I had two back-to-back message circles last week: one Friday evening and another Saturday afternoon. I've gotten kind of cavalier in my approach to conducting these sessions, and I've noticed recently that my performance has been (for me) sub-par. I know my guests are thrilled with the connections we make, but for me lately I've seen fewer tears of joy, heard less astonished laughter, and felt somehow less satisfied at the end of our time together.
Usually I prepare for a circle at my house by saying a rosary, or several decades of it if not the whole entire thing. And when I say, "I say the rosary," I mean I say the Our Fathers and the Hail Marys. I don't know how to do the other parts, the holy mysteries, joys and sorrows. As the process has become more familiar for me and my confidence has grown, I've taken to saying the rosary as I putter around the house putting chairs in place, getting the tissues out, etc. I haven't exactly been on my knees with my attention focused on either one of my Divine Parents.
When I conduct a circle somewhere other than my house I usually say the rosary in the car on the way. I also toss out the standard pleas to the spirit people to show up and be clear with me so I can make the positive connections with their physical people.
Before Friday's session I decided to meditate rather than say the rosary, so I sat in my living room (after all the chairs were set up) and just quieted my mind. I concentrated on my breathing for a moment or two and then let the images, feelings and impressions sort of wash over me. The guests were a bit early, which started my dog barking, which yanked me from my blissful serenity rather more quickly than I prefer to surface. Yet once everyone was settled, I was thrilled to conduct one of the best seances I think I ever have! Such delightful details came through, of the sort that make the spirit people so real, so at home and so present that we're all convinced over and over again of eternity. Poignant gestures, jokes, and apologies flowed so perfectly I think I had a better time than my paying guests. Two hours came and went (there were 9 present) so swiftly that I was reluctant to end the evening.
Afterwards I made an immediate connection between my state of mind and the success the spirit people had in impressing such distinct details on me. It didn't matter that my meditation was cut short, that I'd failed to say my prayers or even to beg the spirit folk to show up loud and clear. I set out to do the same for my Saturday session.
But instead I took a nap. I awoke at 3:35 for a 4PM circle, and had just washed my face when the first car pulled up the drive -- 20 minutes early! Though there were only 4 present, and each guest made a positive and confident connection with a spirit person, I felt so much less successful than just the day before. Why? Because I meditated and cleared my mind just a bit.
There are lots of good books on meditation, but I don't think you need one to get started. I think "clear your mind" just means: when you find your mind wandering off to something you have to do, some memory, etc., just stop thinking about it and go back to thinking about something unprovocative, like your breathing, the ambient sounds around you, or a spot somewhere behind your forehead.
My next circle is Wednesday, and I intend to meditate beforehand; maybe last weekend's experience was just a coincidence, but I don't think so. The contrast was just too obvious. So the next time someone, some book or some guru says "clear your mind," just try it -- I know it made a huge difference in the service I delivered!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
God Gave Us Beer So We Can Be Happy
So it's been more than a month since I last checked in. Honestly, I haven't been doing anything even remotely metaphysical as far as self-development goes. I spent a whole lot of time getting the Putnam Valley First Annual Psychic Fair off the ground, and it was much more successful than I'd dreamed. People even in towns like mine seem much more open than I'd anticipated.
And now that things have settled back down again, I can once again turn my attention back to my favorite subject: me. Well, more like: me and whether or not I'm fulfilling my purpose here on earth.
I had lunch yesterday with a friend from college whom I haven't seen in 25 years. A couple of summers ago we started talking on the phone for the first time since graduation, and that's because I've been doing readings for him; yesterday was a purely social visit so I enjoyed a more balanced exchange of ideas.
Let me preface what I'm about to say with this caveat: I'm not an elitist, at all. If anything I'm probably anti-elitist, coming though I do from a kind of well-heeled New England family with country club memberships and generations of good teeth and robust leisure time. Both of my parents are college-educated; we have always had a summer home; every one of my siblings has a career and married well; favorite Sunday afternoons at home (even now) involve discussing books, invigorating exercise in the fresh air, and cooking, dining and cleaning up together. Yet something about the snobbery associated with that lifestyle (though never existent in my upbringing) was always so off-putting even to me that I sought out friends, work and sweethearts outside of that realm.
Anyway, caveat disclaimed, what I enjoyed most about my lunch with Jude was talking about God, service, politics and life-calling with someone who is smart the way I am. Yeah, yeah, I know. But it was so sweet to be able to talk to someone I didn't have to explain myself to, or provide back-story for! I could look this man in the eye, over a beer at The Slaughtered Lamb in the West Village, and describe a spiritual conflict I was struggling through -- and listen to his thoughtfully weighed responses that had nothing to do with his point of view but which were inherently designed to draw more from me.
I'm reminded of a brief sojourn with Toastmasters years ago; we had to learn to speak extemporaneously (and cogently) on a subject chosen for us -- even if we knew nothing about it. I guess Jude was listening like that: he doesn't really know me, it's been decades since we talked without money being exchanged, and yet the eloquence in his listening and subsequent responses was of the kind that blossoms naturally out of a great liberal arts education.
It's only in the presence of that kind of listener that the speaker (me) finds herself more clearly crafting the question. Posing my life-purpose questions aloud in front of anyone who listens less actively -- insert anti-elitist caveat here again -- doesn't encourage further refinement because the listener doesn't demand more from me.
