ESP? Is it a Sin? (I don't think so)

 Spoiler ALERT:  I don't think ESP is automatically a sin. I don't agree with the people who wrote the answer to the question on the Biblical question site "gotquestions" and I'll tell you why.  While there is certainly no argument from me (or any other Believer) that using your mind to contact someone else for evil is in fact a sin, if you were to use your mind to contact someone to do good could not, and would not (in my opinion) be a sin. It would be a method of contacting someone. Please don't go all "Bible" on me because I too am a Believer. I actively read my Bible, in fact, I read three versions of the same thing nearly every day. I read the English translation of the King James Bible, along with the Scots Gaelic version, and the Scots language version. By the time I finish, and by that I mean I re-read the English version a 2nd time, I've read the same passage either 3 or 4 times and I can't find anything in the Bible that states that communicating with someone through the mind is a sin. It CAN BE and it WOULD BE if the person was trying to cause harm, mischief, evil, etc. 

    Think of this example: A grandmother has a feeling that something isn't quite right with one of her grandkids. She has 17 grandkids, but there's a feeling, a movement of her spirit about a single one of them. She thinks about him or her and she "sends" that kid love through her thoughts. On the other side of that thought, a kid feels that his or her grandmother is thinking about them. Maybe the kid is moved to call Granny and see how she's doing. Is that evil? Was that wrong? Did some demon in Hell jump up and down rejoicing because they were able to FORCE their ways on the old woman and child? No. It's nonsense to think so. People have a way (and sadly this includes Believers) of thinking anything outside of their knowledge is automatically evil; it must be! There must be something innately wrong with the thing if THEY aren't familiar with it to the point of knowing everything there is to know about it. Thank God, that our chemists and scientists got over those thoughts and they created good medicines for us! 

    Think of this example: A woman in another country has a feeling that someone she knows who lives clear around the world from her.  She feels that he is having a real struggle with self-appreciation. She feels he is becoming anxious. She has NO idea why she would feel this way about him; they aren't married. They aren't close at all, but her spirit is moved. She prays. Then, after she prays for the man, she begins to think about "talking" to him but using her mind to do so rather than email, social media posts, etc. This is a private matter. She doesn't want the world at large to have any access to the conversation, even if it is one-sided. If it is one-sided, and she's merely telling him she's there for him to lean on, she's available if he needs a friend, then that's OK. It's not a sin. It's in fact, a caring act.  If he began to talk back to her, to communicate with her through his thoughts,  it would not be WRONG, it would be unusual. We need to start using the correct words. Words are really important.

    Of course, anyone can take advantage of anything. Any good method can be used for bad. Any good creation, any good invention, can be used or turned into something harmful. We know this. My point is that simply having the power or the authority within ourselves to communicate through our minds is normal in that it is there, and available to use. It would be tantamount to having your house completely wired for electricity, but feeling that flipping the switch to turn it on is somehow evil. No, it is not. Our brains are so much more complex and so much more intimate than we know! Even our greatest scientists who devote their lives to studying the brain will say (and have said) that we only use about 1/10 of the capacity of our brain, and those that use that much are pure genius! So, if we can accept that as fact, where is the problem with accepting that some of us (OK, it's me) can in fact think our way into the hearts and/or minds of another? 

    Do I think that demons lurk around the mental corridors of our minds trying to deceive and lure us? Yes. I do.  Mediums and psychics prove this all the time, and for some, the truth comes out so that they can appear to be credible. I'll give you a real-life example; one that happened to me, and I know this to be 100% true.  My cousin was a seer.  She claimed to be, and she practiced the art or science of fortune telling. I didn't agree with her, I didn't like that she did this, but it was what she chose, and she convinced herself that she was doing good. I don't think she was, but again, I have to take my own medicine and say that it was at that time, something I didn't understand. She could have (and was) been correct in her "predictions" but she called them facts.  As a young girl of 19, and a virgin at that time, I found myself at a company Founders Day picnic, and the "entertainment" chosen by the office manager, was in fact, my cousin! Wow. That was weird.  

