Your Psychic Sixth Sense
Go With Your Gut
I’ve sometimes wondered how people who are blind are able to live their lives to the fullest, which is a stupid question. I mean, of course, they live their lives. They are alive, aren’t they? As far as their lives being lived to the fullest extent they can be lived, that’s a question you could ask of anybody sighted or not. Any little thing could hold anybody back from achieving their potential.
We tend to applaud and clap for blind people who rise above the average to sing or play musical instruments. Lots of sighted folk do that, too, but the sighted folk have the advantage over a sight-impaired person any day. Right?
When a person loses one of their five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, the remaining senses get sharper. So, if your sight is gone, then perhaps your hearing gets better. You are more attuned to the sounds around you. It was pointed out to me once that blind people walking alongside a building are able to feel when they get to the corner. The airflow is greater, and they notice it. Would I notice that? No. I’m watching for the corner of the building and looking ahead to the intersection or the driveway I’m about to cross. All that a sighted person deals with.
Then, my question becomes, is the blind person to be pitied? I don’t think so. If they are given enough to think about and the opportunity to express themselves, nobody should be pitied. Determination in any person can take you anywhere you want to go.
The reason why I’m talking about something pretty much anybody can relate to is that there is a sixth sense that everybody has, but either doesn’t notice or thinks it does not apply to them. Maybe they think they weren’t standing in line when God was handing out the sixth sense and missed out.
Nope, everybody has it. The thing is that the sixth sense can manifest in many different forms. Also, it can be developed just as any of your other senses can be developed.
I know this because my sixth sense was developed by me. No fairy godmother swooped in on me to wave her wand and grant me this extra sense. We are all born with it.
The problem is, I think that through the ages, it was either revered or feared. It is a psychic sense. It is ESP, extra sensory perception. Churches and governments have railed against it, so popular opinion, even now, is that it should be avoided. This is for folks who believe in God and Satan. Suppose you have one; you pretty much need to have the other. It’s a choice, right?
Bad and good. Up and down. On or off. Opposites. Everything is the opposite of something else. Employed or out of work. Shiftless bum or upright citizen. Psychic or not psychic.
Well, not true. Everybody can be both good and bad at times. It is human nature. We would hope the good stuff outweighs the bad stuff, but that, too, can be studied and discussed. Sometimes, bad guys are good, and good guys can be bad. It’s a conundrum.
So, this business with the sixth sense and how to develop it?
You should recognize, or at least pretend, that you can develop it. Then, you make a conscious decision that is what you are going to do. What I would not do in the beginning is to tell anybody what you are doing.
It’s like going on a diet and telling everyone about it, thinking that will hold you accountable. What it does is annoy you, as everybody you know is now going to have something to say about it. “How much did you lose last week? Why aren’t you running? Did you cut down on carbs? I think you’re cheating and might not realize it. Why didn’t you ask your doctor’s permission?” And, on it goes.
So, the second guideline to follow would be just to do it and don’t tell anybody.
Now, what do you do? I went with my usual technique, which was to follow my nose. I’d pick a direction and go there. What I discovered was something I only realized in retrospect. When you make a decision like that, the universe will begin putting the stuff you might consider in front of your face.
It’s like when you want to buy a new car but are not sure what you want to buy. Then, after having thought about it, you made your decision. “I want to buy a small red hatchback.” Suddenly, that’s what you are seeing. It’s pretty amazing. It is not that there is actually a preponderance of red cars on the road. It is that you are now noticing them because they are on your mind.
So, the opportunities to learn about how to be psychic are going to start popping up around you. They were always there, but all you had to do was to tweak your mind into thinking about them.
Are they good or not? Fuck. Just go with it. This is why you don’t want to tell anybody about what you are doing. Because they are going to have opinions on it, and people with opinions generally want to rain on your parade. You don’t need that. It’s hard enough, anyway. So, just stay out of their way.
You are smart enough to decide whether or not to pursue something.
Another thing you need to do right from the start is to promise yourself that you will try to be the best psychic you can be. The thing that happens when you do all this work is that you are going to be doing the most intensely personal, emotional work of your lifetime. There will be lots of adjusting and changes ahead, and you are going to need the support of some form of psychiatric therapy. I don’t care how well-balanced you think you are now; the shit is about to hit the fan. Be ready for it.
I am one of the most fraidy cat people on the face of the earth, and yet, in that regard? I was fearless. I also didn’t die. A demon didn’t possess me.
Besides, who doesn’t stub their toe and fall down when they are learning to walk? So what? You get up and keep trying.
What you can run into at some point are people who make you afraid. I had the opportunity to meet somebody who smelled of stalker early on. There were also a lot of really scary nightmares involved. Why? Who knows? Was it him, or was it a stray piece of night buzz specter that thought they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put the fear of God in somebody? I don’t know. I think it was a combination.
He hasn’t bothered me in years, but it was scary at the time. I survived. Do you know what I learned from that experience? I learned that I could say no. I learned I could ignore bullies. I learned there could be bad energy out there and for me to stop leaning out of the figurative window with no shirt on, calling out to the universe, “Here I am. Come and get me.” That moment led me to read a book called Soul-Centered Healing by Thomas Zinser. I recommend it. This is a book that can help anybody no matter what they are trying to do.
Anyway, the things I did during the years it took me to finally learn to channel: I bought a piano and tried to learn how to play it. I never did learn, but it proved to be a huge help to me in releasing angst and sensing stuff. What stuff? I still don’t know. All I know is it was a necessary step for me.
