by Wolfbelly » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:30 pm
*Sigh* My family has a long history of currently unexplainable phenomena, and we don't have a history of mental illnesses. Meaning that no one in my family, to the best of my recollection, has been diagnosed with any sort of craziness. In my years of experimentation with the supernatural however, I've come to the conclusion that skepticism is a very good thing. So, I'll give you all a rating system with which you can judge my family's psychic phenomena.
'-' Very iffy. The only person who can verify it is the person who experienced it.
'+' Kinda iffy. Experience can be verified by multiple people, but then again it IS possible that the person who experienced it is either lying or misinterpreted something.
'*' Intriguing. Experience can be verified and it's very unlikely that the person who experienced it is lying for a variety of reasons.
'**' Solid. Experience can be verified, it's highly unlikely that the person is lying for a variety of reasons, and the person who experienced it is capable of reproducing the experience.
Great Grandfather, Father's side.
- Earliest memory is from before his birth.
- Claims to have had past lives.
- Claims to have married a girl whom he knew in a past life.
Grandmother, Father's side.
+ Displayed precognitive abilities in always knowing when someone would arrive at the house (obviously when they were unannounced).
Aunt, Mother's side.
* Shows surprising accuracy with a Tarot deck (instead of "You're likely to be betrayed" she'll say "You will be betrayed by a blonde woman.")
+ Channelled the spirit of her dead father during a seance (Long story short, he stuck around for 20 years to tell her he was sorry).
Father
- Claims to have experienced prophetic dreams and dreams of a spiritual nature.
- Claims to have had an unexplained moment of pure euphoria while praying in the church.
- Claims to see the statue of the virgin Mary praying and looking a little nervous (he relates this to the dreams which he has which he claims point to the coming apocalypse).
** Dowses/Wishes wells with extraordinary accuracy (Double starred because he is now in business wishing wells for $1000 per well).
+ Claims to have 'cloud-busted' (The act of making clouds disappear/appear/move/act in the way that you want them to).
+ Claims to always know when it's the above aunt calling on the phone. (Example: *Ring ring* "It's Auntie Jean!" "Hello? Oh, hi Jean.").
- Claims to have almost seen a vision in a fire via the Native American style of vision seeking.
Brother Bill
- Claims to have received signs from his totem animal guide three times.
+ Claims to have seen UFO's, signs from spirits, and other such oddness during a Ghost Dance in Colorado.
* Dowses/Wishes wells.
- Claims to have experienced 'psychic slams' (Where you are stopped dead in your tracks because you feel a sudden feeling of hate/disgust/loathing towards you).
- Claims to see auras.
- Claims to have sensed supernatural presences (i.e. Ghosts).
* Claims to have experienced emotional empathy with close friends (friend gets pissed off, he calls her up from across the city and asks what's wrong).
- Claims to have experienced prophetic dreams.
- Claims to have heard voices (Like a voice emanating outside of his head, but which he is not perceiving through his ears).
* Exhibited precognitive abilities while a toddler.
Brother Kevin
* Kills Ouija boards. He walks in, the board stops dead or slows down a lot and starts saying "Get him out."
- Claims to have heard voices, like Bill.
Me
- Experienced clairvoyance (Concentrated on a friend, received a vision, and later had vision verified by same friend).
- Sensed supernatural presences.
+ Experienced both human and animal telepathy.
+ Performed psychic healings on animals and friends.
- Accidentally drifted into someone elses dreams.
* Cleansed a quartz crystal.
** Exhibited physical empathy with close friends and strangers over the internet (Double starred because I once felt my ex stab her hand with a safety pin and for other reasons).
- Exhibited very, very minor telekinesis (felt a pen with my mind while concentrating).
+ Recollected two past life memories.
- Almost experienced an out of body experience (was meditating when I felt something 'unlock' about a foot above and behind my shoulder blades).
* Affected weather patterns from halfway across the continent.
I'm sure that there's a lot more to this list, I excluded experiences with ouija boards (except for Kevin's odd ability) and specific things with ghosts. In order of psychic power, it would probably go Great Grandfather, Grandmother, Auntie Jean, Me, Dad, Bill and then Kevin ... I would think. The main reason I don't have more for my ancestors is because all we knew of Great Grandfather was that he had an almost eerieway of sensing things, and the rest we got through his memoirs. Grandma could never be surprised, and I think she also didn't let on to some of her abilities because she didn't think much of them. A lot fot he things that my Dad says sounds crazy, and I have to admit the possibility of senile dementia seeing as how he's 72 and all. I haven't spoken with Auntie Jean all that much, but a Tarot reading that she gave for me and my parents was amazingly accurate (Like, all the things she said would happen did happen, and her predictions weren't too vague). Bill claims to have experienced some cool things, but I think that he may be a little too spiritually minded in some cases.
Now, regarding the double stars, Dad was taught how to wish wells by my Great Grandfather. every well he has wished has turned up good drinking water. None of his dowsings returned dry wells or bad wells. Now sure, there is a possibility that this is all just pure happenstance, but when he has a 100% reliability for wishing wells, perhaps it's just possible that science cannot explain everything. My experiences with empathy deserve double stars because there is no way in hell that I could have known that my ex had stabbed her hand, yet I felt the stab in my hand and called her immediately to ask her why she stabbed her hand. This empathy extended to me feeling her headaches, when she was sleeping, but it couldn't pick up menstrual cramps. Actually, I remember coughing her cough once. Odd, yes. I exhibited this empathy with another friend of mine over the phone (she hit her side and I said 'ow') before I decided to experiment with it over the net. My first experiment was a stunning success because I pegged the body part that this girl was focusing on (her heart) and also told her that her left leg was tingling because she was sitting on it oddly. Kinda freaked her out. I've played with this off and on for a while, and would give myself a 60-75% accuracy.
Now, I recall Archmage asking what these things feel like. It's heard to explain. The time I felt the pen, it was like I was water, rushing over the pen. I could feel everything about it, but I could not solidify the water to the point where I could move it. The empathy is pretty much me feeling what the other person feels. The telepathy was me hearing people say things when their lips didn't move or, in the case of the animal, being barraged by an instantaneous flood of images and emotions which translated to "Ooh!! Baby grass!" If anything, I'd have to liken ESP to a sense of smell. For example, if you smell a skunk, you know that a skunk is, or was, in the area. ESP is similar in the sense that you'll just know that a skunk is in the area, except you didn't have to smell it. The knowledge is just there.
Priam, could you describe the wind's answer a bit more when you asked for its name? I know you say it was beyond your comprehension, but just try to explain it as much as you can. <p>
"It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again."</p>