Metaphysical Talents

I remember spending years as a graduate student reading libraries of books trying to get my arms around the metaphysical and spiritual world. I just wanted to know whether these metaphysical feats the bible talks about were possible. I stopped searching when I read about the more recent giants of the East, Sai Baba of Shirdi or Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. ‘Miracles’ happened around them, and they had eye witnesses who just lived a generation ago. I stopped searching because I had the answer, never for a moment thinking that I could be performing these feats. Today I only laugh at this exercise. Every day I get Spirit messages. I have long stopped trying to look for them. They find me on a need to know basis. 

For anyone wants to have ‘proof’ that these metaphysical feats are real just hang out in our community. The list of these ‘talents’ my friends have is literally mind-blowing. I sent a survey out to them for my upcoming book, and just describing the reported metaphysical talents could fill pages. Below is a short summery. If you feel called to develop these talents and make good use of them, good. Otherwise, I would take the Laws of Oneness as natural just as gravity is. We are here to experience that we are That, not to build another ego castle how special we are.

Question 4: Do you have a spiritual ‘talent’

(Empath, Psychic, Medium, etc.)

a)    No 

b)   Yes, please share 

The majority of respondents (27) reported having talents that are hard for the scientific folks to get their arms around; 10 people, in contrast, felt that they had no special talent. The list of talents is impressive and would fill pages. For illustration purposes, I share a few quotes below.

Almost everyone in the survey professes to be an empath. As one woman put it, ‘I feel everything 100 percent or more, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am too easily drained by negative people. When you love, you really love and when you break, you are really broken.’ Several men claimed that their empathic abilities made them quite outgoing, ‘I always say the right thing at the right time.’ ‘I always bump into people I know, or that are ready to connect with me.’ ‘I can have conversations with people and make them calm and feel easy.’

A few participants minded the expression ‘talents’ and claimed that everyone has access to these metaphysical abilities. One woman described her abilities in the following way: ‘There was not one singular definite awakening experience for me. I was born awake to more than my ‘singular’ self and perpetually throughout my life have experienced medium-ship, multi-dimensionality, lucid dreaming, visions, clairvoyance, clairaudience, empathic and healing abilities, and a connection to God, the Source, Jesus, and so forth. I can not describe as ‘talents’ more that these abilities are natural and inherent within Consciousness, as part of the expanded individuated experience that everyone has the capacity for at some point. The ‘spiritualized ego’ loves to weave an inflated identity through our attachment to such phenomena.

Mediumship is the ability to connect with departed beings. One other woman claimed that this ability is ever-present for anyone bold enough to reach out to this energy. ‘I am a psychic medium but I will never say that it is a talent or a gift because it is a natural use of our senses open to anyone, the only thing is one has to let go of conditioning and beliefs about it and have no fear.’

A number of survey participants professed to be clairsentient, clairvoyant, and clairaudient. A friend of mine explained clairsentient to me by telling me on the phone across the Atlantic that body sensations I had at that moment. I was flabbergasted! Several clairvoyants in our survey see the future in dreams or visions. One woman gave the following example of what it means to be clairaudient, she said she was getting ready for work on a Saturday and heard the word ‘traffic’ loud and clear. Later that day she was caught in traffic wherever she went whereas traffic ran smoothly in the opposite direction.

This group also had many healers, Reiki masters, tarot readers and one sorcerer. Several women professed that they can see the auras of people. A number of women woman from Northern Europe reported the ability to see and communicate with nature spirits.