What Is Remote Viewing and How Does It Work?

Utter the term “psychic” to some people and you are likely to get scoffed at. But talk about “remote viewing” to the same people (once they learn what it is) and you’ll likely get and enthusiastic and interested response. Remote viewing has only recently begun to become known as a phenomenon with relatively broad recognition.  Here we take a closer look at the practice of remote viewing to understand the distinctions between remote viewers and psychic practitioners.

What is Remote Viewing?

According to the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA), remote viewing “is a novel perceptual discipline for gaining information not available to the ordinary physical senses.” In that sense, it is more than just being able to collect information about faraway locations.

The first question one might ask is: what is the difference between remote viewing and clairvoyance or other psychic (psi) abilities? IRVA says, “…it is obvious that remote viewing is related to so-called psi (also known as “psychic” or “parapsychological”) phenomena such as clairvoyance or telepathy. Whatever it is that seems to make it possible for human beings to do remote viewing is probably the same underlying ability that makes such things as clairvoyance work.”

The differences are:

• Most remote viewing occurs under controlled conditions in a lab.
• It is not done for the purposes of giving readings or “fortune-telling.”
• Is based in scientific methodology.
• Is often conducted with a monitor (a sort of guide) with strict scripted formats for experimental purposes and scientific protocols.

The History of Remote Viewing

Remote viewing has its roots in the American Society for Psychical Research in the 1960’s and early 70’s where out-of-body experiments were being conducted. Some of the early participants were Ingo Swann and Dr. Hal Puthoff (a physicist at the Stanford Research Institute think tank), both now famous in the world of remote viewing. The work quickly gained the attention and subsequent funding of the Central Intelligence Agency and later the Defense Intelligence Agency and other military organizations. By 1978 remote viewing was being experimented with for applications in intelligence gathering against military adversaries. In 1991the program was renamed “Star Gate.”

Meanwhile, civilian groups had been doing their own remote viewing experiments, and by 1995 the CIA had released a controversial report claiming that remote viewing was ineffectual as an intelligence gathering tool. Portions of the program were declassified and eventually the program was shut down. In the years since, many of the program’s participants have gone public with books and other media divulging remote viewing techniques.

Among its intelligence and espionage functions, remote viewing has been used in operations to locate Gaddafi in Libya (so the US could bomb him) and to locate a missing plane in Africa.

Remote Viewing into the Future

The Farsight Institute is a research organization that seeks to transcend the scientific paradigm that “consciousness is a phenomenon strictly related to brain physiology,” holding instead that consciousness exists throughout creation. In this view, the human body is simply a tuning device that “that connects us to an underlying field of nature through which knowledge of all things is possible.”

One of the most difficult tasks to accomplish with remote viewing, Farsight notes, is to accurately predict the future. Certain types of experiments have a high rate of failure, while others succeed. The likely explanation for this is that the future doesn’t exist in one linear probability, but as multiple possibilities; i.e. multiple universes. Theoretical frameworks such as quantum mechanics have long proposed the existence of multiple timelines and realities.  Farsight continues to conduct experiments based on this framework.

Is Remote Viewing Real?

Remote viewing is, then, the institutionalization of psi phenomenon. Framed as a scientific methodology, the element of remote viewing that is “related to so-called psi phenomenon” is given credibility as a “mind technology” worthy of study apart from its “spiritual” qualities.

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What Is Telepathy?

Telepathy is one of the most well known, researched and coveted psychic abilities around. We’ve all watched superhero movies where one of the protagonists can read minds and often wished that we could do the same. But what do we really know about the very real gift of telepathy outside of the glamorised movie portrayal? Well, in its most basic form, telepathy is simply the ability to read a person’s thoughts, or to communicate with another individual without using sound, body language or visual cues. On the face of it, being able to read the minds of the people around you is a very attractive prospect indeed.

Can anyone be Telepathic?

