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<title><![CDATA[What Type of Psychic Reading Right For YOu]]></title>
<link>http://freepsychic005.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/what-type-of-psychic-reading-right-for-you/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>alvacarey1273</dc:creator>
<guid>http://freepsychic005.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/what-type-of-psychic-reading-right-for-you/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What type of mystic Reading Is Right for You? When you have selected which route you are going to ta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>What type of mystic Reading Is Right for You?  </p>
<p> When you have selected which route you are going to take, whether or not it&#8217;s telephone, net, or in person, the next thing you need to figure out is which method you need your psychic to use.  There are a selection of different methods out there, and some of them may respond better to certain people than others.  It all depends on the kind of energy that your body is exuding, because if your energy is in tune with the strategy that the psychic is using, it is likely that the results of your reading will show that.  It could take a little time to find the right strategy for you, so it is important to be familiar with your selections.  If one of them stands out to you, it is truly possible that approach is intended for you.  So that you can gain some familiarity with the different psychic approaches, here are three of them for you to familiarise yourself with.  </p>
<p> 1.  <b>Tarot cards Psychic Readings</b> &#8211; These have been around for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.  Although the origin isn&#8217;t definitely known, there are claims that they were first utilized in Egypt in ancient times.  Psychics use tarot cards by shuffling the deck and then placing them into a set pattern of their choice.  Depending on which card is showing in which position, whether the card is upside down or right side up, and cards in the vicinity of one another, the psychic will be able to tell you more about yourself and what you have in store for you in the future.  </p>
<p>2.  <b>Horoscopes <a href="http://psychic7.insanejournal.com/699.html">Psychic</a> Readings</b>- This is a strategy that has been used by psychics for a very long time, and has basically found its way into the culture of many alternative states.  India for instance, use horoscopes to find out whether a woman and man will have a good wedding, work out the wedding date, and for lots of other sides of their lives.  Folks place a large amount of weight on the position of the stars, and that is how a horoscope works.  A psychic will be able to learn about your future by knowing your zodiac symbol and how it corresponds to the positions of the stars.  </p>
<p>3.  <b>Runes <a href="http://psychic07.tripod.com/psychicreadings/index.blog/1953724/dating-psychic-readings/">Psychic readings</a></b> &#8211; Runes are sometimes coins or tiles that have characters from ancient Germanic languages inscribed on them.  It is assumed that runes have enchanting properties, so they have become psychic tools in recent times, helping readers in their pursuit for awareness of the future.  There are a few books that have been created on the subject of runes readings and runic magic.  The commonest technique described in these books is placing runes into a bag and picking a few at random .  The characters on the runes that come up will permit the psychic to provide understanding of your future or any questions you will have.  </p>
<p> These are only a few of the psychic methods used in psychic readings.  If any jump out at you, ask your <b><a href="http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/-/13h28i74x0xmr/1">psychic</a></b> to use it.  <br />.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia increases efforts in witch hunts]]></title>
<link>http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/saudi-arabia-increases-efforts-in-witch-hunts/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mjr256</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia is cracking down on alleged &#8220;witches: When the popular 46-year-old Lebanese psych]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://lefteyeonthemedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/witch-hunt11.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://lefteyeonthemedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/witch-hunt11.jpg?w=240&#038;h=179" alt="" width="240" height="179" /></a><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/11/saudi-arabia-kingdom-steps-up-hunt-for-witches-and-black-magicians-.html">Saudi Arabia is cracking down on alleged &#8220;witches</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>When the popular 46-year-old Lebanese psychic Ali Sibat went on-air and made his predictions about the future, the phone lines of the satellite television station Sheherazade used to be flooded with calls.</p>
<p>But what the star psychic probably did not predict was that his claims to supernatural prowess would land him a death sentence.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was the most popular psychic on the channel,&#8221; the Lebanese news agency Naharnet quoted Sibat’s lawyer <a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&#38;2E5A8E6E8CDC2BB5C225767A001E26F4">May Khansa as </a><a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&#38;2E5A8E6E8CDC2BB5C225767A001E26F4">saying.</a> &#8220;The number of callers, including from all over the gulf, spiked in number when he appeared.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As much as I abhor phony psychics taking advantage of credulous people, they don&#8217;t deserve a death sentence for it. While I&#8217;d love to see the U.S. government did a better job of cracking down on these conmen and promising harsher penalties, obviously this goes too far and for the wrong reasons. This guy isn&#8217;t getting punished because he&#8217;s taking advantage of people but because a superstitious backward society thinks he has some kind of magical powers that he couldn&#8217;t possibly possess.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Nov. 9, Sibat was given a death sentence by a Mecca court for allegedly practicing witchcraft.</p>
<p>Sibat’s fate is common in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Scores of alleged witch doctors, fortunetellers, and black magicians each year are dragged through the Saudi courts, including <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1T_he6kn315GfOaiebNMjdbsaHA">Fawza Falih</a>, who’s been on death row since 2006 for witchcraft.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;">Her accusers include a man who claims the 51-year-old, illiterate Falih is the reason for his impotence. </span></p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Is a psychic Probing Your Brain]]></title>
<link>http://freepsychic001.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/is-a-psychic-probing-your-brain/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>psychic016</dc:creator>
<guid>http://freepsychic001.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/is-a-psychic-probing-your-brain/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[it is a undeniable fact a psychic has the facility to contact folks, without regard for their locati]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p> it is a undeniable fact a psychic has the facility to contact folks, without regard for their location.  They have even been known to contact people from other dimensions in some cases.  The fact of the affair is, it&#8217;s not simple to know if a psychic is inside your grey matter and taking your thoughts at any given moment.  The majority have an immeasurable quantity of enemies that wish to bring harm on them at any given time.  About a hundred dollars and one of those enemies could be looking into a crystal ball alongside a psychic, trying to find out your most personal strategies.  They will be deep inside your thoughts watching the memories of you peeing your pants in grade school as though it were a sitcom.  You do not desire this to happen to you, it has occurred too many times to good folk.  Here are some preventative measures you can take to keep any psychic attempting to overstep their bounds away.  </p>
<p> 1.  No drug abuse &#8211; Doing drugs or drinking alcohol to excess will make you exposed to psychological probing.  When your inhibitions have gone out the window, it is just like your intellect has no protection against foreign interlopers.  The gates are open, the bridge is drawn, and the guards are out for the count.  Any psychic that feels the urge can simply leave your grey matter in mess if they so choose.  <br /> 2.  Aluminum foil hat &#8211; This is sometimes used to thwart the attempts of any type of mental probe, no matter the source.  Aluminium has a reflective property that deflects any waves trying to enter your head.  This helmet must be worn in an exceedingly categorical way though, so pay attention.  Take a giant sheet of aluminum foil and place it on your head.  Begin molding the foil the to the sides and back of your head, leaving lots of foil remaining on the top.  Then, take the surplus foil remaining on the top and twist it into a point.  Not merely will a <a href="http://www1.atwiki.com/psychic11/pages/5.html">psychic</a> steer clear of you when you&#8217;re wearing this hat, most folks will also.  It&#8217;s a extraordinarily powerful hat.  <br /> 3.  Concussive deflection &#8211; There are some easy strategies to say if your mind is at present being penetrated by a psychic.  If you&#8217;ve a headache or you bite your tongue, you may be certain a psychic is weaseling their way in.  The particular frequency that psychics send their own brain waves thru causes mental perplexity, which results in the body essentially attacking itself.  If either of these things happens to you, run to the closest hard, solid object and start to smash your head on it.  You can use tables, walls, counter tops, or maybe the floor if required.  The vibrations from the impact have a tendency to interrupt the frequency used by the <a href="http://psychic11.zoomshare.com/2.shtml">psychic</a> and the linkage between them and your mind is fundamentally broken.  </p>
<p> Use this recommendation and your wet pants will be between only you and your 2nd grade class.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Strength--Radio Script #11]]></title>
<link>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/strength-radio-script-11/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bgmeyer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/strength-radio-script-11/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Strength The Strength card has nothing to do with physical prowess. It has everything to do with men]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Strength</p>
<p>The Strength card has nothing to do with physical prowess. It has everything to do with mental ability. Traditionally, it depicts a  woman closing a lion’s month. NOT forcing it open, which would require a good deal of strength. Instead she is going with the natural path and forcing it closed.  Which requires coaxing more than brute force. Strength is leadership, someone who takes charge and says, “Lets do it.” Like the Chariot, it is a card of action. But unlike the Chariot, it is not individual action, it is leading others to action.</p>
<p>In the World Tree Tarot, the artist says we have strength in friends. United we stand, divided we fall. The card shows a woman supporting the world. She sees a wrong and wants to right it. But no one can change the world by themselves. They must gather a force and lead the charge. Strength is the action of the Chariot directed. If the Chariot is a point, the Strength card is the second point that defines a line–a vector forward.</p>
<p>Reversed, Strength is about feeling helpless. Life is out of control, usually because you are trying to control everything. You refuse to take the lead, and complain that others are not doing what you want them to do. You need to take charge of YOUR life, and as Ann Landers used to say, “Quit your kvetching.” Everyone will fall in line behind you, once you start to set a good example.</p>
<p>People ask, what is my life’s purpose? The answer may be: if you see a wrong, start working to right it. See how far you can go and who you may meet on the way, just open up your Inner Vision.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Weiler Psi is Now on Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-weiler-psi-is-now-on-facebook/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>craigweiler</dc:creator>
<guid>http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-weiler-psi-is-now-on-facebook/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In an effort to reach out to psychic people and help people find a community and support each other,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In an effort to reach out to psychic people and help people find a community and support each other, I have set up a Facebook page.  To see <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000366150476&#38;ref=profile#/pages/The-Weiler-Psi/177681316044?ref=ts">The Weiler Psi on Facebook, click here.</a></p>
