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Grex > Synthesis > #90: This is the psychic item- if you're reading it, you know what it's about. | |
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kami
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This is the psychic item- if you're reading it, you know what it's about.
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Mar 27 04:51 UTC 1996 |
Seriously- this item is about the sorts of psychic skills/talents people
have observed or experienced. What are they? Where do they come from? Are
they "real" or "subjective", or just fooling ourselves and on what do you
base that conclusion? Are they inborn or learned/learnable? Does everyone
have some "psychic" talents or are people who have them (not just those who
know and use them) unusual? How do they touch your life?
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kami
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response 1 of 42:
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Mar 27 05:18 UTC 1996 |
OK, does anyone have the skill of finding? My kitty, Catshi, disappeared
just before or during the last serious snow we had- the one that dumped
about 6 inches around my house? She has just begun going out at all,
and I think she went out and then got confused when the snow muffled
smells. I'd like to know if she's alive or not, outdoors or in, near or
far, etc. so I have some idea how and where to look. We really miss her.
Thanks.
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selena
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response 2 of 42:
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Mar 27 07:41 UTC 1996 |
I'm only moderately good at finding, and that being generous..
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kami
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response 3 of 42:
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Mar 27 16:38 UTC 1996 |
You're marvelously good at finding things within your range of perception,
which isn't small, but I'm too ashamed to ask you for favors.
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birdlady
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response 4 of 42:
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Mar 27 18:30 UTC 1996 |
Hmmm...finding? Nope. Coyote plays with me too much. =) I can usually
establish links with close friends simply because I'm so empathic I can't help
it. My nickname should be "Sponge". =) I often have dreams that tell me
what to do or warn me of things about to happen, but I've never really used
the term "psychic". I tend to "see" more than anything else...
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kami
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response 5 of 42:
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Mar 27 18:50 UTC 1996 |
Birdlady, you just named three things;
empathy,
precog dreams (short range)
and "seeing"
How are these not psychic? What are they? Have you a prefered term?
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birdlady
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response 6 of 42:
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Mar 27 19:22 UTC 1996 |
Well, I like the term psychic as it applies, but I just can't help thinking
about those late-night infomercials. ;) I'm also modest and cautious, so
I don't like going around telling people all this. I'd call myself "very
aware" of things before I'd say, "I'm psychic". <shrug> I've just learned
to watch out for myself...I was taught a very scary lesson last April.
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kami
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response 7 of 42:
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Mar 27 19:50 UTC 1996 |
I don't tend to refer to myself as "psychic", although the one or two times
I've been "shown off at" (can't call it much else) by professsional psychics,
and they trot out "you're very psychic, you know" as a come-on line to stroke
the ego, I just sort of chuckle. Wonder what they'd do if I started asking
very specific and technical questions on how to deal with various perceptual
excesses or limitations? Or what to do with various different sorts of
"people without bodies"? They aren't used to folks who take such things for
granted, I suppose.
What happened in April, or don't I want to know?
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birdlady
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response 8 of 42:
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Mar 28 18:57 UTC 1996 |
Last April, I went to go visit Conan (philoman) to see how our relationship
would work IRL. Well, he basically attacked me and clipped my wings off so
that I couldn't fly enough to see (totem reference!) I was quite messed up
for a while, and I kept having very scary dreams full of gory details. It
took a smudging and a sleep "potion" to help me get rid of them. I don't know
if he did any of it, but he kept playing it up like he had. I had made the
mistake of telling him about my gifts and totem, which I eventually learned
from my shaman is a BIG NO-NO! I learned my lesson, and every day since, I've
kept pretty much to myself when it comes to personal questions.
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kami
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Mar 29 02:48 UTC 1996 |
I've never been long on discretion, but I tend to like to "look harmless".
That's one hell of a scary story, and I'm glad you survived as well as you
did. The world's as full of assholes as it is of marvelous folks, it's just
a matter of finding the right ones. Keep workin' on it, eh?