There are two kinds of telepath, the natural telepath and learned telepath. Natural telepaths are born with the ability to read minds and/or to communicate mentally. Usually, natural telepaths discover their abilities to some degree at a young age. Young minds are more susceptible to psychic abilities as the capacity for logical thought hasn’t yet developed; this allows the mind to accept the information it is receiving without questioning what, how and why it is receiving it. The earlier a natural telepath recognises their ability to read someone else’s mind, the easier the process of using the ability will be in their adult life.

Learned telepaths are psychics that teach themselves to read minds and communicate mentally by opening up their subconscious mind to another person’s aura and channeling that energy. This technique is referred to as “aural parallelization” and can be extremely difficult to master as it requires the psychic to tune into and match a specific aura to be able to access another individual’s inner thoughts. Aural parallelization can be extremely draining on a psychic and many opt not to attempt to obtain the gift at all.

Although you can be born with or learn telepathy, there are still a few different forms of the ability.

Synchronous Telepathy

Synchronous telepathy is the most widely known form of telepathy, which is where the psychic can tap directly into a person’s mind to read (or hear) the person’s thoughts directly. This is usually done in passing, much like True Blood’s Sookie Stackhouse.

Latent Telepathy

Latent telepathy is the method in which a psychic can receive direct messages from a person’s mind. Latent telepathy is not as instantaneous as synchronous telepathy; the individual has to concentrate on and project a single thought or message so the telepaths ability to “hear” it tends to take time. Of course it only takes a few seconds for a message to travel from one person to the psychic, and this form of telepathy can be disturbed by outside interference such as noise, electronic frequencies and weather conditions.

Emotional Telepathy

Emotional telepathy is the method in which a psychic can send or receive an emotional message from another person. Emotional telepathy relies on feelings and sensations as opposed to mental images and words like the others methods do. Some experts believe that emotional telepathy is closely linked with psychic empathy as both abilities are centred on the sharing of emotions.

The most appealing and interesting thing about telepathy is that once one method is mastered, the others are close to follow because the basic premise of each form is so similar.

How can I develop my Telepathic Ability?

The single most important thing to do when developing telepathy (as with any form of psychic ability) is to recognize and accept that you can do it. Once you accept that you indeed have a psychic ability like telepathy, you can begin to use it. The next step is to research, research, and research some more.

The best way to develop telepathy is to understand exactly what it is that you’re developing; once you learn what telepathy is on a deeper level, you can begin to make progress with your talent for it. You must dedicate your time to learning about telepathy before you can dedicate your time to practicing it. Lastly, don’t forget the importance of meditation. Meditation will always be the foundation for the development of any psychic ability. Once you master the art of meditation, you will be able to build the foundations of telepathy upon it.

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What Is Past Life Regression?

The idea that we as humans live multiple lifetimes is rooted in many religions of the East, especially Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism as well as many other non-Eastern philosophical systems. Reincarnation is considered a fact of life within these belief systems, while in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) it is viewed as non-existent.

There is, however, evidence to suggest that Christianity once accepted the doctrine of reincarnation up until AD 553 when it was officially rejected at the Fifth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople, and there are certain sects within Judaism and Christianity that still do embrace it. Despite the conflicting belief systems, the idea of reincarnation has found its way into popular culture and thought.

Why Do We Reincarnate?

Reincarnation assumes that we are more than the physical bodies we inhabit, that there is something that animates the body which we can call “spirit” or “soul” or simply “consciousness.” Some traditions that accept reincarnation (such as Buddhism) believe that we reincarnate not only in human form, but that we can also take animal or even plant form because they, like humans, are sentient beings.

Although the concept of reincarnation varies from tradition to tradition, in general it holds that it is a part of a process of evolution of our soul or consciousness. When we enter human form from wherever we came from—we can call it “Source” (although Buddhism doesn’t really address much about origins)—the experience of consciousness must incorporate a vast realm of existential experience which is governed by karma.  Karma encompasses the sum total of your experiences as a reincarnating being, and is the idea that everything you experience or do, bad or good, must be balanced out eventually (the law of cause and effect).

