In my last post on this subject I discussed 6 things to look for when choosing a new psychic. I will continue the list here in this post.

7. Most importantly, what is your first impression of the psychic when you first meet him or her or talk via telephone? This is where your psychic ability comes into play. If the psychic has a web site, be sure to view a picture of him or her. If you do not get a good feeling about the psychic, move on. You’re instincts are, more than likely, accurate.

8. Is the psychic a good communicator? There is nothing more frustrating than receiving a reading from a psychic who does not have a good command of your native language or doesn’t communicate enough or clearly enough. It is okay to ask for more details or for an explanation of something your reader has seen for you.

9. How does the psychic charge their fees? If they charge your reading to your phone bill then they are a hotline telephone psychic. It might be a good idea to pay for your reading in cash rather than with a credit or debit card, if possible, until you develop trust in your business relationship with the psychic.

10. Does the psychic offer different rates for time or tasks performed for you? If you only need a 15-minute reading for one question, why get stuck paying for unused time that you may not want to use later? And be sure to ask what additional charges there will be if you decide to go over the time slot that you have purchased.

11. Even if you have paid in advance for your reading it is okay to stop a reading that has been, for the most part, inaccurate. Pay for what time you received and cut your losses. Hoping that the reader’s accuracy will improve during the session rarely works out. Ask about the psychic’s refund policy before the reading begins if you paid in advance. Remember, this is a business transaction between you and the psychic. Treat your session the same as you would with any other service professional.

(To Be Continued)

As I stated in my last post, there are many different types of Mediums. And there are many different interpretations of those different types of Mediums. Here are a few of mine:

• Channeler: A Channeler is a person who acts as a “speaker” for spirit. They willingly allow spirit to “possess” them and speak to whomever is present for the channeling session. This phenomenon is known as a “walk-in”. The Channeler performs this type of Mediumship at a cost to themselves. Channeling Spirit is physically and mentally exhausting. Many people believe that Channelers and Mediums are one and the same. The argument for and against this concerns whether the Channeler is in an altered state of consciousness when the “walk-in” takes place.
• Transmedium: A person who produces mediumistic phenomena of all kinds after entering a state of trance. This involves the producing of ectoplasm, body parts, musical instruments, ethereal images and noises from thin air. The Transmedium is “transporting” something temporarily from the ethereal realm into the physical realm. There have been numerous occasions where sitters in a “seance” have reported the appearance of arms, legs, faces and clouds of ectoplasm. Some of the sitters reported that they touched the appendages while they floated in mid-air and that they felt real.
• Medium: A person, most frequently a woman, who communicates with spirits, usually on behalf of another person. There are several overlapping types of mediumship:

1. Spirit Medium: This type of Medium communicates back and forth with spirits without going into a trance. Generally, they only receive information and do not ask for information from Spirit. This person usually has no control over when and where the communication takes place. For instance, they may warn you of some danger in the middle of a conversation with you and may identify the Spirit that communicated the information to them. For example, they may say, “Your Grandmother, Irene, who has passed over wants you to go home. Something is wrong there.”.
2. Trance Medium: This type of Medium goes into a trance to communicate with spirits. They are not aware of what occurs while they are in trance and therefor, have no memory of the communication with Spirit. They do not make psychic predictions or answer questions for sitters who are present at the seance.
3. Mental Medium: This type of Medium answers questions through Spirit as they are asked by “sitters” at a seance. He or she is completely lucid and does not go into the trance state to communicate with Spirit. They do not make psychic predictions.
4. Psychic Medium: This type of Medium communicates with spirit in a lucid state and receives psychic predictions from the Spirit Guides of the sitter who is present for the reading. They may also come into contact with Spirit Guides or the Spirit of loved ones who are present for the person receiving the reading.

I fall into the Psychic Medium category, although, I am capable of doing Trance Mediumship. I do not perform Trance Mediumship because it is so physically exhausting and I worry about its affect on my health. I also worry about Spirit becoming attached to me as a result. I have had that happen in the past and it is a very uncomfortable experience. I do know how to unattach myself from the Spirit but I do not enjoy having it happen to me.

I also have other psychic talents that I will talk about some other time in another post.

Duality is running the computers that we are all using right now. We call it the binary system. Basically our computers are running on yes or no and 0 and 1. The most important aspect of duality in this discussion is that balance is being created constantly around us. If any one thing were created without its counterpart it would create chaos in our Universe. When we choose to manifest we have to remember that we need to create balance. It is incorrect to use manifestation to someone else’s disadvantage.

