How Our Spiritual Gifts *Really* Work

My story as a kinda-intuitive kid — whose intense longing for magic tuned her psychic channels over time — and how consciousness science flips the script on how extrasensory perception truly happens. When I was very little, my mom was going through an intense period of spiritual discovery. I remember her joining a group that performed distance healings: they would send healing energy as a collective to people struggling with distressing diagnoses or intractable symptoms.  The process involved the group leader sharing nothing more than the…