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PsychicSkills

WrittenbyChristineBreeseD.D.,Ph.D.&MargaretBranch

Introduction
The extraordinary powers of the mind known as psychic abilities are an inherent gift to all of us. Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips tell us in their book The Development Of Psychic Powers (1988) that psychic powers are our birthright. Some people more naturally express these abilities than others. For the others, psychic abilities may be developed through study and practice. It is also called intuition or psychic abilities. In more conservative circles it is called a hunch or gut feeling. The term ESP, extra sensory perception, was coined by the late Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine. He was a professor and head of the parapsychology laboratory at Duke University.Dr.Rhinewasridiculedbysomeandadmiredbyothers,andhewasworkingwithparapsychologyat atimewhenitwasconsideredtaboo. It is a good thing that the 6th sense is gaining a revived recognition of its usefulness. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), As the endofthesecondmillenniumdrawsnear,thelimitationsoflogic,rationality,andthescientificmethodasthesole means of guiding our lives are becoming all too painfully clear. Increasingly our world is turning to modes of perception and understanding that dont rely on evidence presented to our senses, modes such as intuition and faith The early Greeks [Greece being the birthplace of logic, philosophy, and the rudiments of the scientific method]recognizedthatrationalthoughtisincompleteandneedsthesupportofintuition. Belleruth Naparstek goes further by saying in her book Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking The Power Of Your Intuition (1997), Weve entered a new stage of our human evolution, a time when the development of our psychic capacity is essential to our survival. Without a new and stronger kind of psychic attainment, without a deepersenseofspiritualconnectednesstothewhole,andwithoutamuchlargersenseofselfthanweasaspecies has ever attained, our planet could easily die from outofcontrol aggression, territoriality, and greed. So its no coincidence that we find ourselves in a time of great interest in psychic phenomena, of widespread longing for connectiontoourvirtualcore.Moreandmorepeoplearelookingforwaystojoinwiththemysterious,thewider perspective,thedivine,theworldofspirit. People who are by nature very devotional and feel a close connection to their spiritual natures are most prone to having spontaneous mystical experiences that transcend the limitations of time and space. Specific examples of natural states that mystics and saints have been known to reach include levitation, ecstatic trances, and the ability to live on very little or no food. In India, yogis can slow their breathing down in meditative states so that their vital signs all but disappear. They are also able to generate amazing amounts of body heat during meditation.Tibetanmonkshavebeenknowntomeditateinthesnowwithoutadequateclothing,andtheydonot becomecold.Manyspiritualadeptslivedonlittleornofood,andyetlivehealthyandvibrantlives. In religious history, the Catholic Church has documented accounts of saints demonstrating special powers (called siddhis in India) which are very advanced psychic abilities. Once consciousness can bend space and time, this is the ultimate psychic ability. One of these is called levitation, which is the experience of floating slightly above the ground. Levitation happened usually when priests were caught up in the deep reverence of officiating the Holy Mass. St. Francis was a saint famous for levitation. He was said to float from the ground when he was in ecstatic states of communion with God. There are also descriptions of priests and nuns who spontaneouslyhavebledatthehandsandfeet.SpontaneousbleedingofthissortisknownintheCatholicChurch as stigmata. These locations correspond to the wound sites where the crucified Christ was nailed to the cross (althoughsomemysticshadvisionspertainingtotheexactlocationbeinginthewristsratherthaninthepalmsof the hands). The occurrence of stigmatain the upper body being more correctly located in the wrists is referred to by Eileen Freeman in her book Touched By Angels (1993). Here, she writes of a contemporary saint, and she declares that in the twentieth century, the stigmatic Therese Neumann had a comparable experience. These featsarealsoseeninpeoplewhocanbendspoonsandforks,ormoveobjects.Thisiscalledtelekinesis. There are others who are quite accurate in psychic tests. They have participated with indepth experiments in the past 50 years. Children are said to be exceptionally intuitive until they lose their abilities as they grow older. Young children are believed to be closer to the spirit world and spiritual abilities because they are not completely entrenched in the ways of human physical reality. Remote viewing is another welltested and PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 1

proven psychic ability that even governments and authorities make use of. Police departments have also been known to make use of psychics, or intuitives, in solving crimes. A psychic or intuitive is someone who uses their intuition consciously, rather than unconsciously. Most people use intuition unconsciously every day. Some have learnedtouseitwithprecisionandaccuracy. As to the nature of psychic abilities in general, there are many schools of thought. Some believe it is by higher functioning of the human brain that psychic abilities are possible. Others believe that it is by Gods grace thatthesehigherpowersarepossibleinahuman.However,ultimately,psychicabilitiescanbesaidtostemfrom the limitless nature of the larger Mind, synchronous with Universal Law. Because all of us are aspects of this one force, this larger awareness is part of our experience even while we focus our consciousness in the limited material plane of duality and identify with it. One way to describe our relationship to the Cosmic Unity is through what can be called the subjective or subconscious mind, which functions as the repository of memories and feelings. The subconscious perceives by intuition, and obeys the conscious mind, according to Dr. Joseph Murphy.Inhisbook,ThePowerOfYourSubconsciousMind(1963)Murphystates,Thesubconsciousseeswithout thenaturalorgansofvision...[and]hasthecapacityofclairvoyanceandclairaudience. Intuition is an ability you already have and use every day. Exercising intuition makes it stronger, and making it a conscious process makes it more accessible. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To HarnessThePowerOfYourInstinctsAndMakeItWorkForYou(1996),Intuitionisacapacityyouarebornwithasa human being, like the capacity for language or thinking or appreciating music. Intuition is not a power one acquires. Its an integral part of every human mental, emotional, and psychical process. Each momentright nowyou receive information intuitively; youre simply unaware of the process. You use your intuition in practical reasoned decisions you make every day, from choices as mundane as to what to eat for dinner, what to major in, or who to marry. The trick to using your intuition more effectively is to bring the unconscious data it suppliestoaplacewhereyourconsciousmindcaninterpretit. You may bewondering why, if intuition isan innate ability that you use all the timewhy, you might ask, should we make ourselves work for what we already have?until now, using your intuition may have been a hit or miss proposition. The skill comes in knowing how to access and apply it effectively. Learning to understand the information you receive intuitively requires structure, Just as thinking is improved with the structure logic provides. Whatever intuitive skills youve retained from your childhood, you can develop them, like any other skill, with guidance and some practice Training intuition [enables] you to use the different capacitiestogethermoreeffectively. We use our intuition all the time, but we dont realize it. Why dont we recognize intuition if we use it every day? Laura Day continues on this subject, At a very young age we learned to distrust our intuition. As we grow up we learned to judge data as real or pertinent or objective, and to weed out what is not real by societys standards. Over the years, this mental censoring becomes an unconscious, automatic process Another reason you dont recognize intuition is that it speaks a different language. Intuition is often symbolic and fragmentary.Onlyonrareoccasionsdoesitspeakincompletesentences.Whatsmore,intuitiveinformationoften doesnotmakesense,especiallywhenitinvolvesthefuture.Asaresult,wetrainourselvestodismissit. If you doubt the validity of intuition, you can either allow it to prove itself or you will prove it doesnt workyourself.Yourbeliefinwhetheryourintuitionworksarenot,ortheinformationofothersworks,willaffect the outcome of your experience. If you are skeptical, your experience with intuition will most likely be a disappointment.Ifyoureoptimistic,andapproachwithcuriosity,youwillmostlikelyreceivepositiveresults. Most people are skeptics. Many people do not believe that intuition can find answers, and even those who wish to develop their intuition may be skeptical about their abilities. However, as with all new skills and abilities, to pretend is where itall begins. Setaside your rational mindandyourdoubtsabout your ownabilities, and just pretend that you are able to use your intuition to find answers to anything and everything for a little while, and see what happens. You are always welcome to go back to a rational belief that you do not have these abilities,butfornowgiveitawhirlandseewhathappens. Laura Day expounds on the value of pretending in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power OfYourInstinctsAndMakeItWorkForYou(1996),Aswebecomeolderandmature,manyofuslosetouchwith this important ability to pretend because of the overwhelming social pressures to be logical and sensible. Even youngchildrenareencouragednottomakethingsup.Whatsmore,ourabilitytopretend andtocreatehasbeen replaced toalarge degreeby technology, like videos and television andadvertising, which gives our brains most PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 2

of what they need to keep entertained. All of this is too bad, because pretending performs some very useful functions.Pretendingisalsoavaluableabilitywhenlearninganewskill.Beforewemastersomething,ithelpsto pretend that weve already acquired the skill even modern science is based on pretending pretending often precedesfaith.Indeed,pretendingoftengeneratesfaith,and,beforeweknowit,wenolongerneedtopretend. Intuition is not limited by space or time. Intuition does not require that you know anything about the subjects youre inquiring about. It doesnt even require that you understand all the impressions that you receive. This is the beauty of intuition. Even though you may know nothing about refrigerators, a refrigerator repair man maycometoyouandaskyouwhyaparticularrefrigeratorisresistingrepair.Youcanfindoutthroughintuition, by describing feelings, pictures or words coming to you about the dysfunction of the appliance. The refrigerator repair man can then use your clues to determine the problem. You can know the answer to any question. You have access to all the answers. It is not the same as knowing everything consciously. It is a different kind of knowing. Intuition plays a part in all your decisions. Feelings are emotional senses without explanation, and we tend to dismiss feelings as unreasonable and untrustworthy, but feelings are facts. Feelings are often what overrides the rational mind in the decisionmaking process, and in fact can be a very trustworthy steering mechanism through your reality. It is not uncommon for someone to delay a trip based on a feeling, only later to find out that a disaster had been avoided, or an opportunity wouldve been lost if they had left. Feelings, or gut feelings,canbeveryaccurateindicatorsoftherightchoicesforyou.

WhyDoWeHaveIntuition,AndDoWeAllHaveIt?
A scientific hypothesis is that intuition is first and foremost a survival tool. It gives you information instantaneously that you might need in a survival situation. The ability to be in tune to the surrounding environment was a life and death situation in primitive times. People who were more intuitive had a better chanceofsurvival. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), We tend to rely on our more advanced and civilized senses, but remember that our most reliable senses are the ones that developed first. Oursense of touch develops before oursight, ourintellect last of all. Nature tells us what we can count on to survive, and we were given intuition for a reason. Most of your life questions related in some way to the future, and intuition, being foremost a survival tool, is especially adept at addressing the future. Most likely it is the sense (or collection of senses) specifically geared to gathering information that is not available in your immediate environment. For most of us, this process takes place unconsciously and with much interference from our logical minds and emotional patterning. In becoming aware of our intuitive information before its fully assembled and before we have unwittingly acted on it, we bring this valuabledataaboveouremotionalconsciousnesstothelevelofourintellect.Asaresult,wemakebetterreasoned decisions. Everyone has intuition. Even those who think they dont, yes, they have it too. How often have you thoughtofyourfriend,andloandbehold,yourphoneringsandyouknowitisyourfriend?Haveyoueverhada dream that came true? You have at least once blurted something out and your friend said, Hey! I was just thinking that, you read my mind! Havent you ever known without knowing how you know something? You havehadintuitiveexperiencesgalore,butyoumightnothaverealizedthatwaswhattheywere.Mostoftenthese experiencesaredismissedwithoutthinkingmuchaboutthem,orwechalkituptocoincidence. Everyone operates in their life not even knowing how much they use their subconscious abilities. It is actually a two way street between the subconscious mind and the conscious mind. The subconscious not only communicates with the conscious mind, giving it privy information now and then from the realms of the unknown, or psychic hits, but it also takes direction from the conscious mind. What your conscious mind projects as a desire, your subconscious goes about creating, giving you information along the way as to its workings. Joseph Murphy explains this in his book Psychic Perception: The Magic Of Extrasensory Power (1971), It is best that you have a healthy regard and respect for your thought. Thought is the most powerful force in the universe Your subconscious mind could be likened to an iceberg90% of it is below the surface. It is your subconscious mind that does the work according to the orders given it by your conscious mind. What you think withyourconsciousmindyouproducewithyoursubconscious. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 3

In other words, your subconscious mind knows at least 90% more than your conscious mind does, if not more. Your subconscious mind works with the mathematics of the cosmos, all probabilities and all outcomes. It knows the future, it knows the past, and it knows all the possibilities for your life. It is one with the universal mind.Itknowswhowillbestandingonaparticularstreetcornerat2:20PMonaparticularday,andwillattempt to arrange that chance meeting you need to have with that stranger who will soon become one of your closest friends or business partners. The subconscious mind will nudge you to take the bus that day instead of the train, or give you the idea to take a different route home than you normallydo. Thisis how psychic hits work. There is a constant rapport between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. If you realize that this is not such a mystery,andlearnhowtohearyoursubconsciouswhenitspeakstoyou,yourlifecanhavesomeverymagical unfoldingsbasedonfollowingthedirectionsyouaregivenfromwithinyourself. The attainment of psychic abilities is the direct attempt at learning to tune in to the subconscious and using it consciously. Although the human mind will never be able to hold all that the subconscious does, it can definitely be trained to interact with and take direction from the larger self that is directing your life. The advantagesofbeingabletodothisarelimitless.

