Of course -- Cayce was a loose cannon, ability running rampant with no effort to analyze or control scientifically, and all the alterations, dub-overs, half-truths and confusions such an adventure is typically heir to. I don't know what sort of tabulation the gang in Va. Beach have done since then.

But just to be clear I meant no mockery of Hecate's post; I believe almost all those who have working psychic abilities in their make up run into the same problem Hecate identified -- the issue of partial certainties, wildy variable degree and timing of awareness, and the constant collision with noise factors.

Noise factors include:

a. Personal noise from past distress

b. Present duress including problems, feeling challenged or unaccepted, self-invalidation and self-degradation, and the "peering" effect of trying with effort to perceive through barriers, which generates its own noise.

c. Psychic noise, which can include elements like the myriad storms of mental business in the neighborhood, control efforts from the small-minded or fear-driven among one's connections, efforts to hide and shield information, and the general background hum of popular psychoses.

d. Physical noise from one's own body, or similar from others.

e. Personal variations of the overlay phenomenon, such as an inability to look at certain areas, resistance to certain subjects or kinds of people, being upset with certain reminders, and so on.

These are a partial inventory of the things you can run into, and there are certainly a lot of items I haven't mentioned. ALl this really muddies the waters, especially for someone who hasn't studied the field much and is just wrestling with occasional precogs or remote views from time to time.

(The applicants for the grant already knew there would be a wiseguy on the comittee, but they felt they had to try anyway. Obviously, there are a lot of gradations and a lot of factors in play, andf research into sorting these out, discovering what if anything increases accuracy and stability of the phenomena, and so on, would be worthwhile IMHO.)

I also feel a certain amount of levity is always in order, because excessive seriousness is (again, IMHO) a sure detriment to the real phenomena.

Hope this is understood. Hecate -- NOI! :>)

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