Casting Out The Real Demons

Sometimes it's hard to clear the air after you've been subjected to the negative actions of chaotic people. I mean the truly chaotic, the ones who cannot break their illusions, can't tell what is right and what is wrong, mix them up, fall into a chasm, tumbling through jumbled values. The overriding wish most of us have is that sanity will be restored in them so we can feel all right about ourselves, but it's not going to happen. They will tell you things to try to drag you down with them. You cannot raise the truly fallen angels up.

They have to do it themselves.

In those times you must shut all psychic doors and abandon them. You  have to work through your own guilt at doing it. You have to work through their abusive cries. And find the things that make you most certain that you know your own good, your own wisdom, your own wings. Don't ever let the fallen make you feel that you cannot fly.

Not Blessed Are The Demon Makers

What is a demon maker?

This is where the psychic and psychological weapons of human beings really collide.

A demon maker is a person who at the least is trying to malign or destroy a person or group of people that the demon maker is opposed to, in an obsessive and often extremely jealous degree. The energy and focus that the demon maker puts into this effort can, on a psychic level, not only put intense pressure on the target psychologically, but energy wise, affecting both the emotions and health of the target.

The demon maker is the worst of the psychic vampires, because a demon maker really wants to destroy you. A demon maker will convince others to join the attack as drones, drones that don't realize that the demon maker is using their energy to fuel the demon maker's own attack.

Truly psychically gifted demon makers can go as far as projecting demonic images and causing paranormal activity - I have experienced this. This occurs when the demon maker does not want to appear to be the actual aggressor. But, on average, a demon maker uses more mundane ways to disturb and damage the energy and environment of something or someone they want to control. For example, anonymous Internet trolls are demon makers. If they band together and use mob energy, under the direction of an open and virulent demon maker, they can do a lot of damage.

I have been under attack from such a group lately. I don't want to write about it here, because that will open my shielding. But I do want to stress how important it is to use psychic shielding, protection, and grounding during an attack like this. You have to push people like this off of you in every way you can. You also should use a prayer or statement of intention, calling for backup and protection from conscious energy other than your own, in a situation where firmly pushing them off and letting them go is not enough.

This is the intention I am using in my own situation, which has been very bad - my energy is clearer now:

 I call on the guides and guardians of conscious energy to disrupt and remove the human demon makers [name them] who are attacking me. Send energy their way that will disrupt their lives as they have tried so hard to disrupt mine. And by those disruptions, one by one, may they learn that a demon maker cannot lie to the conscious spirit, and may that lesson wake them up to the sane world. May our guides and guardians, however we see them through our faith, take on the burden the demon makers are trying to force on us. And may the guides and guardians of the demon makers fall silent and still at their backs, to help them learn this lesson.

Such an intention, said or written within the framework of your personal faith ("I call upon the angels...") helps strengthen your protection. Also state that the demon makers cannot reverse this intention on you - that if they try, it will only make your intention stronger.

I will be using this intention a lot this coming year. My demon makers have launched an Internet attack that accuses me of many things I am not. Demon makers become so obsessed with conquering their target that they will resort to any method they can come up with. Demon makers are dangerous people. Don't let them feed on you - block them, and protect yourself in every way you can. We don't need people like this in our lives.

But how do I use my psychic gifts?

I think the hardest answer for people to accept about psychic ability and learning to use it is that the rules are simple: Be prepared to say no to whatever you feel you can't handle, but let go of fear. Let go of the noisy thoughts in your head, and prepare for someone else to say something. Tell the universe you're ready to sense, and mean it. Don't assume. Let go of your beliefs and get ready for anything. Pay attention. Shut the door firmly on your sensing when you want no more.

That's it.

We can't explain to you how you'll sense things, because we don't know how you will do it. Everyone has a different way of expressing the sixth sense. You learn what yours is by practice. Practice is usually best achieved by meditating, getting used to always letting go of the noisy thoughts. At first, you might not realize anything happened; then you'll remember you just got a picture in your head, that you heard a voice, that you felt a sensation that didn't seem usual. And you'll think - is that it? Yes. It might just be someone communicating with you. You'll know for sure the more you practice.

Keep a journal of what you feel is psychic experiences. Read about other people's experiences, but don't assume their experiences and yours are just the same. What helps about reading other people's experiences is that you learn the struggle to understand is the same for everyone.