<p>To interact with other people, you have to become a fan of The Weiler Psi.  There is a place on the front page to leave comments for other people and a discussion board on another page.  If you have never been on Facebook before you will probably have to experiment a bit to figure stuff out.  If you have any trouble you can send me an e-mail at craig @ weiler . com.  (remove spaces.)</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t be dressing up the site much or putting a lot of my own content there.  The objective is for all of you to share with each other.  Today is November 30, 2009.  Please become a fan leave a comment or start/continue a discussion and be sure to check the site off and on.  It will take time for this to gain enough people to make it interesting.  A month or two is fairly normal but it can take longer.  I&#8217;m starting this in the Holidays and I don&#8217;t know how that will affect it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Evan Ginzburg’s Legends Radio Presents: ]]></title>
<link>http://carnagechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/evan-ginzburg%e2%80%99s-legends-radio-presents/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Carnage Chronicles</dc:creator>
<guid>http://carnagechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/evan-ginzburg%e2%80%99s-legends-radio-presents/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great music meets great literature &amp; poetry &amp; performance art! At Gizzi’s Coffeehouse in Man]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cottingley Fairy Hoax]]></title>
<link>http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/fairy-hoaxes/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/fairy-hoaxes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In 1917 two cousins, Elsie Wright, 16, and Frances Griffiths, 10, came to public attention in the UK]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In 1917 two cousins, Elsie Wright, 16, and Frances Griffiths, 10, came to public attention in the UK. They claimed, and presented over time, five photographs that appeared to show them in the company of fairies. Some believed the pictures to be authentic and even Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle came to be a firm believer in them. For much of their lives the girls maintained that they were genuine before finally admitting in an interview in 1981 that they had been faked using cardboard cut outs stuck on hatpins. Elsie Wright though (now married and Elsie Griffiths) continued to maintain until her death in 1986 that they had seen fairies in their garden and that the fifth and final picture, in which neither girl is present, was genuine. <a href="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fairy_hoax.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-837" title="fairy_hoax" src="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fairy_hoax.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="256" /></a><a href="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fairy_2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-838" title="Fairy_2" src="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fairy_2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="255" /></a><a href="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cottingley-sunbath.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-839" title="Cottingley-sunbath" src="http://ostrichfeathers.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cottingley-sunbath.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>Thanks for reading.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Exterterrestrial abduction &amp; testing procedures]]></title>
<link>http://diaryofapsychicmedium.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/exterterrestrial-abduction-testing-procedures/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mattnrva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://diaryofapsychicmedium.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/exterterrestrial-abduction-testing-procedures/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I spent several hours this afternoon over at my Mom&#8217;s home, helping her rake leaves.  While I ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I spent several hours this afternoon over at my Mom&#8217;s home, helping her rake leaves.  While I was there, I got to talking to my little brother, Peter, who is 29.  He has had Duchenne&#8217;s Muscular Dystrophy all his life, and has been in a wheelchair and on a ventilator for years.  We have never been close, and rarely talk.</p>
<p>Anyway, he told me about his out-of-body experiences at night,  where he goes all around the world to see things he wanted to see, but couldn&#8217;t due to the wheelchair.  Then he brought up the extraterrestrial spacecraft and the aliens he had seen when he was a younger kid.</p>
<p>He said that when he was four, in the fall of 1984,  he was in bed and saw a bright light coming in the window, and looked over at the doorway, and saw a big-eyed, big-headed Gray alien there looking at him.  The next thing he knew, he was back in bed again.  He said he told our mother that he saw a monster in the doorway last night.</p>
<p>When he was fourteen,  in 1995, at the home he and my mom live at currently, he said one night he saw another bright light outside during the night and felt a strongly negative presence in the room that he could not see.  He said he felt paralyzed, and that&#8217;s all he can remember.</p>
<p>He had a &#8220;dream&#8221; the other night, that he was in the Gray&#8217;s science craft again, while 2 of them performed tests on him.  I asked him if it was his astral body they were testing, or his physical body, and he said physical body.</p>
<p>I have always believed that there was extraterrestrials, thousands of species of supremely intelligent ones, all over the universe, as well as ones that might not be as developed, like us to be blunt.  And I have read the stories about alien abduction.</p>
<p>But I never knew it was going on in my own family!  I do not remember being picked up by the Grays at all &#8211; and my brother said he thinks they did not ever take me.</p>
<p>Two years ago, Jeremy and I were talking about extraterrestrials &#8211; and I decided to open communication with them.  I sent out extremely strong telepathic thought aimed at alien races.</p>
<p>One or two days later, Jeremy called me in an excited mood.  He said the night before, late, he had gone out in his backyard for a few minutes to smoke a cigarette, when he noticed a light in the sky that was not a star or an aircraft.  He started staring at it, and a &#8220;voice&#8221; came into his mind, that he knew was coming from space.   It said &#8220;Ask Matt if he is ready&#8221;.</p>
<p>I was very excited.  I already knew telepathy is the best way to get in contact with any kind of higher species.  And I received an answer.</p>
<p>The truth is, at that time, I was<strong><em> not</em></strong> ready.  But I think that now I am ready &#8211; but ready for what??</p>
<p>I guess the truth is really out there.</p>
<p>MATT</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The ideomotor effect]]></title>
<link>http://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-ideomotor-effect/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cubiksrube</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-ideomotor-effect/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I used to believe in some wacky stuff. It didn&#8217;t seem all that wacky at the time, of course. W]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I used to believe in some wacky stuff.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t seem all that wacky at the time, of course. When I first started taking an interest in the stuff I was reading online, about people&#8217;s religious experiences and psychics and mind readers and dowsing and so on, it sounded fascinating, and wasn&#8217;t obviously bullshit at all. I guess I tend to think about things a bit differently now, or maybe there are just more things that I&#8217;ve learnt aren&#8217;t real in the intervening years.</p>
<p>Anyway, there was a lot of stuff about dowsing that caught my eye, and made it seem like an accessible skill. There was reams of advice and personal experiences people wanted to share, and it sounded like you didn&#8217;t need to be whisked away from your cupboard under the stairs to a wizards&#8217; school by a hairy giant in order to be a part of it. It sounded like anyone could join in, and learn to access some spiritual dimension which could provide insight and knowledge from beyond this world.</p>
<p>So I bought a crystal pendulum from a new age shop.</p>
<p>It feels so weird typing that sentence now.</p>
<p>It was cheap, but kinda pretty, and looked a lot like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/dowsingpendulums.htm">this quartz one</a>. The idea, as described on that page, is to clear your mind and mentally ask a series of yes/no questions, while letting the pendulum hang loosely from your fingers. There are various ways the pendulum might swing &#8211; circular motions, clockwise or anticlockwise, back and forth, diagonally &#8211; and you can calibrate it with some control questions.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t remember exactly how it went when I tried it, but it would have been something like: &#8220;Is my name James?&#8221; &#8211; and I saw it swing forward and back, so I knew that meant yes. &#8220;Is today Wednesday?&#8221; &#8211; another yes, with the same swinging motion. &#8220;Is there a dragon in my room?&#8221; &#8211; and it swung side to side, meaning no.</p>
<p>This was really exciting.</p>
<p>So I decided to test it out properly, and see if I could find out something that I didn&#8217;t know, and prove that I was really tapping into some amazing psychic source of power.</p>
<p>I think this is the point where my strategy departed from that of a lot of new age fans.</p>
<p>I got a deck of playing cards and placed one face down in front of me. I didn&#8217;t know what card it was, but I held the pendulum over it, and asked yes/no questions to narrow it down. &#8220;Is it black?&#8221; &#8211; no. &#8220;Is it red?&#8221; &#8211; yes. &#8220;Is it a picture card?&#8221; &#8211; no. And so on.</p>
<p>Eventually I narrowed it down to &#8220;Is it the five of diamonds?&#8221; and got a yes. It had given me a definite answer to everything I asked. It had never contradicted itself. I&#8217;d started with absolutely no knowledge or assumptions or preconceptions about the card in front of me, and my pendulum had honed directly in on its identity as the five of diamonds.</p>
<p>I still remember the fluttering in my chest &#8211; half excitement and half genuine fear &#8211; in the second or two before I turned over the king of clubs.</p>
<p>Aw, crap.</p>
<p>It turns out that there&#8217;s a bunch of reasons why people believe in this kind of thing, and post articles to the internet about their powerfully moving personal experiences with it. And these reasons don&#8217;t require magic to actually be real.</p>
<p>When I first started looking into it, it didn&#8217;t require any particular daftness on my part to take it seriously &#8211; it just seemed to be a part of the world. A somewhat secretive, not generally known, exclusive part, but that just made it all the more fun. At the depth at which I explored it at the time, I didn&#8217;t find any good reason to suppose that it was all completely fictitious. People were taking it for granted, writing detailed accounts of their achievements, and beginners&#8217; guides to the basic techniques.</p>
<p>But once you start thinking about it more critically, you realise that magic powers aren&#8217;t the only explanation. They&#8217;re not the best explanation. In fact, they&#8217;re not even a very good explanation.</p>
<p>Some people are very keen to find evidence that supports the idea that their dangling crystal can tell them things &#8211; so <a href="http://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/confirmation-bias/">confirmation bias</a> plays a big part in explaining why it&#8217;s so widely believed, as well as a host of other <a href="http://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/logical-fallacies/">logical fallacies</a>. But the ideomotor effect is one of the most persuasive aspects if you don&#8217;t know what it is. And it&#8217;s the one I&#8217;m supposed to be talking about here.</p>
<p>When I was asking myself those questions, I really was trying to hold the pendulum as still as possible. I know I wasn&#8217;t deliberately swinging it around to make myself seem like an amazing wizard (&#8220;Look, it knows my name!!&#8221;), but it&#8217;s worth asking: how good am I at holding my hand perfectly still? When I look closely at my outstretched digits as I try to remain motionless, I seem surprisingly wobbly. If I&#8217;m going to hold something on a thin and flexible cord or chain, it seems likely that my natural shakiness is going to have some effect.</p>
<p>And it turns out that the pendulum picks up more than just a general jiggle from my unsteady muscles. Let&#8217;s say I know a forward-swing means yes, because of my first test question. If I then ask something else which I know, or expect, has the answer yes, then on some level of consciousness I&#8217;m going to be imagining getting a forward-swing answer from the pendulum. My hand will then actually twitch, without my being aware of it, to make the pendulum swing forward.</p>
<p>The mental processes to do this can really happen inside your head, without the part where you&#8217;re conscious of it. It &#8220;bypasses volition&#8221;, to be a bit technical (volition being your capacity to do something by your own will).</p>
