There has been a great deal of interest in the Intuitive Development course I am offering, and along with the interest there have been a great many questions. I will give an explanation here, and please feel free to post any questions or comments you may have…if you have something to contribute, I’m sure it will be important to others who may have the same questions or concerns.
I am frequently asked if I can “teach someone to be psychic”. My answer is always that I can teach a person to identify and clear the obstacles to their natural psychic abilities. I believe that we are all born with psychic potential, and the ‘black sheep’ of the senses, the ‘sixth sense’, is as powerful and important as the other five. If this is true, then why is the sixth sense so elusive and ‘doubtable’? The answer to this is related more to what we are taught to believe than what our actual potential is.
Belief is a powerful thing, and the ambivalent nature of our relationship to and acceptance of our own psychic potential has to do with the conundrum of ‘knowing’, or the innate understanding of the truth of human potential; versus ‘belief’, or what we learn about who we are and what we are capable of. We come in with that knowing, cut from the bolt of Universal Consciousness, without the human consciousness that develops as we grow, gain language, and begin to understand what is expected of us from the other humans who are responsible for our survival. This innate ‘knowing’ is directly connected to the truth of our existence as holographic replicas of the Source, but in order to learn to master the vast power available to us through this connection, it has to be framed for us by conscious beings who have been through their own process of recognition and mastery. Here is where the system fails us.
In antiquity, psychic communication and mastery of energetic potential was the norm…Earth based religions, healing and magical practices were the belief structures upon which society was built. People were well aware of energy and how to work with it; totally in tune with the cycles of the seasons and the Earth as ‘mother’, the provider. Many indigenous cultures still in existance today continue to interact with the natural world in an energetically attuned way, and we consider this type of behaviour as evidence of their ‘primitive’, meaning less advanced, beliefs.
Since monotheistic religion gained power and DeCartes came up with the mechanistic theory, you can pretty much imagine how the practice of beliefs outside of the emerging, limited social paradigm became life threatening. Many of us are aware of the Inquisition, the witch burnings in Salem, the burning of libraries of arcane knowledge; a literal and systemic annihalation of once prevalent beliefs that were now threatening to the new order. Mystical systems went underground and were hidden and preserved. Arcane and mystical thought systems were passed on in secret and protected by sacred oaths. The public at large retreated in fear from the powerful heritage that was their birthright. Psychic abilities became less and less acceptable, and soon dissappeared from daily life except for the occasional ‘coincidence’ that evidenced psychic awareness; the exception rather than the rule.
As you understand if you are reading this text, there is a resurgence of interest in psychic potential. Dr. Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, in her book Extraordinary Knowing, went out on a limb in bringing to light what she called ‘anomalous knowing’. Being a scientist herself, once she had the personal experience of encountering a kind of knowing that was not of the five senses or conventional communication techniques, she could not ignore it. Her book addresses not only the evidence of psychic ability that is beyond the paramiders of modern Psychoanalysis, but also what happens when someone within a closed thought system breaks out of the box and has the courage to share with the world the discrepancy she found . Once she spoke publically about what she discovered about psychic potential, she was innundated by a number of professionals who couldn’t wait to share their experiences with someone who wouldn’t think they were ‘delusional’.
So, the sixth sense, our natural psychic ability, remains something many of us experience regularly but keep to ourselves; talking ourselves into some rational explanation about how this is a ‘coincidence’, or laughing it off as ‘unbelievable’. My experience is that folks will experience the appearance of psychic information at the far extremes of the spectrum, either when the information is so meaningless it’s laughable that we ‘knew’ it, or when the information is catastrophic.
In the first case, the filter of the conscious mind and what it will allow is not engaged enough to block the information. I experienced an example of this a few weeks ago when I walked into my sister’s house while she was watching the Miss America Pageant and immeditely predicted the order of the contestants and the winner. My sister was impressed and wanted lottery numbers…if I could predict that, why not lottery numbers?
What became clear to me is my absolute non-attachment to being ‘right’. The accuracy of the information was directly related to my conscious mind’s lack of interest in the subject; therefore the information could come up from my psychic knowing unimpeded. Getting lottery numbers may be possible, but my desire to be ‘right’ for my sister would not fall into the realm of non-attachment.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have the mother who wakes in the night with a clear knowledge that her child has been killed in the war, or the twin who suddenly feels a pain in his chest as his brother, hundreds of miles away is experiencing a heart attack. It is at such times that the conscious mind gets over ruled, and the important information blasts into awareness.
The pupose of this work, development of the Intuition, is to allow for acceptance and application of psychic ability on the mid-points of the spectrum; to train the conscious mind to recognize and distinguish psychic information from all the other kinds of thought that habitually dominate our thinking. Identifying the things that are obstacles to psychic awareness is the first step towards recognizing pure psychic awareness as it arises.
Education in the development of energetic consciousness as we grow into the belief structures that convince us we are limited, allows the intellect to question the existing structures that we take on blind faith. Just like Dr. Mayer, once we become aware that what we have believed in as ‘the truth’ of existence is challenged in a factual and plausible way, the opening leads us to a dimension of limitlessness that reflects the ‘knowing’ that we came in with. The old beliefs fade away in the liberation of this untapped potential, and the world and our relationship to it will never be the same!
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