Question: My wife’s girlfriend averages visiting a psychic, three or four times a month. I’d like to hear your opinion about psychics, and more specifically, psychics that specialize in foreseeing the future?
-Carl H.

Answer: I feel we can take any information, no matter the source, and use it to our advantage or disadvantage. This is just as true of psychics as it is anything else. The main problem that can erupt, lies in our over reliance and dependence on these external forms of information. Your question leads me back into the area of thought I explore more frequently than any other in my posts- and that’s the understanding of our own spiritual power.

Every problem that we perceive ourselves having usually stems from some form of fear, whether in this physical focus of awareness or after we cross over (as in the case of some hauntings- depending upon how conscious ghosts are). Fear is only a misunderstanding of who we are, or better said- what we are and what we’re capable of.

Many people that rely consistently on psychics are working through their own levels of fear. They are in a place of transferring their power to someone that they perceive having abilities greater than their own. That’s not to say psychics cannot be of amazing benefit to people. The ones that specifically come to mind are psychic mediums that connect with energies that have crossed over.

Many times these individuals provide a form of closure for those that are grieving, which may not have been reached otherwise. In these cases, visiting a medium is extremely cathartic. But again, some people will begin to use mediums as a crutch to consistently try and communicate with those that have made their transition. This is where some of the more unscrupulous types will take full advantage of a vulnerable individual, further contributing to their feelings of disempowerment.

Now, as far as seeing a psychic with clairvoyant abilities- I believe there are multiple probable realities being born constantly out of our individual conscious awareness, along side the awareness of mass consciousness. Legitimate clairvoyants are tapping into one possible form of reality that has the potential for developing, but that doesn’t mean it will definitely unfold in the manner they perceive.

Our input is the driving force behind those events that occur at our level of reality. If someone concentrates heavily on the predictions set forth by a psychic (or the news media ? ) then they have been influenced by the power of suggestion. Absorbing the prediction and allowing it to influence their thought processes and actions will definitely bode in the favor of the psychic being correct more often than not.

While my answer in no way covers the entire spectrum of psychic phenomena, I feel we all possess these latent abilities. An occasional visit to a professional is great, especially if the person comes away feeling soothed and at peace, but if someone becomes reliant upon these sessions to function, then I don’t feel they are utilizing the psychic’s services in a beneficial way.

Question: I have a couple of personal questions for you. Do you have plans to write a book? Are you doing any forms of public speaking on the subjects you write about and talk about in your podcasts?

Answer: I’m not currently doing any public speaking. That area isn’t something I’m really interested in pursuing, but who knows? I could find myself following that path one day. Though, I’m actually extremely introverted when it comes to speaking in front of groups.

Now, I am very interested in writing a book, but I want it to be unique and have its own merits that haven’t been covered by others, because there are so many excellent books (in my area of interest) on the market already. With that being said, there’s also a part of me that feels I can provide the most benefit writing in the type of atmosphere I’m currently working with at Wind of the Soul.

There’s something about doing what I do for the absolute love and enjoyment of it without selling a product. I don’t want to feel like people have to pay me for the information that (I believe) inherently resides within us all, if we search for it.

Of course, I believe in having abundance in all areas of my life, including finances. Yet, that doesn’t mean I have to lose sight of my main purpose. I’d rather (at least for now) continue to work with advertisers, affiliates and receive voluntary donations, so that I’m free to give everything I have to my visitors, minus the need for selling. The day may come when I incorporate a few products into my site, but they will be extremely affordable and of high quality. I wouldn’t be comfortable offering them if they didn’t fit the bill on both counts.

I write and speak often about trusting in the natural flow of our life experience. That’s exactly what I continue to try and do with my work. I focus on providing what I have to offer to my visitors and trust that the natural flow of my life and the Universe will provide the abundance in a perfect unfolding.

If that unfolding eventually leads me to writing a regular book, e-book, or even public speaking, then I’ll know the time is right for doing it. But right now I’m extremely happy providing all of my content in this manner and no matter what, I’ll always continue to blog and record free audio content for Wind of the Soul. ?

And that does it for this question and answer installment. I’d like to thank both of my readers for sending in their questions. If you have any metaphysical, self help, or spiritual development type questions you would like to see addressed, feel free to send me an email. As always, your name will be kept private unless you request otherwise.