When your consciousness has become self aware and disciplined enough to cease repeating karmic patterns, it can liberate itself from the cycle of death and rebirth (which is defined by suffering) and ascend to a state beyond human form, sometimes called “pure mind” or “pure consciousness.”

How To Find Out Who You Were in a Past Life

The very nature of being human is defined by the quest to become conscious, and becoming conscious is about learning to understand how we create the karma that keeps us locked into the cycle of death and rebirth. Some would say that it is also about learning how to tap into the part of our consciousness that contain the memories of our past lives.

If we are paying attention in our lives, we can find clues that point to the possibility of past lives. For example, consider a very young girl child who has recurrent dreams as she grows up of being a soldier fighting on the front lines of a war and dying in an explosion, perhaps from a landmine. This would be a pretty good sign of past life “bleed-through” because there would be very little reason to believe it is her psyche trying to work through some kind of psychological issue related to her current young life, and because it would be quite possible that the girl would have had no exposure to such images. Recurrent dreams such as this can provide valuable clues to past lives.

Other ways to become aware of past life existences would be with the help of other professionals; either psychics gifted with the ability to sense past lives or with people trained in past life regression.  Past life regression is a type of hypnotic regression whereby a person reaches deep within the recesses of his/her consciousness to pull out repressed memories from other lifetimes.

Why does it Matter?

Sometimes people find themselves stuck in deeply entrenched dysfunctional patterns of behavior that they cannot seem to break. These can manifest as relationship problems, addictions, money issues or any number of other types of problems that keep people from realizing their full potential and living happy, successful lives. Digging deep to recover memories can help shed light on why certain patterns keep repeating themselves, or to understand the nature of a particular relationship that defies explanation.

The ultimate goal is becoming conscious and healing old wounds in the interest of living a more satisfying life in the present, but also to do the soul’s work of evolving to a state that transcends the cycle of reincarnation and human suffering.

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The Origin of Superstition

We all know that Friday the 13^th is an unlucky day, and that knocking on wood stops bad things from happening, but have you ever wondered what the origin of those superstitions are? Superstitions are embedded in our behavioral patterns and not many people even question how they came to be. Of course, there are a lot of interesting stories about origins of popular superstitions, and it comes as no surprise they all hail from times long gone.

Walking under a ladder superstition

Walking under a ladder is believed to be unlucky. People usually just avoid walking underneath the ladders, but rarely question where this superstition originated from. The answer is macabre – In medieval times, hanging was one of the most popular choices for executions. Executioners that removed the corpse after a hanging had to approach with a ladder. This caused the people to avoid walking beneath the ladder because the attention of the executioner is not something they wanted to acquire.

The number seven

Seven is somewhat a magical number and appears in many superstitions. Breaking a mirror, for example, brings seven years of bad luck. What is very interesting about this particular superstition is that it originated before the invention of mirrors. Catopromancy is an old form of divination where bowls of water were used to predict the future, and any shakes on the surface of the bowl was viewed as bad fortune.

Since people can see their view on the surface of the water, they connected that with mirrors. What further solidified that belief is the fact that first mirrors were made with a silver coating, which were unbreakable. Naturally, when they were replaced with glass mirrors and they broke, the general population thought that to be bad luck. They were also so expensive that seven years of hard labor were needed to pay off the debt breaking one would create.

Knocking on wood superstition

Early pagans had many gods, and usually lived in a closer relationship with nature than we do now. Many of their deities were believed to live in the trees, and many of these deities were believed to create a protecting ward on those who they deemed favorable. Naturally, pagans of old wanted to get in favor with gods, and in order to do that they had to contact them. Since they lived in trees, knocking on wood became a way of contacting a preferred god, of letting it know that a bit of protecting magic could be helpful in a certain situation. That is why we believe knocking on wood brings good luck and fortune. This became even more prominent with Christianity and the wooden cross.