<p>You can try it easily yourself with any weight on some sort of dangling cord. I&#8217;m trying it now with one of the earphones from my mp3 player on its lead, and it&#8217;s still quite odd to see. I concentrate on a clockwise spinning motion, and it starts spinning clockwise, even though I&#8217;m still trying to hold it as steady as I can.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re thinking that this might be evidence that I was secretly psychic all along, you&#8217;re still leaping to a more complicated explanation than is necessary. If I&#8217;m not directly touching the cord, or holding it in such a way that my hand movements won&#8217;t affect its swing, then it doesn&#8217;t respond in the same way. It only moves like this when I have the capacity to be swinging it around unconsciously. The best explanation is that I&#8217;m simply moving my hand.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a common hypnotic trick, where you&#8217;re asked to close your eyes and stick your arms out, then vividly imagine a heavy weight in one hand pulling it down, and a balloon tied to the other pulling it up. You focus on the respective feelings of pressure and lightness for a while, and if you&#8217;re anything like me, after a couple of minutes you open your eyes and find that you&#8217;ve lifted and lowered your hands accordingly by several inches, without being aware of doing it.</p>
<p>The point is, your mind&#8217;s good at doing stuff like this without telling you about it.</p>
<p>Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean that nobody can dowse anything, or that we&#8217;ve proved that Ouija boards are universally a load of crap (yes, the people are just pushing the glass around even if they don&#8217;t realise it). But it reminds us the importance of asking the question &#8220;Is there a simpler, less Harry Potter explanation?&#8221; when we see something we think might be magic.</p>
<p>If I was doing actual magic over my playing card that time, then my skills make Neville Longbottom look like Gandalf. I must really suck at magic. I didn&#8217;t even get close to getting the card right. Magic just isn&#8217;t a good enough explanation for what happened there. But the idea that my hand wasn&#8217;t perfectly still, and made the pendulum swing a little by entirely natural means? Yep, that fits.</p>
<p>But what if I had got it right? What if I had no way of knowing what card I was staring at the back of, and wasn&#8217;t being provided the information by any means except the pendulum, and I actually got it right? And it kept happening, consistently?</p>
<p>Well, the ideomotor effect wouldn&#8217;t cover that. And <a href="http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html">I&#8217;d be a millionaire</a>.</p>
<p>But it does cover, y&#8217;know, every case that&#8217;s ever been examined of any kind of dowsing ever. Except the ones that are outright fraud, where there&#8217;s <i>conscious</i> deception taking place. But there really doesn&#8217;t need to be any malice or dishonesty for people to make magical claims that aren&#8217;t based in reality. If you don&#8217;t know what the ideomotor effect is, and maybe don&#8217;t test out your new idea all that rigorously, and kinda let slide the few occasions where it doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; then I can imagine this being pretty convincing.</p>
<p>People who do things like dowsing aren&#8217;t being stupid or evil. But they are <i>claiming that they can do magic</i>, and it&#8217;s a big ask that we should take that at face value without daring to question it any further, even if we don&#8217;t doubt their sincerity. It&#8217;s the kind of massive claim that we should probably, y&#8217;know, <i>check</i>.</p>
<p>And, unfortunately for any aspiring Weasleys out there, natural phenomena like the ideomotor effect provide a better explanation for every instance of &#8220;magic&#8221; that&#8217;s yet been observed. They account perfectly for what&#8217;s going on, but the magical explanation fails to explain why the effect always vanishes when studied closely. It just doesn&#8217;t work. The five of diamonds was not my card.</p>
<p>Sorry, Hermione. Muggles win.</p>
<p>A more academic and less chatty approach to this topic can be found at <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/ideomotor.html">The Skeptic&#8217;s Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Ideomotor_effect">RationalWiki</a>, <a href="http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Ideomotor_effect">SkepticWiki</a>, and all over the place really. <a href="http://www.barrettdorko.com/articles/ideomotor.htm">Barrett Dorko</a> and <a href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html">Ray Hyman</a>, among others, have written rather more scientifically rigorous documents about the ideomotor effect in action, with examples of experiments in which it&#8217;s been seen.</p>
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<link>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/turn-off-the-soap-operas/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I was hoping the Lovers script would cause some discussion, maybe it will next week. I like doing these radio scripts, they make me rethink the cards myself as I riff on them. I think my view of the Lovers is worth discussing.</p>
<p>I really hate the myth of the Soul mate, the perfect person out there for you, and only you. As if you don&#8217;t have to work at keeping the relationship going. As if it will always work as YOU want it. What about what the OTHER wants? Maybe he/she wants something else or more or whatever. So many women get caught up in first the boyfriend, then the wedding, then the kids, they forget to deal with the MAN in their lives.</p>
<p>Soap Operas have undermined our reality. We don&#8217;t really want that kind of life, I don&#8217;t think anyway. But people get bored. So?   If you are bored, do something new, find something else to do. Even find a new lover on the side. Some find that works for them, why not? No I am not advocating cheating, I am advocating non-monogamy. Some seem  to need it. If you trust your spouse, it may work for you. But for heaven sakes, stop thinking that once you find LOVE it is all over and you never have to think or work at it again. It is NOT automatic.</p>
<p>We need to have LIVES again. Lives that take work, take planning and take aspiring to being bigger than they are now. Turn the TV off and LIVE.<br />
I guess that is what the Lovers does to me. I want love in my life too. But it will not complete me. I want sex, sure, but I don&#8217;t want to MARRY just for sex. What is the point of that? After a while, the sex palls or you get tired of sex, and you need something ELSE. What is that? It is called Life. If I marry, it is to someone who wants some of the same things I want. A house, perhaps, a person working on big personal goals who needs a bit  of help and a cheering section. A person to work together with, not just someone to love me. I have to love me. If I don&#8217;t love me, no amount of love from outside will be enough.</p>
<p>So what is the Lovers? It is two people working to build something. Could be an empire, or just a comfortable place to live. A team effort. To paraphrase an old Army slogan: It&#8217;s not an adventure, it is a job too. It is a big adventure, but then so is all life, but it is also a big job. I am applying where I can.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Chariot--Radio Script #10]]></title>
<link>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-chariot-radio-script-10/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bgmeyer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-chariot-radio-script-10/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Chariot The Chariot shows a man driving a chariot, pulled by two animals, usually a black horse ]]></description>
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<p>The Chariot shows a man driving a chariot, pulled by two animals, usually a black horse and a white horse, almost invariably without reins. He is steering them just by the power of the mind. This is a card that has varied from deck to deck, but not changed much in its subject. This is all about harnessing the power of our will to move forward in our lives.</p>
<p>The horses are black and white, for the two aspects of our consciousness, the good and the bad or the deep and the shallow, the creative and the practical, the emotional and the intellectual. We will always feel conflict in moving forward, there are ALWAYS choices to be made. Is this the best way? Is there another thing we might do instead? Is this even a reasonable thing to be doing? If we wait for absolute certainty, for finding the PERFECT choice, we won’t get very far. Ultimately, we move by making hundreds of small choices and small adjustments as we go, as our body does as we walk, to keep us upright.</p>
<p>But we all know we aren’t born walking. We must learn to walk, to figure out a good way to go by trial and error. The Chariot isn’t just about movement, it is about balance. It is about finding a way, not the ONLY way, or maybe not even the best way, but A way that gets us to move forward in our lives.</p>
<p>Reversed, the Chariot is about stagnating. We say we can’t get forward, because we haven’t the tools or the map or some other excuse. Tools are not the problem, lack of will is the problem. If you want to move, you can. Or it means running around in circles because we don’t want to move off this particular path. But to get to a Goal, we must sometimes go down roads we never expected. So get on that horse and just ride. Open up your Inner Vision and “Hi-yo, Silver! Away!”</p>
<p>This will be played on Witch School radio soon. (www.paganstonight.com)</p>
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<link>http://hannahsrandomthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/superpowers/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Hannah Goldberg</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So I have an uncanny experience this morning&#8230;. right before I woke up I thought to myself, &#8220;I bet it&#8217;s 9:18am&#8221; and then I rolled over to look at my alarm clock and it WAS!  I promise I didn&#8217;t set my alarm for 9:18am or anything crazy like that&#8230;. I seriously believe that I have superpowers.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of funny how when little coincidences like these occur in my life, I tend to automatically think that I must have some sort of ESP or supernatural ability to see the future.  I don&#8217;t know about everyone else, but I think we all go through these little phases where we want to believe that we&#8217;re special; that we have some sort of incredible trait that others only dream to have.  That idea stays around for a few hours while you try other tests to see if you really do have a superpower.  And then, after failing every test like not being able to read someone&#8217;s mind or predict what episode of &#8220;Friends&#8221; is on next, you are just left to believe once again that you are simply a normal person.  How depressing&#8230; after thinking I might have some sort of awesome telekinetic or telepathic or psychic power, to just realize that it was only a coincidence and I am just an everyday person with no extraordinary powers.</p>
<p>And then it begins again&#8230;. with each new coincidence, like having a dream about something that actually happens, I once again convince myself that I must be different&#8230; have some psychic powers.  Alas, as of right now I am still just a normal person with normal abilities, but if I ever find out that I do in fact have some crazy ability to read peoples thoughts or tell time without looking at a clock I will definitely write a blog about it.</p>
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<link>http://lnsb7s.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/10-things-about-warewolves-not-talking-about-jacob/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ella</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[1. All werewolves can communicate through a form of telepathy which enables them to hunt and perform]]></description>
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<p>1. All werewolves can communicate through a form of telepathy which enables them to hunt and perform more efficiently.</p>
<p>2. In <a href="http://www.skygaze.com/content/strange/Werewolves.shtml" target="_blank">Germany </a>it was believed that after death, honored ancestors became wolves. Their descendants were sometimes given names such as Wolfhard, Wolfbrand, and Wolfgang on the theory that thereby wolf spirits would enter them and afford them strength and courage.</p>
<p>3. Werewolves in a pack have a psychic link that bonds them together, if one werewolf in the pack dies the other werewolves can sense his death.</p>
<p>4. Werewolves do not only turn on a <a href="http://www.werewolffacts.zoomshare.com/0.html" target="_blank">full moon</a>, neither do they have to. A werewolf can change his form and shape shift at will whenever he wants to, at day or night. Although newly turned werewolves are sometimes forced to change by certain aspects of the lunar cycles or certain sounds such as the howling of another werewolf.</p>
<p>5. Some interesting signs from folklore and popular film and literature include: uncontrollable rage; insomnia; a hairline that forms a widow&#8217;s peak; hair or magical marks on the palms of the hands; eyebrows that meet in the middle; an unnatural fear of water; excessive body hair; unusually compelling eyes; longer-than-average third fingers on each hand; and difficulty pronouncing words that start with the letter &#8216;W&#8217;.</p>
