I am not 100% accurate on anything and nor would I care to be. I have trouble interpreting information. I mix up timelines. Sometimes when I read for something, they ask about 1 person and I am reading someone totally different. I do not know how accurate any of the information I am getting is until my clients verify it.

Some examples I could give on this would be (I won’t get into specifics, just due to client confidence):
- Giving someone specific details on how their loved one died, with only a name. The person who had crossed over had also given me a name which happened to be their mother–whom this person was good friends with.
- I read for someone who wanted to know about their career, but I ended up telling them very specific details about how their grandmother had died. The only thing I got wrong was that I thought it was a male.
- I did a reading for someone who wanted to know about person A. The details were coming in very clear, but they told me I was incorrect. The details kept coming. Turns out I was reading very accurately about someone else who was on their mind at the moment of the reading.
- With some clients, they will want to know when they will hear from someone. My timing stinks, but with at least 4 of them, like clockwork, if I tell them there will be communication at that time (without them communicating first), the communication comes.
- Once I saw someone getting into an argument with a loved one. I saw glass everywhere in what I mistook as broken glass bottles (the loved one had a drinking problem). That was wrong. It wasn’t glass bottles. The person was pushed into a glass table, which shattered everywhere, by the loved one.

This is just a small sampling of things I have seen, heard or felt. What may be surprising is that I am also a skeptic and I actually don’t believe a whole lot about what the metaphysical community accepts. All I know is that clearly SOMETHING is happening. I attribute this to biology. I believe that these abilities do exist as a form of heightened instinct. Since we no longer need this instinct for finding out where to hunt for food, obtain suitable mates, etc, some of us, still retaining a fairly strong sense of this intuition that has been utilized with the changing of the times.

Concerning whether or not a psychic has ever won the lottery, I know one who has, but it was only $500 and due to religious beliefs, she does not believe she is “psychic.” She had seen the numbers in a dream. On the whole, I don’t think most psychics are able to receive that type of information. I don’t do well with numbers or timing at all. If I could receive lottery numbers, I’d definitely give it a try.

Who knows!

Anyways, I’m always careful about trusting a magician – their whole game is to trick you.

I probably lean more towards what the brains at Princeton have to say.

It’s great to add additional resources from both sides of the argument to the comments, so thanks for that.

If these “agents” and “percipients” were able to replicate these journalled results under test conditions they’d be able to claim a hefty reward from James Randi. Even if they didn’t want the money themselves, they could pass it onto a needy charity.

Why do you think it is that they haven’t done so? The same question can be asked of any claimants of paranormal powers – why don’t they wish to “prove” their abilities (obviously many have tried without success) – yet the reward has stood unclaimed (and growing) for decades.

Further, the “Contact Us” page at your link states that “…the PEAR laboratory has closed…”. You asked: “What do those guys at Princeton know about anything though.”? I guess Princeton U decided enough was enough. But the guys that ran the show have spun-off into their own private organization as explained at the “Future” link at your recommended site. Why? One of their goals is:

Advising corporate efforts dedicated to the realization of beneficial applications in various sectors of society. In this context, we hope to involve cogent entepreneurs and visionary venture capitalists,s for whom the ultimate market deployments could be huge, in mutually profitable collaborations. One such enterprise has been initiated with Psyleron, Inc.”

Again, I reckon if they want a quick, honest buck, they should approach Randi. But maybe “honesty” isn’t part of their mission statement.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/remote_perception.html

After thousands of case studies, they claimed that “remote perception” exist “beyond chance.” They also claim accuracy with “remote perception” is interdependent upon the time or space (you can look at something a thousand miles away 10 years back). What do those guy at Princeton know about anything though. – Mary Kay

Yes, I miss the old iTalktoGod posts. At one point I was compiling a set of questions that I was going to post on your site for you to ask him. This was one of them:

“Why do you give us logic and reasoning skills, but then do not want us to apply these skills when it comes to you?”

Carrie said: Point well taken, and I wish I could answer that. But please understand that those who become aware of information do not always know the timeframes and specifics together, hence my points earlier about the pieces of the puzzle being hard to put together. Sometimes you know timeframes, other times you don’t.

Timeframes are often the most difficult, although there are times when you know without a doubt because it is relevent to the information in some unchangeable way, like 9/11. That’s different than when it applies to things that can be changed from what they currently have the potential to be, like Chicago. We often do not know the difference right away.

Respectfully, I think you understand why people are so hesitant to put theirself out there. Your expectations are that we know all and nail it to the wall when it is rarely that simple. And yes, I understand that under those circumstances it can make even the most genuine advisor look suspect. But that does not make it any less credible.

PD said: Thanks for the discussion Carrie. I look forward to reading about the amazing information you’ve channeled (conduited) from the future.

Please don’t judge the rest by her example.
Namaste,
Carrie A

If you foresaw 9/11 40 days before the event, and that was the regular timeframe for other predictions, then it would be testable. A vision of something happening in Chicago back in 2002 and it still not happening in 2008 starts getting away from predictions and into the realm of probability. Had you said back in 1998 that an earthquake will someday hit China and will kill 50,000 has a high chance of happening. Massive population, shanty towns, poverty and a history of seismic activity tell us that chances are high. But had you predicted it in March or April that it would happen in May, then that’s something special. Then if you can repeat your accuracy, you’d be famous.

Why are there no such near future, accurate sages on the planet now?

