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torturednevermo
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Date: February 08, 2015 09:30PM
I love these threads!
The echolocation skill developed by some blind people is something I was thinking about just the other day. It’s obvious (and has been for a long time), that when one of the senses is taken away, people, out of necessity, can develop their other senses beyond the ‘norm’ in order to compensate and adapt to their circumstances. Sighted people don’t need to rely on their hearing as much, so it doesn’t ever hyper develop in this manner. It’s like math … if you don’t need it, you don’t develop the skill. If you do need it, you can develop those pathways in the brain and increase your ability out of necessity. The brain is a pretty amazing thing in its ability to adapt.
The reason I was thinking about this, is because I’ve discussed this with others who feel that the same thing is happening when some people develop psychic and empathic skills that other people just don’t seem to. The concept is that these natural, subtle, psychic skills can hyper develop in victims of childhood abuse as a survival mechanism, much like how blind people will develop an acute sense of hearing. (Not all blind people can echo locate, but most do develop acute hearing as a compensation for their blindness. It can happen with smell too, I knew a blind person who recognized people that way).
I attribute my psychic and empathic abilities to my abusive childhood. I needed to learn to determine how people around me were feeling emotionally, so I could anticipate how I should behave to avoid pissing anyone off, and to detect if I *was* pissing them off. Do I make myself scarce, or is it ok to carry on with my activities, or was one of my grandparents going to create an ‘accident’ and try and kill me again today? Out of this, and under the duress of acute fear for my survival, I learned to literally ‘feel’ what others were feeling around me, and to ‘pick up’ from them what their intentions were.
As an adult now, I notice that rather than reading these things on demand, my ‘feelers’ are usually only activated when someone in my environment has negative feelings toward me, or is out to cause me harm, or stab me in the back somehow. The empathic trait is even more annoying, because it doesn’t involve ‘knowing’ how someone feels; it’s about actually feeling, within yourself, how someone else feels emotionally when they are in proximity to you (think Deanna Troy from Star Trek). It’s actually not a gift; it’s an annoyance outside of a survival situation. It can be hard to differentiate my feelings from someone else’s sometimes, which can be confusing until you learn ways to sort that out analytically.
That’s why I sort of chuckle and roll my eyes at James Randi, he got it backwards. “Come forward and prove to us these great skills.” As if we’re all eager to brag about them (although some do). Actually, most people suffer in silence because these ‘skills’ can often be more of a disability than an asset. Some of us prefer to steer clear of Randi, and instead, just seek out an intuitive healer who can help us learn to deal with this affliction, or help us to understand that we even have it. (Some people don't know they're an empath, and can be very confused until they learn from someone how to deal with it.) Most people are pretty critical, judgmental, and bigoted … are you sure you want to know what everyone around you is thinking and feeling about you?
Anyway, I just thought this was a thread I could throw this out there in, because of the reference to echolocation by the blind and all that. I had already put together my own theory about this by the time I read the same theory in the book ‘The Courage to Heal’. The authors noticed pretty much the same thing in their work with abuse victims regarding psychic abilities. And before you trash the book I just mentioned, I already know all about the backlash against the book. It had a section on organized ritual abuse, which upset many high up people in our world, and made them paranoid they might get ‘outed’ for abuse. So they organized a backlash against the book, and even fought back with their own silly book refuting repressed memory. But I know which side I believe, because I was there as a child with those mason’s, and I saw the crap they pull on children. They know how to repress memories, and it’s obvious they don’t want people undoing all their careful work. What a funny world this is!
There, that’s my controversial contribution for the day. … LOL! :0