If this post has been helpful to you, please consider sharing it with others and/or making a donation. Thank you for supporting Wind of the Soul.

Related Posts

Q & A: Destiny & Karma

In my last post I discussed methods for taking an inner journey to discover your own personal truths. One of the methods mentioned for achieving this was using altered states of consciousness. When I refer to altered states, I’m not talking about taking the route Terence McKenna often employed for getting there.

I think the use of psychotropic agents is one of many methods for achieving legitimate altered states; however I’m concerned with having a more intentional, whole, fluid, and intact experience. I want to be completely aware of what’s occurring during the altered state and I want to have full recall of it after the fact; something that drugs may not always grant us. I’ve just never been into hallucinogens (or any other drugs for that matter) and choose to rely on deep meditation as my method for obtaining results. I don’t personally endorse the use of such agents. But I believe we can’t discuss the expansion of our consciousness without at least addressing the fact they play a prominent role in many experiences.

As an aside to what I just wrote- I think Terence McKenna was a fascinating person with awesome insights into existence. If you’re not familiar with his philosophies, I highly recommend doing a search for him on YouTube.

Now, what does it mean to achieve altered states of consciousness or perception?

In the loosest sense, it means to encounter other interpretations or translations of being than that which we typically associate with. It pertains to taking our consciousness and expanding it beyond the boundaries we primarily use for seeing, feeling, touching, thinking, and maneuvering. These altered states can occur within the context of our physical experiences or they can take place in other “worlds.”

An example of an interesting altered state occurring amidst seemingly ordinary physical perceptions would be the story I related about the hole, comprised of static, opening up in my bedroom ceiling. Even though I knew the hole wasn’t there in terms of my physical reality, there was a part of me that realized it did exist in another state, nonetheless.

An example of an altered state occurring in other worlds would be the out of body experience (OBE). Despite the terminology and description of OBE’s occurring out of the body, I’ve encountered information during projections which indicates they are actually a journey inward, further into consciousness or the inner-self I was referring to in Discovering the Truths of Your Existence.

The interesting thing about the experience with my bedroom ceiling was that it occurred immediately after an OBE, so there seems to be some residual lingering effects of traversing my inner nature, which applied itself to my physical environment after the fact. This is why I believe inducing altered states can have a profound impact upon our physical experiences, providing the opportunity for us to look out upon the physical world with a different set of interpreters.

Another example of this lingering effect took place a couple of weeks ago, after opening my eyes, during the initial stages of an afternoon out of body experience. I decided to check out the ceiling in my bedroom during the vibrational state that occurs prior to full detachment. I opened my physical eyes and allowed my vision to sharpen. I then focused on the ceiling light directly over my bed. I could still feel the waves of vibrations pouring through me and the light proceeded to take on these vibrations. It appeared partially solid and partially wave like. It was shaking at a dizzying rate.

I don’t believe OBE vibrations are a physical phenomenon which is affecting the body. I feel they are indications of our focus shifting into a “purer” state of awareness. I don’t think the light was shaking because my body was shaking; because it wasn’t. I believe I was interpreting the object from a state of awareness in between the wave frequency and particle pattern forming tendency of the object. It was as if it was moving in and out of my reality, from wave to particle and back again.

Now, these altered states of interpretation don’t just take place before or after an OBE. In my post If Walls Could Talk, I related some strange empathic experiences that seemed to be brought on from the dream state. I’ve had a reoccurring dream for years that crops up every so often. The contents of the dream are almost always wiped from my memory, despite always waking up in the middle of it. However, I know it’s the same dream because of the feeling it evokes as soon as I wake up.

Each and every time (after waking up) my normally familiar environment takes on a skewed, twisted impression. I feel as if the pre-dream me that’s become accustomed to viewing my world was only a portion of myself. After waking, it seems as if the post dream me is now entering into a strange foreign world where my previous perceptions were somehow invalid, at least in relation to the “me” that’s now awakened into them. The only way I can describe this scenario is in terms of using something visual. It feels as if I’ve awoken in an M.C. Escher drawing- not in a visually literal manner of course, but figuratively and emotionally speaking.

