If you search online for the definition of an empath, you will invariably find the word ‘paranormal’ tossed in the mix.
First of all, how in the world can anyone possible define what is ‘normal’?
I mean, who gets to decide what is and what is not a regular occurrence, especially since psychology has long forwarded the concept of subjective reality. Life is how each of us interprets it.
Multiple people attending the same party, at the same house, with the same group of people will likely interpret their experience very differently.
Beyond that, the term paranormal has been linked to illogical, fantastical or magical thinking. Impossible experiences and woo-woo inclinations. Code words for: if I can’t see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, touch it or measure it in a laboratory, it can’t possibly occur.
Now, I totally get many people perceive this way and there is nothing wrong with that. We are all wired to experience life differently.
However, for deeply empathic and intuitive people, we continuously connect to that which is below, above, outside and beyond our five senses. It doesn’t make what we know, what we hear, what we see and sense any less real.
Just not accessible yet, to others. I say yet, because I hold the belief that our…
