Your Innate Child Psychic Abilities
Why we lose them and where they go
When I was a child I saw dead people.
Believe it or not, I grew up around ghosts. I had an old man hanging out in my room who would sit on the end of my bed protecting me until I fell asleep and who my mum would hear walking around in my room while I slept.
There was also a cat that would purr next to my bed while I dozed off. It also lay on my bed sometimes. I could feel the weight difference, but we didn’t actually have a cat. There was no cat there.
A recent YouGov poll conducted in 2022 reports that over 67% or two-thirds of Americans believe that they have had at least one paranormal experience in their lifetime (Orth, 2022).
In this post I invite us to dive into the topic of psychic abilities, a gene in our own DNA that signals psychic abilities, why we lose them and where they go.
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Another experience I remember vividly was my first day at comprehensive (high) school aged eleven. I picked up my friend at his house on the way and heard a dog barking upstairs. I went running up to meet the dog and there was no dog there.
I came down and told my friend’s mum what I heard. I saw her look at her son and then at me. She told me they hear it too. I told her about the guy and cat in my room, and she looked .. relieved, and it felt good for me too - for the first time in my life people outside of my family acknowledging this is real.
My experiences stopped when I was 16 years old. I was at another friend’s house when we saw things moving around by themselves. Looking back now, it was a deceased child who needed help to be guided home.
The point is that at the time, I had no idea how to handle it. I returned home so shaken up that my mum phoned the family to find out “what the hell is going on!” and I decided I didn’t really want this ‘gift’ any more.
Cultural, societal and religious pressure
My grandma read tea leaves. She told my mum as a child that our family had ‘the gift’. My mum also experienced many strange and wonderful things growing up, with one particularly funny and sad ghost story I would also love to share some time. But these experiences were not wonderful for her.
My mum told me she was scared and decided she didn’t want to learn how to use ‘the gift’. So the knowledge how to handle it died with my grandma.
And then came my own desire to stuff away this ability that did not seem to be helping me function in society; so it faded away, as I focused instead on what I was told is important in life – things like algebra.
In fact, I was literally told by my school to turn away. Once we had an assembly - when the headmaster stood before the whole school - because “Someone” (me), “has been reported by the librarian for taking out books on Ouija boards, exorcism and such topics.”
The school was Church of England. We were all warned about evil spirits and meddling with dark energies. Why they had the books available in the first place is beyond me, but I got to read them.
Science behind the suppression
In 2021, the Institute for Noetic Science published a pilot study; the first of its kind; looking to see if psychic ability is an inherited trait.
They compared the DNA of the psychics with a control group and found that the psychic group retained their original DNA signature, whereas the control had a gene alteration on chromosome 7 in the TNRC18 gene.
Ann Stone, Professor of Psychology & Consciousness Studies, explains:
The alteration in the chromosome 7 TNRC18 gene mutated the trinucleotide non-coding gene from a homozygous GG to a heterozygous GA sequence.
Individuals with the GA alteration did not possess any psychic ability. Those with the GG sequence were those with documented psychic ability. Their findings now brought into question why the alteration of the gene led to psychic suppression.
Eleanor Criswell, former chair of the psychology department at Sonoma State University, founding Director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute (now Saybrook University) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) member for the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) explains:
So what does this mean? The purpose of the study was to see if there was a biological marker in participants reporting psychic ability. The results actually pointed towards the opposite conclusion, that those with this particular genetic mutation did not exhibit psychic capacity. So, the absence of variance in a particular gene might be important for maintenance of innate psychic capacities. Pondering this, I suddenly had a hunch that since this gene (called TNRC18) was inherited, perhaps mutations related to the expression of that gene may act to suppress psychic experiences.
This is known as epigenetics. The science that our environment, conditioning, socialisation and programming change our DNA.
Criswell expands:
I believe that psychic abilities are natural experiences. Children sometimes show evidence of psychic ability in early childhood, but it often subsides as they develop. In some cases this may happen because they are taught by parents and society to not trust their psychic experiences, or to not talk about them for fear of being labeled “strange.”
“Perhaps there is an evolutionary pressure to suppress strong psychic abilities, or perhaps they have atrophied,” Criswell adds:
The role of the early Catholic church may also have been a cultural factor in the suppression of psychic abilities. Independent spiritual practices, which likely included psychic abilities, were discouraged (to put it mildly). Somewhere in the mix .. is also the fear of unknown “powers,” which is a trope that is endlessly exploited in novels, movies, and television shows. Based on these pressures, it is not surprising that some parents may train their children to suppress their psychic experiences.
In other words, as Stone puts it:
“what if, due to evolutionary, cultural, societal, and religious pressures, over time, we learned to suppress this ability to the point of shutting it down at the molecular level?”
Freeing our Super Powers
As Stone says, “we learned to suppress this ability”, so in other words we are the ones supressing it, as our conditioning causes us to suppress our own ability.
It seems very logical to me then that these gifts lie ready to be re-activated within our own programming in our own subconscious - or ‘unconscious mind’.
The terms 'subconscious' and 'unconscious' are often used interchangeably. In psychology though there is a difference. The 'subconscious mind' is anything happening within us (in ‘the mind’) that is just below our level of awareness and contains thoughts, feelings and memories that are not currently in use but can easily be retrieved when needed.
The 'unconscious mind' is the hidden part of ‘the mind’ that we are not aware of, we cannot access directly from our normal every day state of consciousness and awareness, and contains our repressed memories, limiting beliefs, unhealthy behaviour patterns, fears and traumas
As my previous article on hypnotherapy ’Hypnosis. The most powerful, overlooked, misunderstood, healing modality?’ explains in depth:
Hypnosis is the scientific word used to explain the path inwards from our usual state of conscious awareness into our subconscious to altered states of consciousness found within what psychologists call the ‘unconscious mind’.
When we start to ‘wake up’ from the matrix, or the illusion, and start to peel away the onion layers of what we have been taught to believe about ourselves and the world, we are getting closer and closer to who we truly are at the centre of our onion - the core of you.
I like to imagine building blocks.
Imagine planet Earth below the blocks to be that core of you. The natural state of you - connected with nature, the universe, life, creation - who you truly are.
Each block is a piece of trauma - a piece of conditioning, socialisation or programming that takes you further away from the true essence of you.
‘The awakening’ is processing our unhealthy beliefs and habits, clearing internally stored stress, removing physical and emotional pain, reframing traumatic events, and healing physical and emotional wounds.
Underneath it all, we are re-connecting with the amazingness of who and what we truly are, and our innate super powers, including our suppressed psychic abilities waiting within.
This is why I emphasise that the Better Way and New Earth are not about us reaching some new state of being or reaching somewhere new. It’s about remembering our true state of being and who we already truly are.
Ultimately we have to look within.
Many of us remember ‘gifts’ we seemed to have when we were young: imaginary friends, lucid dreams, astral travel, premonitions, etc. I even have a friend who told me as a kid that she focused on floating and remembers levitating for fun. She acknowledges that it may only have been her imagination.
Maybe you have had some personal experiences of your own you would like to share with me in the comments. I would love to hear all about them!
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