Empath usually deal in proximity as you well know
. Body and expression are parts of it that reveal a curiosity, but in type, it comes out as a statement of fact
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We as children are encouraged to shut down (American Culture) this ability or go mad in trying to survive this world. We all have the ability. However, to cultivate it would be our death of this world for the world has no understanding of truth. Psychic is a term for not normal when "all" possess empathics as a child yet elect to ignore it for it will delve truth that my parent is not portraying. So I as a child trust my god/parent that empathics are wrong.
Thus, we have this loop passed from parent to child for the parent was raised this way too. As we grow and thought concepts expand ... Who told me empathetic abilities are wrong
? In modern culture "I feel ya", is the equivalent of subjective "thought" matter. Therein, a personage that experienced a thing in different situational boundaries comes to the same truth... This normalizes the psychic connection all have in three words... I Feel Ya
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