Why would a person believe him or herself ‘psychic’ or capable of ‘psychic’ abilities?
Firstly, psychic abilities spawns almost entirely from fiction, fantasy, and children’s stories. It’s a popular myth. In reality, psychics are never proven, never replicated, therefore improbable enough to be ruled out completely. If it has never done before then why, all of a sudden, would it be possible now? Thus the first reason for psychic belief is immersion into fantasy. And this is the plight of the modern world, of Modernity. Idealism and fantasy is blurred with, mixed into, reality. Thus modern people cannot tell apart fact from fiction, idealism from realism. A child’s fantasy with waking life. More and more people across the world are succumbing to these seductive and degenerative tendencies. Reality is pushed further and further away by common humanity.
Secondly, there is a simple misnomer and case of mixed up language. The believers here are replacing ‘intuition’ with psychic abilities. By doing this, they are casually switching between meanings, to bolster their case. Because without intuition, the believers really have nothing at all to go on. Thus believers must base psych-ism entirely in the subconscious, the area of ‘feelings’ and premonitions. Psychic ability is not really claimed as a brightly aware, conscious effort of prediction. Rarely or never would you hear a psych-ist claim that psychic powers come purely from intelligent, rational, wise thought. Rather they claim that it comes from ‘unknowning’, “it just felt this way”. Thus a person who is consciously aware, makes predictions based on reason, and gets a large amount of those predictions correct, would not be a ‘psychic’ opposed to somebody who “feels” premonitions and gets them correct only a fraction of the time, or never at all. Thus psych-ists are obsessed with the rarest premonitions, the one in a million occurrences, where somebody gets a wild fabrication semi-accurate. They then focus on this one in a million occurrence that “see, we were right, psych-ism does exist”.
Thirdly, psych-ists, and other believers, those of the religious sort too, cannot be proved wrong. And this is perhaps the most important point. They are so detached from reality that they make it literally impossible to be proved wrong. And because this is so, psych-ism along with other religious belief, dogmatism, fanaticism, puritanism, are all anti-philosophical. When a conclusion is taken as 100% true from the start (psychic abilities must exist) then these believers are working backward from that conclusion. The conclusion is fixed. They are looking for evidence or premises, confirmation, backward. They are starting from the end, and looking for a beginning, to make a case. Philosophically, even amateurs can recognize and its error. Since it is backward, it is irrational. Philosophy almost always starts from ‘unknown’ premises and works toward the known, instead of working from ‘known’ premises (the conclusion) and working toward the unknown.
You don’t know anything in philosophy. And so psych-ists, believers, dogmatists, puritans, must all be doubted. Your claims will not be taken at face value. You are probably lying. You could be stupid. That has yet to be decided. But it will be decided in time.
Fourthly and finally, even if you did have a “psychic claim” and a “psychic ability”, how would you be correct in anyway? These testimonies for psychic experiences are based on correlations. However correlation doesn’t mean much, in reality. Cognition exists to perceive, recognize, and predict patterns. Even children can intuit and recognize patterns, non-verbally. The brain does so naturally, without help, as it has evolved to do. That is the function of the brain and mind. The ‘problem’ then is a matter of description. A child encouraged to call his or her experiences “psychic experiences” are using fantastical terms, mythological, instead of rationally. A non-psychic person could just as well have the same premonitions, same predictions, similar dreams, similar deja vu, but rule out ‘psychic’ experience by matter of the connotation. Just because you have a dream, and it turns true, or you have a unique and special intuition, still doesn’t prove you’re psychic. That is because of the stringent demand implied by the connotation. ‘Psychic’ implies something super-natural, unnatural. Thus if somebody did have ‘psychic’ abilities then it would be apparent, easy to prove, and easy to replicate.
So what do ‘psychic’ people claim? Predictions about future events? Here is a tarot card? Here is a red ribbon? Therefore something will happen within 30 days involving red ribbons. That doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t prove anything. Rather psych-ists, dogmatists, believers, want to believe, and are willing to stretch the truth, bend reality, as far as possible to convince others that they have a semblance of legitimacy, when they don’t.
Keep your bibles…I’m not interested in false gods and false claims. It’s dishonest at the very least. You’re straight lying at the most.