What abilities in particular fascinate you?

[HiImJeremy]

What in particular fascinates you about the psychic world?

Vote on the poll or type it up.

Do you plan on achieving these? What are you doing to achieve them?

What are your excuses? What is it that fascinates you?

What do you plan on doing with them?

EDIT: I also added 'things' for convenience and also because i wanted to include manifestation. It's not necessarily a psychic thing.

[Yazkin]

i've found i have unique abilities...like creating shadow-like things (as said in my post) i want to work on that a lot more. see what i can do with them

[desertrat]

I like to make clouds dissapear , a form of p.k. I dont think you had p.k. on your poll . AZ (=arid zone) is a dry state and we see vary few clouds . There is mind reading , psychromerty ,talking to ghosts ,getting rid of ghosts, and some more things you left off the poll . desert rat
p.s. teleaphy is a form of mind reading , so you can cross it off for poll # 2

[little missy]

I am fasinated to read about forms members astral travel experiences. I haven't had that experience yet .

I am going to work on healing abilities. I get the reiki type of energy in my hands and I am going to ask a friend talented in Reiki to help train me in using it in the future.

I am fumbling along learning about mediumship ( with clairaudience and clairsentience)and doing reading for people by myself.I had Tarot cards come to me and they have proven to be good medium for me to use. In the future I would like to be confident about giving people accurate readings that will be helpful to them.

Manifesting is new to me but I am using it daily to help achieve my goals.

Lately I've been getting words coming to my in the form of very long messages that won't leave me alone until I write them down. I imagine this would be called channeling on a basic level.

[supertom]

The dark Arts interests me perhaps because I know next to nothing about it, the stuff I do know is light based and involves being connected to source, I want to from where the power of the dark side comes.

[Bonadea]

Most have interested me at one time or another, but currently I'm on an energy phase.

[HiImJeremy]

That's awesome guys!

Please, i invite you to talk about why it fascinates you!

What are you doing now to attain it?

If you've clicked other, let us know what it is in particular. I'm interested in all of those things really. lol

[momo3bur]

It's hard to choose only one! I would say mediumship simply because of personal experiences, trying to learn more about the world that keeps me up at night.

Your turn, Mr. J. Which are you most interested in?

[HiImJeremy]

Originally Posted by momo3bur

It's hard to choose only one! I would say mediumship simply because of personal experiences, trying to learn more about the world that keeps me up at night.

Your turn, Mr. J. Which are you most interested in?

Mo! you had the option to pick as many as you liked!

Now you have to tell us which other ones you wanted to pick!!!

[Bonadea]

I didn't know you could pick more than 1.... DO OVER

[nama adrift]

healing because i think i might be a healer... though i have a lot of personal healing and growing to do before i could really use it to help others i think.

clairaudience because most of my experiences have been in the form of auditory phenomena, and i would like to develop this ability.

defense against the dark arts (lol... makes me think of harry potter every time) because i think it is important to know how to defend/ protect your self and i think it would help me with my own fear.

[momo3bur]

Originally Posted by HiImJeremy

Mo! you had the option to pick as many as you liked!

Now you have to tell us which other ones you wanted to pick!!!

Well, heck, I didn't know that!

I'll be back later...until then, you still haven't told US what you're interested in. I'll keep asking until you write an essay.

[Weena]

Mediumship only to talk to deceased people I know. The others I selected I all things I've experienced aside from AT.

I don't believe in dark arts so therefore I don't feel I have to defend myself against it. If it exists, my shield is pretty darn strong anyway as I am connected to the best energies... if it exists then it's like accepting or refusing the gifts of goodness. I accept goodness and I refuse anything that is less than goodness .

Hi momo3bur popped in as a very kind soul here helped me find a lost item.

[momo3bur]

Originally Posted by Weena

Mediumship only to talk to deceased people I know. The others I selected I all things I've experienced aside from AT.

I don't believe in dark arts so therefore I don't feel I have to defend myself against it. If it exists, my shield is pretty darn strong anyway as I am connected to the best energies... if it exists then it's like accepting or refusing the gifts of goodness. I accept goodness and I refuse anything that is less than goodness .

Hi momo3bur popped in as a very kind soul here helped me find a lost item.

Hi Weena!!! Did you find it!?

[Weena]

Originally Posted by momo3bur

Hi Weena!!! Did you find it!?

