By Rajen Vakil

Everything we do requires energy – be it thought, emotion, movement, or the instinctive functions of the body. Our every psychic act uses up energy.

We relate to life through the five senses; impressions come into to the brain through them. Psychic energy registers what comes in through the senses, giving us the power of registration and focusing attention.

Take being on an extended holiday involving a lot of site-seeing, for instance. At a certain point although we are seeing everything, nothing seems to register. This is because we have used up all our psychic energy. Yogic texts say that our main source of energy is the food we eat. Food gives us the energies of magnetism, motor electricity, reflex electricity, and sex. But food cannot give psychic energy, which is only replenished in sleep. Hence, so much importance is given to optimal amount and good quality of sleep.

We have a certain quantity of this psychic energy when we wake up in the morning; we must learn to use this judiciously. This is stored in a large centre (or reservoir) which in turn is connected to two smaller centres. Suppose, we are reading a very interesting book, we can observe that after about forty-five minutes of reading, we feel a little tired and are not able to absorb the true meaning. This indicates that one of the smaller centres is empty. It takes a few minutes for us to connect to the other centre which is full. The best thing would be to walk a little.

Once we connect to another centre, we feel a rush of energy and can again read for another forty-five minutes. Perhaps, the reason why schools have study periods of forty-five minutes; it is the optimal period one can pay attention for. Once the other centre is empty too, we reconnect to the first centre, which by then has collected energy from the large reservoir. If we have not given it enough time to refill completely, we feel tired and debilitated sooner than later. Most of us are so overloaded with mental work that we overwork these energy centres, leading to exhaustion and mental breakdown.

Yoga prescribes practices which help to refill this psychic energy very fast, but that’s for another time.

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Originally printed by the dalymail.co.uk, this article discusses the question – do we all have psychic abilities? Are thought premonitions and telepathy more common than we think?

Like many mothers who feared for their family’s safety during World War II, Mona Miller was evacuated from London to the peaceful seaside town of Babbacombe in Devon.

It seemed like a wise precaution but, shortly after her arrival there with her young children, Mrs Miller became increasingly uneasy.
‘I had a feeling that I must leave Devon and return home,’ she told me.

‘At first I dismissed the idea; why leave when I was so happy and contented despite the war going on around me?

‘But the feeling increased. The walls of my room seemed to speak to me: “Go home to London.” I resisted the call for about four months then, one day, like a flash of light, I knew we must leave.

‘On a Saturday in late 1942, we travelled back to London and a few days later I received a letter from a friend in Devon.

‘“Thank God you took the children on Saturday,” she wrote. “Early Sunday morning, Jerry dropped three bombs and one fell on the house where you were living, demolishing it, and killing all the neighbours on either side.”’

Mrs Miller was far from the only person to experience such forebodings during the war.

Three years later, in the spring of 1945, U.S. serviceman Charles Bernuth took part in the invasion of Germany and, shortly after crossing the Rhine, found himself driving along the autobahn one night with two officers.

He described how a ‘still, small voice’ within him told him there was something wrong with the road ahead.

‘I stopped, amid the groans and jeers of the other two. I started walking along the road.

‘About 50 yards from where I had left the jeep, I found out what was wrong.

‘We were about to go over a bridge — only the bridge wasn’t there. It had been blown up and there was a sheer drop of about 75ft.’

Both Mrs Miller and Charles Bernuth had experienced presentiments — feelings that something was going to happen without knowing what it would be.
These differ from premonitions, where the person involved has an insight into what lies ahead, as when 16-year-old Carole Davies visited a London amusement arcade during the Seventies.

‘While standing looking out into the night, I had a sense of danger,’ she recalled.

‘Then I saw what looked like a picture in front of me showing people on the floor with tiles and metal girders on them. I realised that this was to happen here. I began to shout at people to get out. No one listened.’

Together with her friends, Carole hurried out and went to a nearby cafe.

As they sat inside, they heard sirens in the street outside. A weakness in the arcade building’s structure had brought its roof and walls crashing down on those within.

‘We all ran down the road to see what had happened,’ Carole remembered.

‘It was just as I had seen. A man I had shouted at was being pulled from under the debris.’

Like Mona Miller and Charles Bernuth before her, Carole was convinced she owed her life to her mysterious sixth sense, a notion which you might expect a scientist of my background to dismiss out of hand.

I am a biologist who has studied, researched and taught at both Cambridge and Harvard, and held senior academic posts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Yet I’ve long believed that presentiments, premonitions and other psychic phenomena such as telepathy should be taken more seriously by my scientific colleagues.

My fascination with this subject began during the Sixties when I was a graduate student in the biochemistry department at Cambridge University.

