Humans all have these psychic 'powers'. It's part of the basic equipment Creation gives us when it puts us on this planet. It is our conditioning and general habitual living that knocks it out of us before we're old enough to understand better.
It's certainly not the case that everyone's abilities 'appear' at 13. Most people go through their entire lives without acknowledging this side of the toolset. Sadly.
What you need, if I may suggest, is a way of fine tuning the skills, so that you are more comfortable with them. It comes with time, but it is very freaky at first.
Mike
-- Edited by Mike Saville at 22:33, 2007-12-04
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We all have "energy skills". The difference between those who develop those skills and those who don't is that the first ones realise they have them...
Esoteric knowledge applied as magic allows the realignment of causal patterns in accordance with acausal processes, producing willed synchronicity. Those patterns inherent to the magician, including will, desire, and belief, form a medium by which the acausality of the operator can intrude into the causal patterns of the self and the world. Anyone conscious of how consciousness impinges upon the body can understand what this means by analogy, but only someone who has not only personal experience of acausal synchronicty, but also the capacity to apprehend its correlation of the subjective with the objective, the internal with the external, and the unmanifest with the manifest, can have the gnosis of it.
Finally, it is necessary to consider the extent to which these faculties must be associated with profane self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-consciousness. It is known that there can be unconscious magicians, natural mystics, and so forth. How is this possible if magic depends upon arcane consciousness? The consciousness being referred to in the case of the arcane is a category of consciousness, much as dreaming consciousness, hypnotized consciousness, trance consciousness, and so forth, and is not to be confused with consciousness itself. As such, a persons profane consciousness may be entirely unaware of and unable to apprehend other faculties of consciousness available to the same body. The analogy is that of the somnambulist or the savant. Thus, in the same way that the savant may achieve greater feats than the expert, albeit often with less consciousness and control, so the natural magician might achieve the extraordinary.
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