Ep. 79 Kim Forrester: Open Up To The Unexplained

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." These are the words of Eden Philpots. And since he wrote them in 1918 our senses have certainly got sharper. The Hubble telescope introduced us to the idea of dark energy and billions upon billions of galaxies far beyond our own that we didn’t even know existed.   Today, thanks to the work of Thomas Dalton, we regularly look at atoms through powerful microscopes, even though their existence had been subject to scepticism since they were first suggested by the Ancient Greek scholars Democritus and Leucippus about two and a half thousand years ago.   And if you’ve ever seen an olive grove shimmer in the breeze, but didn’t know how to explain it, you’d know that magic is real.   It makes you think, what else is out there that we don’t yet fully understand. What else are our wits not quite sharp enough to comprehend. And, just like Democritus and Leucippus, what is it that we may just already know, but are not quite ready to face just yet?  This week I’m talking about Psi, which is the collective scientific monika for the parapsychological functions of the mind. That is, those things that we think might exist, but which come with so much baggage that most people are afraid to even touch them. I’m talking about extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, telepathy, and other things surrounded by so much cultural woo-woo that it must surely be nonsense, right?   Well, science’s wits are beginning to grow sharper, and there is an increasing amount of rigorous research happening in this area. And who among us wouldn’t admit that there are things out there that we just can’t explain? Who hasn’t had a weird experience, deja vu, a gut feeling that came true, who knew who was calling before answering the phone, seen things, heard things… well there may be more to it than we think.   To explore this with me I am joined by friend of the podcast Kim Forrester. She’s a holistic therapist, the host of the eudaemonia podcast, and the author of Infinite Mind – a book all about psi in its many expressions – and she believes that if we get quiet and pay attention to those phenomena that we might otherwise dismiss out of hand, we might discover that they may actually be trying to tell us something.   You can find more information about her book at infinitemindbook.com, and Kim’s home on the internet is kimforrester.net. www.conversationsonliving.com