StevePavlina.com Podcast #021 - Being Psychic (Blog)
 

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StevePavlina.com Podcast #021 - Being Psychic

Oh goody! A new podcast :)

first the religion one and this lols, but i did get a psychic tap to go check out the new post, ( i live in australia so i wouldnt know whens its 12.00 there)

Cool, it's been a while since we've seen a podcast. 96 minutes... I expect this to be good! :D

96 minutes?!

Talk about a lot of bandwidth being used. Must need a pretty big series of tubes to support such a thing.

Since the recent server upgrade, we have almost 2TB of unused monthly bandwidth, so I figured we might as well put it to good use. :)

What can I say? We got chatty. ;)

I enjoyed the religion topic. But I did find it odd that you so easily dismiss mainstream beliefs as myths yet believe in such equally scientifically dubious beliefs such as psychic ability, projection, spirits, etc.

Well, I can't wait to hear the podcast and I look forward to being thought-provoked. That's what I love about your site. Thanks for sharing...

actually you have a pretty good point, but i think its cause its more produces better results and it more accurate.

I have to say after listening to this podcast I'm inspired to raise my consciousness and get more in touch with my intuition... Thanks Erin and Steve.

That was an excellent podcast.

I thank you both for the many reminders that I received while listening to this. I look forward to seeing more of this type of podcast sometime in the future.

I don't think his "religion" rants are about beliefs. I think they're about religions. There's a difference between opening your mind and being told what to think.

It's funny; after listening, I had a question about suicide (what happens if a higher consciousness person does it, you know, just to see what happens!)

Buuuuuut Erin's already got a great article on this - so if anyone else is curious - go ahead and read up!

Thank you for this podcast! This has helped me pay more attention to my intuition and talk to my spirit guides. Free content is always great for us college students :)

That was a marathon podcast, Steve and Erin. Lots of good insights and information. Took me two sessions to get through it. I enjoyed the rapport you two had throughout the podcast and look forward to applying some of the ideas presented in your podcast.

I have to say that you have some of the best free content on the web. Both websites. And I'm sure you are all being paid accordingly.

Thanks for the positive feedback ya'll. We had a lot of fun doing it which I'm sure came through. We're talking about topics for another one.

Confused
 

I was thinking the same.

I'm not a religious person and I enjoyed your other article about religion, but I have to ask, why is it bad when many people share the same belief and ok when you make up your own just as questionable answers to many of the universe unanswered questions?

Now I'm stuck with the feeling that I can hear your podcast, but I must assume you are trying to brainwash me, so I must not believe your "theory" of many of the questions most religions try to answer.

Udda,

There is a big difference between organized religion and spiritual beliefs that does not require belonging to a specific organized religion. The blog post was against organized religion, but the podcast I believe is about spiritual beliefs and practice that does not require you to belong to any organized religion.

Psychic development is a mental skill. You can turn it into something spiritual if you'd like, but it really has nothing to do with the control structure of organized religion.

When you get the limiting beliefs out of the way (including those installed by organized religion), it's easier to develop your psychic senses to the point where they can be quite useful and practical. In this podcast I mentioned how developing my intuitive abilities has helped me tremendously in business over the years. For making big decisions I probably rely on my intuitive sense more than my eyes and ears. This includes picking up impressions on how a particular line of action is likely to pan out. Although I didn't mention this in the podcast, I call it "reading the timestream."

The best teacher is personal experience. I don't need faith to rely on my intuitive senses any more than I need faith to trust my eyes and ears. The tricky part is learning how to interpret those impressions, just as we must learn to interpret sounds as language or visual data as objects. It just takes practice to make sense of the stream of information that comes through.

Developing your psychic abilities is like adding a whole other sensory input channel. It can cut years off your learning curve and help you avoid many problems.

IMO psychic development is the same thing as learning to identify sights, sounds, smells, and textures. The input channel is there, but you have to put in the practice to make sense of the raw data. Otherwise all you can perceive is noise.

Skepticism & Confidence
 

The conversation about skepticism starting at about minute 26 was the most interesting part of this podcast, to me.

Skepticism as a creative process seems to have pretty serious real-world consequences. For example, what if I began to doubt my ability to do a push-up? Would I eventually lose the strength to do something that is now easy for me?

On the other hand, what if I stopped doubting my ability to lift 200 lbs.? Would I then develop previously untapped strength?

I would love to hear more about this topic in the future, Steve.

BTW, loved the interaction between Steve & Erin. They are a great broadcasting team.

I'm half way through listening to this... love the vibe between you guys.

One question: what's the difference between hallucinations (say drug induced, rather than schizophrenia) and these psychic experiences?

When your podcasts get this large is there a way to sub-index/ToC it for future reference?

I know I've had the experience of going "Steve said something of immediate relevance in this podcasts, but it's over an hour long and I'm not sure how far in it is".

Probably hard to do for a candid recording specifically, but it would be useful in general.

Listened to the podcast this morning, and thoroughly enjoyed it! The interaction between you two was fantastic - I felt like I'd dropped into your lounge and had the privilege of listening to a conversation between you two :)

Thanks to this podcast, we set a new one-day record for this site's bandwidth usage -- 154 GB on June 5th.

How does language work on the other side?

If I improve my vocabulary here, or learn other languages, would those improved communication skills carry over?

Another Thought on the Compensation Piece
 

One of the important things in the world is energy exchange...you can give of yourself but the exchange is an important piece.

Money is a form of exchange and I think those with innate talent need to recognize and accept this. Some people seem resentful over it but as you stated, supporting yourself and your work is necessary.

I know many artists and other "natural" talents that are working to bring that consciousness to the forefront in their lives and others that do it just fine.

Wow.. what a question!

My guess, Dan, is that if you work on your communication skills ('listening' and 'responding'... I'm now realizing these things won't exist either :)) vs. your language skills it will carry over.

Language is physical, communication is ethereal. Work on your empathy, connection, and awareness. Those you can take with you.

I would also suggest working on your courage. If you feel intimidated by talking to strangers or by giving a speech in front of a group, this is a good place to work on that.

I remember hearing something (although I can't remember where I read it, or who specifically it was about) in a powerlifting article about a similar phenomenon occuring with whatever was just over the world record bench press weight was at the time- This was speaking of years ago, and I want to say the record weight at the time was 6 or 700lbs, as I said, can't recall for sure-

Anyhow, the story was that this particular weight had never been lifted by anyone before, and even the strongest champion lifters could lift an amount just beneath it, but couldn't lift that particular weight or anything above- until finally, one guy went in and did it. Almost immediately afterward, the same champion lifters started pressing the same amount of weight, and even surpassed it rather quickly, all because one person had finally done what everyone thought was impossible. I really do wish I could give some references for this story, I'm fairly certain it was a true one!

I don't take this to mean that, if you normally couldn't do a single pushup, you could just focus hard enough to go and magically lift 200lbs ;) You get the idea though.

That sounds very similar to the Roger Bannister 4-minute mile story.