by Ronald Louis Peterson

Created on: August 31, 2009

The Psychic

Manny began his interview with a simple throwaway question just to get Janice comfortable and talking, "What does it mean to be a psychic?"

"Ha, ha, ha, ha.... oh, I'm sor... ha, ha, ha," Janice laughed uncontrollably for half a minute.

Manny and his camera operator turned to look at each other with puzzled expressions.

"You...you don't understand. I know what you meant. You want me to tell you how I can see the future, talk to the dead and know where to find hidden treasure. But, for some reason I took your question literally and it struck me funny because being a psychic means spending many of my waking hours in a dream state...living with one foot in the physical world, bound by the laws of physics, and another foot in a world where space, time and things have no intrinsic meaning...a world where images and sounds are produced from activities in the physical world. So, it's really a funny experience," Janice explained. "...In a strange, rewarding, scary, mysterious way."

This scene from Al's life then paused, and as it did, Al wondered if the flashbacks of his life that began with him as a seven-year-old and continued on to this Manny interview with Janice were a type of psychic experience. Her description of what psychics experienced reminded Al of what he felt now as the images of his life filled his consciousness, without regard to space and time. But he was no psychic, so the images cascading before him had to be something else. With that thought, hanging like a rain cloud about to burst, the scene with Manny and Janice resumed.

"Yes, tell me about your psychic powers and what you've done with them," Manny said to get the interview back on track.

"Some people can forecast the weather by interpreting nature's signals, others do it by measuring indicators with scientific instruments. I forecast events, retrieve past events, solve mysteries and speak with the dead by tuning in to the spirit world. We are all spiritual beings, but only a few can live in that extra dimensional world while they are still living in this one. Most people intuitively know there's more to life than just this physical world. Religions are testaments to that. But actually living in the spiritual world, experiencing its unfamiliar dimensions, is something else. Don't ask me how I do it because I don't know. You'd get the same answer from great artists and athletes, if asked how they can perform as they do."

"You said you tune into the spirit world, but you can't say how?" Manny

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