Before yesterday, I had been asking myself these kind of variations on the same theme:
- what does God want me to do?
- how can I best serve the world?
- am I supposed to write? paint? teach? speak?
- shouldn't I pursue a single path: hypnosis, psychic readings, healing, writing or teaching?
- who am I supposed to be talking to, working with, teaching?
- is it also okay to want to be rich?
...et cetera.
In the 24 hours since my lunch with Jude, my mind has not stopped circling in on the question I really need to be asking myself:
- how can I show the people who are ready to listen that they are free to love themselves the way God loves them?
It's kind of like I just had a really great working lunch with a successful colleague who has helped me refine my mission statement in the business of being Me. By virtue of his particular brand of listening to me, Jude has helped me to define my target audience: those people who are sitting on the fence between "I-got-it-all-figured-out-New-Agers" and "That's-all-woo-woo-bullshit-if-I-can't-see-it-it-ain't-real-ers." I love healthy skeptics! When someone comes to me for a reading, a Message Circle, energy healing or hypnosis and they are unsure if they even believe in what I'm doing -- and they have a positive experience -- they tell everyone. They usually have wide circles of friends and co-workers and they are happy to contrast their skepticism with their positive results to anyone who will listen. Can you imagine a more weighty testimonial? Like Dr. Brian Weiss, the conservative MD who during one of his psychiatric sessions witnessed his patient regress to a past life -- and then wrote about it -- there is no one more believable than a skeptic who takes a risk by broadcasting their own counterintuitive experience.
And it didn't end there with me and Jude. Me, really -- Jude probably has no idea the self-exploration he's triggered. What the refinement of that question has meant for me is a closer understanding of my life purpose. The obvious next steps involve the discovering of "how:"
- I can write about it
- I can bring in through mediumship or channeling the wonderful overarching perspective of the spirit people to help put fears, self-doubts, hopelessness into perspective
- I can minister (teach, speak, heal)
These look like the same questions I asked above don't they? Except now they're not questions, they're actions to take. Now there is no question mark at the end but rather a period, defining work to be done and statements to be made.
It's the last bullet in the list that sings the loudest to me, and I know that God and the spirit people are integral parts of this action, and that the last bullet incorporates the first two.
As I return to my meditation, my cries for help to my guides and to God now follow a thread, because I now have a subject about which I can ask - teach me!
And you can be sure, what I learn (and how I learn it) I'll share with you.
So here's what I would recommend: find someone you went to college with (or high school, trade school, whatever) and tell them what you want to do with your life, or what your challenge is, or where you are lost. Listen closely to how they respond to you, because if you're listening you'll find that their insight will bring you a little closer to what you really mean to say.
A problem defined is already half-solved.
And now that things have settled back down again, I can once again turn my attention back to my favorite subject: me. Well, more like: me and whether or not I'm fulfilling my purpose here on earth.
I had lunch yesterday with a friend from college whom I haven't seen in 25 years. A couple of summers ago we started talking on the phone for the first time since graduation, and that's because I've been doing readings for him; yesterday was a purely social visit so I enjoyed a more balanced exchange of ideas.
Let me preface what I'm about to say with this caveat: I'm not an elitist, at all. If anything I'm probably anti-elitist, coming though I do from a kind of well-heeled New England family with country club memberships and generations of good teeth and robust leisure time. Both of my parents are college-educated; we have always had a summer home; every one of my siblings has a career and married well; favorite Sunday afternoons at home (even now) involve discussing books, invigorating exercise in the fresh air, and cooking, dining and cleaning up together. Yet something about the snobbery associated with that lifestyle (though never existent in my upbringing) was always so off-putting even to me that I sought out friends, work and sweethearts outside of that realm.
Anyway, caveat disclaimed, what I enjoyed most about my lunch with Jude was talking about God, service, politics and life-calling with someone who is smart the way I am. Yeah, yeah, I know. But it was so sweet to be able to talk to someone I didn't have to explain myself to, or provide back-story for! I could look this man in the eye, over a beer at The Slaughtered Lamb in the West Village, and describe a spiritual conflict I was struggling through -- and listen to his thoughtfully weighed responses that had nothing to do with his point of view but which were inherently designed to draw more from me.
I'm reminded of a brief sojourn with Toastmasters years ago; we had to learn to speak extemporaneously (and cogently) on a subject chosen for us -- even if we knew nothing about it. I guess Jude was listening like that: he doesn't really know me, it's been decades since we talked without money being exchanged, and yet the eloquence in his listening and subsequent responses was of the kind that blossoms naturally out of a great liberal arts education.
It's only in the presence of that kind of listener that the speaker (me) finds herself more clearly crafting the question. Posing my life-purpose questions aloud in front of anyone who listens less actively -- insert anti-elitist caveat here again -- doesn't encourage further refinement because the listener doesn't demand more from me.
Before yesterday, I had been asking myself these kind of variations on the same theme:
- what does God want me to do?
- how can I best serve the world?
- am I supposed to write? paint? teach? speak?
- shouldn't I pursue a single path: hypnosis, psychic readings, healing, writing or teaching?
- who am I supposed to be talking to, working with, teaching?
- is it also okay to want to be rich?
...et cetera.