<p>6. Most modern fiction describes werewolves as vulnerable to silver weapons and highly resistant to other attacks.</p>
<p>7. <em>Lycanthropy </em>is the supernatural condition whereby a human transforms into a wolf. If an afflicted person transforms into another type of animal, the correct term for their condition is <em>therianthropy</em>.</p>
<p>8. Werewolf legends exist in most of the world&#8217;s cultures. Some of the tales date back to the beginning of written history. One of the earliest examples is the story of King Lycaon of<br />
Greece.</p>
<p>9. The <a href="http://www.skygaze.com/content/strange/Werewolves.shtml" target="_blank">first known</a> use of the word in print goes back to the eleventh century, but a werewolf story survives from the first-century Satyricon. Beyond that, lycanthropy figures in Greek mythology, where Zeus, furious when he learns that Lykaon has served him and other gods human flesh, turns Lykaon into a wolf. Inspired by this myth, a cult took root in Arcadia. An initiate committed human sacrifice, an act that made him a &#8220;wolf&#8221; for nine years.</p>
<p>10. A person can become a werewolf by being born a werewolf, bitten by a werewolf, cursed by someone you have wronged in some way, and being given the power threw sorcery.</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow:hidden;position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Courier;color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;font-size:small;"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#339900;font-family:Courier;">All werewolves can communicate threw a form of telepathy which enables them to hunt and perform more efficiently.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[The Big Scary Leap]]></title>
<link>http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-big-scary-leap/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>craigweiler</dc:creator>
<guid>http://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-big-scary-leap/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Usually, life progresses on predictable paths with one small achievement or advancement build]]></description>
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<p>Usually, life progresses on predictable paths with one small achievement or advancement building on the one before.  Success is usually a slow process.  Yet sometimes, something else happens.  The path is not one of slow building, but of one big jump.  There are some paths that cannot be a slow progression, but require a solid and definite leap into the unknown.</p>
<p>I think marriage is like that.  (I include gays, whether you can legally marry in your state or not.  It&#8217;s the commitment, not the paper.)  You cannot really know the person you&#8217;re going to marry ahead of time and you cannot know in which direction emotionally or professionally you both are headed.  You have to discover all of this as you go along.  And before you can even start this path, you have to commit fully to traveling it.</p>
<p>Building a business can be like that as well.  At some point, you have to make a commitment to investing your resources and your time.  In many instances it cannot be done half way.  Either you make that Big Scary Leap or you don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to realize that the Big Scary Leap must be preceded by a lot of prep work.  You cannot know everything you need to know before marriage, but you can learn the basics of a healthy relationship and take the time and effort to get to know your own strengths and weaknesses better.  You can&#8217;t know all the problems you are going to face when you start your own business, but there is an awful lot that you can learn and know in advance.  The Big Scary Leap goes a lot smoother if you&#8217;ve done your homework.</p>
<p>It is also relative.  A big leap for one person might be an insignificant blip for another.  For example, public speaking and acting were never really a big deal for me;  I took to them naturally even as a kid.  For most people though, I have seen this be a terrifying experience.  While getting on stage and performing has been a huge experience and confidence builder for a friend of mine, it hasn&#8217;t been all that life changing for me.</p>
<p>There is an emotional aspect to making the leap as well.  While preparation has a lot to do with being ready, preparing also strengthens us emotionally.  No one makes a life altering leap into the unknown without at least partially having gotten over the hurdles.  Let me put it another way:  To enter into marriage, you can&#8217;t be too afraid of commitment and to start a business you can&#8217;t be too afraid of losing money.  You have to get over these emotional barriers before you can get very far.</p>
<p>And there is a mindset as well that will determine the success for failure of the leap.  How do you see yourself in this situation?  When it comes to marriage, I have always seen myself as successful at it and have never really considered the possibility of failure.  That alone is not enough, but what comes with this mindset is a determination to make the choices required for success.  To have a successful marriage sometimes requires making the choice for marriage over other choices, including being right.  If the marriage is a clear priority, then these choice are made decisively.</p>
<p>The same applies for business.  There are many hard choices that have to be made to create a successful business.  Do I work out of a crappy office and drive an old car to reduce my overhead?  Do I fire that nice, but incompetent guy?  If you&#8217;re focused properly, these decisions are obvious and require very little agonizing.</p>
<p>Decisions that seem obvious to an outsider can become really difficult if they are clouded with fear.</p>
<p>So the leap has to have a certain amount of timing to it.  We have to be ready to go and our fear has to be manageable before we do it and that readiness is a mixture of emotional and practical preparedness.  Even if we&#8217;re not sure exactly where we&#8217;re headed with that Big Scary Leap or how it&#8217;s going to turn out, we have to be as ready as we can be.  As psychic people, we know that if we just let go and relax for a moment incredible things can happen for us; when stuff is meant to be it&#8217;s as if the world simply lines up in a certain way for us and we get what we want.  We all have stories about how that&#8217;s happened for us.</p>
<p>But we sometimes have areas where we struggle and things don&#8217;t really tend to line up because we&#8217;re subconsciously afraid of the outcome.  And no amount of psychic mojo can save us from having to make decisions.   It is there that we have to rely on preparation so that when fear strikes, we will be as ready as we can be.</p>
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<link>http://diaryofapsychicmedium.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/some-thoughts/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mattnrva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://diaryofapsychicmedium.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/some-thoughts/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Sitting here thinking about things&#8230;.you know, people can&#8217;t spend their physical lives just doing what they hate for a &#8220;living&#8221; &#8212; me, I&#8217;d rather end this lifetime RIGHT NOW than be faced with spending the rest of my time working a &#8220;job&#8221; I hate, that is probably useless and boring, and does no good for society.</p>
<p>But some people are apparently satisfied living their lives like that.  If you are one of them, good luck, it&#8217;s something you have chosen to do.  I couldn&#8217;t do it.  But remember &#8211; NO ONE has to &#8220;do&#8221; anything.  If people simply aligned their minds with the Universe &#8212; well, let just say the world would be a hell of a different place, that is for sure&#8230;.it has taken me years to stop fighting the flow of the Universe &#8212; and to start relaxing and going with it&#8230;.and once I started doing that, things in my life just started coming together&#8230;..</p>
<p>Before all of this stuff started, I often sat around hoping I would be able to &#8220;get by&#8221; somehow until my &#8220;death&#8221;, doing something, I didn&#8217;t know what; truth be told, I didn&#8217;t know what the hell to do&#8230;.I sure as hell didn&#8217;t want to spend my life hating everything I do and suffering from extreme depression&#8230;.no way could I handle that&#8230;</p>
<p>Lots of times, I thought of &#8220;killing&#8221; myself, but ended up not doing it for the fear of crossing over after my &#8220;death&#8221;, and then discovering that my life was about to change big-time for the better the very next week, or even the next day &#8211; talk about ultimate humiliation!  I couldn&#8217;t take that chance.</p>
<p>But finally, events seem to be coming together to propel me and Jeremy (my best friend and business partner in this company) to new heights.</p>
<p>Look &#8211; all I have ever wanted is to help people &#8211; that is it&#8230;and finally my dream is coming true &#8211; my destiny is at hand&#8230;&#8230;finally&#8230;.</p>
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<link>http://psychic016.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/develop-your-psychic-ability/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>freepsychic4</dc:creator>
<guid>http://psychic016.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/develop-your-psychic-ability/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ever considered the chance that you might be psychic and that maybe you can develop these psychic po]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>ever considered the chance that you might be psychic and that maybe you can develop these psychic powers?  Have you ever had a bad vibe around someone that later turned out to be a bad person?  Have you ever had a gut feeling that turned out to be accurate?  If so , you have what&#8217;s required to turn those intuitive moments into something bigger, psychic ability.  </p>
<p> Trained practice is the key to helping anyone boost their psychic ability and developing your own talent only requires the decision to begin.  </p>
<p> Our brain is an impressive database capable of storing a cornucopia of  info.  A large amount of our capability to develop psychic power comes out of a number of elements.  A critical component is our physiology and how we are wired up.  Some individuals can become total psychics while others simply develop a more robust intuition.  </p>
<p> Power of Meditation : </p>
<p>The premier significant primary step to developing psychic powers and boosting psychic ability is to get in contact with your higher self.  Meditation is by far the 1st tool in your psychic toolbox that you&#8217;ll need.  Meditation is the tract to psychic development ; it shifts you by tuning your energy to the right frequency for psychic development.  </p>
<p> Meditation truly isn&#8217;t that tough.  The hard part to meditating is the prerequisites.  One of these requirements is learning to chill.  Agree with it or not, but plenty of folks have difficulty relaxing.  Learning to release the day&#8217;s stresses and recognize a relaxing moment can be difficult.  In order to meditate you need to find out how to actually relax.  </p>
<p>Yoga practice is a good and popular  mediation method that you can start practicing it.  There are lot of yoga resource available that help you to find out how to control your mind and relax yourself from daily stress and keep your intelligence calm and peace.  </p>
<p> Keeping a Meditation journal : <br /> be aware of how you&#8217;re feeling and what see while meditating, as often the pictures and feelings are answers to your questions and concerns in life.  Keep a journal and write down what you experience during your meditative state so you don&#8217;t forget later.  Compare your notes to tangible events that happen.  As you continually practice staying in touch with your inner self, your spiritual development will grow and the stronger you psychic capability will become.  </p>
<p> lose the Fear : <br /> A big misconception is you need to be 100 pc all the time.  Even the best psychics are hardly 100 percent accurate.  Learn to trust in your intuition.  It&#8217;s ok to mess up, nobody is perfect.  </p>
<p> Energy Development : <br /> The next big step in developing <b><a href="http://www.lifepsychic.com/">psychic</a></b> power is energy development.  We are surrounded by a refined energy, this energy is frequently referred to as prana or chi.  In your conquest to develop psychic power, you may learn how to manipulate this energy.  You&#8217;ll be able to summon this energy on demand and feel its incredible vibrations move through you.  This energy is sometimes used for healing.  Your next huge step ins psychic development is energy manipulation.  Our Universe is crammed with a refined energy, this energy is frequently referred to as prana or chi.  Healers summon this powerful energy to heal folks.  You will learn how to do the same.  ( Energy development is a vital tool, and is one of the more blatant forms of psychic capability that returns tangible results and can be harnessed after a few dedicated weeks of practice.  Traditional healers from the East coined the term Prana or Chi.  This Energy is used for healing as well as many other stuff.  ) </p>
<p> Living Healthy : <br /> A healthful way of life is a byproduct to psychic living.  As you meditate and work on your energy, you will find yourself straying away from the unhealthy preprocessed food and sodas and reaching for fresh quality food and tons of water.  It only is sensible that after your intunement that you&#8217;ll be set on a healthier course.  </p>