Opening an umbrella indoors

Umbrellas are common today, but it was always like that. In Victorian times only the highest classes of society could be seen walking around with an umbrella. Of course, umbrellas weren’t as practical then as they are today, and required pretty complicated mechanisms to open up. That mechanism was pretty clunky, so opening it indoors could present a real danger. That is why today we believe opening up an umbrella indoors means bad luck.

Black cats

Cats were believed to bring good luck in ancient Egypt. Yet today we believe a black cat crossing the road brings nothing but misfortune. Various cultures around the world will perform different rituals to protect themselves from the bad luck a black cat crossing the road might bring. This is because King Charles I spoke openly about his lack of luck after his cat died. He loved his pet and believed all hope was lost after it departed to the afterlife. The population heard the word “cat” and associated it with the lack of luck of their king, and subsequently started avoiding all contacts with cats.

Superstitions come from many different interesting stories such as these and some are super fascinating. People will always associate objects and actions that have to do with the unfortunate situations and avoid it all costs. This is basic human nature and will most likely always endure. It is always entertaining to find out the stories behind these customs and realize the events that transpired in order for them to become a part of reality. Stories are interesting to hear as they are a part of history and ultimately a part of what we are today.

What superstitions do you believe? Do you know where they came from?

Resources:

• http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/superstition-room/
• http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

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Psychic Readings By Phone Vs. Face-To-Face

Psychic readings are a part of the world ever since we as a species noticed that not everything is easily explainable. The mysterious life energy is felt by everyone no matter where they live on the planet. Psychics are people with extraordinary abilities to feel and read into a spiritual energy and draw conclusions from it. Celebrities, world leaders and sport stars are known to be especially fond of psychic readings. Some visit psychics personally, while some use phone apps and similar interactive devices to get their readings.

Why do people like psychics?

Psychic readings are used by a great deal of people for many reasons. First and foremost, they may be able to forecast the future and warn about unfavorable events that may come. Since most everyone cares about the future, the services of psychics are well sought after. Psychics are also trained in the art of removing negative energy and reestablishing the flow of positive life energy, and as such can help heal and revitalize some people. Psychics can have positive influence on dreams, relationships, career and numerous other aspects of life.

Should you see a psychic in person or talk on the phone?

Because of the wide range of services they provide, psychics are in great demand throughout the globe. In order to make seeing a psychic easier, many people started using different phone apps or phone numbers to hold an appointment with a psychic. This is easier and saves time, but has many disadvantages to the traditional way of visiting a psychic in person. Each of the two has its own advantages and disadvantages, and different psychics prefer different methods.

Some psychics prefer to do only in person readings until they know enough about their client to be confident enough to do long distance readings reliably. This happens because an important part of a psychic reading is knowing the traits the client possess. The more a psychic knows a client, correct readings become more probable. There are psychics who believe that meeting the client is not the best idea because he or she can influence them and cause the readings to be inaccurate. All in all, different psychics use different methods in order to make sure the results are satisfactory.

Distance may not matter

Of course, distance is a factor too. Some clients want to have their readings done by a specific psychic, but he or she might leave far away from them. In this instance, only phone or email readings are possible, in case a client does not want to commit to travel. This provides both psychics and clients with ease of access. Being able to contact your psychic at all times is another advantage of phone readings. Sometimes timing is crucial and you need a specific reading instantly, so you can contact your psychic by phone and have it done at moment’s notice.

In-person psychic readings

In-person readings on the other hand allow the emotions and thoughts to be expressed in a more detailed manner. While a reading on the phone can allow you to act in the spur of the moment and express your instant concerns and emotions, personal visits allow the psychic to draw from your expression, your energy, and the way you talk. A big part of choosing how you want your reading done is what psychic you choose. Make sure to ask about what type of communication works best for both of you, as different methods suit different people.