WhyHoneMyPsychicSkills?
Onequestionthatmightcomeupis,Whyhonemyintuitiveskillsifanyonecandoanintuitivereading, and everyone has this ability? Laura Day gives the answer in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996): While anyone can generate intuitive information, it takes an experienced practitioner to interpret the information in a useful way. The skill is in knowing how to ask questions, and how to interpret the intuitive responses. The real challenge is in the interpretation. This is where thetrainingisneeded.Thisiswhyonemustpracticeintuitivereadingsandthencheckontheaccuracyinorderto know that the interpretation of the symbols has been accurate. Not very many people check the accuracy of their intuition,andthisiswhynoteveryonecangiveareadingwithoutanytraining. Having exercised and practiced using your psychic abilities gives you an advantage that you did not have before in moving through your life. Now you can access more information when making your decisions, and use more of your senses than only five physical senses and the limited human intellect. You can use the viewpoint of the Universal Mind to make your decisions rather than the human viewpoint without extra information. Shakti Gawain says about learning how to use your psychic abilities in her book Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance For Daily Life (2000), Quite simply, [it is useful] because its probably one of the most valuable things you will ever do for yourself. It actually takes relatively little time, and the potential rewards are enormous. Intuition is an important resource that can greatly contribute to our success and fulfillment in life onceweknowhowtofollowit,intuitionisaveryaccurateguidingforceinallaspectsoflife.Withoutit,weareat agreatdisadvantage. Enid Hoffman puts it even more simply in Develop Your Psychic Skills (1981), We develop our psychic skillsforthesamereasonthatwedevelopedanyotherskillbecausetheyenhanceourlives. Somepeoplefearthatdevelopingtheirpsychicskillswouldchangetheirlivestoomuch,orinterferewith living a normal life. While having psychic abilities can greatly enhance your life for the better, there are no true disadvantages to developing them. There are adjustments that must be made however. For instance, you may become aware of disembodied spirits that no one else can see, but whom you have a working relationship with. Another example wouldbe that you may be quite aware of someone who has a serious illness, and yet you must saynothingunlessyouareaskedbythatpersontoexpoundonit.Itisnotappropriatetobetellingeveryonethat youareseeingthisorthatintheirenergy.Therecanbesomefrustrationinvolvedwhenyouknowmorethanthe average person about the people that you meet. However, you must be aware that you may not always be 100% right about what you are seeing, especially in the beginning. Either that or you may not be interpreting it correctly. EileenJ.GarrettsaysinherbookManyVoices:AutobiographyOfAMedium(1968),I am often asked if my psychic experiences disturb my daily life. On the contrary, they enrich it I have heard people with similar powers speak of themselves as being in the grip of something that leaves them helpless, that others find them difficult to understand This has been true of great writers and thinkers through the ages, but I have never felt myselfsetapart.Onesimultaneouslylivesaseparateexistence,awareofatenuouslevelofexperienceasonerubs PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 4

shoulders with ones fellows, while underneath there is the pattern that plays unconsciously and perpetually, a web manycolored and delicate, but filled with the awareness of what is happening to each and all below the surface. Living with psychic abilities can add more layers to your experience than you ever thought possible. Imaginewhatitwouldbelikenotonlytohearthewordsbeingspokeninaconversation,butalsobeingawareof the energy patterns of the persons aura you are conversing with, the emotional tones, the history, the mental processes, all of it in a deep way that you have never experienced before. Some might say it would be like living in an altered state all the time, and yet have more lucidity and clarity than any mind altering substance would facilitate. Joseph Murphy says it quite eloquently in his book Psychic Perception: The Magic Of Extrasensory Power (1971): For every man and woman, the cultivation of the intuitive faculty is of great significance. Intuition offers instantaneously that which the intellect or reasoning mind could accomplish only after weeks or months of monumentaltrialanderror.Whenourreasoningfacultiesfailusinourperplexities,theintuitivefacultysingsthe silent song of triumph If you will only believe, and not just pretend to believe, that Infinite Intelligence is guiding you in all your waysin your thoughts, words, and deedsyou will be led along the right road Your subconscious mind is one with infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom It can provide you with the right ideaandcanfreeyoufromlimitationsofallkinds.

WhatIsIntuition?
One might ask what the difference is between intuition and psychic abilities. Actually, there is no difference. The word psychic seems weird and far out to some people, whereas intuition is a word that is more acceptable in conservative circles. The words psychic and intuition are used interchangeably and synonymously. However, one might say that intuition is a precursor to having psychic abilities, or becoming a psychic. Developed intuition leads to psychic abilities. Intuition comes from the right hemisphere of the brain, the primary brain. According to Enid Hoffman in Develop Your Psychic Skills (1981), the right brain knows, and theleftbrainguessesandtheorizes. ShaktiGawainsaysinherbookDevelopingIntuition:PracticalGuidanceForDailyLife(2000),Intuitionisa natural thing. We are all born with it. Young children are very intuitive, although in our culture they are often trained out of it early in life some of us consciously develop this ability, while a majority of us learn to disregardanddenyitFortunately,withsomepracticemostofuscanreclaimanddevelopournaturalintuitive abilities.Wecanlearntobeintouchwithourintuition,tofollowit,andtoallowittobecomeapowerfulguidein our lives the intuitive mind [has] access to an infinite supply of information, including information that we have not gathered directly through personal experience. It appears to be able to tap into a deep storehouse of knowledgeandwisdomtheuniversalmind. Thesethreetypesofpsychicskillsareinvolvedwithintuition: Clairvoyance:clearseeing,usuallyhavingtodowithimages,pictures,symbols. Clairsentience:havingtodowithsensing,orfeelings,knowing. Clairaudience:havingtodowithhearing,actualwordsthatyouliterallyhear,alsocelestial musicorwhooshingsounds.

IntuitionDefined
1.Intuitionisanonlinearprocess. This means that intuition does not reason and it doesnt need to. It simply knows, instantly. Reasoning goes through a process of analysis and deduction, and then draws conclusions. Intuition does not follow these steps.Itgetsglimpsesofbitsandpiecesintheformofsymbols. 2.Intuitiongathersinformationthroughanonempiricalprocess. Empirical means: based on experience or experiment, and sensory information through your five senses of taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell. The empirical process of gathering information is based on what has already happened. This has to do with past experiences, facts of reality, and other concrete parameters. Intuition, beingnonempirical,doesnotperceiveinformationthroughyoursenses.However,informationreceivedthrough theintuitionbecomesempirical,andcanbeusedbythereasoningmindassuch. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 5

3.Intuitionisinterpretinginformation. Intuitive impressions must be interpreted if they are to be useful. The information received through intuition is symbolic rather than literal. Intuition works with internal language. Very rarely does intuition speak with the spoken language. The symbols come in detail, more economically come words. We all know the saying, Apicturesays1,000words.Thisistruewiththelanguageofsymbols. 4.Intuitionrespondstoquestions Intuition must be set in motion by a question. The question focuses intuition in the same way that a captain or pilot needs the longitude and latitude in order to pinpoint the location of a mayday call from a stranded boat. When using intuition one is tapping in to a vast array of information. Unless a question is asked, intuitiondoesnotknowwhattopullfirst,forineveryhumantherearemillionsofquestionseveryday.Intuition mustbedirectedastowhichoneofthesequestionstoanswer.LauraDaysaysinherbookPracticalIntuition:How ToHarnessThePowerOfYourInstinctsAndMakeItWorkForYou(1996),Intuitionrespondstoquestions,eventhe oneswehaventconsciouslyasked.

HowDoYouKnowIfYouAreBeingIntuitive?
Many people who are just beginning to develop their intuition are not sure whether or not they are just protecting their own fears or hopes, have made something up, or are making a lucky guess. This is a valid question. The answer is that you dont really know until you have practiced for a little while and received feedbackonhowaccurateyouhavebeen. However, there are a few ways to know when you are in the intuitive state. These will become your signposts that let you know you are ready for the reading you are about to begin. Next time you are in an intuitive state, take notice of how you feel when you are there. There might be a sense of lightness, heaviness, changesinyourperceptionslikeheightenedhearingorheightenedsmellortouch,warmth,coolness,astillmind, heightened intelligence, peace, different breathing the list is endless. Something will be different than your normal waking consciousness. This will let you know that you have entered an altered state. Write down these impressions when you experience them, for these are your signposts that will let you know when you are in an intuitivestate. Another way to know if you have been using your intuition, is the extent to which the impressions you received during the reading are confirmed by experience, according to LauraDay in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996). She also advises, Practice applying yourintuitionoften.Eachtimeyouconsciouslyaccessyourintuition,getfeedbackbycomparingtheimpressions you received with reality. In a very short time you will learn to distinguish a genuine intuitive impression from yourfeelingsorprojections,particularlyyourhopesandfears.

IntuitionProceedsInSteps,ReceivingAndInterpretingInformation
The first step is receiving the symbols, the language of the inner self, and this is a nonlinear process. The second step is interpreting the symbols and putting them in a language that the human mind can understand. This is a linear process. The same way that a translator works, for instance one who translates German into the English language, this is how intuition works. The logical mind makes sense of the fragmented images and feelingsthattheintuitionperceives.Assemblingintuitiveinformationisatalentinitself.Thepractitionerneedsto findthemeaningofthemessagesgivenbytheunconscious,throughsymbols,oftheinnerself. This process of learning to translate the language of the unconscious can be laborious, difficult and may take a little time at first. However, This process becomes instantaneous once youre a practiced intuitive, according to Laura Day in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996). She also sums up what intuition is with this statement: The intuitive state is simply one in which you gather information without relying on your senses or mental processes. Instead of blindly relying on this intuitive information, you must then assemble, verify, and interpret in a rigorous fashion. In that sense, intuitionisatwostepprocess,notunliketheeventoffirsthavingdreamsandthenwakinguptointerpretthem. To add to what she is saying, one impression usually suggests others. Intuition works much like dominoes. The firstimageisshown,thenthenextandthenext.Veryrarelydoesintuitionshowthewholepictureallatonce. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 6

Youarealreadyintuitive,youjustneedtopracticewithitandbecomecomfortablewiththisability.Even atanearlystage,youwillbeamazedbyyourintuitiveabilities.Thetrickistogowithyourfirstimpressions,and not secondguess what youre getting. This is most important. However, if youre going to use your intuition for something like betting on horses, choosing stocks, business risks, or other financial gambles,make sure you have practiced long enough to know that your intuition is working correctly, before you invest money based on what yourintuitiontellsyou!

