Do you believe your IQ has anything to do with your psychic abilities...either way?

Question

This will be a fun question for the skeptics...but I hope some believers have some good answers too. I'm wondering if mentally disabled people ever have psychic abilities. I don't mean mentally ill people who are schizophrenics etc. I mean like people with cerebral palsy etc. who haven't been to school etc. and aren't really able to learn much ..but are able to communicate.

Answer 1

I do not believe our IQ has anything to do with psychic abilities.

You are or you aren't, that simply is how it works.

I did know a DS teen who was extremely intelligent she also had some psychic abilities, she was very accurate, the problem came to expressing what she was seeing and experiencing, therefor many would say it was open to interpretation. In my opinion that is why people with mental handicaps aren't noted for any of their paranormal abilities.

Whereas people with  normal to above average IQ's usually can express and explain intelligently in a logical poignant way.

They do not have the stigma of mental disease hanging over their head to discourage belief.

Really think about it, if a DS, or CP person gave you reading or told you of paranormal phenomena and a person with a reasonable intelligence gave you a reading or told you of paranormal phenomena, who would you believe? Most would believe the "normal" person....

A little hint into people with a mental handicap such as DS or CP.....They DON'T LIE!!! They have a mental thing where they tell the truth. I have not known one such person to tell a lie, unless they were given the false info. to pass on.

Answer 2

Hum..........never actually gave that any thought.

Answer 3

Well, I don't even think an IQ test is a very reliable guide to your intelligence.

But I would say most psychic people (like most people in general) have an average to slightly above average intelligence.

I'm sure mentally disabled people have psychic abilities too, intuitions and so forth, but it would be hard to test them.

In short, no I don't think there is any correlation between IQ and psychic abilities.

Answer 4

We all were born with psychic abilities. ALL OF US. They just happen to be knocked out of us, growing up. I come from a very long line of psychics. So to answer your question. NO our IQ has nothing to do with our abilities. Besides I have personally seen people with low IQ's who have much psychic abilities.

Answer 5

Good question - I dought it. However, I do believe that right brained artistic types are more likelt to be psychic or have developed their abilities. In fact I read a book once that said that most artsy people actually developed their brain to draw and we all have the ability to draw - we justneed to develop that part of the brain and stick with it. So artsy people are on a different level of intelligence and possibly more intelligent then non -artsy people. They also have developed their intuition

Answer 6

honestly, i think that IQ is overrated! Everyone has different knowledge that an IQ test has know way of being able to measure. People who you might see as dumb in a class probably has smarts in another hidden field outside of school that you could only wish to have. i definitely am NOT the smartest person in the world but I know a lot about dairy farming that most people would never know and understand and I admit that I am still learning. No IQ should not be the measure of physical ability because everyone is different and special in their own way!!

Answer 7

I was tested in the mid 60's  and was at 163,  test again a few years ago and was 153.  Still high and I seem to be getting better and my IQ has been doping. High IQ's have a higher rate of madness and schizophrenics.  Cerebral palsy people are often as intelligent as anyone in the general population.  They have the same IQ rates as anyone,  they just look and act different.  I have known people with great psychic powers and they weren't the brightest bulb on the block.

Answer 8

There is different areas of IQ

I HAVE EXPERIENCED many types of ESP abilities, but it seems that I don't have control over it, as if it has a mind of it's own, these things just come to me...in visions, thoughts, feeling in the body-or a knowing, telepathy, and the older I get or the more spiritual events that happen to me, the more something new happens to me. So I believe many of these things that do happen is to do with a higher intelligence.... to help, warn and protect......that's what I see and feel about it.

Answer 9

According to these guys, for the most part no, but....

http://www.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/ext...

"There is no simple relationship between psychic functioning and intelligence (as measured in lQ tests). However, there may be an indirect relationship in that persons who overemphasize logic and reasoning may feel uncomfortable with possible ESP impressions (which are frequently unreasonable) and thus pay little attention to them. They, therefore, may not recognize the ESP that they really have."

Answer 10

I do believe everyone has psychic abilities, but few know how or do use them.

I went to a seminar where we, the audience, proved that  -  by participating with the person

sitting beside us.

I do not believe your I.Q. has anything to do with your psychic abilities.  But that's just my opinion.

Answer 11

It could be possible that some people with high IQs have psychic talent and they don't even know it, thinking what they see/absorb is really their own mind's invention.  

It could also be that some disabled people who can't communicate are psychic, but they don't have a way to tell others what is on their minds.  Some disabilities and degenerative diseases force the individual to use their minds in out of the ordinary ways, but not evey person will seize that opportunity.

Hey, some varieties of mentally ill folk are halfway there already.  You have to hit the wall of what is acceptable sometimes, and go through it, and psychic talent is on the other side.  Many people believe that all self-named psychics are mentally ill to begin with, and are delusional.  It's that stigma of mental illness given by aggressive skeptics that keeps some people from expanding their talents.

Answer 12

I definitely think that more people with lower IQs think they have psychic powers.

Answer 13

honestly... no.. my iq is reasonably high and i donno but i think i am slowly gaining more and more psychic abilities..

first my really strong and accurate intuition, then, i get dreams of the future, and third i am starting to see things.. not spirits or auras.. i think tthey are energy fields.. i dont see them all the time.. sometimes  i have to change my focus and i see them.. other times i see them anyway.. sometimes they look so clear and near i feel i can touch them..

ok.. i guess i don't know the answer to your question..

Answer 14

Actually, I have read about several slower people that have had psychic abilities. There was a family in Chittenden ,Vermont in the 1800's in which all the children had abilities. They were able to speak to dead people and even raise up spirits. You can read about them in the book    " Passing Strange",written by Joesph Citro.

Answer 15

Since you are asking what my opinion of my combination of IQ and psychic abilities is, I am qualified to answer.  I do OK on IQ tests (in the top 2 % which I am skeptical of but that is another topic).  Anyway, I mention that only because I have no sense of psychic abilities in myself.  h**l, I am stymied by office politics.  I can't even read body language let alone thoughts.  But I do not call other liars or dismiss out of hand the possibility that there are more mysteries in this life then those found in subatomic particles or the vastness of the universe. There are more things under Heaven and Earth...

Answer 16

The more intellegent you become the more likely your psychic abilities get stronger.The more plesent and carlm you become the more your psychic abilities will grow.Its called metamorphos.Your mind opens one door at a time.Most people go though life without even opening the first door.When someone intellegent like me has opened nine doors to the mind thats impressive.Let me put it in another way.Most people only use 10% of there brain.I use 13% of my brain.If i happened to jump to 18% that would kill me straight away.You must take one door at a time.Three doors make up 1 %.Am i pushing 14% only time will tell.

Answer 17

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