We are leaving behind us the days when psychics were only fortune tellers, when mediums were expected to be entertainment, when false practitioners took up the most space in the psychic world. The readers who used to fake psychic ability have moved on to pretending to be exorcists that remove the "damage" psychics do, because they figure that's where the money is. There will always be charlatans, looking for the money. What's important is that there are truly gifted people out here, professional and private, who are learning to just use the sense they have, and encourage others to do the same, no matter what level of gift or awareness. Turn to them.

That's all. Listen to the universe. It's ready to speak to you.

Psychic Forensics - Solving Mysteries

This is a term that the paranormal investigator Stacey Jones uses to describe paranormal investigations, but, for me, it means investigating disappearances and crimes.

This is one of the top three things most people expect out of psychic ability. We used to get requests for this on Chip Coffey's discussion board constantly before I put up a notice that we would not do this. It's the one thing most people learning to use their psychic sense wish they could do.

Be careful what you wish for.

First of all, let me repeat what I say often: Psychic sense is not a magic ability. It is a normal sixth sense as prone to mistakes as any other sense. Have you ever seen the chef Gordon Ramsay blindfold professional cooks and ask them what meat they are tasting? Some of them are not able to tell the difference between the taste of beef and chicken! You can see something in the distance and when you arrive find it's not what you thought it was at all. You can believe you hear something in the static of a phone that isn't there. Our senses are NOT infallible, because our brains are ALWAYS interpreting what we are sensing according to what we already know.

When trying to sense what happened in an disappearance or a crime, you come to the task with baggage already in place. I've seen a talented sensitive completely misread a crime because she was a mother, and her fears for her own children made her interpret things in the wrong direction. I usually only get feelings, which doesn't give me much to work with. Asked to help find a missing young man, I immediately got a sense of simply being wiped out of life from left to right. There was barely time for shock. This was all the young man knew. It turned out he was on a dark road he didn't know, texting while he drove, and the road curved, sending his car from the left to the right straight into a retention pond. That was it.

The conscious energy of someone who has crossed over usually knows very little about what happened. When you're having a crime committed on your body or an accident is happening, your mind isn't taking notes - it's going into shock. The feelings are the strongest memory. And, in spite of what many people hope, I have not experienced any communication from the dead that convinces me we become all seeing, all knowing after we die. If we ever do, that is something for our higher selves. After death we are dealing with the memories of the ego first, our higher consciousness later. Frankly - our higher consciousness does not care how we die. For the purest form of our consciousness, all that is transition. When the concerns of the ego are lost, so are the pains of memories.

I found, through sensing two separate cases, that if psychic ability is going to give really helpful information, it's going to have to come from the person or persons who commit the crime. In the first instance, I completely refused to give impressions: I saw the murder, but I also saw a line of policemen that went on forever, each holding the murder weapon. It turned out this was what the relatives of the victim suspected, and we went no further - it was dangerous for them.

The only case I have ever actually been able to help on was given as an anonymous lead. Not only was I getting impressions, two sensitive friends were getting impressions that they kept contacting me with, even though they knew nothing about the case. A college professor killed his wife and two of her friends, then disappeared. The victims were friends of a friend of mine. The moment I heard of the crime, I went to Google maps and pinpointed where he had gone. But I didn't trust myself. I said nothing. Still the impressions kept nagging me, impressions that came not from the victims, though the victims were coming to me for help. I was getting impressions from the killer, and I knew it. He had died about a day after they did.

He was bragging. He had pulled off something amazing and no one would ever find him. What?

I knew exactly where he had gone, because a few days later they found his vehicle parked near the reservoir I had zoomed in on. I waited for them to find him. They didn't. They kept checking the airport and looking everywhere else. I was frustrated. He is near the place where the vehicle was found, why aren't they finding him? Finally, with a feeling like a bad child pleased with himself, the killer bragged: "I buried myself before I shot myself."

I thought - no, that's not possible. But I heard from my two friends that they were getting impressions that backed up what I got.

I finally called my friend who knew them all, and asked her if she minded if I told her something psychic. She said go ahead. I gave her as much detail as possible. She said she knew a member of the search and rescue team, and would contact him. This began her job as a go-between, as I sent the directions of where to start looking. I told them they had to use cadaver dogs.

The next day, on the news, I saw a video of the police cars parked exactly where I told them to start looking - the point on Google street view which was closest to the place I needed them to go. It took them a day and a half to search with cadaver dogs. I was so tense I went to a movie on Saturday morning. When I got home, the friend had left a message on my phone: "They found him. Just like you said."

