We are all telepathic to some degree and go about our daily lives transmitting and receiving information – often without being consciously aware that we are doing so. While we each transmit and receive in different ways, the basic principle is the same: we all act like radios, tuning into information and sending out signals on certain frequencies. Some of us have a greater ability to receive; others are more able to transmit. Some people are on the same frequency and therefore find it easier to receive telepathic messages than others. Many people discover that as they become closer in a physical relationship they begin to connect with that person on a telepathic level. Mothers and daughters have a natural link, particularly as the psychic gift is passed down the mother line from both parents into their descendants.
Our individual telepathic abilities are closely linked to our other psychic gifts. If we are more clairvoyant than clairaudient, for example, then we are much more likely to receive our telepathic information in the form of visual images or symbols than to ‘hear’ the thoughts of other people in our head. A telepathic clairsentient may receive a sense of another person’s physical or emotional state, even at a distance.
Telepathy can operate at short distances or at great ones. We experience short distance telepathy with family members and friends. In these cases, our telepathic abilities become entwined with our other abilities to read and transmit information and to tune into our intuition. For instance, we often know when someone we know well is angry with us, even when they do not express it openly. We may pick up a combination of signals that includes body language, tone of voice, changes in behaviour and clairsentient emotional messages, as well as telepathic thoughts that the person transmits – and we receive loud and clear.
Long distance telepathy can be just as common, though it can appear more remarkable because we do not have the more obvious physical signals to rely on. On many occasions I have thought of a friend abroad and then received a letter or e-mail from them.
Developing Telepathic Communication
Good telepathic communication, when combined with good physical and verbal communication skills, can be very useful for creating harmonious relationships at home and at work. Very few people are so telepathic that they can read another person’s mind as easily as reading a book. To develop accurate telepathic skills takes practice and patience. Begin by trying it out with a friend or a member of your family.
Sit opposite each other and take it in turns. Hold a thought in your mind, just a simple word, and then create an image in your head that symbolizes the word. For instance, think heart – see a red-coloured heart in your mind’s eye. Hold the image for five minutes and project that image to the person opposite you. After five minutes ask them what they saw in your mind. Practise this with the same person over a few days and you will become more confident in your ability to send and receive telepathic messages.
Developing good telepathic skills assists with spirit communication, clairvoyance and clair-audience skills, as accurate transmission of information can only happen when you have clear vision and are able to telepathically tune into people, spirits and places.
Precognition
This is the ability to see into the future through dreams and daytime impressions. Have you ever dreamed of a future event and it has happened? Have you ever visited a place and felt that you had been there before? Have you ever been at a social event and knew how the evening would turn out? Have you seen into the future and and been able to foretell which of your childhood friends would do well and which would fail? This is precognition.
Nostradamus (1503–66) was the greatest seer in the Western world. To open his vision he would focus his attention on a bowl of water. He would then see pictures projected from his mind and relate these to his knowledge of astrology. In this manner he predicted many major European historical events including the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power and the nuclear bomb.
To develop this skill you don’t necessarily need to use a bowl of water, a crystal ball or any type of paraphernalia (although these can make things easier for beginners). To practise precognition you need to be able to open your mind and have a focal point on which to fix your attention. I have found that the most sensitive time of day for this type of psychic connection is late at night, when you are tired and unable to focus your concentration on everyday reality. The more tired I am, the more open I become to receive psychic information and to be able to see into the future.
The best form of development exercise for precognition is to work on divination skills using tools such as tarot cards, scrying through crystals balls or a bowl of water, or even reading tea leaves – any form of concentration that opens up your natural ability to see into the future.
Divination
All techniques for predicting the future are based on interpreting random events – whether it is the fall of coins or runes, the patterns in sand or smoke stains on a mirror. That random event then takes on a special meaning when we ask it to be our oracle.
The use of tarot cards is a common form of divination. I have studied them since my teens, using them as a tool with which to tune into my clairvoyant skills. I have used these skills to help people work out their personal problems and to help see me through certain challenges and crossroads in my life. The cards are generally beautifully illustrated and it is with the imagery of the illustrations that the magic or power of the tarot lies. Learning about these symbols can take years of practice and reading but once learnt they are never forgotten.
Tarot Cards
GETTING STARTED
At first glance, traditional tarot cards appear difficult to understand. The cards were originally designed when most of the world’s population was illiterate, and much of the knowledge was passed down by Romany oral traditions. The pictures and the symbols told a story and gave inspiration to the diviner, so in essence the cards are simple to read as they work by triggering your own intuition rather than being based on a technical understanding of the symbology within the cards.
Many cards and their accompanying books are overloaded with so much information – including astrology, psychology, world religious symbols, numerology and so on – that I found it was best to choose a set of cards whose colour, texture and tradition I responded to. (I began my journey with the Rider tarot designed by A.E. Waite, a pack based on the European tradition, but now I work with Dakini Oracle cards based on Tibetan Buddhism – choose whatever suits you.)
If you are going to work with the cards on other people, they must be bought for you as a gift. So even if you have chosen them, ask your partner or a friend to buy them for you. Buy the accompanying book with the cards so at least you can study the meanings and format of laying the cards out. Keep your tarot cards in a soft, natural-fibred cloth, preferably red in colour, as this protects them and holds their power.
Before you start practising, get to know the cards. Look at each one and decide what it is trying to tell you. How would you interpret the card in a reading? What does it say about the emotional, spiritual or material conditions of a person? Devote a good deal of time to this before you look up the standard meanings of the cards from the book, as it will help you link your own intuitive response to the cards. When you have decided on your interpretation, compare it with the meanings in your book and you will probably find that your interpretation comes close to the established meaning. Practise on yourself and on close friends and family until you feel comfortable working with them without referring to the book.
THE CARDS
In the traditional tarot there are 78 cards, divided into two main groups: 22 Major Arcana, numbered 0-21; and 56 Minor Arcana, divided into four suits. The Major Arcana is the most powerful of the set, symbolizing the