Three Psychic Experiences
While many people I know have been blessed or cursed with “second sight,” Only three times have I experienced what might be called “psychic episodes.” It has been noted that some people can only consider ESP and other related phenomena when they have had their own encounters. Perhaps I was primed with a hopeful skepticism before it happened to me. All three incidents occurred while I was publishing my magazine, The Excluded Middle, so there might be some merit here in immersing oneself in fringe subjects, while still maintaining a discerning mindset.
Along about issue #6 of my magazine The Excluded Middle, I tried a “remote viewing” experiment to introduce a contest where I asked readers to guess what was hidden in my house. Anyone who was close enough won the prize. I wanted to try this for myself first, so following the instructions found in Joe Mc Moneagle’s book Mind Trek, I got a friend to hide something in his house, and I did the same. We agreed to meet in a few days to compare notes.
Both of our trials were startlingly accurate. Out of the thousands of objects in my home, he guessed the exact target. I came very close to the one he had hidden. My notes said that the object was a “ball attached to a cylinder or long box, and had a multi-colored look.” It turned out that he had chosen a Pez dispenser with Miss Piggy’s head on the top. Beginner’s luck was working for us that first time, since subsequent trials were disastrously poor.
A few months later, I was rounding the corner driving down my street on my way home. For some reason, I mentally flashed on a package sitting behind the front door. I saw a black plastic bag that I knew was for me. I didn’t worry about how it had been passed through a locked door.
When I opened the door, there was the bag, just as I had seen it in my mind a minute before. Inside it was a t-shirt from the Assassination Museum in Dallas that I friend had left for me. He managed to squeeze it under the door by fitting it around the weather stripping. I only discovered this later when he called, asking if I had received the shirt.
Probably one of the two most important interviews I conducted for the magazine was with parapsychologist Dean Radin. Our conversation was so meaningful to me that I included the entire interview in the book release of Excluded Middle, coincidentally titled Wake Up Down There, which was released in 2000. This personal significance may be part of the reason for my “psychic episode.”
The night before, I was visiting my co-editor Robert Larson at his home. We were having glasses of beer and talking about my troubled marriage and impending divorce. Finishing my glass, I went to the kitchen to wash it out with cold water. As I turned off the water and started to put the glass on a drying rack, there was a loud “pop” and the glass literally exploded in my hand. Pieces flew at least ten feet across the floor. Some shards actually ended up in the laundry room. A few slivers of the glass were still stuck to my hand as I stood in amazement.
During the interview, I told Dr. Radin about this. He thought about this for a bit and said, “Well, don’t you see that this might have been the appropriate thing to happen at this time. You are under stress, and perhaps this was externalized in the breaking glass.”
I was also reminded of the famous episode of the “explosion in the bookcase.”
Jung wanted to know what Freud thought about parapsychological phenomena and precognitions…. Freud never offered a sustained account [of the conversation], but in Jung’s version, he “absolutely” rejected both, which caused Jung to accuse him of “materialistic bias” and to persist stubbornly in describing his own personal experiences. When he told of the knife that shattered [a large knife lying in a drawer in Jung's house had once spontaneously shattered into pieces in the presence of his psychic cousin], Freud “expressed such a flat positivism” that Jung found it difficult “not to respond in a way that would have been a bit too biting.”…
Suddenly, there occurred such a noise from the glass-fronted bookcase in front of which they were sitting that they both jumped, fearing it would fall on them. “Now this is a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon,” Jung insisted. “Oh, no, that is complete nonsense,” Freud replied. To prove his point, Jung insisted that there would be another noise, and immediately there was “an indescribably terrible noise in the cabinet!”
I pointed this out to Radin as an earlier example of “unintentional psychokinesis,” and he agreed that there was a host of anecdotal evidence for these occurences.
There are of course numerous examples of “psychic Michael Jordans,” but many of us make the free throw from across the court only once or twice in a lifetime.
