Wolfgang said: "the question that can easily be proved or disproved if you'd care is whether the connection you see is based on reality or originates from that great pattern generating 'machine' between your ears. It' s your choice whether you want to adhere to absurd (i.e.: not based on reality) beliefs"

I don't think that any person can definitively state what reality is. Scientists try to discover what reality is and the best they can do is conduct experiments to prove certain theories. Then along comes another experiment and another leap of deduction and the previous theories all have to be checked out again to make sure they still hold true.

Reality is bigger than any one of us, and for one person to claim to know what reality is is absurd. All you can say, in truth, is that psychic phenomena have never been *proved to your satisfaction* but not that psychic phenomena do not actually occur.

Check out the experiments being done by the Russian and American governments in trying to harness psychic abilities. They are taking it seriously enough to actually experiment with it in controlled circumstances, and appear to be having some good results. (On the other side of this case, though, some psychics like me would not want to be involved in military experiments so, either consciously or sub-consciously, my abilities would be reduced to less than maximum capacity for ethical reasons.)

I agree about recognition of patterns - some people are more attuned to this, and in my case it adds extra weight to my psychic intuition, or in other cases certain body language or tone of voice patterns are the main devices by which I make my deductions, but other people around me often miss making the same deductions because they don't look for these patterns consciously or unconsciously. E.g. deducing whether someone is lying or telling the truth can be made a lot easier by looking at body language and listening to tone of voice.

Helen