In the 24 hours since my lunch with Jude, my mind has not stopped circling in on the question I really need to be asking myself:
- how can I show the people who are ready to listen that they are free to love themselves the way God loves them?
It's kind of like I just had a really great working lunch with a successful colleague who has helped me refine my mission statement in the business of being Me. By virtue of his particular brand of listening to me, Jude has helped me to define my target audience: those people who are sitting on the fence between "I-got-it-all-figured-out-New-Agers" and "That's-all-woo-woo-bullshit-if-I-can't-see-it-it-ain't-real-ers." I love healthy skeptics! When someone comes to me for a reading, a Message Circle, energy healing or hypnosis and they are unsure if they even believe in what I'm doing -- and they have a positive experience -- they tell everyone. They usually have wide circles of friends and co-workers and they are happy to contrast their skepticism with their positive results to anyone who will listen. Can you imagine a more weighty testimonial? Like Dr. Brian Weiss, the conservative MD who during one of his psychiatric sessions witnessed his patient regress to a past life -- and then wrote about it -- there is no one more believable than a skeptic who takes a risk by broadcasting their own counterintuitive experience.
And it didn't end there with me and Jude. Me, really -- Jude probably has no idea the self-exploration he's triggered. What the refinement of that question has meant for me is a closer understanding of my life purpose. The obvious next steps involve the discovering of "how:"
- I can write about it
- I can bring in through mediumship or channeling the wonderful overarching perspective of the spirit people to help put fears, self-doubts, hopelessness into perspective
- I can minister (teach, speak, heal)
These look like the same questions I asked above don't they? Except now they're not questions, they're actions to take. Now there is no question mark at the end but rather a period, defining work to be done and statements to be made.
It's the last bullet in the list that sings the loudest to me, and I know that God and the spirit people are integral parts of this action, and that the last bullet incorporates the first two.
As I return to my meditation, my cries for help to my guides and to God now follow a thread, because I now have a subject about which I can ask - teach me!
And you can be sure, what I learn (and how I learn it) I'll share with you.
So here's what I would recommend: find someone you went to college with (or high school, trade school, whatever) and tell them what you want to do with your life, or what your challenge is, or where you are lost. Listen closely to how they respond to you, because if you're listening you'll find that their insight will bring you a little closer to what you really mean to say.
A problem defined is already half-solved.
Friday, October 15, 2010
September Predictions
Here's how I did with my September predictions:
Something of George Washington's or some new discovery about George Washington will surface. A letter by or a painting of him that hasn't been known about will come to light from a private individual.
Well, not exactly on target with this one. The only thing I could discover "new" that came to light about George Washington was a new biography that was published on September 30, 2010, by Ron Chernow called "Washington, A Life." The New York Times reviews the book here.
A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat.
A listener on my radio show directed me to this link, confirming the find: http://apracticalpsychic.blogspot.com/2010/09/dinosaur-prediction-is-accurate.html
A royal family in one of the Scandanavian countries -- I feel it is Norway -- will be making an announcement that is a cause for celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. It will bring the royal family back into the public in an adoring or romantic kind of way.
I'd have to say I got this one dead wrong. I did find something like a wedding in Sweden, where the crown prince Carl Philip moved in with his girlfriend on September . The link to that story is here.
However, what's more interesting is the princess Martha Louise of Norway has announced that she can talk to the dead and to angels, and as a result many citizens feel she is unfit to rule. The bishops actually came out against her. You go girl! That story is here.
A species of bat will either go extinct (the last one in captivity) or a bat from a species that was thought extinct will re-emerge.
Technically I got this one right.. IF I'd said that the species will emerge in a place where it was never seen before. A kind of bat was found in Somerset, UK, where there has never been a confirmed sighting of this type of bat before. A quote towards the end of the article says "There were no previous records of this type of bat here and it is great to have an extra species to add to the Somerset list." Read the whole September 2010 story here.
Reverend Sun Yung Moon and/or his church will be in the news this month because of a very large gathering or a group wedding.
Looks like this happened October 10, 2010, not September. There was a very large gathering for the Unification Youth in New Jersey in September. Also, Rev. Moon regained control by buying back the Washington Times. Not sure these predictions were specific enough; I was on about the wedding but got the month wrong.
A cross on a church in the south of the United States will burn or topple. I feel this is metaphorical rather than literal.
Although apparently it's literal. A cross at a church in George was burned, but appears to be accidental.
A very bad storm will hit the New England coast at the end of September, causing a great deal of damage to homes especially on the Connecticut coast.
Did okay with this one. Tropical storm Nicole hit the coast with torrential rain and 60 mph winds on September 30th. Connecticut Light & Power which provides power to most of the state, had 4,538 customers in the dark at 10 p.m., including 85 in Greenwich and 258 in Stamford. Though this may not be the storm I foresaw, because the one I saw was truly damaging. Hopefully I'm wrong on this one, and Nicole was the storm I was seeing.
I'm not sure predictions are my strong suit. It's hard for me to cast around out there in the ether to find something, though I probably did better than chance. But who knows if this information is something I had subconsciously stored away -- for instance, maybe somewhere, on some level of my mind, I knew that Rev. Moon always has huge group weddings at this time of year? I don't know whether what I'm doing is really predicting or not. Clearly some, like the dinosaur find, are pretty on-target; but is the chance that I came up with that the same as the odds are that I would?
