I can assure you that I have not discounted this subject quickly. I have studied this for years as a have many others and when psychic successes are dissected there are logical resons for what was found.
I have no doubt you believe what you had were paranormal experiences. I refer you to James Randi's site debunking this stuff at http://www.randi.org
I don't expect you to embrace the skeptic view but you may find some interesting points there. Thanks for the discussion.
Thanks for the information, I'll check it out. It is good to be a skeptic, most people that claim to do this are frauds & only in it for the money. I'm not saying so much that I've had paranormal experiences - I believe it's more a matter of some people having a highly tuned intuitive skill. I believe your subconscious picks up on more than your conscious does & sorts it out & makes sense of it, mine seems to happen when I am totally relaxed & asleep. Flashes of insight, I guess would be more accurate than "seeing the future".
Like I said, it's not something I care to delve into - I think you could get into some real trouble - I think people who try to communicate with the dead & such - sometimes get a lot more than they bargain for. It's like opening a window - you never know who's going to enter it, sometimes it is Satan tempting you with such "gifts".
James Randi begins on the premise that he is a skeptic. . .but he has always assumed the impossibilities of 'the psychc'; and his investigations are no more than a personal testimony to his determination to confirm his belief in the Randi Psychic is Bunk theory.
His investigations; while they bear honest asssesments; are nonetheless, in many cases a 'truth stretched or shaped' to meet his core belief. His investigations bring one no more to a higher 'truth of the matter' than do those investigations done by a 'true believer' who begins - and ends - with a confirmation of psychic reality.
What IS necessary is an unbiased and open - but discerning - mind when approaching 'psychic/paranormal' research (as is required for any honest, credible inquiry/research, for that matter,of course). All to say, that James Randi as a disbeliever gets one no further to the 'truth of the matter' than the researcher who is already convinced that all psychic phenomena is genuine; and is determined to prove just that.
Meantime, there ARE numerous books that discuss well-researched/well documented laboratory experiments where 'statistical probabilities' are challenged by their results.
We cannot discount the role of 'observer' here as well (as per quantum physics/Heisenberg Principle etc. . .) which in itself. . .leads one to what might be described as seemingly 'paranormal' - if not mystical - considerations; if not translated as unreal. . .or just 'erroneous'.