For example, if I manifest a pile of money in the middle of my living room I may have unwittingly created unbalance. Where did this money come from? Did it come from my neighbors or from the vault of the local bank? If so, I have affected those people negatively because I gain and they lose. That is incorrect manifestation.

Instead of magically creating it, I need to attract this money in a way that balance is maintained.  I will have to employ a law to correctly manifest this money that I need. That law is known as the Law of Attraction. This law is similar to Magic by Contagion. Here we attract things to us by vibrating around them.

Let’s say that I need more money to live comfortably. I cannot get a sufficient raise at work to accomplish this. So what do I do? I begin to manifest a new job that will pay me more money. Once I decide on the new job I simply immerse myself in it.

Let’s say I want a new career as a Stock Broker. I will walk, talk, eat and sleep the stock market. My friends will be sick to death about hearing any more about it because that’s my total focus. I will take courses that are related to the stock market and my classmates will become my good friends. They are also immersed in their desire to work in the stock market. Their stock-market consciousness increases the level of my stock-market consciousness and vice versa. I am now a stock broker by virtue of my immersion in it.

Eventually, I will attract the right situation that will allow me to work as a stock broker. And I did it without creating imbalance. I did it as a result of my action and of my firm belief that I would become what I desired.

The the most important element in manifestation is the belief that it will work.

(To Be Continued)

In addition to the cave paintings we have also discovered crude soft-lava sculptures of women with extended bellies and swollen breasts. These were most likely carved and left near the women in the caves in the belief that they, too, would become pregnant resulting from the constant influence from the pregnant-like sculptures. This is one form of manifestation. The paintings and the lava sculptures are attempting to employ the Principle of Magic by Contagion. That is to say that mankind believed that everything on Earth had a consciousness whether it was animate or inanimate. And when you remained in close proximity to any dissimilar object its consciousness (or vibration) would affect yours.

In a sense, we basically believe that there is a constant blending of consciousness here in the physical realm. So, mankind placed the paintings where they knew the Earth Spirit would pass by it and be influenced by its vibration. They believed that they were altering the consciousness of the Spirit by producing the painting which also had a consciousness. If you think about it, this is a very complex set of thoughts for a race of people who seemingly had very little technology and knowledge.

I believe that when we first gained sentience (became aware of our existence) an operating system was started up and is still running in each one of us. Carl Jung, the famous Swedish Psychiatrist, called this operating system “The Collective Unconsciousness”. He believed that this was the knowledge that is inherited by each one of us. That inherited knowledge is most likely the source of our innate practice of manifestation. Each one of believes in it and practices it every day of our lives.

Carl Jung went on in later years to discuss the creation of reality. He stated that reality was created in our minds first. He stated that by simply thinking something, its creation was begun. He also theorized that anything we could think of could come into being as a result. This can be explained by a second important principle. That principle is the Principle of Duality.

This principle runs our Universe entirely. It states that when anything is created its mirror image must be created at the same time. So the birth of our thought, which is non-physical, causes something physical to be created.This duality is obvious everywhere in the Universe. It creates action and reaction, up and down, in and out, positive and negative, on and off, male and female and so on.

(To Be Continued)

Beginning with this post, I want to talk to you about the Art of Manifestation.

When I speak of Manifestation, I am speaking about the act of bringing our thoughts into reality. That is to say, manifestation is the practice of bringing about desired results that began initially as a thought in our minds. For example, when I discover that I need something that is beyond my normal ability to produce, I employ the Art of Manisfestation to bring it into reality.

As a race of people, we have been practicing the Art of Manifestation for at least 50,000 years. How do we know this? We know it as a result of our discovery of ancient paintings in caves that are located in Europe and South America. When those cave paintings were first discovered Archaeologists and Anthropologists thought that the paintings were made to commemorate special events. Primarily, these paintings depict the successful hunt or the animals that were the object of the hunt. Early man made some of these paintings between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago.

As more and more of these paintings were discovered scientists came to another startling conclusion. They realized that the paintings were most likely placed on the cave walls in order to bring the successful hunt into reality. The cave during this period in our history was a sacred place. We know it was sacred because the sacred rites of initiation for young boys and girls who had reached puberty were performed in the interior caves. Their hands were stenciled onto the walls of the cave by the tribal Shaman so that the Spirit of the Earth would recognize them and nurture them.

