"psychic" Coworker

[jeffpugh]

[corban711]

i have a spirit guide too. i just like to call 'em my guardian angel

[corban711]

i know it will be hard because she is a coworker and all. but you will want to try to control the conversations a bit most likely...just so you don't feel the need to listen. i know someone who was once a close friend who has very similar "gifts" and very often is right about the things she says. she is not always right though and when commanded by her spiritual director to offer such gifts to God to see what He does with them, she refused saying they were "her" gifts. that is not the obedience/humility seen in the lives of the saints. since then, the use of these gifts have become more frequent and damaging to the people around her. from my personal experience, if you have to see her/get along because you are around her often, try to love her as best you can, but i would try to avoid as much possible listening to talk like that.

[abiding-soul]

I would just keep it professional. If it came down to it I would tell her that I will not discuss such things with her. Also, as was said earlier try your best to steer the conversation away from those topics. If she asks your preference to not discuss this, maybe that would be your cue to gently discuss Church teachings. While this hasn't happened to me personally before I believe this is the strategy I would opt for. Good luck.

[Autumn Dusk]

I know a very holy person who has these mini visions that are usually heard in prayer groups. She's always been correct even when she had no way of actually knowing. She's said names in prayer of people & their issues that no one told her but people around her were asking silently. Its weird.

I think God gives people different gifts, but we just have to remember the gifts are private and not for us to get absorbed in.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1450077' date='Jan 24 2008, 11:56 AM']Once a priest from New Zealand came to our chaplaincy to say Mass.

He wasn't a real priest.

He made no mistakes during Mass and his sermon was fine. I don't know how I knew that he was an impostor. After Mass I asked our usual priest to take a closer look at this man's credentials. It turned out that his supposed home diocese had never heard of him and the parish he claimed to belong to did not exist.

I think that God sometimes places knowledge in somebody's head that they would never have been able to acquire otherwise, but I don't believe that people can read the minds of others at will.[/quote]

Because of situations like this, I think that it is a very wise and prudent practice for traveling priests to be asked to show their ID and proof of their ordination before they say public Masses in places where they are unknown.

[cathoholic_anonymous]

According to my chaplain, all priests have to carry some kind of special card around with them if they want to say Mass in a different place. This man didn't have that card, but he got round it in a very clever way - he went to the big parish church, introduced himself as a priest from New Zealand, and asked if he could say Mass at the church. He was told that daily Mass had already been said, but if he wanted to go along to the student chaplaincy perhaps Father B would let him say Mass there.

So he turned up at the chaplaincy and said to Fr B, "I've just come from Fr R at St So-and-so's. I was going to say Mass there, but I arrived too late. I wonder if I could say it here instead?"

Of course, our priest just assumed that he was a friend of Fr R's and let him in without any trouble.

[jeffpugh]

The question now is, why would he want to do it? Couldn't just be for kicks...

[cathoholic_anonymous]

I think it was a weird kind of vanity. After Mass he hovered around in the social area and spoke at length about the glory of the priesthood, the need for a return to orthodoxy, and his desire to see young people like us being staunch defenders of the Church. I was already suspicious of him, but the rhetoric just made me even more so. The ideas were sound, so why didn't it sound right?

Then he asked a recent graduate who had been accepted for postulancy with the Poor Clares if her community had the full habit, and offered to put her in touch with another community if they didn't wear it. That's when the alarm bells went into overdrive. What kind of priest tries to stop a young woman from entering a religious community when he doesn't know her, doesn't know the community, and the woman in question has already got her entrance date fixed and has been looking forward to it for months? When he asked us if we would like him to give us a 'special blessing' before he left, I slipped out of the room and went to find Father B. I'm not used to receiving 'special blessings' from visiting priests unless they happen to be cardinals or bishops, and I was convinced that this guy didn't have the right to bless anybody.

[Laudate_Dominum]

That is beyond weird. I've never heard of such a thing.

[praying4carmel]

CA,
The Lord,God, Mary and the Holy Spirit Love you..For you to Pick up on that is a great grace.

Tinkerlina,

I agree with Abiding in that I would keep it strictly professional. Occult energy is like glue, it actually sticks to you when you are exposed to it. Then it attracts like minded lower energies. Pretty soon a sly thought slips in..and whammo... you're questioning and down the wrong path. That's where the devil does his work in our trying to help these people instead of just letting the Holy Spirit do His work.

Pray to Saint Michael for protection and turn her over to the Holy Spirit. Intercessory prayer is your best defense and her best chance to come out of that muck. "christian' or No.

I am not trying to scare you.
P4C

Edited January 31, 2008 by praying4carmel

[Tinkerlina]

[quote name='praying4carmel' post='1453573' date='Jan 31 2008, 04:03 PM']CA,
The Lord,God, Mary and the Holy Spirit Love you..For you to Pick up on that is a great grace.

Tinkerlina,

I agree with Abiding in that I would keep it strictly professional. Occult energy is like glue, it actually sticks to you when you are exposed to it. Then it attracts like minded lower energies. Pretty soon a sly thought slips in..and whammo... you're questioning and down the wrong path. That's where the devil does his work in our trying to help these people instead of just letting the Holy Spirit do His work.

Pray to Saint Michael for protection and turn her over to the Holy Spirit. Intercessory prayer is your best defense and her best chance to come out of that muck. "christian' or No.

I am not trying to scare you.
P4C[/quote]

Thanks, P4. I've definitely been keeping my interaction with her to a minimum-just civility and work talk pretty much. I will definitely pray to St. Michael-and I totally understand and believe what you're staying about the occult...while part of me thinks her "psychic power" is just in her mind, I still believe there's something not right and she definitely seems to be involved in the occult in some way, shape or form. So I will definitely be praying! Thanks for the advice

[HeavenlyCalling]

[quote name='Tinkerlina' post='1454819' date='Feb 3 2008, 01:57 AM']part of me thinks her "psychic power" is just in her mind[/quote]
Hehe, sorry, but the first thing I thought when I read this was "Where else would it be?"

Seriously, though, I agree with the other posters who said that sometimes God gives knowledge to people for a reason.

For example, my grandfather was dying of cancer a few years ago. Once it was certain he would not recover, he was moved back home. One day, when according to the doctors he still had a few more months to live, I suddenly had this over whelming feeling that my grandfather had died. I went into his bedroom and the nurse ( who was the only one in there and hadn't yet told anyone ) told me he was indeed dead. It was just a little heads up from God. I am sure most people have the same thing happen once in a while. While I dont know this woman, her 'talents' do seem to come from a need for attention, I would just keep a very perfessional relationship with her.

Just one more thing on the dangers of such 'gifts'. My mom once told me about a friend of hers who went to a fortune teller and became so caught up in what she had been told that for a while she stopped doing almost everything to wait for what she had been told to come true. Dont get too caught up in it.

Edited February 4, 2008 by HeavenlyCalling