Spiritual Giftedness
(This is an excerpt from University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
This is the concept that someone can be gifted in a spiritual way, for instance to be able to quickly learn how to do meditation, to have a knowledge of one's higher spirit, to have experiences that confirm an afterlife, or perhaps to have very strong intuition and/or psychic skills.
In Where Two Worlds Touch (1990), Gloria D. Karpinski says, “In a society that all but worships the rational, we are sometimes threatened by an encounter with the unknown. It’s no longer out there, like the mysteries of space that we trust science will explain one day. When something extraordinary occurs to us, we often look to our religious leaders to tell us if it’s good or evil… just like when we didn’t understand storms and thought the Gods were angry.”
Religion does not have all the answers. The manner in which societies have dealt with psychically gifted people varies from honor to ridicule, persecution, and even death. People with psychic abilities have been seen as either God’s messengers or God’s enemies. As we all have an IQ we also have a Psi Q, a psychic quotient. It is the potential within all humans for perceiving and interacting with nonphysical realities. The word "psychic" means pertaining to the soul or mind, therefore teaching psychic skills will help children develop and use their minds to a greater degree. Why would anyone disagree with this? It is oft-quoted that humans only use about 10% of our brain power. What would be wrong with increasing this capacity? Other purposes of developing psychic skills could be to develop intuition which could be a method of protection; to develop imagination, visualization and creativity; to enjoy the journey or process of learning and developing with less fear and concern.
Karpinski also writes, “A psychically skilled person has receiving equipment that is tuned to information passing through the ether. The ether is the connecting medium of all life. Thoughts, words, symbols, personal history, ideals, feelings, it all moves out from us into the ether like waves… Beliefs, strong emotions, even memories form patterns in the waves. When these patterns meet beliefs and emotions of other people, they do one of several things. If the wave patterns are alike, they can intertwine with each other and build a stronger emotion or belief, or they can cancel each other out or produce contrasting and opposing patterns.” Most of the time we focus on our own personal physical reality and we are unaware of the waves that bombard us all the time. We may not know why but we sense and react to them. Good spiritual training promotes balance and integration with opening the possibilities of the mind. Everything that happens to us is for a purpose to bring us to a greater understanding.