Is it possible to be psychic SOME of the time...but not ALL the time?

Question

Most skeptics on here say that if a person is really psychic...they would be correct ALL the time. I think they think to be really psychic means you know EVERYTHING.

Answer 1

Not to be overly skeptical, but the main reason people feel they may be skeptic some of the time is due to chance and selective memory.  Think of an example where I am thinking of my friend Eric.  All of a sudden Eric calls.  I may think, "I am psychic!" But it must be remembered that firstly,  there are many times Eric called when I was not thinking of him, and secondly, there were also many times I thought of him he did not call.  

Overall, the more reasonable explanation is usually that I simply remember when I am right and forget when I am wrong.  Watch John Edwards some time, and try to focus on all the WRONG things he says instead of the right ones, these things usually are best attributed to chance.

Answer 2

I dont believe that to be psychic you know evrything :)

I believe that once the "power switch" of your psychic ability (we each have at least one) is turned on, it is very very very difficult to turn it off. This does not mean that you are recieving psychic info all of the time. FO rsome people the info comes at random times, others learn to control it and also others learn to actually ask for it and find it (as in psychic readers and such )

     Hope that helped :)

  Love Light and Peace :)

Answer 3

In fairness to the skeptics those representing themselves as "scientific" claim that they only want statistically significant results. However, they then disregard the definition of what is statistically significant in every other science and call the results minor deviations.

I have listed links below to the research providing statistically significant results from testing that also meets the standards of methodology in every other science.

"Honorton tested this in the autoganzfeld experiments by recruiting twenty music, drama, and dance students from the Juilliard School in New York City to serve as receivers. Overall, these students achieved a hit rate of 50 percent, one of the highest hit rates ever reported for a single sample in a ganzfeld study. The musicians were particularly successful: 75 percent of them successfully identified their targets. "

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"Rosenthal, after considering the possible influence of various flaws upon study outcome, concluded that the overall hit rate of the studies could be estimated to be 33 percent, whereas chance expectancy was 25 percent."

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"Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted. Effects of similar magnitude to those found in government-sponsored research at SRI and SAIC have been replicated at a number of laboratories across the world. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud."

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Yes, you are completely correct the scientific research indicates that psi ability is not a 100% always on always correct ability. Just like Michael Jordan the best player in basket ball history made slightly over half of his shots over the course of his career. Such is the nature of any human ability.

Psi

Answer 4

The skeptics speak gibberish and you know it! Nobody is right all the time. Do you sing on key every day?

I don't know of one that was right all the time. In my opinion Mother Shipton comes the closest and we'll have to wait another few years to see if St. Malachy is 100%. There are a lot of the 'BIGGIES' to consider.

Casey

Nostradamus

Mother Shipton

Merlin

St. Malachy

St. Anthony the Abbot

St. Senanus

St. Columkille (Columb)

Papal Prophecies of St. Malachy

St. Hildegard

Bishop Ageda

John of Vitiguerro

Johannes Friede

Abbot D'Orante

St. Vincent Ferrer

John of the Cleft Rock

Maria Laach Monastery

Bartholomew Holzhauser . . .

Ven. Mary of Agreda

Sister Marianne de Jesus

Blessed Rembordt

The Ecstatic of Tours

Sister Mary of Jesus

Pope Pius IX

Blessed Anna Maria Taigi

Marie-Julie Jahenny

Sister Faustina

Sister Elena Aiello

Saint John Bosco

Therese Neumann

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Pius X

Pope Pius XII

John XXIII

Padre Pio

Berosus

Origen

LVQ

Hermes Trismegistus

Merlin

Caesarius of Heisterbach . . .

Nichiren

Nicholas of Fluh

The Brahan Seer

A Possible Prophecy of George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

H.G. Wells

Arthur Conan Doyle

Leo Tolstoi

Helena Blavatsky

Wovoka

Louis Hamon (Cheiro)

Seeress Regina

Nicholas Roerich

Guboo Ted Thomas

Tim Sikyea

Brave Buffalo

Sun Bear

Chief John Ross

Arthur C. Clarke

John Lansa

World Scientists' Prophecies

Answer 5

As a skeptic I wouldn't require 100% accuracy to consider psychic ability real.  (I don't know any skeptics who would expect this either.)  I would expect returns significantly higher than that of guessing.  I would also expect a significant percent of the population to be able to exercise this ability to such a degree as to be able to clearly identify and isolate those who can do this and those who can't.  In other words, I would expect the ability to be measurable, not patchy and inconsistent as we see with psychics and psychic apologists now.

