| One of the biggest questions I get asked - " ok, I'm | | | | find your speed and motion through the early phases |
| impressed! How do I become psychic?" And my | | | | of psychic skill acquisition will be greatly enhanced. |
| answer is always the same: You already are! And of | | | | You MUST spend a fair amount of time visualizing. |
| course most people think I'm giving them a glib, | | | | Illuminating the imagination is an integral component of |
| cliché for an answer. But I'm not..:-) Don't believe | | | | creating psychic force. Pick a face. A friend, a |
| me? Let's take a closer look at some of the simple | | | | neighbor. Someone close, but not uncomfortably so in |
| steps you need to take to prove it to yourself. | | | | the event you see something you don't want to share |
| First of all, you need to put yourself in an environment | | | | just yet. This is a very controversial method - but I |
| to succeed. This means either by yourself, with a | | | | recommend mirror gazing once you have some level |
| trusted friend or companion, or even in a small group, | | | | of meditative mastery down. When you can |
| you need to be comfortable, trust the company you | | | | effectively quiet your mind for short periods of time ( |
| are keeping ( even if it just YOURSELF! ) and hold at | | | | 30-45 minutes) you can use mirror as the object of |
| least a slender shred of belief that you can do | | | | your gaze, rather than the mantra. If you have |
| miraculous things if you only try. Pick a time, get | | | | meditated well prior to this practice, you will invariably |
| comfortable and we are going to presume for the | | | | begin to feel and see a strange spectrum of things |
| sake of this article you are practicing alone. | | | | along the supernatural surfboard......The mirror helps me |
| Meditation is without question the easiest gateway into | | | | to witness these things as external phenomena rather |
| the mystical and magical realms. You MUST familiarize | | | | than things that are happening behind my field of vision. |
| yourself with a meditative practice that feels good for | | | | (This is tough to distinguish as you become good at |
| you if you are truly going to master your psychic skills. | | | | focusing the mind) Mirror gazing also provides a |
| Don't be scared away, either - there are all kinds of | | | | springboard to the out of body experience, or OBE. |
| esoteric and dogmatic names and descriptions for | | | | Essentially you will feel "yourself" disengage from your |
| various meditative techniques - you need not worry | | | | physical self and it is not uncommon to having a |
| about any of them. You are very simply going to quiet | | | | complete shift in consciousness and awareness |
| your mind, either through a simple mantra practice | | | | outside of your body completely. Books and books |
| (repeating a chosen word out loud) or through a simple | | | | have been written on this, it ONLY seems unusual and |
| but slightly more advanced practice called Vipassanna, | | | | far fetched to people who have never experienced |
| which is fundamentally the Buddhist meditation for | | | | anything like it - or whose world view holds that it is |
| insight and concentration. If you've never meditated - | | | | impossible. (And I do feel bad for you if it is!) |
| the rewards are immediate, the sensations blissful and | | | | Once you really start moving down this path - and it is |
| the realizations start coming in waves. | | | | a far richer experience than I can illuminate here - it is |
| I recommend a comfortable chair or cushion. A dark | | | | good if you are able to find a group, or get your |
| and comfortable room with candlelight is preferable for | | | | friends involved in the journey with you. It can be very |
| me. There is a good reason for much of the lore | | | | lonely to travel such an exciting and adventurous road |
| around eastern philosophies, meditation and psychic | | | | by yourself! So get company. And read, learn and |
| skills, dating back to the earliest Buddhist and Hindu | | | | educate yourself. There are great courses and books, |
| teachings. If you augment your meditation with reading | | | | CD's and so forth which will point you to where you |
| on these and other paranormal phenomena, you will | | | | want to be MUCH faster than trying to learn it all alone. |