<p>Many folks with <b><a href="http://psychic7.easyjournal.com/entry.aspx?eid=4212528">psychic</a></b> capabilities are discouraged from employing their inner abilities.  Being a psychic isn&#8217;t deviant or something that should be feared but instead a conditioned and trained quality available to each human obstinate enough to pursue it.  Developing your psychic ability can enrich your life in several strategies, offering a robust association between your conscious and unconscious mind, heighten your spirituality, and intensify your faith.  It is up to you to recognize your skills.</p>
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<link>http://dianapagejordan.com/2009/11/28/girlstune-him-in-turn-him-on-servet-hasan-book-review/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Diana Page Jordan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tune Him In, Turn Him On: Using Intuition to Find and Keep the Man of Your Dreams By Servet Hasan Pu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h2><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738715603?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=diapagjor-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=390957&#38;creativeASIN=0738715603"><img class="alignleft" title="Girls! Tune Him In, Turn Him On" src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/38540000/38548933.JPG" alt="" width="181" height="280" /></a>Tune Him In, Turn Him On: Using Intuition to Find and Keep the Man of Your Dreams</h2>
<h3>By Servet Hasan</h3>
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<h3>Published December 1, 2009 (Paperback) Llewellyn Worldwide</h3>
<p>My son said yesterday, &#8220;Mom, you&#8217;re a witch.&#8221; Calmly.  With love in his voice, so I knew he didn&#8217;t mean the Margaret Hamilton kind.  I protested.  &#8220;You are,&#8221; he said, &#8220;You&#8217;re the most pure person I know, and when you&#8217;re really yourself, amazing things happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>So why do I need a book to remind me to use what&#8217;s God-given?  <a title="Girls! Tune Him In, Turn Him On" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738715603?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=diapagjor-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=390957&#38;creativeASIN=0738715603" target="_blank"><em><strong>Tune Him In, Turn Him On </strong></em></a>arrived today, on time, as do most of the books I need and want most.  Servet Hasan says in her book that she comes from a long line of psychics, and that we<em> all </em>have this intuitive ability.  <!--more-->We just have to respect it &#8212; and listen to it!  Yeah. But.  I&#8217;ve spent a lifetime ignoring the magic I hear and see and feel &#8212; when it comes to the men who enter my romantic life.</p>
<p>Servet Hasan tells how to go out of body, into the body of the man we&#8217;re interested in &#8212; and sense him out.  Ask questions, and receive answers.  Respectfully.  She says he won&#8217;t know, but I have done this kind of thing before, and the guy nearly always calls me at that moment.  A bit spooky. If you have questions about a relationship, get quiet, and ask in your head &#8212; staying open to perceive the answers.  Trust your intuition. Another variation &#8211; reach out through your third eye and enter his heart chakra to sense his spirit.</p>
<p>Burn that past baggage, and monitor your thoughts.  If you&#8217;re hearing &#8220;nobody is going to want me,&#8221; you are to replace that thought immediately with something like &#8220;I naturally attract loving relationships into my life.&#8221;  Yay!  Doesn&#8217;t that feel awesome already.  Relationships, she says, have to be on all three levels &#8211; physical, spiritual and psychological.  She also says, like my friend <a title="Girls! Tune Him In, Turn Him On" href="http://dianapagejordan.com/?s=comaroto" target="_blank">Marianne Comaroto</a>, to love yourself enough to marry yourself.</p>
<p>Servet is  happy to kick your butt if you&#8217;re hanging onto the wrong guy or nagging a guy.  She emphatically tells you to use your intuition to sense what is truly going on.  What a liberating stance.</p>
<p>As I read the book, my older son stopped by, saying he was headed out.  I noticed the Red Bull.  I stopped, and &#8220;read&#8221; him, and picked up that his ego was in command, and that his body didn&#8217;t really want that high level of caffeine.  So I told him.  He brushed it off, took off with his Red Bull, and I just got a text that said, &#8220;You were right.&#8221;</p>
<p>He&#8217;ll be okay.  So will I &#8211; now that I know I can use my intuition on men.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Remote Viewing Cases from the World’s Premier Psychic Spy by Major Ed Dames]]></title>
<link>http://farmerjaneusa.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/remote-viewing-cases-from-the-world%e2%80%99s-premier-psychic-spy-by-major-ed-dames/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wiley to Publish Revealing Memoir By Major Ed Dames Thursday, 05 November 2009 For Immediate Release]]></description>
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<p>Thursday, 05 November 2009</p>
<p>For Immediate Release:Wiley to Publish Revealing Memoir<br />
By Major Ed Dames</p>
<p>Media Contact:</p>
<p>Mike Onorato / Wiley</p>
<div><a href="mailto:monorato@wiley.com">monorato@wiley.com</a></div>
<p>201-748-6361</p>
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<p>Wiley will publish the memoir MATRIX INTELLIGENCE: Remote Viewing Cases from the World’s Premier Psychic Spy by Major Ed Dames in November 2010. A decorated military intelligence officer and former member of the controversial NSA-ARMY-sponsored Psychic Espionage Unit, Dames is the country’s foremost proponent of the psychic practice known as “remote viewing” &#8212; an intelligence gathering technique whose practitioners can see events from a distance anywhere in time and space.</p>
<p>MATRIX INTELLIGENCE will take readers behind the scenes of Dames’ most fascinating and offbeat cases applying his unique detective skills to the most baffling military Black Ops in modern times, as well as tackling mysteries so unusual and gruesome, they could be ripped from the darkest recesses of our imaginations. MATRIX INTELLIGENCE will also explore the often traumatic past that helped shape his life, a life that led a self-described wild child from the backwoods of New Jersey into the company of presidents, princes and movie stars.</p>
<p>Read more at <a href="//TwitPWR.com/ykW/" target="_blank">FirstEarthBattalion.com</a></p>
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<link>http://bgmeyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-lovers-radio-script-9/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Lovers In the older, Marseilles tarot decks, a Man is caught between two women. A dark-haired, o]]></description>
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<p>In the older, Marseilles tarot decks, a Man is caught between two women. A dark-haired, often older person, and a younger, lighter haired woman.  The title of this card was sometimes called “the Choice”. The Man had to make a choice: between an “earthy,” probably sinful person, and a “purer,” light haired&#8211;probably light filled&#8211;person. Or perhaps, between staying a child and living with his dark haired mother, or joining a woman his own age in a new independent life.</p>
<p>The Rider-Waite deck changed that to a Man and Women together. The woman communes with an angel and the man communes with her. The Rider-Waite seems to say that women are closer to the divine and men can learn from them. Men needed women, so the conventional wisdom went, to survive and grow. They needed women’s creativity and divine insight. But women were not practical people of the world, so men needed to protect them from reality.</p>
<p>Now in the new Millennium, equality has finally arrived. Marriage, these days, is not a matter of choosing a caretaker, but of choosing a partner. Love as the saying goes, cuts problems in half and doubles joy. In the World Tree Tarot (www.worldtreeproducts.com), the lovers are building energy between them that will create something new, that neither could create on their own. In this way, the Lovers is not just about romance, in fact it isn’t about romance at all: it is about partnership. Building something bigger than one person alone can do.</p>
<p>As we see new kinds of alliances develop: two men or two women, assorted threesomes, communes, and other possibilities, the Lovers must be treated more broadly. It can apply to a good business partnership, to a deep friendship, or any relationship where there are mutual goals to be achieved.</p>
<p>Reversed, it is misinterpretation, poor communication and clinging to the myths of “romance” or soul mates.  Let go of perfect love, there is no such thing. Strive for commitment, respect, forgiveness and mutual aid. This is real love. You can see it, if you open up your Inner Vision.</p>
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<p>I wonder if I will get a response to this one. Love is such a sensitive subject these days.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Psychic Sterling Sinclair's Prophetic Wisdom Winds Down]]></title>
<link>http://propheticwisdom.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/psychic-sterling-sinclairs-prophetic-wisdom-winds-down/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sterling Sinclair</dc:creator>
<guid>http://propheticwisdom.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/psychic-sterling-sinclairs-prophetic-wisdom-winds-down/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Psychic Sterling Sinclair&#8217;s Prophetic Wisdom Winds Down This blog has come a long way over the]]></description>
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<p>This blog has come a long way over the past 9 months.</p>
<p>Posts have included, the paranormal, an abduction/murder investigation, art, the auracture language, poems, phrophetic writings, channeled work, spiritual guidance, photos of ghosts, aliens, orbs, lakes, nate, the moon and the sky. </p>
<p>For the first month, this blog had 0-2 daily/weekly readers and and now it has 50-100 daily readers.</p>
<p>The posts and pictures can be found all over the world in websites, chatrooms and emails.  Many people have even printed copies for their own album or ritual practices.</p>
<p>When I first thought of posting this blog, I wasn&#8217;t sure how the world would receive information from a Christian Minister who sees the world through different lenses than most people.</p>
<p>The readers and participants of this blog have sometimes made me angry, fear for my life, and yet at other times, restored my spirit and taught me a lot.</p>
<p>In a dream, a year ago, I was told that the time for me to be silent was no more because my voice and views would lead me to people who may share the same sort of reality.  I am so glad that this happened.</p>
<p>Now, I am being led in a different direction and the pubilic life of Psychic Sterling Sinclair is winding down.</p>
<p>My website and this blog have run their courses and now it is time to prepare for their deletion.</p>
<p>This Blog, &#8220;Prophetic Wisdom&#8221;, will become inactive when either the view counter hits 58000 views or on December 31, 2009 &#8212; which ever comes first.</p>
<p>Until that time, I will continue to do my best to keep it up to date.</p>
<p>Many Thanks and Blessings,</p>
<p>Sterling</p>
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<link>http://tanuke.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/kejitwo-by-ageaus-on-deviantart/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>D.Dragon</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Open Letter to bipolarORwakingup]]></title>
<link>http://mohseyep.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/open-letter-to-bipolarorwakingup/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mohseyep</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mohseyep.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/open-letter-to-bipolarorwakingup/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O Readers, This is a letter I am writing for my own catharsis, my own release, and my own power. I w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">O Readers,</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">This is a letter I am writing for my own catharsis, my own release, and my own power.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">I wrote it for a man who makes youtube videos. Click on his name.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">I claim this story and my involvement in it as 100% my responsibility. I require nothing from you. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">Please read it, if you want. Please ignore it, if you want. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">Read on, knowing that I share in order to heal my self. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">I also share because I believe in the absence of boundaries within my reality.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">Self-compassion!</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">-Mohseyep-</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">*******</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a title="bipolarORwakingup" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/bipolarorwakingup">Jason</a>,</p>