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November 15th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I was actually thinking about this last night or a couple nights ago. How you Greg seem to have intuitive abilities more than most. It was triggered by the whole clock synchronicity joke. An important detail about Jung with Freud was that Jung’s solar plexus got super-hot and that’s where the power comes for telekinesis. Similarly Robert Monroe writes how he had to do reverse breathing, rolling the energy out and up from his stomch, for his OBEs. When I’m more isolated then the lower body energy builds up and gets stored as electromagnetic fields in my body. Then my dreams become strongly precognitive and when I relive them in real life I call this “a Glitch in the Matrix.” I’ve also had telekinesis but again only when I can build up the energy. On a more minor note there’s also this sort of Cosmic Background Radiation — the white noise of the t.v. screen — which then picks up precognitive images during the full-lotus meditation. If it’s emotionally more stressful, like a death in the family or of a friend, then the message comes through stronger. Otherwise it’s just like any other dream where there’s a vague recollection with the added benefit of having been “prepped” for the future experience. The full moon energy, 3 nights before and after, is 10 times stronger than normal psychic energy.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Greg - Thanks for the piece on the shattered glass. For years I have been trying to find anyone else who may have experienced something similar to what happened to me years ago. The first and second events were separated by possibly three or four years; but each event had the same outcome. The second event was more interesting because the glass shattering happened three times over about a six-hour period. The outcome was always that the glass shattered, but in my case, all of the glass moved instantly to a perfect circle the exact size of the original glass base; with all of the glass broken into very tiny “crushed” pieces. The complete story is interesting because the water contained in the drinking glasses did different things: once it was dispersed on the same level as the crushed glass; and once it actually just disappeared - and in this instance the glass “circle” moved “through” a coffee table and ended up on the floor below. I even went to a physics forum once and posted the story and was bombarded by folks who said the story could not physically happen and had to be false - that shattering glass does not act that way in the real world. I include the story in a recent book I produced as a PDF download at InCahoots.TV - Sacred Dialogue: Tuning Into Mother Nature’s Universal Broadcast Band.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:51 am
I’ve never had experiences like the ones you describe. Just a couple of very interesting examples of synchronicity.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I can’t remember the last time I had a glass break on me yet amazingly yesterday it happened, under strange circumstances, right after I was reading REDEFINING GRAVITY by John Moffat (highly recommended).
November 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Drew,
If I could control these episodes, I would probably be in a better situation! Although those who use it for monetary gain tend to become less accurate.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Drew,
If I could control my psi more, I might be in a better situation, although those who use it for personal gain tend to lose the ability.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
tremont,
I suppose I would say your experiences were “impossible” too, but of course I wasn’t there. Perhaps certain instances of things that are impossible (psi) beget other things that are impossible (thing that look like “magic.” This may have something to do with the supposed violation of physical laws that haven’t been revised as yet.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
RPJ,
I haven’t had anything similar happen since I ceased publishing the magazine. It’s as if something stopped paying attention to me when I stopped paying attention to it. Oh well.
I do know that many scientific researchers have a host of strange stories that they keep under wraps for fear that their “public” work wouldn’t be taken seriously.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Hi Greg: You raise two critical points: control and money. When I studied with qigong master Chunyi Lin he said it’s important not to let others control your energy. I’ve found that if I just sit in full-lotus all the time then I’m not controlled by others’ energy but at the same time I don’t build up my internal energy (which has to be stored in the body). So I’m actually giving out lots of energy and taking in lots but then tuning or transforming the energy I take in, etc.
Chunyi Lin does charge the same as a doctor for his healing and he does other services as well — like past life reading, finding lost people, future predictions, long-distance healing, etc. Here’s what the Mayo Clinic doctor Neil Kay says about him:
“I became acquainted with Chunyi Lin approximately seven years ago when I saw him give a talk at a symposium on breast cancer. Since that time I’ve enrolled in two of his classes and learned a lot about qigong from him. And it is clear to me that Chunyi Lin is a very powerful practitioner of this important method of dealing with human energies.”
