Do Psychic Abilities run in families? Are they hardwired in the DNA?

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@Ninurta For my family, I'd say yes, but the family members that have psychic abilities the abilities vary widely (or do they? or do we allow or disallow certain abilities?). For instance, my mother can see the immediate future in her mind's eye as well as ghosts. 

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I personally think that it's entirely possible there is a gene for it, but that the gene only turns it "on" or "off", and nothing more - what the individual can do with it may lie elsewhere, in another gene or just in the way their brain is wired. Think of a computer - there is a switch to turn it on or off, but that switch does not tell it what to do. The instruction set for what it is to do resides elsewhere.

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Likewise, when a spook comes calling, I don't just automatically toss them out. Everyone has to have a place to "be", spooks included, so if they're not being a problem, I just leave them alone to "be". If they leave me alone, too, then everyone gets along just fine.

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My condolences on losing your daughter, I have a daughter, and I can't imagine going through that tragedy in life - your story almost made me cry. Although having said that, my daughter and I were just discussing how energy is never destroyed rather it is transformed. I further added to our discussion that I am at the point in life where I absolutely believe in an afterlife, as well I have been able to do out of body experiences, so those experiences cemented that belief because our soul/spirit, to me, is something completely separate within whatever this energy/matter existence is on this Earthly plane, but there are other planes.

I keep hearing from psychics that everyone has the gift, so your turning it 'on and off' via the physical/brain path may be correct because that is why chakra and/or crystal work in opening the bodily and spiritual (third eye) energies is recommended. However, in my situation I can choose to turn it 'on or off'. I turn it 'on' after I cleanse my aura using stones/crystals and use protection stones because when I do open up I don't want any unwanted spirits manifesting. But, hey, even if they manifest I'm a kick ass kind of gal and I'll get out the sage and burn the hell out of my space. The spirits seem to know they can't get far, so most won't even try. lol

Now that I am analyzing what those other psychics were telling me, that I "have the gift and don't use it and that's a waste", is that they don't have the intensity of psychic abilities that I have, so they really should not judge my choices in how I use the gift because I have spent a great deal of my life learning and controlling it. 

Like you, I'd rather keep spirits at bay and have a one-on-one with the universal one/all because I still have a lot to experience out there and within me - are they one in the same thing?

I'm really enjoying our conversation Ninurta, thank you.