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I'm always amazed and saddened when someone tells me they have never had a psychic experience.

We are all actually having psychic experiences every moment of our lives; we just don't realize that is what's happening. So many of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, dreams, fantasies, anxieties, etc., are coming from sources outside ourselves, but we mistakenly believe that they are being generated from our own mind and body.

For many of you, it's only when you have a psychic experience that is obvious and clear-cut that you will consider the possibility that you are psychic. For example, you are thinking of a friend whom you have not heard from in years and a moment later she telephones you; or you have a dream about a male relative meeting some ill fate and the next morning you find out that he passed away during the night; or you ignore your "irrational" mother when she tells you she feels anxious about day their spirit is entering and leaving their body a thousand times; or that every week they are undergoing healings that have saved them from death on countless occasions.

If you gain nothing else from this book, I hope you will at least begin to consider the possibility that you are psychic, not just on rare occasions but all the time. Psychic abilities are spiritual abilities.

As a spirit, you possess the same qualities often attributed to God. Spirits are creative; they are omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (everywhere at once). Your spirit has these abilities even when it is attached to a living body-your body. Some of these psychic/spiritual abilities can be classified as clairaudience, transmediumship, telepathy and clairsentience, all of which will be illustrated in this chapter.

Clairaudience is the ability to hear the thoughts of other spirits, both with and without bodies.

Transmediumship is the ability of your spirit/energy to leave your body and to bring other spirits/energies into your body. Telepathy is the ability to send and receive thoughts through extrasensory means. Clairsentience is the ability to feel the emotions of others. When used consciously, these psychic abilities can assist you in understanding and healing yourself and others.

When used unconsciously, as is so often the case, they may be the cause of much unnecessary confusion, pain, and suffering.

As identical twins, my sister Amy and I were constantly asked what we thought to be a very silly question: "If one of you is in pain, does the other one feel it?" We always answered this with an exasperated "No!" But almost twenty years later, I realized that not only was I feeling Amy's pain and emotions, I was feeling the pain and emotions of everyone around me. This concept was never introduced into our frame of reference because it was foreign to our parents, teachers, and the society we grew up in. The ability for one person to experience the feelings of another was possible only in

the realm of fantasy, or mythical stories and dreams. According to our close-minded society, if you feel pain, there can be only one explanation for it: there must be something wrong within your own body. And, of course, we were taught that the only acceptable ways to get rid of pain are to wait and see if it disappears, go to the doctor and take medication, or undergo some kind of operation.

I began to understand the limitations and dangers of this paradigm soon after embarking on my clairvoyant training. Because clairvoyance does not involve the intellect, the only way to develop it is though direct practice. So I was thrown immediately into readings without having any preconceived notion of what would happen. For the first few months of my training program, I usually read with other students (see chapter 17). This is an excellent way to build your confidence as a psychic, because as a beginning clairvoyant student, you have very little trust in what you are looking at, and even less courage to speak up about it. This is true even though you may be seeing the same thing that the more advanced students are viewing. Inevitably, someone else in the reading will talk about the same thing you have been silently looking at or sensing, and this of course will increase your confidence and let you know that you are really psychic and not "just using your imagination."

Much to my surprise, I soon began to notice that not only was I seeing the same images as my fellow psychics, I was also feeling the same sensations in my body. For example, during one reading I began to feel a strong pressure on top of my head, as if someone were sitting on it. I was also experiencing some intense pain in my upper back and a constriction in my throat. As I was wondering what was wrong with me and trying to figure out if my health insurance would cover a doctor's visit for these ailments, the other students doing the reading began voicing similar complaints. Much to our relief, one of our teachers finally entered the room and stated: "You all might want to say hello to those religious family spirits that are pounding you over your heads. Also don't be surprised if you are having difficulty reading because there are a lot of energies in the room that don't want you to talk about what you are seeing. And by the way (addressing the readee), have you had some back problems lately because I can feel that is some pretty intense pain you are in!" As soon as the reading was over, all of my pain and discomfort vanished.

A few minutes before another reading, I suddenly felt a strange tingling in my gums. Again I wondered what was wrong with me. When the readee entered the room, she apologized, saying,

"Forgive me if I look funny. I just had a root canal and the Novocain has not yet worn off." From these experiences, I began to understand that these bodily sensations were not really mine; rather, I was channeling them.

Clairaudience, Transmediumship, and Telepathy

Most people assume that every thought in their mind is their own, but sometimes this could not be further from the truth. Have you ever been struggling with some nagging problem or question, and just when you were about to give up all hope, a brilliant answer just seemed to land in your mind?