    When my cousin, a woman about 10 years older than me, saw me, she embraced me. We hadn't seen each other in a while, as the family at large was not the least bit supportive of her means of employment, and they shunned her completely.  I was of the mind that anyone I loved deserved to be loved.  When my cousin hugged me she looked me in the eyes and said "Jude, you're going to have a baby!"  I said, "Well, that's a miracle, because I'm a virgin."  She stared straight into my eyes, still holding me in her arms, and stated frankly, "You're going to have a baby, out of wedlock, and he will be a boy.  He'll have the spirit of Cole Younger."  Well now, that's something to think about. Who the hell is Cole Younger?  I supported my cousin at the party, but I really didn't believe a word she said, especially about having a baby out of wedlock. That just wasn't me.

    Five years, almost to the day, from the time she gave me that bit of information, I found myself giving birth to my son Reuben, who by the way, was in fact, born out of wedlock. His father and I, though once engaged, had split up when I informed him that we were with child. Yep. It happens!  The next thing to do, at least for me, after I found out I was going to have this baby by myself, was to look up the person called Cole Younger. I just wanted to see what type of hero or infamous serial murderer this guy could be; gotta plan for these things you know. 

    Turns out Cole Younger is the firstborn of the Younger brothers who ran with and were related to the Jesse James gang. The boys were all brothers and cousins and married into one another's families, and such. This was a time when the Civil War had ended and most of the participants of the two gangs had been in the service of the Confederates. Cole, as it turns out, was not really into being in a gang. He was born into it. He was friends with, cousins to, a brother of them, so he sort of rode with them at times, and he tried to keep them out of trouble as much as possible. He was a rough man; no doubt there, but he was also a fair man, and through research, I found out he was a Christian man. He was sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place. He couldn't find work after the war, so he sort of looked out for,  becoming a guardian of, and was the eyes and ears of the gangs when they were in town. The stories are wild about the man, and they run the gambit. History is written by the winners and those that lived longer. Cole's story is no different. Here is the wiki that tells a bit more about him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Younger  One more thing, Cole Younger died in the middle of the night on March 21, 1916 (so it could have been after midnight on the 22nd)  Reuben was born on March 22, 1986. 

    If you know me, and you know what I say about my son Reuben, you'll know that he is no angel. He's a rough, tough, beat-em-up sort that has never backed down from a fight. He's not looking for one, but he won't run either.  He's a military man, and if the Civil War was still going on, he'd be a Confederate.  He defends and protects, but I can also see him keeping an eye out for his brothers or cousins even if they weren't doing what was right by the law. Reuben is a very good man and a compassionate soul.  In many ways, I do see how his spirit is that of, or similar to Cole Younger's.  I don't like the fact that my cousin revealed this information to me, but she did, and she didn't mean it for evil. I don't like how she got that information. It's not the same as ESP, and that's my whole point!  

    Thoughts, mind messages, communicating love, and caring are not to be dumped into the same filthy barrel as those of seers, mediums, and clairvoyants. We can and we do have the ability to think good and pure love. We can and we do have the ability to share and want to create a pipeline or connection to others using our minds so that we don't have to interrupt the lives of those we speak to. We can, and some of us do, only want the best for others (the ones we choose to speak to).  I know that when I think to my son, think to my daughters, and think to my friends, they must receive the thought for it to be successful. I won't know it was successful unless and until I am told verbally, through text, or yes, through their thoughts. It has happened and it does happen. Because it does, and because it has, and because I am such a strong follower and Believer of Christ, I know that if my spirit or The Spirit living in me were offended, I would be told. I have not been. It has been quite the opposite in fact.  I know my messages are being received. I even know they are appreciated. For that, I am eternally grateful. 

    Be at peace, and please don't beat yourself up over feeling that someone is thinking about you, or trying to speak to you through your mind. You don't have to answer, you don't have to receive. It's up to you. The thing is though, it could be a blessing and it could change everything if you were willing to be loved and willing to be thought of. You could have a connection to a part of your soul and mind that you never knew existed. Just because we're not familiar with something doesn't mean it's bad for us. Think about the first time you ate something that you never knew was an option! It was there the entire time, but you didn't know about it. That's all. It can't and isn't bad for you, it just wasn't something you knew about. Maybe you hated it. OK. But you don't know unless you use that part of your brain that is just out of your comfort zone. "Why are you so scared?" asked the mother bird, "What if I fall when I leave the nest", answered the baby bird...."What if you fly?" responded the more experienced and loving bird.

Photo Credit:  Cole Younger (True West Magazine)