By Greg Bishop
Three Psychic Experiences
While many people I know have been blessed or cursed with “second sight,” Only three times have I experienced what might be called “psychic episodes.” It has been noted that some people can only consider ESP and other related phenomena when they have had their own encounters. Perhaps I was primed with a hopeful skepticism before it happened to me. All three incidents occurred while I was publishing my magazine, The Excluded Middle, so there might be some merit here in immersing oneself in fringe subjects, while still maintaining a discerning mindset.
Along about issue #6 of my magazine The Excluded Middle, I tried a “remote viewing” experiment to introduce a contest where I asked readers to guess what was hidden in my house. Anyone who was close enough won the prize. I wanted to try this for myself first, so following the instructions found in Joe Mc Moneagle’s book Mind Trek, I got a friend to hide something in his house, and I did the same. We agreed to meet in a few days to compare notes.
Both of our trials were startlingly accurate. Out of the thousands of objects in my home, he guessed the exact target. I came very close to the one he had hidden. My notes said that the object was a “ball attached to a cylinder or long box, and had a multi-colored look.” It turned out that he had chosen a Pez dispenser with Miss Piggy’s head on the top. Beginner’s luck was working for us that first time, since subsequent trials were disastrously poor.
A few months later, I was rounding the corner driving down my street on my way home. For some reason, I mentally flashed on a package sitting behind the front door. I saw a black plastic bag that I knew was for me. I didn’t worry about how it had been passed through a locked door.
When I opened the door, there was the bag, just as I had seen it in my mind a minute before. Inside it was a t-shirt from the Assassination Museum in Dallas that I friend had left for me. He managed to squeeze it under the door by fitting it around the weather stripping. I only discovered this later when he called, asking if I had received the shirt.
Probably one of the two most important interviews I conducted for the magazine was with parapsychologist Dean Radin. Our conversation was so meaningful to me that I included the entire interview in the book release of Excluded Middle, coincidentally titled Wake Up Down There, which was released in 2000. This personal significance may be part of the reason for my “psychic episode.”
The night before, I was visiting my co-editor Robert Larson at his home. We were having glasses of beer and talking about my troubled marriage and impending divorce. Finishing my glass, I went to the kitchen to wash it out with cold water. As I turned off the water and started to put the glass on a drying rack, there was a loud “pop” and the glass literally exploded in my hand. Pieces flew at least ten feet across the floor. Some shards actually ended up in the laundry room. A few slivers of the glass were still stuck to my hand as I stood in amazement.
During the interview, I told Dr. Radin about this. He thought about this for a bit and said, “Well, don’t you see that this might have been the appropriate thing to happen at this time. You are under stress, and perhaps this was externalized in the breaking glass.”
I was also reminded of the famous episode of the “explosion in the bookcase.”
Jung wanted to know what Freud thought about parapsychological phenomena and precognitions…. Freud never offered a sustained account [of the conversation], but in Jung’s version, he “absolutely” rejected both, which caused Jung to accuse him of “materialistic bias” and to persist stubbornly in describing his own personal experiences. When he told of the knife that shattered [a large knife lying in a drawer in Jung's house had once spontaneously shattered into pieces in the presence of his psychic cousin], Freud “expressed such a flat positivism” that Jung found it difficult “not to respond in a way that would have been a bit too biting.”…
Suddenly, there occurred such a noise from the glass-fronted bookcase in front of which they were sitting that they both jumped, fearing it would fall on them. “Now this is a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon,” Jung insisted. “Oh, no, that is complete nonsense,” Freud replied. To prove his point, Jung insisted that there would be another noise, and immediately there was “an indescribably terrible noise in the cabinet!”
I pointed this out to Radin as an earlier example of “unintentional psychokinesis,” and he agreed that there was a host of anecdotal evidence for these occurences.
There are of course numerous examples of “psychic Michael Jordans,” but many of us make the free throw from across the court only once or twice in a lifetime.
http://www.ufomystic.com/wake-up-down-t ... periences/
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