This was not long after the South African writer Laurens van der Post had published his accounts of life with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.

Like most traditional societies, theirs was one in which telepathy was not only taken for granted, but put to practical use, as van der Post saw when his hosts hunted down and killed an eland antelope many miles from camp.

As they were driving back in a Land Rover laden with meat, he asked one of the Bushmen how those back at camp would react when they learned of this success.

‘They already know — we Bushmen have a wire here,’ he replied, tapping his chest. ‘It brings us news.’

He was comparing their method of communication with the white man’s telegram or ‘wire’.

Sure enough, when they approached the camp, the people were singing the ‘Eland Song’ and preparing to give the hunters the greatest of welcomes.

Many other travellers in Africa have reported that people seemed to know when loved ones were coming home.
The same would occur in rural Norway, where the inhabitants developed a special word — vardoger — for the anticipation of arrivals.

Similarly, accounts I read of the ‘second sight’ of some inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands included visions of arrivals before the person in question appeared.

But none of this convinced me, converted as I was to the dogma of ‘materialism’ which has dominated scientific thought since the late 19th century, and still does so today.

According to materialists, science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry.
And anything that cannot be thus explained can be dismissed as illusory.

Educated in this tradition, I adopted the standard dismissive attitude when the subject of telepathy came up in the laboratory tearoom one day.

I was gently taken to task by Sir Rudolph Peters, one of the doyens of British biochemistry. He was a kindly man with twinkly eyes and more curiosity than most people half his age.

He told me of an ophthalmologist friend who had a severely disabled and mentally retarded young boy as a patient.
Although he was almost blind, he seemed able to read the letters on the optician’s chart very well, but only when his mother was looking at them.

The only explanation appeared to be some form of telepathic communication between the two, and in 1968 Sir Rudolph conducted an experiment in which the boy correctly guessed many of the written numbers or words shown to his mother, even though they were sitting on either side of a screen which prevented him from picking up any visual or auditory cues.

Sir Rudolph concluded that this telepathy had developed to an unusual degree because of the boy’s extreme needs and his mother’s desire to help him.

But, as I discovered, even laboratory experiments involving strangers had produced results which, if less marked, were still compelling.

For example, the years between 1880 and 1939 saw something of a boom in early psychical research, with the publication of more than 186 studies involving trials in which subjects guessed which randomly selected cards a ‘sender’ was looking at.

When the four million individual results were combined in a statistical procedure called meta-analysis, the overall results were hugely significant because they were considerably more accurate than would have been expected from random chance.

Later experiments during the Seventies involved subjects sleeping in a soundproofed laboratory while a ‘sender’ in another room, and in some cases another building, opened a sealed package containing a randomly selected picture and concentrated on it, trying to influence the subject’s dream.

Sometimes the thought transference was very clear: one subject described having dreamed about buying tickets for a prize fight while the sender was looking at a picture of a boxing match.

Occasionally, it was more symbolic, as when the subject dreamed of a dead rat in a cigar box while the sender was looking at a picture of a dead gangster in a coffin. But in 450 such trials the overall results were very significantly above the chance level.

My research has included more than 4,000 cases of psychic phenomena. Many, like Mona Miller’s near-miss in the Blitz, involve mothers.

Hundreds told me that during the months they were breastfeeding, they’d know when their baby needed them, even from miles away, because they began secreting breast milk.

With the help of a midwife, I studied nine nursing mothers in North London during a two-month period, and found that their unexpected ‘let-downs’ of milk when they were separated from their babies very often coincided with their infants experiencing distress.

The odds against this occurring by chance as often as it did were a billion to one, and this telepathic connection makes good evolutionary sense.

Mothers who could tell at a distance when their babies were unhappy would tend to have babies that survived better than those of insensitive mothers.

Such connections often seem to continue even when the children have grown up, with many stories on my database concerning mothers who had an urge to get in touch with their children when they could not have known by any conventional means that they were in trouble.

Many would do so by telephone, the method of communication most commonly mentioned in reports of telepathic experiences in general.

Many people told me they had thought of someone for no apparent reason, and then that person rang in a way that seemed uncanny. Or they knew who was calling when the phone rang, even before they picked up the receiver.

I designed an experiment to test this, a simplified version of which you can try through my website.

This involved asking subjects for the names and phone numbers of four friends or family members before placing them alone in a room with a landline telephone with no caller ID.

I then selected one of the four callers at random and asked them to phone the subject, who had to say who was on the line before answering.

By guessing at random, subjects would have been right about one time in four, or 25 per cent.

In fact, the average hit rate was 45 per cent, very significantly above the level of chance, and these results have been replicated independently at universities in Germany and Holland.