My home and surroundings have the usual, familiar and recognizable visual qualities, yet it feels like the “me” that’s normally living in this environment has taken a back seat. I feel as if someone else (another portion of me) has emerged and is trying to assimilate into the role the old me was playing the part of. This is why I can still recognize my surroundings, but there is a simultaneous foreign feeling that also emerges.

Accompanying these foreign feelings are strong impressions of emotion. I seem to be super sensitive and have a heightened awareness of emotion in my surroundings during these experiences. Depending upon the intensity, I usually feel assimilated back into my normal self within a few hours to days.

It’s a very bizarre dual experience with lingering effects. But I do appreciate it because it’s helped me tap into the awareness that we can become comfortable in our repetitive interpretations of our experiences. When these events come along and shake things up, I realize there are an infinite number of channels and ways of perceiving. It also suggests we may have multiple perceivers slightly shifting into and out of our experience (sometimes without our even knowing it). This brings me to a great theory on what may be causing these occurrences.

Jane Roberts (of The Seth Material) introduced Aspect Psychology in her book, Adventures In Consciousness. This concept addresses the idea that our source self is similar to a giant radio station sending out multiple signals – each one representing a frequency intended for a different personality.

The signals are received by these personalities that are focused upon innumerable forms of varying dimensional realities. The specific focus personality we identify with is only one of many of these selves existing simultaneously throughout the broad spectrum of different planes of focus. Jane suggests each specific focus personality ordinarily receives one main signal, but by turning its abilities of perception off its home station, it can pick up on other realities and/or the other personality perceivers of those realities.

This means the aspect of awareness that’s reading this text is your focus personality in this form of reality, yet your source consciousness has many other focus personalities existing simultaneously throughout the broad spectrum of other realities. It also means if we “change the station” a bit, our focus personality may be slightly overridden by another channel; which is what I believe is happening to me during my dream triggers.

When I awaken, it’s almost as if I perceive two separate radio signals vying for the same spot on the dial. Both are audible and both belong to me (the source me), yet one is not usually focused upon my current version of reality and the other one is- hence the similar yet simultaneous foreign feeling associated with interacting in my present surroundings.

This may also indicate that another of my source’s aspect personalities is having a similar experience to the one I’m having at that exact same moment. We are both crowding the specific focus personality’s position on the hypothetical radio dial in each respective version of our separate realities. However, because the physical designation of John Wolfe is my specific primary focus in this dimension, I will almost always (at least until I pass on) interpret this effect through my current physical vehicle and interpretation of reality.

I believe we may encounter experiences, to greater or lesser degrees, of this phenomenon throughout our life. There are probably many instances and circumstances in which a bleed through among multiple focus personalities occurs. How often have we said or done things which seem extremely out of the ordinary and uncharacteristically like ourselves?

If the situation is extremely pronounced we can sometimes tap into a quick feeling of “observer and actor”; in which it feels like we are removed from the scenario and are witnessing our “actor-self” performing out of character. Aspects of the focus personality you identify with (as you) could also be crossing over into the other personalities’ realities as well.

Jane’s theory of Aspect Psychology also does an excellent job of explaining the mysteries of reincarnation and why the current moment of now is all that has ever existed. If we only truly exist in the moment of now, then how could we be incarnating chronologically? By understanding our source consciousness projects its awareness, from a timeless state, into multiple personalities that only appear to be moving through chronological and sequential sequences; we can develop a new understanding of past and future lives.

The problem with most interpretations on reincarnation is they ignore the fact that time ceases to be once we move beyond this plane of existence. Of course, the reason for this is still based in the premise that we are incarnating to resolve karmic debts. We have to disregard that dogmatic new age approach to be able to embrace a more powerful and logical explanation of human consciousness.

Using the idea of personality aspects, we can understand how we are living all of our lives simultaneously through each individual personality. This opens the door to understanding that we could also be living our future lives simultaneously as well. Each aspect of awareness is always being launched from the present powerful moment of now.

The aspect theory doesn’t negate the fact we still have full control over our life experience. We aren’t completely aware of the other aspect personalities due to compartmentalization. And even though there is always the potential for slight seepage into our experience, we still have free will and full rein over the development and evolution of our focus self. The only area I see this being an issue is with certain situations where the focus personality has seemingly lost its ability to sector off and compartmentalize the other aspects.