It is thought that early mankind believed that the source of all life energy emanated from the center of the earth through the caves on their way to the surface of our planet. They believed that this energy was sent forth by an intelligent Spirit of the Earth. Remember that early mankind during this period wielded very little power over their environment. They had to search long and hard for their prey. And while the tribe waited for an animal as large as the Wooly Mammoth to stray into their territory they must have gotten very hungry.

In their desperation, they began to figure out ways to influence the Spirit of the Earth in order to get the things they needed for their survival. The cave paintings were placed on the walls of the cave in the belief that the energy from the Spirit of the Earth would pass by and be influenced to create what was needed for the tribe. The cave paintings are artifacts that lead us to believe that this was one of the first attempts by mankind to manifest its destiny. We have been practicing it in one form or another since then.

(To Be Continued)

The psychic and meditative power of water has been utilized in every culture around the world for centuries. Water cleanses, refreshes and restores all life. Man has always been drawn to water especially in the form of streams, rivers, lakes, natural artesian fountains and majestic waterfalls.

Water is a carrier. It flows. It moves along the line of least resistance. Since our bodies are made up of approximately 82% water and the moon controls the tides, it also controls our bodies, emotionally.  Water affects emotionally, as well, and it is healing for us to be near it. When we immerse ourselves in large bodies of water from a bathtub all the way up to the ocean, we re-purify ourselves emotionally and physically. And don’t forget that we develop in water before we are born into the air-world. I believe that is why water is primal for us.

Try to place a water fountain indoors, as well as outdoors, to experience the relaxing and meditative power of water. Water fountains create a peaceful, harmonious indoor and outdoor environment. Some of the beneficial properties of Indoor and Outdoor Fountains are as:

• a natural humidifier
• a meditation tool
• a sleep aid
• a stress reducer
• an air cleanser

Every time I am in the shower, my psychic ability is stimulated and I receive stronger images from Spirit.

Meditative drum sequences, new age music and binaural alpha tones enhance and deepen the alpha effect of the sound of burbling water during meditation. I always play those kinds of CD’s when I guide my clients through meditation at my home in California. I’m sure that you will be pleased with the added effect of water sounds to your meditations.

The Alpha 2 level can be used for several different things.  It is most often used for light meditation, Astral Travel and Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). The best way to achieve this state is by playing repeated or “looped” sounds while you meditate.

I use drum tracks to help my clients achieve this state when I guide them through meditations. My favorite CD for this is Sacred Earth Drums  by David and Steve Gordon. It is available in several different formats on Amazon.com. If you are meditating by yourself, the effect of the drumbeats are enhanced if you use headphones or ear buds.

There are other sounds that can help to induce the Alpha 2 state as well. They can be harder to come by, though. They are known as Binaural Tones or Binaural Beats. A Binaural Tone is created by playing two different tones simultaneously. The tones are played separately in stereo channels and you will definitely need to use headphones or earbuds  for them to be effective.

The Binaural Tones are slightly different from one another. To be effective in inducing the Alpha 2 and other Alpha states they must be below 1000 hertz and both of the tones should be no more  than 10 Hertz apart. If the tones are above 1000 hertz or more than 10 hertz apart the tones are not effective.

There are many CD’s available that use Binaural Tones coupled with subliminal messages. They are used for subconscious programming to produce positive life-changing results. However, for our purposes here, I prefer that you use the tones without subliminal messaging if you want to perform Astral Travel or use your ESP.

There is an app for your Iphone that creates Binaural Tones for you. Here is a link for it: myNoise
By Stephane Pigeon

The technique for using Binaural Tones to induce altered states of consciousness is very simple. You start the Binaural Tones or drum beats and lay down to meditate with your headphones on. Close your eyes, relax your mind and try to keep it as clear as you possibly can. Focus on the beats and let your mind go wherever it wants to take itself. Everyone has different experiences with this technique so don’t be surprised at what occurs during this session. Just go with the flow in your first attempts to achieve the Alpha 2 level. Later, when you are more experienced, you should be able to exert some control over the experience.

Be sure to record the results of your session for future reference. This is especially important if you have received any psychic visions while in the Alpha 2 level.

I will discuss uses for Alpha Level 3 in my next post.