Sure did! Her hints led me straight to it

[HiImJeremy]

Lol - my padawan learner!

This one is strong in the force-

The trick is to keep a firm foot right up her arse!

[momo3bur]

Originally Posted by HiImJeremy

Lol - my padawan learner!

This one is strong in the force-

The trick is to keep a firm foot right up her arse!

I hope you're not talking about my arse! Although...that would explain a few things...

[ChrisL]

I've experienced clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, the Akashic Records, hands-on energy healing, astral projection, attraction, manifestation, channeling - the list goes on. I've learned that any one of these can be a terrible distraction on the spiritual path if I'm not focused on how what I'm doing serves the present moment, otherwise it's just an ego trip that creates more conflict in myself and others.

So which abilities fascinate me now? The ability to stay grounded in the present moment and stay focused on what is appropriately helpful in the moment, especially speaking directly, even if it isn't popular. The ability to unify my thoughts, feelings, words and actions. The ability to use all of my body's senses to know myself and others, and to treat myself like I would treat my beloved partner or child. The ability to move beyond any comparison, any judgment, any duality. The ability to keep on loving after experiencing losing someone from death, a partner with a life-threatening illness like cancer, and any forms of betrayal, abuse, neglect, or trauma. The ability to live like it's my last day, and to acknowledge everyone and everything as sacred.

And the ability to enjoy a chai-nog during the holidays.

[Fellforit]

Thank you, ChrisL, for putting into words exactly what I've been struggling with lately.

I think that we can get caught up in spiritual "development" that we focus more on attempting to converse with the entities and learning about the afterlife than living our lives here as human beings. It's all well and good that I believe there's something there after I die, and I'd like to be more spiritual, but I still have decades (I hope) more to live on Earth and I'd better get my head out of the clouds, so to speak and focus on my time here while I can.

I know I don't want to be a professional medium, psychic or channel. I appreciate these gifts but what I really want to do is help people through their suffering here and I will do that in my work without using any of my clairs (although, I always listen to my intuition).

Originally Posted by ChrisL

So which abilities fascinate me now? The ability to stay grounded in the present moment and stay focused on what is appropriately helpful in the moment, especially speaking directly, even if it isn't popular. The ability to unify my thoughts, feelings, words and actions. The ability to use all of my body's senses to know myself and others, and to treat myself like I would treat my beloved partner or child. The ability to move beyond any comparison, any judgment, any duality. The ability to keep on loving after experiencing losing someone from death, a partner with a life-threatening illness like cancer, and any forms of betrayal, abuse, neglect, or trauma. The ability to live like it's my last day, and to acknowledge everyone and everything as sacred.

And the ability to enjoy a chai-nog during the holidays.

This is what I need to do now as well. Thanks fo helping me realize it, Chris.

Although my beverage of choice is the gingerbread latte.

[Weena]

Originally Posted by ChrisL

otherwise it's just an ego trip that creates more conflict in myself and others.

Is this how it felt for you? To me it feels as if I could at least experience this (AP) once or twice, it would be a great validation of what I believe to be true but have no direct experience with. I'm not saying I would do it all the time (way too busy with the kids, the renos, the relocation plan and my creative work to loose touch with what's happening now...it would be a really good "break" from being grounded, actually).

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by Weena

Is this how it felt for you? To me it feels as if I could at least experience this (AP) once or twice, it would be a great validation of what I believe to be true but have no direct experience with.

Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I've had a few experiences, and the experiences tell me that it'll be awhile before the experiences become vivid enough that I can tell them apart from dreams or visualizations. Which is precisely what ChrisL meant by it being a distraction. To make it "real," it's practically required to start neglecting other, better, spiritual disciplines to "perfect" it. For AP, the easiest way to that "Holy Batmobile" experience is through six months of lucid dreaming training, then followed by six more months of AP exit attempts.

Reality is such an effective illusion, the Matrix is so good, that until one makes the conscious decision that "I've seen enough, I'm going to start believing in all this stuff now," your mind will keep making excuses for keeping itself in the materialist, what-you-see-is-what-you-get, "it's all in your head" frame.

You have to stop demanding the One True Spiritual Experience before it'll happen to you.

