like getting it out ofhis pocket, tehn it would go off a few seconds later. He just ggets a random thought/feeling that it is going to happen, and it does. Also, he seems to sometimes predict the song that is currently on the radio, before he switches it on, and there is no way he can know what it is beforehand. Just a coincidence or more??

Answer 1

All coincidence and trickery.

Petrel says "There are certainly such powers if you believe in them". Does this mean that if I believe I can fly or walk through walls then I can? Of course not! Don't be silly. Special powers don't suddenly come into existence because stupid people believe they exist!

Answer 2

From reading the answers above - it seems clear that many have the misconception that psychic power are something paranormal when in fact it is perfectly normal. Perhaps if we were to replace the word psychic with intuition or gut feeling then I suspect more people would admit to having experienced this. Forget what you see on TV - this isn't Hollywood it's reality. It doesn't matter how we label the phenomena the fact is, from the personal experiences of millions of people current, past and future - psychic/gut feeling will always exist. Surely the ignorant skeptics cannot possibly believe all these people are naive or dimwitted - the National Science Foundation study in 2001 found that 60% of adult Americans agreed with the statement "Some people possess psychic powers or ESP" - of that 60% that agreed a whopping 62% were from people with a minimum of a high-school eduction and above. In fact, studies have shown regularly that the more educated of the society are those in society that believe in psychic phenomena.

Why is this? After all it is contrary to what skeptics would like us to believe - that being that anyone believing in ESP has somewhat of a lower mental functioning.
Perhaps it is because with a good/high standard of education comes a good rational and objective thinking - and perhaps it is through this thinking process that we are able to assert for ourselves what we are experiencing? Those that believe aren't stupid there are actually the true scientist - "open minded".
You only have to do a goggle/yahoo search to find articles, post doctoral thesis and other literature showing compelling evidence that psychic phenomena does indeed exist.

Answer 3

it depends whether you're an optimist or a sceptic....

if someone were to predict that the number 6 was to show up on a dice when they rolled it and it actually did, would you think that they * knew* it would be 6, or would you think it was just a lucky guess....

and if they'd done it a few times before without getting a 6, would you focus on the time they DID roll a 6, or would you focus on the times they DIDN'T roll a 6....

radio stations tend to play a lot of 'top' songs often and most people randomly take their phones out of their pockets an awful lot (just as something to 'do'). it's possible that as an optimist, he's only focusing and recalling the times when he's been 'lucky' at predicting the songs/messages, and not all the other times when he's been wrong.

my guess - it's just a coincidence. sorry :-(

Answer 4

Why does there ought to be an underlying clarification for psychic powers to exist? Is there an underlying reason that our different senses exist? Psychic powers do exist, they are in simple terms like our skill to work out, touch, style, scent, and hear we in simple terms have skipped over them for see you later that they do no longer seem to be very acute. in simple terms these days is technological awareness beginning as much as locate this field, of path for the sake of averting scoffing on the theory of it, they are calling the examine 0 factor power, with the aid of fact of this power is created from a source (ourselves) that's no longer defined by employing popular means.

Answer 5

Everyone has psychic abilities, but some are developed more than others. Sometimes I dream of things, and they actually happen, good and bad. I also sometimes get a bad feeling about something, and then I decide I better not do what ever it is, and stick to it. Ive gone against my good judgement sometimes and have really been sorry I did. Yes I do beleive in psychic abilities!

Answer 6

Your friend is probably really keen to sequencing. NO it's not psychic powers, just a really cool skill that most people cannot manage, like having perfect pitch in music.
Basically, he times out and systemizes events like clock-work, but it's all subconscious; he doesn't realize or acknowledge that he behaves this way.
Actually, many Autistic people sequence and pattern things throughout their daily lives; It's really fascinating, but it's NOT telekinesis!

Answer 7

Most all o fus have this to soem degree. usually our happens so rarely and is of such small nature we ignore it or forget it,
having such gifts in centuries pass(as eate as a maybe 125 years ago in america and now in many parts of the world having psychis or other powers coul dget yo killed by individyuals or the church. The church did not allow competation with jesus or others of their religion in which they considered God powers only.

People used to go to great steps to hide any special powers for that reason.We've all been soenmwhere we recognized knowing full well we had never bend there , soemtimes even to know exactually what was on the other side of the next hill o rtown or who lived htere.

Answer 8

His " coincidences " would have to be subject to empirical investigation. I think some one named Randi, is paying quite a bit of money for proof such as this of psychic abilities. Tell your friend; " put up, or shut up ".

Answer 9

I am a qualified nurse and yes I believe psychic powers exist. I use therapeutic touch on a regular basis in my work and find that on average patients recover quicker and more efficiently using this method. Each psychic phenom en has a scientific basis to it and spiritualists use this medium to predict and feel things that others don't seem open to.

Answer 10

No.
While the probability exists that the human brain can detect as yet unknown sources of communication, bio-wave electrical impulses etc., there has NEVER been a successful, qualified labratory condition test of so-called ESP or psychic abilities.

Answer 11

It's easy to attribute something like "psychic" precognition to some randomn event. But when you take into account the million other events that happen without any psychic connection, then it becomes irrelevant. We only remember the one weird coincidences, never the ordinary.