In attempting to explain such phenomena, we need to look far beyond the traditional scientific view that everything is essentially material or physical, including the human mind.

That materialist approach was summed up by Francis Crick, who in 1962 shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA.

‘You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,’ he wrote.

Crick spoke for the scientific mainstream, as did influential neuroscientist Susan Greenfield when she described seeing an exposed brain in an operating theatre.

‘This is all there was to (the patient) Sarah, or indeed to any of us,’ she reflected in a paper published in 2000.

‘We are but sludgy brains and somehow a character and mind are generated in this soupy mess.’

Yet this idea that our minds are fixed physically inside our heads, and that consciousness is nothing but a by-product of the activity of the brain, runs contrary to our everyday experience.

When we look around us, the images of the things we see are outside us, not in our heads. The feelings in my fingers are in my fingers, not in my head.

The human intuitions I have described fit better with the ‘field theory’ of minds.

We are used to the fact that fields exist both within and outside material objects such as magnets and mobile phones, and there is reason to believe that our minds have similar fields which have their roots within our brains, but also extend beyond them.

Extraordinary though this sounds, it’s supported by studies of another remarkable psychic phenomenon — the sense of being stared at.

Most people have felt someone looking at them from behind, turned around and met the person’s eyes.
And most people have experienced the converse: making someone turn around by staring at them.

In extensive surveys in Europe and North America, between 70 and 97 per cent of adults and children reported such experiences.

In a series of interviews with police officers, surveillance personnel and soldiers, I discovered most felt that some people seemed to know they were being observed, even though the watchers were well hidden.

‘A lot of times the crook will just get a feeling that things aren’t right,’ I was told by one narcotics officer.

‘We often have someone look right in our direction even though he can’t see us. A lot of times we’re inside a vehicle.’

Surprisingly, laboratory tests have shown that the sense of being stared at works even when people are looked at on screens, rather than directly.

Our emotional response can be measured by the activity of our sweat glands and this increases in many subjects being watched on CCTV, even though they are unaware of their response.

All this suggests that, whether through direct staring or CCTV, we are capable of ‘touching’ each other with our sight — further evidence that our minds are not confined to the inside of our brains.

With telepathic communication, it seems that these fields somehow interact at a distance, picking up feelings, needs or thoughts across space.

As for presentiments and premonitions, these imply links across time, as we tune into our future mental states.

That such links are real was suggested by a series of experiments in the U.S. and Holland over the past 20 years.

These measured responses to a series of noxious smells, mild electric shocks, emotive words and provocative photographs, interspersed with calming stimuli which had no physiological effect on subjects at all.

No one, not even the experimenters, knew what kind of stimuli the computer involved would produce next, but in a significant number of cases the subjects reacted to the unpleasant stimuli some three or four seconds in advance, somehow connecting with their future selves who would be experiencing the stimuli for real.

These findings are fascinating in themselves but, as I will explain in Monday’s Mail, psychic phenomena are not restricted to human beings.

There are amazing stories of telepathy and premonitions of disaster in many other species, including pet dogs.

As for exactly how such phenomena operate, it may be years before we understand them, but an important first step is for scientists to acknowledge that they exist, and that the minds of both animals and humans interact in as yet unexplained ways.

Article source: dalymail.co.uk

Recently reported by nzherald.co.nz, a stunning survey shows that over half of all Kiwi’s believe in Psychic’s. Almost just as sensational the survey also showed that one-third of New Zealanders believe in UFO visitation to earth.

More than half of New Zealanders believe some people have psychic powers, a recent survey shows.

Meanwhile a third of Kiwis believe earth has been visited by UFOs from other planets and a quarter believe astrology can predict people’s futures.

These are the findings of an online UMR Research poll of 1000 New Zealanders which looked at what Kiwis believe in.

The poll, conducted between September 21 and 28, found 55 percent of Kiwis believe some people have psychic powers such as ESP, with women (67 per cent), over 60 year olds (63 per cent) and Maori (60 per cent) particularly likely to believe that this is true.

However, the finding’s for belief in Astrology Predictions were less sensational.

Only 24 per cent think astrology can be used to predict people’s futures.

By Kathy Antonioti

During the Christmas season, even an infrequent guest will notice a striking difference in the atmosphere at the Perkins Stone Mansion, home to the Summit County Historical Society.

In October, visitors flock to the mansion with the hopes of catching a glimpse of the spirits of three generations of Perkins family members who lived there. The mansion rarely disappoints guests who attend ghost tours and paranormal pizza parties as the three-story home embraces its eerie reputation, exuding an unsettled feeling of forboding. Photos taken by guests make claims of the presence of otherworldly spirits difficult to dismiss.

