Chat It’s Fate — August 2017

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Empaths

Full disclosure?

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s it a fruit? Is it a vegetable? Or a^

tool to help witches fly? Tomatoes^

made their way to Europe from^

South America in the mid-1500s

and got caught up in the ongoing

witch-hunting craze.^

It was rumoured this foreign fruit was

used to make an ointment that witches^

smeared on their broomsticks so they^

could soar away and cast evil spells.^

Tomatoes are in the same botanical^

family as noxious nightshade and^

hallucinogenic mandrake, but they are^

really their simpler, tastier cousins. We^

know that now... or do we?^

When millions of tomato seeds^

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here’s empathy, and then there’s empaths. Most people can tune

into other people’s emotions – empaths take on other people’s

energy even if they don’t want to.

This hyper-sensitivity can make an^

empath socially anxious or^

mentally distressed. It can^

also make them^

psychic. A study

published through^

the National^

Centre for

Biotechnology

in Maryland

showed^

empaths have

unique social-

cognitive abilities.

Empaths read

minds. They decode

non-verbal clues and

pick up subconscious cues.^

Many empaths receive images, colours and smells when

listening to others. As the study states, these individuals

have ‘elevated mentalising abilities’.^

The word ‘empath’ first appeared in science fiction to

describe a being with paranormal ability to apprehend the

mental or emotional state of another individual.

were sent into outer space in a NASA-

sponsored science student program,

toxic tomato stories went viral. The seeds^

had returned as fully-formed red and juicy^

treats, but the pupils never got to taste their

experiment. A leaked internal memo from^

NASA stated there was a

chance the seeds could have^

been exposed to cosmic^

radiation. Even the^

company that supplied the^

seeds warned of poisonous^

mutations. So the poor^

pomodoros were pulped.

NASA eventually

repeated the trial, but to avoid

the previous panic, used basil.

A harmless herb which actually^

goes nicely with tomatoes.