So this is an off-the-wall idea I've had kicking around for a number of years.
So, someone I know has traditionally had issues with technology, combined with indications that she might have some degree of natural psychic ability which she never really developed, since her Christian background left her unsure if it was safe to do so. She has a natural strength in narrative and "insightful" thought, but she's borderline incapable of mathematical/strategic approaches. Or something like that.
Often enough, a situation would arise in which she was having difficulty with something technological, then when I would walk over to help, and ask her to show me what was going wrong, suddenly things would work. Very frustrating for her. I don't have reason to believe she was lying, though.
What got my attention was when I got a job in retail and discovered over the years that this situation played out with coworkers as well, especially an very thin older lady who was having clinical-level anxiety issues and was on medication for it (last I heard she had moved closer to family and her mental and physical decline had reversed to some degree, it was nice to hear). But it also happened with younger coworkers. I might dare say it happened most often with females. I have no reason to believe they were flirting with me, either.
It has happened enough times to be puzzling. I have a prettly logical mind (if I dare say so myself... hah), and interacting with technology has generally not been much of a challenge for me.
Now, the most "normal" possibility seems to be that for whatever reason calling me over to help and trying to do things again shifts their state of mind enough that their perceptions shift and they properly see what they are doing -- and I mean on the purely psychological/neurological level, just a "shift in the machine".
In any case it tends to be irritating to the person when they try to show me how the "computer is misbehaving" and then everything works fine. They're glad it's working, but they wanted to show me the problem, dang it! I'm prone to believe they are being honest, since they're generally honest folk about everything else.
So...
Now we get to the open question I've had.
Is there some chance that in at least some cases, the technology is genuinely "not playing nice" due to something about the awareness field of the person interacting with it? For instance, if someone's mind occupies the "psychic arena" more, so to speak, is it possible that their "field" doesn't interface well with tech sometimes? This could manifest merely as mis-perception, or maybe even as genuine anomalous behavior. (Though I'm sure if you checked the computer logs, most cases would "wave collapse" upon a perfectly reasonable explanation, lol!)
Now, though I've had some dreams I'd consider subjectively extraordinary, have always had a spirituo-philosophical bent to my thinking (high Openness personality type - can't help it!), and did have some mild experiences of "weird creeping fear" and the humanoid shadow perceptions folks call "damned things" in the corners of my vision at times when I was a child... otherwise to my recollection I've not had any particular brushes with anything overtly paranormal. Not consciously.
So at one point when I was reading that Ark had never seen a UFO or experienced certain other things (if I'm remembering right that he elaborated further), it led me to a peculiar thought:
Is it possible that psychics, who are more likely to be female, have a complement, which is more likely to be male?
What if when I go to observe someone's tech problem, my "pattern" is interacting with theirs, and "stabilizing the reality" in some sense. This could mean stabilizing their perceptions, or it could literally mean that the shared reality behaves differently once my attention is directed. Kind of a wild idea, but sorta fun to consider. And it would make sense to me if Laura and Ark made a good match in part because she is something like a "wave resonator/reader" and he is like a "wave tuner/stabilizer". To throw a loosey goosey analogy, one might read the speed of the particle, the other might read the position. Combined, the accuracy might no be perfect, due to uncertainty, but it's much more useful than one in isolation. Balance.
It's not meant as a hubris, because it might correspond to certain weaknesses, as with any form of specialized ability or tendency or trait.
And I can hardly imagine I'm the first person to propose such an idea.
So, someone I know has traditionally had issues with technology, combined with indications that she might have some degree of natural psychic ability which she never really developed, since her Christian background left her unsure if it was safe to do so. She has a natural strength in narrative and "insightful" thought, but she's borderline incapable of mathematical/strategic approaches. Or something like that.
Often enough, a situation would arise in which she was having difficulty with something technological, then when I would walk over to help, and ask her to show me what was going wrong, suddenly things would work. Very frustrating for her. I don't have reason to believe she was lying, though.
What got my attention was when I got a job in retail and discovered over the years that this situation played out with coworkers as well, especially an very thin older lady who was having clinical-level anxiety issues and was on medication for it (last I heard she had moved closer to family and her mental and physical decline had reversed to some degree, it was nice to hear). But it also happened with younger coworkers. I might dare say it happened most often with females. I have no reason to believe they were flirting with me, either.
It has happened enough times to be puzzling. I have a prettly logical mind (if I dare say so myself... hah), and interacting with technology has generally not been much of a challenge for me.
Now, the most "normal" possibility seems to be that for whatever reason calling me over to help and trying to do things again shifts their state of mind enough that their perceptions shift and they properly see what they are doing -- and I mean on the purely psychological/neurological level, just a "shift in the machine".
In any case it tends to be irritating to the person when they try to show me how the "computer is misbehaving" and then everything works fine. They're glad it's working, but they wanted to show me the problem, dang it! I'm prone to believe they are being honest, since they're generally honest folk about everything else.
So...
Now we get to the open question I've had.
Is there some chance that in at least some cases, the technology is genuinely "not playing nice" due to something about the awareness field of the person interacting with it? For instance, if someone's mind occupies the "psychic arena" more, so to speak, is it possible that their "field" doesn't interface well with tech sometimes? This could manifest merely as mis-perception, or maybe even as genuine anomalous behavior. (Though I'm sure if you checked the computer logs, most cases would "wave collapse" upon a perfectly reasonable explanation, lol!)
Now, though I've had some dreams I'd consider subjectively extraordinary, have always had a spirituo-philosophical bent to my thinking (high Openness personality type - can't help it!
), and did have some mild experiences of "weird creeping fear" and the humanoid shadow perceptions folks call "damned things" in the corners of my vision at times when I was a child... otherwise to my recollection I've not had any particular brushes with anything overtly paranormal. Not consciously.So at one point when I was reading that Ark had never seen a UFO or experienced certain other things (if I'm remembering right that he elaborated further), it led me to a peculiar thought:
Is it possible that psychics, who are more likely to be female, have a complement, which is more likely to be male?
What if when I go to observe someone's tech problem, my "pattern" is interacting with theirs, and "stabilizing the reality" in some sense. This could mean stabilizing their perceptions, or it could literally mean that the shared reality behaves differently once my attention is directed. Kind of a wild idea, but sorta fun to consider. And it would make sense to me if Laura and Ark made a good match in part because she is something like a "wave resonator/reader" and he is like a "wave tuner/stabilizer". To throw a loosey goosey analogy, one might read the speed of the particle, the other might read the position. Combined, the accuracy might no be perfect, due to uncertainty, but it's much more useful than one in isolation. Balance.
It's not meant as a hubris, because it might correspond to certain weaknesses, as with any form of specialized ability or tendency or trait.
And I can hardly imagine I'm the first person to propose such an idea.