“Clearly, these stories of oral history and folklore have been passed down through generations. They are now being accepted in society. It’s a good way to explain the history and we invite people to experience the house for themselves,” said historical society Director Leianne Neff Heppner.

By mid-November, after volunteers have dressed the house in its Christmas finery, those same visitors experience a warmth in the mansion, as if being folded in a loving embrace.

It could be the subdued lights shining from the Christmas tree in the parlor, or it could just be the early darkness that seems to make the mansion feel cozier. People take home from their visits what they will, said Heppner, who tries to share the home’s history in different ways. “I want to share the stories of the house and I want to tell the stories of the home,” she said. I believe there are a lot of things in that house, but it is the first one I’ve worked in that I haven’t been scared.”

The mansion, completed in 1837, was built by Col. Simon Perkins, son of Akron founder Gen. Simon Perkins, for his wife, Grace Tod Perkins and their 11 children. The home is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in Ohio, Heppner said.

In the past three years, the historical society has tried some innovative ways to interest people in learning about the area’s history and the contributions made by the family. Fewer than 2 percent of the society’s membership of 400-500 people attend its programs, she said.

“History is not really popular with the general public. We need to find other ways to interest them,” she said.

The paranormal activities in October and outreach programs for children and adults bring people to the mansion who have never before visited. Plans for a murder mystery, being written by interns and graduate students Rebecca Kirschbaum of Cleveland State University and Stephanie Bingham of Kent State, are under way.

With different types of programming, the society is reaching a new group of people.

“We are attracting a different population that traditionally wouldn’t come, and we have found those people keep coming back,” Heppner said.

Until 2008, the mansion was shown only as a museum, but hints of paranormal activity led the historical society to open its doors for special events related to Halloween. During a 2006 fundraiser for the Junior League of Akron, several room designers saw and heard things that could not be easily explained.

Eventually, the home’s reputation as a source of spiritual energy found its way to Laura Lyn of Cuyahoga Falls, who describes herself as a trance channeler and psychic medium.

When Heppner and Lyn connected a few years ago, ideas for using the home in different ways flowed like the energy that fills the mansion. They embarked on a partnership of sorts to foster events for people in search of answers and guidance from a different realm.

Lyn, who owns the Angel Rays Enrichment Center in Cuyahoga Falls, conducts programs at the mansion called Realm to Realm that are more than just fundraisers for the society, Heppner said.

“Sincere is the best word to describe her,” Heppner said of Lyn. “She is a normal person who has an ability that I don’t have.”

During a recent Realm to Realm session, Lyn tried to explain why the house projected a different kind of energy in October than it did in November.

“Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, the house is very welcoming because even though there was so much turmoil here in the past … there was great love here,” Lyn explained to 11 people who sat around the mansion’s dining room table.

Lyn, who offers psychic development and spiritual classes and angel readings, feels and sees the energy each guest projects, called an aura, and explains how that energy affects him or her. She searches for spirit guides and loved ones who have passed and relays their messages.

“I feel as if I have a foot in each realm,” she said during a recent interview.

Lyn explains to participants that each person has personal guides and angels as she reads and relays their suggestions on the best paths to follow in life.

“It’s going to come through as puzzle pieces,” Lyn told the group, which included police officers Tom Robson and Michelle Duke, paranormal investigators from Zanesville.

Jill Earvin, Jane Uber and Judith Abood, sisters from Cuyahoga Falls, didn’t seem surprised when Lyn told them their mother was in the room and very skeptical of the proceedings.

“She’s not disapproving. She’s curious and wants to know what’s going on,” Lyn said. The women, who grew up on Akron’s North Hill, got their spiritual side from their grandmother, they said.

“I smell cigarette smoke,” Duke interrupted just before Uber started coughing and had to leave the table.

“Mom was a smoker,” Abood explained.

Jill Urbank, also of Cuyahoga Falls, said she was looking for a connection with her late husband on the first anniversary of his death. Lyn told her that although her husband wasn’t there, a spirit guide was standing near her.

“He’s an unconditional friend who is always going to be with you all of your life. He won’t let anything happen to you,” she said.

As Lyn proceeded from one person to the next, she said she was reluctant to tell Steve Morgan, 27, of Akron, that he had a hitchhiking spirit connected to him who had died when he was 25 years old.

“You aren’t going to believe this,” she told Morgan. “The spirit connected with you at a sports arena. He is staying with you because he enjoys the ride.”

She said the man, who she named as Todd Saxton, died in a traffic accident.

“Never drink and drive,” Lyn warned Morgan as the lights in the chandelier dimmed and flickered.

After the event, Morgan admitted he had some experience with drinking and driving and was taking Lyn’s warning seriously. Would he drink and drive again?

