“Bevy always stressed
that the way to proficiency in Hand Analysis is to
master the indications. She taught that study, rather than intuition,
makes for progress. Her approach was scientific, empirical and based on
observation and practice.” --Vivian
Papson, Certified Hand Analyst
So much of what I
do is about reading symbols, working with and on inner growth, and that’s what interests me. As a psychic I’m more about what Freud called
“free form attention,” i.e., making the intuitive links in a client’s story and in diverse areas of their lives,
to see patterns, blind spots, and offer alternatives that will make a difference.
I can’t seem to get
interested in what seem like repetitive exercises to develop ESP upon command, and yet I can respect the ability
as long as it’s coupled with the seer’s right intention. I
think “right intention” is fairly obvious and relates to the spiritual perspective that Edgar Cayce and others
like him have talked about. It’s
not about the abuse of power but allowing ourselves to be used by a loving higher power.
Much of what I do
in my own life involves waiting, watching, being with whatever shows up in the moment (often discomfort). Discomfort can arise just from being with “not
knowing” in order to allow the universe to provide a host of possible answers, and from those possible “answers,”
intuiting something new, achieving what may be termed an “inner knowing.” Personally,
I live with a lot of questions.
As a professional
psychic, I am expected to provide answers, to remove doubt about the future, and often I can do that. More powerful, however, is the process I see
reflected in the Tarot’s Major Arcana. Soul
development, individuation, whatever you wish to call it, is part of a larger process. It’s
no wonder the grail myth works so well for Tarot, the idea that we are able to go into a dark wood and with no
map find our way to another side.
It’s possible to expand
one’s abilities in sensory perception, precognition, remote viewing without developing greater depth and awareness
as a soul.
Certainly remote viewing
(a kind of clairvoyance) has been successfully taught to all sorts of people, though some have had mental and emotional
issues result from their focus on the practice to the exclusion of creating a container in the psyche or soul to
handle the increased visions. Like
wine tasting, one can learn to identify and separate sensations, textures, become a practitioner but not necessarily
become a creative force.
Clients want ESP,
predictions.
”Where am I going? Will I meet someone? Get
married?
Make money? On what date will so and so die?” We want to know the book is worth reading, the
movie worth seeing. A querent
once asked Edgar Cayce something to the effect of “will I die in the Bahamas as another psychic predicted?” His response was tongue-in-cheek. “Well, if you go to the Bahamas, and you get
sick there, you could end up dying there.” He
refused to give the client confirmation that her future was preordained. Instead
he stressed free will and her power to choose.
Metaphysically we
know that that an attitude shift can change a thousand things, including the direction of one’s life. Even a subtle inner change can change others’
reaction to us.
There’s a saying, “If you
want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing.”
We’re at a crossroads
more often than we know—and this is where intuition and spirituality can intervene and shed new light in all its
varied colors.
We have the opportunity to
re-view our circumstances, react differently (or not react at all). We
can shift inner and outer behavior and manifest different results.
Does that kind of
intervention solve crimes? No,
but it has the potential to prevent some. It’s
detective work for the soul, the shamanic journey into the otherworld. It’s
not “just the facts ma’am and nothing but the facts.” After
all, what are the facts of the soul?