He had dug a shallow grave and lay down in it with his gun, then dragged a wooden pallet covered with dirt and limbs and leaves slowly over himself. It was hard work. His hand was not steady when he shot himself. It took time to die.

I stayed anonymous with the police. The friend asked them if they would give me a reward and was told "we would have found him anyway." I hadn't expected any would come. The dogs got the credit. That was good. They finished the work three sensitives started.

It was very strange watching the news of this play out on national television. I had done something that garnered this much attention, and few people knew about it. It didn't make me happy. It just awed me. What differences we can make at unexpected times, in silent ways, simply because we pay attention to our psychic sense, even if we don't want to.

Why am I telling you this? I want you to know I have had many many impressions about crimes. Sometimes I'm right. Most of the times I'm wrong. This would be true for any psychic. We can hope impressions can help, but that is all. It is frustrating when you're wrong. I didn't feel happy when I was right.

I was left with one last problem: a killer spirit who was furious. I had ruined his perfect getaway. One night I woke up agitated from a deep sleep and started doing searches on the Internet for articles on him, pictures of him, news about someone else he had targeted. I was furious, furious, furious, I should be able to - able to -

I realized his energy was trying to use me. I shoved him out, and contacted friends for help, asking them to send energy to help me keep him pushed out. His energy was an arrogant and furious slime. I never want to feel that again.

This is why I do NOT recommend anyone do this kind of work. The person who can handle it with clarity is a rare soul. I've met a few. But no one should just try this out. It takes experience and knowledge most people don't have. It also takes a good knowledge of psychology and a respect for the law. If you do something the wrong way you could mess up a case for the people who are supposed to bring criminals to justice. You could mislead a search team. Then you'd have to live with it.

The failure that haunts me the most is the child who wandered off into the woods in winter. He didn't know where he was. He thought he was going in a direction he wasn't headed to. I only picked up what he felt. I only picked up what he knew. I felt him slowly grow sleepy and fade off. I had nothing else to help me locate him.

They found him still alive, but he died of hypothermia.

That's still hard to know.

Think about what may come at the end, before you start trying to do anything like this. If you have no confidence in what you sense, if it does not nag at you and stay consistent, you have nothing to contribute to a search. You have to know that you are ready for a tremendous responsibility.

9/11: Black Cloud, White Cloud

It's the dream I don't forget. I wish I had the skill to do it half the justice of the images. August 30, 2001. I walked out of a desert cantina to see two straight pillars of cloud standing out in a flaming sunset across the desert. The left one was black, the right one, white. I knew I was seeing something extremely important. I, and those around me, stared at the twins for a long time. It was the first of the dreams that warned me of what was coming. But I didn't understand until the event came. These were the twin towers. Black cloud, white cloud. I learned later, when I saw the first version of the documentary created by the Naudet brothers who filmed one of the planes hitting the World Trade Center, that "black cloud" was an epithet for a fire fighter rookie who brought a deadly fire with him, and "white cloud" was an name for one who brought a fire that didn't harm anyone. The Naudets and firefighter James Hanlon had been filming a rookie when the planes hit. Though the black cloud brought thousands of deaths, the white cloud protected the rookie's ladder: none of his company died. It was the only one who lost none of their men.

This is what precognition usually is. Enough to warn you, not enough to stop the event in any way. Why, we don't know. A warning to bear witness, not a chance to change things.

I have done this a lot. It's always difficult. It's never as much as we want to see, or as little. It is a vision that lets us know there is so much more to the universe than we will ever understand. And that, truly, is all you need to know about precognitive dreams. Write them down. Don't try to interpret them unless they nag you to do so - then you're meant to do something. Then wait. This is the ultimate shock and awe. It's something that needs your strength and clarity and patience. Nothing more.

It's all in how you look at it.

I've been going through a rash of people using my profile picture for Psychic Sensibility as "proof" I am an agent of "Satan.". I always laugh.

I like this picture because when people comment on it, I know where their mindset is, and I'm forewarned about  how our conversations about the paranormal might go. What do you see? Is the mask behind me a demon? A green man? A werewolf? Satan "himself?" An angel? Or a feathered representation of Aeolus, the Greek god of winds and weather?

It's the last, of course: See the soft feathers now? No horns, no fur, just the breath of a smile. I love this mask as a symbol for what I always talk about - psychic sense is nothing more than an ability to read the "weather" within conscious energy - psychic sense tells you which way the wind blows.

