How to Use this Book
This book is not intended to blast open otherworldly gates so that you are sucked inside. It is designed to help you find the doors and pathways already in your life. It will help you discover what resonates within you so that you are able to call back from your soul and ancestral heritage the psychic gifts that you already possess.
To this end, I have concentrated on practical advice and exercises. This will help you develop your psychic skills and incorporate them into your everyday life. To help you identify with the concept of psychic powers proposed in this book, I have also included some of the experiences of people I know and admire.
It is not my intention to alienate any reader from her or his spiritual tradition; the practice of psychic power is compatible with the practice of any spirituality. It may even provoke a more profound appreciation of your religion’s mystical application or bring to you a wider understanding of how to work with your spiritual life in a mystical way.
Please read these guidelines before you read the main text.
• Read this book through at least once and understand the concepts and principles before attempting any of the practical exercises.
• I have tried to keep the text and information as up-to-date as possible so some of the information may challenge the more ancient traditions of psychic development and spiritualism.
• This book will not qualify you as a psychic practitioner, but if you wish to use your psychic powers to help others then seek out a personal teacher (see Resources on page 180). Ensure that you know how to work with your gift and have an understanding of protection before you teach, help or counsel others.
• Try the exercises the way they are set out here. If they don’t work for you after a series of good and sequential attempts, then adapt them intelligently and creatively, using your own spiritual guidelines and techniques.
• Do not mix these practices with others you have learned in other non-psychic disciplines and do not treat any exercise as a psychological or therapeutic technique.
• Keep a journal or diary to monitor your development as this will enable you to see how much your psychic powers grow over a period of practice.
• Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world, exercising your body and keeping yourself healthy.
• Keep your sense of self-importance in check with humour and common sense.
• Finally, enjoy the unfolding of your psychic powers.
Introduction to psychic powers
Psychic powers are natural and intuitive – everyone can develop their psychic potential if they wish to. Developing this skill is not only a means of connecting with the spirit world; it helps us achieve greater awareness and control over our destiny.
Psychic awareness is the natural ability to perceive things before they happen – even guessing lottery numbers and winning on a horse race may have its basis in one’s psychic ability. We are all psychics to varying degrees of sensitivity. If we observe nature it’s obvious that animals sense a presence long before it can be seen; this is essential for their survival. We use this same intuitive source – in our work, during competitive sports or business situations – to survive in the modern world. Our gut instinct helps us to connect with a sixth sense, or second sight, which in turn helps us to ‘tune in’ to places and people – both past and future.
There is no need to follow a spiritual path or to have strict religious tendencies to be an accurate psychic, but in most traditions training is required in order to develop accurate psychic skills. Each psychic works on many different energy frequencies and, if we have the necessary skill, these can dictate to us our future profession. Being psychic can be a bonus to the lucky ones and a curse to others.
What qualities make a good psychic?
• Personality: Psychics tend to be bright, naturally intelligent and extrovert. People with more out-going personalities score more in psychic tests than those who are sombre, shy and reflective.
• Sensitivity: Do you find that you get easily hurt and are oversensitive to people and atmospheres? Most psychics are also extremely sensitive individuals and even in childhood would have been considered oversensitive.
• Creativity: Are you artistic? A large proportion of psychics come from an artistic or creative background. Some psychic researchers suggest that this is because psychics, like artists, predominantly use the right-hand side of the brain – the side that is creative and intuitive.
• Dreams: Do you have vivid and colourful dreams? Dreaming is one of the routes to the subconscious mind. If you are in tune with your inner self, then you naturally become aware of your psychic self during sleep.
• Perception and sight: Do you see bright lights around living things? If so, this is the ability to ‘see’ the aura, the magnetic field around living things. The aura is known to change shape and colour depending on the mood or energy levels of a person or living thing. If you can see this – and even the colour of the aura – then you are very psychic.
• Intuition: Do you listen to your intuition? Do you have a gut instinct or can you sense things about people, situations or places. Much of the information that we receive through intuition is gained through sensitivity and connecting through the solar plexus into another person or situation. Intuition is listening to your inner self and hearing advice from the spirit world.
Are You Psychic?
Think not? Well, you may be more psychic than you think. If you trust your natural instincts about things you will begin to realize that these instincts are as natural and normal as any of our five physical senses – the abilities to see, hear, touch, taste and smell.
Our own unique psychic potential utilizes our ability to be able to receive, access and transmit vast quantities of information from our day-to-day life. This takes place within an aspect of our mind that tunes into a psychic or unseen frequency. We can learn to strengthen, access and make use of these abilities, whether it is for the simplest of tasks or a life-threatening situation – for instance, choosing a job or profession, trusting your judgment about a partner or deciding when to have children. The act of being able to see beyond most situations means you can avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time and avoid making wrong decisions. Psychic awareness is there to help guide and inform you of future problems and opportunities.
Are You Naturally Psychic?
Have you experienced any of the following?
• Do you frequently phone your mother or friend only to find their number engaged as they are trying to phone you? Or do they say that they were thinking about you when you called?
• Have you ever decided on impulse to change your route to work, only to discover later that there was an accident or an unusual traffic problem on your customary route?
• You meet someone new who appears to be ‘perfect’ but something inside tells you that you should distrust