TypesOfPsychicAbilities
First lets clarify what specific psychic skills are called. You may have heard many of these terms, but nowyouwillknowexactlywhateachofthemmeans. Clairvoyanceliterallymeansclearvision.Itreferstovisualinsightswhichsometimesoverridethefield of vision in a spontaneous manner. These experiences may also be invoked through meditative states. For example, Dr. Judith Orloff is a contemporary psychiatrist who has learned over the years how to appropriately use her naturalgift of clairvoyance to help clients.As she describes in her book, Second Sight (1996)regarding the abilityshelearnedtocultivate,Itwasagradualprocess,butIbecameadeptatstayingattunedtomanydifferent levels at once. Intuitive impressions would often spontaneously pop up in the middle of a session. Sometimes there would only be a single image, sometimes many. I discovered that it wasnt the number or complexity that matteredsimple,straightforwardimpressionscanbethemostpotent. Clairvoyancealsopertainstotheabilitytoseeauras.Itisnotunusualforapsychictobeabletoseeauras, if not with the physical eye, at least with the inner eye. See the UMS course on Chakras & Auras for more information on the meanings of the colors in the layers of the aura. See the UMS course on Aura Viewing (Masterscurriculum)tolearnmoreabouttechniquesforseeingauras. The way in which Dr. Orloff first learned to develop and tame her natural gifts was through her early experiencein a paranormal phenomenaresearch laboratory. Thiswaslocatedat the Neuropsychiatric Institute of theUniversityofCaliforniainLosAngeles,andresearchpsychologistDr.ThelmaMossranitinthelate1960s.In her initial interview with Dr. Moss, the art of psychometry was introduced to Dr. Orloff, which is a process whereby objects belonging to a person are used to help induce psychic intuitions about them. By holding in her hands the house keys of Dr. Moss, who encouraged her to shut her eyes, relax, and describe the house, young Judith learned that her interior visionary capabilities were quite advanced. This form of psychic ability is called psychometry. Her accuracy and detail in the process of describing the house convinced Dr. Moss that she could beavaluableassetinthelab. Dr. Orloff also had the chance to work with a research project called The Mobius Group in southern California, which worked in conjunction with police departments, insurance companies and private groups needingtheassistanceofpsychics.There,shelearnedhowtodoremoteviewing,whichwasthemodusoperandi of the group. This skill may be described as a concentration on a specific objective, such as the location or other unknown information about an object or person from a distance. In her case, she passed her hands, in a light trancestate,overamap,feelingtheenergychangeandguidehertocertainlocations.Shewasalsoencouragedto draw what she saw in her field of interior vision. It was through this training that she later learned to read her subjects while holding her attention on them at other levels simultaneously, as mentioned earlier. Remote viewing is another form of clairvoyance. Remote viewing means that a person can see what is happening in another place, or observe an object from a great distance. Many documented experiments were conducted where a viewer would report on what he or she was seeing in a different physical location than where he or she was present.Thiswasverifiableinformation. Clairaudience is similar to clairvoyance in that the auditory sense is heightened, and voices or sounds canbeheardpsychically.Clairaudiencemeansclearhearing.Thesoundscanbedescribedasradiosignalsfrom varying levels of universal air waves, including our own Higher Nature. Voices can be to warn us of impending danger, or of spiritual guidance. This psychic skill is perhaps more commonly accessed by most people(giventhatwehearourselvesthinksomuchofthetime)aswellastheabilitytobeclairsentient. Clairsentience means, in essence, to feel. Many say that it is clear sensing. This can also be called empathy. Clairsentience is when we feel the feelings of others and sometimes these feelings might be so prominentthattheymayseemasiftheyareourownfeelings.Veryoften,healerswhoworkwithpeoplewhoare ill feel their physical symptoms as they open themselves up to higher frequencies in order to channel healing PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 7

energy. This is a process of clairsentience at a concentrated level. Claircognizance is a form of this ability, which meanstoknow.Apersonwhoisclaircognizantknowswithoutknowinghowtheyknow. The scientific process of assessing ESP has been an interest in the West since the Society of Psychical Research was founded in 1882 in England. An American society was established a few years later, with similar groups nowin other countries,and what isknown today as parapsychology has come to beregarded by some as anacceptedfieldofscientificstudy. One of the most wellknown modern researchers was Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University in North Carolina (who coined the term ESP). Hansel reported in his book ESP: A Scientific Evaluation (1966), In 1934, [Rhine] published Extra Sensory Perception, in which he gave details of research at Duke University and claimed to have found overwhelming evidence for the existence of extrasensory perception. Further research followed,andin1940theDukeParapsychologyLaboratorywasformedwithRhineasitsdirector. Perhaps oneof the best contributions to the study oftelepathy, orbeingable to read the minds of others, came out of Duke with the invention of the Zener cards as an experimental instrument. These cards, invented by DukescolleagueK.E.Zener,weresymbolsthathavecometobeassociatedwithESPtesting,andtheyconsistofa circle, arectangle,a plussign, wavylines, and afivepointed star(known asESP cards). In the experiments there was usually a sender who would pick a card, visualize the object on it, and a receiver in another room or behindabarrierwhowouldbeinstructedtoguesstheobject. The process of telepathy has actual electrical impulsesinvolved. When you havean idea ora thought,an electricalimpulseiscreatedinthebrainonethericlevels.Thoughtwavesthrowofftinyparticlesofthemselvesas they travel, and they can travel great distances. Thought waves are not affected by solid objects, so thoughts disregard the physical laws of space and time. They pass through walls, cross cities, and traverse mountains. Eventually, they do lose their potency and can no longer be picked up by a receiver. Thisis much the way that asoundwaveorradiowavelosesitspotencyafterithashadachancetobouncearoundforawhile. The process of receiving through telepathy comes in through the unconscious, or subconscious, and then is filtered to the conscious mind. The sending process goes through the conscious mind. The receiving process is rooted in the etheric connections the unconscious has to the universal mind. Because the receiving process comes in through the unconscious, there are many ways the conscious mind can become aware of what the unconscious picks up. These include receiving vague images, feelings, sensations, fragmented thoughts, etc. When telepathy is utilized by a trained sender and a trained receiver, amazing results can be documented, and theyhavebeentimeandtimeagaininmanylabs. Telepathy is most potent between people who have an emotional bond. It is not unusual for a mother to know when a child of hers is in danger, has been harmed, or has been injured. She knows when something is wrong. It is not unusual for lovers to know what is happening with each other even though they may be on opposite sides of the world. Stress, of course, also brings about spontaneous telepathy. When there is great need, itisnotunusualforapersonwhohasneverworkedonbeingtelepathictosuddenlyknow. Precognitionistheabilitytoknowthefuture.Precognitivedreamsarenotunusual,andalmosteveryone hashadoneatsomepointoranotherinlife.Knowingfutureeventscanbequiteuseful,butalsodisturbingifthey are of a disastrous nature.Some peopleare naturalsat precognition, and others can develop this with training. A premonition falls in this category of psychic experiences, but it is not quite as defined as precognition. It would be more like a hunch, a vague feeling, or sensation. Precognition is more detailed and clear compared to a premonition. Seeingthefutureisanaturaloccurrence.Timeasweknowitisahumanconvenience.Totheeternalself, ourtruenature,timeissimultaneous.Thereisnopastorfuture.Thereisonlytheeternalnow.Totheeternalself, everything happens at once. Eternity is not just a long time. It is a whole different way of perception. All other versionsoftimearecontrivancesinordertoorganizeexperiencesforversionsofconsciousnessthatarenotaware of themselves as Eternity. People with psychic abilities can leave the time stream temporarilysticking their headsoutsideofit,asitweretolookintothesocalledfutureorpast,accordingtoDr.HansHolzerinhisbook AreYouPsychic?(1997).Thisiswhypsychicpredictionsarepossible.Dealingwithprobablefutures,however,isa wholeothermatter. The fact that time is an illusion may give us cause to reexamine what we think cause and effect is. The law of cause and effect may be far more complex and sophisticated than we have previously believed. In the timelessdimensions,whichiswhereapsychicstickshisorherheadwhenperceivingthepastorfuture,events PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 8

themselvesarestationaryandmaynothaveanythingtodowithcauseaneffectasweknowit.However,thisisa subject foranother day!Something to thinkabout though. The point is, the future isavailable to us whenever we are able to step outside of our belief in time as explained in human terms. When we are standing in the timeless dimensions,weareabletoaccessanypointintimeasifitishappeningnow. Everyone has had the experience of having a time warp, an occasion where a large amount of time passed,butitseemedtoonlybeashortamount,oranoccasionwheretheoppositehappened.Thesearemoments when you have stepped out of time as it is known in human terms. One factor that is almost always involved in timewarpsisthatthereisoftenafeelingofhappinessandjoywhentimeflies.Haveyouevernoticedthattime seems to move faster when you are happy,and drags endlessly when you aredepressed? Time may after all be a perception experience more than a hard and fast physical law of the universe. Even scientists are beginning to questionthenatureoftime.Theyhavediscoveredthattimemovesdifferentlyaroundlargemassesofmatter,like black holes, and other anomalies in the universe. This is still, as yet, largely undiscovered territory. Is time itself something that will become a myth that was once believed so predominantly among the masses, much the way themassesoncebelievedthattheearthwasflat? Over the years, evidence from experimental research has been found for the following extra sensory perception processes: telepathyawareness of thoughts without sensory means, such as verbal communication; clairvoyancevisuals of an object or event without the known five senses; and precognitionknowledge of the future without use of the five senses. These experiences are ones of perception and cognition without the activity ofourusualsenseorgans,thusbeingcategorizedasESP. There is another type of easily measurable psychic skill that utilizes the mental processes but has a paranormal outcome. It is known as telekinesis (also known as psychokinesis). This unusual process is defined as the ability to influence a physical object or event by thinking about it, such as the fall of a die (dice). It also includes the movement of objects through space. This particular model was scientifically researched in Russia in the late 1960s. More on this research can be found in Sheila Ostranders book Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain,writtenin1967. A direct experience with telekinesis is related by the psychiatrist mentioned above, Dr. Judith Orloff, whensheworkedintheNPIresearchlaboratorywithDr.MossatUCLA.Atthetime,ayoungIsraelimannamed UriGeller,whowasreputedtobeabletobendmetalobjectswiththeforceofhismind,cametothelaboratoryfor a demonstration. He had started out by entertaining the Israeli armed forces and was discovered in a Tel Aviv nightclubbyaparapsychologistwhowasimpressedwithhisabilitytobendpeoplesringsfromadistance. Gellers successful experiment at the lab astounded the observers, for he was able to bend, without touching, many eating utensils into little ballsas well as the metal contents of a large desk. As Dr. Orloff writes in Second Sight (1966), Uri had defied both our expectations of the physical world and our skepticism about the authenticityofperformers.(Infact,sheherselffoundoutlaterthathehadmanagedtobendthehousekeyinthe pocketofherdressandshecouldnotletherselfintoherfrontdoor.) Related to the objectively observable outcome of psychic abilities such as telekinesis is the ancient art of water dowsing, also popularly known as water witching. People who can do this are among those who, legendarily, held a forked tree branch by each prong and traversed a persons property in a systematic manner, waiting for the branch to tip downward and indicate the presence of underground streams for building wells. RosemaryAltheawritesofsuchacontemporarypersoninherautobiographyTheEagleAndTheRose(1995)when she describes a Greek man whom she counseled about healing. She says that on his home, the island of Cyprus, hecouldoftenfindwaterandgetpaidforit,butthatshetoldhimhistrueworkwasasahealer.Onceshehelped him get started with that path she found him to be quite successful, as a man of uncommon humility, devotion tospiritandwillingnesstogivetoothers The ability to see auras is described as a psychic skill that many people naturally possess, especially children. It is in the category of clairvoyance. In this experience, the varying brilliant, transparent colors emanating from a person, called the aura, are perceptible to the naked eye. In this process, it is speculated that our electromagneticenergy is radiating soulconsciousness through the vibrationallevels of color corresponding tooursoulpattern.Thisskillisrelatedtoclairvoyance,buthasexpandedtoincludethephysicaleyesinaddition totheinnereye. Many psychics are naturally able to observe auras, and have gotten used to it since childhood. In one incident that has been written about in the life of the famous psychic Edgar Cayce, auras played a major role. As PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 9

