{"id":1962,"date":"2009-09-22T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2009\/09\/are-you-psychic-john-mcmanamys.html"},"modified":"2009-09-22T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:00:04","slug":"are-you-psychic-john-mcmanamys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2009\/09\/are-you-psychic-john-mcmanamys.html","title":{"rendered":"Are You Psychic? John McManamy’s Survey Says Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFellow blogger John McManamy<\/a> runs the most interesting surveys every month on his blog.<\/a> In August he asked his readers how many of them are psychic … or at least intuitive. Here’s what they said. To get to his post click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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“How intuitive are you?” I asked you in a poll I conducted during the month of August. There were seven possible answers – ranging from “psychic” to “sorry,” and you were allowed to fill in as many as you like. One hundred fifty of you came up with 316 answers, or two each, presumably not ones that represented polar opposites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The extremes provide some indication of where you stand. Nearly one in four of you (35, 23%) answered that you were “borderline or full-on psychic, or at least it seems that way.” In contrast, less than one in ten (13, 8%) responded with, “Sorry, I’m totally rational and logical.”<\/p>\n

I highly doubt that we would find so many with psychic tendencies in the general population. I also suspect that a lot less of you would share this kind of information with your psychiatrist. We’ve all had experiences that we can only describe as uncanny and inexplicable. Some of us have them with greater regularity.<\/p>\n

Moving on to straight-up intuition: Four in ten of you (64, 42%) indicated that “my thoughts and ideas seem to come out of nowhere” while more than half (83, 55%) reported that “I often read people and situations like a book.” This represents our bipolar advantage – creativity and seemingly otherworldly mental abilities – as well as our curse – racing thoughts and distractibility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To get to John’s post, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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