Where do you think this came from? Sometimes we really give ourselves too much credit! Albert Einstein and many other brilliant scientists, artists, writers, inventors, etc., were never so vain as to think that they alone were responsible for the monumental ideas that often came to them in their dreams or upon awakening. I believe that these thoughts come from other spirits and people.

You probably have noticed that people to whom you are very closely "connected," such as a

sibling, best friend, or your husband or wife, etc., will finish your sentence or ask a question that you were about to ask. Sure, sometimes this might just be because of the similarities between the two of you, but many times it has more to do with your psychic abilities.

My first conscious lesson in clairaudience, transmediumship, and telepathy occurred a few weeks into my clairvoyant training. Instead of feeling excited like I usually did before a reading, on this particular occasion I felt a strange sort of dread as I drove to the Berkeley Psychic Institute. Several times I came close to turning my car around and going home. I told myself that if I couldn't find a parking space immediately in front of the door, I would do just that. I felt nauseated as I parked a few feet from the entrance, and meandered inside.

I had already been sitting in front of our readee for about fifteen minutes and the only thing I could see was darkness. My usual cheerful mood was replaced with feelings of worthlessness and self-ridicule. "What am I doing here?" I chastised myself. "This is all a big joke. I don't really have any

This "lightning bolt" did not hurt as much as startle me, but again I was filled with excitement because it only further confirmed my suspicions. Spontaneously, I knew that whatever this energy or spirit was, it had been having an effect on the readee. Without waiting for my fellow student to finish whatever he was saying, I blurted out to the woman, "You have been struggling with self-esteem issues for a long time, and I think you probably have some very self-punishing thoughts on a regular basis."

For the first time she excitedly spoke up, "Yes, yes, that is the whole reason I came in for this reading. Sometimes I even hear voices telling me to hurt myself and I really think they might be spirits rather than the hallucinations my therapist thinks they are." or match her energy and your own self-esteem could plummet dramatically, regardless of whether you even speak to her or notice her at all.

Most of you have had at least some experience with public speaking, even if it was just during a speech class in school. If you think back to it, your success or failure may have been directly

proportional to the receptivity and accompanying energy of your audience, in that they may have healed you or psychically attacked you. The energy of nervousness and anxiety is not only contagious, it also has a snowball effect, so that you may actually be a confident public speaker but when surrounded by others experiencing stage fright, you might match their fear and have a much harder time delivering your speech.

The energy generated by angry groups of people, such as neoNazis, white supremacists, protesters, drunken fraternity students, etc., can be quite contagious and seductive. This accounts for how some individuals can commit heinous acts when in a group, but would never even think of engaging in such behavior on their own. History has shown that many individuals who have surrendered to a poisonous groupthink are so mortified by their own actions that they cannot bear to live with themselves afterward, and end up suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder or trying to commit suicide, as in

While undergoing my clairvoyant training in the evenings, I was working full-time as a federal probation officer. One day as I was walking down the hall, I felt a peculiar sensation in the back of my first chakra, the energy center located at the base of the spine. It felt kind of like a burning pain, but not exactly. I wondered what was wrong with me. A minute later, I was approached by an enraged attorney clenching my sentencing recommendation in his upraised fist. The closer he moved to me, the more severe the sensation in my lower back became. I realized that the two were related.

The next day I felt a similar sensation, only this time in front of my fourth chakra, or chest. A few minutes later I was approached by a hysterical woman who begged me to do something about her youngest son, who had just been sentenced to several years in prison. The longer I was in her presence, the more intense the burning in my chest became, until it was difficult to breathe. During both occasions, these sensations completely subsided as soon as my companions departed. Luckily, I realized that I was being affected by my psychic ability of clairsentience rather than by health problems in need of medication.

Soon I was able to predict with great accuracy the mood of the person I was about to encounter or the type of interaction we would have by paying attention to unexpected bodily sensations. I also began using this as a diagnostic tool in my healing work. However, this type of clairsentient precognition had its limitations since I still did not know the content of our future contact, or whom I would be encountering (for that kind of detailed information, I would need to sit down and do a clairvoyant reading). The most helpful aspect of my new awareness was that rather than be a victim to whatever sensations I was having, I now had the ability to sort out which feelings were mine and which belonged to other people. Then, by employing some of the techniques I will share later in this book, I was able to alleviate the unpleasant sensations in a timely and effective manner.

At the same time that I was becoming aware of being affected by other peoples' emotions and thoughts, I also seemed to be getting more sensitive to them. I wondered how many times in the past I had felt pain or emotions and had assumed that they were my own, when they were not. I started investigating the complaints of my friends, family, and coworkers to determine whether or not they too might unwittingly be picking up foreign sensations (using their clairsentient abilities). I was surprised to discover how often this was in fact the case.