biographer Jess Stearn noted in his biography of Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet (1979), apparently Cayce was able to forestall his death by instinctively refusing to step into an elevator that subsequently failed. Everyone in the elevator died. This leads us to believe that perhaps the absence of the aura is a sign of impending death. The reason he gave was that he knew something was wrong when the doors opened and he saw, momentarily, the lackofauricemanationsaroundthepeoplewithinit. Kirlian photography has been able to capture the aura in a photographic technique that was developed byaRussianresearchteam.Ashusbandandwife,ValentinaandSemyonKirlianbegantheirresearchin1939and were granted government funds by Russia in 1960 to continue their work. We in the West are indebted to the scientific advances that these scientists contributed to the field of parapsychology. Their experiments are covered inmoredetailintheUMSChakras&Aurascourse. Dr. Orloff, who worked with Kirlian photography at the U.C.L.A. research lab, describes it as a process thatrecordsthesubtleenergyfieldofallformsoflife,aswellasinanimateobjects.ShesaysinSecondSight(1966) thatthisfieldextendsasfarasafewfeetormorebeyondthebody,andisnotdetectablebymostpeople. In conclusion to this overview, a very large component of the study of psychic skills is the experience of channeling information from other dimensions, which is a study in itself. This includes the process known as mediumship, in which mediums are in communication with discarnate souls and transmit information to the livingingatheringscalledsances.Asimilarwaytogetintouchwithoutofbodysourcesisthroughtheuseof the Ouija Board, which has letters and numbers on it to which a pointer can go to spell out messages. Some peoplehaveattemptedautomaticwritinginthisvein,inwhichtheyholdapenlooselyandwaitforittomoveof itsownaccord. As to the work of psychics and readers in the art of channeling, there are many types of practitioners. They range from fulltrance operators such as the famous Edgar Cayce, who was able to see the body of those requiring medical readings while he was unconscious, to faith healers rapt in prayer. Many psychics are known as conscious intuitive consultants, and give their impressions. The art of channeling is varied and reflects the greater or lesser personality involvement of the person who is doing the channeling work. Channeling is mediumship. Sources for this information range from anonymous origins to spirit guides with names, who sometimesaidthemediumsincontactingandfacilitatingcommunicationsfromdeceasedfamilymembers. Psychic healing is another psychic ability. This is covered in more detail in the Masters curriculum at UMS, but nonetheless it should be mentioned here. Many miraculous healings have happened through psychic healing sessions, much to the bewilderment of puzzled doctors. Psychic healing has to do with bringing through healing energies for the client, helping the client understand and resolve karmic influences that were left unaddressed, and bringing calm, balance and peace to a distorted part of the clients energy. Often, those who posses the gift of healing have had no formal training and can do this without knowing how they even do it. However,thisgiftcanbeattained,justasalltheothergifts,ifapersonhasatruedesiretodoso. The ultimate psychic abilities are great spiritual powers, or siddhis. These spiritual powers include levitation, astral projection (out of body experiences), lucid dreaming, teleportation/bilocation and other advanced spiritual skills. These will be discussed in other UMS courses, but would also be considered psychic skills.Fornow,startwiththesmallersiddhisandmoveuptothemoreadvancedonesasyouareable. Divination sources include pendulums, which will move in one direction or another when questions are asked, and many forms of the original Tarot cards that were once read by gypsies. Also included is scrying, or using water and glass for reading images to divine peoples fortune. Many indigenous cultures throughout the world have used shamans for guidance and healing in their society, special people who were gifted in understanding the mystical presence of wild animals and birds as messengers. These cultures have also used sacredherbsthatalteredconsciousnessforvisioning,andthistraditionisgainingmuchpopularitytoday. While some of the devices such as pendulums, cards and Ouija Boards, can be used by anyone to experiment, the path to increasing psychic capabilities should be undertaken seriously. A strong foundation in meditation and a desire to open to higher energies for the good of all life lays a good framework in which to avoid being misguided. The key to healthy psychic development is in establishing ones purpose and integrity, andexamininganymotivesforpersonalpower.Aclearheartandmindcreatestheclearestpossibleexperiencein yourendeavorsintothefieldofpsychicabilities. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 10

Predictions
Sometimes someone comes to you with a question and you give an intuitive response, and then they come back to you with a question and now the response is different. Answers change depending on the actions that the person who is getting the reading took. This is a world of probable realities and probable futures. Probable realities are things that could happen, and nothing is written in stone. A person has choices, and every choice attracts a different probable future to it. Therefore, no prediction can be 100% sure of happening because probablerealitiesareinvolvedandallthepersonhastodoismakeadifferentchoiceandheorshechangeshisor herfuture. Sometimes the reading itself is what caused the person to choose a different path than the one that they were headed on at the time that they received the first reading. When a person makes a different choice after a reading, the next reading will have different results. Many people do not understand this and believe that you were wrong, but their choices and actions changed their path into the future. Predicting mass events is easier becausethenittakesalotofpeopletomakedifferentchoicestochangethefuture,andthisislesslikelythanone personsabilitytochangehisorhermind. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), Making a prediction is viewing the strongest possibility. Predictions tend to be accurate becausethepatternofanysystem,includinghumanbeings,tendstowardstasis.Ioftenhearpeopletellstoriesof predictionsthatscaredthem,suchas,shesaidIwillhaveacaraccidentinJuly.Iwouldmostcertainlynotforget the most obvious question to ask: how can I avoid this event? Predictions are not written in stone. There are probable futures. They may or may not happen. When an intuitive predicts something, he or she is tapping into the most probable future, not all the probable futures. This is why predictions sometimes fail, because the people involved made different decisions and different choices, which resulted in a different probable future being picked.Probablefuturescanalsobeavoidedbymakingdifferentchoices,andpartoftheintuitivesjobistohelp theclientfindwhattheirchoicesareinordertoavoidunwantedprobablefutures. The collective conscious works on the belief that our actionsindividually, and collectively as a planet and a systemcreate a pattern and direction that, unless intercepted and rerouted, is determined by the motion of the past and present. For example, a person can roll a ball. It goes in the direction it was rolled and, if you know the terrain its rolling over and the speed at which it started, you can make a fair guess about where it willendup.Thenthinkofthousandsofballsrollinginalldirections.Ifyouknowwherealltheballsstartedfrom, then youll know at what speed and at which point your ball will meet another ball and change direction. You alsohaveinformationavailabletoallowyoutoalterthedirectionofaball.Infact,youhavetheresourcestoalter the direction of all balls that your ball comes into contact with, directly or indirectly, by altering just one ball. Realityisnothingmorethanaconsensus.

DivinationToolsAsTrainingWheelsOrAids
You can use intuitive aids as well as straight intuition. Some people like to use tarot cards, runes, tea leaves, the pendulum again the list is endless. There are multitudes of divination systems that can assist with intuition. For some, they are good training wheels for developing intuition but then they are discarded once the intuitive process is fully honed. The only difference with using intuition versus using divination techniques is that intuition does not use external cues to help find the answers. Divination tools may be very useful in the beginning until you begin to hone your abilities and trust them. For more information, see the UMS course on DivinationSystems.

AskVerySpecificQuestions
Byusingyourintuition,youcanaskanythingandreceiveanswers.Whenpeoplewonderwhatquestions they can ask, tell them to ask whatever they want, no limits, for they will be able to have audience with an all seeing universe and the vast knowledge that intuition can tap into and that will provide the answers. Through intuition you can find out about anything you want to know, including information about any person, place, or eventinthepast,presentorfuture. It is important to learn how to ask the right questions. Much information can be lost or distorted if the questions are not asked correctly. If a question is not phrased correctly, this may distort the answer. Laura Day PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 11

givesaninterestinganalogyinherbookPracticalIntuition:HowToHarnessThePowerOfYourInstinctsAndMakeIt Work For You (1996), One of the frustrating things about working with computers is that they do only what you tell them to do. If a computer malfunctions, its because your instructions were not correct. In a sense your intuition is like that. It answers precisely the question before it. If you want to get the right answer, youd better besureyouasktherightquestion. Laura Day goes on to describe a famous example of a question put to an intuitive in ancient Greece. A powerful ruler, about to invade the lands of an enemy kingdom, asks the Oracle to see whether a great battle would be won. The Oracle responded in the affirmative. The Oracle was correct; a great battle was won. Unfortunately for the king, it was won by his rival. Had he known as much as you now do about asking questions, he wouldve asked a question along the lines of this: Will I successfully invade my rivals kingdom tomorrow? Another example Day gives is: Will it rain tomorrow? The answer must be, Yes: of course it will raintomorrowsomewhere!Itiseasytoasknonspecificquestions,soitisgoodtothinkthemoutaheadoftime. Always ask people who are coming for a reading to take a couple of days and write their questions out ahead of time,thinkthemoutverycarefully,andbeveryspecific. Therearethreerequirementsofagoodquestion. 1. Eachquestionmustbespecificsothatapreciseanswerispossible. 2. Eachquestionshouldbesimpleratherthancompound. 3. Eachquestionshouldbedirectlyrelevanttotheissueyouwanttoknowabout. Laura Day gives us some guidelines on how to construct the right question in order to get the right answers.Letuslookatthepitfallswithcommonquestionsthatareaskedinreadings. 1.WillIhaveenoughmoney? Enough is not specific. Enough means something different for every person. For some people enough moneymeansjustenoughtopaythebills.Forothers,enoughmoneymeansbeingabletobuyspecificstocksthat have been coveted. For others, enough money means great wealth. A more specific way to ask this question is, When (or how) will I be financially secure enough to retire? or When will I be able to afford the kind of lifestyleIwant? 2.WillIbehappy? Thisisaloadedquestion.Forinstance,onecouldgetaheadinjurythatlimitstheabilitytoworry,thereby making room for happiness. Also, there are no time limits specified as to when this happiness will come. For instance, happiness is often achieved upon death when entering the realms ofangels and spirits, letting go of the worries on earth. It is important to be very specific. Better questions to ask are as follows: How do I create happinessinmylife?orWhatpreventsmefrombeinghappy? 3.ShouldItakethenewjob? Thewordshouldinthisquestionposesproblems.Whetheryoushouldornotdependsonwhatyouwant. One must ask oneself what one is trying to experience by changing jobs. The following questions might be more specific: Should I take the new job if job security is my primary goal? Should I take the new job if experience rather than compensationis my primary goal? Should I take the new job if Iwant to spend more timewith my family? 4.ShouldIbecomeanartist? Questions that involve choices can also pose difficulties. For instance, one must ask oneself what the goals are for becoming an artist. A person can be an artist without being a financially successful artist and completely enjoy the process. However, one who wants to be a successful artist must incorporate this into the question. Will I be a financially successful artist? One must also define what success means, and how is it measured. 5.WillIgetmarriedandhavechildren? Thisisadoublequestionthatmighthavetwodifferentanswers.Thisisacommonmistake.Itisuptothe reader to separate the two questions and answer them separately. This question should be asked, and answered, astwosinglequestions. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 12