I'm going to pursue predicting for a while longer, to see if I can satisfy my own curiosity about it. Don't know that I see the relevance of it, at least in the sort of things I've been "predicting" so far. Where it would really be helpful is in predicting terrorist attacks or assassination attempts, that sort of thing. But God help me if I start predicting that stuff, because I'll probably get arrested. I'm not even sure I want to be a doomsday predictor.
What a drag it must have been to have Nostradamus at a party. I so don't want to be that guy.
Something of George Washington's or some new discovery about George Washington will surface. A letter by or a painting of him that hasn't been known about will come to light from a private individual.
Well, not exactly on target with this one. The only thing I could discover "new" that came to light about George Washington was a new biography that was published on September 30, 2010, by Ron Chernow called "Washington, A Life." The New York Times reviews the book here.
A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat.
A listener on my radio show directed me to this link, confirming the find: http://apracticalpsychic.blogspot.com/2010/09/dinosaur-prediction-is-accurate.html
A royal family in one of the Scandanavian countries -- I feel it is Norway -- will be making an announcement that is a cause for celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. It will bring the royal family back into the public in an adoring or romantic kind of way.
I'd have to say I got this one dead wrong. I did find something like a wedding in Sweden, where the crown prince Carl Philip moved in with his girlfriend on September . The link to that story is here.
However, what's more interesting is the princess Martha Louise of Norway has announced that she can talk to the dead and to angels, and as a result many citizens feel she is unfit to rule. The bishops actually came out against her. You go girl! That story is here.
A species of bat will either go extinct (the last one in captivity) or a bat from a species that was thought extinct will re-emerge.
Technically I got this one right.. IF I'd said that the species will emerge in a place where it was never seen before. A kind of bat was found in Somerset, UK, where there has never been a confirmed sighting of this type of bat before. A quote towards the end of the article says "There were no previous records of this type of bat here and it is great to have an extra species to add to the Somerset list." Read the whole September 2010 story here.
Reverend Sun Yung Moon and/or his church will be in the news this month because of a very large gathering or a group wedding.
Looks like this happened October 10, 2010, not September. There was a very large gathering for the Unification Youth in New Jersey in September. Also, Rev. Moon regained control by buying back the Washington Times. Not sure these predictions were specific enough; I was on about the wedding but got the month wrong.
A cross on a church in the south of the United States will burn or topple. I feel this is metaphorical rather than literal.
Although apparently it's literal. A cross at a church in George was burned, but appears to be accidental.
A very bad storm will hit the New England coast at the end of September, causing a great deal of damage to homes especially on the Connecticut coast.
Did okay with this one. Tropical storm Nicole hit the coast with torrential rain and 60 mph winds on September 30th. Connecticut Light & Power which provides power to most of the state, had 4,538 customers in the dark at 10 p.m., including 85 in Greenwich and 258 in Stamford. Though this may not be the storm I foresaw, because the one I saw was truly damaging. Hopefully I'm wrong on this one, and Nicole was the storm I was seeing.
I'm not sure predictions are my strong suit. It's hard for me to cast around out there in the ether to find something, though I probably did better than chance. But who knows if this information is something I had subconsciously stored away -- for instance, maybe somewhere, on some level of my mind, I knew that Rev. Moon always has huge group weddings at this time of year? I don't know whether what I'm doing is really predicting or not. Clearly some, like the dinosaur find, are pretty on-target; but is the chance that I came up with that the same as the odds are that I would?
I'm going to pursue predicting for a while longer, to see if I can satisfy my own curiosity about it. Don't know that I see the relevance of it, at least in the sort of things I've been "predicting" so far. Where it would really be helpful is in predicting terrorist attacks or assassination attempts, that sort of thing. But God help me if I start predicting that stuff, because I'll probably get arrested. I'm not even sure I want to be a doomsday predictor.
What a drag it must have been to have Nostradamus at a party. I so don't want to be that guy.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Dinosaur Prediction Is Accurate!
A listener on my live Tuesday night radio show (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/APracticalPsychic) sent me an email a couple of days ago to let you me that she'd just seen an article about a new dinosaur species discovered in Utah. Here is the link to the article she referenced:
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/bizarre-new-dinosaur-species-found-in-utah/19644271?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C172219
Here's a short quote from the article, posted online September 22, 2010:
"The new species "would've both been quite spectacular," Michael Getty of the Utah Museum of Natural History, who spotted the first Utahceratops, told AOL News. And quite big: "The skulls alone can be in excess of 6 feet long, [among] the largest heads on any land animal that ever lived," he said.
"...Today these horned dinosaurs would quickly starve in their once-lush homeland. The bone yards that yielded the fossils lie in what is now the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, an isolated, rocky desert granted strict federal protection in 1996."
So what was correct about my predictions and this find? Let's see. I predicted:
"A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat."
Well, for starters the general concept was on target. What was discovered was indeed a new kind of dinosaur, not just more bones of an already-catalogued species. So that's one check in the positive column. However, while it was indeed large, the Utahceratops was a plant eater. I got the size right, but the nature of the beast incorrect. When I was interpreting this impression I was noticing mostly the size of it, comparing it to something giant like T-Rex -- but I extrapolated to give it more in common with the carnivore and should have left my prediction with the size. Clearly I need to focus on more detail when I'm making predictions. What about the landscape? I just Googled this area of Utah for a description of the environment:
"...one of the most formidable chunks of intact wilderness left in the continental United States, the tortured topography of escarpments and high-desert canyon lands now known as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."
