Extrasensory Abilities, Do Not "Fortunetell"

Extrasensory Abilities: Quick guidelines

I listened to some people conversing about psychic, fortunetelling, and how it relates to God’s will and prohibitions against divination in the Bible. As I’ve mentioned before, I spent about four years undercover immersed in this world, when I decided to accept the “hint” when a “friend” told me about a certain really cool astrology website. What I learned still makes my hair stand on end. For example, right after the September 11 attack, “psychics” posted that the souls of those who died were “trapped in a gold dome” over the ruins of the World Trade Center, and needed “help” from psychics to “push them over into home.” That’s all you need to hear to know how certain New Age practitioners put themselves over God. Sure, uh huh, God is so inept and has such a poor system in place that he needs the help of blunt smoking New Agers to get souls to heaven. Anyway, the people who were talking today were well meaning, trying to understand how to think about and utilize extrasensory gifts that are real, without confusing them with activities prohibited by God.

I don’t feel like writing a lot tonight; I’m more interested in some sewing that I’m doing, because honestly, I’m tired of having to yell so much. But when people ask I do respond, glad that at least they are asking. First of all, there is a difference between having some sort of extrasensory ability and calling oneself “psychic” while performing divination or fortunetelling. Everyone has some sort of extrasensory gift, because that simply means that one is obtaining knowledge through a mechanism other than the normal senses. Intuition, foreboding, extreme inspiration, and mental connection with some people are all examples of extrasensory activity. For example, while grocery shopping one day years ago I knew the exact moment my best friend’s mother died, because I both saw and heard her soul pass. For those of you curious about it, you know how many report racing down the “tunnel” toward the light? I heard the “whoosh” and saw her soul zoom down that tunnel as I looked up to the sky. That’s an example of extrasensory knowledge. The difference is that I made no effort to predict when she would die. Even if I “knew” I neither would say so nor would I allow myself to even think about it (I have great mind control; better than anyone I know) because everything is possible in God until the very end. Diviners and forecasters manipulate themselves and others to narrow down the many options in life that God places on the table. So here I am role modeling for you that it is alright to allow and not deny the existence of extrasensory gifts, but it is wrong to play the psychic.

One thing I need to clear up is what is a prophet? A prophet is someone who is empowered by God to speak on his behalf. You can read about prophets in the Bible; there is no mystery there. The vast majority of them in the Bible were consecrated priests, so their calling to being a prophet was grounded in 100 percent fidelity, humility and orthodoxy of belief in God. No one has the right to call themselves a prophet today, to be honest. I mean, this isn’t even a hard concept to understand. There is no such thing as a prophet who is not 100 percent in submission to the God of Abraham. Prophets were not fortunetellers; that is an abomination. Read the many stories of the prophets in the Old Testament and you will notice one thing. The vast majority of them are reporting on behalf of God that “if this or that person or nation does not repent” “then this chastisement or disaster will happen.” Often the person or people do change their ways and God does not allow the chastisement or disaster to take place.

Fortunetellers try to usurp God by saying what will happen in the future without any options. They in truth cannot even begin to see the many options that exist at every moment to change a future consequence of current acts. I will give a prosaic contemporary example that I think helped “astrologers” that I was working with to understand the limitations and damage of what they are doing.

Often people ask about auspicious times to start business ventures, based on astrology. One day I was so tired of reading over and over the astrology “rules” for setting up a “successful” business, because it was obvious that the success of business was assumed to only be how long it lasted and how profitable it was. I posted on this bulletin board the point that even if one believed their own assumptions about the validity of astrology as a tool, they were ignoring many business “success” scenarios. What if you had a new business that lasted only four years, for example, but provided diapers, baby food, and other necessities in an underserved area during that time? Is that not worthy for those four years? And what about the jobs that employees had during that time? Must the business make you rich and last for decades to be a success? What if your business lost money but saved lives? Is that not a reason to have the business? I never got a reply from these folks (since they were busy thinking I was too stupid to realize that I’m reincarnated somebody) but using my “extrasensory prowess” ha ha, I do believe that this helped some of those who read it to have a huge light bulb light up.

There is no mistaking true knowledge that comes directly from God, but many people think that they are in touch with God, when they experience extrasensory perceptions, but they are not. Extrasensory abilities are totally earthbound. In other words, one is not accessing heaven or hell, or any of the residents of those places, nor God nor angels when one has extrasensory information. The fact that some people think they are receiving divine direction ought to be a big alarm bell to themselves and others, because it is their own minds that are providing the “wrappers” around their extrasensory information. They project God, angels, dead people, and so forth as the providers of information around the valid information, thus making it invalid. Part of it is understandable, because the human brain strives to fill in invisible space with an image. There are a lot of studies about how people’s brains fill in the gaps in one’s eyeball vision so that one sees complete scenes and pictures. It is the same with some people who have an extrasensory experience. Their brains in human and ego frailty wrap the image of a divine being around their experience so that they feel they are latching onto the source of their information, plus there’s some attempt to glorify and validate there. But it is incorrect. Again, the prophets in the Bible saw on earth the format that God chose to utilize, and sometimes it was only a “small voice” (one of my favorite passages in the Bible.) People have a responsibility to not inflate the extrasensory experience to personify it with a divine entity; that is the way to madness and disaster. Just because an extraordinary gift of information is received does not mean that it is sent by a divine being.