<p>I am writing you to give you more information about my background and episodes. This is a long story.</p>
<p>I will also attach links to various writings/pieces that are relevant to my story. There is a lot of story here, because I feel pretty passionate about the part of my consciousness that you represent. The healed one, and the wounded healer.</p>
<p>Take your time, do not feel obliged to read all or any of this, and get back to me when it feels right for you. No rush. I expect nothing from you.<br />
Namaste,<br />
B</p>
<p>I started my journey with psychiatry after an extended period of pretty intense depression. At that time, lets say beginning around January 2008, I was in a relationship that had soured, was living with my then-partner in Halifax, a city in which I had gone to university, from which most of my friends had moved on, and I was planning a year-long trip to Korea to teach English. I was working in a bike store as a mechanic after having graduated form a history of science and history double honours, highly academic BA. I was unhappy with just about everything about this situation, though I didn&#8217;t have the consciousness to know it, or the communication skills to express it. I was receiving my unhappiness as an &#8216;external&#8217; manifestation, because I wasn&#8217;t taking the time or self-care-diligence to look within and really know how I was doing. This externally based sense of unhappiness stemmed from my continual research into the darkest aspects of humanity: conspiracy, corruption, war, corporatism, propaganda, powerlessness, apathy, environmental degradation, etcetera.</p>
<p>In September 2007, right after graduating university, I had my first LSD experience. I had moved to BC, and taken acid with two old highschool friends and one new friend, a man I now know much more about and respect totally. I knew I wanted to change my life in some way, but didn&#8217;t know how. I took the opportunity, and was connected to my divine mind, the one mind, for about 12 hours. Madness, unconditional love, total surrender, and absolute empowerment resulted. Then I woke up the next day, and continued living my life in the patterns that I had become accustomed to.</p>
<p>I came home from work in Halifax for about a week In April or May 2008 with no idea why I was weeping uncontrollably. I was deeply and thoroughly depressed. After some time, my partner called my parents, and they (my father is now retired, but was a family doctor for about 35 or 40 years, and my mom worked with him in his office) suggested that I go to the hospital. Thus began my relationship with hospitals and psychiatric medicine. I came to them in my most enfeebled, distraught, and desperate state, and received nothing but drugs. The environment in which I found myself was not conducive to comfort or compassion. Hospitals, in my experience, are deeply clinical and highly controlling places to be. So, after another few days, It became apparent that I could not continue at work, so it was decided either by my parents, my former lover, or myself to move with my partner back to Victoria BC, Canada, where I could live with my retired parents and recover, get some more help and have some unconditional support. Now it is obvious to me that this support was fully there from my partner. However, she needed support to love me through that time.</p>
<p>I began to see a shrink here in Victoria in May to July 2008. Within a few visits, I was prescribed Effexor for&#8230; obsessive compulsive disorder, and depression. There was no actual care involved. She sat well away from me, took notes, and stared at me. Her miniature dog barked at me occasionally. The role of the psychiatrist has been reduced by marketing, propaganda, and pseudo science from somewhat caring and interested in the patient&#8217;s story to the role of a human drug dispensary. Looking back at this experience now, I can see how telling my story to this psychiatrist was no more effective for my healing process than telling the full details of my story to an empty vending machine, deep in the lifeless guts of a long-abandoned underground warehouse.</p>
<p>My girlfriend had moved in to the house my family was sharing with another family, and these months were dreadful. The relationship was over. Everyone knew it. My ex stuck it out because I believe she still loved me deeply, even if I had moved on in my life to a new phase, new challenges. I was relieved every time I got time away from her. This was two summers ago, Beginning in the worst part of my depression around mid june and all of July. As I said, the relationships in that house were toxic: my parents to their mortgage-sharing house partner, me and my ex, everyone around us knew it. Taking effexor, I began to feel vaguely better, but not in a way that I absolutely KNEW was the answer.</p>
<p>I decided to move away from the city, and began to work on some farms on the gulf islands for all of August and much of September. These were deeply healing times for me. I began to have success with meditation. I had spent some of my time in the house reading online about the language of empowerment, the secret, manifestation, Wayne Dyer, and lots of the other gurus and pseudo-guru-cash-seekers. I found a CD of John Kabat-Zinns Mindfulness meditation and brought it with me to one of the islands. I began to get really excited about meditation. I built relationships with my farm hosts, and the animals, and myself. I began to feel much more human, and left a lot of the paranoia about corporate greed and governmental corruption and conspiracy behind. Or so I thought.</p>
<p>The relationship ended at one point, and I even helped her move away. It was a sweet relief, I think, for both of us. I still have unhealed wounds around relationship, but for now am pleasantly engaged in unattached, unconditionally loving, mindful singleness for the first time since I started pursuing long term monogamous love when I was 15 or so. I believed for a long time that young men were supposed to do that.</p>
<p>Upon returning to the city, I seemed much better to my family and few friends that I had found here. In early October, you may remember, we had an election in Canada. Just prior to the election day, about three or four &#8230; I can&#8217;t really remember for how long, I began to have my first genuine &#8216;manic&#8217; episode. I believe that the high dose of Effexor I was on contributed much to this episode. It really is the perfect self-fulfilling prophecy: give the depressed person super-potent uppers, then crucify him for being manic later on: forcibly give him new drugs and tell him that he has a lifelong inability to manage his inner life, while the drugs repress his emotions, barring their expression and completion.</p>
<p>Anyway, things started to become much more meaningful. My concentration and logic abilities went way down, and my sensory experiences heightened and accelerated. I planned a lot more, and wrote down a lot more. I barely slept. I ate less, though I felt incredibly energized. I felt like through the basic meditation practice I&#8217;d been granted special powers. I no longer differentiated between words, spoken or written, from the objects they represent. No wonder the Egyptians believed names and words held total power. I felt like I could manifest just about anything, because everything that I experienced was so perfect in each moment, I couldn&#8217;t have asked for a better experience. Things that were traditionally near-meaningless became much more profound: bread crumbs, garbage, the sound of my footsteps. I felt expanded and connected, and more creative than I can ever remember.  I helped to carry out the election as some kind of officer, though I forget of what kind. I told voters where to go all day, collected sheets from pollers all day, and had the most beautiful, celebratory experience of sharing food I can every member. At one point, I&#8217;m sure the lead officer/citizen was convinced I was insane. This was fine at that point, because I knew I was creating my experience; it didn&#8217;t bother me. The paranoia hadn&#8217;t started yet, this would come the day after, in the hospital.</p>
<p>After getting home that night, October 14th, 2008, I began to write a blog, much of which I remember as total gibberish to me now. I deleted all of it during a sensation of shame earlier this year. At the time, the blog held the secrets of my existence, and I was broadcasting them to the world, proving once and for all that enlightenment is no more than allowing the free flow of feelings to guide our way through life, and that everyone can do it.</p>
<p>I burned the midnight oil all that night, and made some pretty incredible art on this computer.  I&#8217;d been impassioned about recording my experience and making art out of it for some time before. Some of the videos you can still see on my youtube channel. Look at predictive calculus, black new white, back to the middle, Mental # 1, Song No.1, All time no time, EMBARRASSMENT? The last 4 are especially significant for my experience of acute psychosis. In order to be able to see them, We first need to be youtube friends, then I will open them up to you. My name on youtube is Mohseyep &#8211; Please, feel free to add me and check them out at your leisure.</p>
<p>Anyway, I was up all night playing with light switches, making videos, talking to myself, burning magazines, feeling free and celebratory, excited and uninhibited, all those wonderful light feelings you describe so well online. The death of my ego, and the uninhibited expression of my inner light. Eventually, I began to feel depleted, drained of energy. I&#8217;d been burning a bright light of love within my heart for most of that day and all of the night, and I had sent out powerful vibrations to the rest of the universe, and to those people who were still paying attention. I wanted something to happen, because I couldn&#8217;t understand it with logic, the part of me that has been conditioned to expect full comprehension of everything in the universe. My ex phoned me, and I was running a bath, finally accepting the cathartic reality of my madness-freedom, and I was in no mood to talk to her. Our conversation was short, and very bitter. She almost immediately phoned my shrink, who pink-slipped me by phone with two large cops standing over me in my family home. I was taken by ambulance to the lowest security ward of the local psych hospital.</p>
<p>I spend two weeks there in hospital, struggling with the fear and the control and the anger, being drugged and not given a choice, let alone receiving the openness and space that I&#8217;d just given myself. I fully and joyfully resonate with your interpretation of mania as a sacred, natural, healing process that the body undergoes to heal past trauma. Because for two weeks this sacred self-healing experience was systematically and coldly repressed, I left there with a lot of unexpressed rage. I wanted nothing to do with the system, and nothing to do with the creepy doctors who saw me from time to time. I was highly motivated to get out. I&#8217;m now beginning to recognize the PROFOUND anger I can summon, if I choose to (though its not a highly productive choice, in fact its the one choice that the system needs to maintain its control over so many lives), not to mention the connection between the psychiatry industry and the systems which corporate culture, in collusion with near-completely corrupt lawmaking institutions have created in order to maintain control over the illusion of money and engender enough fear to feed our complicity. In this sense, I believe approaching mental health with a radically different approach is a deeply political spiritual act.</p>
<p>So, after being diagnosed with depression and OCD earlier that summer by an incompetent psychiatrist, I and my family all struggled to get me released after two weeks. In this case, I was taken off the effexor, and during my stay in hospital, I was diagnosed anew with bipolar disorder. I was put on the standard for antipsychotic medication here in BC: Olanzapine. In hospital, I gained 10 pounds on this drug. Outside hospital, I stayed on the drug for a very short period of time. At one point, I gained 8 pounds in seven days. I was absolutely infuriated by the treatment I had received in the hospital. I felt extraordinarily alone, and like no one else, especially not my parents, could understand the magnitude of my anger at being so harshly and obviously stuffed back into the repressed box society assumes to be natural. I burned the medications, and never looked back. This was one year ago, in November. This rage might connect to the choices that led me to my next episode, and it might not.</p>
<p>Med-free, I began to look for work. I was playing bike polo with a good community of men. I was having fun, and doing my best to manage the excitement I felt. I was writing a lot at this time, and doing a lot of release work with some recordings from <a href="http://www.limitlessness.com/" target="_blank">www.limitlessness.com</a>. An old friend of mine visited at this time. She is a nurse, and considering what I&#8217;d learned about energy, giving, and receiving, I became inspired. I applied to nursing school for September 2009, and began immediate work on a distance-education prerequisite course to fully qualify. I believe myself to be a wounded healer, and I thought it would be a great way to have a career and blend in, while getting lots of opportunity to hold space for people. The course started in January. It is a full-year course, and by March, I was 3/4s done it. My discipline and motivation in this period was very high. It&#8217;s no surprise, considering the direct repression of my experience that I agreed to, that I was working to get myself BACK into a hospital setting. Maybe this is conscious, maybe not. I don&#8217;t know. What I am sure of, is that I want healing.</p>