KnowingYourPlace,HandlingTraumatizedClients&StayingObjective
Staying objective can be a challenge, especially if you pick up particularly disturbing information. The questions a person asks are normally highly charged, and might be asked around deep healing that is needed. Peopleaskquestionsbecausetheyhaveissuestoresolve.Somepeoplemaycomewithaverytraumaticpast,and you may be inundated with scenes from this persons past if one is asking you to help with healing of certain issuesconnectedwiththoseevents. For instance, it is not unusual to witness violent events from someones childhood that may be directly related to an issue that is now trying to be resolved. Sometimes it is appropriate to reveal the events and sometimes it is not. It is usually best if someone remembers these events on their own, and are not told about these events in detail. You can ask questions to determine the level of this persons conscious knowledge of their past, and encourage them to remember it. Usually traumatic events from childhood are relegated to deep memorypocketsandarenotconsciousunlessspiritualprobingandageregressionhavetakenplace. Most importantly, however, more important than determining whether a person has conscious knowledge of what has happened, is to deliver the message that this person most needs to heal in connection with these past events. For instance, instead of reciting the events you are witnessing in your intuition, ask yourself what does this person most need to healinconnection with these events. When you receive this answer, deliver it. For instance, the message a person might most need to hear is, What happened to you in your childhoodwasnotyourfault.Atthispointapersonmightbreakdownandbegintocryandtellyouaboutwhat happened,especially ifit is conscious.They may even want to know moreabout what happened if thememories arevague. When handling clients with traumatic or troubling memories, it is important to know when a psychotherapist is necessary versus an intuitive. In some cases, the intuitive can help where the psychologist cannot, especially if the questions pertain to past life issues manifested in this life and it is a spiritual dilemma ratherthanapsychologicaldilemma.Itisimportanttoknowyourskilllevelwithcounseling.Youmustremainin the area of counseling from a spiritual viewpoint, rather than a psychological viewpoint. Only a trained psychologistcanworkwithseverelyabusedortraumatizedpeoplewhendealingwithseriousmentalillness. This is very delicate, volatile and difficult material to work with in a person who has been traumatized, and if you have not had the experience yourself of healing from traumatic events, you are not necessarily equipped to help this person unless you have had formal training in psychology. Telling this person of other traumatic events that you see happenedto him or her may not help this personat all,andinfact may compound the situation. Again, these memories must come to this person from within, and be remembered on ones own. You can encourage this bysuggesting to the person that he or shedo past life regression, or age regression to the childhood, and you may tell him or her that it is true that he or she was harmed at a young age or in past lives. However,itisnotalwaysappropriatetogointothedetails,especiallyiftheywereveryhorrific. If you do feel that youre equipped to help this person, have personal experience with healing from similar events that this person has gone through, and would like to continue, help this person find their own answers by walking this person through an age regression, or through past life regression if this is the issue, and allow him or her to find out what happened. It is best when the persons own unconscious reveals what is there when it concerns these deeply traumatizing events. The unconscious is built on purpose to only release this information when the person is ready to handle it at the conscious level. This is why so many people who have been abused do not know about these events until much later in life. There is a wiser self that knows that the conscious mind was not ready and did not have the tools to handle this information. This is a safety valve that is builtintothehumanpsyche. Sometimesapersonasksaquestionthatheorshehopesisayes.Iftheanswerisno,itisimportanttobe abletodeliverthisanswerinasgentleawayaspossiblesothatthepersonmightbeabletoreceivethis.Youmay find yourselfhaving to break hard news to people while itisdifficult to find thegood points of theanswer.Your job however is to give these people inspiration, and hope. Even if the answer is no to a hopedfor yes, try to find the benefits a person will receive even if the answer is no. It is important to deliver bad news gently and with grace.Allowyourhearttoopenwiderasyoudeliverbadnews.Becompassionate. One of the benefits of being the translator between the unconscious to the conscious is that you are allowed to edit, whereas when channeling it is best to refrain from editing the content. If you feel that certain information is harmful or unethical, you are welcome to leave this information out. You must make these PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 13

decisions yourself, rather than the guide making these decisions as in channeling. A higher power does seem to come and alert you, however, when you are about to deliver harmful or unethical information. You will know whenthisinformationistobewithheld.

HowToDevelopYourOwnPsychicAbilities
As you perform exercises for your intuition, it is much like going to the gym and exercising your body. Intuitionislikeamusclethatbecomesstrengthenedonceitisusedoften.Also,youllbelieveinyourownabilities morewhenyouhavemoreproofthroughyourexperiencethatyourintuitioncanbeaccurate. The first thing to know about learning to use your intuition is to stick with your first response to each inquiry, even if it makes no sense at all. Usually it makes sense to the person youre doing a reading for. If it doesnt make sense right away, later the person reports that what you said was accurate. For instance, it is not unusual to give a reading to someone who doesnt agree with the answers that were given during an intuitive reading, but a year later this same person will come to you and tell you everything said was actually quite accurate. This scenario sometimes causes readers distrust in their abilities. However, the first message is always the most accurate, even if it doesnt seem so at first. Stick with your most immediate response to every inquiry. Donotthinkaboutyouranswer,ortrytobeclever,orimpressanyone.Itisimportanttoletitflow. Realize that you may get a lot wrong in the beginning, do not feel that you are not intuitive if you are more often wrong than right in your guesses. As time goes on you will develop the skill and get more of them right. Just as a baby takes time to learn how to walk, so it goes with developing psychic abilities. Eventually you willbeabletorunwithyourabilities. Shakti Gawain has a few pointers for developing intuition. She says in her book Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance For Daily Life (2000), Developing your intuitive ability begins with paying attention to whats going on inside of you so that you can become aware of these inner dialogues and catch them when they are happening, or shortly afterwards The vast majority of our intuitive feelings, however, are so ordinary and mundane that we might not even think of them as intuition. She goes on to say that another key for getting in touch with intuition is learning to relax your mind and relax your body sufficiently so that you can allow your attention to move out of your head and literally drop down into a deeper place in your body, closer to where your gut feelings reside. Simply letting your awareness move into a deeper place in your body in this way is tremendouslyhelpfulinopeningthedoortointuition. Acting on your intuition is very important for developing it. As you get intuitive flashes or hits, act on them so that you can verify your intuitive abilities. Your psyche responds to trusting your psychic abilities. The more you trust them, seemingly, the more accurate they become. Usually, you will only receive a piece of information, the only piece that you need in the moment. This is why it is sometimes difficult to act on intuition, for all the information does not always come all at once. However, if you take the step that is presenting itself to you in the moment, the rest of the steps come later. Using your intuition, and acting on it, sometimes results in surprising turns of events for the better. However, it may not be appropriate to make major life decisions based onyourbuddingintuitiveskills.Itisbesttotestyourintuitivehitsonsmallermattersinthebeginning. There will be a trial and error period until you decipher how to distinguish your intuition from all the other thoughts and feelings going on inside you. You have many voices inside you, and theyre often in conflict withoneanother.Itcanbedifficulttosortoutwhichoneisactuallyintuitionspeaking.Thefirststepistobecome familiar with all of these inner selves. It is important to do some subpersonality work on the self, and once you know the primary personality selves, you will know what the intuition voice is not. Intuition is beyond the personalitiesoftheself. It is important to listen to the body in accordance with intuitive direction. Often the body is an excellent barometer as to what is happening in your life, or the life of someone you love. Shakti Gawain says in her book DevelopingIntuition: Practical GuidanceFor Daily Life (2000), It isimportant to recognize and become aware of the intuitiveimpulseswereceiveinourbodies,andtotrusttheseimpulses.Ifwearenotaware,however,ourbodies willfindwaystogetourattention.Thisoftenhappensthroughaccidentsorillness.Dontforgettouseallyour sensesinyourpsychicabilities.Yourphysicalbodywillhavecertainreactionstoquestions;youremotionalbody willalsoreact.Youwillreceiveimages,smellsmells,hearsounds,tasteflavors,feelcoolorhot,theseareallways thatyourintuitioncommunicateswithyou. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 14

RemoveYourDoubts Removing your doubts is an important part of the development of your psychic abilities. If you believe thatattainingpsychicabilitieswillbedifficult,thenitwillbe.Ifyoubelievethatyourpathwillbeeasyandquick, then you will attain your psychic abilities without having to spend as much time working on it. Enid Hoffman says in her book Develop Your Psychic Skills (1981), The trouble with beliefs is that we so often mistakenly call them facts. Most people find it difficult to separate belief from facts Most of the time we are unaware that a beliefweholdisnegativeorlimiting;weareonlyawarethatacertainareaofourlifeisnotworkingwell.Instead oflookingtoourinnerselftoseewhatwereallybelieve,wetendtolookoutsideourselvesforexternalcausesfor our troubles In developing your psychic skills, it is imperative to look carefully at your beliefs about reality. Remember,theseareonlybeliefs,whichcanbechanged,andnotfactsaboutrealitywhichyoucannotchange. Laura Day gives us a list of frequent ways people dismiss legitimate intuitive insights, which hinders successinourendeavorstoattainspiritualpowers.Theseresponsestointuitiveinformationmustbetakenoutof yourthinkingprocessesinordertobesuccessfulwithtrainingintuition. 1. Thatdoesntmakesense. 2. Thatisntlogical. 3. Thatisjustmadeup. 4. Itsimplyisntpossibletoknowforsurewhatwillhappeninthefuture. 5. Thatcantberight. 6. Thisisntrealistic. 7. Thisissilly. EstablishANeedForThePsychicAbilityOrFeat Onethingthatisofutmostimportanceinattainingapsychicabilityistohaveaneedforit.Ifyouhaveno emotional need for it, then it is not something you will be able to attain. For instance, if you have very little interestinbecomingadoctor,notevenspending8yearsinuniversitieswillmakeyouone.Youwillnotbeableto attain the goal, for your heart isnt in it. It would be a very miserable 8 yearsif you pushed yourself to do it even thoughyoudidntreallywantto. Soyoumustaskyourselfwhattheusefulnessofanyparticularskillis.Itdoesnothavetobecomplicated. It can be as simple as wanting to prove to yourself that it is true that consciousness is able to manipulate matter, asinpsychokinesis,orthatyouareevolvingthedevelopmentofhumankindbyattainingyourpsychicabilities. Enid Hoffman says in her book Develop Your Psychic Skills (1981), Need seems to provide the access to the psychic skills. Need provides the access to all levels of our consciousness Need provides the compulsion. Thereappearstobeagreatinnerforcethatworkstowardfulfillingourneeds.Ourinnerselfwillattractwhatwe musthavetofulfilltheneed Whateveritisthatyouwanttoachieve,askwhatitwilldoforyouinyourlife,andthenpursueit.Donot forgettoestablishanemotionalneedforyourpsychicabilities! ThingsToBeAwareOfAndHowToHandleThem As said earlier in this course, becoming psychic will change your life. It will change it for the better, but theremaybesomeadjustmentsandunfamiliarterritoryasyouenterintothisnewwayoflife. ExpansionOrTighteningSensations One of the first things you may be aware of is a sensation of tightening around your head, or tingling when you are first opening your psychic perception centers. This is natural and is symbolic of the expansion of your consciousness. It is much like stretching your physical facilities to accommodate your expanded consciousness. As time goes on, these types of physical sensations will disappear as you grow more accustomed toyournewlevelsofawareness. Visuals Your visual facilities may also change. You may begin to see sparks of light or rays or trails, especially in your peripheral vision. This is the beginning of being able to perceive the spirit worlds and astral planes. You may also start to see auras, fields of color around people, animals, plants and even inanimate objects. This is naturalforabuddingpsychic,andnothingtobealarmedabout.Ifunpleasantimagesorhallucinationsappear, PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 15