I will give an example. Suppose that a “psychic” “knows” that someone is pregnant before the lady herself knows. Putting aside the cold reading phenomenon, or falsehood (the “psychic” spying on the activities and intentions of the lady) if this is a genuine reading, here is how it is done. Like birds that migrate and animals that exist in their habitats, humans grew up over millions of years in connection with their worldly habitat and each other. There is a lot of information that is stored in what scientist Rupert Sheldrake calls “morphic resonance,” but what I think of as a combination of extrasensory film library, body of knowledge, and extrasensory data that is like a web or a soup that humans live within. For example, thousands of doctors have diagnosed pregnancy. Certain hormones are secreted upon pregnancy. A “psychic” who accurately discerns an existing pregnancy is picking up the extrasensory data threads of the woman’s hormonal changes. God, angels, or the lady’s dead auntie are not “telling” the “psychic” about the baby. A “psychic” may honestly make the mistake of wrapping a visual image around this hormonal/diagnostic because they lack understanding or mental control to avoid the ego mistake, or they make a false claim simply to glorify themselves by claiming a divine connection. But it’s all in their own heads, once they perceive the extrasensory data which is accurate when they must “add on” a glorious source of this information. There are no prophets of God who are receiving information directly from God in heaven. There are some people who have a deep, orthodox Christian faith and prayer life who perceive wisdom from the Holy Spirit (for example, the cardinals who select a Pope who are not being political.) But even this speaking of the Holy Spirit in ordinary people is often contaminated by people who either abuse substance, practice unorthodoxy, or who are pursing agenda. An example of valid movement of the Holy Spirit is the growing interest of the Chinese people in Christianity. Distorted examples of the Holy Spirit are people who claim the spirit tells them how to boss someone else around.

Let’s be honest; nearly everyone today is plastic and agenda driven, seasoned alternately with desperation and inflated self importance. There is hardly anyone who does not think they are more important than God. (God is like some sort of choice in towels at Wal-Mart, to be assessed for “correctness,” “aesthetics,” “ease of use,” and “price.”) Today one can’t even trust a Republican to write a fair article about a Democrat, or vice versa. So how can any “fortuneteller” be, first of all, sane, and second of all, unbiased? Here’s another hair-raising story. During my sojourn I became intrigued by a very prickly and talented “psychic” I had come to know. She kept the relationship strictly phone and computer based. I decided to pay her for readings in order to better analyze where she was getting her information and how she was using it. First of all, she’s, like unfortunately too many women these days, a very cynical, burned by bad family, non Christian hardened lady. So it does not take a genius to see that she is never going to be able to “see” a future for a client that involves baby powder, gingham curtains, and lack of fashion style. People who have been very burned by life, rather than being able to “call it like it is,” are actually too damaged to give positive direction to their clients. Here’s a specific example. While “reading” me over the phone she was distracted for a while. I asked her what was happening, and she told me her “guides” were going all gaga over me with “New Age mumble jumble.” She would not say more, thinking I did not know exactly what was going on. (Since I’m such a dummy who does not know who I “really am” ha ha.) But I knew what was going on because I knew that my identity had been somewhat compromised by her “guides.” And here’s what is so cheesy. Instead of saying, “Oh wow, you are such a holy person! All I see is manifestation of your divine connections” she refused to be generous. This is an example of being envious of someone else’s spiritual goodness (a grave mortal sin against the Holy Spirit by the way.) So even though I maintained my “aw shucks” persona with her, I knew exactly what I was dealing with from that point onward. People who claim to be “psychics” are wounded, damaged, agenda driven, and both consciously and unconsciously bias their reading to the negative and severely edit the information they give their poor sucker clients.

One final thought. I don’t care what astrology, tarot cards, “guides,” pendulums or other trappings of pseudo extrasensory abilities say- there is NEVER a bad time to do a good deed or be righteous. There are no “bad astrology times” to be honest, righteous, provide charity or alms, or love God and neighbor. People who postpone good deeds and rectification of injustice in order to have “the right time for success” are performing a grave sin. They are bearing false witness by stating that there are times when it is OK to delay righteousness, and they are also stealing because they are robbing the person of relief that they are entitled to have. This is the most arrogant of taking of God’s place. The Bible is explicit on this matter, and there are quotations about the need to rectify injustice and provide for others on the spot, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. And I have to be honest. I found out quite a bit what politically well connected “psychics” are up to over the years I hung around as the “dummy” who “didn’t know who she was” and they have set themselves up for whacking, some of which will be of the most severe. When you pollute the water that you also drink out of, it’s not karma or psychic wars; it is sheer dumb physics that poisoning the well will catch up with you too.
So that is the difference between being a human being who is blessed with some extrasensory abilities, and a user and manipulator who is going to pull doom and loss upon large parts of society along with yourselves. I keep a close eye upon astrology charts on a daily basis, just like checking the locks on my door each night before bed, because I know how many people are manipulating individuals, society, politics, and the global economy based on astrology. They better have a care soon because God is going to give them conjunction of a flaming asteroid with their Uranus alright.