(excerpted from http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-65540682/high-dry-grand-staircase.html)
Those of you reading this who are practicing predictions keep this in mind:
Be careful to note when you may be extrapolating. Just because you get a T-Rex skull in your impression, don't automatically leap to further conclusions than are being offered. What I'm going to do next time is ask some questions regarding the impression, such as: "is it the size that I'm being shown?" and "is it carnivorous or vegetarian?" etc. Not of course that I'm going to be getting more dinosaur predictions, but with other impressions for October's predictions.
Thanks to Karen for sending this link to me!
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/bizarre-new-dinosaur-species-found-in-utah/19644271?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C172219
Here's a short quote from the article, posted online September 22, 2010:
"The new species "would've both been quite spectacular," Michael Getty of the Utah Museum of Natural History, who spotted the first Utahceratops, told AOL News. And quite big: "The skulls alone can be in excess of 6 feet long, [among] the largest heads on any land animal that ever lived," he said.
"...Today these horned dinosaurs would quickly starve in their once-lush homeland. The bone yards that yielded the fossils lie in what is now the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, an isolated, rocky desert granted strict federal protection in 1996."
So what was correct about my predictions and this find? Let's see. I predicted:
"A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat."
Well, for starters the general concept was on target. What was discovered was indeed a new kind of dinosaur, not just more bones of an already-catalogued species. So that's one check in the positive column. However, while it was indeed large, the Utahceratops was a plant eater. I got the size right, but the nature of the beast incorrect. When I was interpreting this impression I was noticing mostly the size of it, comparing it to something giant like T-Rex -- but I extrapolated to give it more in common with the carnivore and should have left my prediction with the size. Clearly I need to focus on more detail when I'm making predictions. What about the landscape? I just Googled this area of Utah for a description of the environment:
"...one of the most formidable chunks of intact wilderness left in the continental United States, the tortured topography of escarpments and high-desert canyon lands now known as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."
(excerpted from http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-65540682/high-dry-grand-staircase.html)
Those of you reading this who are practicing predictions keep this in mind:
Be careful to note when you may be extrapolating. Just because you get a T-Rex skull in your impression, don't automatically leap to further conclusions than are being offered. What I'm going to do next time is ask some questions regarding the impression, such as: "is it the size that I'm being shown?" and "is it carnivorous or vegetarian?" etc. Not of course that I'm going to be getting more dinosaur predictions, but with other impressions for October's predictions.
Thanks to Karen for sending this link to me!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Predicting The Future
Many people ask me about predictions, and because I have little experience in this area (and because I can never turn down a challenge) I thought to myself: I can do that.
I mean really, how hard can it be? I already make individual "predictions" for my clients -- what's so different about doing it for the world in general?
My friends suggested I try it in the privacy of my own living room first, but I know that people who follow this blog want to know what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. I don't make any secret of the fact that psychic ability is a skill, not a magic gift, whose challenges I have to hide from the public so everyone thinks I was just born knowing this stuff.
So I posted my first set of predictions on my website (and forgot to post them here -- maybe in some way I AM nervous about putting myself out there!)
It wasn't very comfortable getting to the predictions because I felt like a damn idiot sitting in my meditation on my couch and casting around for things. Predicting is HARD! Without anything in particular to focus on, I had no idea whether what was coming into my head was just shit I was making up or I was really dipping into the likely future of the planet.
And let me tell you, there are a LOT of subjects out there to predict. My conscious mind got all in the way, because while I was waiting for information (well, you tell me!) I was thinking, "Maybe I should think about a country. What about Spain? What's going to happen in Spain this week?" And I got... nothin'.
Okay, so Spain will just be business as usual. And so it went. The environment? The economy? Do I really need to be a psychic to predict which way those things are going?
I knew I wanted to stay away from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; I wanted to stay away from tsunamis and mega-volcanoes and genocide. I guess I want emotionally-neutral predictions to start with. And God forbid I make a prediction that is negative regarding the United States or the President -- I'll be in Gitmo with every other suspected terrorist.
So I finally took my own advice and just went with what was coming to me. Here were my predictions for the week of 8/22/10:
1. Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
2. A solar flare or a super nova event
3. The passing of a Latin American leader
4. A very severe storm affecting the coast of Connecticut at the end of September (this one doesn't really count. I made this prediction in 2005 but since it's a pretty sure thing in my mind I threw it in so I wouldn't be a total failure if nothing else happened).
1. Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
September 02, 2010|By Richard Fausset and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, Gerald Herbert / Associated Press: Reporting from Atlanta and Los Angeles — The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday's fire on an oil production facility 100 miles off the Louisiana coast appears to have ended without disaster. None of the 13 workers on board the platform was injured. The Coast Guard found no evidence of an oil leak, and by Thursday afternoon the fire was out.
-- I can see I have to work a little more on getting the timing down, as I was one week late with this prediction --
2. A solar flare or a super nova event
URORA AUSTRALIS: Earth is exiting a solar wind stream that has been causing bright auroras around the poles--both poles. "The tail end of the solar wind stream produced a nice outburst on Aug. 27th," says Zupanc. "Despite having to contend with a nearly full Moon, the auroras were easy to see."
