HOW TO BE PSYCHIC
Posted by anthonynorth on April 29, 2008
I’ve studied the history and practice of psychical phenomena for some 25 years now, and in that time, certain patterns of behaviour have presented themselves that suggest a typical path to becoming a psychic.
Theories on what ‘psychic’ is vary. Some say it is a power that is being lost, whilst others that it is growing. Some say it is of a supernatural nature, whilst others say it is in the mind.
Such ideas often obscure psychics themselves.
What I’ll try to do here is bring the psychic into the overall idea of what is, and what is not, paranormal, and how it works, or doesn’t.
To me, the paranormal is neither being lost nor growing in power. This is too neat a classification. The more I look into the subject, the more it becomes clear it is dependent upon our, and our culture’s, mind-state at a particular time.
It is all to do with outside information.
If that information is overwhelming, as it is in today’s world of information technology, then we are attuned to concentrate on it more and more, the physical world becoming predominant.
This is why, as technology advanced through history, we became more individualistic, atheist and materialist - which does, of course, suggest that the prevalence of the paranormal goes in line with this technological world. Hence, we are only perceived as being less psychic today because of mass information.
What happens when outside information is less?
History shows that as a culture, we become more religionist, superstitious and open to paranormal influences. Further, in cultures remote from mass information, this situation still exists today.
What is going on here? The answer seems to be that with less information in the outside world, the person becomes more introspective, spending time within their own minds. And it seems to be here that a channel opens to the psychical.
This can occur in the modern world, too.
Alongside our race towards materialism has come a new form of spirituality, best expressed in New Age. It teaches people to find themselves, and helps them into a world of trance.
Doing so cuts off the information in the outside world. And in being cut off, they are more attuned with their inner mind. And whether the paranormal is supernatural or more mind based, it is becoming clear that it is entered best through the deep mind.
This helps us in knowing how to be psychic.
Despite the information around us, the best psychics seem to be those who can withdraw from it and enter their own mind instead. This has been the case from the tribal shaman, to the Spiritualist medium, all of whom rely on trance.
Hence, the best way to be psychic is to have a natural ability to descend into your own mind, or train yourself to do so. For in cutting off outside information, you tune in to information and talents on a more ethereal level.
Over the years, I’ve noticed two particular types who do this best. First, those who are fantasy-prone. And second, those who have had extreme adversity in their lives. In both instances, such people seem to birth a natural ability to withdraw from the world.
And I suspect that, in doing so, they actually enter a world that is more pure and real than we think.
© Anthony North, April 2008
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April 29, 2008 at 1:00 pm
i have posted on this subject before,, i choose not to pursue it,, but i have had a vision or two of the unthinkable,, and it has materialized… i have one on the calendar so to speak, now,, and i am almost afraid it will come true… i don’t know that this is psychic or intuitive or what it is.. but i would rather it not visit…..
April 29, 2008 at 1:43 pm
There is both more and less than meets the senses.
But you knew that.
April 29, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Hi Paisley,
In my experience there’s a 3rd option. Dwelling on it, causing action, and turning it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Hi Brian,
Was that a prediction or a gamble
April 29, 2008 at 2:23 pm
If I could predict, then I could gamble and thus would not blog, because I’d be a hog.
April 29, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hi Brian,
Now, hold on a minute. If you can predict correctly, then it isn’t really gambling, is it?
Not blog? Of course you would. It’s in the nature of your being.
And too many people would miss you.
April 29, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Hey, Anthony!
How’s it going?
Over the years I’ve come to think of ‘psychic’ness…(creative English here :)..) as a survival skill that every human is born with…rather than a special ‘gift’ given to only few select people. That’s not to say that there are some that are truly more advanced than others in tapping into this skill…think Michaelangelo vs. Crayons
And I really like what you are saying here…if each of us spent more inner time, away from the noise and distractions of the world, I believe we would all be alot more ‘psychic’ than we realize.
Tapping into the Ethers for glimpses of the ‘future’ is a whole topic in and of itself…but I like what you said to your one commentor - it seems to me that the future is dynamic, not static…and very powerfully effected by the ‘collective’ consciousness.
Self-fulling prophecies - on a grand scale ???
April 29, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Hi Grace,
It’s going well.
I don’t what ‘psychic’ is, but all the evidence points to us all having the ability. Yes, it can be honed; yes, it can be come across accidentally; yes, it can suddenly occur once to someone out of the blue; yes, it can be affected by culture or the personal mind.
But we all certainly have the ability.
April 30, 2008 at 1:39 am
Two well known psychics–one in America and one in England said that I am. My friends used to make me read cards but I was actually trained by the English one not to really read them but use them as a prop. Gave me big headaches so I stopped.
Neither knew anything about me. Both said I was a writer but I have that look
I had discussed this with very conservative psychiatrists years earlier who said that (again two–I always go to the priciest) I was the most intuitive person they knew.