This leads us to the concept of multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia. Aspect Psychology could go a long way in helping us to better understand these misunderstood “disorders.” It’s quite possible that the only difference between people that are considered “normal” and those considered schizophrenic or suffering from multiple personalities is the ability or lack thereof to compartmentalize the information.

Maybe the seepage of information is in extreme overdrive in certain individuals. For some reason, their specific focus personality’s radio station is picking up many other frequencies, almost all of the time. In fact, the tendency is so strong at times; it actually cancels out the main focus personality all together and picks up another station entirely. For people that are that sensitive, it then becomes a case of confusing their reality with the realities of other aspect personalities.

Achieving altered states and recognizing aspects of our awareness provides a glimpse into the multidimensional abilities of consciousness and our psyche. Without delving into studying these events and phenomena, the psychological mapping and understanding of human awareness is incomplete.

If this post has been helpful to you, please consider sharing it with others and/or making a donation. Thank you for supporting Wind of the Soul.

Related Posts

Discovering the Truths of Your Existence
Astral Projection & the Big Bang
If Walls Could Talk
Mental Illness & the Metaphysical

The phenomenal teachings of Abraham have been pouring forth from non-physical awareness, through Esther Hicks, for over two decades. In the process they’ve changed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives for the better. Abraham’s teachings are categorized as channeled works, however that’s not a word that you’d find Esther or her husband Jerry using to describe them. Esther prefers to be known as a translator, which is why I described her as such in my post The Secret.

Although the name Abraham is singular, it represents the awareness of a group consciousness, which “speaks” in vibration to Esther (as thought). She then translates those vibrational thoughts into words, utilizing her own vocabulary and her own speaking voice. There’s no possession or relinquishing of her physical body involved. In fact she has stated that she feels extremely exhilarated and is completely present during the process, yet can simultaneously feel Abraham’s awareness flooding into her.

Abraham brings forth information, which has been stated in many different ways for thousands of years; however they add a clarity and freshness that makes it easy to understand, grasp and apply. They teach that our thoughts, through our emotional resonance, create every aspect of our reality, based upon a principle called the law of attraction.

Our inner being never joins us as we hold negative thoughts; no matter how justified (in our human interpretation) we believe we are. This is the reason we feel undesirable emotion. It’s our indicator that we are choosing to view life outside the manner of our inner being’s interpretation. When we judge others, ourselves or circumstances and experiences in a harsh manner, we literally divide ourselves in two- the human perspective and the source perspective. Abraham teaches that emotions were always meant to be our feedback mechanism, serving as source’s means for providing guidance in this physical environment.

The teachings go on to state that the more in alignment we become with our inner being’s view, the better we will feel. When we are loving, joyful and appreciative, we are in full alignment with our source, as indicated by our desirable feeling emotions. In turn, the law of attraction will begin to knock itself out to alter circumstances and events in our environment to bring forth what we desire and hope for.

While much of this information may not be new; one of the greatest gems I have found in Abraham’s teachings is the acknowledgement of where we are. They teach that wherever we are on the emotional scale- ranging from depression all the way to joy is fine. It’s all about giving ourselves permission to be present and experience our emotions, instead of denying them and trying to suppress them.

This alone was extremely liberating for me, because I’ve always had a tendency to try and cover up how I truly feel- not being honest with myself and others for fear of their response. Only when we acknowledge where we are can we then take full responsibility for our lives. And once we are honest with ourselves, we can begin to take the emotional journey toward anything that brings the feeling of relief.

Another rare gem among these teachings is the concept of allowing ourselves to feel rage and anger. Most metaphysical, self help and spiritual models, for living life, view this as being improper, as does a good portion of our society. But Abraham encourages it, if we are in a place of feeling extreme fear or depression.

When we move into rage we can start to take our power back, which was stripped from us in our less desirable emotional states. They don’t encourage that we physically act on our rage, but instead feel our way through it. From rage, we could move into anger, then into discouragement and blame, and on as we continuously work our way toward more desirable feeling emotions, all via the intention of reaching for relief.

This stream of life has been put into place by each one of us and all of our collective individual experiences. The more life experiences we’ve lived, the more we tend to launch desires. The more desires we launch, the faster our individual streams flow. If we decide to start bucking a fast moving current and not allow the natural float trip, we’re going to have an extremely rough time.

