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Unlock Your Intuition and Discover the Power of Perception
Everyone is born with intuitive powers that range from normal to the intense. This book helps readers to discover and to expand their psychic abilities.
Caulfield takes readers on an exciting journey that features stops at the most important psychic waystations. Included here are examinations of the following:
- Telepathy
- Dreams
- Chakras
- Dowsing
- Astral travel
- Scrying
- Mental mediumship
This is a practical accessible guide that makes all things psychic easy to understand and practice.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781612833842 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2017 |
| Series: | Plain & Simple Series |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 160 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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CHAPTER 1
Telepathy (ESP)
Apart from our five senses — taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing — there is one other sense that we all have in common, but it is often ignored or not developed to its full potential. It is our intuition, which is a natural energy that is present in all of us from birth. The strength of our intuition denotes the strength of our psychic ability.
Thousands of years ago, before the invention of language, we used our psychic senses to survive, by sensing danger, for example, or by sensing the presence of prey when we hunted for food. Today, however, advancements in technology have made it unnecessary for us to use our psychic faculties in this way. Despite these improvements in our modern-day lives, as we human beings strive to better ourselves on a material level, we sometimes feel empty and unfulfilled. Now more than ever, people are searching for the meaning of life. Some people investigate different religions, while others — the younger generation in particular — are turning to alternative means for insight and spiritual growth, openly studying mediumship and the development of the psychic faculty on a personal and scientific level. In fact, there are many reports that prior knowledge of events — intuition — has now been scientifically proven.
When I ask people if they think they are psychic, the answer is often an emphatic "no." When I then ask them if they have ever thought about someone, only to have that person contact them within a short space of time, almost all of them agree that they have experienced this. Further probing reveals that they have often said the same thing at the same time as someone they are with. Most of them say they have sometimes had premonitions about a distant friend or relative who was ill, and everyone has reported feeling a churning in the stomach before bad news. Many of them agree that there have been times when they've had a hunch about something, which they didn't follow through on, only to discover that their hunch was correct all along. These are all instances of telepathy, but they are such everyday occurrences in our lives that they are often classed as coincidences.
Zenner Cards
The American parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine used playing cards to test the telepathic reactions in his subjects. As there were fifty-two cards in a pack, the tests took such a long time to conduct that Rhine began searching for a quicker method of detecting extrasensory perception (ESP). His colleague Karl Zenner was an expert in the psychology of perception, and Rhine persuaded him to design a set of five cards, each with an unambiguous design on it. Zenner produced a set of psi-cards that contained a circle, a wavy line, a cross, a square, and a star. These cards were used as a simple tool for assessing extrasensory perception, and they are still in use today. If you wish to test how telepathic you are, I recommend that you try using Zenner cards. They can be bought from any good New Age retailer, or you can easily make up your own set. Each deck of twenty-five cards consists of five sets of five cards for each basic symbol, with the numbers 1 to 25 on the backs.
Using Zenner Cards to Test Your Powers of ESP
Here's the way to assess your extrasensory perception: Take a pad and pen and write down the numbers 1 to 25. Put the pen and writing pad down next to you, and then sit quietly for a few minutes. When you feel ready, shuffle your deck of Zenner cards and lay them facedown on the table. Take the first card from the deck, keeping it facedown, and place it in front of you. Relax as much as possible; let your mind be still. Don't think about what the card is. Wait for a moment until an image of a symbol forms in your mind. If you cannot see an image but you have a strong feeling about what the card is, make a note of this first image next to the number 1 on your pad. Now do the same for all the other cards. Be honest, and don't turn over any of the cards until you've tried to sense the symbols on them all. When you've finished, turn the cards over and see how many of the symbols you wrote down match the symbols on the corresponding cards. Random guessing alone will usually produce at least five correct answers.
If you sense five or more symbols correctly, then you should try the test again, this time with someone to help you. Your helper should shuffle the cards, then take the first one from the deck and hold it up in front of him or her with the back toward you (if you are familiar with which symbols are on which cards, ask your helper to cover the back of the card so you can't see the number). Then write down on your pad what you think the symbol is. Your helper should write down the symbol next to the corresponding number on his or her own pad. If you match ten or more symbols and cards, then you have exceptional powers of ESP.
Determining Your Mediumistic Ability with Zenner Cards
If you have been successful with the basic test and you want to see if you have mediumistic ability, both you and your helper should sit quietly and try to clear your minds of random thoughts. It is impossible to empty the mind completely, but it is important to try to keep your thoughts still and quiet by being as relaxed as possible. For this experiment, your helper is the "sender," and you are the "receiver." The sender should shuffle the cards, then take the first one from the deck and look at the symbol. After placing the card to one side, the sender should write down the symbol and the number, and then face you, trying to hold the picture of the symbol in his or her mind. When you see an image of a symbol, or think you know what it is, you should write it down, without speaking. Repeat this process until all the cards have been used. You and the sender can then switch roles, and you can see how well you do as a sender. It is well known that mediums are receivers, picking up thoughts from other people and from spirit beings, but you may also be able to transmit energies, as does a healer.
CHAPTER 2
Dreams
Of course, you cannot say you are a medium simply from one test. You will need to repeat the experiment several times more, and also evaluate other psychic factors to see whether you can develop your ability further. Many people claim that they don't dream, but we all do. Some people simply cannot remember their dreams. The problem with dreams is that unless you write them down as soon as you wake up, they quickly fade. Most of our dreaming, even prophetic dreaming, is in the form of symbolism: mixed-up versions of events and information that we've absorbed during our waking hours. Did you know that some people dream only in black and white, while others dream in color?
