by Matt Carson

Created on: January 22, 2008

Until I was about 16 years old, I thought that all people were truly psychic because I was. It was a normal everyday occurrence with me, and both my Father and Mother had the same abilities as did both their parents.
These abilities are real but unfortunately there are too many fakes that are televised or popularized in movies and on so called psychic shows making us all believe it does not exist.

I will give you a few examples that happened to me and are true.
In 1992, I was in a Music store visiting with the owner, and a man walked in and asked the owner if he bought used Fender guitars? I don't know why I even opened my mouth it happened before I even realized it and I said half jokingly to the owner,"Don't get excited it is a 1987 guitar built in Japan",(not the 1960's American made that all dealers wanted), as the man walked out the door toward his car.
The store owner asked me had I seen this guitar because the only way at that time to tell the date on a Fender guitar was to read the serial number. When the man returned from his car and brought the guitar in, the Owner opened the case and looked at the serial number and where it was made and looked at me square in the eyes and said" You have seen this guitar"! I had not and explained half jokingly that I was just psychic. It was indeed a Japanese made in 1987 Fender Guitar.
How does one do this you ask? I really don't know, all I know is I am at least 3rd generation with this and other abilities that defy conventional reasoning.
Some time later the word got out to some of the musician customers that I was psychic and while at a Blues Jam one smart mouthed guitarist tried to put me on the spot in front of his buddies and said "Hey are you really psychic if you are prove it". I shrugged off the challenge because I have to be really in the mood or feel like doing something psychic. He laughed and made a really big joke because he thought he had "showed me up".
This went on for a long time with him laughing each time I refused his challenge when I got tired of his taunting and told him, "Here is a quarter go to the bar and put this in the game machine (which had 8 or 10 games of chance that one could play), Select Blackjack and the first 2 cards will be a Jack and a Seven". He was beaming like a school boy because this was his chance to Prove me wrong. He ran over to the bar placed the quarter in the machine and selected Blackjack and then he turned and looked at me as if his world had been destroyed by fire. He then ran over to the table and got me to go look. I looked at the first 2 cards and yes indeed they were a Seven and a Jack. Now, I don't need to tell you what the odds of selecting one game out of many choices much less the odds of picking 2 cards out of the many possibilities,but I can tell you their was more than one believer that night.

I still have this ability and have used it many times in many different circumstances some were even embarrassing to the other person because I knew personal details that no one else had ever been told. I told one lady so many things she thought I was a Witch. I am no witch just an ordinary person with an extraordinary gift. I have learned over the years to keep my mouth shut and not act like I know things when in reality I know full well.
Many reading my story are probably as perplexed as the guitar player was to this idea but in reality most people have this ability if they would only listen to it. Most of us including myself don't want to think we are "weird" or "different" from others but indeed some of us have Gifts we don't fully understand.

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