learning psychic abilities
 

K, first things first, this is my first post so hey everyone. I just kinda stumbled onto this forum and after looking at it for a few days, decided its a pretty awesome place. Anyways, I wanted to know how one gets started at learning/developing their psychic abilities. I would really appreciate any pointers, nudges in the right direction, or links to good sites you can give. Thanks and Good Night (or morning or afternoon).

Hiya.

Well, the first thing i will do is caution you - pursuing psychic abilities as an end can be a huge distraction to real growth, and can lead to a sort of megalomania.

Now on to the goods:

Use guided breathing to respire through your third eye (and the rest of your chakras) - this helps unblock and open it.
Do lots and lots of yoga, incorporate mudra. (try and incorporate kundalini yoga once you are able)
Learn tai chi
Go vegetarian, it really helps, atleast at first.
Meditate lots. (especially guided and visualized meditation)
Learn to trust your intuition. (learning tarot is a good way to do so)
Take monatomic gold (although the danger of going a bit nuts is quite real, and while im not sure how legit the science behind it is - it DOES work in my own experience). Etherium Gold - English
Start taking melatonin to "re-activate" your pineal gland.
Do sun staring. (Be VERY careful and do this correctly, but it works very well) Sungazing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read "hands of light".
Smoke or make a tea from the herb Mugwort regularly.

I have done all of the above over the last 5 years in varying amounts and combinations and it has either worked, or driven me completely mad. :p

Remember though, you can do all of the above to learn how to be psychic, or just focus on being in your heart and feeling as much love and gratitude as often as you can - the results will be the same, but you will be a more balanced person if you focus on your heart.

Good luck, and have lots of fun exploring!

hi nsavicki, welcome to the forum

what type of psychic abilities in particular are trying to pursue? i think the most essential thing to do (emphasizing on what Zuvuya42 said) is guided breathing and lots of meditating. Meditation will help bring you to a state where your pyschic abilities are increased

Have a look at Erin's site:

Erin Pavlina Articles

She has many great articles that may be of interest to you.

Check out the book "Initiation into Hermetics".

The process of gaining psychic abilities starts from the foundation level.

However with power comes responsibility and you will never gain effective psychic ability unless you have a reason for it.

By having a reason I mean a reason beyond your own self-interest.

And the book can be found in ebook form around the Internet for free.

I can't believe it but here is link to download the ebook for IIH. I uploaded this on eSnips two years ago:

Initiation into Hermetics - eSnips, share anything

This version is different to the Merkur Publishing version which I have been accustomed to. I have the Merkur version in hardcopy.

Psychic abilities
 

The advice the others have given is sound. From my personal experience, and that I have only been working on my own spiritual and psychic being for about a year. So, in the past year, I have been meditating as much as I can. My personal situation with my wife interferes with my frequency of sessions. Another thread to say the least... Now the most obvious change I have noticed in the past year has been syncronicity. I notice way too many things happening that can be attributed only to my increased meditating. Since they didn't happen as often before meditating. Now the last month and a half, I haven't been getting to meditate like I want and I have seen a drop off of the events if you may. I also have developed the ability to feel psi energy from the fingers of one hand onto the palms of my opposite hand. This I did from visualizing and practice. Everyone will be different. Learn how to be more in touch with your own self and things will begin to manifest. I listen to Dick Sutphen. He has some good guided tapes that I have found helpful. Good luck

Zuvuya42, I'm very curious to hear more about your experiences.

Specifically, can you talk more about Etherium Gold, Melatonin, and Mugwort? I'd like to know when you started taking these, how long you took them, what dosages, what your first experiences were like, and if you are still taking them? I've been looking for herbs or substances that might help jump-start psychic abilities and this is the first lead I've gotten.

Have you heard of the supplement called "Dream Boost"? It's very interesting. I've tried the 10-pill sampler pack, took two every night for a week, and got profound results. Very vivid dreams that I was able to remember. The dreams were pleasant to boot, but that's probably because I try not to get too worked up about anything during the daytime so I don't have too much emotional baggage.

Just to note: I also practice all the other things on your list already except Sun Staring, Tai-Chi and Yoga (though I'm starting on Qi Gong).