Answer 6

I am psychic and I am not always right and I am not psychic all the time. I would probably lose my friggin mind if I was 'on' all day and night. ;)

Also, if I knew everything...I think I'd be dead. LOL, no reason to be around here anymore if I was 'all knowing'. :D

Answer 7

yes i think peoples intuition is stronger then other days or certain times of the year

Answer 8

I have worked with hundreds if not thousands of psychics in the past 30 years of practice.

I am going to cite one afternoon in particular, when about ten of us were gathered around and happened to have brought in some reader's digest cards... can't remember what they are called but, the cards were supposed to test your 'psychic' abilities (I use this term loosely)... there were waves, stars,  squares, crosses and circles on them.  I think there were twenty five cards, can't remember.

Each reader was then asked to concentrate on each card presented to him or her and guess what it was.  If a person were to guess, for example, star, star, star for every card, they would get 20% correct. Or 5/25.

So obviously, the object was to see if we (as a group of so-called psychics) would score better than average.

I guess I was sorely disappointed with the group at large because most of them hit average or just above, with only a couple of them scoring in the teens.  A few were noticeably despondent about their results as they obviously believed they were better, but I figured out a flaw in that kind of testing.

Psychics have different talents, some use psychometry, palmistry, clairvoyance, clairaudience etc etc etc.  Its like giving a maths test to an art student and grading their artistic talents on how they do in a maths test.  I don't think it would be fair to rate them anything at any particular time.  Maybe some of the readers felt under duress because their 'abilities' were being tested.  Who knows?

Anyway, back to your question... from my experience ONLY, when I first started honing into the little ability I had as a ten year old, it was basically a major miss and little hit scenario.  The more I practised, the more I learnt, the better the hit rate.  It got to a point that yes, sometimes it began to intrude on my life because I was receiving information that I could not even comprehend or decipher.

It got to the stage when one day, I could see myself inside the body of a man who was bleeding from the throat after having been cut with fishing wire (or something like that) and I was fading out of life... I knew he was dying... and this was sitting infront of a man who was having his reading done by me.  I was so freaked out by it that I ended the reading and decided  not to do anymore readings.  That vision kept re-occuring until one day, I saw it on the news and lo and behold, the man who was doing the newsreading, was in fact the man I had been doing the reading for.  He was not the killer.  So there you have it, I was misinterpreting the images/feelings, whatever that had come to me. (So I went back to doing readings again about a year later)

It was not long after that that I decided I needed to practice how to turn it off, for my own sanity.  So back to your question, the answer is NO, you cannot be correct all the time, and NO, we do NOT know everything and YES, you can be psychic some of the time, YES, you can be psychic all of the time if you have the capabilities, but what sane person would want to be tuned into every other person's life all the time?  So yes, you can aslo TUNE out completely if you so choose.

Answer 9

no body is correct all the time ,no matter what they do psychic or other wise .(doctors,scientists ,politicians ..etc ..have been known sometimes to be wrong!!!)

psychic vibrations are very subtle ,and any feelings of tension,anxiety ,or excitement can easily throw things off course ,ergo: tests are not a  very reliable indication  of ones psychic abilities .

sceptics usually don't want to be convinced ,and no proof is ever enough ,i should know ,i used to be one myself .

Answer 10

Deenie, I think you're misrepresenting the skeptical opinion. Though I'm sure some skeptics may have said what you said, most scientifically informed skeptics simply want results that are statistically significant and aren't simply tiny statistical uncertainties dancing around the expected mean. The psychic does not need to be correct all the time.  For example, consider a test using 4 Zener cards where on average you get the right answer 25% of the time just by chance.  If a psychic got the answer right 60% of the time, that would be significant. In fact, it would be huge. That has never happened.