you can simply turn your attention away from them and they will disappear. You will also find that pleasant imageswillappear.Youcanchoosewhatyouwanttogiveyourattentionto. HearingVoices Ifyoubegintohearvoices,realizethattherearemanyspiritswhoareexcitedaboutbeingperceivedbya human, and wish to communicate with the physical world through you. You can choose to listen to these voices ornot,justthesamewaythatyoucanchoosetohearwhatsomeoneissayingortuneout.Simplyfocusyour attention on something else, and the voices will fade into the background and disappear. You are in control. You do not have to be available to every spirit who might be clamoring for your attention. If you choose to listen to themandgiveyourattention,pickonevoicetolistentoatatimesoyoucanperceivewhatthisentityistryingto convey to you clearly. Of course, if this entity is of an unpleasant nature, or asks you to do something that is not incongruencewithyourownmoralcode,askthisonetoleaveyourpresenceandnotcomeback.Ifitneedsyour help, determine if you are able to help it, and if so, tell it to go toward the light. If it keeps talking and will not leave,simplygiveitnoattentionandeventuallyitwillleavebecauseitisnotgettingwhatitwants. TakingOnThePainOfOthers You may feel the pain or physical discomfort of others through your empathic response to their situations. You might find yourself taking their pain into your own body in your healing sessions with them. If this happens, work with this pain as if it was your own and ask for the assistance of guides to help you channel healing energy into this painful area. Through your empathic connection with the other person, healing it within yourselfwillhealitintheotherperson.Ifthepaindoesnotdesist,thenorderittoleave,sinceitisnotyourown. As you become more proficient in your skills, you will not take the pain of others into your own body. It is not necessary. Youmayfindyourselftakingonemotionalstatesofothersjustasyoumighthavetakenonphysicalpain inyourbody.Youmaysuddenlyfindyourselffeelingangryordepressed.Rememberthatfeelingsarecontagious only if you allow them to be. Simply sit in meditation and send this emotional state back into the ethers of the universe (dont send it back to the person it originated from, for you are a conduit of healing for that person). Imagine that the emotional energy is returning to the raw state of energy that is the material the universe uses to create. All energy can return to its raw form and be reused and recycled in a positive way. Return the energy to source where it can be transformed and transmuted into raw material and recycled for creation purposes. You canalsosendthisenergyintotheEarthfortransmutation. UnseenForces Ifyoufeelunseenforces,beatease.Theydonothavepoweroveryou.Iftheunseenforceispleasant,you may want to allow it into your presence. If it is unpleasant, face it squarely and firmly and command it to leave. You are in control of yourreality and you can choose what you want to experience. You are too awareforgames of fear with low level entities, so do not be afraid. You have the power to engage or not engage. All you have to do is decide what it is that you want to give your attention to. You have free will, and nothing can intrude on yourawarenesswithoutyourpermission. RestlessnessOrUnbalance Sometimes, in your zealousness to attain your psychic abilities, and especially if you have experienced positive progress, you may get overwhelmed. Your nervous system might become over stimulated and you may find yourself restless and jittery. If this is the case, take a break for a while from your endeavors and be at ease with simply being ordinary. When you feel ready, take up your psychic development exercises again and approachtheminabalancedway,maintainingyourhealthandwellbeing. YouCantAlwaysSeeItComingWhenItConcernsYourOwnLife One thing that is commonly reported by psychics is that it seems nearly impossible to do readings for themselves or for closefriends. It seems that sometimes there is a veil over thepsychics own life and future,and this might be in place so that a psychic cannot evade karmic contracts, especially if they are essential to spiritual growth and understanding. There may be psychic laws in place that we have no understanding of yet. Fortunately,however,enoughdoesgetthroughtomakethepsychicslifebetter!Dontbesurprisedifyoudidnt see it coming. If you were meant to see it coming, you would have. Embrace whatever happens in your life and knowthatthereisareasonforittohappen.

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AlwaysUseYourPsychicAbilitiesBenevolently Always use your psychic abilities as you attain them to help others, bless or heal. Be sure to use your superhumanabilitiesbenevolently.Ifyoumisusethem,thekarmicrepercussionscanbequiteimmediate,swift and painful. The laws of karma still apply, even to people who have risen above normal human abilities. The results of interfering with another persons free will, liberty, or right to happiness can trigger boomerang effects that will only harm yourself in the long run. You must never use your abilities to impose your will or take advantage of another person. While the temptation to use your Jedi mind tricks might be appealing, you must refrain from interfering with the free will of another. What you sow, so shall you reap. The larger your abilities, thelargertheharmtoyourselfthatyoucandobymisusingthem!

WhatToDoAboutPsychicAttacks
While you may be privy to the knowledge that using your psychic abilities in anything but a benevolent fashiononlybringsharmtoyourselfinthelongrun,othersmaynotbesoconsciousofthis.Therearepeoplewho purposelypracticeblackmagicandattackpeoplepsychically.Youwillmeetmanypeoplewhocometoyouwith complaints that they have been hexed or cursed by another who is practicing black magic or voodoo on them. These people are in a terrible state of fear and anxiety, and they feel helpless against the power of this psychicattackcomingfromanotherperson. Your job is to help people understand that psychic attacks only have power if they give the other person that power. I especially like Joseph Murphys analogy in his book Psychic Perception: The Magic Of Extrasensory Power (1971): All the water in the ocean could not sink a ship unless it got inside; likewise, negative thoughts of others couldnot enter unless [we] open the door of [our] mindand give them entrance.Someone canhave all the negative thoughts about you that they want to, but unless you allow those thoughts to enter your consciousness,theyarenotharmful. Itisalrightifsomeoneisnothappywithyou,ordoesnotlikeyou,anditisevenalrightifanotherperson fantasizes about harming you, psychically or otherwise. However, you are immune to these harmful thoughts if yourealizethetruthofwhoyouare,thatyouarethecreatorofyouruniverse,thatyouareeternalselfthatnever diesandcannotbeharmednomatterwhat,andifyouchoosetobeimmunetotheseharmfulpsychicattacks,you are. It is as simple as that. If you send love back to the person who is sending you harmful thoughts, even compassion for his or her state of unhappiness, then you have gone a step above and beyond your duty to your fellow human being. You have then become the source of love, and the source of love cannot be harmed. You have risen above the occasion and you are not even present for the harm to happen. This is different than protection.Itissimplybeingunavailableforharmtofindyouandrealizingthatyouhavethepowertosaynoto harmifyousochoose. Protection Many believe that protection is necessary, but the very idea of needing protection contributes to the thought that the psychic harm is real. However, for those who find it necessary, a useful visualization for protection is to think of oneself as a ball of beautiful love and light, radiating from the inside out, like a star with long rays of light reaching out. This is all the protection that is needed. Rather than thinking of oneself as being enclosed or confined inside a protective cocoon or bubble, as if there is some membrane keeping something out,it is better to think ofoneself as being so brightand loving that darknesssimply cannotpenetrate and must be turned into light itself if it is to be near you at all. Let go of all fears of the other person or the belief that the other person has any power whatsoever to influence you. Simply be the light and love that you are, and all the restwilltakecareofitself. One of two things will happen to the illwisher: either he or she will become harmed by the misused psychicenergy,forifithasnowheretogo,itwillreturntoitssender,orheorshewillhaveachangeofheartand shiftintolightandlove.

CanMindAlteringDrugsAidInPsychicDevelopment?
In the 1960s and 1970s the field was wide open for experimenting with drugs in laboratory situations, LSD in particular. Many psychics participated in these experiments, but the experiments proved that mind altering drugs inhibited psychic development in the long run. While they may have produced extraordinary PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 17

perceptionjourneys,theydidnotassistinpsychictraining,nordidthepsychicsperformasaccuratelyastheydid withoutthepsychotropics.Manyofthepsychicswhoparticipatedintheexperimentsinanongoingformatfellill or lost their psychic abilities in the long run. It seems that the drugs inhibited the particular faculties that the psychiccentersuse. Onthecontrary,thosewhohadneverhadpsychicabilities,yettookthedrugs,suddenlyhadawakenings of their psychic abilities. If they only took the drug a few times, and then no more, their psychic abilities could grow, whereas those who continued to take the drug lost the abilities as quickly as they appeared. In conclusion, it wasfoundthat while psychedelics might trigger psychicabilities in a personwho had no experience with such things,continueduseshutthesefacilitiesdowninthelongrun. Dr. Hans Holzer says in his book Are You Psychic? (1997), As the years went on, the dangers of drug taking had become apparent. Many psychics who had taken even small amounts of LSD in the hope of having extraordinary psychic experiences became ill, and had to discontinue the practice. It does seem that there is a price to pay when taking hallucinogens in an ongoing basis. While it may be exciting in the short run, the long rundoesnotseemtopanout. Another argument I would like to personally offer against using drugs to attain psychic experiences is that your psychic abilities will open when they are meant to. Psychic abilities are the result of rising kundalini, andmightbethoughtofasminikundaliniexperiencesthemselves.Mentalinstitutionsarefilledwithpeoplewho have had kundalini experiences that they were not able to understand or incorporate. There are many who are hallucinating,butdonotrealizethattheyaresimplyseeingthespiritworldsanddonotknowhowtoliveinboth worlds in a functional way. When using psychedelics, you can create the opening of the kundalini too early in your spiritual growth and suddenly find yourself in a state of unbalance emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It is important to let the kundalini open your psychic centers in a way that is not harmful to you. This can only happen in a natural way without coercion or force from outside of yourself. Psychedelics can make some people very crazy, and they dont know who they are until they have tried it, but then it may be too late. (Another issue isthatthedosagecannotbedeterminedsincemostofthesesubstancesareobtainedfromillegalandunregulated sources,andanaccidentalmegadosecanbequitedetrimental.) Thisisnottosaythatpsychedelicexperiencesandmindalteringjourneysarenotusefulinsomesenseas faraseducatingapersonthatthereismuchmoretorealitythanmeetstheeye,butthatiswhereitshouldstop.In the long run these substances shut down the brains functions. It is a trick to think that you are entering higher states of consciousness when using these substances,and thisis what the greatattractionis.One could think of it as the cheaters path to enlightenment, but the ultimate truth is that eventually it leads to insanity and self delusion rather than enlightenment. It really is a peek at what it possible with the mind. Then it is up to you to findyourwaytoitthroughnaturalmeans,suchasmeditation,spiritualgrowthandbringingyourattentionfully intothepresent. I (Breese) can tell you from personal experience that these states of mind are fully possible without the mind altering substances, and that this is the true goal. A person who is fully in the present, has trained the psychiccentersandisabletoperceiveonthedeeperlevelsthanwhatmeetstheeye,andhasafullyopenedheart goesfarbeyondwherethesesubstancescantakeus.Thesesubstancesareonlythetipoftheiceberg,butspiritual discipline will show you what lies far beyond that. Yes, it takes more work, it takes more time, and it takes great vigilance, but the rewardsaregreatand the experiencesare trueranddeeper.Also, there isfar more lucidityand clarity, without the imbalance that psychedelics create. The mental imagery that comes from psychedelics comes from an alteration of biochemicals in the body. This can be done without the drugs as well, and you can train yourself through meditation. In closing on this argument, I leave you with a statement from Dr. Hans Holzers bookAreYouPsychic?(1997):Whilethesealteredstatesmaymimicauthenticstatesofblissorevenecstasy,they areneverthelessduetointerferencefromoutsideagentsratherthantogenuinecontactwithanotherdimension.

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PsychicGamesToPlay
There are several psychic games you can play with your friends and family. You may have even played these games as a kid. Here are some very useful games you can play when you are developing your psychic abilities.Theyarequitesimpleandcanbeplayedanywhere,anytime. Color/Number Your friend thinks of a color and transmits it to you. Your friend does this by closing the eyes and concentrating on the color. You act as receiver and pick it up as your friend focuses on the color. You can also dothiswithanumberbetween1and10.Ifyourefeelingparticularlypsychic,tryanumberbetween1and50. Dice Another easy game is to toss a pair of dice, or even just one, and guess which number will appear before you throw them. Another variation of this exercise enters into the realm of telekinesis. Try influencing the roll of thedice.Decidewhatnumberyouwantthedicetobe,andseeifyoucaninfluencethemtobethatnumber.(Tip: tryonlyonedieinthebeginning,usingthenumbers16asyourrange,ratherthan112). Cards Fromadeckofcards,drawacard,holditinyourhand,andletitsimagecomeintoyourmind.Receiveit through your intuition.When you have decided what its suit and value is, turn it over and see how accurate you were. You can also do this with ESP cards, which can be created easily. Draw shapes on the back of cards, like squares,stars,circles,crosses,wavylines,triangles,etc.Havesomeonedrawthesecardsandseeifyoucanguess whattheyare. TheEnvelope Havesomeoneplaceanobjectinanenvelopeforyou.Youmaywanttohaveyourfriendcreate5or10of theseenvelopessoyouhaveseveraltestsforyourabilities.Whileyousitquietlyandholdoneenvelopeatatime in your hands, see if you can perceive what is in it. What is its color, its shape, its texture, its purpose? Use your intuition. Dont use your hands. Simply receive this object into your minds eye. Write impressions down, or say them out loud. Then open the envelope. You may find that you had many things right about the object even if youdidntguesswhattheobjectwas.Eventually,youwillbeabletonametheobjectifyoupracticeenough. Telephone When the phone rings, try guessing who itis that iscalling you before pickingup the phone. If you were expectingthecallfromaparticularperson,youcantcounttheseaspsychichits.

