Sceptics are everywhere. They might be your classmates or workmates, people you meet by accident (coincidence?) or people who contact you just to “confirm” your claims. Not every sceptic wants to debunk you at all costs, some just want to learn the truth, and some just are not aware of the proofs out there.
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And the proofs for the reality of psychic phenomena are really there, one just need to look around. Imagine you’re talking with a sceptical person about psychic experiences others had or you had. My first advice is to always speaks of objective, not subjective facts – if you don’t have to, don’t tell people you’re a psychic :). Anyway, in a discussion about the reality of psychic phenomena people in most cases start with general phenomena happening on the world – so they need scientific proofs.
Scientific way to deal with sceptic
Even if you’re talking about your own psychic abilities, then it’s good to start with explaining that psychic phenomena is the real thing. The most popular way of people trying to debunk all your psychic or paranormal claims is to say “there are no proofs, the scientific world says it’s impossible“. Fortunately for us, such sceptics are wrong and there’s a lot of scientific proofs for reality of psychic phenomena. You can easily defend yourself by reminding people and mentioning the following:
- Stanford Research Institute research on psychical phenomena such. There were hundreds if not thousands of research on Remote Viewing, telepathy, precognition and psychometry, not mentioning psychokinesis there. Most of which were sponsored by the government by the way.
- Rhine Research Centre does store a lot of documents about real psychic and paranormal experiences, and their archives are filled with date from Zener and Ganzfeld experiments (don’t forget to explain people how does these experiments looked like).
- Rupert Sheldrake collected a lot of statistical and scientific data about telepathy (both between people and animals) and wrote few books on the subject.
- Organizations like Society for Psychical Research from the United Kingdom have collected a lot of date in over 100 years of existence as well as performed lot of experiments in very scientific conditions, and they continue to work today.
- Dean Radin done a hell of a job to collect scientific data about psychic phenomena from all around the world and presented the results of his work in his books.
It is a common way to debunk scientific claims by mentioning they’ve been performed by amateurs, but as you can see, SRI or RRC aren’t very amateur, are they? There’s also one more thing you have to remember when defending the reality of psychic phenomena. If you aren’t a genius with IQ 200, it might be difficult to memorize all the scientific proofs, therefore always remember to admit you don’t recall everything, but if the sceptic want, you can prepare for him a list of books (like Best Evidence) on the subject to read, or you can continue the discussion when you will bring your own books with you. If the sceptic will deny this, then just end the discussion as there’s no point of talking if you have to rely only on your memory.
In most cases the above works because the sceptic does not have any way to deny the scientific research.
Personal claims
When it comes down to your own personal psychic experiences (and it will come to this, I assure you) and someone says you might have misinterpreted your feelings and in reality, you weren’t experiencing anything paranormal there are also few ways to deal with that kind of talk. Here they are:
- Remind your best experiences with psychic energies – do you remember the best experience you ever had with energy manipulation, something that you know was real? I had something like this, I was able to sense the energy only when I was intentionally drawing it into my energy system. This experience is one of the best that proved I’m not crazy :).
- Remind your most successful psychic readings – if you have ever performed a psychic reading, then try to recall the most successful psychic reading you ever had, when the person you was doing a reading for confirmed all or most of the things you sensed using your abilities.
- Remind your most successful psychometry sessions – you can also recall the best psychometry session you had, when you touched the object, talked about it and most of the things or everything you said turned to be correct.
- Remind some literature – this one is personal. I studied a lot and experienced a lot, and finally created many techniques on my own, and after some time I read Debra Katz’s book on psychic devel0pment, where she discussed every single technique of clairvoyance and other forms of ESP I ever came up with. I have no idea how I did it, but everything she wrote I discovered on my own.
Emphasize the fact that for you, these experiences are enough to prove other uses of psychic abilities were real. The sceptic might still say you have no proofs that you haven’t faked all of the above (regarding personal claims) but – it’s not about the fact you might be lying, but about how you feel about these things. Don’t try to fight the person saying you faked stuff because if you feel OK with the personal proofs you recalled, the fact the sceptic doesn’t believe you does not matters at all.
Will that be all? I’m sure not, everyone might have personal way to deal with scepticism. Do you have any methods you would like to share?
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Post published: March 11th, 2010
