well has a child i was observing and analysing other people. and when i saw that the world was a carcass and seing no way out i went in. solved the duality of those veils of the mind and leaved the world and went to god the source or what ever name you want to name it. i could have stay there but decided to come back here to experience what i add decided to come here and experience. so experience and enjoy.

Honestly, personally I don't really remember how exactly I learnt about Law of Attraction, manifestation etc.

I chanced about the original Psitek site while surfing randomly around some other forums (link provided by a member) and nothing about the books seemed not believable to me. Like, my belief systems seemed to not reject them immediately unlike most of my friends whom I tried asking them to just take a look at some of these books before..

Maybe it is just that I never did believe coincidences were really just merely coincidences.. there are too much factors involved in a coincidence. Like if you meet a person you have never met on a train, there are too much factors involved that it can't be purely classified as a coincidence (at least to me) - i.e. there are probably 10 + parts on a train, and just by coming out of your house 1 second later might cause you not to meet that person as you should have..

Dear Geo,

My experiances as well started in childhood. Like yourself I also prefered adults to children for they were more interesting as far as I was concearned. Children bored me but my mum would tell me go play with your friends, children shouldn't listen to grown up talk.

I have allways had wonderful dreams many of which were prophetic and come true. I thought this happened to everyone and was perfectly normal. My mom could predict if a family member would pass away by having dreams beforehand of them saying goodbye to her. I supose you could say I inherited some of my moms psychic abilities.

I have always had a facination with fortunetellers and even as a child would go to the gypsies in our village to have my fortune told. It is something I still today get tempted to do for it fasinates me. They too seem to be attracted to me for I have come across many in my life and work that has nothing to do with fortunetelling. If I befriend someone sooner or later I will find out that they are eather healers or astrologers or tarotcard readers or somethin simmilar.

This seemed to progress to being able to know what others think and it was quiet a shock to discover that what people say on the outside can be totaly the opposite of what they think and feel on the inside. I didnt like this happening to me as it isn't allways nice to know what others are thinking about and I felt as if I was intruding on others personal privacy. I tried everything to get rid of this but had no idea how. Thank goodness over the years I have learned to switch off which makes my life a lot easier.

After that come feeling others emotions and actualy feeling their physical pain. Well needless to say I thought I was going nuts for how is that possible but possible it is and today it is happening to more and more people and mostly they dont know that it isn't theirs but someone elses pain and emotions they are feeling. It took me quiet a while to learn to deal with this but thank goodness I met a friend at gym and guess what, she knew all about thing like this and helped me. See what I mean when I say such people are attracted to me. She is an accountant, astrologer, tarot card reader, Reiki practicioner and yet we meet at gym in Portugal only to discover that for most of our grown up lives we were living in the same neigbourhood (not in Portugal) and didn't know each other.

Things like this happen to me all the time. Whatever I need or want whenever I need it it will simply apper in my life to such an extent that I now believe 100% that if I need soemthing it will be there soon. I will give you an example: One day while having tea with this same friend we were discussing The Power Of Now book by Eckhardt Tolle. My friend sugessted I should read a book called "Awareness" by Anthony de Mello which is also about living in the moment. I said the next time I go overseas I will buy the book for even though I live next door to a library in Portugal they dont have any english books. About three weeks later as I was walking past the library I saw people rumiging in a box on the sidewalk full of books that the library doesn't want. Being an inquisitive human being my eye fell on a book that stopped me in my tracks. It was Anthony de Mellos "Awareness" and in English. I simply couldnt believe my luck so needless to say I went rumiging in the box as well. Got three spiritual books in english and considered myself very lucky.

Later I become a Reiki Master and even took a course on how to use a pendulum. During healing I would see angels (not with physical eyes but with my minds eye.) Love the Angels as they help with peoples problems. I also see people that have passed on and even though I have been told that I'm a natural medium I try to avoid this as I have no interest in being a medium. Also at times I can channel but try to avoid this as well. The one gift that I love is being able to ask a question before sleep and waking up in the morning with an answer.