Wow, doing more research into "monatomic gold" I've come away being very baffled. That's some really far out stuff. It's got me curious enough to want to try it, but... wow. It's interesting that the top 10 google results take you to places talking about David Icke, the Illuminati, UFO's, reptilians, and all kinds of wacky stuff.

It does look very interesting though. Google "etherium gold" +testimonials

To some degree I think it is a matter of getting the mind above the limitations of logic :)

RD

One key distinction to keep in mind that will facilitate psychic development is to know that it's not something you are learning to do. Being psychic involves remembering your innate abilities and becoming aware of what you are already doing that would be considered psychic - as in making your conscious mind more aware of this. Because you are a spiritual being, communication between your physical mind and your spirit/ your expanded superconscious mind as well as communication with the spirits of other people, things, places, etc. are inherent and natural to you.

As others have suggested meditation is very helpful in becoming more aware of yourself and your inherent abilities. But don't rely on only a formal practice of meditation because you want to develop heightened self-awareness in your daily life and activities not just while you are meditating. A good way to do this is to carry a notebook around with you and write down anything and everything you might deem "psychic" - a coincidence/ synchronicity, a feeling you have about something, an idea that pops into your head that seems out of the ordinary, your first impression when meeting a person or going to a new place, whatever.

But the number one, most important thing you can do is to believe in your ability to be psychic that you already are psychic. Affirm this to yourself and it will be true. "Pretend" that you are psychic for a few hours, or an entire day, per week and let yourself follow the psychic impulses you get and see what happens. You'll be surprised how accurate you can be and if you have a miss just brush it off and say "oh, well." Treat it like play because it is playful and does not have to be difficult or strenuous. Good luck :D

Nsavicki,
This is my first post with this web-site as well. I've had gifts that I deal with and have delt with ever since I was a little boy. What I might advise you to do is to get relaxed. Start with that. Not that the things that others have advised won't work... But it's going to be/seem stressful for you to do some of these things .. if you have never done them before. Something that helps me is relaxing in my room .. on the bed take deep breaths as you let it out.. feel your self start to sink into the bed. try that.

I got some of that Etherium Gold (monatomic gold). It just came in today. I'll report on my findings once it kicks in. You're supposed to take two per day... I don't know if the effects are supposed to be immediate or if it takes a couple days.

We are all made up of several layers. There's the physical body, the mental body, the etheric body, the astral body, the spiritual body, and so on. We all have a part of ourselves that is "non-local". In other words, part of each one of us transcends time and space. Some people call this the subconscious, some call it the superconscious, the Higher Self, spirit, or even the collective unconscious. Tapping into that part of you through meditation, present moment awareness, and dreamwork (dream journaling to lucid dreaming to astral projection and beyond) really helps.

The idea that we are spiritual beings having a human experience is something we've all heard. It's one thing to know it intellectually, but once you start to experience it, things start to change. Your old reactions to things that used to get on your nerves start to subside. The ego starts to lose control and a higher consciousness starts to take over as your dominant mode of thought.

Dear Adrianne,
great post, thank you!

Well, I've been on Etherium Gold for a week now. Here's my report as promised...

Umm... well... not sure what it does really. I'm probably not being scientific enough and logging everything properly. I can say it seems like I've been getting more "hits" psychically. It feels like lucky guesses. I can't say Etherium Gold has completely changed my life after a week, but I can't complain either.

I was already pretty charged up before. I take bee pollen, spirulina, Men's Ultra Daily (a multivitamin that also contains ginseng, saw palmetto, gingko biloba, and other herbs), Omega 3, I'm a lactose-ovo-pesce-vegetarian (dairy, eggs, some fish), and I drink only water (and lots of it) or juice. I meditate every day, and I practice mindfulness and present awareness. I carefully watch my ego and I can usually spot its influence, but it rarely controls me anymore. I stay pretty peaceful most of the time and rarely take things personally or get worked up about things. I have lucid dreams and/or out of body experiences at least 2-4 times a week.

Adding Etherium Gold to my normal regimen has had subtle effects, but it's interesting enough that I'll have to give it another month and maybe skip a week or two in between before I can render a fair verdict.