I might have doubted this story—a clairaudient cat that heals himself?—except that it was too bizarre to have been fabricated. Several years later I traveled across the state to present an all-day seminar. That evening I wired my EEG biofeedback device (called the Mind Mirror) to a woman who said she wanted to communicate with her recently deceased cat. She did talk with her departed cat during the session, and afterward she told me the cat’s story, which sounded eerily familiar. I knew that cat! It was Richie, who had eventually died of old age. What were the chances? I’d written about him in my online newsletter. Richie’s clairaudient owner confirmed every detail of the story I’d heard and reported. (Now, that’s synchronicity!)
True synchronicity, defined as a meaningful coincidence of inner and outer events, provides meaningful lessons. I was recently plagued by three unsightly moles (not the animal) that took up residence on the sides of my knee and face. I must have unconsciously remembered Richie’s story. Not wanting to cut off the moles, I asked them to go away. Believe it or not, they disappeared within days and in one case, sloughed off within hours! I was astonished and from this experience learned that everything has ears to hear.
If a part of your body needs attention, sit quietly in a meditative state and dialogue with it. Listen to what comes into your mind, and if the insights make any sense at all, honor them.
Deer That Hear
You will see in upcoming chapters how everything on earth is connected on an unconscious level. I experienced direct proof of this idea late one afternoon while racing a truck for lead position just before a slow crawl up a long, steep, two-lane road. Just as I won the sprint, I heard an inner voice say, “Oh great, now I’m going to be the one to hit the deer.” I was startled by these words, which rippled into my mind out of the blue so that when I approached a deer crossing, I slowed down and extended my peripheral vision. When the huge, antlered buck leapt out of the field onto the road in front of me, I was able to stop the car a few feet short of him. We stared at each other for about fifteen seconds until he jumped back into the field. I drove away feeling like we’d had a friendly conversation.
Clairaudience increases quickly when we listen all the time. I developed my inner hearing through inspired writing, the subject of a later chapter. Perhaps you will try this way of listening, too. It is very freeing to know that you can connect at any time with an inner voice that exists to offer guiding insights, solutions, comfort, and assurance.
The “Gut Instinct” of Clairsentience
Clairsentience is a holdover from prehistoric times, when “gut instinct” taught people to dodge dinosaurs and forage for edible food in a world without grocery stores.
Then and now, the psychic reception area for clairsentience is the solar plexus, extending from the base of the ribcage to just below the navel. This area, densely packed with nerves, is the perfect location for psychic feeling, which you may have experienced as the “butterflies” of excitement or stage fright. When endangered, cave people felt the unconscious mind’s powerful warning signals: the gut spasms, a gasp of fear, or the surge of adrenaline that speeds up the heartbeat to rapidly push more blood and oxygen to the extremities. Clairsentience was and still is the perfect evolutionary mechanism, as proved by the fact that we are not extinct.
Who is clairsentient? Everyone is. Clairsentience is the only psychic sense shared by humans and animals—and the plant kingdom as well, according to The Secret Life of Plants, a remarkable book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird that chronicles the clairsentient ESP of the plant kingdom. I always talk to my plants, and they love it.
The Sentient’s Psychic Field
You may be clairsentient if you walk into a busy department store during the holidays and suddenly feel dazed and confused. Psychic feelers “pick up” the energies of people around them and very often cannot tell the difference between other people’s thoughts and feelings and their own. This ability is especially true of people who have been traumatized in childhood and consequently develop a clairsentient radar for hypervigilance that guards and protects them. The “psychic empath,” whose radar is extended out too far, feels the thoughts and emotions of other people, which can be chaotic, upsetting, and even painful.
Clairsentients live by their feelings about people, places, and things. Cluttered places and chaotic people and locales make them feel very uncomfortable, Sanders points out. You are not likely to find a chaotic mess on the clairsentient’s desk. Confusion of any kind feels too painful.
Clairsentience enables us to “feel out” the past, present, and future of people, places, and the environment. Because retrocognition and precognition (psychically reading the past and future) often occur in our feeling centers, we don’t easily forget these experiences.
Several years ago I was in a copy shop, happily duplicating a sheaf of papers to be delivered to government offices down the street. Suddenly, out of nowhere, powerful stirrings of fear and foreboding gripped my abdomen and took my breath away. The clench of fear was too strong to ignore, so I did an inner check to see if the source were physical, mental, or emotional; and to my surprise, it was none of these.
When a car rear-ended my Toyota Camry at a stoplight a few minutes later, the shallow breathing caused by the tightness in my solar plexus instantly released and my usual equanimity returned. The other driver was visibly surprised by my lack of concern over the accident. In fact, the perplexed expression on his face made me laugh out loud. I had already experienced the shock wave of the collision in the copy shop, and now the foreboding was over and done with!
The driver and his wife questioned me about what looked to them like surreal calmness. I let them believe it was simply because I am a meditator—and that was true enough. It is the quiet, self-aware mind that is best able to pick up psychic signals and “feel” ahead, which is what I had unconsciously done.
Why did my clairsentience bother to forewarn me about a minor accident? No doubt it was on-the-job training meant to convey a reassuring message: everyone possesses gut instincts that will warn him or her of danger. Only the psychic soul is with us all of the time to perform such a protective function. Our responsibility is to attend to our feelings and ask where they are coming from. If we listen deeply, the soul will tell us.
Dealing with Doubt and Ambiguity
It can be difficult to distinguish a clairsentient alarm bell from an unfounded fear rooted in the memory of an unresolved experience. In other words, is the woman sharpening a knife at the kitchen counter a real threat, or does she resemble someone who once was?
Negative emotional experiences are stored in the subconscious mind in long-term memory alongside the soul’s sixth sense. Both control the involuntary nervous system. Once an instinctive warning sets off the fight, flight, or freeze stress response, adrenaline surges through the body, and the rational mind is overtaken by the primitive reptilian brain, which strikes first and asks questions later.
The best way to resolve ambiguity is to clean up the subconscious. How do we stop people from pushing our “hot buttons”? We get rid of them (the hot-buttons) through personal transformation. Until then, we can mitigate the potential damage done by the reptilian brain. When we catch ourselves flaring up in anger or defensiveness, we can quickly relax, grow quiet inside, and psychically look at the buried memories that created those buttons. Mastering the inner reptile increases the power of the intellect, and tossing out the garbage leaves the subconscious calm and clear. Once we have clarity, we can trust our psychic feelings.
By far the best way to transmute emotions is to meditate. Happily, meditation is the natural way to increase psychic sensitivity, as it puts us in direct touch with the psychic soul.
Powering Up Clairsentience
Besides emotional transmutation, what powers up clairsentience the most is the loving intention to heal or to help, as I discovered in an EEG-monitored study on