Do not assume that you know what you are looking at when you try to judge something on first appearances. The only ones who ever get it right are the ones who have seen these things before.

The Difference Between Paranormal And Supernatural

In supernatural beliefs and practices we always build both the good and bad "strangers" on what we already understand - our human frames. We are our own angels and demons. We are our own forms of God. How do we get past that? We accept the difference between the paranormal and normal worlds, and put the supernatural beliefs in a separate place.

Most people would probably think "paranormal" and "supernatural" mean the same things. But if you look at the topics closely, they don't. They are mistaken for each other.

Paranormal means beyond what we can understand scientifically: "Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding." This doesn't mean that all such events and phenomena will remain without understanding: already, there is scientific research into the circumstances of paranormal events, even if we can't yet explain how the events happen. Carl Sagan, who adamantly rejected what can't be proved, gave, in the video linked here, a plausible possibility for how some paranormal experiences occur. Time, technology, and experience will give us more and more of these explanations for what we can't understand now. The paranormal slowly evolves into normal things.
Supernatural means "beyond nature - relating to a deity or something of a miraculous nature." It has been stretched to include paranormal as a synonym, but it's important to remember how the concept of the supernatural evolved. It came out of the legends and myths that have been used to explain what could not be explained. In history, when paranormal events occurred and those who witnessed them could not explain them in any other way, we have created reasons, beautiful, even poetic reasons for why these things happened. These tales have continued to be so important to human societies many of them have been handed down to today: Angels and demons, sorcerers, fairies, trolls, banshees, vampires, werewolves - the list goes on and on. Even our different faces for God, in our different beliefs, are built on the tales of the supernatural. Some people still believe in these things utterly. More people understand that they are images of faith and still use them to express their faith - They are things of a supernatural language that people of the same or similar beliefs can understand, but the people know that are just symbols of what we can not know ourselves. Then, there are those who reject the supernatural completely, and throw the paranormal events, the actual experiences, out in the same bath water.

The luckiest of people are those in the middle, open both to the supernatural language and lore, and aware of the normal and paranormal reality. I love mythology, and supernatural traditions. I love, still, the Catholic practices that informed my childhood, and will still look to Catholic heroes for comfort, believing in them in my personal way. You can't dislodge the supernatural joys of Christmas or Halloween from my heart. In spite of dealing with the conscious energy of those who have died as part of my daily life, a good old supernatural ghost story will still scare me every time!

But if you don't believe in the paranormal possibilities at all you miss some amazing things. And, if you stay absolutely immersed in the supernatural "truths" of a rigid religious or superstitious mindset, you can do yourself, and others, harm. People don't understand that although it is possible to believe in the truth - truth that can be scientifically or legally or historically verified - belief itself is not the same as truth. Sometimes people's belief in the supernatural not only get in the way of understanding the paranormal, it also gets in the way of how they relate to the natural world.

I will write more about belief in other posts. Belief is the most fascinating and vexing quality of being human. But, for now, think about this: Your ability to deal with unexplained events is compromised if you favor supernatural ideas over your own common sense. One of my favorite psychics, Chip Coffey, relies on his beliefs as a Catholic, and uses supernatural language, but at the same time he tells people again and again to remember "we don't know." That ability to accept that there are things we don't know makes all the difference.

Questions From The Fringe

Answering Questions from people who attack out of ignorance and hatred: I'll add to this later on...

The entire argument of "Christ never did this why should Psychics" comes up often and is a pretty puzzling argument. Number one: whoever brings it up is admitting they think Christ was a psychic, which by all accounts he was. At the same time, they're saying all psychics should be like Christ. Why would any of us assume to be Christ? Wouldn't that be telling people, according Christian beliefs, "hello, we're all powerful, like God." We have no right to assume that mantle, and do NOT. It's a misconception to think psychic ability is a supernatural, religious, or Godly POWER. It is a natural sixth sense. If you go to a psychic who makes claims that he or she can work miracles for you, leave. That's a con artist.

‎"Christ never charged for his services and neither should you." That's my roflmao all time favorite nonsense. Jesus of Nazareth had bills. He had to buy staples and pay rent and taxes just like anyone else. When he entered his full time mission, and was no longer a carpenter, his followers and THE PEOPLE WHO USED HIS SERVICES fed him, clothed, him, housed him, and paid for that donkey that eventually carried him into Jerualem. GET REAL. If you don't pay psychic advisors for their services, they can't do psychic work. If you think they should, please go into your workplace tomorrow morning and tell your boss, "I want continue to work here, but you don't have to pay me one cent for all my work. I think it's a privilege to work fior you, not a necessity that helps me survive. Why should I make you pay?"

