I wrote the words: blue skies, surf, asphalt, grass, birds, and the sounds of people on a boardwalk. This gave way to clear visions of two places in Virginia Beach that I had visited: a museum related to boats and the sea, and the city’s contemporary arts center and museum.
When the two monitors returned with digital photos of a historic lighthouse on Cape Henry Beach, a collective gasp of surprise rolled like a wave through the auditorium. I wasn’t the only one who had tuned in to the target: ninety percent of the people in the audience—some 270 people—had drawn and verbally described the tall lighthouse in striking detail.
The compelling story of remote viewing held the audience spellbound for four days. During a follow-up intensive workshop, Schwartz asked the hundred or so people attending to remote-view the location of Saddam Hussein. Several months later, Schwartz reported that the vast majority of trainees, with me included, had closely described the underground hiding place, nearby structures, and bedraggled condition of the newly captured Iraqi dictator.
The Inner Certainty of Higher Awareness
Practice develops the psychic senses more than anything else, as remote-viewing studies have shown and Edgar Cayce discovered over the forty-three years he gave readings. What also helps is the inner certainty of higher awareness that comes from deep within and feels “realer than real.” This sentience is what propelled Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, and many other great seers to stand by their prophetic knowing, sometimes at the risk of death.
The prophetic person’s quick and sure sense of conviction comes naturally, while the rest of us must listen, see, and feel the information until the sensed knowledge of higher awareness builds to inner certainty.
When soul messages are vitally important, they flash through any and every available channel. If you want to open up channels that you seldom use, the meditation and psychic inquiry techniques provided in upcoming chapters will show you how to do that. Simply quieting thoughts to access the deeper awareness of the psychic soul stimulates inner imagery that will give you the answers to everything you want and need to know.
The Soul’s Essence and Source
Although we use terms like “higher consciousness” to describe levels of awareness that exist beyond ordinary states of mind, in actuality we are this eternal higher consciousness living in a temporary physical body, as described so beautifully by the Cayce readings on page 9 of the Meditation chapter that opens the first book of A Search for God:
It is through meditation that we may become aware of the existence of the spiritual forces within, that we unlock the door between our physical and spiritual bodies. Through this door come impulses from the soul, seeking expression in the physical.
Our souls are endowed with many faculties that are limited and bound by our impressions in the physical. The soul is always present, always willing to express its true purpose, its true relationship with the Creator. Through meditation we make this possible; we open the way.
Some say that we are not conscious of possessing a soul. We should know that each of us is a soul. This body in which we live is only our house for the moment, and then out of it we go on to other states of consciousness and other experiences.
Understanding the nature of the soul is central to intuitive development. Your psychic senses are not “out there” or “in another realm”; they exist in your spirit, which interpenetrates your physical body and is in and with you always.
We can say something more: your spirit, simultaneously existing in non-physical and physical realms, has immediate access to any and all information and energy. When you turn your attention to your solar plexus to feel, to the temporal lobes above your ears to hear, to your third eye to see, and to the crown of your head to know, you are tuning in to the spiritual matrix of your brain and body.
The ability to concentrate the mind is essential to the psychic, due to the fact that intuitive impressions usually stream into the senses very fast. Blink and you miss them. The remedy is to keep your mind as calm as a glassy lake—a lesson taught by nature.
Everything on earth contains the potential to lift the ordinary senses into the psychic awareness of the higher mind—from nature, animals, and people to inspiring art, music, and literature. Nature, creativity, and anything else that stirs the senses and opens the heart lifts the mind into the soul’s sixth sense: “ . . . a faculty of the soul-body itself . . . ,” said Cayce. (5754-2)
Inner Paths to the Sixth Sense
While earthly pleasure is the outer path to the sixth sense, according to Edgar Cayce, the inner path consists of meditation, dream study, and inspired writing. These practices create a sensory bridge to the subconscious mind, where the soul’s higher awareness resides.
Extraordinary results occur during meditation, dream study, and inspired writing. When we focus our attention and awareness on a spiritual ideal, the kundalini life force coiled in the lower body rises up through seven major chakra centers and concentrates its high-frequency energies in the crown of the head and third eye.
This shift in consciousness from lower to higher vibrations enables the soul to calibrate the body-mind to the superconscious realm in which its sixth sense communes with its godlike, angelic nature (the higher self, or oversoul) that is “ . . . builded by the entity through its experiences as a whole in the material and cosmic world . . . ,” according to the Cayce readings. (5754-2) The godlike, angelic self is “ . . . ever on guard before the throne of the Creator itself . . . ” (5754-1)
Contact with these superconscious energies “spiritualizes” the body-mind and rewires it to a higher vibration that can sustain high-sense perception in ordinary life.
Superconscious Awareness
The Cayce readings traced the effect of the rising kundalini and its activation of high-sense perception for a group of people who met with him in 1931 to ask how they might become more spiritual and psychic. To answer this request, Cayce gave 130 psychic readings that became the basis of the two volumes titled A Search for God, which were compiled and used as texts by this original study group of thirteen people. Today, more than five hundred active study groups in the United States and thirty-three other countries meet weekly to discuss the readings in the text, meditate, and practice lessons that invariably amplify the members’ spiritual attunement and psychic powers.
The Meditation chapter, which opens the first book, states on page 11 that people “who by constant introspection are able to bring to the surface their experiences as a whole are called ‘sages’ or ‘lamas.’” When this spiritual ability is made practical, the person becomes a master.
The chapter also traces the upward movement and effects of the kundalini force, a powerful reservoir of physical and spiritual energy, as it rises up through the spinning wheels of light known as the chakras.
A sensation experienced in the eyes indicates a healing vibration, according to the Cayce readings on page 13 in that Meditation chapter. If energy runs up through the body and ends in sensations of fullness in the head, pulling these vibrations down to the “disseminating center”—the spiritual third eye in the forehead—enables the meditator to heal others magnetically through the laying-on of hands.
Hearing an inner voice signifies an awakening to God. This awakening stimulates other faculties until we pass “into the presence of that which may materialize in voice, feeling, sight, and a consciousness of oneness with the Whole,” said Cayce’s Source. (p. 13)
Meditation consistently and reliably develops psychic abilities over time. When we purify with water, sanctify with incense and candles, relax the body, and quiet the mind, we find in the stillness of meditation a sense of inner unity and a thirst for the presence