I can totally see that I would‘ve pissed myself laughing had I had the opportunity to read what you deleted before I got to it.
Wasn’t funny, hence deleted.
Reading this thread to Zwischenwelt for that spooky mood
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I had a feeling this place was gonna get weird
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Remembering the hits but never the missed
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I love the idea that there’s some untapped potential but there are also a lot of human cognitive biases at play that lead us astray.
For example the banana split anecdote, it’s reasonable to hypothesise that you were both reacting to a stimulus of some kind - a song that just played on an advert, something someone said in the background that you didn’t even consciously pick up on etc. - without wanting to be too rational the brain works in many fascinating, non-paranormal ways that lead to such a phenominum that it feels we have to go quite far down the list to get to mind reading.
People also love patterns, and that need to seek them out will often lead us to see significance where there is none. I’m sure we’ve all looked at a clock at just the right time - applying some significance whilst ignoring all the times we looked at a clock and it didn’t do anything magical.
The example above with your father and the sickness; what about all the times you’ve been sick and there hasn’t been any significance to it? Humans do this all the time and it’s why we’re so bad at statistics generally.
Dejuvu is fascinating, and I think it’s an excellent demonstration of how disconnected our cognition can be with our senses, and just how much work is going into making sense of everything around us. We don’t see what we see, hear what we hear, or feel what we touch - it’s all ‘synthesised’ to some extent.
There’s a relationship with age and how frequently you experience these things as well, btw, so you’re not alone there!
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sorry i missed your question. no it was the first time driving there. so thats why it felt so strange.
since i really specifically remember that little hill. i had no way of knowing that a right turn was gonna come after hill top.
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I’m sceptical of psychic mediums charging money to bereaved people etc, but I’d love for some of this paranormal phenomena to be proven to be true, by science, if just to wipe the smug perma grin off of sanctimonious Prof Brian Cox’s face. 
Some of my own experiences of this kind can’t be explained by science, and I think there is always a lot to learn. Of course there is a lot that can be explained, and a lot of bullshit too, as well as a lot of wishful thinking and cognitive bias.
But if people want to insist everything can be explained by science I think they are also exhibiting cognitive bias, however I have no interest in arguing about it.
That said people like James Randi are doing a service highlighting these fake psychics etc.
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The program with Derren brown exposing the mediums was good and then when he showed cold reading.
Though I agree the world is full of unexplainable wonder i do like seeing those who prey on the vulnerable exposed
i had a dream about a really horrible job - nightmarish stuff - and i had to escape from the building, from an upper level, down a spiral staircase, and out. a few days later i had a job interview and as soon as i walked into reception i was gobsmacked - it was the building from my nightmare. i mean it really was. i was offered the job and i took it, with some trepidation simply because of the dream (the interview was fine). the job turned out to be an absolute horrorshow of overt bullying and toxic masculinity, and in the end i walked out (actually i went on holiday and simply never went back). really weird.
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The amount of times the last week I’ve checked the time and it’s been 8:08 or 9:09 is a little silly, I have to say.
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In yogic practice, clairvoyance can be developed with trataka, and yes using a crystal ball as a point of concentration. For spiritual ‘siddhi’ or powers you can check about the Kundalini system. Different Buddhist school also focus on the development of spiritual powers, mostly tantric ones.
Wicca convent also practices different clairvoyance teachings.
But often these teachings are not offered through books and courses but mainly through direct transmission. In tantric Buddhism for example, a lot of the ‘secret’ teachings are only done through oral transmission and only really late in the game.
If you approach a teacher about learning more siddhi, they will probably shun you away as these ‘powers’ shouldn’t be your goal as a ‘spiritual’ practitioner.
I think differently 
You can message me privately if you want more information on that.
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The problem is the army and the FBI both uses remote viewing, a technique quite similar to astral projection. I really feels like some of these mental powers are just not to be shared with the public…
It’s a sign from Uli Behringer that you have been chosen to create the next set of x0x clones.
aaah but… and I don’t want to get caught up in trying to convince anyone of anything, but they almost certainly can be explained by science, and that’s without even knowing what they are. The issue is normally that we don’t have the domain knowledge to understand how to explain it or simply that we choose to ignore inconvenient data. It’s a bold claim to suggest anything you’re experiencing in the waking world cannot be rationalised. People just often find the answers unsatisfying.
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Well I am unaware of any scientific explanation for two cars that were about to crash into each other, disappearing in front of my eyes, but the scientific “explanation” would be either that I’m lying or mistaken, or maybe that my mind was playing tricks on me etc. All of which I know not to be correct, unless my dog was also somehow in on it, or that I also imagined his reaction, the sounds of the cars, the details etc. Even though this is of course scientifically far more likely that two cars did not disappear, I can think of no explanation that does not involve me lying, or being mistaken, hallucinating etc.