“Hell, no,” Morgan said.

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Read this interesting article of how an Australian Psychic Medium helped a family confront supernatural spirits in their home, in what seems reminiscent of a scene from poltergeist!

When Lavinia Heremaia moved into her home in Point Vernon in the middle of 2009 she knew immediately something wasn’t right.

Despite her feelings she decided to stay in the house and that is now a decision she has come to regret.

Lavinia and her sons Chase, 4, and Jacob, 17, claim they have been experiencing paranormal activity in their home for months.

It started with Chase telling her about a man he called “Santa” who sometimes came to play with him.

After observing her son’s behaviour and listening to her son speak about his new-found friend, Lavinia soon believed that “Santa” wasn’t a pleasant entity to have around – nor did he seem to be just another imaginary friend.

Lavinia said the right side of the house seemed to be the site of the paranormal activity.

Worst affected areas include the kitchen, bathroom, hallway, Jacob’s bedroom and Lavinia’s bedroom.

Lavinia didn’t know what to believe – until early one morning she said the supernatural being paid a visit to her room.

She was standing near her door when she felt something like a strong breeze pushing her back and she was unable to move.

She felt something touch her while she was standing there.

The next thing she knew she was lying on her bed, totally paralysed.

She could see and hear but was unable to move a single part of her body, except for her eyes.

Lavinia said she tried to speak to the entity to tell it to leave but that was difficult because she could barely move her lips to speak.

It was then that she saw something like a flash of light.

She was able to move again and ran out of her bedroom, into the hall, calling for her sons.

Jacob was always a bit sceptical about what might have been going on in the house.

But that has changed since the family called in a psychic medium.

The psychic medium told the family there was a porthole in Jacob’s room releasing spirits into the home.

She suggested to the family that if Chase was talking about seeing “Santa”, they get out their camera and start snapping shots of the areas around him to see if they could capture an image of the spirit.

Recently when Lavinia was at Zumba, Jacob and his friends were looking after Chase when he started playing hide and seek with the entity.

They started taking photos around the home with a phone – and captured a photo of what appeared to be a man hovering above Jacob as he lay on his bed in his room.

After that, Jacob began to believe that the home really might have supernatural visitors.

After her initial feeling that the house was not a good place, Lavinia started saving up so she and her family could leave.

But several different incidents over the past two years have conspired to keep her and her family in the home.

“It feels like something is trying to keep me here,” she said.

Lavinia has done a little bit of research on the history of the area and knows that South Sea Islanders were brought to what was then known as Port Vernon in the 1800s and often treated badly.

She is also aware that Polson Cemetery is nearby, although she has no idea if those factors have played a role in the strange occurrences in her home.

Lavinia is hoping to get a Catholic priest to come through her home, blessing each room with holy water

Source frasercoastchronicle.com.au

Popular Psychic Medium Lisa Williams latest book “The Survival of the Soul” is now available for sale through online book sellers.

Many of us have questions about the passage of life and often wonder what happens when we die. In this amazingly insightful book by medium/clairvoyant Lisa Williams, evidence of the afterlife is explored. Through various channels such as meditation, psychic readings, communication with her Spirit Guide, and a personal near-death experience, Lisa delves into the journey of the soul, discusses the different stages of the afterlife, and reveals what life is really like on the other side.

This book addresses the myriad questions many of us have surrounding this subject, especially if we’ve gone through the painful experience of having lost loved ones. Lisa provides a reassuring glimpse into this fascinating topic by exploring the pathway to the afterlife and then to reincarnation; with the realization that death is not final, but rather a transition into the world beyond—a place that should be honored, not feared.

About Psychic Medium & Author Lisa Williams:

Lisa Williams has been aware of her psychic abilities since the age of seven, it wasn’t until her grandmother’s death in 1996 that Lisa fully embraced her “second sight.” Frances Glazebrook, Lisa’s grandmother, had been a renowned psychic medium, reading for politicians, royalty, pop bands and businessmen in her native England. She was also a “secret weapon” in the arsenal of many American CEOs.

“When I was 19,” Williams remembers, “my grandmother told me I would continue her work when she passed on.” Over the next few years, Lisa found herself telling total strangers about their lives and what was in store for them. She saw their family members and friends who were on “the other side” and brought comfort to the living by transmitting messages. She also was helping with police investigations.

Blessed with a fine voice, Williams had been lead vocalist with a band and a “Red Coat” entertainer at the famous English vacation camp Butlins. As a young single mother, she supported herself with a variety of office jobs and sales positions. It wasn’t until her extensive waiting list of people asking for private consultations was six months long that she felt she could devote herself full-time to her spiritual calling. She continued to develop her gifts, which also include Reiki and crystal healing. Like her grandmother before her, Lisa also began to read for senio

By Emily S.

