Know the Soul Abilities: Retrocognition
Know the Soul Abilities Series: Retrocognition
Knowing about an event that already happened through your psychic/soul senses. My experience with this soul ability and how déjà vu and dreams relate to retrocognition.
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What are Soul Abilities?
There are many different ways to use soul abilities that translates to psychic skills, intuitive skills, healing abilities or mediumship abilities. It is not how you sense but what you experience that makes a soul ability. Everyone has access to their soul abilities. Some people may be able to access more abilities than others. Some people will be able to have high skills in multiple abilities or modes. Which of these abilities is your strongest right now, how many can you tap into right now- these are questions that you need to investigate, have curiosity about and experiment with on your own.
For now, just being aware of the different soul abilities could open up definitions and clarity for the developing psychic, intuitive, healer or medium.
Here is your chance to get to know an ability and, upon reflection, see if you have experienced something that fits within this experience’s boundaries.
What is Retrocognition
Retrocognition, or post-cognition, is knowing about an event that happened in the past through your soul abilities, more specifically through psychic and mediumship abilities.
Think of it as similar to precognition, but after events have happened- of which, you physically were not there to witness yourself. Maybe you were given a visual of a historic event and saw details that lined up with historical fact, facts that, prior to receiving the visual, you would have no knowledge of.
Merriam-Webster defines retrocognition quite simply as “direct or extrasensory perception of past events”.
There are many ways to experience this which include attributing retrocognition through déjà vu or in dreams.
My Experience with Retrocognition
It’s so funny being able to look back on my experiences and finding out that there’s a name for something I’ve psychically experienced. And this is a perfect example.
There’s so much I receive during a mediumship or psychic sitting that I don’t sit and ponder afterwards often enough to categorize what I get in these readings. But, researching this topic, again, makes me aware more fully the experiences I do have.
During readings I will get glimpses into events that had transpired. I tend to visualize with these- almost like an old movie. And, actually, not only do I see things that line up with a certain time period- like the style of clothes or style of cars, but I also visualize things like photographs and movies of different eras.
A photograph will pop-up in my minds eye that will take on characteristics of photos of a certain age which allows my logical mind to place it in a certain time period. So do the ‘movies’ I see. They can appear grainy or more clear depending on the time period I am visualizing. That’s just how I get it, I don’t know how. Spirit just uses the information in my head and I just take it and run with it. Spirit’s smart like that and I’m too focused on a message to sit and think about the hows and whys of it all.
I remember one reading I did where I was seeing a garage with a couple of old cars- like 50’s + 60’s style. The way I saw it was grainy like it was an old movie…. like this….
I remember seeing a young slender woman leaning on the car, almost like she was posing.
That’s a super short movie but, not only did I visualize this but also had a knowing that they weren’t her cars, however, and that they belonged to someone else, someone who worked on these old cars. I also had an emotional sense of a bit of jealousy about the amount of attention that went into these cars. The sitter’s aunt was connecting with me. Her husband, the sitter’s uncle, loved old cars and her aunt had given me evidential information to support the messaging that she wanted me to pass along to the sitter.
Was this groundbreaking retrocognition? Seemingly no, but, any evidential information can make or break the sitter’s experience.
Belief that I was able to connect with the sitter’s aunt was made possible by using retrocognition. At the time I wasn’t aware that that’s what was happening but looking back I recall this example of retrocognition quite vividly.
Dominant Soul Senses Used
I seem to say this quite often with most of these soul abilities types! This is a psychic and mediumistic ability that could utilize any psychic sense. But, I think understanding time-framing would probably be most recognizable with clairvoyance- you can’t smell clothes from the past or feel the style of an old car.
I have shown in my own experience written above, however, that clairvoyance was only a piece of my psychic experience. I also used claircognizance. This claircognizance elevated the message beyond a woman, a garage and a couple of sweet old cars. Knowing that they weren’t hers and mentioning it the way I did during the reading made the sitter aware of who I was talking with.
Whatever clairs can shine through will be useful to get a more complete, fuller message to the sitter.
Ways to Develop Your Psychic, Intuitive & Mediumship Skills
Meditation
Meditation is important to find ‘your baseline’, where you connect to your own physical, mental and spiritual self in order to compare experienced external energy/messages to. Practicing meditation allows for you to explore the psychic world and get to know yourself. This is your journey and this is how you lead your way.
For more information on meditation, check out my blog post 'Meditation Basics for Developing Psychic Abilities and Other Soul Abilities' and try out these videos so you can sit back and find your baseline.
Know Your Clairs
If you are not familiar with the clairs then you may not be able to identify how you receive with you psychic senses/soul senses. It is important to get to know them so you can get a clearer understanding of your own psychic/intuitive/mediumship/etc. abilities and the tools that you naturally use to receive energy and messaging.
Get to know the different kinds of clair by checking my previous blog post ‘Time to Meet the Clairs’.
Tips For Exercising Your Psychic, Intuitive and Mediumship Abilities
There are some tips I have for you when you are getting your psychic/intuitive/mediumship exercise on that will help you tremendously. In my previous blog post ‘Psychic Development Exercises: Developing the Soul Senses & Soul Abilities’, I had a section of tips that I infographed and you can see in brevity to the side here.
Here are your tips when practicing connecting with your psychic, intuitive and mediumistic self:
Keep an open mind
Meditate
Observe
Document
I had already mentioned meditation above, but let me give you a little more about the others listed:
Keep an open mind - don’t dismiss or let logic take control
Observe - don’t judge what comes in, just receive
Document - keep a journal of your experiences and try to include details
Additionally, I would add that, with time, observing how your ego enters your receptive process will help you get messaging better and reduce the strain of picking up on things. My previous blog post ‘Identifying Ego In Your Psychic Messaging’ can help you out with that once you have your bearings.
Something to Ponder About Déjà Vu
Seeing as though déjà vu is considered under the umbrella of retrocognition experiences I have developed an understanding of déjà vu that also goes along with precognition, or more specifically precognition dreams.
Experiencing déjà vu really gets our attention, doesn’t it? You stand there for a second and say to yourself, “I’ve been here.”
Maybe the next step is to think about when you have ‘been there’.
For me, I have this weird ability to place my déjà vu, generally, with dreams I’ve had in the way past. Usually these dreams are from at least a decade ago. How I remember these dreams and how can I place when in the past I’ve had them is beyond my logical understanding, but, that is my understanding.
TL;DR Years ago I dreamed future events that I experience now as déjà vu.
And, now, a reminder to start your dream journal!
More on journeling can be found at my blog post specifically about this: ‘Psychic Journaling’
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