I prayed that God would bless my efforts.
I can only do this much.
I mentioned 4 reasons why a psychic is chosen: birth chart, powerful ancestors, good heart, crucial times. The list is not exhaustive.
But how does a psychic know that he or she is chosen? What are the signs? I will mention 2. This list is also definitely not exhaustive.
The first indication of a psychic in the making is that he or she receives a call, usually at a very young age. (From this point on, I will use the masculine, but females are just as capable of receiving the psychic call, perhaps even more so.) The call may come in the form of dreams and visions. He may dream of a particular spirit, god, or guardian angel. Or he may be given visions or hear important prophetic messages. Or he may be able to see spiritual entities with his own physical eyes.
Children at a younger age are more able to see these things. As they grow older, usually their spiritual sensitivity disappears. But there will be a small minority of people who grow up and continue to have the ability to sense spirits or their messages. Some may suppress their abilities in order to function normally in this physical world, but the abilities resurface many years later due to a ‘trigger’.
This ‘trigger’ is the second indication of a psychic in the making. It usually comes in the form of very intense suffering. If the psychic resists the call, the ‘spirits’ use the ‘last resort’ to get his attention. The native may suffer from an unknown illness, meet with various accidents, move from job to job, face bankruptcy, be misunderstood by friends and family, or all of the above. He will experience very bad luck in whatever he does, for a prolonged period of time. Birth charts have good or bad luck cycles. The native may be running a good luck cycle, yet all these bad things are still happening to him, one after another. So he has no choice but to address the issue. This is similar to the '黑令旗' example.
When the psychic finally wakes up to accept his calling and aligns himself with it, all the bad luck suddenly disappears. This doesn’t happen to anyone. It only happens to very few people.
Do take note. Just because you have bad luck for a prolonged period of time doesn't automatically mean you are psychic. In fact most people who experience bad luck for a long time are not psychics. They bring the bad karma upon themselves, they do bad deeds, they don't put in enough effort to change their lives. Or as mentioned, someone might have placed a curse, but these cases are few and far between.
There are very few real psychics in the world, and many false ones. I am not psychic, and have never claimed to be one. I am an astrologer, and a consultant. My work mainly focuses on natural skills related to cognition, logic, counselling. Once in a while, I do have intuitive 'flashes' but they don't come that often. Edgar Cayce is different.
In May 1889, when Cayce was 12 years old, an angel visited him and asked him what he wanted. He replied that he wanted to help people, especially sick children. The angel said his wish was granted. When he became a young adult, he was struck with an unknown illness. He lost his voice for no reason, and got it back only after hypnosis. He moved from job to job. He tried his hand at photography, but his shop was burned down – twice. He finally filed for bankruptcy. At the end of his rope, Cayce finally embraced his calling, working for long hours, channelling his Higher Power and healing people one by one. It must have taken a toll on him as he died at age 67.
Mediums need to take care of their bodies due to the incompatibility between the ‘heavier’ physical constitution and the ‘lighter’ spiritual realm. That’s why many Buddhists and Hindus are vegetarian. It makes their bodies more spiritually receptive.
Cayce never charged for his readings. He survived through the generous donations of people whom he helped. He never took advantage of his fame to gain glory for himself. His sole purpose was to help people, and remained humble because he knew the person who did all the wonderful work wasn’t him. Some of his readings and predictions were wrong. Sceptics criticised him severely, but his accurate readings far outweigh his inaccurate ones.
Consider a Biblical example: the sign of Jonah. He resisted the call of God in his life. Instead of going east to preach in Nineveh, he boarded a ship to escape west. God sent a tsunami. The sailors performed divination and realised that it was Jonah’s fault. After throwing him overboard, the seas immediately became calm and a whale swallowed Jonah for 3 days.
After the whale spewed him out, he repented and preached against Nineveh. He predicted Nineveh’s destruction, but in the end God spared the city, rendering Jonah’s prediction inaccurate. Jonah became angry at God.
Remember that Jonah’s inaccurate prediction did not make him a false prophet, just as Edgar Cayce’s wrong predictions did not discredit him. The issue is deeper than that. Wrong predictions can actually serve a greater good.
To sum up, the 2 indications are: receiving the psychic call usually at a young age, and the ‘trigger’ of intense suffering if one refuses the call. These indications are experienced universally by Western psychics, Christian prophets, Eastern shamans, Chinese mediums. You will realise that the pattern is mostly the same, except that the initiation rituals and the names given to the gods are different. The story is the same, the characters different.
In another separate post I will discuss whether you should pursue a psychic calling.