Being a psychic-medium, I am always trying to connect with my intuition and divine knowledge. Every night when I go to sleep, I communicate to the universe or God. Its my time to reflect and also meditate. I also ask for messages in my dreams for anyone or for myself. And usually, I wake up the next morning with all of these dreams, wondering “wait, what does that mean?’.

My dreaming state is such a fascinating place for me to be and experience that I often look forward to the end of the day when I can rest and see what happens.

I found in my studies and research that our dreams are really left up to us to interpret. There is so much symbolism in a dream that it usually makes a connection to something in our actual reality.

For example, you may have a dream of seeing an actress from a movie or someone dressed in an exotic costume and when you wake up, you may think of a close friend or relative who is an actress or works in the entertainment industry. Although if I were to have a dream of something like that, it may make me think of something from my childhood or a past memory.

So in essence, the things we see in our dreams are strictly related to us in some way. What you have to do is just ask yourself, what does this make you think of in your life? Once you interpret all the different meanings, try to piece it together for a bigger message.

I often do this every day when I dream about something. Sometimes my dreams are a clean and direct message to someone or to me, and sometimes I really have to break it down and understand it.

Dreams may be something from our unconscious coming up. They can also be a way for us to heal or face something painful that we may not otherwise in our waking state. I also have found that sometimes dreams can be very psychic or our intuition kicking in. For example, a few months ago I had a dream about a couple I knew breaking up. In the dream I saw their argument and the reasons why they were breaking up. A few days later, I found out the couple had broken up around the same time I had the dream.

So essentially our dreams can have a variety of meanings, its up to you to decide and feel out intuitively what the dream means to you.

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People across the world often ask – Are Psychic Children Real?

In this article written by Joan Charles and posted to express.co.uk, the question is pondered as to the meaning of the premonitions and sometimes baffling sixth sense that children and even toddlers seem to often experience.

AS A leading psychic medium I’ve lost count of the number of times someone has said to me that their children have spoken accurately of ancestors who died long before they were born. They can describe both their character and appearance. It doesn’t surprise me in the least but it can shock those left behind. Children, especially those who are spiritual and attuned to spirit, know so much. One woman told me that her son kept saying he could see a man. He would talk about this man, telling her what he was doing. He called him Joe and chatted as if he knew him very well indeed. In particular the little boy said that Joe had shiny buttons on his coat and this was a point he kept repeating.

It wasn’t until this had been going on for some time that it all fell into place when the woman decided to look into some family history and construct a family tree. She went around all her relatives collecting photos and finding out who was who. When she was given a photograph of her great-grandfather in his army uniform with shiny buttons she was shocked to discover that he was called Joe. Her little boy used to tell her that Joe was singing and he would repeat some wartime songs in a drunken voice, apparently copying what he could hear. There was no way a child would have known these songs.

Also the boy often appeared to be in fits of laughter over nothing. When his mum asked what he was laughing at he’d say it was “the funny man carrying on”. This man was having fun and sharing good times with his great-great-grandchild. The boy would sit for hours playing happily with no one his mother could see and he continued to talk about the happy man and sing his songs. Given that I was a child who possessed psychic gifts and that some of my own children and grandchildren have also been blessed I have never doubted the many tales I have heard or cases I have witnessed in which children make contact with those they love, whether on this plane or on the other side.

In America there are reportedly even Psychic “camps” to help and nurture Psychic kids and children who display psychic abilities.

In America, the home of the summer camp, there are even programmes for psychic children to take during the school holidays. Since 1999 camps have been held in the Appalachian mountains for those endowed with psychic talent. During these weeks children are encouraged and helped to develop their spiritual intelligence in a loving, nurturing environment and their inner senses are brought out. But I believe that every child – and therefore every one of us – has the ability to communicate with spirits and, when they pass, to retain contact with those they love who have been left behind.

Many children who have passed over become guardian angels or spirit guides to the family they have left behind. In one case I was doing a reading for a woman called Laura who had lost her daughter Sophie many years earlier. She had kept her room exactly as it was before she passed away and it was having a very bad effect on her and her family. When I started to read for Laura I got a very strong sense of Sophie being with me in her bedroom where I was doing the reading. The corner next to the window buzzed with spirit energy and Sophie was desperately trying to get my attention.

