Indicators of the Ability

   According to U Gaun, in You Can't Escape Destiny, "There is no reality. There is no thing and no nothing. There is no body and no nobody. There is only what there is, and that is not. Only change is constant, and only consciousness can see it. What the consciousness sees, it sees."

   A great many people have the Ability to some extent, but are unaware of it. They use it intuitively, and often assume that this is "normal" and that everyone else can do the same.

   Here is a partial list of indicators that you have the Ability. You may have experienced only one of these, or many of them.

Medical and somatic

  • When there is an infectious disease (e.g., the flu) around, a simple wish protects you from it. Or some ritual reverses the onset of the disease: for example a scratchy throat disappears when you ask your immune system to get rid of it.
  • When you or someone else suffers a minor injury, "kissing it better" or an equivalent works to reduce or eliminate pain, or actually heals.
  • The placebo effect works strongly for you. You're told it's a sugar pill. You take it, and get better anyway.
  • "I feel tired and put the coffee percolator on. Long before it starts boiling, I feel fresh." Thank you, Gary Clough.
  • You can make a headache go away by thinking, "It's only a twinge."
  • The opposite is true too: you can talk yourself into being sick.
  • You have an addiction or other habit you want to stop, make the decision to, and it's gone. There is no longer any desire for doing the unwanted activity.
  • When you've had to miss a meal, you can stop feeling hungry, for example by imagining you've just eaten (perhaps eaten a specific meal).
  • During meditation, or other quiet time, you have had an 'out of body' experience: see your own body and other objects from the outside. This could involve 'astral travel:' experience this spirit component going elsewhere while still connected to your body.
  • You're effective in healing, relieving pain, and soothing emotional distress by Reiki or other laying of hands on another person. People say you have 'healing hands.'
  • You can make yourself comfortable in any non-lethal temperature. For example, if it's cold, you can make up your mind to feel warm anyway, without needing more clothes.

    Wishing power

  • Things seem to fall into place when you're organising something. Needed resources turn up, fortunate accidents happen.
  • You can make wishes that come true. An especially strong indicator is if something needs to have happened before the wish was made.
  • Synchronicity: apparent coincidences happen, with no possible causal relation, but there is obvious meaning. For example, you think of a friend, and that person phones you.
  • Someone is facing a challenge. You strongly wish for them to succeed, and they do, beyond expectation. The opposite can also be true: you wish for the person to fail, and they make unaccountable mistakes. However, doing this disqualifies you from joining Bill's team.
  • You can influence things depending on chance, such as the roll of dice, or the appearance of an ace in a card game.
  • When you deeply and honestly pray for something, it happens.
  • You send out a wish, such as wanting a parking spot in a particular place, and a car is just pulling out of there as you arrive.
  • You want to buy some object, perhaps something unusual, and it's on special.

    Telepathy

  • Animals seem to know what you want them to do. They can sense when you intend them no harm. Wild animals and birds may approach you with trust.
  • You respond to other people's need without previously knowing about the problem. For example, you feel like phoning your daughter, who then tells you she needed cheering up.
  • Often, you know what someone else is going to say in advance, yet this was not predictable from the content of the conversation.
  • You often correctly know another person's thoughts. This is confirmed by the other person.
  • You correctly sense someone's emotions, even when they show no visible signs. As with thoughts, the other person agrees you've got it right.
  • When you put your mind to it, you can correctly state what someone else is doing, a long distance from where you are.
  • You can sense when someone is watching you.

    Environmental manipulation

  • Flies, mosquitoes and similar pests bother everyone else but you.
  • You can find a lost object by some ritual like visualising it.
  • Children with strong Ability often play games like translocating an object from one place to another, helping themselves to a biscuit from a remote location, or changing the shape or appearance of a toy.
  • You can reliably find water through dowsing. (It's you who finds the water, not the dowsing rod!)
  • You can cheat in exams, games like Trivial Pursuit, etc., by "receiving" the answer. However, those who do so in order to win unfairly will not qualify for Bill's team.

    Influencing others

  • You can cheer up sad people simply by wishing for them to feel better.
  • Similarly, you can soothe anger, turn hate into tolerance, and so on, at least for some people, through a wish.
  • Intuitively, perhaps without even realising it, you tend to bring the best out of people.
  • You can convince people of just about anything. This makes you a fantastic debater. However, if you use this in any harmful way, you are barred from joining Bill's team.

    Prescience

  • You have dreams that come true. These dreams may or may not be different from other dreams.
  • Precognition: too fast for thought, you know you need to do something. You do it, and a disaster is averted. For example, on a narrow, winding road, you suddenly steer for the verge, and a speeding car passes through the space you've been in a second ago.
  • Also, you sometimes experience a longer term belief or 'feeling' about what's coming, which is borne out by later events. For example, you refuse to go on a trip, or prevent a loved one from doing so -- and later, the car is involved in a smash.
  • You respond to someone else's need without knowing it was needed. For example, you decide to give a gift to a friend, to find the person desperately needs just that.
  • On guard duty, you know when someone is approaching, before there is sensory evidence for it. This may apply to approaching humans, or animals, or both.
  • A distant place is mentioned, and you feel exactly as if you were there, for example react to the air temperature in the other location.

       If you know of (or personally experience) other indications of the Ability, please email me with them. Your reward will be a free electronic book.

     

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