I knew a person who claimed to have psychic powers. I didn’t believe him and allowed him to prove it. The way he “read my mind” makes be believe that these things are possible. He described it as a blury/cloudy picture in his mind accompanied by emotion. He said he couldn’t see the objects I was thinking of clearly, but with the emotions he could then figure out which object I was thinking of.
God does endow some of His saints with psychic power such as the late St.Padre Pio who was able to read minds in confession, and even remind people of things they forgot to confess. Bi-location was another and healing was too. Some are gifted with Charisms, such as Prophesy, Discernment of spirits, Tongues and Interpretation of tongues, healing and charismatic faith to name a few. These are gifts to edify, build the Church they don’t sanctify. You can even go to Hell using them, if you don’t practice love of God and neighbor ;according to the words of Jesus. These gifts are the works of the Holy Spirit and if they glorify Jesus they are legitimate and good. The devil seeks to mislead people and destroy the belief in the Good News, that Jesus is God-man and redeemer. He imitates the Holy Spirit, discernment is needed to test the spirits, if evil or good. So through deception he uses people, and makes them think that they have supernatural powers as I have seen displayed in the national media and other places. Ideas like ESP, Astro-projection, Telekeneses, fortune telling, ouija board and seemingly impossible feats to name some. If Satan can get people to believe they have these powers, he can hid his identity and powers. the practice of these things are against the First Commandment, "I am the LOrd thy God, thou shalt not have any false gods before me. I believe they are called the sins against religion. There is much displayed in the media and people are not even aware of it, and neither are those who are affected. We have a very gullible and Godless society, involved in material things, and sensual pleasures that need evangelizing with the Good News, thats where the Charisms of the Holy Spirit come into play to draw people to the truth of our Faith.
Padre Pio was not a psychic and never claimed to be, albeit he had supernatural abilities.
Satan or the devil does use his spiritual powers through these so called fakes, And they do manifest paranormal powers, not their"s of course We must distinguish the spirits, and there are the charlatans who pretend . These so called fakes actually believe in what they are doing. So they are not fakes per se
Those who believe they are psychic are deluding themselves and are fakes.
Let me repeat this. Padre Pio was not a psychic and never claimed to be. His abilities had nothing to do with being a psychic.
Greetings,
You have not said what your point is.
Agreed, it was said somewhere in Leviticus that we should not practice occult things and specifically mentions divination elsewhere…to make someone a psychic "outsode of personal revelation would be contradictory to God’s own word.
I have read all of the posts, including yours very carefully. And I have not “jumped to conclusions” these conclusions were reached over 2000 years ago and have been a part of our Canon for a very long time.
No jumping going on. There is no such thing as a genuine psychic. End of story.
I hope you are not speaking for the Church. It’s the essence of wisdom to know that a man can not judge the wisdom of his own judgement. I didn’t know we had inffallible people on the forum. I asked thisle "What did he mean by pyshic, He never answered, To clarify my meaning I even suggested I would use another word spiritual, He never answered. What he did is steer the posts to clarify his preconceive position, He didn’t dialogue, to reach an understanding, I had to communicate to the O.P. in her language, I knew what she meant, but thistle jumps in and starts an arguement It’s like putting thoughts and words into my mouth. He keeps repeating himself ( I said before and I’ll say it again) and (end of story , I have spoken) This kind of attitude dosen’t serve God in my book,. As for the other post, I did,t disagree with his post. I don’t disagree with the Church, I always submitted to the Church, even when I thought I was right. I always will. I humbly submit to the Church and to my God. But I don’t submit to someone just because he thinks he is right.