<p>I found a part-time job in a local tea shop, serving retirees around the end of November, in time for the Christmas season. At the restaurant I met a woman who immediately interested me. She was about 56, and had been practicing Reiki since 1984. I signed up for Reiki 1 in February, and loved it. I developed a relationship with other young members of her community.</p>
<p>In March, I met a whole new community, and my world began to expand at an unprecedented rate. I can give you an account of that evening here, on my blog:  <a href="../2009/03/09/the-burning-moment/" target="_blank">http://mohseyep.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/the-burning-moment/</a></p>
<div id=":1n">That night, I encountered the first community I feel I can be a part of with my whole self. I certainly experienced a smaller, more time-constrained ego death that night. I felt no hesitation. I just started building relationships with as many of these people as I possibly could. I started to be out almost every night, and not sleeping so much. I quit my job at the teahouse. I fell in love. I began to contact juggle (<a href="http://www.shiftys-spheres.com/CJMoves.html" target="_blank">http://www.shiftys-spheres.com/CJMoves.html</a>).I slowed down and subsequently stopped working on my course as the social aspect of my life accelerated. This happened for two reasons. Firstly, I was altogether too excited to focus on it much when there were always so many amazing events and parties and social gatherings to explore. Secondly, UBC said no. At the beginning of April, they contacted me to say that my application had not been approved. This immediately took the wind from my sails. I slowed my work pace even more, not really KNOWing in that special way that we can KNOW that nursing was right for me. I slowed, assuming I would finish the course at a later date and reapply. I still don&#8217;t rule this out.At the end of April, they invited me for an interview in Vancouver. I went, aced it by being myself, and they invited me to the course a week later. In my perception, I didn&#8217;t have enough time to finish the prerequisite, so I said no. I then fully stopped working on the course, and opened myself up to the full experience of my new communities.</p>
<p>In April, I looked up a local shaman, and began to practice shamanic journeying. The results from this technique, what I take to be a highly active form of meditation in which I empower myself to learn from my own higher self and act accordingly, have been astounding. Synchronicity, image, timing, connection, new experience, growth, money, relaxation, self acceptance. I love this work, and I resonate with the stories you tell in your videos about Shamanism and tribal culture, and how critical it is for &#8216;people with bipolar&#8217; and also people generally for us to evolve in consciousness as individuals and as a collective.</p>
<p>In may, through a connection within my burner community, I got a job which I still have and love, working for a community day centre for adults with developmental disabilities. I make my own hours, make a decent wage for my stage of life, and enjoy my job thoroughly. It fits me. I love giving people the space they need to be themselves. I now have a second care giving job working for a man in his home. He has muscular dystrophy.</p>
<p>In June, I went with my Reiki teacher to visit Amma in Seattle: <a href="http://www.amma.org/" target="_blank">www.amma.org</a>. This was perhaps the most powerful and directly emotional experience of love in my adult life. I received darshan, asked for a mantra, and practiced the meditation I was taught to go along with it for months afterwards. Its intention was &#8217;surrender&#8217;.</p>
<p>I had begun to take psychedelics. Slowly. I have had experience with them in the past, largely in high school. Mushrooms only, except for the LSD two Septembers previous. I took a dose of Mushroom juice in the park with some friends. Beautiful, safe, nurturing environment, lovely. Then I wound up at a festival. I took MDMA on the Thursday, and then on Saturday I surrendered completely to the experience, and took MDMA, mushrooms, and LSD all at the same time. This was a super-potent trip named &#8220;The Jedi.&#8221; At one point I remember being able to listen to the trees. I shouted my joy into the silence of dawn. I became one with the flow of energy that is life. Everything spoke to me within the self-referential language of personal symbol and archetype. Mine was a full on ego death, and I embraced every moment of it.</p>
<p>At another festival, the weekend following, I took LSD again. This choice to do LSD came just after facilitating a meditation workshop at the festival. I used simple breath exercises, chanting, and visualization techniques. One man cried, beautifully. This was an important milestone for me, because friends I knew and loved were not only accepting that part of my reality but embracing it. A far cry from the hospital. On the LSD, the intensity of my experience began to overwhelm me. I became an old man, and died another ego death. My parents, with whom I still lived with, and from whose reality I was consciously building up blocks, were beginning to really worry about my mental health. They suspected, but didn&#8217;t actually know until I told them later on that I had been experiencing a lot more drugs than was normal for me. Normal is zero, save caffeine.</p>
<p>In months of spring, March, April, then May, then June as well, I had been consciously barring my parents from my experience. I assumed they couldn&#8217;t help or support me. When the opportunities came up, I berated them with words which made sense to me in my enlightened-psychotic state, but which they had no frame of reference for understanding. Whether intentionally or not, I was alienating them from me, the two people who I would depend on most for comfort in my second hospitalization.</p>
<p>This last July was ugly. My communities continued to function without me, and I began to feel very strange. The third ever dose of LSD came at the end of June. It was very difficult for me to pack up my gear, costumes, tent, and other belongings. In my interpretation, the following two weeks of total fear, absolute paranoia, and delusional thinking resulted not from something &#8216;wrong&#8217; with me at a core level, but because of the lack of intention and consciousness with which I used all of those drugs. Also, I have no idea. There are probably some other traumas that have gone unhealed for a long time as well which I am not conscious of &#8211; yet.</p>
<p>Surrender is one thing, but to make such choices was very much outside of my character. My ego had died, and I was functioning from a space in those prior months in which I didn&#8217;t mind if I made uncharacteristic decisions. I was in the flow of the truth of my being, for months &#8211; why my dad and psychiatrist would later name hypo-mania. After taking psychoactive street drugs, I opened myself up to the spirit world in such an unprotected way that I incorporated a lot of the same old fear systems that have gone on for millenia. The negative space of paranoid delusions also had much to do with the trauma I&#8217;d undergone in the hospital the previous October.</p>
<p>I went on a camping trip with an older man from work, someone who has now become a close friend of mine, a week after my final LSD experience. He held open a space of unconditional acceptance and total confidentiality. In this way, his questions led me to understand ad believe that &#8216;I might have something going on in my reality that I don&#8217;t understand. I need to ask about it to get it checked out.&#8217; Respecting him, and believing this for myself, I later chose to go to another new psychiatrist. This was the true beginning of the paranoid delusions that led me to take time off work. In this interaction, I totally closed the door on pharma-drugs, because I associate pharmaceutical drugs with fear and dis-empowerment. She also reminded me, after having told her my story, not to do any kinds of street drugs whatsoever. In this way, she was only able to recommend rest, exercise, nutrition, and routine. She wasn&#8217;t afraid of me, but was interested in promoting my own fear of myself, which she did very well.</p>
<p>I remember the episode right after my visit to see the shrink. I went to a vocal beatboxing workshop, and there were three beautiful, conscious, superbly healing women around me. I sensed attraction from one woman early on that evening. This was exactly the right situation for me. I kept my shit together, had a blast, and released a lot of the emotional stuff I&#8217;d been holding on to. It was a sacred workshop, and the intention to hold space was open and initiated the evening. I was obviously struggling with something, but I&#8217;m not sure if any of us knew exactly what that was. After the workshop ended, I decided to stick around and socialize. One of the girls offered me a joint. I smoked, and all the chemical changes in my body from the psychedelics, underneath the surface of my consciousness rose to the forefront. Fuelled by my confusion and a good deal of the negative, controlling, fearful energy I&#8217;d picked up in my drug journeys, I became a monster. Judgmental, sexist, manipulative, attention seeking, full on egotistic breakout. Despite my enactment of some of the lowest parts of my consciousness, they held space for me, and when I could get it together, I went home. I am very grateful for these three and more. All night, a power animal of mine was watching.</p>
<p>I began to believe and know that I could &#8216;read&#8217; peoples thoughts, projecting my own words and particular flavors of fear on them as soon as I knew whether they were coming from a place of love or fear. Most people on the street? Fear. Most of my colleagues at work? Fear. My old friends conspiracy, corporatism, and corruption blossomed into fears of drug lords, mafia, hell&#8217;s angels, illuminati, secret societies, hidden governments. At its worst, even the friends and family who I &#8217;should have known&#8217; loved and supported me came into my perception as a part of the delusion.</p>
<p>Work was unbearable. All of the &#8216;developmentally disabled&#8217; people our culture sequesters at places like the one where I work every day are FULLY tuned in and turned on. They can recognize things about you that most people have no idea they are even revealing about themselves and their inner processes. I was frigging terrified at work that day because I knew that all of the clients could read me, and I could read them. Some of the interactions were positive. One lovely woman came straight up to me and told me she loved me. Another hit herself in the head repeatedly. I had no filters, no skills for being in two worlds at the same time.</p>
<p>The main problem with all of this, apart from the more than usual unpredictability of all the clients I worked with that day, was the staff. The staff were <em>literally</em> walking enforcers of the modern logical, empirical, consensus-reality choice to ignore the multidimensional nature of our consciousness, and instead focus on measurable, arms-length objectivism. I saw how each interaction between staff and client was either an embrace of love or a fearful rejection or attempt to control. In both cases, there were levels of communication and reality which I had no normal awareness of that was able to clearly perceive &#8211; in each case, the client was significantly more evolved than the staff member. I understood how the only reason I had been allowed in to this place of control was because I too was at work from within my chosen programming, controlling myself, limiting myself, controlling others, while ostensibly serving them.</p>
<p>This experience has shown me how our jobs and the habits they engender promote a monolithic lack of self-awareness as the desirable norm, and slow or stop our evolution as a species. In this way, I am complicit. I admit that I help to co-create the system of fear that enslaves people to their own projections of limitation, allowing the collective ego of the human race to enslave, torture, and kill itself. I still work at this place, and I do my best to come from a feeling of unconditional compassion and love for each client in each interaction. I am learning to be comfortable with the unknowing of whether I am reducing harm or exacerbating it.</p>
<p>I had to tell my supervisor that I was having severe personal problems, and wanted to book time off. That night I went downtown to busk. I am a contact juggler, and I&#8217;ve gotten pretty good. I thought that by doing some really intentional service, I could redeem some of the harm I&#8217;d committed in the name of my individuated and the collective ego. I busked and busked and busked. I made 70 bucks in 6 hours once that week. I will refer you to some more writing of mine, which talks about this experience of busking a little bit:  <a href="../2009/11/11/attention/" target="_blank">http://mohseyep.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/attention/</a> I attracted attention with my ball-dancing, and held crowds using multi-ball contact and Byron Katie&#8217;s &#8220;The Work&#8217; self-inquiry methodology. (<a href="http://www.thework.com/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.thework.com/index.asp</a>) I framed this combination as street theater hypnosis. I was very vocal about this, at first.</p>
