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The Psychic Child

'One who is born with a degree of psychic sensitivity which nearly always lands him into trouble'

'There are children who instinctively shun a crowd, or for who every party ends in tears. These children are not necessarily the victims of ordinary shyness, nor of some terrifying experience. In some cases this may be so, but in others it is equally possible that the child is psychically sensitive (as many children normally are).'

'Any child naturally possessing any marked degree of psychic sensitivity is by nature of that capacity, bound to be an 'inconvenient' child. He will not fit into an orthodox pattern, and his moods and actions are likely to be unpredictable.

'Children who possess sensitivity to psychic phenomena are often artistic, dreamers, and their private world is their most vivid possession. This world is a real part, for they may both be clairvoyant and actually see fairies, beautiful colours and lovely phenomena, or they may possess an extension of hearing and feeling which makes them alive to the reality of hidden things. But though a child's special world is originally based on peculiar powers of perception, sooner or later fantasy creeps in and becomes inextricably mixed with reality. Confusion is bound to occur and the child becomes difficult to manage.

Children of this type are often not so much afraid of the dark, as of half-lights and shadowy corners in which they are always on the verge of seeing something alarming.

Practically all psychically sensitive children are fastidious and very difficult because of their hyper-sensitive re-actions to most things, either at school or at home; they easily develop a temperature and obscure ailments without any apparent reason; they are subject to sudden attacks of asthma, skin complaints and frequent digestive upsets. They are very apt unconsciously to use these ailments as a means of escape from what is to them an insuperable difficulty - i.e. contact with people and places which are wholly alien to their inner world.

Many children are slightly clairvoyant in early infancy or early childhood and grow out of it without ever having realised that they see more than their fellows; but the typically psychic child exhibits special traits to a marked degree. It is sometimes obvious that what to others is empty space is not to him; he has a perception of objects which do not exist for other people; his link with colours, flowers, animals etc is very intimate. His special response to them is apparent to close observers, though most often interpreted as being the result of a highly developed imagination.

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