Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

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Most people have relatively well developed empathy - the ability to feel other people's emotions at a distance.  That makes itself known by figuring out that around others, you tend to have your emotions shift, and it can be difficult to know whose emotions you are actually feeling.  I discovered this one day in 11th grade when I walked into math class feeling fine, and sat behind this outcast girl who was severely depressed.  Within 5 minutes I felt "grey", like graphite, depressed and hopeless.  It wasn't unfamiliar to me to be depressed, but I had never felt "grey" before.  And when she left, it went away.  I noted that I only felt like that around her and realized it must be her emotions.  Most of the time, people who are strongly empathic figure it out on their own, but it can be very confusing.

Clairvoyance and clairaudience are probably the next most common psychic abilities that are likely to be developed enough to notice without doing anything to develop them.  Most people mistake clairvoyance and clairaudience for their imagination.  Few indeed realize they can see and or hear things at a distance.  

As for things like the telekinesis, pyrokinesis, manipulating other things... well... who ever really uses those "muscles" except for an extremely rare few who spend years developing them the hard way.  Most people have the potential, but very few have anything more than that developed for the more exotic stuff.

There are some books on how to determine your specific strengths and weaknesses, but I don't remember what they were and I'm sure more have been written since I looked last.

I can make the subs, but the results depend on factors outside of my ability to predict or control fully.

Hey @Shannon thanks a lot from these replies. I'm actually learning quite a bit. If its fine with you I might still make that voting thread regarding this then depending on the data its up to you if you even want to attempt such a sub or something if you think it will make money. I did have one other question since your last post jogged my memory on it. Do you see the ability to see into the future as one of the more "exotic" psychic gifts or is it more common? Is it one of the more difficult abilities to really master? 

Based on what you said it would seem that if you were to attempt such a thing you would need to have a disclaimer informing buyers of the risks of buying the sub and it might not work due to things out of your control.

The ability to "see the future" is known as prophecy when you are doing it visually and "prophetic whatever" when you do it through other senses.  It's not rare visually and empathically, but it's also not common either.  

Prophetic ability is definitely a can of worms, and here's why.  What you see is not guaranteed to happen.  It may either be the most likely future or the one your subconscious is most wanting or afraid of.  Now if it's the "most likely", but doesn't happen, then you're going to have people complaining that the sub doesn't work.  If you can't discern what you want vs what is most likely then you're going to be wrong a lot.  If you can't discern what you're afraid of vs what is most likely, then you're going to unconsciously steer things towards manifesting what you're afraid of, and make negative things tend to happen more.

Then we have to consider the potential consequences of having this ability be easily accessible to someone or a group or more than one group who wants to use it to control, manipulate, take advantage of, misuse, harm with it.  How do you prevent that?

It's not something I really think is wise for me to make...

 I agree Shannon.. how ever I  do hope that in the future and maybe in the not too distant future you'll once again consider the Lottery Sub with some special limiter's in it to prevent malicious use or harmful usage ( that is to self or others) By the sound of it though, UMS v2....well..lets just say we might not need  the here to fore mentioned.