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Developing Telepathic Communication

Good telepathic communication, when combined with good physical and verbal communication skills, can be very useful for creating harmonious relationships at home and at work. Very few people are so telepathic that they can read another person’s mind as easily as reading a book. To develop accurate telepathic skills takes practice and patience. Begin by trying it out with a friend or a member of your family.

Sit opposite each other and take it in turns. Hold a thought in your mind, just a simple word, and then create an image in your head that symbolizes the word. For instance, think heart – see a red-coloured heart in your mind’s eye. Hold the image for five minutes and project that image to the person opposite you. After five minutes ask them what they saw in your mind. Practise this with the same person over a few days and you will become more confident in your ability to send and receive telepathic messages.

Developing good telepathic skills assists with spirit communication, clairvoyance and clair-audience skills, as accurate transmission of information can only happen when you have clear vision and are able to telepathically tune into people, spirits and places.

Precognition

This is the ability to see into the future through dreams and daytime impressions. Have you ever dreamed of a future event and it has happened? Have you ever visited a place and felt that you had been there before? Have you ever been at a social event and knew how the evening would turn out? Have you seen into the future and and been able to foretell which of your childhood friends would do well and which would fail? This is precognition.

Nostradamus (1503–66) was the greatest seer in the Western world. To open his vision he would focus his attention on a bowl of water. He would then see pictures projected from his mind and relate these to his knowledge of astrology. In this manner he predicted many major European historical events including the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power and the nuclear bomb.

To develop this skill you don’t necessarily need to use a bowl of water, a crystal ball or any type of paraphernalia (although these can make things easier for beginners). To practise precognition you need to be able to open your mind and have a focal point on which to fix your attention. I have found that the most sensitive time of day for this type of psychic connection is late at night, when you are tired and unable to focus your concentration on everyday reality. The more tired I am, the more open I become to receive psychic information and to be able to see into the future.

The best form of development exercise for precognition is to work on divination skills using tools such as tarot cards, scrying through crystals balls or a bowl of water, or even reading tea leaves – any form of concentration that opens up your natural ability to see into the future.

Divination

All techniques for predicting the future are based on interpreting random events – whether it is the fall of coins or runes, the patterns in sand or smoke stains on a mirror. That random event then takes on a special meaning when we ask it to be our oracle.

The use of tarot cards is a common form of divination. I have studied them since my teens, using them as a tool with which to tune into my clairvoyant skills. I have used these skills to help people work out their personal problems and to help see me through certain challenges and crossroads in my life. The cards are generally beautifully illustrated and it is with the imagery of the illustrations that the magic or power of the tarot lies. Learning about these symbols can take years of practice and reading but once learnt they are never forgotten.

Tarot Cards

GETTING STARTED

At first glance, traditional tarot cards appear difficult to understand. The cards were originally designed when most of the world’s population was illiterate, and much of the knowledge was passed down by Romany oral traditions. The pictures and the symbols told a story and gave inspiration to the diviner, so in essence the cards are simple to read as they work by triggering your own intuition rather than being based on a technical understanding of the symbology within the cards.

Many cards and their accompanying books are overloaded with so much information – including astrology, psychology, world religious symbols, numerology and so on – that I found it was best to choose a set of cards whose colour, texture and tradition I responded to. (I began my journey with the Rider tarot designed by A.E. Waite, a pack based on the European tradition, but now I work with Dakini Oracle cards based on Tibetan Buddhism – choose whatever suits you.)

If you are going to work with the cards on other people, they must be bought for you as a gift. So even if you have chosen them, ask your partner or a friend to buy them for you. Buy the accompanying book with the cards so at least you can study the meanings and format of laying the cards out. Keep your tarot cards in a soft, natural-fibred cloth, preferably red in colour, as this protects them and holds their power.

Before you start practising, get to know the cards. Look at each one and decide what it is trying to tell you. How would you interpret the card in a reading? What does it say about the emotional, spiritual or material conditions of a person? Devote a good deal of time to this before you look up the standard meanings of the cards from the book, as it will help you link your own intuitive response to the cards. When you have decided on your interpretation, compare it with the meanings in your book and you will probably find that your interpretation comes close to the established meaning. Practise on yourself and on close friends and family until you feel comfortable working with them without referring to the book.

THE CARDS

In the traditional tarot there are 78 cards, divided into two main groups: 22 Major Arcana, numbered 0-21; and 56 Minor Arcana, divided into four suits. The Major Arcana is the most powerful of the set, symbolizing the journey of the man in the pack, called ‘the fool’, in his encounters with the characters within the Major Arcana set. Some people prefer using only the Major Arcana cards and get to know these first before introducing the rest of the pack. The Minor Arcana is divided into four suits as in a playing card set – Wands, Cups, Swords and Coins.

The cards can be shuffled so that they are upright or reversed (when the cards’ meaning then changes). The cards contain an equal balance of positive and negative so reversing the cards adds little to the overall reading and most of the time I ignore the reverse and work with the meaning only in the upright position. You can do many different types of readings, from simple questions and answers to more elaborate combinations.

It is said that it is impossible to read the tarot for yourself, and unfortunately in some cases this is true as wishful thinking and inner fears and expectations can get in the way. Again, like all psychic gifts, divination skills are to be shared with others.

A true psychic doesn’t necessarily need the cards to tell them about a person’s life and future. They are simply a tool for accessing information and are secondary to the psychic gifts you have. Trust your instincts and eventually you won’t even bother looking up the meanings of the cards, you will just trust your clairvoyant skills.

PREPARING TO READ THE CARDS

Before you begin your reading, choose a quiet room and prepare yourself. Do some deep breathing and practise some of the exercises illustrated earlier to prepare yourself to connect with your psychic powers.