[elucidate]

Originally Posted by ChrisL

I've experienced clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, the Akashic Records, hands-on energy healing, astral projection, attraction, manifestation, channeling - the list goes on. I've learned that any one of these can be a terrible distraction on the spiritual path if I'm not focused on how what I'm doing serves the present moment, otherwise it's just an ego trip that creates more conflict in myself and others.

So which abilities fascinate me now? The ability to stay grounded in the present moment and stay focused on what is appropriately helpful in the moment, especially speaking directly, even if it isn't popular. The ability to unify my thoughts, feelings, words and actions. The ability to use all of my body's senses to know myself and others, and to treat myself like I would treat my beloved partner or child. The ability to move beyond any comparison, any judgment, any duality. The ability to keep on loving after experiencing losing someone from death, a partner with a life-threatening illness like cancer, and any forms of betrayal, abuse, neglect, or trauma. The ability to live like it's my last day, and to acknowledge everyone and everything as sacred.

And the ability to enjoy a chai-nog during the holidays.

Wow. Everything you've said here ChrisL is how I would have put it as well. We're 'fascinated' in the same things it seems.

[Weena]

Originally Posted by VinceG

Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I've had a few experiences, and the experiences tell me that it'll be awhile before the experiences become vivid enough that I can tell them apart from dreams or visualizations. Which is precisely what ChrisL meant by it being a distraction. To make it "real," it's practically required to start neglecting other, better, spiritual disciplines to "perfect" it. For AP, the easiest way to that "Holy Batmobile" experience is through six months of lucid dreaming training, then followed by six more months of AP exit attempts.

Reality is such an effective illusion, the Matrix is so good, that until one makes the conscious decision that "I've seen enough, I'm going to start believing in all this stuff now," your mind will keep making excuses for keeping itself in the materialist, what-you-see-is-what-you-get, "it's all in your head" frame.

You have to stop demanding the One True Spiritual Experience before it'll happen to you.

6 months of lucid dreaming, sheesh, I'll pass. But yes, agreed on it happening when you don't want it to happen (as you may have read what I shared elsewhere about my sister being taken into astral travels by her guides when she could not care less about living these experiences...).

[desertrat]

Maby you should have poll #2 , state, pick as many as you want .You should include p.k. and forming thought forms , and maby some other forum member favs. desert rat

[DarkTears]

im interested in lots of things that I dont think I can make a list but one of the things that really interest me is dark things or anything related to dark things....... and creating eccentric and weird protective shields......sounds something from a game XD

[ChrisL]

Fellforit - You're welcome. And I hear you too. I am a professional Akashic Records consultant and Response Coach, working with business and relationship issues, even seeing how past lives are influencing now, helping people see where they are conflicted and how to have a more conscious, effortless, joyful life.

But I have to have enough emotional maturity to focus on what will help people right now on their path, and not get distracted or let others get distracted by things that don't really matter (i.e. number of famous lifetimes). If our intention is to be present and appropriately helpful in the moment, anything we're doing can be used as a tool for greater awakening. If we don't have this as our foundation, anything can be a distraction, especially if we make it special or important or different than others. This can get tremendously subtle and we can get caught up in distractions for lifetimes.

So even if I'm doing a reading, I think of it like doing any other job - writing, engineering, sports - it's just what I'm aligned to do at the moment, just like anybody else.

Weena - Hey! You're back in here! Happy to connect with you as always. I know you understand this, but let me clarify this some more for others who are reading this.

It's the intention that counts. I know you well enough to know that you want to experience AP as a way of shifting your understanding of reality, not as a way to escape your present reality. (Not that you couldn't use a break from the little one occasionally) When I was learning AP back in college I felt the same way. There was a real desire to move beyond social consciousness and find out what the universe was all about, not just a mental curiosity or an escape from being present.

Some people will get into a lot of this, including wanting to develop special gifts, as way to distract themselves from their current circumstances (i.e. not dealing with abuse, trauma, bad relationships, being poor, etc). If we use our gifts as way to engage life and be more human, then we come to a natural balance.

As a kid I was naturally intuitive, so I started wanting to learn at an early age so I could make sense to myself, so the process of self knowledge started around 7 years old for me. And even though I developed my intuitive skills, I still went through years of workshops, therapy, coaching, traveling, school, meditations, etc to understand where I was kidding myself and where I needed to heal and be more real.