November 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Greg, I’m actually strongly disposed to the notion that EVERYONE has many of these experiences all through their life - only most of the time they simply fail to notice!
The reason for this, or so I reckon, is we’re constantly distracted from noticing what’s going on around and with in us by what I call The Narrator, my term for the internal verbalising part of ‘ourselves’ which we often mistake for our ACTUAL selves supposedly in the process of ‘thinking’.
To me the classic example of this is the one where you’re watching TV, (or whatever) and you suddenly notice yourself getting to your feet.
By way of explanation, you tell yourself you’re going for a leak, but then rather oddly, instead of heading for the bathroom you now suddenly stop, on the way, to make coffee, before finally heading, steaming cup in hand, straight back to the telly, explaining this away to yourself, (filling up with liquid instead of discharging it), by insisting you obviously changed your mind.
But if you watch yourself long enough, and carefully enough, eventually you begin to notice how this process (of telling yourself you’re about to do one thing, before ending up doing something completely different), goes on all the time, accompanied by endless explanations and justifications until, eventually, it becomes so undeniably obvious you end up wondering whether you’ve got a brain tumour, or maybe even going prematurely senile,or something.
But you also begin to notice how, during those times when you’re operating at your optimum, (those occasions when you somehow do completely the right thing without even a moment’s premeditation; or those Big Picture moments when all those confusing irritating little bits of random information suddenly unhesitatingly assemble themselves into a definitive and complete take on a given matter), you don’t actually use such verbal ‘thinking’ at all…almost as if verbal ‘thinking’ to get things done is dispensable, or even irrelevant.
All of which might sound kind of strange - until you recollect that report, (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080414145705.htm), describing that experiment where people’s choices were actually predicted (by monitoring the ‘unconscious’ activity of their brains) 7 seconds before they actually made them.
I.e., while one part of these people’s brain was oohing and aahing, supposedly making up ‘its’ mind about what selection to make, the ‘rest’ of their brain’d already made the decision 7 seconds earlier!
[Something which also reverses the order of things claimed by sceptics hostile to the paranormal, i.e., that people tell themselves they’re seeing UFOs, Sasquatch, ghosts, etc, and then proceed to reinterpret the visual data, accordingly – whereas what this experiment strongly suggests is that people actually look at whatever it is they’re ‘actually’ seeing a good 7 seconds before they actually get around to the matter of deciding just what exactly it is they're seeing!]
Anyway, it’s that bit of the brain, ‘The Narrator’, I reckon, which most of the time is distracting people from noticing much of what is actually going on around (and within) them at any given moment.
Most of the time it’s also, or so I reckon, pointlessly using up brain resources like mental capacity and neurological energy which, if they weren’t being needlessly squandered (on what mostly amounts to various forms of neurosis), could be spared for and redirected to other activities - like making free throws from across the court more than once or twice in a lifetime!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Excellent description of the subconscious on a moment-to-moment level. The digger we dig into the subconscious the more we find that LOVE is at the bottom of the barrel.
November 29th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Agreed. I’ll forego my own anecdotes.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Greg & others -
If you like practicing on psychic targets, you should really enjoy http://www.psychicproject.com
It’s a free online psychic development/testing tool. There are eight targets available at a time (4 objects and four screened and interviewed people). The targets are updated frequently. Once you complete the exercises, it shows you your results with the results of other participant.
If you get a chance to check it, let me know what you think - Mary Kay
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:31 am
I’ve had several psychic events in my life, connected to UFOs directly or indirectly I believe (Flying saucers incidents, 4 strange relationships, bedroom visitors and odd dreams).
