Empaths and the Sensitive

Expanding their Akashic connection

More and more people are acknowledging they are sensitives or empaths and creating community which talks about the difficulties of their living in our global culture. Through the internet and social media more and more people are able to communicate their experiences and create a supportive atmosphere which validates their perspective. Because we have lived in cultures heavily influenced by industrialization, rationalism, scientific method and economics, such methods of perceiving and connecting were until recently not only disparaged and disapproved of, but pathologized in a myriad of ways. As these traits were and are most often experienced and expressed by women, they were seen as just more corroboration of women’s inferior status providing a means to further control and some would say repress. Since the Inquisition in the middle ages anyone with “gifts” was seen as evil and while witch burning seemingly ended with a last flourish in the colonization of the New World, being sensitive, an empath or a medium wasn’t to be spoken of until Spiritualism became a fad in the 1800’s as exemplified by Madam Blavatsky. Even then it was highly criticized, scrutinized, and abused both by the scientific community as well as the charlatans who sought to make a buck from the bereaved and credulous. The 1960’s saw the beginning of a change in various and well documented…