The thing is though a similar thing happened, in the exact same spot, a year or so later, and this time my wife and two dogs saw it too.
BTW I realise how ridiculous all of this sounds, so I don’t expect anyone to believe me, and to be honest I don’t care. It isn’t something I go around telling people and I left a lot of details out because I know that it sounds absurd, but those details actually add weight to the removal of doubt on my part.
There are other examples too, but of course there is no way to prove these or to avoid looking simply like a liar, but I consider myself healthily sceptical of such things where a rational possible explanation could be applied. Like most people I have experienced plenty of stuff like this which can be explained, but a few which cannot.
All the hoax stuff, and people with an agenda make most rational people naturally believe it is all hogwash, but I think that there are some things which cannot be reasonably explained with current knowledge.
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We did the ouiji board as kids and we asked it our friends mums date of birth and middle name and it spelt it out while he was in the room but not touching the board. Nobody else knew these things and he ran out screaming.
He wasn’t in school the next day and was up all night throwing up afraid thinking satan had connected with him. He wasn’t allowed to play with us after that.
That was a weird one for sure
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Ok, I don’t believe in all this stuff! I mean: I don’t believe in mind powers, thelepaty, premonitions ecc.
But I had an experience that is truly hard to explain and so strange that I rarely talk about it with people. This weird discussion made me remember it and I want to share it with you. It will be a long post… seems to be a novel but it’s true.
It was a long time ago, in the middle of the ninetees. I was a teenager and lived in a small town in the countryside, with some beloved friends. Me and my friends loved to go in the fields during the night, to have fun. We had our special place: it was a short hill in the meddle of a huge field, with a tree on top and a flat rock, that was our table. It was a very lonely place, wild and silent. Hardly we saw other people walking there. We loved that special place and in summer and spring it was our pub, our disco, our home.
We were (and still are) beloved friends and sometimes we played music in that place in the fields, with guitars, djambe etc…
A saturday night, sitting around the stone, we made a very long Om with our voices. Sometimes we liked to make voice’s drones in the silence of the fields. That night the Om was special, deep, harmonic. When it ended, every one of us had a very strange feel. Something was wrong. Something was changed. Our beloved place was unconfortable and the field was more and more covered by a soft fog. We didn’t talk a word but all togheter had a strong will to go far away from there and went to the town in silence, with a bad feeling. We spent the rest of the night in a street, talking about the weird emotion we were feeling.
The morning after, me and one of my friends went to our special place in the fields and made a truly weird discovery. On the top of the stone there was an artifact, never seen before. I was afraid of the object, but my friend took it as its own and it is still in his home. It is a horn, made in terracotta. It is 30 cm high and has some reliefs on the surface, representing lizards. It was full of fresh moss, that dried very fast and disappeared in 24h. It is clearly hand made and is very irregular. It seems to be old. It has mud everywhere, it seems to have been buried. I have never seen nothing similar in the rest of my life. Never found something similar in shops, books or museums.
Me and my friends went crazy! Who put it on the rock during the night? Why there was the moss inside? It was a joke? It was a gift?
This is the only unexplicable experience in my life.
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“Clairvoyance” in French is actually acute perceptiveness, whereas “voyance” is more the supernatural thing.
The closest thing to me about clairvoyance as you mean it would be understanding what’s behind people’s words, identifying their emotions, and be able to come up with an adequate answer.
Being able to open the dialogue so that people actually talk about their deepest feelings and you can your mind so that you can really bring something to the discussion that is relevant to them.
I feel like this last decade my empathy has grown a lot, which makes it possible to me to talk to others on a deeper level that the average chit-chat.
Took me so long to get there, and I feel like I’m still so far from being able to actually see clearly.
When it comes to supernatural things, the only thing I can remember of is a thing that happened when I was a teenager.
I was in Germany with a friend of mine, we had been playing outside for a long time and in the evening my two legs were extremely red, sign that I had been severely sunburned.
My friend told me his grandfather new how to suppress the burn, and he thought he also had the ability although is whole family had ruled him out of having such “superpowers”.
I am a scientist, I told him: we have the perfect situation to test this: do your thing on one of my legs, and we’ll see tomorrow. So he did it with great seriousness.
The day after the treated leg was perfectly suntanned while the other one was full of blisters starting to peel and aching like hell.
I wonder if the placebo effect or just coincidence is sufficient to explain this. To me it does.
But I’d be glad to have scientific proofs that human have more powers than using tools.
In this regard studies done on Corine Sombrun and the transe state are a very good thing, IMO.
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Yes, and this kind of thing was poo hooed as new age mumbo jumbo by science just a few decades ago.