Be glad psychic advisors tell you when you have a problem you should take to a doctor, lawyer, or counselor. That means you have a legitimate psychic advisor. I can do medical psychometry to a point, but that doesn't mean I'm a doctor, I'm not going to diagnose you. I know a fair amount about psychology, and use it to give advice, but I know the difference between emotional counseling and mental illness. When we tell someone they should talk to a mental health worker, we know that's the best help for the situation. The most heartbreaking requests I've ever had was from parents who would rather think their children are possessed by negative entities than face they are ill. Illness can be cured faster than ignorance in many cases.

Supernatural Trolls

One of the down sides to any kind of professional practice is dealing with badly managed competition. The silly side of professional psychic work is that if you're good enough to attract the attention of many, many people, you're also good enough to attract the harrassment of supernatural trolls, who are really in competition with you.

No, not the fun trolls like my friend here, Ik the Troll, who I worked with at the Georgia Renaissance Festival for many years. I'm talking about the kind of trolls who want to disrupt things so people will come pay attention to them. They are either the kind who want you to buy their books on how everything you are interested in is fake, or tell you psychic or paranormal interests are evil so you will come to them and pay them to rid you of your evil. Then there are the people who were in the psychic hotline or other businesses who actually were caught doing something wrong, and want to get their money mojo back by attacking professional psychics so people will think they, themselves, have to be legitimate if they're pointing out how bad others are.

Rule of thumb: If someone is personally attacking someone, that's a crime. Period. I found out you can't attack back, because that gives more attention to them and a heck of a lot more work for you. They really have no conscience about what they're doing, they'll use any trick in the book. They are con artists. Don't get sucked into it.

If you dig far enough, you find the skeletons in all their closets.  Examples some of the ones who spout the most posts about psychics being evil and the spawn of satan are professional exorcists; those who want to prove psychics are fakes have their own fakery - sometimes PSYCHIC fakery - in their background. They use sock puppets - either fake identities or the kind of friends that always trail around behind bullies at school - to make little posts about how wonderful they are. Then they wait for those who have fallen for their bait. I have cleaned up some horrible messes from professional exorcists, events that terrified everyone in a home -especially the children. One of these exorcists that I had to clean up the mess of, regularly attacks well known psychics, claiming he is more gifted and intelligent than they are. If he is, video and photoshop work isn't among his talents - he fakes evidence, brings it back to the client and says "you have a major demonic infestation here, let me get rid of it for you." Then he attacks any psychic who tells you to choose your psychic advisor carefully.

The good advice comes from those who mean that. Really, truly, choose psychic advice carefully. I can never say that enough. If you believe in it and want it, then you should have the best experience available. Don't fall for the hucksters and hacks.

In the meantime, just ingore the trolls, which aren't really that many. On the Psychic Kids facebook page I monitor, there are about ten out of about 19,000 members who liked the page who come there to make trouble. That's an amazingly tiny number. They make an awful lot of noise, but so does a box full of nothing but paper when you reach into it.

Trolls like Ik are so much more fun. Go read more about him here. And pay attention to the poster Ik's creator Bryan Thompson made, which is the image for this post. If their words are sweet like kittens, the words are bait. There are times "God bless" isn't a blessing, it's a hook.

What Belief Creates

Though we could argue the possibilities of many realities for the purpose of this knol, consider this: that we recognize two different kinds of realities, that which is determined by the laws of physics, and that which is determined by our own perceptions. The first is physical reality; the second, personal reality.

Most human beings really only operate from a perspective of personal reality. The saying, "seeing is believing" is the motto of many people, but, the truth is, they have it turned around. "Believing is seeing." But until one's reality slips, it's almost impossible to understand that.

What do I mean by a slip in reality? That's when something happens that shows the flaws in the perceptions. I once firmly believed I was alone in a room, but I wasn't - my best friend was also there. She had to say my name again and again before she could break through my belief, and when she finally did, I saw her appear before me, dot by dot - and realized that I had, literally, been looking right through her! She had told me earlier she wouldn't be there - and because I had completely believed what she had said, she wasn't.

