By: Guest Contributor

Have you ever heard the phone ring and known who was calling? Do you often have a feeling of déjà vu, a sense that you’ve been somewhere or done something before? If so, you may have had a flash of psychic ability.
Being psychic means that you “know” information on a particular subject without being conscious of having that information. But how can you know if you’re truly psychic or just a “good guesser?”

One way to determine how psychic you are is to take a psychic test. There are several types of online tests available. Most of them work by checking how well you do when asked to predict randomly chosen events, while some tests ask you to actually try to influence events. Due to the nature of online psychic testing, most of these tasks are testing ESP, or extrasensory perception. Keep in mind that this is just one of several types of psychic ability.

One well known psychic test is based on a set of cards called Zener cards. This is a fun test to do online as your results are immediate and the computer will tell you how your results compare to chance. The Zener cards have five different shapes on them. The computer randomly chooses a card, and then you try to pick the same card. In most cases, the more trials you run the better you get at choosing the right card.

Another type of psychic ESP test uses a color wheel. You choose the color that you think the computer will display next, and are awarded points based on your choice. This test is similar to the Zener cards, as you’re being asked to predict future random events.

Some other types of psychic tests are in a more traditional question and answer format. The questions can have several different focuses. For example, one test has questions pertaining to your daily life. In this test, the answers will help you to determine whether you often “know” things ahead of time or how empathetic you are to the feelings of those around you. Other tests focus more on how well you can predict things, such as what images may be hidden or picking certain numbers.

Remote viewing is the ability to “see” places, people, or objects that are not in your actual line of vision – you are seeing something in your mind. This is a fun test to try with a friend. Have your friend place a picture of something in an envelope and seal it. Of course, you shouldn’t have seen the picture beforehand. Then, quiet yourself and simply focus on the envelope. Don’t concentrate too hard, but just relax and let the image come to your mind. Then, write down what you see in the picture. You may be amazed when you compare the picture to your written description!

Psychic tests cannot give you a definitive answer to a question of whether or not you’re psychic. But if you consistently get good results, they may very well lead you to further exploration.

By: Guest Contributor

Have you ever felt that you had psychic ability? Have you wondered how to develop or increase your natural psychic talents? Maybe you’ve never considered yourself psychic in any manner whatsoever? Or you may not know what being psychic actually means.

Everybody Has Some Psychic Abilities

The term is defined in The Macquarie Dictionary, 2nd Revision as “pertaining to super- or extra-sensory mental functioning, such as clairvoyance, telepathy”. Science has now explored the brain enough to find out just how little we actually know about how our brain works. We know for example that humans only use a very small percentage of their brains. Exactly what goes on in the remaining parts of our brain has not yet been scientifically proven.

Modern Psychic Scientific Research

Neuroscientists have shown that most logical, analytical activity occurs in the top 1/4 inch of brain skin called the association cortex. Somewhere deeper in the brain, our undeveloped psychic abilities reside, away from the logic and analytical function areas.

Recent brain research suggesting that a key psychic centre is the Limbic System, located deep towards the centre of the frontal lobe. This area is also associated with states of ecstasy and depression, pain, taste and smell. It’s more advanced and larger in humans and other mammals such as apes, cats, dogs and horses than most other animals such as reptiles. This area is electrically active when a person is scientifically tested for psychic ability or in an altered state of consciousness, for example sleep or meditation.

All humans and some animals have this brain structure and therefore, all humans and some animals have the potential for psychic ability. Why then do some people seem more psychic than others if we all come with the same psychic hard wiring?

Very simplistically, the brain computer is programmed for psychic ability but not all programs are switched on and running efficiently.

How many times have you known who was on the phone before it rang or you said “I was just thinking about you”. How many mothers are aware when their child at school is hurt?

Little psychic events happen often, and for some people it can become a daily event, while others it may only happen once in a lifetime. Why don’t these psychic experiences happen every day for everybody? I think they do happen for everybody, but go largely unnoticed in the hurly burly of modern everyday life, or they’re explained away as being mere coincidence.

If our computers are full of useless information, then it becomes more and more difficult to find the useful information we actually want. There are so many other files and programs to look through before we find what we are looking for. In order to access our psychic ability, we need to look through mountains of files or programs, or both, so we can then cull them and clean out what is going on in our heads.

Developing Your Psychic Abilities

As individuals, we always need to pay close attention to what actually goes on in our minds. Our minds often require psychic “cleanup” or housekeeping. Many of us do some form of housekeeping every day in our homes, how much more important is it to look after our minds in a similar fashion? We wouldn’t leave piles of dirty laundry lying around day after day, (well most of us wouldn’t). We can similarly clean up the dirty dishes of our minds and throw out those left over scraps and bits and pieces that no longer serve us. We can release the useless redundant programs that have been inculcated into our brains by external energy sources such as society, popular culture, authority figures, peer groups and even our loved ones.

We can begin to learn and distinguish what energy actually belongs to us and what energy belongs to someone else. If you feel down, ask the question “who does this belong to”? Then listen and wait to see what happens next. You may perceive an intuitive flash or psychic insight in the form of a visual picture. This is termed clairvoyance which means “clear sight”. Sometimes, an audible word will come and this is called clairaudience or “clear hearing”. Other times, our intuition can work through our imagination, giving us a flight of fantasy – a little story going on in our heads.

There are many ways to know something psychically. Our bodies may get a sensation in the stomach or chest area for example. This is called clairsentience or “clear feeling”. Sometimes, you may just have a knowing which is similar to knowing that you are about to take the next breath.

If you sense an energy which doesn’t belong to you, tell it to return to its original source. Tell the energy with confidence and authority because you are human and you have the power to command spiritual energies. Know your power to command what goes on in your own head! As you become clearer you will perceive psychic energies with greater ease and you will pick up on what is happening in other people’s lives as well. Your mind gradually becomes a blank screen that you can read.

When you have a psychic flash it is clearly apparent that this is a psychic experience and it doesn’t get lost amongst all the other stuff that living a modern life entails.

We need not allow other peoples’ energies, whether they’re individual or global, to run and control our lives, dimming our psychic talents. Something I like to do every day when I burn incense is a little meditation I call “Universal Expansion”.

We always have time to be our true selves, and that is infinite beings which exist beyond time and space. When we realise this fully, we also realise that the energy of others cannot diminish us and we can allow our true psychic self to shine.