Discover Your Psychic Powers: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth

by Packages

A practical guide to psychic development and spiritual growth.Have you ever felt you possessed a "sixth sense" or intuition which you've found difficult to explain? Despite man's extraordinary advances during the twentieth century, do you still feel something is a deeper, more spiritual meaning to life? Discover Your Psychic Powers addresses these issues and much more by taking you into the realms of greater awareness; it shows you step by step how to uncover your own true potential, using both meditative and physical exercises. It reveals how psychic and spiritual development can completely transform your life, whilst also having a positive effect on everyone around you.Most importantly, Discover Your Psychic Powers has been written in a simple, factual style, making this complex subject both easily accessible and fascinating.

Genres: Spirituality, New Age, Paranormal, Nonfiction

389 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 1998

Reviews

[Li Or · Rating 1 out of 5]

Contains quite a lot of limiting beliefs right from the get-go. I looked past the limiting beliefs in the hope of still learning something interesting but then came the final straw: An exercise that professed to show you how to use your natural psychic powers to see "Earth energy" by looking at a blue sky and seeing the white dots of energy before your very eyes... I was excited when I was successfully able to see this with my own eyes - but minutes later discovered on wikipedia that this is a known scientific phenomenon called "Blue field entoptic phenomenon" - and what you're seeing is the white blood cells in your eyes rather than anything psychic. I'm open-minded, and I know psychicness exists because I've witnessed a family member have pretty amazing psychic experiences - but I don't think this book is the way to learn how to open up your own psychic powers. When things are mislabeled as psychic when they're not - it doesn't bode well for the credibility of the teachings in the rest of this book.

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was more or less a natural progression for me, with my uderstanding of life and beyond. It really has changed the way I look at things.

An absolutely full on book, that will guide you, if this is your type of subject.

[Stephen · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. This is a deeply stupid book, unfortunately.

Here's why: It's not really because of the pop-metaphysics, though those are bad enough. Even a book about "discovering your psychic powers" could get two stars from me. But this book, aside from explaining badly what it bothers to explain at all, relentlessly tries to tell the reader how the reader should be feeling. Isn't this wild claim amazing? Aren't you so amazed by these assertions? You can't help but feel like the world of psychic powers is so wonderful and mysterious - and yet so ultimately compatible with middle-aged middle-class cozy aesthetics!

I instantly dislike books that tell me what I should be feeling. Plenty of books have emotive description, but only bad books (in my opinion) try to take the reader by the metaphorical caller and yell "HEY READER, IT'S ONLY THE FIRST CHAPTER BUT I EXPECT YOU TO BE FEELING THE FOLLOWING EMOTIONS RIGHT NOW." See also Conspiracy Theory 101: A Researcher's Starting Point, which asserted that my reading it would fundamentally alter my world-view. Oops.

And now we get to the #something-not-okay portion, where I take exception with the book's metaphysics. I don't know how true believers would view the claims made here, but at least a few of the other 1-star reviews on this site are from people who have positively rated books about how to be a wiccan so call that skepticism-believer consensus if you want. The weirdest one for me (that I read; remember, DNF) was the way the author justified reincarnation as a way to explain karma. Of course, the way to justify karma is to point to really prosaic cases (treat someone badly now, they might treat you badly later) as if that justifies the unbounded time-space blowback that any action can bring back on you, possibly threefold? But once you buy into universal karma you have to answer why bad things happen to good people or vice versa, and boom, it's because they were a dick in a past life as an Atlantean priest-king-pimp or something.

I mock, I giggle, but it's such a cluttered ontology, pulling gigantic things out of nowhere to justify previous out-of-nowhere things, and responding to skeptical astonishment with "Yes! It is astonishing once you accept the Truth! uwu" >_>

I'm willing to hold my annoyance in check, but not when the book keeps telling me how I should feel on top of it all. 1 star. Blech.

[Adel Fulcher · Rating 1 out of 5]

Had to abandon this at chapter 4. The writter claims that was is actually blue field entopic phenomenon (when you see the white blood cells in your eyes as little dots when looking at a blue field such as the sky) is the ability to see earth energy. After this I have to question any other claims that would be made and too much trust in the content was lost. Prior to this fabrication alot of the writing felt more like her own assumptions and much of it belief system based.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

An informative and interesting read that is well written and aimed at guiding the reader through the discovery and use of their own psychic powers no matter what their previous experience.

[lucas · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF;
Not good