I once knew a girl in school who could sometimes and quite accurately tell us things like whether a teacher would be absent that day or her own marks in a certain paper before the results. Though we held her in awe but never really thought much about her abilities except concluding the phenomenon as a exceptionally good gut feeling. Well, now when I come to think of it, my childhood friend was a psychic having a well developed psychic power of precognition.
Psychic power refers to the ability of perceiving information from one’s surroundings which are otherwise hidden from the five sensory organs. Thus, a person can be termed a psychic if he/she has the special ability to see, hear, feel or know certain things which other people cannot. Commonly known as extra sensory perception, psychic powers are believed to be born with or developed after a tragic near death experience or a major event in a person’s life which might have turned him towards a spiritual lane. Whatever might be its origin, it has a profound impact on the person’s life being perceived as either a special gift or a curse.
Precognition, telepathy and clairaudience are the three most common psychic powers seen in the world. While the first refers to the ability of predicting the future, the second involves reading another’s thoughts, while the last one involves seeing things which are hidden or far away.
In case of telepathy, the psychic is able to know what is going on in another person’s mind or what he is feeling. This power varies from a level of mere knowing what he feels or wants to do, to an advanced level where the psychic can infuse his own thoughts into the his mind.
If you have the special ability to see things which are hidden or are occurring at a distance then you have the psychic power of clairvoyance. A clairvoyant person is capable of remote viewing of things, events or persons which are thousands of miles away. In contrast to remote viewing, if a person can hear or know about things which are otherwise hidden, the psychic powers are termed clairaudience and clairsentience respectively.
Precognition on the other hand refers to the psychic power to foresee future events and predicting the same. Since human beings have an innate desire to know about his/her future, this psychic power is the most popular and psychics possessing this are in great demand.
Other than that of these three psychic powers discussed above, there are various other types of psychic powers. These include the power of taking off from the ground to a higher plane know as levitation, power of influencing things and moving them around with the power of your thought or psychokinesis, power to perceive another person’s energy fields radiating from him/her known as aura reading, power of communicating with outside intelligence known as channeling or the psychic power of leaving your own body to travel to another place, known as astral projection.
There are many times when a psychic thinks of himself/ herself to be cursed, for not being able to live a normal life like that of others. But it can be concluded that psychic powers are special powers that only chosen individuals possess. Hence one should always consider it as a blessing and use it for the benefit of all fellow human beings.