PsychicExercises
To get the most from these intuitive exercises in this course you might want to use a tape recorder. Read the exercises onto a tape, giving pauses between the instructions so that you will have time to perform what you have just instructed yourself to do. You may also want to use a tape recorder to record your answers so that you donothavetocomeoutoftrancetowritethingsdown.Writingdownyouranswerstoquestionsislaboriousand can bring you out of trance and back into the ordinary waking mind. You can transcribe these answers later. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), Another advantage to speaking out loud is that doing so gives your reflective mind less time to interfere in the intuitive process. The other problem is that it is difficult to keep up with the flow of intuitive impressions while writing. Laura Day also says, In fact, being able to keep up with your impressions is a good sign that they are not intuitive. Yet another reason for speaking your answers out loud is preparing yourself for theabilitytochannelifthisissomethingyoureinterestedin. HereareafewpointersfortrainingyourintuitionthatDaygivesus: 1. Giving a reading is not taking a test, so dont worry about whether your impressions are right or wrong. 2. Trustyourintuition.Donttrytofigureouttheanswer,evenifitdoesntmakesense. 3. Theimpressionsyoureceivedonthavetomakesensetoyou. 4. Intuitionisanaturalsense,youdonthavetotrytoreceiveimpressions.Beallowing. 5. Bewillingtomakemistakes.Nostudentofanysubjectperformsperfectlyinthebeginning. 6. Recordeverything,evenimpressionsthatseemlikeinterference. 7. If you dont feel youre getting an intuitive response, make something up or guess. Later you can examineitforaccuracy. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 19

Exercise1:GettingInTouchWithYourself Answerthefollowingquestionswithyourfirstandimmediateresponse.Thesearequestionsyoucanask yourself any time in your life to receive immediate answers in any given situation or life period. This is a useful waytodoareadingforyourself.Gowithyourfirstandimmediateanswer,dontthinkabouttheanswer,justlet itcome. 9. In this moment, how are you your own worst 1. Inthismoment,whatdoyouwant? enemy? 2. Inthismoment,whatdoyouneed? 3. Inthismoment,whatisyourgreatestfear? 10. In this moment, with what part of your life are 4. Inthismoment,whatisyourdearestwish? youmostsatisfied? 11. Inthismoment,whatismissinginyourlife? 5. Inthismoment,whatdoyouneedtobehappy? 12. In this moment, in which area of your life would 6. Inthismoment,whatisyourambition? youmostliketoseechangeinthecomingyear? 7. Inthismoment,whatisyourgreatestchallenge? 8. In this moment, what is your most formidable 13. Whatisyourmission? obstacle? Exercise2:BecomingAwareOfSenses No matter where you are, ask yourself the following questions and respond with your first impressions. Thisexercisehelpsyougetusedtousingallthesensestoperceivewhatisaroundyouratherthanjustoneortwo senses. 1. Whatdoyousee? 7. Whatisyourmentalstate? 8. Whatisyouremotionalstate? 2. Whatdoyouhear? 3. Whatdoyoutaste? 9. Whatisyourphysicalstate? 4. Whatdoyoufeel? 10. Are there other senses that you can 5. Whatdoyousmell? perceive?(Therearemorethanthephysical 6. Whatisgoingthroughyourmind? fivesensesandtheintuitivesixthsense.) Exercise3:HowCanYouTellIfYouAreSeeingThePast,Present,OrFuture? Each time frame has a different flavor, and it is an individual perception for everyone. You may notice that when youre looking into the past there is a different sensation than when you are looking at the present or thefuture.Wewilllookatwhatisthedifferencewhenyoulookatthepast,presentorfuture. Writedownyourimpressionsasyougothrougheachoftheseplacesintime: 1. Thinkofamomentinyourchildhood,observethescene,whatishappening? 2. Thinkofsomethingthathappenedlastweek,observeit.Whatarethedetails? 3. Thinkofsomethingyoudidtoday,onlyafewhoursago. 4. Whatwillyoubedoingtomorrow? 5. Whatwillyoubedoingafewweeksfromnow? 6. Whatwillyoubedoingafewyearsintothefuture? 7. Whatwillyoubedoingtenyearsintothefuture? 8. Whatwillyoubedoingneartheendofyourlife? 9. Whatwillyoubedoingintheafterlife? Noticehowthereisadifferentsensation,oradifferentflavor,foreachofthesetimeperiods.Forinstance you might notice that when looking at the past, things seemed concrete, perhaps even darker, more detailed, or some other sensation. When youre looking into the future things might seem vague, lighter, or some other sensation. Find out how you perceive the past, present, and future,and then you will know whether what youre seeinginyourintuitivereadingiscomingfromthepast,presentorfuture. Exercise4:MakingUseOfPolarities Instead of giving yes no answers, for these can be rather vague and do not give a lot of information, discover what you associate with various feelings that are on different sides of the spectrum, or two polarities. Sometimes a yes or no answer is in order and appropriate, but sometimes more information is needed, and sometimesmoreinformationisbeingconveyedaswell. PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 20

Herearesomeexamplesofinterpretingpolarities. Someone may ask a question and suddenly you get a hot feeling. This could mean there is growth, activity, healing, good, positive, yes. Perhaps you suddenly got a cold feeling. This could mean rigidity, death, pain,negative,no.Nowusethepolaritiesbelowanddeterminewhattheymightmeaninareadingifyoureceive theseimagesorfeelings.Eachreadingwillhaveanindividualinterpretationofthese,butfornowjustgetasense ofwhattheymeantoyouinthismoment. hot/cold nourishing/depleting birthing/dying day/night growing/shrinking forward/backward hi/low smooth/rough beginning/end heavy/light clear/entangled hard/easy good/evil developing/eroding white/black healthful/harmful rising/falling love/hate Exercise5:LearningYourOwnSymbols Symbol dictionaries dont work because everyone has a different interpretation of most symbols. There are common archetypical symbols that mean pretty much the same thing to everyone, but these are only a few out of millions. Learn your own inner language. For instance, what does a large body of water mean to you, a kitten, or a car? What is the first sensation, the first feeling that comes to you when you think of these images. These images speak to you in more than their literal sense. A good place to begin discovering your inner language is dreams. When you wake up from dreams write down the symbols that were in your dreams and what they meant to you, what feelings came up around these images, and what your rational mind says they mightmeaninyourlife. Yourinnersymbolswillbethelanguagethatisspokentoyouwhensomeonecomestoyouforareading andasksaquestion.Forinstance,ifapersonasksyouaquestionaboutapossiblebusinesspartner,andyouseea sleazy uncle that you have, you might tell this person that this business partner might not be such a good idea. Yourinnersymbolsareimportanttoknow.Knowingyourinnerlanguageofsymbolshelpsyoutotranslatemore quicklyandimmediatelyinyourintuitivereadings. GettingInTouchWithYourIntuitiveVocabulary Reportyourresponsestothefollowingquestions: Howdoyoufeelwhensomeonetellsyouno? Howdoyoufeelwhenyourehappy? Whatdoyoufeelwhenyouseeapositivevisualimage?Anegativeone? Whatsmelldoyoufinddistasteful?Whichwouldyoufindpleasing? Whatdofeelwhenyouseetheocean? Whatdoyouthinkofwhenyousee (pickafamilymember)? Make up more questions on your own. Make a long list. This will become your dictionary of your inner language of symbols. Only you can interpret your symbols. You can get answers to questions by knowing how yoursystemrespondstoparticularvibrationsandimages. Exercise6:UsefulQuestionsForFindingOutTheStateOfAnotherPerson Thisexercisecanbeusedforanypurpose. WhatarethequalitiesIadmireinthisperson? Whatarethequalitiesmostpeopleadmireinthisperson? Whatthingscouldthispersonteachmeabout? Whatwordsdoesthispersonneedtoheartohaveahappierlife? Whatwouldbeagoodchallengeforthispersontoworkon? Whatproblemorchallengehasthispersonrecentlyovercome? Whatgoodchangewillhappenforthispersoninthecomingyear? Whichpeopleareorwillbedifficultinthispersonslife? Whatisacommonmistakenassumptionmadeaboutthisperson? PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences 21

Ifthispersonwereananimal,whichanimalwouldheorshebeandwhy? Ifthispersonwasaflowerorwildflowerwhatwouldheorshebeandwhy? Feelfreetomakeupmorequestionsalongthisvein Exercise7:AGroupExercise With a group of friends, have everyone write his or her name on a piece of paper and place it in an envelope.Theenvelopes,paper,andcoloroftheinkshouldallbethesame.Eachpersonmakesuptheenvelopes. Everyone picks one. No one knows who he or she is reading, but everyone must begin to intuit the energy of the personwhosenameisintheenvelope.Itisespeciallyinterestingtoseewhathappenswhenpeoplegettheirown names. Each person must describe what they perceive about the person in the envelope. This exercise can be repeatedmanytimessothateveryonegetsachancetoreadtheenergiesofvariouspeople. Exercise8:AwakenYourPsychicCenters Usingyourrighthand,placetheforefingerdirectlyonthecenterofyourforeheadabout1inchabovethe bridge of your nose. If you would like to you can place your thumb and middle finger on either side of the nose. Takeadeepbreath,maintainthisposition,andholditforthecountof10.Thenexhale.Dothisfivetimeswithout moving. Feel the energy coming into your third eye, and the energy in your body. This exercise stimulates the pituitary gland and the pineal gland in the center of your head. These are physical terminals of your two major headcenters,thesixthandseventhchakras.Whentheyareinharmonywitheachother,thecentersworktogether tobringyouahighersenseofawareness.Practicethiseveryday. Exercise9:PsychokinesisExercises Place a candle in an enclosed room, free of drafts and air movement. The air must be very still. Sit and stare at the flame, willing it to move sideways until it burns at a right angle instead of vertically up into the air. Staringisnotnecessary,butwillingittomoveiswhatmakesitmove.Concentrationshouldnotbeeffortful.Itis, rather, focused attention. Effort will only deter your endeavors. (You might think of the movie Matrix in which theyoungboywhobendsspoonstellsthehero,Neo,Thereisnospoon.Thismeantthatallmatterisillusoryto begin with, so it is malleable and fluid under the direction of consciousness.) Another angle is to visualize the result of the candle flame leaning sideways, even before it happens, and create an attitude of cooperation between you and the candle flame so that the candle flame changes for you in cooperation rather than succumbingtoyourwill.Onceyouhavefullyvisualizedandsetuptheinstructionforthecandleflame,releasethe thoughtandallowittohappen,makeitso.Thisisanimportantstep. Another mind over matter exercise is to use water in a bowl for this endeavor. Sit and stare at a large bowl of water before you. With your mind, visualize the water swirling around in a circle in the bowl, faster and faster.Nowreleasethethoughtandallowittohappen. EnidHoffmantellsagreatstoryinherbookDevelopYourPsychicSkills(1981)abouthowimportantitisto release the thought: Let me tell you a story of a student of mine, who was experimenting with this exercise. He did the exercise correctly, right up to the releasing part, but as he staredat the water, it did not move. The phone rang With a sigh, he rose from the chair feeling like a failure, but determined to try again after answering the phone. On his return, he found that a lot of the water had splashed out of the bowl, all over the table The interruptionforced him torelease the thought because he had to direct hisattention to something else We may thinkwehavereleasedathought,onlytofindoutlaterthatwereallyhavent. After working with things like fire and water, which are easier to move than solid matter, then you can move on to things like forks, spoons, and other such objects. Another great practice object is a compass, moving theneedlefromitsnortherlydirection.Magneticfieldsareeasiertoinfluencethansolidmatteraswell. When you are ready to try your skills on solid matter, hang a string of bells. Using your attention, will them to move, establishing an atmosphere of cooperation between you and the object, believing in your consciousnessbeingtheforcethatcanallowanobjecttomoveifyouliftyourbeliefinphysicallawsforamoment. It is more a matter of allowing than efforting. You can also bend forks, spoons and keys. Metal responds well to telekinesis.Apingpongballiseasytomove,rollingitawayortowardyouwithyourwill. You can also do this exercise for the purpose of levitation. Use a matchstick, a plastic coin, a toothpick or some other very light object. (You can graduate to levitating cars later!) Feel its weight, the force of gravity on it, PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences

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anditstexture.Thenfeeltheweightoftheobjectlesseningandthelawofgravityliftingfromthisobject.Thishas beendone,andyoucandoittoo.Practiceandbeliefareoftheessence.Donot becomediscouragedifatfirstyou do not succeed. There may be new neural pathways in your brainto create,and certain beliefs and thoughtforms that you must adjust before you can do this. Keep practicing and confronting your disbelief in your abilities. Relax your mind more and more, and know that you are eternal consciousness, and that even solid matter is mostlymadeofair,andthisisaquantumphysicsscientificfact! You can actually make things disappear and reappear too, blinking out of existence for a moment. This sometimes happens when such intense focus and energy is put on an object that its vibratory rate changes. Becauseyouwillbesurprised,yourconcentrationwillbreakandtheobjectwillreappear.