Psychic readings are mysterious and there are no rules set in stone about what to do. The best advice is to follow the leads your psychic provides and do as they think its best. Your own location, availability and preference matter a lot, of course, so take that into consideration when deciding on performing psychic readings in person or by phone.

Being open during psychic readings is key, so make sure to talk to your psychic and explain everything that is on your mind. They will assess the situation and present you with the optimal way you can continue with readings. If the solution suits you, try to go with his or her suggestion as they have years of experience in the field. There are differences and advantages to both methods, so make sure to think long and hard about them before making your final decision. You can always try one way and if you’re not satisfied, try the other. There’s no right or wrong; simply what suits you best.

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The History of Palmistry

Palmistry is a science and an art of reading signs from the lines located on palms of a hand. It was created in ancient India and quickly spread to Egypt, and then Europe. Palmistry was met with both admiration and skepticism ever since it came to life. It was studied by numerous ancient minds along with astrology, and has been developed throughout the history of the world.

Psalmists were banned early on

During the Dark Ages it was banned and prosecuted in Europe, along with other spiritual practices. Practitioners of palmistry were judged and prosecuted as devil worshipers, and had to resort to hiding and taking refuge in order to continue developing their art. When the prosecution ended and the world entered a more enlightened period, palmistry flourished, as it does today.

The reason for success of palmistry is the fact that everyone yearns to finds the answers to hidden mysteries and truths about themselves. Palmistry has the potential to discover psychological states, truths about a character and hidden signs of health status of a certain individual. It can reach deep into one’s soul and reveal truths that could be hidden in there for ages.

The palms reveal traits

Numerous doctors and psychologists from around the globe say that palms of the hand can reveal traits of one’s character and both the state of physical and mental health. Palmists combine intuition, spirituality and the reading of the palm of a hand in order to reveal these secrets. Palms of the hand, much like a person’s character, change over the years and provide subtle signs of numerous characteristics and conditions.

We live in great times for palmistry today because palmists are readily available at all times. Where before it was hard to find an expert palmist, and only certain neighborhoods had access to them, now we can contact palmists by phone, email, or Skype and schedule a meeting in no time. Palmists will go through a large amount of intricate steps in order to interpret the lines on your palm. The conclusions they draw will provide you with foresight to the future, current condition and the state of your mind and body.

The dominant hand

Palmists read from both hands and draw different conclusions from them. The dominant hand is known as the birth hand in the palmist community and the palmist will usually take a look at it first. They interpret lines and apply the knowledge they have been gaining for a long time in order to provide you with answers or with the peace of mind.

Every palm is different and every person has different lines that showcase character and state of mental and physical health. People rely on palmists to help them improve different aspects of their lives, whether it is family life, face, relationship or financial well-being. Palmistry is a now classified as a branch of science and is a viable way to gain insight into your own condition.

Palms are like windows to peer through

With every palm there is a different story, and each palm changes over time. Palms are like a window through which a skilled palmists can see large amounts of useful information. Numerous world leaders and celebrities use palmists and attribute their skill and expertise to their own success. Palmists can quickly provide information that you can use to generally improve the quality of your own life. Palmistry in the past was only available to those who happened to live next to a palmist. Sometimes courts and different institutions employed a palmist in order to help with expert readings, but it was usually a thing of being fortunate enough to live near a palmist who can provide a reading.

Today we have more access to palmists than ever before. Not only can you easily obtain the address you need to get to if you want to visit a palmists, it is possible to communicate with them and schedule a visit.  Some palmists even make home visits, and remote appointments are a possibility as well. Because of this we are living in a very favorable era for all who appreciate palmistry. Getting a reading is easy and the world is filled with expert palmists who are ready to take a look at your hand and point out the condition of your body and your mind.

Resources:

• http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/palmistry-room/
• http://www.yourchineseastrology.com/palmistry/

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