<p>In any case, I was now in the full flow of ego death, though this was no healing, beautiful, light and celebratory experience of love within the flow of energy. What I was feeling was the contorted regimentation of consciousness that I had believed was freedom. I felt the suffering of each individual that passed by me as my own. I knew that everyone around me was walking with fear in their heart. The city seemed like a monstrosity to me, and I was its only sane inhabitant. I looked around in the city, shouting things like &#8217;street hypnosis!&#8217; or &#8216;all I need is one volunteer,&#8217; and received my free expression with looks of disgust or fearful curiosity. My charisma and brute force was able to hold people&#8217;s attention for a while, but if they sat for too long, I began to see them as the enemy, spying on me.</p>
<p>This went on for hours. As my paranoia grew, so would the totality with which people ignored my busking act. As my confidence in my ability to express myself grew, so would my ability to gather and hypnotize people, earning little coins and papers. The next part of my story, in fact, all of my story must be taken as a story, a perception of one of an infinite number of experiences &#8211; not a reality. I was in a story, not a reality. Even as I tell this story to you, I recognize my egotistic identification with it and its irrelevance. This is why I am comfortable sharing this &#8216;intensely personal&#8217; story with you. It is not me, and never was. The fundamental nature of each person is sensory, experiential, and immediate. It has nothing to do with our stories, our pasts, or our plans. Now, now, now, now we are. Now, I am that.</p>
<p>As I was busking, I noticed that a police car had driven by twice, with its sirens on just around where I was working. This didn&#8217;t bother me. I continued to work. Then an ambulance did the same thing. This got the response I was trying to avoid. I sat down. I showed some weakness. I felt that later, this was the true beginning of my paranoid psychosis. There was a kabuki cab, a cycle cab driver standing nearby, projecting his energy into my space. He held a phone. I introduced myself, I I cast him as the agent of the controller (of course, a a part of my own mind), and the rest unfolded. I believed he was an undercover cop, phoning me in. I maintained my space, until I felt my phone ring. I picked up a message from my mother about her plan for the evening, and to check in with me. I cryptically interpreted this message as proof that she was conspiring with the cops and the people at my work to get me back in the hospital. This is when I really began to cease trusting my loved ones.</p>
<p>I left, and found myself in front of a cafe I love, re-reading notes form my job, trying to associate the physical objects I had in my life with some aspect of normalcy, to remind myself of my responsibility and of my capability to deal with the world. There was a man sitting next to me. A woman came right up to him, with a giant bag of weed, and openly offered it to him. I assumed they were both corrupt undercover cops, and bolted. For the remainder of the night, I was pursued by the ghosts of my internal world. I projected the controlling, observing, judgmental, reductionist, power-hungry and intimidating aspects of my own psyche as a blanket on to everything I could see, touch, hear, or smell. My phone was tapped. My parents were cooperating with the illuminati. I was alive, fully alive, inside hell. Everywhere were demons, no-faced agents of my destruction. There could be no salvation. I was damned, and afraid forever. I felt like I was completely insane. I called my parents after some time, drive home with my father, and blamed him for everything. My parents were obviously guilty of putting the cops on to me. I have no memory of how I calmed down or slept that night.</p>
<p>The following morning, I tried to fill the prescription for different drugs I&#8217;d received from the shrink a week or two before. In my state, their inability to fill the script due to not having enough meds was the last straw. I walked in, sure after the previous evening that everyone in the city knew that I was an insane freak who needed to be hospitalized, and showed the man my prescription. In response to my presence, he behaved like a man who was having a relaxing morning and had suddenly been given a choice to either fill my prescription or be held responsible for the genocide of a small country. I have no idea whether what I heard was actually spoken at all, but I definitely heard a conversation in which my name was mentioned, and the following words were heard: &#8220;disaster response protocol.&#8221; I left, fully freaking out, knowing that I was going to live within this corrupted and terrible world of fear for the rest of my life, unless I chose to drug myself. I went home, and called 911.</p>
<p>Every person&#8217;s behaviour from the ambulance driver to the nurses continually reinforced my feeling of insanity and wrongness-within. Their fear of my psychosis confirmed the fact that the drug lords, organized crime bosses, secret societies, corrupt cops, paid off nurses, laughing psychiatrists, idiotic social workers, and especially all the other patients in the hospital were included in my delusion. It seemed as if I was the person for whom the farce of the mental ward had been created. It seemed like the other patients were in control, and like some had been specially selected to have a stay with me in order to scare the shit out of me. I remember the first lady I met in the safe room. This woman was a competent psychic. She left notes out for me to read by &#8216;accident.&#8217; The contained explanations of my worst fears, and confirmations that I had been detected by the illuminati. I look up from this note to see a &#8216;Mason-lift&#8217; truck pull away from the street outside, confirming that I had seen the note. She looked me in the eye, talked to me, and told me that I would never get out.</p>
<p>After four days, I was moved to the other room. It is as if the place exists solely to box up and repress our ability to see, hear, and feel things for what they truly are. I had no one to talk to except patients who were much worse off than me (thinking about them now, my heart breaks), and nothing but my own thoughts to keep me company. From day one, my ego had risen to such power that I believed that everyone in the hospital knew when I was alone and calm. I believed that the act of meditation would prolong my stay. I had no idea what to do. I accepted the drugs. No one was allowed in to see me until after I&#8217;d left the safe room. My friends and family came, and they were part of the delusion too. It was horrific.</p>
<p>I was reminded that I was bipolar. I started taking lithium. It took about 5 days of concentrated effort, but after a while, my meditation practice began to generate some personal space around myself. I was able to walk around the room without feeling attacked and brutalized by the other patients. I was able to calm my fears by repeating: &#8220;I am confident, secure, and sure of my freedom&#8221; for days on end.</p>
<p>I was able to leave once I&#8217;d become much less delusional. I left in late July.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d bought my ticket to burning man in May. I decided to go through with the plan, and spent much of August preparing for my journey to the unknown. An account of my burning man experience can be found here:  <a href="../2009/09/10/burning-man-2009/" target="_blank">http://mohseyep.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/burning-man-2009/</a> I camped with HeeBeeGeeBee Healers, an international community of healing arts professionals. It was absolutely wonderful: <a href="http://www.heebeegeebeehealers.org/" target="_blank">http://www.heebeegeebeehealers.org/</a></p>
<p>I am actively pursuing my own healing, and this process led me to you. Your videos resonate deeply. In the hospital, some part of me accepted that I ought to fear myself. I no longer accept this choice. I am going to heal, whether I can find help or not. I want to be med free again, asap.</p>
<p>I am ready. I am asking. I am creating.</p>
<p>Much love&#8230;</p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">*******</span></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">If you got this far, thank you for reading. I admire your curiosity and patience. </span></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">One love.<br />
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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">-M-</span></div>
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<link>http://hypnobaby.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/hypno-baby-ashleigh-alexandra-louise-smith-is-now-almost-15-weeks-old-and-its-time-to-join-her-fanclub-the-worlds-youngest-psychic-magician-hypnotist/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi There Everyone, Great News I now have an official Facebook Fan Page! Simply search for &#8220;Ash]]></description>
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<p>Great News I now have an official Facebook Fan Page!</p>
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<p>Simply search for &#8220;Ashleigh Alexandra Louise Smith&#8221; on Facebook and Join my Fan Page today as that is where<br />
photo&#8217;s and Video&#8217;s and News is being posted more regulary than at this blog.</p>
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<p>So my advice is to join my facebook fan page and keep checking back here on a regular basis as the plan is to release<br />
some exclusive photo&#8217;s and videos via this blog every now and again which will not appear on my facebook fan page and<br />
then also put some stuff on Facebook which won&#8217;t appear here!</p>
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<p>As you can see in the above video I sleep very well even when in noisy room&#8217;s, indeed<br />
I reckon I could sleep through an earthquake I take after daddy like that : ) !</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yYYLl_JJzg"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/-yYYLl_JJzg&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/-yYYLl_JJzg&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></a></p>
<p>To finish for today here&#8217;s a quick video clip which daddy made by accident when he<br />
was trying to take a picture of me on his mobile phone..</p>
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<p>So Remeber to go to Facebook and search for &#8220;Ashleigh Alexandra Louise Smith&#8221; in the Manchester Network (England)<br />
and join my Fanpage today!</p>
<p>Keep checking back as I have some important and amazing news coming very soon!</p>
<p>Hugs</p>
<p>Ashleigh</p>
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<link>http://theconsummate.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/psychic/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Psychic Phone Line Infomercial Queen Miss Cleo]]></title>
<link>http://infomercialfanatic.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/psychic-phone-line-infomercial-queen-miss-cleo/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Infomercial Fanatic</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It is widely understood that Miss Cleo is an infomercial psychic, with a fake Caribbean accent and a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It is widely understood that <a href="http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_B/threadview?m=tm&#38;bn=2598&#38;tid=372810&#38;mid=372980&#38;tof=1&#38;frt=2">Miss Cleo is an infomercial psychic</a>, with a fake Caribbean accent and a turban, who supposedly has been jailed for fraud.  It was also discovered that she is not from the Caribbean, and is in fact 100% American.  Nonetheless, Fox has hired her, and she is now an “expert” on the Lakers.  Quite a jump from doing infomercials.</p>
<p>This leads me to believe that one woman was wrong when she said that Miss Cleo Yankees and Cubs in WS is ditzy.  I mean, she has become successful in selling a service the truthfulness of which she need not prove—at no investment cost on her part except for infomercial airtime which pays for itself when people call in for their fortunes.</p>
<p>And she’s got fans.  SoUtHcHiK thinks she’s fabulous and said, “I am like a white male version of &#160;Miss &#160;Cleo!”  Even more, <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/29/hey-its-30-minutes-non-stop-of-barack-obama-tonight/">Miss Cleo</a> has been compared to President Obama.  Being compared to the President of the United States has got to be a compliment for anybody.  With one paradigm shift, she feels complimented, he may feel dissed.  But that article that compared <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/10/obama-flush-with-cash-buys-up-primetime-network-tv/">Miss Cleo</a> to the President came out twice, copy paste that. <a href="http://1311vernon.blogspot.com/2008/05/project-of-day.html">Miss Cleo</a> has even been channeled with regards to a vintage mailbox.  Even if it was a possibly-maybe-vintage mailbox.  So she must be feeling some channeled love.</p>
<p>One woman analyzed <a href="http://www.lanysboard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&#38;t=5974">Miss Cleo’s style of fortunetelling</a> blow for blow proving logically how she scams, but does she really care if her clairvoyance is doubted?  Remember, the sound of a phone is not far from that of a cash register.  Ding ding.</p>
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