The first UFO I saw had paranormal issues around it as did another pair of sightings. I witnessed the initial event when on the way home with some school friends, including the form captain and a cousin. I stopped to view this gigantic, floating object, drifting slowly between the clouds (visible for at least ten minutes and several hundred, if not thousands of feet long: Mentioned as being seen all over the world, in John Keel’s book ‘UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse’). The others though, walked on as though nothing was happening! (Years later I came across a descriptive term in a volume of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [Cricket Wars incident)which adequately described it as ‘Somebody Else’s Problem). Another time I woke up from a sleep as we were driving in the mountains from Inverness to Glasgow, to see this disc shaped UFO, disappearing behind power lines and like Alice’s Cheshire Cat, becoming invisible below the wires, while fully visible above (I also saw the same craft in the same place at another time, only then I was fully awake).
Bedroom visitor wise I’ve seen a semi transparent, pumpkin headed Grey, floating at an oblique angle in my bedroom at night, just like the mothership did. I also woke one night to find two small, dark figures with glowing red eyes, in the bedroom (I also witnessed our old dog astrally projecting itself onto the ceiling, in the same house in Cromarty). An interesting pair of incidents, separated by time and place, should also be mentioned. Also in Cromarty, my partner Margaret said as we were talking in the kitchen one day, that a gigantic cowled figure was standing behind me (full daylight sighting). Years later, we’d moved to Thurso in Caithness and one night, getting into bed, as the light went off, I noticed a gigantic black cowled figure off to one side of the bed (Also there I saw another of our dogs that had died days before plus again as I turned off the light in another incident, a rainbow effect over the bed (Had been watching a TV documentary on Crystal children)).Here in Kilmarnock my wife screamed out one night that something was going to get her and as I opened my eyes, I saw a figure by the side of the bed, with huge pointed ears.
Dream wise, I once was pursued by a Greyhound bus, with bright headlights that charged down the embankment where I was hiding, like the vehicle in the horror film starring James Brolin called ‘The Car’. Staying at a friends house, I woke one night to find myself floating out the window; at which point I woke up to find myself floating out the window; at this point I woke again, only this time I was in the real bedroom. I also had a pair of dreams about ‘the unknown’. In the first I was in this C shaped building. My partner Margaret was in one wing and I was in the other, waving to her. Suddenly the door leading into the corridor between them, creaked open to reveal nothing at which point I woke up screaming or trying to. In the second dream I was in the family home with one of the dogs, when we ran to the back of the house from the front, only to have the back door creak open again as in the first dream and once more I woke screaming (The significance of these two dreams in relation to the left and right hemispheres and, back and front doors has not escaped me: By the way I once sleep walked, being found downstairs with my clothes, sitting in front of the fire as I would if going to school. I also had a sleep paralysis nightmare incident.
Relationship wise I was always aware that my partners fell into one of two categories - those who I considered my superior, who I had strange affairs with and those I usually had just sexual relationships with or ordinary connections. The first of the former was a grand opera: I rescued her from suicide/ We were ‘aware’ of Jesus and the apostles being around us/ She was a schizophrenic and had been locked up once before and ended up during the time I was with her, being locked up again. The second girl also had been diagnosed as Schizophrenic, even though she insisted that she was just a Depressive and had been misdiagnosed (She started reading minds of people at work, when pregnant with her first child - so her husband had her committed/ the second time she became pregnant he kicked her out and she ended up in the same digs as me, confiding that she had a’vision’ in her local church/ We were thrown together by our landlord because all we did was squabble and that night we both heard a loud knock at the door, so I rushed to answer it only to find no-one there and nowhere they could have hidden or run to in the time. This led us to retire out of his parlour and into her bedsitting room , where we made love and a few days later she was taken in by the local vicar, which was what she had wanted in the first place. The third girl had abandoned her family in New Zealand to come to the UK. Because of the other two relationships I was now very distrustful of this kind of situation, so things went slowly. One day as with the first girl, I had this sudden urge to go to her house for no particular reason. I rang the door bell only to hear her voice come from inside saying ‘Oh my God, it’s Tony!’ as I caught in flagrante with someone else. The fourth incident had no paranormal events as I was by this time to distrustful of this type of woman and am now with my present partner.