Provenance

Greetings All.

When the subject of psychic phenomenon arises, multitudes of both explanations and disclaimers abound. Not surprising. The scientific community, religious communities, and medical and psychology communities are quick to disclaim the existence of such phenomenon on the basis of their studies. What cannot be explained by the natural law and order of things is deemed rubbish by scientists, evil by religious authorities, impossible by medical theory, and mental problems according to psychologists.

All of those communities work off of one glaringly consistent fact; the lack of provenance, proof. Their theories have been substantiated by those charlatans who step forward and offer themselves up as test subjects in the belief that they can fool the so-called experts. Such charlatans exist in every community and society; have from the beginning of time. Nothing new there.

Those with 'gifts' of psychic ability (and there are many and varied types of gifts) generally refrain from stepping forward for obvious reasons. Those who have braved the nay-sayers have been branded charlatans themselves, for even as they expose certain of their gifts as proof, someone in one or more of those communities of experts puts a negative spin on the truth, or claims to debunk the effort. It all comes back to what cannot be explained by natural law and order. Skepticism is one thing but refusal to look at something 'uncommon' to the masses is another, and it is that which is uncommon that threatens, and therefore is relegated to the impossible.

In the past few years some headway has been made in the proving of psychic ability. Some well-known psychics and others who prefer to remain anonymous have joined forces with law enforcement agencies and assisted those officials in tracking down criminals otherwise gone uncaught. And while skepticism is still alive and well in the law enforcement community, at least some officials are coming around to realizing the value of psychic ability. They have proof, for where forensic science and profiling has failed them, psychic abilities have solved many crimes.

Provenance, such as visions and dreaming true, has offered up crime scenes, nameless faces, put names to the faceless, discovered unknown evidence in cold cases, described unknown paths, and so on. And even as law enforcement officials back the evidence finder the skeptics attempt to disclaim psychic ability. How ridiculous is that? Jealousy, mayhap? If I cannot do it or do not possess the ability then it is not possible?

Mayhap it is that the nay-sayers cannot get past the lack of 'tangible' proof. Hmm. Is love tangible? Hatred? Desire? One cannot see or touch those yet they are deemed real. Psychic ability is not a scientific, religious, medical, or psychological condition, for it is not a 'condition' at all. It is an ability; an intangible gift. And who is to say the masses were not endowed with such gifts? More like the masses are fearful of possessing what is inexplicable by the experts. Ponder and Blessed May You Be.

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