I learned how to draw. Again, an exercise on drawing on different parts of my brain, getting that right side to start moving its feet.
I read Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, which introduced me to my critical self and gave it a voice. In retrospect, I believe I was channeling.
I did a course on being successful with Tony Robbins. It lasted a month and was on cassette tapes it was so long ago. The after-effects for me were incredible. Yes, I did become a powerhouse of a writer and personal explorer. What was really interesting was the fall into depression after that success — my first experience with psychotherapy. I don’t blame Tony for any of it. In fact, now I can see it all went according to plan, and I needed to experience the whole thing.
I wrote a book that is unpublished. I experienced the story, and the characters come to life. Also, a bit of channeling was involved, though I did not realize it at the time.
I read Stephen LaBerge’s book Lucid Dreaming. One of my first lucid dreams was hugging my mother, who was dead at the time. It wasn’t a normal dream. I realized it at the time that I had just had a visit with my mother.
I read Creating Money, not to do anything psychic, but to create money. It worked. Through that book, I finally read the first book on how to channel, which was Opening to Channel. Both of these books are by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer.
Do you see a theme here? I read a lot of books.
Then, I started going to psychics to see what they had to say. In those days, with the exception of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, there were no courses. Now? Lots and lots of courses. All are valid. By the way, I stopped in at BPI after I’d learned how to channel. The lady told me, “Oh, you can’t channel for the first five years here.” I said thank you and left.
Courses and books both prove the saying that you will learn something from every teacher you ever have. Some emphasize this; others will emphasize that. Neither is wrong. Both are right. I am rather loose in my recommendations; other teachers might have specific guidelines for you to follow. Is one better than the other? I don’t think so. Go with your gut, which, incidentally, is your sixth sense.
It is interesting to me that I began to question things as early as six years old. I went to catechism school one Saturday morning, and the nun told me that people who were not Catholic could not get into Heaven. Even at six years old, I knew that was not right.
In high school, I read the Seth books by Jane Roberts. Funny, but I channel Seth now. Another formative book I read in high school landed at my feet in the library. I figured I ought to read it. It was Autobiography of a Yogi by Parmahansa Yogananda. That was my first experience with meditation.
My first psychic dream occurred in high school. It actually wasn’t a dream because I saw a lady standing in my bedroom in the middle of the night. She had her arms crossed and was looking at my calendar. Even though she didn’t look like my grandmother, I knew in my heart it was her. I believe I was in that space right before you go to sleep.
Anyway, I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them, fully expecting that she would be gone. Nope, she still stood there. That’s when I squeezed my eyes shut again. That time, when I opened my eyes again, she was gone. The next day, I told my mother about the dream, expecting her to say I’d eaten something that didn’t agree with me. Imagine my surprise when she said, “Yes, that was your grandmother. She was psychic.” First time I’d heard about it.
For me, the evidence just kept piling up until I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
So, yes, protect yourself. Pretend there is a root growing from the bottom of each of your feet connecting you to the earth, even if you are on the third floor. Put your hand on top of your head if you get lightheaded.
I bought lots of moldavite, an outer space stone that fell to earth millions of years ago in the potato fields of Czechoslovakia. Supposedily, it propels you on whatever spiritual journey you are on. I bought loads of other crystals. I’ve got a pile of citrine not two feet from me for better digestion, positivity, and optimism. I carried jasper in my pockets when I tried to quit smoking and drinking. Jasper lends itself to calmness. I used malachite for healing.
I got a lot of the trappings of psychics, like a crystal ball and dowsing rods. I have a special, cute as the dickens, little round red table out on the patio if I ever can get it to do some table tapping or table tipping.
Many of the things I did and experienced happened years before I ever made the conscious decision to become a medium. In retrospect, I can see where the theme started when I was six years old. It wasn’t until I was 30 years old I decided to pursue the dream of becoming a channel, and it wasn’t until I was 35 before it finally happened. It’s quicker with other people.
If I were to sit here another half an hour, I could keep writing. This is long enough as it is.
I have also written about these things before, but I was moved to write it again today. Somebody out there needs to read it.
I also need to mention that with all the steps it took for me to finally learn to channel there were many steps that, at the time, didn’t seem to work, at least not in the way the writers said they would. To me, it just seemed like one failure after another. Many times, I said to myself that I was being stupid and I should stop spending so much time and, in many cases, money on becoming a medium. I don’t know what drove me. To this day, there was only one other time when I was so determined to do anything, and that was marrying my husband. Now, in retrospect, I say because I appeared to be the world’s worst student, I am also the world’s best teacher. At least, that’s what I say.
Why do I figure I did this? I still don’t know. I know at the heart of it is that I want to help people. I’ve found in the deepest despair that when God won’t talk to me, I can sure as hell talk to him or her. And I know he or she listens. Sometimes, I don’t even think there is a God. Once, I asked my Spirit Guide who was in charge. He said nobody was in charge. I pictured a bunch of the Minions all busily moving around.
Email me if you’d like some pointers. The only qualification I make is that you are older than 18 and not under a psychiatrist’s care. Hearing voices is not something you want to do if you’re already hearing them.
And thanks for reading.
The Links: Rather than take you to Amazon, I thought I’d make links to the author’s websites or, in the case of the Seth books, to Wikipedia. There are a million other ones that might interest or be more helpful for you. These were the books and organizations I was drawn to.
Seth books by Jane Roberts — Wikipedia Autobiography of a Yogi by Parmahansa Yogananda Creating Money by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer Opening to Channel by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Tony Robbins — Lots of books, lots of courses