Interesting that you chose words from two sensory modes to describe how you
function: fly- that is, motion: kinesthetic, and see- visual. I'm also
dominant kinisthetic, secondary visual, with hearing a *distant* third, if
that. Hard to learn without eyecontact or print or something, but I can
learn most things I watch a person do, especially if I watch closely enough
to feel in my body how they do it.
Others?
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arwen
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response 10 of 42:
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Mar 30 04:06 UTC 1996 |
Kami! Hi lady! If tkity oh heck
if she hasn't shown up, e-mail me. I did a ritual with Lhianna and we found
her cat in three days! love ya....gotta fly!
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kami
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response 11 of 42:
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Mar 30 06:25 UTC 1996 |
Wow! Arwen showed up. Now *that's* a psychic phenomena...<g>
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anne
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response 12 of 42:
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Mar 30 08:40 UTC 1996 |
It's like waaay cool. :)
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selena
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response 13 of 42:
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Apr 1 02:35 UTC 1996 |
*sigh* Kami, do you, or don't you want me to try to look for your cat?
I'd rather not guess at this right now- my judgement is *gone*, cause
of lots of weird and disturbing things that happened this last week.
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kami
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Apr 1 18:13 UTC 1996 |
I'll take all the help I can get, but I hope this item will be good for
more than me whining about my cat. We all have interesting skills, perceptions
and experiences which, shared, help convince each other we're not nuts. <g>
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bjorn
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response 15 of 42:
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Apr 2 16:28 UTC 1996 |
I have few psychic - although iI prefer the term *psionic* - abilities,
but none of them would be of any use in finding your cat, considering the fact
that I cannot control my destination through astral projection. And most of
my other abilities center around my close friends - rending them utterly
useless in this case.
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kami
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Apr 2 21:24 UTC 1996 |
Bjorn, patience, dear. Control comes with grounding, practice, and a
very strong sense of self, of your physical and metaphysical place in the
world, as well as a very clear focus on where you are going, when and why.
It's not something I'm very good at. Selena is.
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kami
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response 17 of 42:
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Apr 3 05:48 UTC 1996 |
Hey everybody, I'm HAPPY; got home from shopping, looked up at the beautiful
full moon (I count it for all three nights, not just the middle one), and
heard Catshi, my poor missing kitty, meowing in the neighbor's yard. She's
HOME. The family is whole again. Mama takes care of us all. Prrrrr!
Ok, set drift=off. I'll go chortle to myself a while. Thanks for your
help and concern, folks.
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robh
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response 18 of 42:
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Apr 3 08:15 UTC 1996 |
We see the obvious solution - if you need to locate something,
just post a request in Synthesis, and we will unconciously use
our powers to help you find it. Or something.
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brighn
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response 19 of 42:
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Apr 3 10:02 UTC 1996 |
I've lost my innocence.
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bjorn
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response 20 of 42:
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Apr 3 14:19 UTC 1996 |
What innocence?
<bjorn claps his hands over his mouth quickly>
Re#16: I'll certainly try - though convincing my body to have my mind do
something after I'm asleep is certainly difficult. O well . . .
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robh
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response 21 of 42:
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Apr 3 16:07 UTC 1996 |
brighn, St. Anthony himself couldn't find your innocence. >8)
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kami
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response 22 of 42:
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Apr 3 16:55 UTC 1996 |
Do you miss it, Brighn? Make a new one?
Actually, I sort of thought about doing some sort of formal "beacon spell",
with a bit of Catshi's hair and food and all, runic structures lend themselves
well to that sort of thing by the way Bjorn, but just going out and talking
to the "fairies at the bottom of the garden" a few nights, and the moon,
and letting my intention and my welcome be clear and unequivocal would seem
to have been enough. And under the full moon even... (happy sigh).
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brighn
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response 23 of 42:
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Apr 3 17:24 UTC 1996 |
*brighn is so terribly abused here*
*brighn finds his wives' and girlfriends' arms, seeking solace*
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birdlady
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Apr 3 19:08 UTC 1996 |
<Sarah is not one of Brighn's beloved but will hug him anyways>
I'm very happy to hear about yor cat, Kami!
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