The Gift of Psychic Abilities

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Reflections on “The Gift” of Psychic Abilities

by Karen Hollis

Many people get enamored with the apparent glamour of psychic abilities. It’s easy to think it would be wonderful to see some aspect of the future, to help people sort out their problems, or to bring forth messages from deceased loved ones. It’s also quite common for people say to a psychic, “you are so lucky to have ‘the gift.’” And to remark that they too would like to have ‘the gift.’ These comments always make me wonder about why people think of psychic or intuitive abilities as being a “gift” and, more importantly what a gift really is supposed to be, or mean to a person.

A gift-as in a present given someone, is often selected with great care and given with the intention to bring joy to another person. What if your gift also requires you to share unfortunate news-not at all what your recipient wants to hear? Would you be able to give of your gift with compassion?

‘Gift’ also can refer to having been born with a natural aptitude for being able to do something, such as play piano or calculate algorithms using only brain-power. Likewise, to be bestowed special favor by God/Higher Power is to receive a gift (a.k.a., “blessing”). Being in full possession of one’s ‘gifts of knowing’ requires understanding that there are both higher and lower aspects to using psychic gifts in service to other people. Though it is a little cliché, you might think of these aspects as blessings and burdens. Let’s look at a few situations that illustrate the higher and lower aspects of sharing ‘the gift.’

Knowing When Not to Share All that Your Psychic Abilities Reveal

If you had an intuition about bad news before it happens, would you understand the moral and spiritual responsibility of choosing to act or not act on that knowledge?

When I was in third grade my mother was called into a meeting with my teacher. The teacher wanted to know how it was possible that I could draw things before they happened. She was particularly upset that I had drawn a picture of her car being rear-ended by another vehicle days before the accident happened. (The teacher realized this after looking at dated artwork.) Psychic children often do not have the ability to filter information they receive nor do they (usually) understand the implications of how sharing what they know can affect other people.

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