Hunches/Intuitions

The previous post I wrote was probably one of the only conscious encounters I have had in Telepathy. But as I told you, I consider myself of having a very bad memory. Or it may also be possible that this was the only noteworthy experience I had in Telepathy.

Another part of ESP is Hunches. Some people call it intuition or gut feeling as well. Another common word is Premonition. Call it whatever you want. I have had encounters of premonitions or hunches in almost everyday life and I have now been trying to actively use my premonitions. Now what makes this special? It will be wrong if I said that my intuitions are special from someone else. But what makes me intrigued is the frequency with which it occurs and the accuracy it has. Certainly, any person would have an intuition at any point of time. Majority of the times, it may or may not come true. But what would you say if you have premonitions atleast three to four times a week with an accuracy rate of more than 6o to 70 percent?

For example, you travel in a bus. You suddenly have a gut feeling that something wrong's about to happen and suddenly when you get down and find out that your cell phone or your wallet has been picked. Suppose you are watching a cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. You have the gut feeling that Sri Lanka would win. What would you say at the end of the day if Sri Lanka actually won the match?
As another example, you are playing cards with your friends and you want to know which card of which colour one of your friends is going to play, and he plays exactly the same card of the same colour. How would you explain this?

This is one of the incidents which I encountered. A couple of months ago, some of our friends had met and decided to play cards. We have a particular game in India, in which the person who bids to make the highest points sets something called a "trump". A trump basically consists of a particular colour, with which at any point of the game anybody can use to trounce the opponent's points and gain points. This trump card is hidden by the person who sets it and will be known to everyone only when it is opened. Sometime during the game, without my conscious effort, I told the players what the trump card was, the exact colour and the exact number on the card and when it was opened to everyone's shock, it was the same colour and the same card I had mentioned. The following three games followed the same pattern. Furthermore, I even told them which team would win the final game and to everyone's surprise, the same team actually won the game. How would someone explain this? Was it just a gut feeling or a vision or something else?

My first conscious encounter with ESP

When it comes to ESP (Extra Sensory Perception), Telepathy is an inseperable part of it. I had my first encounter with Telepathy in my High School(when I was in my ninth grade) and the following is an account of that (please bear with me if you feel like you are reading a story, but this is a fact).
Just to give you a small background of my childhood days, I was a boy who believed in god and was regularly following majority of the rituals(though I was never orthodox). I had also off late taken up learning a particular form of Yoga called Sahaja Yoga (or Kundalini Yoga) from one my school teachers and it was almost an year into it.
The D-day when I had this encounter was our school annual day. A few days ago I had received new clothes from my aunt. As every child would be, I was very impressed and wore the same clothes for my school day. During some time I had to change them since I was participating in some of the sports events. Everything about the day went fine and I was very happy since I too had received some awards. As soon as I returned home there was trouble waiting around the corner. My parents noticed that I didn't have my new clothes with me. I always consider myself having a very poor memory. I was horrified to see that I had forgotten to pick them up and to my anguish I had no memory of where I had kept them. And it was late night that I had realized this and there was no way I could go back to school and check it out since the school doors were already locked. Moreover the place I spent this part of my life is a place where I can easily count on someone actually stealing it and I wouldn't be wrong on that. As any ordinary kid would do, I wept for having lost my newly gifted clothes and no way of finding it out where it was.
At this point of time, I remembered something that my teacher who taught me Yoga had told me. He said, this particular form of Yoga if practised properly for many years, would actually give us the abiltiy of looking ahead into the future and also access various powers which our ordinary brain cannot think of. I intended to put this into test. Just before I slept, I went into deep meditation and after about ten to fifteen minutes I had slept. During this meditation, I was trying to access the whereabouts of my clothes. Now somewhere during the time I slept, I cannot explain whether it was a dream or vision, I could see my clothes lying in one of the classrooms in our school that had been used as a change room for that day. Once I woke up in the morning, though it was a holiday, I thought of giving it a shot. I went to school, to the same classroom which I had seen in my dream. It was a mixture of shock and happiness, to see those clothes in the same way and same position I had seen in my dream.
Now, I don't know how you would explain this. Call it a co-incidence, call it a miracle or whatever. I prefer to call it my first conscious encounter with Telepathy.

The Beginning

It's been said and I have personally come to believe that each and every person in his life, along with the regular normal experiences, encounters atleast one experience which makes him think and question about the existance of something beyond his control and power, something which doesn't seem normal, something paranormal: May it be a hunch/intuition coming true or a foresight of the future, an incident repeating itself again (deja vu) or a mental message from person to person (telepathy) or a death message, every person would have experienced it atleast once in his lifetime. Many ignore it, some try to explore it, some more people try to make it a passion to explore these unexplained mysteries and others consciously practise them.
Throughout my life, from my high school till now, I have consciously or unconsciously encountered many such paranormal experiences (commonly called ESP: Extra Sensory Perception) and fortunately or unfortunately for me, I am one of those people who has taken upon exploring these phenomena and consciously practise it as a passion to open new avenues. Now, you need to know that I am by no means any Edgar Cayce or anyone who has made a mark in this field. I consider myself an ordinary person among the millions on this earth going about their daily work and ambitions in life. But the experiences I have personally encountered in everyday life with these phenomena have definitely made me believe that I am gifted. Now what will I be doing with this gift, I don't know. I even don't know whether I was born with this gift or I have acquired it, I don't know whether this is something I can boast about or keep it a secret, I don't know whether it is temporary or permanant, whether it is a gift or a curse. All I know is that these are my personal experiences and they are worth a mention in this small blog of mine. Now it is upto you what you want to do with this blog. You can either believe it or laugh it off or you can cosider them as pure coincidences. I only request you that if you believe it, please do not look me at a level different from you.