Laura told me that every night she could feel Sophie in the spot I told her about. As I connected with the girl she told me: “My mummy is very sad. I try to let her know I’m here but she can’t see me.” I asked Sophie if she was there for any reason and she quickly replied: “Yes, she’s not well. Mummy needs to go to the doctor – she needs to go very quickly.” Sophie was very agitated when she said this and added that she’d tried to get Laura’s attention by knocking things down and breaking them but it wasn’t helping. She also revealed that Laura was in an abusive relationship which was getting more violent and that there had been many times she had watched her getting hurt very badly.

This was a tricky situation for me. I had to weigh up the consequences of telling Laura that I knew something so private but felt I had a duty to encourage the woman to seek help. Fortunately she did agree to visit the doctor the very next day, where it was discovered that she had diabetes. When I met Laura again two years later she was a changed woman. Her health problems had been addressed, she had left her abusive relationship and she was training to be a bereavement counsellor for parents who had lost a child. Her guardian angel Sophie had done a marvellous job.

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By Hilary Hunsberger

Why do we dream? Do our dreams have meaning? How can we benefit from our dreams?

These are questions that have fascinated humankind for centuries. Many civilizations have placed a great importance on the use of dreams in their daily lives. In ancient Egypt dreams were considered messages from the Gods. Well-known biblical characters have been portrayed as seeking guidance or even predicting the future from their dreams.

However, it was not until the psychoanalytic movement in the early 20th century that dreams became more highly regarded in Western civilization. Well-known psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, encouraged his patients to pay close attention to the underlying meaning of their dreams as a way to stimulate psychic growth and move toward wholeness and well-being.

In the 1960s anthropologists Stewart and Noone linked non-violent tendencies and low suicide rates in the Senoi, aboriginal tribe, to their use of dreams. The Senoi practiced being active participants in their dreams by confronting danger, moving toward pleasure and asking the dream for a gift, often providing valuable information they could use in their waking lives.

Rather than postulating that dreams are merely the result of meaningless residue of firing neurons, today’s dream experts appear to be giving advice similar to the Senoi’s practice. Our brains appear to use our dreams as internal therapists, rummaging through and processing what has occurred during the previous day, leading to a new revelation about a problem you have yet to solve, or working through an emotion so that it is reduced by morning.

Golfer Jack Nicklaus credited a new more effective golf swing to a dream he had during a slump in 1964. Elias Howe utilized his dream of being captured by savages carrying spears with holes in their tips to invent the sewing machine.

Like these masterminds, we can learn to harness the benefits of our dreams. The first step is making deliberate efforts to remember one’s dreams.

Increasing dream recall can be done by placing a pad of paper beside one’s bed and telling oneself, “I will remember this dream.” It is important to jot down the contents of a dream immediately upon awakening, as it can be lost to our conscious brain in a manner of minutes.

In terms of making sense of the dream, psychoanalysts teach that it’s more instructive to understand dreams in terms of your own experience, rather than applying meanings taken from a dream dictionary. For example, if I dream about a dog, my associations might lead me to memories of my first dog, Sugar, who was a great ball retriever, had a ferocious bark but was an emotional pushover. I might also link the symbol to a cultural concept like “a dog is a man’s best friend”.

Even if you do not remember your dreams initially, be prepared to record them on a daily basis. Return to your journal later to reflect on what the dream might have meant, paying attention to patterns and recurring themes. Before long, you’ll automatically grab your pen upon awakening, jotting down details of your dreams, which may help you unravel the mysteries of yourself.

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Georgia (pictured with a client)

My husband Nick was lying on the sofa, groaning and calling for extra-strength Nurofen. He’d had a bad fall ten years earlier, in his gap year, and ever since had suffered from intermittent sciatica.

The discs in his lower vertebrae were crushed in the accident, and an operation had failed to provide a cure. Hot dry summers helped, but as soon as the weather got damp and cold, his back would go into painful spasms.

Every winter I got used to taking on the role of porter and furniture-mover until the inflammation calmed down. But this could take weeks, and he never knew when the pain would strike.

So, as winter arrived and Nick lay face downwards yet again, I told him he had to find something or someone to help him. My father said he’d just met a marvellous young healer called Jeff: perhaps he could do something?

Nick scoffed and rolled his eyes, but I persisted. I had no idea whether healing would help, but Nick couldn’t pop painkillers for ever.

My husband didn’t give any credence to complementary therapies of any sort in those days, but with much nagging from me, he’d reluctantly hauled himself off to see an osteopath. But all the clicking and cracking hadn’t made a whit of difference. So how could some chap laying hands on him possibly be more effective?

Frankly I wasn’t optimistic either, but he had nothing to lose. Finally he relented, with the tetchy proviso that it would, of course, be a complete waste of time. After all, how could faith healing work on him when he didn’t even believe in it?

His scepticism was not allayed when Jeff arrived. He was an unprepossessing, limp young man in a cagoule — and he was an hour late. He’d wandered around London getting lost, and seemed amazed that he’d found our house at all, which did little to inspire our confidence.