That was the day I began to understand just how much belief affects how we perceive things.

What does this mean for all of us? It means belief controls our senses, and controls how we handle information within the brain: What we are willing to let in, and what we are willing to send out. This concept is stated in a theory called Morton's Demon.

Morton's Demon is an expression inspired by a physics concept called Maxwell's Demon and applied to a psychological phenomenon called confirmation bias. All people tend to weigh judgments and thought perceptions according to their belief system, always leaning towards justifying or rejecting information according to their beliefs. The demon of Morton's idea is a "gatekeeper" that, according to the person's beliefs, either allows or bars information from entering the brain. I would give this demon more power than that: I have seen that such a demon can rewrite information, not just reject or accept it. It is a fully working editor of our reality, to the point that, in some instances, it can create a fully perceived reality that is not there at all.

How far can this concept go? How can we know? Our beliefs rule the evidence. I would say that, at the least example, that it means we all create our "angels" and our "demons"; that those of us who believe in supernatural things will see positive and negative forces or actions expressed in supernatural form, manifested as things we believe in, and those who don't believe in such things, will not see them at all. But it's not that simple: Someday, physics will prove that information carried by energy does involve some sort of consciousness we can't yet fully understand, and that the psychic senses that so many feel are only psychological belief systems are actually there to pick up physically real broadcast information, not just the things we believe in. But until then, it's a tangled web. We all have our beliefs, and we make our decisions, and perceive our personal worlds, according to them.

Belief, at its best, should be something that enhances our perceptions, not removes them. All I can advise is believe responsibly. Believe well. And try to understand that if you have a belief that does not work for you, that causes problems for you or others, you do have the choice to lay it aside. You may be stunned to find that what then appears "before your eyes" is something good that you never considered at all.

[reprint of one of my Knols]

What Skepticism Isn't

There is a huge difference between skepticism and the tirades that are launched by some who feel if they don't believe someone's ideas, it is their right to attack them personally. I have received lots of these attacks, because I teach about psychic ability. However: I am a skeptic. I don't claim psychic ability does not exist at all because I've experienced and accepted evidence that it does. Yet I don't automatically take anyone's word for it that they use psychic ability or have had a paranormal event. I look for ways to relate psychic ability to natural possibilities, and I understand that we haven't reached the point yet where solid scientific proof of these activities can be offered. I am a pure skeptic: I just leave things in a neutral place until I see evidence one way or another. That's what actual scientific skepticism does: it leaves things idling at proof zero until a quality is proven or unproven. That point of proof requires no comment, nor should any comment be made.

Most experiences in life, when you talk about subjective experiences, pretty much stay at that zero point for observers. We can't prove or disprove that a person has just gotten off a bus unless we have seen it for ourselves. We can't prove the stories we tell about our days to the people we tell them to, and we don't have to tell the stories to those who took part in the experiences - but we have our personal experiences behind the stories. That means a lot to us. If some people believe us, then our experience may entertain or help others (we hope). If we are being pressed for constant proof, unless we are video-taping and recording every step we make - what a waste of time - no matter what, our proof remains at zero for anyone who "wasn't there." That's not a rejection, it's an honest statement that one does not believe a thing because one simply does not know it.

I often get the impression that those who constantly harangue others for proof of experience are needy of proof for themselves. They have nothing, they feel, to hang their lives on - talent, achievement, intelligence, contribution - so they ridicule those who have what they do not, and pretend to be experts on recognizing the unworthiness of others. They operate under the assumption that a skeptic's purpose is to tear other people down for believing in things that can't be proved in a scientific way, instead of leaving the issue in the quiet neutral zone of zero.

They waste precious time trying to knock down others for what they experience or do, rather than going on the extraordinary journey of finding out what they can experience or really do well themselves.  

That is their loss. If you are exploring psychic abilities, keep your skepticism handy, so you can recognize the things that are true for your experience. Understand that the opinions of persistent and intrusive skeptics are built largely on zero proof. That way, when someone tries to diminish your experience simply in order to feel good about themselves, you will remember what their opinions are worth: nothing.

The Damage That Demon Chasers Do

There is a distinct difference between the paranormal and the supernatural - something I will go into time and again on this blog. The paranormal involves events that we experience but can't understand the essence of without research. The supernatural gives us explanations without necessarily arriving at the truth: explanations based on religion, legend, mythology, all things used by people who jump ahead to create causes without knowing what they really are. I appreciate the poetry and creativity of the mythology of how good and evil exist in the world. But actually believing in demons does not help anything: It makes fear grow.

