Paranormal children: little pots with big ears

Paranormal children, do they really exist? When I was still working as a psychic/spiritual therapist in my own practice, I regularly encountered parents who suspected that their children were psychic.

These children regularly heard noises or voices and observed all kinds of apparitions in their rooms. Of course, I never contradicted this. After all, I had not been there myself.

I do know that very young children (up to about three or four years old) sometimes do not know the difference between fantasy and reality. They 'see' their thoughts, so to speak.

It is also the case that slightly older children (from four years old onwards) can often be scared of witches, ghosts and spirits from the outset, with the result that if they hear a noise outside or at a neighbour's house or see the shadow of a branch, tree or lamppost in their room, they are quick to assume that this is a ghost or spirit.

Especially when they have already heard something about this or seen it in a book or on TV.

Ears

Little pots have big ears' is the well-known saying and that also applies to children who parrot their parents when it comes to paranormal statements. When parents frequently talk about ghosts, phantoms, out of body experiences, past lives and other paranormal phenomena, the child will consciously or unconsciously absorb this and start taking things over. It was the same way with myself at the time.

When I was five years old, I was already talking to my family members about out of body experiences and I liked to tell them at length about my visions and prophetic dreams. I had heard my relatives talk about this so many times that, as a toddler, I thought all this was the most normal thing in the world and that everyone had these kinds of experiences.

Parents who themselves firmly believe in the paranormal will also want their child to be psychic and will start encouraging the child in this or even putting words in the child's mouth in the hope of getting attention from family, friends, or even the media!

In 2010, for example, there was a TV programme which focused on paranormal children. One might wonder to what extent this programme was directed. After all: mediums and TV. Well, let me not mince too many words.

But even when the parents are not keen on attention (like my parents, who just preferred to keep such things to themselves), it is quite natural for the child to copy the parents in their behaviour, statements and beliefs; the well-known copycat behaviour.

Attention

Children usually have a good memory and are perfectly capable of recounting things they happen to have picked up somewhere. Also about - for example - a deceased relative. When a child recites this information afterwards at an unexpected moment, it may seem as if the deceased loved one has 'visited' the child and even 'talked to the child'. Thus, an alert, observant toddler may suddenly be mistaken for a psychic...

Parents who themselves are fascinated by the paranormal usually find it very interesting if their child has supernatural gifts (too) and will therefore react less critically when the child says anything that even remotely smacks of a paranormal experience.

Therefore, by responding in an interested and perhaps even enthusiastic way, they are bound to encourage the child, because naturally the child notices that he gets positive attention when he talks about such things.

Besides, being afraid of a "ghost under the bed" is of course for some children (consciously or unconsciously) also a perfect reason to be allowed to sit on the couch with mum and dad in the evening with a glass of lemonade or to get some extra attention, cuddled or read to...

Toys

Sometimes toys are set up on an overcrowded shelf and, due to lack of space, something may 'automatically' fall off. Sometimes the toy is not on an overcrowded shelf, but it is a bit wobbly, in a way that it can almost fall off, which then happens at the slightest movement (e.g. due to heavy lorry traffic passing by).

The automatic switching on of battery-operated toys may be due to a small defect in the mechanism. Toys moving by themselves could very well be caused by a playful pet or draughts on the floor.

Yet even such events are often associated with the presence of a spirit.

Nevertheless, I never wanted to deny to my clients and their children that ghosts were present.

Again, I was not there myself, and until it is proven that ghosts do or do not exist, I like to keep a guard up, regardless of the fact that my belief in this over the years has decreased dramatically. However, I did always try as carefully as possible to responsibly allay their fears.

Spirit

I always told the children who claimed that their bedroom was haunted that they could just send the ghost in question away themselves. In doing so, I advised them to clean the room with a purifying incense and by placing a gemstone or crystal in the room in question for protection. According to gemology, Selenite or Labradorite lends itself perfectly to this, especially in combination with clear rock crystal.

Whether there was a ghost in the room or not; this advice always proved to work. The children could go back to sleep peacefully and the parents were reassured.

Paranormal children? I'm not so sure yet.

I stand by my contention that the effect of this ritual is mainly based on illusion, expectation and thought power and that if I had said that it helps to sing a song to the mind or do a lap dance in the bedroom while clapping hands, followed by a backwards head roll across the bed, this would have worked too.

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