Even when I'm accessing the Records now, I hold the core intention of doing it very deliberately for shifting consciousness and getting more present, either in myself or others. There have been plenty of times that I haven't done an Akashic or mediumistic type of session, because the client wasn't interested in being truly empowered as much as feeding their ego. I'll give you an example. One client in Japan just kept going to different intuitives to get "good news", but he wasn't really doing any work on himself to make a change. By the time he came to me, my interpreter told me he had seen maybe 20 people. He was asking for "good" news, but what he needed was to be hit hard with reality, which he was not facing. I hit him so hard (metaphorically) with my words that you would have thought he stole something. I thought he would cry or at least attack me.

So working with all the skills that Jeremy has kindly listed out, like as a healer or intuitive consultant, is a tremendous responsibility, not just so that we don't distract ourselves on our own path, but also to inform the client/student in a way that is truly going to help them on their path. I'm not responsible for their actions, but I am responsible for how I present information, whatever that is, in a way that is appropriately helpful.

Elucidate - I hear you. There was an interesting book called "When You Can Walk on Water, You'll Take the Boat". Sometimes using a "gift" can create more conflict in those around us, so we need to be discerning in the moment.

[Weena]

Hey Chris! Back momentarily shall we say I like the fact that the psychic and paranormal sections are more "fluffed up", and I still like to check on some of Erin's blog posts (oh and lovely Slorry psychically found my lost ring, too!). I'll religiously avoid all other sections though . Glad to read you again mate!

Interesting about your client who kept seeing psychics, I know someone doing the same . I haven't seen a psychic for a long time, though I was tempted not long ago, as the changes right now are unsettling, but a wise friend reminded me to not waste my money on intuitive services, but to connect to my angels and my own intuition (don't you love when the right advice comes at the right time? So I'll just try to enjoy the ride to the unknown and keep doing a lot of Om Mani Padma Hum...something I intuitively get I have to do for myself).

I see how being obsessed with the "doing paranormal tricks" could be a big distraction though... Oh, question: if it's "better" for a person's growth is that why they spontaneously do AP? My sister does not "want to" but her guides take her anyway. Could this be a growth thing?

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by Weena

I see how being obsessed with the "doing paranormal tricks" could be a big distraction though... Oh, question: if it's "better" for a person's growth is that why they spontaneously do AP? My sister does not "want to" but her guides take her anyway. Could this be a growth thing?

People are meant to explore different things through different lifetimes. Guides facilitate this. People generally make these choices before they incarnate.

[frosting]

I'm mostly curious about Kundalini and Astral Projection.

I think because they are two things I have experienced and really fascinate me.

Typically while the subject of AP is fascinating I don't intentionally try to do it either anymore. In my opinion with its growth in popularity it has become dangerous and i'm naturally skilled in meditation, quieting the mind, visualization anyways. What really grinds my gears is people who act like "know it alls" when it comes to astral projection, or for that matter most things spiritually speaking. This quote always comes to mind when some say they know the "only" good way to do something:

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.*But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

alternate ending of quote paraphrased * "believe in what feels right in your heart" ( I dunno, It bugged me I couldn't find the exact quote I was looking for with that alternate ending, but means about the same thing)

Everybody is a little different. For me, simply reading a book about Astral Projection started to spur me into doing it at random times. Let's say I don't care to read that book anymore.

Kundalini I find even more fascinating. An opening up, a new level of wisdom. There's been times I've felt as if it may be happening to myself which is probably why I'm so intrigued by it. I felt the energy coil in my back unravel, around that time I was going a little "nutters" at times. Looking back I wonder if it was just the crazy job I had or Kundalini contributed to making the job seem even more crazy then it was? I've always seen things bigger picture but it was as if after those series of events I see things even bigger picture now if that's possible. Everything always seem to come full circle now too. I don't think the transition has finished for me yet, if it has even begun. Who knows really. Just some experience/observations from my perspective.

[momo3bur]

Awww...Weena! Slorri is wonderful isn't she!? I'm so glad she found your ring!

I would say AP, RVing, claireaudience, -voyance, -sentience, and mediumship are definitely interests for me. I'm not too concerned about dark working or magic (or magick??) or any of those other things. The above seem more real to me simply because I've experienced them at one time or another, some more than others.

Doesn't mean I believe they don't exist, just don't appeal to me in this lifetime, I suppose.