Belief can create far, far more than we realize. And while humans love the use of the demonic images to blame evil on something else, the evil of mankind always comes from within. We create the demons. And we can uncreate them. It is a matter of learning to let go of fearful beliefs, and learning that we have the choice to believe responsibly.

A belief in demons is ingrained in a number of forms of Christianity, and I understand the basic belief in them. I once shared that belief. But once I realized my belief might be making things worse, I chose to put it aside. The result was I have found handling instances of negative psychic disturbances - in fact, ALL negative disturbances - much easier to handle now. I look at what is going on rather than trying to build the situation into something it isn't. This one change in perception has made a tremendous difference in my life, from handling depression to handling real danger from violence.

Many people believe in demons to understand their fears of evil. It's part of the way we have always coped with the frightening and unknown.

But some people continue to aggressively seek out, create, and thus build up, "demonic" dangers.

Of all the sub-groups in the paranormal field, the demon chasers can be the most dangerous. Some chasers begin by thinking this is the right thing to do, and discover that it isn't. For them, it is part of a path to psychic growth, something they outgrow as they learn more about paranormal reality. There are chasers who want the thrill of the game of hunting, and that's what it remains for them. But the extreme chasers often feel they have a "mission from God" to rid the world of evil, and impose themselves on people and in situations they have no business with. They often have psychological problems that make it difficult for them to deal with their own darkness, so they  feel redemption is in taking on the sins of the world. They have difficulty relating to people. They are obsessed with other people's behavior, and do little about their own habits. They are psychological wrecks trying to say everyone else is wrong. In this case - they are the demons.

They want what all demonic personalities want: They want to build up their own importance, and they want to be seen as heroes. They want attention, and go after it. They will brag about who is paying attention to them. They attack whoever doesn't like them. And then they will point out how wonderful they are because they attack people they think deserve to be treated badly. In other words, they believe they are Godly in the way of making themselves gods. Very, very mean and little gods.

They are abusive personalities. It is very possible that they are guilty of the abuses they attribute to other people. They obsess oveer the things they secretly want to do. And they are too dense to realize many people just might know that.

I have seen the photograph of a demon chaser sitting with the large cat-like image  of a carved wooden demon, gesturing as he talks about the image. What I would guess he is NOT saying is: "have you noticed how much this image looks like me? The same prominent cheekbones, the wide jaw, the sloping eyes and forehead? This is me. I am a demon. And my pleasure depends on making YOU as afraid as possible."

The idea in Harry Potter books of using a charm to make what we fear look ridiculous comes in handy even in real life. Whenvere this particular man starts his nonsense up around me, I think of this picture, and he is no longer anything but what he is - someone who has done nothing with his life that can really help anyone, not even himself.

No matter what you believe: if someone insists on frightening you, ask yourself what his or her motives are instead of just buying into the fear. Never let a demon chaser use you by making you afraid to use your own sense. The demon chaser is hungry for fear and attention. Give this creature nothing.

Scientific Proof Is Out There...

I want to thank psychic investigator Christopher Fleming for this link: Scientific Evidence For Survival. As technology advanaces, we will have more and more evidence that something is going on in the energy that otherwise we would not know - at least not for sure. A good number of people have experienced things over the years in regards to near death experiences that were written off as hallucinations by many. But, too many of us have had these experiences. I have.

This past weekend I stopped breathing while asleep, for a very long time, but I didn't have a classic near death experience (NDE) - I had a series of dreams within dreams as I fought to wake up. I know when I wake up from one dream into another that, physically, I'm in trouble. But I kept waking from one dream into another into another, and I knew if I did not pop the dream bubble, I would return to a state I have known before: the pure light consciousness of crossing over. I kept yelling at the people in my dreams that I knew I was asleep, which way to the exit? I was getting frantic. The "bubble" popped and I was fully awake suddenly, and weak. It's taken me a couple of days to recover.

What was it like when I did have NDEs? The first time, during a severe asthma attack, everything was black: I just heard a voice saying I couldn't come yet. The second time, during apnea, I went directly to the light, and only saw swirling masses in the light that let me know others were with me. Again I was told - this time silently, that it wasn't time. I had to go from waking into dream to dream to get back out again.

