Hopeful expectation opens the doors of psychic perception and the infinite dimensions lying beyond them. Soon you will see just how psychic you are!
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The Soul’s Psychic Senses and Infinite Source
“I do not ask to see. I do not ask to know. I only ask to be used.”— Sufi prayer
Everyone—and everything—is a soul. Sometimes we humans are aware of our soul. Most of the time, absorbed as we are in the life of the mind, we forget that we have an essential being. Consequently, the soul must guide us back to the higher awareness in ourselves and in all else. The soul speaks to us in the languages of waking life, nature, psychic inquiry, meditation, dreams, inspired writing, and life’s synchronicities.
Soul messages travel through every channel in the sensory system, lifting the physical senses into a high-sense perception that enables us to intuitively hear an inner voice, have a vision, feel a gut instinct, or know things in a flash.
Just imagine that you are a soul—which you are!—with a message to send your conscious mind. Which channels would you use? Obviously, the ones that best fit the need. If the conscious mind needs a picture, the soul sends a vision; if it needs to taste, smell, and feel something, the soul sends a multisensory message through those several psychic channels.
The soul can use every sensory channel, or just one, to shout out a warning that keeps us safe; and when it does this, the message is always loud and clear. Otherwise, the subconscious soul whispers its messages through the one or two organs of perception that we use most in waking life and thus are wide open.
For example, writers and musicians attuned to words and sounds are well-developed aurally—their psychic sense is clairaudience, meaning clear hearing. People with a great deal of empathy who relate to others through emotional feelings receive intuitive messages via clairsentience, meaning clear feeling. Artists, architects, and airplane pilots with keen vision are usually clairvoyant, while high-powered intellectuals who think and move rapidly, receive lightning-quick flashes of prophetic knowing.
When the conscious mind’s ego is attuned to inner awareness, the voice and languages of the multisensory soul are much more easily heard. Soul attunement evolves the mind’s consciousness faster than anything else, since impressions streaming into the psychic senses unite the conscious and subconscious and thus awaken the mind to its spirit and source. This self-integration is the sole purpose of our slow voyage through the psychic waters of this fantastic planet.
Since we value the conscious mind’s intellect and want it to cooperate with the soul, this chapter features a wealth of scientific research on four psychic reception areas and the personality traits associated with each, courtesy of Pete A. Sanders, Jr., author of the intuitive person’s bible, You Are Psychic! Sanders, who learned to see auras as a child, used an MIT laboratory and scientific methods to conduct intuitive experiments on himself, other students, and professional psychics in the Boston area. His research proved so valid that he passed up a scholarship to Harvard Medical School in order to open a psychic training school, Free Soul, write his You Are Psychic! book and train thousands of people to develop their intuitive abilities.
If you are an amateur or a professional intuitive, you know it’s not necessary to understand how high-sense perception works. It just does! We were made for this awareness. Still, most readers will find the information very useful. Identifying our natural psychic senses gives us the confidence to open up all the way to the voice and languages of the soul.
The Inner Vision of Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is likely your primary psychic sense if you think in pictures and experience life visually. The psychic reception area for clairvoyants is in the “third eye” of the forehead, in front of the frontal cortex of the brain, which also processes ordinary vision, sleeping dreams, and daydreams.
Identified by Eastern mystics as the fifth chakra, a spinning wheel of light in the body’s subtle energy system, the psychic third eye turns inward to look into itself and turns outward to see into other people. To tap into this psychic center, close your physical eyes and relax them; otherwise, you will stimulate busy thoughts that will distract you or block your psychic vision.
Once your eyes are completely relaxed, lift them slightly to the third eye area of your forehead just between your eyebrows. Then, mentally walk through a room in your house. Notice each item of furniture, the quality of light, the colors, textures, shapes, forms, and patterns in the room. Are the images sharp and clear, or vague and indistinct? If they are sharp and clear, then you are probably a psychic visionary with the gift of clairvoyance.
Sanders found that the visual clairvoyant who needs to see the “whole picture” seeks out open horizons and scenic views, enjoys reading maps, and may enjoy photography or art. In restaurants, offices, and living spaces, this person probably grabs the seat with the best view and the most light.
What If I Can’t See?
Even if you are not primarily clairvoyant, you may see meaningful visual imagery when you ask yourself a question or give a psychic reading to someone else. Students in my intuition development classes worry that they might not see imagery, but most people do—if not right away, then with a little practice. There are good reasons for this.
Statistics report that one-half to two-thirds of any population is primarily visual because, in sighted persons, this physical sense is active throughout the day. Vision is processed in the visual cortex, which resembles a “projection screen” in the back of the head. Images travel from the visual cortex to the frontal cortex for processing in the front of the brain behind the forehead, the location of the psychic third eye.
When the eyes of a sighted person are open, this brain circuitry is always at work. When the eyes are closed, the frontal cortex processes daydreams, sleeping dreams, and psychic visions.
To sharpen your psychic vision, notice colors, textures, shapes, forms, shadows, and light. Looking deeply into the natural world will sharpen your outer vision so that your inner imagery is vivid and clear. Ask your soul to help with your clairvoyance. It will show you ways to strengthen this psychic sense, as its deepest desire is to open every possible line of communication with your conscious mind.
The Eyes of the Soul
The eyes of the soul are able to see into the past, present, and future. Perhaps you have had this experience: while shopping for groceries, a book, or hardware item, your eyes unexpectedly dart, seemingly of their own accord, to a particular item. If you buy it, later that day or the next you discover that it’s exactly what you need to have on hand for an unexpected guest, free time, or a house repair.
Once, during meditation, I asked for an inspiring idea to use as the basis of a Sunday talk to be given in a church. Nothing arose, but when I opened my eyes, they darted to a book I didn’t remember buying or placing on the shelf. I felt that it was the answer to my need. Sure enough, it fell open to a scholarly study on the stages of enlightenment, which I have since taught in dozens of classes and publications.
Your soul eyes will also guide you to safety. Some years ago, I flew with my young grandson from the East Coast to Los Angeles, California, rented a car, and started out on a long drive to Arizona. Exhausted and dazed from the long flight, I drove into rush-hour traffic in L.A. with no map, no GPS, and only a list of the names of highways leading to my destination. Seeing an interminable line of cars ahead of me, I pulled over, closed my eyes, and asked for help. In lightning-quick time, a simple line drawing of a map flashed into my mind’s eye: I saw a road running from the freeway