Now, nothing has ever come of it and since I don’t know much about Chicago, I can only tell you that other people have given different opinions on what would make Chicago a target.

Although nothing has happened in Chicago that I know of to date (and no, I am not one to keep up with all the latest happenins), I have never gotten a release or feeling as though that concern was removed, only delayed. This is six years ago and I still believe there is a connection of intention there for some reason.

So here’s your fist “someone posted it”. It’s things like this that we pray to God we are wrong about or that there is something that has been deterred or dismantled to prevent these types of things.

And yes, we take alot of ridicule if we are stupid enough to do what I just did and put it out there for the world to know. But I stand by it, as it’s the only honest thing to do.

Parrallel Divergenc:
You make a good point. I guess I never really thought of blogging about things like that. Heck, I don’t think I knew what blogging was in 2001…lol. Really!

But you do make a good point. I imagine someone out there is doing it, although I don’t know of any personally. I will certainly plan to do so myself.

I know people are skeptical. And they should be. There are a lot of opportunity driven people claiming untrue things as with anything else. But there are also genuinely gifted people in this arena who understand the responsibility and the seriousness of it.

I appreciate your openness to at least debate the information and ask questions. It would be great if more people were as receptive.

Respectfully,
Carrie A
Friday, May 16, 2008 6:26 PM by Carrie A

The “Psychic” Debate
I am often asked about how it is that we who claim to have access to information actually obtain that information. I realize, on this topic, my views are different than many and not nearly as “left-field” as some, but it is what I believe. If you are one of the people who reads this and find that my views differ from yours, then that’s how it will have to be. I intend no disrespect to anyone, and you have a right to disagree with me. So, here is my truth, in answer to the questions most often asked about how I seem to have access to information about other people.

First of all, I don’t like the word “psychic” because it seems to imply something mysterious or hoodoo-voodoo about things. I view myself as a conduit for information – information that is not mine, but that I can access and pass along to another person. No disrespect to those who are fine with that title – but myself, I prefer not to use it because of the things people typically associate with the label.

So to the question about the source of the information…

I believe we all share a common connection through our creator, God. Because we share that common connection, we all share a pool of information. Now to pretend that I completely know and understand all of this would be a lie. But I believe that we are all connected together and that those who truly have the ability to tune into this information consciously are those who are to help guide others and facilitate their growth as a person. The spirit has needs, which are usually overridden by the flesh. But we ARE spiritual beings. We are simply housed in a physical body.

To me, this is not about hocus-pocus, voodoo, witchcraft, or anything else normally associated with the word “psychic”. I don’t believe in foretelling people’s future, only helping them to see the potential outcomes based on their current choices. We all have free will to choose, and if we don’t like how things are going, we simply need to make different choices.

I have been aware of my ability/talent/gift (whatever you want to call it) since I was a child, my first clear memory being at the age of five. I was raised by a Pentecostal preacher in the Bible Belt of Texas, and I had a grandfather who was also a Pentecostal preacher. Although I was raised to believe in biblical prophecy and the miracles of Christ (and I do believe), it’s not like I grew up with people who think this stuff is genuine or acceptable in terms of what most people label as psychic. I’ve struggled all my life to reconcile just how I was to use my abilities to help others and why I had access to information about things I could not do anything about. I remember the dreams I had for two weeks about a small child in a car and the feeling of dread and heat and then, after two weeks, the dreams suddenly stopped. The next evening on the news, I saw a picture of the child I had seen in my dreams, and she had suffocated in a hot car. I was devastated. It was a crossroads for me.

The other significant thing that has impacted me is that I knew about what we now call 9/11 exactly 40 days before it happened. I saw things that now make perfect sense, but at the time could have been interpreted several different ways. I knew it was something big and I knew it was New York, but I couldn’t figure it all out. I contemplated going to the authorities, but what was I going to say…”I had this dream of cars and debris on top of fire trucks, firemen trapped, airplane fuel, and buildings coming down”??? They lock people up for less than that, and who would have listened anyway since we’re all ‘crazy and fake’? A friend of mine who I had been sharing my dreams with, was the first to call me when it happened and said “this is what you dreamed”. I knew the buildings were coming down and I couldn’t do anything to stop it. Of course it made sense after it happened, but nothing is ever that simple when you’re trying to interpret the information. It’s like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle when you aren’t sure you have all the pieces and each piece could go several different places.

The other trouble is that people think just because you have this information, that you always know and understand what it means all the time. It is devastating to a degree and difficult to bear when you do not always know the purpose for what information you become aware of. By the same token, there is information that requires discernment, and should be used to help a person without necessarily telling them everything you have been shown. It’s a huge responsibility.

It is for these reasons that I become extremely angry with people who want to play at this, like it’s a school-yard game or act like they know everything about everyone and everything. We weren’t meant to know everything and we should treat what information we do have access to as delicate. You’re dealing with people’s lives and it’s anything but a game.

Maybe I’m just one of those people who you can consider stupid enough to reveal that it isn’t something we can all explain or that we don’t know everything about everything and everyone. But it’s the truth. I don’t believe it comes from any karmic board, any spirit of some famous guru or anything like that, and I believe that anyone who tells you it is should be avoided like the plague. But I do believe that whether or not we can fully explain how it all works, we still have an obligation to use the information wisely and to understand that it comes with tremendous responsibility. My heart aches for anyone who thinks otherwise.

Published Friday, May 16, 2008 10:31 AM by Carrie A

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