I think that all children may have some embedded talents and probably do, from what I have experienced in researching children for several articles published long ago. (will be included in Brad Steiger's upcoming book with his wife Sherri)
However, it is not common to all children to 'flit around the astral' as Bill puts it, any more than it is to see fairies in the garden. (whether they are there or not)
Like musical talent, everybody can play 'Chopsticks' but some will sit down and play well by memory - while others go on to play Rachmaninoff, after training.
No such talents nor awareness showed themselves even in vestigial form in my own childhood. Reading books about 'The People' provided me with desperate longing to be one of 'them' - but the sure knowledge that I was not. A careful search of my immediate ancestry (5 generations) showed no Aunts who read tea leaves, no 'disaster predictors', no 'seeing the deceased beloved' and I can say with complete honesty that the word 'psychic' was never used in any of our homes. Not only that I was totally skeptical about the entire field (and am still skeptical about many aspects of it) Religiously I am Presbyterian originally and now Methodist. Not much 'otherworldly stuff' there.... :) What I now know and work with is purely 'cut and paste' in adulthood.
On the other hand, my husband's family seems rife with pencil-dowsers who determined sex of children from the arm of the mother-to-be, located water wells, some who claimed to 'see' this and that. It's amazing to hear some of the stories.
So - there is a difference in how children learn to see the realities and the possibilities. Genetic? Who knows. All I know is that I did not have any intimation of any of this until fully adult - and also know that it took several years of hard difficult work under the tutorials and training of a friend who could rv, before I grasped the methods and means of control. Without that - I'd still be writing science articles and teaching shorthand and typing.
Maybe it was better that way. Working so hard for it made me value it more when I did learn it.
:)
Bevy Jaegers
U.S. Psi Squad
www.uspsisquad.com