-- Not exactly on target, but close. I need to be more specific with my predictions --
3. The passing of a Latin American leader
Mexican authorities announced on Friday (8/28) that six police officers had been arrested on suspicion of participation in the kidnap and murder of Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of the town of Santiago in the north-eastern state of Nuevo León. Some of the officers are accused of having kept watch to ensure no other law enforcement officials witnessed the kidnap, which took place at Cavazos’ home on Sunday evening, while others are accused of direct participation in the crime. Among those detained are individuals who had been on duty guarding the mayor’s house at the time of his kidnapping, and all six arrestees have confessed their guilt. Cavazos was found dead on a rural stretch of highway three days after being sequestered. At least four other people are suspected of involvement in the crime.
-- Close, but not specific enough; I need to offer more details -- for instance, I need to say the leader was murdered, not just "passed." --
4. A very severe storm affecting the coast of Connecticut at the end of September.
-- Stay tuned. And if you live in Connecticut, bring in your lawn furniture. I'm not kidding! --
Not bad overall, but I can see that I need to be more specific, more confident, and more timely. I decided instead of weekly, I'm going to make monthly predictions. Instead of just sitting on my meditation couch, I decided to take a page from Edgar Cayce's book and recline, go into a "sleep" and just start talking. I don't have a faithful secretary to record my words, so I held onto my little MP3 recorder.
I won't lie to you, I still felt silly, and I'm not sure I reached any deeper trance than I had before. But I counted UP instead of down, so that I would feel in my imagination that I was ascending to a place where I would have an overview of things. I asked for my guides to meet me there -- the Gentleman did but I didn't recognize anyone else -- and then I just said, show me what I should share to develop this skill and to help people who want to do the same. Ideas came to me and I spoke out loud into my recorder. The ideas were not profound, not brilliant, not "different" feeling than other thoughts, but I know enough to say them if they pop into my awareness.
So here are my predictions for the month of September, 2010:
1. Something of George Washington's or some new discovery about George Washington will surface. A letter by or a painting of him that hasn't been known about will come to light from a private individual.
2. A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat.
3. A royal family in one of the Scandanavian countries -- I feel it is Norway -- will be making an announcement that is a cause for celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. It will bring the royal family back into the public in an adoring or romantic kind of way.
4. A species of bat will either go extinct (the last one in captivity) or a bat from a species that was thought extinct will re-emerge.
5. A native community in southern Alaska or northern Washington will come into the public eye over a territory dispute with the U.S. Government. Something like a totem pole will be at the center of this dispute or will represent the cause of the native people.
6. Reverend Sun Yung Moon and/or his church will be in the news this month because of a very large gathering or a group wedding.
7. A cross on a church in the south of the United States will burn or topple. I feel this is metaphorical rather than literal.
8. A very bad storm will hit the New England coast at the end of September, causing a great deal of damage to homes especially on the Connecticut coast.
I know I don't mention specific dates, but that's a refinement I choose to develop after I get the skill itself down. I believe that may be of more value than something like, say, "I feel that on September 28th something very exciting will happen in the US." I'd rather get the "something exciting" correct and work on specific dates later.
What do you think?
I mean really, how hard can it be? I already make individual "predictions" for my clients -- what's so different about doing it for the world in general?
My friends suggested I try it in the privacy of my own living room first, but I know that people who follow this blog want to know what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. I don't make any secret of the fact that psychic ability is a skill, not a magic gift, whose challenges I have to hide from the public so everyone thinks I was just born knowing this stuff.
So I posted my first set of predictions on my website (and forgot to post them here -- maybe in some way I AM nervous about putting myself out there!)
It wasn't very comfortable getting to the predictions because I felt like a damn idiot sitting in my meditation on my couch and casting around for things. Predicting is HARD! Without anything in particular to focus on, I had no idea whether what was coming into my head was just shit I was making up or I was really dipping into the likely future of the planet.
And let me tell you, there are a LOT of subjects out there to predict. My conscious mind got all in the way, because while I was waiting for information (well, you tell me!) I was thinking, "Maybe I should think about a country. What about Spain? What's going to happen in Spain this week?" And I got... nothin'.
Okay, so Spain will just be business as usual. And so it went. The environment? The economy? Do I really need to be a psychic to predict which way those things are going?
I knew I wanted to stay away from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; I wanted to stay away from tsunamis and mega-volcanoes and genocide. I guess I want emotionally-neutral predictions to start with. And God forbid I make a prediction that is negative regarding the United States or the President -- I'll be in Gitmo with every other suspected terrorist.
So I finally took my own advice and just went with what was coming to me. Here were my predictions for the week of 8/22/10:
1. Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
2. A solar flare or a super nova event
3. The passing of a Latin American leader
4. A very severe storm affecting the coast of Connecticut at the end of September (this one doesn't really count. I made this prediction in 2005 but since it's a pretty sure thing in my mind I threw it in so I wouldn't be a total failure if nothing else happened).
1. Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
September 02, 2010|By Richard Fausset and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, Gerald Herbert / Associated Press: Reporting from Atlanta and Los Angeles — The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday's fire on an oil production facility 100 miles off the Louisiana coast appears to have ended without disaster. None of the 13 workers on board the platform was injured. The Coast Guard found no evidence of an oil leak, and by Thursday afternoon the fire was out.