On one occasion, I was sitting next to my mother in the waiting room of a hospital while we waited for my cancer-stricken grandfather to undergo some tests. I was feeling stressed so I began to meditate and give my fifth chakra (the energy center in the throat) a healing. After several minutes I had the realization that my mother, who was silent beside me, was "matching" me. I knew she was literally feeling the pain that was coming out of my throat by sensing it in her own throat. I considered whether to mention this to her, but decided not to disrupt my meditation.

A minute later my mother loudly cleared her throat and exclaimed, "Damn it, I must be coming down with another cold. My throat is killing me." I then attempted to explain to her what was really happening, but alas, the concept was too foreign to her and she left for the pharmacy in search of medication to alleviate her pain. I felt very saddened by this because I wondered how many times she and hundreds of thousands of other people had taken unnecessary medications or had even undergone surgery for mysterious pain they had truly experienced but falsely assumed was their own.

Unfortunately, most other people in my "everyday life" also refused to even consider my assertions, even when I was able to present a clear and logical argument by demonstrating the true source of their discomfort. Luckily, I found comfort in my fellow clairvoyant students, who were making similar discoveries in their own personal lives as well as in our readings together.

Clairsentience is not just limited to pain, but to many other energies, including emotions, obsessions, and sexual arousal. Oftentimes in my readings, I will see that a person is experiencing an intense emo tion, such as depression, anger, or anxiety, and then trace this emotion to the person's spouse or parent, who may be alive or deceased.

During another reading, I saw that my client was obsessed with losing his money, even though it seemed his financial situation was better than that of most people. This was affecting his relationship with his wife and his enjoyment of life. I traced this obsession to his deceased father, who had committed suicide at the time of the Great Depression. His father and some other punishing spirits were plugged into his third chakra, which caused him a lot of stomach pain. He acknowledged that he had suffered from intense pain in his abdomen for years, but the doctors had never been able to determine the source. He felt as if he were being punched in the stomach. I performed some simple healing work to help him release this foreign energy. One month later he called to tell me that for the first time in twenty years, the pain was gone and he was getting much more enjoyment from spending his money.

My students often ask me, "How can we tell if an emotion is our own or is originating in another person?" A sign that the emotion is not really yours is when it feels totally out of control, as if no matter what you do, you cannot change your mood. The depression or sadness you feel may seem so intense and agonizing that the only recourse seems to be death, even though logically you know you have many reasons to live. Another sign that the emotion is coming from an outside source is when there is no logical cause for this emotion. Confusion, disorientation, or the inability to think are also

signs that someone else's considerations are in your head.

From readings and my own personal experience, I am certain that what psychologists term "free-floating anxiety" is just that: anxiety that is flowing freely from an outside source to an unsuspecting recipient. I have found that by searching for the creator of the anxiety (which can be done through simple inquiry or observation of your companions), the feeling will quickly dissipate and will have little effect on you. Unfortunately, many people do just the opposite: they become anxious about feeling anxious, and before you know it, they are off to the psychiatrist for a prescription of anti-anxiety medication.

Another sign that you are "channeling" someone else's emotion is if you find yourself getting angry for no discernible reason only when you are in that person's presence. For example, have you ever been in a perfectly happy mood, feeling great about yourself and looking forward to seeing someone, but then soon after spending time with that person, you suddenly felt irritated or even enraged, for no apparent reason? This may have happened on a number of occasions, with the same person. While there could be a number of reasons for this, one possibility is that you were picking up on that other person's unexpressed anger and actually channeling it through your own body.

From the plethora of clairvoyant readings I have done for couples, I have ascertained that this transfer of emotions occurs commonly in relationships involving a partner, often the male, who has difficulty expressing emotions such as depression or anger. The partner who gives herself greater permission to express emotions will inadvertently begin to channel and eventually outwardly express this repressed emotion of her partner. Since it doesn't really belong to her, she cannot deal with the emotion as effectively as she can with her own and may become quite unbalanced, even hysterical.

This common male/female dynamic has been utilized for centuries by emotionally repressed men in order to justify their superiority over the women they label as "irrational" or "overemotional."

Ironically, if and when this type of person (again, often male) begins to take responsibility for the proper expression of his feelings and re-own them, his partner will consequently be freed from feeling the effect of his emotional energy, and both partners, along with the relationship, will reach a

Ironically, if and when this type of person (again, often male) begins to take responsibility for the proper expression of his feelings and re-own them, his partner will consequently be freed from feeling the effect of his emotional energy, and both partners, along with the relationship, will reach a