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Chapter Six
Are Psychic:
Abilities Sacred?
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There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions. But there is one common element in these visions. The common element is rebellion against the restrictions imposed by the locally prevailing culture, Western or Eastern, as the case may be.
 
Freeman Dyson''The Scientist as Rebel" The New York Review of Books
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
 I Corinthians 13:2 Holy Bible
As we learn to exercise our psychic abilities, ethical issues arise that are outside the understanding of modern science. Are psychic abilities sacred? Is it appropriate to think about using them for mundane purposes, such as making money in the stock market? Is healing sacred, and what does it have to do with our psychic capabilities?
Our psychic abilities allow us to experience mind-to-mind connections with each other, and many people regard these experiences as profoundly

 
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