Alternative therapy: Georgia says if she felt run down, an appointment with a reflexologist, acupuncturist or masseur was often the best remedy (Posed by models)

As I watched him hold up his hands about six inches away from the operation scar, even I was doubtful: it seemed pretty obvious that nothing at all was going to happen.

But almost immediately Nick yelped: ‘What is that? What are you using? It feels like a three-bar electric fire.’ He found it almost impossible to believe that Jeff wasn’t touching him at all.

After ten minutes, Jeff said the treatment was finished.

And, amazingly, that was the end of Nick’s back pain. Twenty-two years later, he still doesn’t have any trouble with it.

I do not consider myself a credulous person. I’m a middle-aged mum to four children, and my work as a journalist and author demands a degree of enquiring scepticism. But seeing the miraculous effect of Jeff’s treatment on Nick, and its enduring results, sowed a seed in my mind.

Over the years I’d tried all sorts of alternative therapists for myself. My GP is great, and of course I’ll take antibiotics if I need them; but I found that if I was feeling tired or run down, an appointment with a reflexologist, acupuncturist or masseur was often enough to sort me out.

I noticed that many of these practitioners also had healing hands. I could often feel a warmth or a sort of tingling through their palms, which somehow seemed to boost my energy and calm my overactive brain.

I wanted to know where this mysterious energy came from, and how it made me feel better — so I asked the therapists a multitude of questions.

Some said, enigmatically, that it was ‘love and light’. Others talked about brainwaves and electrostatic energy. Whatever this energy was, it was working, and I was intrigued.

I started to read books about healing. Part of me was still sceptical because I couldn’t physically see any of this energy. But as a client, I trusted that whatever they were tapping into worked on me.

I imagined that Jeff and Co must have been born with some kind of special gift, but they said that we are all healers in different ways. Anyone who has rocked a crying baby, kissed a child’s bruise, or supported a friend knows that even kindness and good intentions can make someone feel better.

Surprisingly, they said that I could be a healer too; that I had an energy, a gift for it.

Eventually, I took the plunge and decided to see if this could possibly be true. After experimenting with various workshops, I signed up for a two-year professional course at the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington, London.

Even then I had misgivings. I was worried that other people in my group might be odd and alternative; a rag-bag of crystal-ball gazers and hippies. I was relieved that they turned out to be lovely, utterly normal people: there was a tax accountant, an office administrator, a couple of grandmothers; even Jeffrey Archer’s butler. And all of them seemed genuinely sincere about doing whatever they could to help people.

‘I was worried that other people in my group might be odd and alternative; a rag-bag of crystal-ball gazers and hippies’

We learned that if healers rely solely on their own energy and kindness, they soon get exhausted. So, in simple terms, we were taught to be sort of human hosepipes, channelling energy from the universe to wherever our clients needed it.

It seemed strange at first, following the teacher’s instructions and trusting that there was light flowing in through the top of my head then out through my hands; but I suppressed my doubts and persevered.

After a while, I could definitely feel heat and energy emanating from my palms. Better still, I discovered that I was extremely sensitive. Working on people, I found I could often detect where the area of pain or disease was.

It’s hard to describe how I know: it feels almost as if there is a cloud of dense air surrounding the area. It transmits into a physical pain, which I feel in my stomach. So, implausible though it may sound, I can usually sense exactly where to put my healing hands.

Sometimes the results are instantaneous. My neighbour, writer Cressida Connolly, insists I have cured her aching shoulder. My father-in-law’s nagging wrist pain has never come back after a session we did one Boxing Day. But I am realistic enough to know that most changes are more subtle and take much longer.

Now that I am a fully qualified healer, with a practice in Chelsea, some of my friends find my new career path rather odd. They think — as Nick once did — that the very idea of healing is a load of old hokum.

I can understand their cynicism. We’ve all heard sorry stories about the gullible and desperate seeking cures from practitioners who turn out to be complete fraudsters.

I don’t make any extravagant claims for healing, and it doesn’t always work, but I am still amazed by the range of problems that healing can tackle. People come to me before operations or after skiing accidents, or simply because they feel tired and anxious.

My oldest client is a 77-year-old Chelsea Pensioner at the Royal Hospital, where I work as a healing volunteer. Tough old soldier that he is, he tells me every week that he doesn’t believe in healing.

‘Don’t you start asking me to think lovely thoughts either — because I won’t,’ he insists.

But he also admits he finds the sessions very nice and soothing — and he always welcomes me back. Which goes to show that even if you are a confirmed disbeliever, healing can help.

Source dailymail.co.uk