MoreToKnowAboutYourPsychicAbilities
There are four main types of psychic skills that are involved in intuition: clairsentience (clear feeling), claircognizance (clear knowing), clairvoyance (clear seeing), and clairaudience (clear hearing). Youll discover your own unique take on this ability. You will receive most of your information through one or two senses. You might notice that you are predominantly a visual person or an auditory person, or a person who feels your informationratherthanseesit.Letsfindoutbyansweringthequestionsbelowwhatyoureuniquestyleis. WhatsymbolsorimagesdoIreceivethatalwaysmeanthesamething? Whatismypreferredsense? Whatismymostfrequentinterferencestyle? Whatinterruptionsgivemethemostdifficulties? HowdoIremedymyreactiontointerference? WhatsensedoItrusttheleast? Doesmypreferredstylechangewhenthetimechanges;past,presentorfuture? SpiritsAndGuides Beawarethatsometimesspiritshavesomethingtodowithpsychicabilities,helpingorhindering.Guides areveryusefulwhendevelopingyourpsychicabilities.Theyareattractedtohumanswhoaretryingtohonetheir skillsandabilitiesinintuitiveareas.Youllwanttomakesurethatyoupickonlyfriendlyspiritstoworkwith,the more evolved the better. Elementals are disturbing nature spirits who are fine in their own environment, but disruptive in human circles. Some entities are disoriented and havent yet realized they have died, and cannot connect with the human world anymore. Some entities who have recently discovered that they are free in the astral worlds without the human body are enjoying their newfound abilities to play pranks and jokes on the living. They are not malicious, but they are not useful for spiritual endeavors concerning psychic abilities. Of course, there are malevolent spirits with whom you should definitely refrain from communicating, in the beginning stages. Later, as you gain more skill, you may be able to help them, but as a beginner you should stay awayfromdarkspirits.SeetheUMScourseonChannelingSkillsformoreinformationonhandlingdisembodied spirits.

DoingAPsychicReading
A good rule to follow is that if people dont ask for your intuitive hits on their issues or situations, dont offer them. Only if people ask you for a reading, or agree to one, should you do so. Dont minimalize these abilities by offering them up to people who are not really interested. You must be sure that you are acting appropriately if you want to maintain integrity in your reputation as a psychic. You must also keep everything confidential, no matter what. Do not discuss what you discover with anyone but the person who the information wasfor.Nooneelseshouldeverbetoldanythingthatcameupinanotherpersonsreading.Whatyoudiscoverin readingsisprivate,andpossiblyverysensitive,information. Have your clients prepare questions before coming to you. This gives a person a chance to frame questionscorrectly.Giveafewpointersonhowtoframequestionscorrectly.Thesequestionsalsohelpasafocus for the client so that he or she does not leave thinking, Oh, I wish I had asked that question, but I forgot. Having clients prepare questions ahead of time helps them make sure that theyve got all their thoughts in order andwontforgetthingsthattheywantedtoask,especiallyiftheybecomeemotionalduringthereading. Beforeyougiveareadingitisimportanttoletyourclientsknowhowyouwork.Letthemknow: PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences

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youonlyneedthequestion,nootherinformationorbackgroundstory youarentalwaysright,andsometimestheanswerisrightlaterbutdoesntseemrightnow youreclientstillneedstoexercisejudgmentandiswelcometoembraceordiscardanythingyousay yourenotatherapist,andyouarenotlicensedasapsychologist youarenotamedicaldoctorandanyinformationyougiveisnotbasedonmedicalknowledge Ifpeoplebecomereadingjunkies,runningtoyoueverytimeaproblemcomesup,youmightneedtoask them not to come for a reading for a while. They should not become dependent on you, ignoring their own lessons and life decisions. It is important that you do not become the deciding factor in all of a persons life decisions.Ifapersoncomestoyoumorethanafewtimesayear,heorsheisbecomingtoodependent. Report everything during a reading, for even though it may not make sense to you it might make very clearsensetoyourclient.Ifyoudonotgetanythinganddrawblank,thisinitselfmightbetheanswer.However, this is not always the case. Sometimes this information is veiled, and it is being veiled by the clients higher self. Some things are things the client is not eager to know, or shouldnt know. Sometimes the person being asked about,iftheclientisaskingaboutsomeoneinparticular,isdoingtheveiling.Donotbeafraidtosaythatyouare drawing a blank. For instance, if this someone has asked if they should move to New York, and you are drawing a blank, you can tell them the youre not sure if it is that youre not getting anything, or that you are just not seeingthispersoninNewYork. Speak right away after the question is asked. Dont let your reasoning mind have time to interfere with the intuitive images you are getting. Dont pause very long either, unless you maintain an empty alert waiting space, or your reasoning mind will have a chance to kick in again. Also, dont worry about using proper grammar,orevenmakingsense,justletitflow. YourFirstReading You will need either something to write with and paper, or a tape recorder. Tape recorders are of the utmostusefulness,forwritingisdifficultandlaboriousifoneisinadeeptrance. First get centered. Follow your breathing, give yourself verbal suggestions, observe your sensations; in general,findarelaxedstate.Whatevertechniqueyouliketousetogetintoameditativestate,useit. Next,allowthepersonyouredoingthereadingfortoaskaquestion. Take a deep breath and allow yourself to relax completely, letting the questions sink into your unconscious. It may feel as if your intuition has run off like a little puppy running after a stick that was thrown. Justsitandwaitforthepuppytoreturnwithimagesandfeelings. When images and feelings begin to arise, give voice to them. Sometimes you must open your mouth to speakbeforetheimagesandfeelingsappear. Write everything down, or make sure that it is being taped on the recorder. Whoever is receiving the reading should be doing the writing and watching the tape recorder. Speak until there is a lull in the flow of imagesorfeelings. Whenthereisalull,againjustwaituntiltheybeginagain.Thenspeakwhattheyare. Theotherpersonwhoisreceivingthereadingmightliketoaskmorequestions,forquestionsbreedmore questions,especiallyonceyoubegintoofferinformation. Do not analyze or interpret your impressions yet. Just translate, bridging the worlds between the unconsciousandtheconscious. When the session is over, make sure you do some sort of grounding exercise like moving your body, taking a deep breath while opening the eyes, or even yawning. Some people like to do something very earthly, likeeating,ordrinkingabeverage,orstandingupandtakingashortstroll.Theseareallgroundingexercises.

Conclusion
Shakti Gawain says in her book Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance For Daily Life (2000), Like any other art or discipline, it requires a certain commitment. It is an ongoing process in which we are always challenged to move to a deeper level of self trust Its natural for it to take some time and it may be a little difficult and confusing at certain moments As you learn to live from your intuition you may find that the process of making decisions changes. Rather than just trying to figure things out in your head, you follow your intuitivefeelingforawhileandletthingsunfold.Intheprocess,therightdecisionsusuallygetmade.Learningto PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences

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follow your intuition can sometimes feel a bit like living on the edge. In a sense, its learning to live without the falsesenseofsecuritythatcomesfromtryingtocontroleverythingthathappenstous.Itsrecognizingthataswe follow our inner guidance, wonderful things are going to unfold for us, things that we may not yet even imagine. Developingyourpsychicskillswillbeawonderfulpartofyourspiritualjourney.Itisnottheendgoalof yourspiritual journey,forspiritual powersare not ameasurement ofyour level of enlightenment. Yourability to be in the moment with an open heart is the true measure of enlightenment. However, developing your psychic skills will assist you in your spiritual endeavors to help humanity. You will help others on their spiritual path, and you will be able to facilitate healing in a way that only a metaphysician can. In the process you will help yourself to become familiar with how the workings of the universal mind operate, and you will help yourself to grow even more in your spiritual understandings. Developing your psychic abilities will be a lifelong endeavor, andwillbringyougreatjoyandadventureinyourjourneysthroughlife.

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PsychicSkillsExamQuestions
Name Phone# Address (Pleasesupplyname,phone#,andaddressasidentifyingfactorsforgivingcreditproperly) 1. Othertermsforpsychicabilitiesare: A. Intuition B.ESP C.6thsense D.AllA,BandC 2. ESPmeans: A. extrasenseperipheryvision C. extrasensesandperception B. extrasensoryperception D. NeitherA,BorC 3. Peoplewhoarebynatureverydevotionalandfeelacloseconnectiontotheirspiritualnaturesaremostprone tohavespontaneousmysticalexperiencesthattranscendthelimitationsoftimeandspace. T F 4. Intuitionislimitedbyspaceandtimeandrequiresthatyouknowalotaboutthesubjectsyouareinquiring about. T F 5. Thesubconsciousmindknowsatleast90%morethantheconsciousmind,ifnotmore. T F 6. Whattypeofpsychicskillisinvolvedwithintuition? A. Clairvoyance C. Clairaudience B. Clairsentience D. AllA,BandC 7. Intuitionisalinearprocess. T F 8. Youdontreallyknowifyouarebeingintuitiveuntilyouhavepracticedforalittlewhileandreceived feedbackonhowaccurateyouhavebeen. T F 9. Themeaningofclairvoyanceisassociatedwithclarityinvision,bothwiththemindseyeandexternally. T F 10. Psychometryandremoteviewingarepsychicabilities. T F 11. Clairaudiencemeansclearknowing. T F 12. Telepathyistheabilitytoreadthemindsofothers. T F 13. Telepathyismostpotentbetweenpeoplewhohave: A. anemotionalbond C. alotofspiritualtraining B. atendencytobepsychic D. NeitherA,BorC 14. Precognitionistheabilityto: A. knowthepast C. knowthefuture B. knowwhatapersonisfeeling D. AllA,BorC. 15. Telekinesisistheabilityto: A. knowthefuture C. readanotherpersonsmind B. influenceaphysicalobject D. AllA,BandC PsychicSkills2005UniversityOfMetaphysicalSciences

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16. Nopredictioncanbe100%sureofhappeningbecauseprobablerealitiesareinvolved. T F 17. Itisimportantwhenaskingquestionsthattheybeveryspecificandphrasedcorrectly,otherwisetheanswers maybedistorted. T F 18. Whenhandlingclientswithtraumaticortroublingmemories,itisimportanttoknowwhenapsychotherapist isnecessaryversusanintuitive. T F 19. Whenlearningtouseyourintuition,sticktoyoursecondresponsetoeachinquiry,evenifitmakesnosense atall. T F 20. Removingdoubtsandestablishinganeedforapsychicskillisnotnecessaryfordevelopmentoftheskill. TF 21. Youareeternalselfthatcannotbeharmed,andifyouchoosetobeimmunetoharmfulpsychicattacks,you are. T F

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