-- I can see I have to work a little more on getting the timing down, as I was one week late with this prediction --
2. A solar flare or a super nova event
URORA AUSTRALIS: Earth is exiting a solar wind stream that has been causing bright auroras around the poles--both poles. "The tail end of the solar wind stream produced a nice outburst on Aug. 27th," says Zupanc. "Despite having to contend with a nearly full Moon, the auroras were easy to see."
-- Not exactly on target, but close. I need to be more specific with my predictions --
3. The passing of a Latin American leader
Mexican authorities announced on Friday (8/28) that six police officers had been arrested on suspicion of participation in the kidnap and murder of Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of the town of Santiago in the north-eastern state of Nuevo León. Some of the officers are accused of having kept watch to ensure no other law enforcement officials witnessed the kidnap, which took place at Cavazos’ home on Sunday evening, while others are accused of direct participation in the crime. Among those detained are individuals who had been on duty guarding the mayor’s house at the time of his kidnapping, and all six arrestees have confessed their guilt. Cavazos was found dead on a rural stretch of highway three days after being sequestered. At least four other people are suspected of involvement in the crime.
-- Close, but not specific enough; I need to offer more details -- for instance, I need to say the leader was murdered, not just "passed." --
4. A very severe storm affecting the coast of Connecticut at the end of September.
-- Stay tuned. And if you live in Connecticut, bring in your lawn furniture. I'm not kidding! --
Not bad overall, but I can see that I need to be more specific, more confident, and more timely. I decided instead of weekly, I'm going to make monthly predictions. Instead of just sitting on my meditation couch, I decided to take a page from Edgar Cayce's book and recline, go into a "sleep" and just start talking. I don't have a faithful secretary to record my words, so I held onto my little MP3 recorder.
I won't lie to you, I still felt silly, and I'm not sure I reached any deeper trance than I had before. But I counted UP instead of down, so that I would feel in my imagination that I was ascending to a place where I would have an overview of things. I asked for my guides to meet me there -- the Gentleman did but I didn't recognize anyone else -- and then I just said, show me what I should share to develop this skill and to help people who want to do the same. Ideas came to me and I spoke out loud into my recorder. The ideas were not profound, not brilliant, not "different" feeling than other thoughts, but I know enough to say them if they pop into my awareness.
So here are my predictions for the month of September, 2010:
1. Something of George Washington's or some new discovery about George Washington will surface. A letter by or a painting of him that hasn't been known about will come to light from a private individual.
2. A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat.
3. A royal family in one of the Scandanavian countries -- I feel it is Norway -- will be making an announcement that is a cause for celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. It will bring the royal family back into the public in an adoring or romantic kind of way.
4. A species of bat will either go extinct (the last one in captivity) or a bat from a species that was thought extinct will re-emerge.
5. A native community in southern Alaska or northern Washington will come into the public eye over a territory dispute with the U.S. Government. Something like a totem pole will be at the center of this dispute or will represent the cause of the native people.
6. Reverend Sun Yung Moon and/or his church will be in the news this month because of a very large gathering or a group wedding.
7. A cross on a church in the south of the United States will burn or topple. I feel this is metaphorical rather than literal.
8. A very bad storm will hit the New England coast at the end of September, causing a great deal of damage to homes especially on the Connecticut coast.
I know I don't mention specific dates, but that's a refinement I choose to develop after I get the skill itself down. I believe that may be of more value than something like, say, "I feel that on September 28th something very exciting will happen in the US." I'd rather get the "something exciting" correct and work on specific dates later.
What do you think?
Monday, August 23, 2010
Highlight from 8/17/10 Radio Show
Listen to this short clip (3:46) to hear Diane's mom and stepfather come through on my radio show A Practical Psychic (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/apracticalpsychic).
On The Verge of Something
I'm just not sure what it is.
Friday I was sitting across from my client in my office, chatting before our session. As she was speaking, I had the strangest sensation that I was about to go out, and by that I mean go out of my body permanently. I felt like I was going to die.
I didn't feel any pain, or the onset of any fatal trigger in my organic body, I just had this amazing awareness that if I chose to, I could at that very moment step out of my physical existence and totally into spirit. It seemed like a part of my mind was also witnessing this instant of choice too, like I could see my chin fall to my chest and my eyes close, and could see my client's reaction. I stayed, obviously; maybe the choice wasn't really mine to make, but more illustrative of the power my higher mind could exercise. It was a funny feeling, not alarming exactly, but kind of awe-ful, and I felt a distinct curiosity along with quite a desire to follow through with it.
Since then I haven't really felt quite right. It's Monday morning now, and for the last three nights I have hardly slept at all. It seems I wake up every hour or even more frequently than that. Last night during one of these waking moments I felt like I could go out again, right then. Physically I feel very odd, kind of like my mind is splintered from my body. I feel in myself and like I'm observing myself at the same time. The part that is observing me has a distinct lack of emotion about these sensations and the idea of going out and while that freaks me out a little it's also rather comforting. If a wiser part of me thinks it's no big deal, who am I to argue?
