psychic!

This is the page where i will write my research onto. for school, our class unit is MYSTERIES PSYCHIC ABILITIES..... 

Josie Mrs. Crawford Connections- Section 1 27 March 2009 __Psychics! Real or Not?__ Some people believe that there is another world beyond what the average human can sense. Do you believe in psychics? Psychics are people who can experience things through seeing, hearing, feeling, or any other sensation, but they can do sense or control that are //definitely// not the ordinary. You may think of psychics as crazy people who can see the future, but that’s not even the half of it. There are many mysteries in this world, and this research paper will try to see if psychics are real or not. So far, nobody knows for sure.

Wikipedia defines PSYCHIC as: "The word **psychic** (pronounced [|/ˈsa][|ɪ][|k][|ɨ][|k/] ; from the Greek psychikos—"of the soul, mental") refers to a claimed ability to [|perceive] information hidden from the [|normal senses] through what is described as [|extrasensory perception], or to those people said to have such abilities. It is also used to refer to [|theatrical performers] who use [|techniques] such as [|prestidigitation] and [|cold reading] to produce the appearance of such abilities. It has also been used to describe the belief of the ability of the mind to influence the world physically and telekinetic powers some claim to demonstrate, such as [|Uri Geller]" (Wikipedia). Psychics can be living anywhere, and can be born into our world at any time. It is not known why some people are psychics; it could just be something that happens in the birth process. That is, if psychics are even real. Everyone wants to believe they are a psychic, even though it might be a one in a million chance. Still, if there are 20,000,000 people, there are 20 one in a million experiences every day. Some people may be psychics, and not even know it, because they have not learned how to control their powers. There are many interesting types of psychic abilities. There’s Clairvoyance, meaning the ability to see into the future, or other things that normally cannot be seen. A Clairaudient can hear beyond what normally can be heard. There’s even such a thing as a Clairscentient, a person who can smell things that normally can’t be smelled. Some strange psychic abilities that you most likely have not heard of are Geloscopy (learning about people through the way they laugh), Alomancy (throwing salt into the air and finding information by reading the way it lands onto the ground), Axiomancy ( throwing an axe into a tree and observing the break points), lastly, and probably the weirdest, Bumpology (the study of bumps on a persons head, and learning things from that). These are not the only types of psychic abilities. There are many, many more.

One supporting theory of psychics is that everyone has a psychic ability, but some just have it way stronger than others. For example, you could have very good eyesight, and be able to pick out things others cannot. Well, Clairvoyant psychics have that too, just multiplied by a hundred or two! Or say you can see or feel ghosts. Some psychics have that too; they just have it so strongly that they can communicate with ghosts! Many people do believe in psychics, yet many don’t, too.

The major theory against psychics is that everything is just made up, because there is no scientific evidence. Some say people just //want// to believe in psychics because they want to know there is an afterlife or that there are super humans or angels to look after them. I, personally, do not believe that psychics exist, but these experiences may change your mind.  "S ince about two years, I have been able to know how people are feeling. After that, in October 10 of 2008, approximately, a friend made me a full ESP test. I got high results in empathy, telepathy and clairvoyance. I believed in the test and some days after that, a friend of mine, who is excellent simulating emotions at a level that no one notices how is she feeling, was feeling very depressed. Nobody even noticed it, but I told her and she believed it was a coincidence. Some days after that I could tell her everyday how she was feeling, and she told me that I am the only person she has met that can read her emotions. At the same time I started reading her, I could do it with lots more friends, that also cover their feelings pretty well. I could tell how was another friend of mine feeling and why, he was mad because she fought with her parents. Another example is this other guy in my school, only two people have psychoanalyzed him, but that was by going from question to question. By only looking for a few seconds at his eyes I saw he was pretty mad at himself, because his ego made him fight with the girl he secretly loves." (Psychic Experiences)
 * I Can Read People's Feelings**

Marilyn Monroe's Ghost
"It is claimed that **Marilyn Monroe**'s Ghost now haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. At the height of Marilyn Monroe's fame, she often stayed at the hotel where her ghostly image is seen in a full-length mirror that once hung in her poolside suite. (The mirror has been relocated to the hotel's lower level by the elevators.) The ghost mirror now hangs in the lobby where many people clain to see her image gazing through the glass. The //ghost of Marilyn Monroe// has also been seen hovering near her tomb at Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. **The Ghost of Marilyn Monroe** is also said to haunt the house in Brentwood Brentwood where she died and hovers over the exact spot where she took the fatal dose of sleeping tablets. Some psychics have claimed that Marilyn Monroes's death was not a suicide, but an accident." (Psychic Company, UK)

 by Laurel "My great grandma died last year, and when I moved in my mom and I had to sleep in the room that she died in. At first I was a little freaked out by this, but when I got used to it I never even thought about it. But then one night at 2:00 a.m. I had the most violent apparition / vision / dream / OBE / hallucination - I don't have any idea what. This happened about a year ago. I went to bed at the usual time, which was around 10:00 p.m. and it was just a normal day like any other (seriously). I fell asleep almost immediately. The next thing I knew, I was rapidly levitating out of my body and into the air around me. For a second I could see my body below me, and then the atmosphere changed into a very beautiful, otherworldly place. It was almost euphoric, and at the same time I was aware that I was not asleep. There was a cool, light breeze going through the air and I was levitating above a shallow stream that was crystal clear and had ferns and other plants growing around it. Suddenly, I began to free fall and as I did, the atmosphere quickly faded back into the room my body was lying in and I landed with a jerk. I awoke to try and tell my mom what just happened to me, but she didn't really seem to care. So I went back to bed shaken and a little giddy. As I was falling asleep, I heard a faint chirping sound coming from out of what at first I thought was the kitchen. As it got louder, it seemed to come nearer like it was flowing out of the dining room. The next thing I knew I was being violently ripped from my body by two shadowy, transparent figures. At first they looked like my mom and my grandma, but then they seemed to take on some other form. I saw myself curled up in a tight ball on the living room floor with my ears covered and I was screaming blood-curdling loud. The chirping sound was now so loud that it seemed to block out every thing around me, including my mom and grandmother yelling at me and asking me what was going on. I couldn't believe they didn't know. But hey, neither did I. I was outside of my body watching all of this when the room began to fill with shrouds of pure white tissue/smoke. They began to swirl around me. I was crying insanely and I rushed back to my body, but I couldn't get back in! There were two "ghosts" or two white, misty, luminescent puffs of matter with their hollow eyes staring immortally into my souls eyes. At this point I was sick with horror. Then the two ghosts turned around and gave me one last haunting stare into my eyes, and dissipated." (About: Paranormal Phenomena)
 * Terrifying OBE** 

So now that you have read all of this, have you been convinced that psychics are real? Or do you still believe it’s made up junk? Well nobody can know for sure if psychics are real or not, so we’ll just have to keep waiting and wondering. Remember, psychics are people who can do things beyond the ordinary, with many unusual powers. I hope that you learned many things from this paper!



