TeaDidikai
Starlock
I'm a bit curious to perhaps hear some examples of those you have met that you feel will forever remain psychically deaf. What is the basis for this assessment? How can this sort of thing be determined? I suppose I question this because to say someone will never be able to do something is making quite a strong statement.
The most obvious from my personal experience would be my mother.
As for the basis for the assessment- a few factors play into it which are not limited to a complete and total lack of resonance outside of the self. It would be impressive if it didn't make me ill.
Hmm... I suppose since I haven't run across anyone like this, such a person is outside my realm of experience. Given that, I still don't quite understand the phenomena and would apprechiate some additional elaboration. What does it mean to lack resonance outside the self? Perhaps I have met someone like this but didn't know what to look for?
TeaDidikai
Starlock
I think the potential for change is always there though, just as the potential for the supervolcano in the northwestern US to blow it's top is always there. Chances can be abysmally low that it'll happen 'right now' but there's ever a chance of occurence.
Show me where the potential for me to grow a second nose on my left a** cheek of my own accord is.
Nope. Some things are impossible.
You have a personal problem with being told No. You might want to get over that.
Heh. On this topic in particular, there's good cause to have reluctance to firmly state 'this person will always and forever be deaf/blind/etc to magical things' partly because 'magical things' is a very broad term. I'm not sure where I'd draw a cutoff line. Would, for instance, flipping a coin and getting ten heads in a row count as an aptitude even though by another angle it could be dismissed as luck? Magical paradigms usually state that there is no such thing as cooincidence and that cooincidence itself is divinely intervened or magically inspired. This throws in some complications. Perhaps all have a talent/aptitude, but it goes unknown or by another name? Perhaps certain people have many aptitudes and certain people have fewer ones? Might there be some globally gifted and some globally daft? (shrugs) I don't know. Much of this seems to be a function of how psychical/magical aptitude is classified... answers vary depending on one's premises.
Oh, and by the way... so do you and you might want to get over that as well. blaugh Besides, there's no discussion without an alternative viewpoint or people who bother to ask questions.
TeaDidikai
Starlock
And again, since much of magic/psychical working is mental, if I tell someone "some people never develop this talent" that will reverberate in their minds and may consequentially put a binder on them. If a person believes they'll never develop a talent, chances are high that they never will, eh?
Again. No. "A bright child will find a way to overcome poor instruction". My Nana said that a lot when I was growing up.
Not all of them do. Some bright children find a way to overcome poor instruction. Others end up floundering in a sea of poor self-esteem. It's a beautiful saying, but unfortunately it isn't always true.
TeaDidikai
Starlock
Putting it simply, there is a valid scientific explanation for these so-called sixth-senses. I've yet to see or hear of anything that fails to be explainable with an understanding of human physiology and psychology.
How about auric sight that has been tested to NOT BE retinal burn.
Scientifically? Published in a journal somewhere? Please, show me a citation! Good proof of something like this would be phenomenal!