My heart feels funny, as do my throat and my head, and I'm not talking about a physical funny feeling but the impression of a funny feeling. The pup I'm raising hasn't slept either. Last night he was moving around what seemed like every 30 seconds, and he's doing the same thing this morning. Something is really agitating him, but my animal communication skills have never been much good (no practice) so I can't say what's going on with him. With me though, I just feel somehow out of sync, or out of phase with the frequency of normal life now. I've got an itchy feeling to get moving already! though I have no idea what that means.
I remember a year or so after the September 11 attacks there was a blackout in the city (of New York) where I was working at the time for Hunter College. Since 2001 the College had an evacuation plan that meant if you worked in a certain area of the building you should meet at a certain corner a block or two away in the event of anything truly disruptive; it was simply a way to account for all the employees. So when the blackout came in the late afternoon and we all began to grasp the magnitude of it, the employees began to make their way from the buildings. As I walked to my designated meet-up place (the northeast corner of 69th and Park Avenue) I had my eyes on the sky like every other city resident who had seen our towers fall.
What stands out most about my state of mind on that afternoon was a kind of stunned sense of waiting. I was moving but wasn't really aware of walking; I had the sense of walking and watching myself walk at the same time, all the while waiting for what we were all sure was coming. Just a detached, unemotional brand of waiting, which is what I was feeling with my client on Friday and last night on the edge of sleep.
In my meditation this morning I felt the urge to write, so this is what came out when I picked up a pen:
"Either way I go, there will you go too.
The pope, the pope whose ear has turned to the World
closes shut like a clam shell, the pearl still inside.
In Span a ring is given and a proposal made
and a famous Scout has a cancer.
Cannons shout a plane from the sky and Taps is played
for a well-know black man."
What? My thoughts exactly. Who am I channeling now, Nostradamus? But wait, there's more. This week I've written to expect:
- Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
- A solar flare or super nova event
- The passing of a Latin American leader
Maybe I'm channeling predictions now, like the great Jeanne Dixon. God forbid I get anything about an American leader -- I'll likely be accused of meddling in a terrorist plot; I'd be accused of provoking that bland waiting which would be just too ironic.
Friday I was sitting across from my client in my office, chatting before our session. As she was speaking, I had the strangest sensation that I was about to go out, and by that I mean go out of my body permanently. I felt like I was going to die.
I didn't feel any pain, or the onset of any fatal trigger in my organic body, I just had this amazing awareness that if I chose to, I could at that very moment step out of my physical existence and totally into spirit. It seemed like a part of my mind was also witnessing this instant of choice too, like I could see my chin fall to my chest and my eyes close, and could see my client's reaction. I stayed, obviously; maybe the choice wasn't really mine to make, but more illustrative of the power my higher mind could exercise. It was a funny feeling, not alarming exactly, but kind of awe-ful, and I felt a distinct curiosity along with quite a desire to follow through with it.
Since then I haven't really felt quite right. It's Monday morning now, and for the last three nights I have hardly slept at all. It seems I wake up every hour or even more frequently than that. Last night during one of these waking moments I felt like I could go out again, right then. Physically I feel very odd, kind of like my mind is splintered from my body. I feel in myself and like I'm observing myself at the same time. The part that is observing me has a distinct lack of emotion about these sensations and the idea of going out and while that freaks me out a little it's also rather comforting. If a wiser part of me thinks it's no big deal, who am I to argue?
My heart feels funny, as do my throat and my head, and I'm not talking about a physical funny feeling but the impression of a funny feeling. The pup I'm raising hasn't slept either. Last night he was moving around what seemed like every 30 seconds, and he's doing the same thing this morning. Something is really agitating him, but my animal communication skills have never been much good (no practice) so I can't say what's going on with him. With me though, I just feel somehow out of sync, or out of phase with the frequency of normal life now. I've got an itchy feeling to get moving already! though I have no idea what that means.
I remember a year or so after the September 11 attacks there was a blackout in the city (of New York) where I was working at the time for Hunter College. Since 2001 the College had an evacuation plan that meant if you worked in a certain area of the building you should meet at a certain corner a block or two away in the event of anything truly disruptive; it was simply a way to account for all the employees. So when the blackout came in the late afternoon and we all began to grasp the magnitude of it, the employees began to make their way from the buildings. As I walked to my designated meet-up place (the northeast corner of 69th and Park Avenue) I had my eyes on the sky like every other city resident who had seen our towers fall.
What stands out most about my state of mind on that afternoon was a kind of stunned sense of waiting. I was moving but wasn't really aware of walking; I had the sense of walking and watching myself walk at the same time, all the while waiting for what we were all sure was coming. Just a detached, unemotional brand of waiting, which is what I was feeling with my client on Friday and last night on the edge of sleep.
In my meditation this morning I felt the urge to write, so this is what came out when I picked up a pen:
"Either way I go, there will you go too.
The pope, the pope whose ear has turned to the World
closes shut like a clam shell, the pearl still inside.
In Span a ring is given and a proposal made
and a famous Scout has a cancer.
Cannons shout a plane from the sky and Taps is played
for a well-know black man."
What? My thoughts exactly. Who am I channeling now, Nostradamus? But wait, there's more. This week I've written to expect:
- Fire on an oil rig in the Gulf
- A solar flare or super nova event
- The passing of a Latin American leader
Maybe I'm channeling predictions now, like the great Jeanne Dixon. God forbid I get anything about an American leader -- I'll likely be accused of meddling in a terrorist plot; I'd be accused of provoking that bland waiting which would be just too ironic.
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