Are Kids Psychic?

When my son was five years old, he told me his dad had called to see how he was doing. I was just taking him out of the bathtub and getting him ready for bed. After I got him settled, I checked the phone. Sure enough, there was a message waiting for him and it was from his dad. He had no way of knowing that his dad had called. [wp_ad_camp_1]

Another time, I asked my son if he’d had any dreams in the night. He told me he had dreamed about his grandparents. I asked which ones and he told me. I asked what they were doing and he said they were dancing. They had both passed away and had also divorced long before he was born. He had no way of knowing they had loved to dance together.

When my cousin’s daughter was eight, she was looking at photographs of her grandmother. When her grandmother showed her a picture of her great-grandmother and asked if she knew who it was, she spoke up right away. She said it was the lady who always came to her birthday parties. Her great-grandmother had died long before she was born and she had never seen a picture of her. She said this lady always sat in the corner and never talked to anyone.

Kids are born with an innate sense of intuition but as they get older, we shut the door to this gift. We tell them they are being silly or these things don’t exist. If we don’t listen, ask questions, show interest or validate their experiences, we are, in effect, telling them they shouldn’t listen to their bodies and not to trust their feelings. We do this because we live in a society that honors the rational mind and has forgotten the gift.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University released a study in July 2012 in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology that shows kids are born with an intuitive sense of numerical quantities. They call this numbers intuition the “approximate number system.” This primitive sense of number and the numerical exactitude of math we develop later in life are linked. They discovered we can boost kindergartners math performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer game. It’s important we do this because a strong early gut sense of approximate number can predict a child’s math ability later in life. Until now, no one had figured out that working with gut sense can make a child better at math.

Studies have been done in labs such as in J. B. Rhine’s Duke University lab that show with almost 100% certainty that some forms of paranormal capacities such as ESP and remote viewing exist, too. It’s important we help children realize they aren’t being silly when they tell us strange things. This will help them tap into their intuitive abilities more fully and can enhance their creativity later in life.

We think we live in one world but we actually live in five. There are five different states of consciousness to match each of the five worlds, too.

There’s the awake state of consciousness. That’s when we are awake, as in not sleeping, and it matches our gross physical world, the world we can see and interpret with our five senses. This is the world most people think is “real.”

There is also the subtle state of consciousness and the subtle world. We enter this world when we are sleeping and having dreams, when we are awake and “in the flow” like artists and athletes, and when we are awake and having visions. (It’s not very common for people to have visions or dreams when they are awake but some people do.)

The subtle world is a very valuable world. It constitutes a range of experiences from emotions, to ecstasy, to dreams. It provides an infinite source of potential and imagination when we are sleeping. It provides an infinite source of potential and imagination when we are awake, too. The subtle world is the home of the very highest form of potentials we have. We feel qualities like bliss, infinite awareness, absolute love, happiness, compassion, and joy when we are in it. People have premonition dreams when they are experiencing this state. They also have intuitive thoughts and feelings.

There is also the causal state of consciousness and the causal world. This is the world we enter when we are in a deep formless sleep. We don’t have any dreams during this state. It’s an empty, formless state. When we are asleep in the causal world, there’s no content in our mind whatsoever.

There’s also the witnessing state of consciousness, which many people call the causal world for simplicity. We enter this world when we are awake and aware of ourselves noticing things.

There’s also the non-dual unity state of consciousness, which many call the causal world, too. We enter this state when we become experienced meditators. This is the state Buddha was in when he meditated in the jungle for thirty-nine days and discovered his four noble truths.

Simply put, these three states – gross, subtle, and causal – are body, mind, and spirit.

We can all access all five states but we have to learn how. It’s important we learn how because these five states provide the raw materials of all our experiences. They help us see the truth and they help us experience our own spirit. When we experience the non-dual state – emptiness or spirit – we are experiencing ultimate reality itself.

Paranormal abilities and gifts come from these expanded levels of consciousness. We become receivers of energy vibrations and information from the four invisible worlds like a radio receiver tuned in to a certain station or channel. We are meant to be and live in partnership with these non-physical energies but we have to allow, invite, and trust ourselves enough to make the connection.

The next time a child tells you something unusual or solves a math problem in an interesting way, pay attention. She may be accessing her intuition. Don’t tell her she’s being silly, that things like that are not possible, or that you aren’t supposed to solve math problems that way. Show interest in what she has to say or what she is doing. Ask questions. Listen. Encourage. You’ll be enhancing her intuition, her imagination, and her ability to be creative. The world needs more imaginative, creative, intuitive people to help us change it.

My son is now a web developer, a music composer, and a producer. My cousin’s daughter is now a talented artist. One of the reasons these two kids are so creative as they accessed their intuition at an early age, as all kids do, and they had supportive adults around them who didn’t shut their instincts down.

Intuition, imagination, and creativity are gifts and we need to nurture them in ourselves and in our kids.

When we do, we’ll be healthier for it and the world will be healthier, too.