On occasion, our dreams are vivid, detailed, and prophetic; these are the dreams that you should take special note of. It's not that these types of dreams are easy to forget, but if you get into the habit of writing them down, you will have a written record to refer to at a later date. Here is an example of a vivid dream that I had a few years ago, which remains as clear to me today as it was when I woke up from it.
I was standing in a small, bare room facing the door, which was open a little. The room was dark, but a yellow gleam from the hall light penetrated the dimness. I could clearly hear the loud thumps of footsteps coming up the hall, and I felt terrified of what I thought was a monster looking for me. At the same time, I was aware of a figure dressed in robes, standing to my left in the corner. The footsteps stopped, and the door swung open. It revealed a giant of a man who had to duck to get through the doorway. When he lifted his head, I saw the contorted features of my husband, Peter.
He walked toward me with his arms outstretched ... and at this point I woke up.
I lay there trying to analyze the dream, sure that something unpleasant was about to happen, and sure that it involved Peter. I realized that it was going to be scary because of the fear I had felt and because of the painful expression I had seen on Peter's face. Whatever it was involved me, too, because he was walking toward me with his arms outstretched. I thought the figure in the corner was a guide.
I told Peter about the dream, and we were both wary because I've had prophetic dreams before, and although I didn't know what was going to happen, we both knew we had to be prepared for the worst. We had sold our house and were moving abroad, and we wondered if we were being warned not to go. At that stage, we felt we couldn't do much about it and had to wait and see what happened.
A few days later, while I continued to pack up boxes, Peter took our dog, Rhea, for a long walk through the forest. When he returned, he told me that on the way back he had seen a dog running loose without its owner. Peter knew the dog lived in a house he had already passed. He called the dog over, returned to the house, and delivered the dog safely. Then he once again started out on his journey home.
While he was telling me this story, he was rubbing his chest, so I asked him if he was in pain. He said he had felt several instances of pain while he was out and thought it was indigestion. Knowing he hadn't eaten anything since breakfast, I thought this was doubtful. As we spoke, he clutched his left arm and doubled over. His face was gray, and he was in agony with the pain in his chest. I realized he was having a heart attack and called an ambulance and our doctor. Both arrived within minutes. He was taken to the hospital, where the heart attack was confirmed, and he was kept there until he was well enough to come home.
This is how I analyzed my dream:
The agony I saw on Peter's face in my dream was the pain he was feeling from the heart attack. The dark room represented the dark time we both experienced, not knowing whether he would come through it or not. I saw him as a giant, and to me this indicated how big and serious the heart attack could be, but the light from the hallway told me he had a chance of living through it. His outstretched arms represented him turning toward me for help. The figure in the corner of the room did turn out to be a guide — someone watching over him. The dream didn't tell me that Peter's pain would be caused by a heart attack, but because I always take note of my dreams, I have learned to assess any symbolism I see.
In this way, I've gradually learned to judge each individual part of a dream until it feels right. With this dream I didn't know exactly what was going to happen, but I did know that it was bad and that it would be connected more with Peter than with me. For these reasons, I now always keep notepaper and a pen by the bed so that I can write down anything significant I dream about.
The Beckoning Grave
British author J. B. Priestley received a letter containing the following information in response to his appeal for experiences in which the conventional idea of "time" was upset.
A little girl dreamed she was walking up the path of an old church graveyard with her long, wet hair clinging to her. Around her were several horses aimlessly walking around. She found that she was drawn to one particular grave, but when she reached it she had a horrifying sensation of falling. At this point, she woke up feeling depressed. For as far back as she could remember, she'd had the same dream over and over again, which never varied in any way. But one day she had an experience that chased the dream away forever.
At the age of twelve, while she was on vacation, she was caught in a thunderstorm on her way to her relatives' home. Suddenly, she came upon the church of her dream, exact in every detail. In fact, she found that she was living the dream. Her long, wet hair clung to her, some ponies were wandering around the area, and a certain grave drew her toward it. When she got to the grave, she saw the death date on the headstone: "April 29th 1934." That date was her birthday. After seeing this, she never had the dream again.
The most obvious meaning of this dream is that the girl was having a deja vu experience. Or perhaps the person who died was reincarnated into the young girl at the time of her birth. This is speculation, of course, but it is well known that J. B. Priestley was very interested in psychic phenomena and theories of the way that time and reincarnation played themselves out.
Lincoln's Death Dream
Another example of a prophetic dream was reported by the great American president Abraham Lincoln, who foresaw his own death. In the dream, he saw himself standing at the foot of a coffin in the White House. A soldier was standing nearby, and Lincoln asked him who had died. The soldier told him that it was the president, and that an assassin had killed him.
Most of us now know, of course, that an assassin killed Lincoln while he was at the theater one night.
(Continues…)
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Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is Psychic Ability?,
1 Telepathy (ESP),
2 Dreams,
3 Psychic Centers (Chakras),
4 Emotional Mediumship,
5 Dowsing,
6 Auric, or Person-to-Person, Reading,
7 Different Pathways,
8 Tarot as a Psychic Pathway,
9 Psychometry,
10 Scrying,
11 Astral Travel,
12 Psychic Healing,
13 Mental Mediumship,
14 Fate,
15 Preparation for Development as a Medium,
Conclusion,