I saw an article online a while back that said a large percentage of people believed in some form of psychic phenomena, which surprised me.
Why? Because in my personal experience, that has not been the case. In my experience there are believers and there are the rabid non-believers who froth at the mouth when you say you have abilities or you know someone who does. Lots of them. They generally fall into 2 categories, the religious and the Atheists.
The religious ones tell us how evil we are (yes, I’ve been called evil) for even dabbling in the paranormal. The Atheists are big on calling us delusional and stupid. Personally, I think it’s the height of arrogance to think you know everything there possibly is to know, or there is not anything on this earth you can’t explain, such as psychic phenomena.
Another often heard comment from the Atheists is ‘there’s no evidence, no scientific data.’ Not true. Allison DuBois, yes, that Allison DuBois, was studied extensively, along with some other psychics, and you can read about it in Gary Schwartz’s book; The Truth About Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the real Allison DuBois of NBC’s Medium and other Remarkable Psychics.
He also wrote The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death. Then there’s Dean Radin’s The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. You’d think those scientific types would get their facts straight, right? 
Now, if you have psychic abilities, you know how odd it feels. Maybe you hid it from people when you were younger, or even still do. I’ve been harassed on the job by religious people who actually campaigned to have me fired because I was evil. When I was in my teens and 20s I used to do what I’ve dubbed drunken psychic tourette’s, where if I had a couple of drinks I would not even realize I had blurted something out and scared the cr@p out of someone with some awful secret nobody was supposed to know. Once I told a girl I’d just met her date was married (he was) and caused a huge uproar in the middle of a fun evening. I was in my mid to late 20s before I learned how to keep from speaking when things would pop into my head like that. At first I was completely unaware it was happening and thought people were lying when they would tell me I said something outrageous. Sometimes people would be terrified and avoid me for years after one of my revelations.
Of course, in later years, those people would seek me out to ask if the latest guy was telling the truth. ;)
I have a lot more to say, but first I want to run this poll, so I’m going to stop for today.