Our individual streams provide our life journey, but this doesn’t mean we are puppets on a string. It’s through our choices, as we take our float trip (or fight it every step of the way), that we are presented with side tributaries branching off in hundreds of other directions. Using this example we could say that the stream represents not only the flow of life but destiny itself. Along destiny’s current we can take any side path we choose through our free will. But we cannot escape our destiny of the stream’s current; we can only postpone its benefits. As Abraham always says, “We don’t come forth to get it done. We come forth for a ride on the river.”

Whether you believe in channeling (the traditional definition or mine) or not, it doesn’t really matter. The fantastic information provided in the vast body of Jerry and Esther’s work speaks for itself, as does their track record of success for providing others with the tools to fully empower themselves. The teachings, which come forth, mean far more to me than any explanation of how Esther does what she does.

If you’re interested in learning more about Abraham and their teachings, I highly recommend the books, Ask and It Is Given and The Law of Attraction.

If you’re interested in learning more about Abraham, Jerry and Esther; I can’t recommend enough, the beautiful film, Introducing Abraham-The Secret Behind The Secret.

This video is the property of Jerry and Esther Hicks.

www.abraham-hicks.com

If this post has been helpful to you, please consider sharing it with others and/or making a donation. Thank you for supporting Wind of the Soul.

Related Posts

Channeling
The Secret
Podcast #4: The Law of Attraction
Podcast #5: The Inspiration Behind Deliberate Creation
Podcast #6: Law of Attraction – the Techniques
Q & A: Why do we feel Negative Emotion?
Our Conscious Origin
Exploring and Creating Our Reality
Manifesting Desirable Results Through Balance

I wanted to introduce the concept of channeling prior to diving into a future post about one of my favorite authors who has extensively honed this ability. Channeling is usually defined as the process of speaking for a spirit guide, source awareness, entity, or group consciousness that has an expanded perspective upon life and our reason for being. I prefer to look at it as connecting with an aspect of ourselves, which transcends time and space, reminding us of who we are and the capabilities we possess.

There are many different explanations for this process; however it’s not as rare or strange as many make it out to be. In fact, each one of us is an open channel when we are consumed with something which elicits our total focus, energy, passion and enjoyment. We simply express the channeled message through our actions and creations instead of through verbalized teachings.

Channeling primarily involves an expanded state of consciousness. Anytime we can achieve an allowing, relaxed state (be it active or passive) by releasing fear, worry, and anxiety- we are expanding our consciousness and channeling a “purer” aspect of ourselves. As our consciousness expands and our vibrational/emotional resonance lifts, we experience amazing moments of clarity, productivity and creative inspiration. This is the same type of experience that athletes often refer to as being in the zone. We each have the ability to access the channeled zone; it’s not reserved for athletes, psychics, or those that appear to be more clairvoyant than the rest of us.

I believe the two keys (along with the willingness) to channel, either verbally or otherwise, reside in creativity and automation. Creatively expressing ourselves can take on any form that stirs us deep inside, it doesn’t have to be the more traditional pursuits of art or music. Once we find an outlet that’s capable of stimulating us, the next step is allowing it to flow in a manner that feels automatic, minus self judgment and critique. The more automatic and spontaneous our actions become, we can rest assured that our minds are free of the typical clutter and doubt that is responsible for suppressing our talents and abilities.

When our creative actions feel like they effortlessly occur, minus struggle, we are opening the channels to our own higher awareness. We have all experienced this at different points in our lives. These moments are almost always categorized by being so completely engrossed and consumed by the object of our attention, the entire world comes to a stand still and everything else ceases to exist. Many call these peak experiences. These are the instances in which our greatest ideas and creations spring forth.

I feel human creativity is linked to original creation. It’s one in the same. As we create, we are in touch with the source of our life force and the source of energy which brought forth this entire Universe. However, the objects we create are not nearly as important as the experiences and the thrill we encounter while the creative juices are flowing.

Individuals that verbally channel teachings are doing exactly the same thing. They are zeroing in on experiences that stimulate them and stir up their creative passion. When they verbally channel, they are in such an amazing automatic state that everything flows smoothly from a place of all knowing. The awareness they share, no matter where it is said to come from, is an awareness we all have.

