Being a rationalist who has had similar experiences, I’m not going to discount you nearly as clearly as most seem inclined to do. In my experience it only did a few predictive party tricks, which in critical retrospect were ultimately ambiguous enough to attribute to overly optimistic interpretation, but various other aspects of the interaction were undeniably uncanny, and the likelihood of intentional manipulation on the hand of one of the participants, for various reasons – The deliberateness with which the planchete responded, its behavior when in “idle mode”, turnover of participation using the board, all stuff I can only characterize subjectively-- seemed very low. I’ll spare y’all the precise details unless asked, though. .
Now I’m a happy atheist, so I don’t buy any of the demons/angels/ghosts/spooky spirits controlling the board crap either. Other plausible explanations I came up with include:
Automatism, ie subconscious control by one or more people involved.
Inadequately understood “psychic” phenomena at work- the kind of thing that might be called science someday but is currently inaccessible to our scientific methods.
I walked away from my experiences with the board with no adequate answer to what was going on, unable to dismiss the incidents but also without a solid explanation worked out for it. This led me into a pet argument that what we call the “supernatural” is merely a subset of natural phenomena that we don’t yet grok via science, and end up having to rationalize with mystical, hand-wavey explanations (superstition, religion, magic, pseudoscience) in order to make the world a less unpredictable place. Empiricism runs into trouble with non-reproducible phenomena, which makes this stuff a lot harder to access via scientific methods as they currently stand.
It could be the mother, father and/or child, that deal would most likely be made in the womb (for whoever made the deal). In other words the father, while he was in the womb, might have offered up his first born son to this for exchange for a good job as part of his life ‘deal’.
Also it could be part of the sins of their fathers to the 4th generation, though it seems unlikely that the deal would be offering your great great granddaughter to block out Love to her child.
It would be as a hunch, but be combined with other potential revelations, which should also be filtered through scripture. It may also involve following the revelations to see if they pan out. The Holy Spirit sometimes will point out a hidden meaning in those revelations, when I say them to the person it resonates with them, clarifying the situation.
I think it’s pretty clear that feelings and hunches are a large part of kanickbird’s life strategy.
It must be very freeing to be able to take a fertile and active imagination and then, as each wildly creative theory emerges, to be able to imagine that that wildness is actually part of the reality around us. Myself I’m limited to mere reality.
kanicbird, do you realise that to the vast majority of people this is an unusual and not commonly accepted viewpoint? Do you ever wonder if, perhaps, the majority might not be correct? Do you know many people who share your views?
I have nothing to add to this, as my thoughts have been said and resaid by dozens of other posters. I do want to say about the OP, thought:
Simply Brilliant, Stand Out first post.
In other words, he told a mother that her child’s autism would improve if she loved and touched the child more, because God wanted him to share that advice (or rather he just had a feeling it would work). One hopes that was the last time the mother discussed this with kanicbird.
My bad. I was assuming responsible market trading.
This new relevation (heh) worries me, though. Could a complete stranger, while still in the womb, make that same deal with me as the medium of exchange?
I’ve heard too many stories about (insert your favorite racist/sexist/classist stereotype, superstition, or urban myth) to discount them. Since when is a lot of people yammering about something an indicator it’s true?
It’s usually more then a hunch, sometimes a hunch that is confirmed multiple times in a short period of time, like reading that exact thing in scriptures, having a friend discuss that exact same thing, see a movie on that same thing. The more I look and pray over it the more it is confirmed.
Sounds like a form of confirmation bias, applied to new ideas that appeal to you as they come - you get an idea in your head and start looking for and noticing things that confirm it (or even vaguely or tangentially relate to it). All the things that don’t confirm it, of course, are irrelevent, as are the things that would confirm or relate to other ideas that you haven’t thought of yet, or things you don’t want to believe.
Where is it written that the majority is correct? Actually my take on scriptures is that it will be the opposite. Also my take of life is the ones who step out that makes a difference in the world, not just follows along blindly.
Scripture speaks of dishonest weights and measures (which He hates btw), so don’t expect responsible market trading when you have a 6000 year old demon trading with a few day old pre-birth human.
A complete stranger would have no ability to trade you.
So a call from the exact person in the revelation at the time of the revelation that I haven’t had any contact with in years would be confirmation basis? That is only tangentially related to it?
Also in a time of great distress I prayed for the Lord to preserve my life, asking Jesus to pray for me, a week later I was talking to a believer friend who said that at that exact time he felt a urgent need to pray for me (as Jesus lives in us believers), though he had no idea why. That is confirmation bias?