I think there are two types of intuition: learned–which I excel at as I observe carefully–as you stated; and then going further into your post intuition that picks up on the people and things around you, and can be very dangerous for the person if you’re in a cluttered city such as New York
My best friend recently reminded me that the American psychic said I would be mentored by a Southern woman and end up in the deep South–not Florida. Well my mentors are New York males but I did move to the South not Florida and it had nothing to do with what the psychic said but because friends have a house I love in South Carolina. Maybe the psychic was partially right
What you said about fantasy is very interesting as I used to have the ability to go into deep ones. I’m not sure if I lost that ability or changed it as I taught myself to write fiction and find that much more satisfying–though in times of mind turmoil I lose it
Sorry for writing a post–and Paisley is somebody I truly identify with
April 30, 2008 at 7:17 am
Good morning Pia,
Yes, there are certainly two types of intuition - what I’d call the rational and the inspirational. The first comes from knowing the outside world, the second, I think, comes from deeper mind analysis of this information, jumping to make connections beyond the ‘rational’.
Fantasy, and its connection to the psychical, is often shunned as it’s thought to mean that the abilities themselves are fantasy. This is not necessarily so. Throughout history, mysticism and some sort of fantasy-produced artform have always gone together, be it music, art or writing. One is, I’m sure, an aid to the other.
April 30, 2008 at 8:12 am
Hi there
In my 40 year study of these things connected to intuition and telepathy I formed some interesting conclusions. The story started during a 25 year experience as a gifted healer. In my research to find how it worked, I found that the patients or clients were actually healing themselves once I had unlocked something.
Some healers say they are healing with their own force, others they are channelling healing energy into the sick person, others believing they are transferring Gods healing gift through spirits or angels and themselves. My research indicated that quite the opposite was happening. That is to say that the patient’s internal intelligence or inner healing system, medically known to be incredibly capable, downloaded the missing information from the healer that restarted their own or spontaneous healing system. Studying cell corruption, cancer and senescence of cancerous cells helps to understand this point.
Why do I say this? Well I found the harder I tried to use my knowledge and healing power, the less successful the healing. The more I discovered the importance of letting go and not knowing, the more incredible the healing.
When the healing really worked both I and the patient knew the exact milli-second that it happened. It is like an almost imperceptible shift of energy yet it is unmistakable. The full explication is long and complex and can be found in my book ‘Activating Spontaneous Healing’ obtainable through http://www.asr-key.ch
Now I refer to your comment “the best psychics seem to be those who can withdraw from it and enter their own mind instead.” That is exactly what I discovered enabled the transfer of information.
Why do I believe this is important? My conclusion is that it is only the patient’s inner intelligence that really knows what is not working or what is wrong and how to fix it. Through a telepathic communication the patient’s inner intelligence searches for the information in the healer that has become corrupted in its own system. If it finds it downloads it just like reprogramming a computer program when it develops a glitch. Incidentally this is a likely explanation why good healers cannot heal every client because they may not carry the appropriate DNA program information.
I believe the same principle applies to psychics, they are literally reading the information in their client’s DNA and their connection to the great universal soup of information recognised by Albert Einstein and many other scientists and physicists.
This is further referred to in another of your comments, “This has been the case from the tribal shaman, to the Hi Spiritualist medium, all of whom rely on trance in cutting off outside information, you tune in to information and talents on a more ethereal level.”
This is essentially the same process I learnt to accomplish with healing, albeit I refer to it as ‘letting go of my own thoughts and ideas and entering into a neutral state of openness and unconditional acceptance’.
Your next comment “Over the years, I’ve noticed two particular types who do this best. First, those who are fantasy-prone. And second, those who have had extreme adversity in their lives. In both instances, such people seem to birth a natural ability to withdraw from the world. And I suspect that, in doing so, they actually enter a world that is more pure and real than we think.”
I believe this highlights this process, although I cannot comment ‘on more pure and real’ even though that condition may be as in my case the pure state that allowed the patient to take what they needed to heal themselves. However this does depend very much on fully understanding what is meant by and indeed the full meaning of the term fantasy-prone. If that includes people with an advanced imaginary capability then there may be some justification for this conclusion
Yours are interesting findings and yes, on reflection, certainly there does seem to be some sense here. In my own studies I came to the conclusion that the inner intelligence is extremely delicate and or self protecting. That is I believe why the healing only really worked when I had withdrawn all my thoughts and ideas of helping. In that pure reality the patient’s inner intelligence could find what it wants rather than being bombarded with the irrelevant and even unhelpful. The second and equally important factor is that I would first put the patient into a deep state of relaxation so that they had consciously let go also.
Extrapolate that to a good psychic who in my experience do a similar thing but perhaps using different methods. The more both the psychic and the client enter a trance state of letting go of their own thoughts and wishes, the better the psychic communication.
After all, is it not that a good psychic reading from a really gifted and experienced psychic is another form of healing?
April 30, 2008 at 8:26 am
Hi Robertpaul,
Thanks for that analysis.