Even though most of the time I try to supress the psychic stuff (all except the healing for I love that part of it) it is true that what you supress you attract. Well that is all for now. Hope I didnt bore you.

If you have read all the answers thus far, and have finally gotten to mine...thank you for your persistence! :o)

I have my Dad to thank for interest in the "Other Side of the World".

I, too, preferred adults to children, as others have mentioned. I also have a psychic parent- in my case, my father. Dad had many experiences which he recounted to me of an "Other-Worldly Nature"--I will not recount them here. :o) Suffice to say, I guess I inherited it all from his side. I know that his mother went to seances along with my great-aunt. The occult was fascinating to his whole family.

So I learned about all sorts of neat stuff from my Dad. My favorite books were a set of encyclopedias...I read them all the time, and so my head is literally stuffed with a lot of really boring trivia. But that is the kind of kid I was...Anyway, Daddy and I used to sit and talk for hours about outer space, psychic stuff, dreams, science, astronomy, ESP, angels,-oh, everything that we talk about here on IQ.

My Dad was taken away from me by a sudden heart attack in 2006. I miss him dreadfully. But finding IQ in 2009 has been like talking with Dad once again. I truly believe that Dad helped me manifest all that followed- especially finding a like mind in Wade.

I have had many paranormal experiences- the biggest and most important I recount here. Since I am a Shaman, I travel to the "Other World" to help people. It seems perfectly natural to do this. I especially enjoy my visits to Grandfather Coyote, who is the Guardian Spirit of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon (Boy, is he mad about that river). You can read about Grandfather and how he proved he was real here. Please check out this link if you really want to get the chills!

I thank you for asking this question!

Blessings and Peace this Holiday Season 2011,

Jai

As a young child, my life was saved by an angel. I believe the story is someplace here on IQ. Just a couple of years later when I was eight, I had a vision despite atheist parents and no religious instruction at all. These two things opened my mind just a bit.

Even so, I was an adult, in my 20's, with my own children before I thought much of anything other-wordly in a serious manner. One of my daughters talked very early in her life, and could speak in complete sentences already by age one. She began to tell me about her "other family" and "other Mommy" that she'd had in her previous life, and about the island she had lived on. There was daily contact with dolphins, and they ate clams and fish, and they combed their hair with a special type of seashell. There was no way a 1 year old would have had knowledge of these things. I didn't discourage her and began researching reincarnation, which lead me to the Edgar Cayce readings and books.

One thing lead to another!

From as far back as i can remember ... have a great day

I also preferred adult conversations to childs' play when I was a kid. As a child, I had many deep deep conversations with adults about God, the universe, etc... I sought out religious ceremonies, celebrations, services, etc... I had a really difficult childhood. I learned that it was my choice to be happy or not.

As an adult, I have studied religion, Christianity mostly, but I did take a world religions class in college. I have had conversations though with buddhists, christians, pagans, Jehova's whitnesses, mormons, Seventh day adventists etc...

I have had many 'insights'. The most exciting thing is for me to read or watch something that scientifically confirms what I have discovered on my own. It is strange when there are actual laws about it and everything.

I was journalling before I found this site almost a year ago. I stopped journalling for the most part because I had this site to post my ideas and get imediate feedback. However, since it is a question and answer forum, I have been slowed to posting my ideas as they come up in questions, or posting my own questions to open a discussion.

When I was a kid, I felt like 1. I was an actress in a movie and soon, I would be done and go home 2. I felt like I had been left here, abandoned, that I didn't really belong here 3. I was in a dream and hoped I would wake up soon

I think I was born this way. Always different from the "pack"... I had imaginary friends who were spirits. Intuitive, open, inquisitive, always questioning - always seeking answers to questions that had NO answers. I guess it took a dark night of the soul... and another one.... I'm a work in process - Wish I could " master" true faith...........