Hearing Voices

I got myself in to a discussion the other day about psychics, and their unusual ability to receive messages from the dead or are they just very good cold readers. Assuming if this was the case (cold readers) then those individuals who claim to be able to talk to and pass on information from dead loved ones are, if not pulling the wool over our eyes surely kidding themselves to an extent that they actually do believe they can communicate with the dead. The discussion was just that, a discussion no one lost their temper or felt offended by their beliefs but an outcome was never reach.

Since that discussion I have had more time to pounder the question posed. Using myself as the guinea pig I progressed along a tricky path and this rightly or wrongly is what I came up with.

My first thought was do I have any psychic abilities the short answer is maybe, I do have a knack for being able to identify the good and bad, the nice and not so nice in a person from our first meeting with an average of 65%. Now, I am not naive, I am aware that a lot of individuals out there can do the same thing, so there is nothing spooky about that (or is there?). With my past history they may well be.

My next thought dirties the waters a little so I stress the next bit is for entertainment purposes only (My entertainment), so read on with an open mind.

Still using myself as the guinea pig. Let’s now suppose apart from being a more than reasonable judge of character I was also known to have had a bit of a mental health history in my past, nothing major, but never the less a mental health problem, or that’s what they put the problem I was having at the time down to.

Now, supposing many years later I was to confide in family and friends that my mental health problem, all them years ago, was about me feeling I could hear the voices of people I felt were dead relatives who had, to use a term you should be familiar with, passed over.

I admit to my family I never did stop having those unusual feelings and hearing voices, I just stopped saying I did and after a few years the psychiatrist told me I was cured, it had been nothing more than a psychotic incident very much like schizophrenia, it can happen to some of us as a one off, it had cleared and it would probably never happen again.

Now, this is my issue supposing I go back to the psychiatrist and tell him I never did get rid of those unusual feelings and hearing voices of dead relatives. I have come to see him now, years later, because I now feel the voices want me to pass on messages to loved ones. I think I would not be far wrong in my assumption that my doctor would assume my mental health problem had re-surfaced with a vengeance and I was undergoing another psychotic incident bordering on schizophrenia.

Don’t forget people, this is all hypothetical. I hope I do not have to spell out for you the reader where I am going with this. I have read we all, to some extent, have latent psychic powers. What I will say is why am I considered bordering on schizophrenia rather than having a special gift.

Having wrote the above read and re-read it, I now think I have gone a little like my mate Dave and I am talking out of my -rse (backside), but what the hell it’s just me and my weird imagination on the loose again… By for now…