April 30, 2008 at 11:57 am
Read the blog with interesting insight, having been through the psychic world for years, and like that you say, get into their own mind. What about the ability to tap into “higher consciousness”? Just asking if you have another perspective on the ability to reach another level …
April 30, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hi Kwamboka,
I’m pleased you like it. If you click MYSTERIES at top of site, you’ll find plenty of links to my other posts.
On the subject you speak of, I’d recommend the links to do with Altered States and Telepathy, where I give several perspectives.
April 30, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Check out my recent blog entry on this subject.
Why Don’t Psychics Win the Lottery?
April 30, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hi all,
I find this discussion fascinating! One thing I can add to the discussion, that hasn’t been mentioned, is that there also seems to be a psychic connection between people who spend a lot of time together. My wife and I have been together four years and both work at home, so we spend a lot of time together. It seems to us that day by day we increasingly complete each others thoughts and sentences, or think the same thing at the same time on topics that have absolutely no relevance to what is going on at the moment. It’s always a bit funny and unexpected. I’ve seen this happen in other relationships and find it fascinating. Perhaps worthy of an article in itself…
I think the whole idea that introspective time seems to increase intuition and psychic abilities seems to ring true for me. It makes perfect sense that distance from the material construct aids in developing spiritual connections that lead to intuitive insight. The material world is largely based on the idea that all that is can be physically observed. This goes against any idea that there are other, unobservable realities. And so if all your time is spent in that construct, you have a tendency to lose touch with any “other worldly” abilities.
I’m also very intrigued by Robertpaul’s comments. If you’re a Christian you believe that the greatest healer of all time was Jesus Christ, and here is a person/diety who spent a lot of time in meditation, prayer and fasting. So there might be a connection there and a lesson for all Christians for what Jesus meant when he said “through me….”. Maybe he meant, “do as I have done…”
One thing that did occur to me when reading Robertpaul’s post is what effect trying to understand the “mechanics” of psychic healing has on the healer himself. Does the effort to mechanize and put psychic abilitiy it into a material framework have a positive or negative effect on the ability itself? When he talks about the subject “downloading” the DNA intelligence he or she needs from the healer, does that “understanding” move a healer closer to or further from his own psychic ability? In otherwords, is it best to NOT try to understand the framework and just TRUST the process, however it works? Hopefully Robertpaul will weigh in with his own experience on this.
April 30, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Hi SteveM,
Yes, I’ve been married for nearly 31 years, and we often seem to be in unison. Of course, we have to define what ‘psychic’ is in such circumstances.
Is it a connection in terms of supernatural, or do minds seem to work in a similar way through repetition and familiarity?
Either way, it remains a fascinating subject.
May 1, 2008 at 4:53 am
I especially agree with your last three paragraphs. In some world-views, the dream-world is a ‘more real’ place than this physical world. One of the most honestly fascinating book’s I’ve ever read is Carlos Casteneda’s “The Art of Dreaming”.
May 1, 2008 at 7:37 am
Hi Ed,
Indeed. This is so in many cultures. I’ve also read some of Casteneda’s work. Quite excellent.
May 2, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I TEND TO AGREE WITH THE NOTION OF NUMBER ONE A CREATIVE IMAGIINATION MAY BE A KEY OF THIS NATURAL PHENOMINA AND SECOND A DISTURBING EVENT SUCH AS A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE MAY TRIGGER SUCH ABILITIES………..
May 2, 2008 at 2:51 pm
SORRY ABOUT THE SPELLING TIME FOR SOME SLEEP I AM A GRAVE YARD SHIFTER LOL!!!!!!!!
May 2, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Hi Glenda,
Thanks for that. Yes, evidence shows a NDE certainly changes a person’s outlook, makes them more spiritual - and no doubt more open.
May 7, 2008 at 6:15 am
Hi guys.
I’ve been reading about paranormal things for some time but have posted any comments. Now I want to ask you guys about something that’s been on my mind for quite awhile.
What’s going on when I have deep dreams that I usually forgets when I wake up but always happens in really life afterwards. I have been having those ever since i can remember, they come once in awhile. Usually it’s only a momment of glimse in a future situation. It’s never about anything important but always give the wow effects when it happens in really life, which is cool. just wanna know what it is cuz it’s obvious that I dream the future, but does that say anything about me?
Thanks for the help guys.
May 7, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hi MinhDuc,
Thanks for that comment.
If you want my views on this kind of thing, you need to click MYSTERIES at top of site and scroll down to the links under Premonition.
May 12, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Being psychic is simply being in tune with the fat that there are things that the body is not capable of being in tune with by itself. Take light for instance… there are levels of light that cannot be seen with the naked eye. This also goes with sound. There are level of everything that surpass the physical abilities naturally. However the mind itself (properly in tune with your own soul) has no limitations on what it can perceive. The main objective is to simply tune your mind into your soul (or your true existence) and then the soul will share this additional information with your mind.
May 12, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hi John,
Thanks for that comment.