The last time was just a brush of an NDE, this past May. I was out at dinner with my housemate Amy. At the end of a good meal, my blood pressure spiked and I tried to have a stroke, apparently. I went directly into the light for a moment. This time I said no, not yet, and came right back. Amy drove me to the hospital.

The emergency room doctor asked if I had seen a tunnel with the light at the end of it, meaning this phenomenon as the symptom of a stroke. I told him no, I went straight into white light. He was puzzled by this - he hadn't heard of it before. I didn't tell him that I wasn't surprised I didn't see a tunnel - why would I? I already knew exactly where to land.

He wouldn't have understood. I feel if we don't yet know where we're going, we will see a NDE either according to our beliefs (see Jesus, angels, Buddha, etc) or see that we are trying to reach something we don't yet understand (the tunnel). That simple.

I'm glad to see evidence that ties into scientific method. I am eager for more.

Sense: What The Sixth Sense Really Is

Everyone uses it: Our Direct Perception Of Information From Energy.

People tend to think that the sixth sense is a supernatural power with claims to being all-seeing, all-knowing - but it isn't. It's a regular sense that we all use. How do we perceive our thoughts? Our feelings? Our dreams? That perception is our sixth sense. For most of us, it is a very myopic, self-centered, inward perception. But like any other sense, it is sharper for some people than others, and for a gifted group, that sense is not just a case of nearsense, like near-sightedness, but farsense, picking up information that comes from well beyond our personal physical boundaries.

The sixth sense picks up information that comes directly to the brain, mostly from synaptic activity within the brain, but sometimes it picks up information that is carried on energy waves and pulses from outside the body. Energy carries along information in many ways that we already perceive with our other five senses. This sixth sense is capable of picking up what the other five can't, things that seem intangible, impossible to know until you have the experience of using your sixth sense, and trusting it. The sense becomes sharper with trust and practice. Once you understand that, the next steps are to believe in it, use it, and pay attention to what your sixth sense tells you. Use it simply. It's your natural warning system.

[reprint from one of my Knols.]

Following The Path Of Psychic Sense

For the past three years I've been working with the fans of Chip Coffey, following the success of his appearances on the A & E paranormal series Paranormal State and Psychic Kids. During those years, thousands of people got in touch through Chip's discussion board looking for help with their own abilities, and paranormal events. We set up a safe place there that offered practical self help, information and solutions. Unlike other paranormal and supernatural discussion boards, we curbed the tendency to focus on the supernatural and on superstitious fear factors, and focused on things that made the most sense for the most people.

It was a tough thing to do. The success of the Chip Coffey discussion board was due in large to the number of people willing and able to take part in the discussion in thoughtful, helpful ways. It has been a great support forum, and the work we did there is still available to read and participate in, at The Chip Coffey discussion board. But, like all discussion boards, it has wound down. I have started another discussion board at The Psychic Tutor's Psychic School to expand the work, but, it has not yet attracted many people. I had established a series of articles at Squidoo.com, but found myself caught up in an atmosphere of creating revenue for people other than the writers - it had become rather like an Internet sweat shop. You can still find the articles at The Psychic School on Squidoo, and more on several other websites I will link to later on, but the requirements of time and effort on writers' websites has become too much for my schedule. I needed a place where I can teach and not worry about the word count before I publish.

For years I started blogs but gave up on them too soon, thinking what good can they really do? How can they get any attention? But after trying other methods of writing, I discovered that a blog really is the best way to teach, to share, to get specific thoughts across in a simple and readable way. I have written a few small books, at a time when printed material is no longer the way to go. The requirements of constructing articles according to other people's rules gets in the way of the work I do as a multi-media artist. I am having to make the scale of everything I do small and manageable. So, here I am.

This will be a place to share not only suggestions, explanations and information about psychic ability and paranormal events, but to tell the stories of living with psychic sense. I will reprint from my other sources. I will offer new ideas that few people have ever thought about. I am a psychic theorist. I weave together ideas that come from science, psychology, and philosophy. This blog will touch on subjects from ESP to reincarnation. I'll finally be able to fulfill some long standing requests from friends and fans! And we'll be in a better position to discuss them here.

I'll also share stories about psychically gifted people I have met along the way. There will be new perspectives about some things we have always thought were one kind of ability, that really are another. There will be constant updates as I move material here from the other places I have kept them. Much to read. I hope you find it all useful and entertaining.

If you love what you find here, please take the opportunity to discover all my work. You'll find more available at my main website. Thank you, and blessings...