The only reason verbal channeling seems rare is because those that do it have practiced releasing tension, struggle, and unwanted negative thoughts from the majority of their life experiences. Along with living in a more conscious in-the-moment manner, they’ve also consistently practiced disciplines like meditation or other pursuits, which have continued freeing their minds.

The rest of us catch glimpses of ourselves being in the channeled zone sporadically because we have not consciously pieced together the how’s and why’s our greatest moments of creativity occur. We often feel that we fall into them by accident. But channeling, whether verbally or otherwise, is just like anything else- there are no accidents- it’s all intentional on our part.

If this post has been helpful to you, please consider sharing it with others and/or making a donation. Thank you for supporting Wind of the Soul.

Related Posts

Abraham & The Law of Attraction
Altered States of Consciousness & Aspects of Awareness

Ever since encountering my first conscious out of body experience, I’ve been fascinated with any subject matter that’s closely related to astral projection. Perhaps, there’s no closer familial bond between relative metaphysical topics than the one shared by OBEs and remote viewing.

Remote viewing is a process that consists of a viewer receiving images and impressions about a remote location, which is usually called a target. The entire process is believed to be outside the boundaries of time and space, so the viewers are actually seeing real events as they develop in real time. Adepts at the process are so highly capable, they can tune into any location, person or object. Essentially, remote viewing is a technique that utilizes many aspects of extra sensory perception (ESP) to peer into distant ongoing events, whether they are from the past, present or future.

Controlled remote viewing experiments are always conducted “blindly”- meaning the remote viewers are not given any access (up front) to the target they will be zeroing in on. Targets are usually chosen randomly by the control of the experiment and viewers proceed to sketch and provide descriptions about the selected item or event, based upon their inner perceptions and feelings.

This group has been participating in an on-going R.I. project involving the sinking of the Titanic. They are specifically focusing on the events surrounding the death of a six year old girl named Ebba Andersson. Ebba and her family were among many of the victims that were locked below decks by gates preventing the “lower class” passengers from reaching the life boats.

The article mentions that Ebba was able to squeeze through the gated barrier, but ultimately took a wrong turn while trying to make her way through the lower deck passages. It doesn’t mention how the information regarding Ebba’s escape and the exact data surrounding her death were obtained. But based upon the specific attention to detail and taking into consideration the pandemonium that would have been occurring that night- it’s easy to gather these details were probably witnessed by the remote viewers, rather than through historical accounts.

The whole purpose of retracing Ebba’s every move is to determine the key points that led to her death. In doing so, the viewers are interested in initiating some form of recourse for trying to aid or even save the little girl. The article goes on to state that many things are being taken into consideration including: ethical observations, psychological outcomes, and paradoxical occurrences surrounding time and the result this deviation could create, just to name a few.

Here’s an excerpt explaining how the viewers would actually interact with Ebba, if the experiment is taken to fruition:

“If R.I. is possible its’ effect will surely be one of the sensory and not one of mind control or a voice from the beyond. The effect will be received and processed by the intended target as sensory data processed through its subconscious to the primary awareness. It is not likely that a viewer could demonstrate enough presence to actually control something as robust as a small child amidst the panic aboard the Titanic. It is far more likely that the viewer might be able to generate an urge or an inclination of direction.”

I have yet to find an update regarding this experiment, but I am always on the lookout for any new information about its outcome. I suppose if something like this ever worked then we would have to consider what its effect upon history would be. Even something that may seem small (like saving a child who was “supposed” to die) relative to larger events in history, would have to have a tremendous impact upon time and space. Altering an event like this could possibly spawn an alternate parallel reality in which Emma physically survived and went about her life, while in our present version of reality it would still be accepted that she had indeed passed away on April 14, 1912.

Experiments of this nature have much to teach us about how flimsy the veil of time is. Whether or not the viewers actually decide to alter Emma’s path or not, the fact that historic events are constantly being played out causes me to take pause. It’s fascinating to know that there are ways to access any event and it’s never truly outside of our reach. It may be outside our grasp without the willingness or understanding of how to invoke the protocol for accessing it, but that doesn’t change the fact that everything we did yesterday is fully accessible to those who have discovered how to see it and quite possibly alter it.

If this post has been helpful to you, please consider sharing it with others and/or making a donation. Thank you for supporting Wind of the Soul.

Related Posts

There are currently no related posts.