If you have invited someone to come and receive a reading from you, remember that they will be nervous. Reassure them that you won’t tell them anything that will frighten them and remind them that the things you will say are the potential for the future, not actual fact.

Learn the positions of each lay that you may want to use – there are many. The most well known one is the cross, but experiment to find out how you want to place the cards and how the position occupied by the card influences the reading. Have a lay for specific questions and a longer one for a character reading or life reading.

When your client arrives, ask them not to tell you anything about themselves until you have had a chance to begin the reading. Knowing too much about the person will distract your intuitive flow.

1 Ask your client if there is a specific problem they may want to ask about, or if they would like a general reading.

2 Choose your pack of tarot cards and let the client shuffle them, then lay them out face-down on a table or on the floor.

3 First look at the cards that dominate the reading and bring up the most potent feeling, i.e. what you’re getting from your initial reaction to the cards. These pointers indicate which subjects you should be talking about.

4 Look at the individual cards: start each card with an interpretation, feel into the card, the reason why it is in that position and the imagery. Dig deeper for the real significance of why this card has been chosen.

5 Touch the card, close your eyes and watch the images appearing in your mind. Extend your sensing of the meaning, letting yourself go into what you pick up – don’t hold back as the cards will tell you lots more than the surface imagery, and your own intuition will tell you even more.

6 As you move through each card, it is like telling the client a story about their life and the people in it.

7 Consider all the other cards and the meaning of the position they occupy before seeing how they relate to each other and their significance. Let your logical mind take a back seat and free your intuition to make the connection between the images and symbols you see before you. Combine this with the psychic impressions that you may be picking up from your client and you will give readings that astound people.

There are many other tools for divination, such as tasseography, the art of reading tea cups. This has been around for centuries. The gypsies have practised the art, the Chinese believe that they invented it, the Romans used to read the residue left over in their wine cups and even Catholic countries such as Ireland have their psychic cup-scrying grandmothers. Cloud reading, palmistry, I Ching, astrology, graphology, runes, sand reading, the crystal ball – these are just a few of the thousands of fortune-telling tools. The key to using these tools is to learn how to connect with your psychic sense, and practise with your chosen tool for a period of time. Do this and you can master virtually any oracle.

Psychometry

Some people have referred to psychometry as ‘seeing through fingers’. It’s all about reading energy vibrations left on objects.

Psychometric vibrations are left on everything: buildings, jewellery, watches; even plants, flowers and crystals – anything that has been absorbing energy from living things. For example, a watch you have worn daily for years will have absorbed your vital energy and within its own vibration will hold yours. Therefore, when a psychic holds your watch they can read your personality by just feeling the vibration.

Objects that we own for a long time absorb vibration – just like buildings and places. Just as the magnetic tape of a cassette recorder has music imprinted on it that can be played back many times, so objects hold ‘recordings’ of the character, emotions and memories of the owner – and in some cases even those of the maker of the object, particularly if it is a religious or sacred object. A good psychic can read these ‘records’ of our lives and give a detailed history of the owner. Sometimes this may include names of family members, friends and places that the owner once knew.

Psychometry teaches you to sense the atmosphere of a place or read the history of an object. An extension of this gift is to sense the atmosphere of a person and become aware of people in the spirit world. Tuning into the energy of a person or place is the first level in learning how to interpret psychic information. When you practise psychometry you will be amazed at how accurate the information that you pick up can be.

Clare, a London-based PA, never considered herself to be psychic. During a psychic awareness workshop she was asked to pick up a ring which belonged to her partner’s deceased grandmother. She tuned in to the ring for only a few minutes before the hairs on the back of her neck stood up and she smelt a strong fragrance of perfume (the grandmother’s favourite). She surprised herself by opening up to psychic skills she never thought she had. She found out later that her grandmother had a talent for reading signs in tea leaves and had become well known in her village for giving advice and telling the future from what she saw in people’s tea cups.

Psychics believe that thought travels outside of the body and is absorbed by our environment. This would account for the sense of atmosphere that is felt in buildings. An ancient church, for example, may feel peaceful and sacred, whilst a stately home, which may be as old as a church, with centuries of activity may have an atmosphere that belies its tragic family history.

Tuning into a place uses the same principles as tuning into a person. As a psychic you are reading into the vibrational energy. Glimpses of history are sometimes a form of psychometry: a psychic inadvertently becomes aware of the atmosphere of a place and suddenly finds themselves replaying images from the past. These visions could be daydreams and fantasy but sometimes a person is psychic enough to be able to see directly into history.

Many researchers believe that ghosts are an etheric imprint left behind by traumatic events. Have you ever walked into a property and felt the atmosphere of the past and even in some cases felt there were ghosts lingering around? These places are very easy to read and are fascinating to use for practising in how to tune into places. This is how I learnt to have confidence in my own skills – by visiting haunted homes and ancient places. I could then follow up my visits with research to find out how accurate my visions and psychic impressions were.

Learning Psychometry

The impressions you receive when doing psychometry will at first come as a flood of mixed messages and images. The first step is to learn how to unravel these and build them into a coherent story. I have trained many talented students who began their training by accurately picking up impressions from people or objects. They were unable, however, to communicate these images in a practical and grounded way until they gained experience and learnt how to communicate their impressions.

Improving Your Psychometric Skills

The key to improving your psychometric skills is to practise on a regular basis. First choose a like-minded friend to work with you on this development. If possible, work from your home. Choose a room where you will not be disturbed, preferably a room with no television or telephone.

Get your friend to choose an object whose origin you are unaware of. Hold the object in the palm of your hand, move it around and touch all the way around the object until you begin to sense an energy or a feeling come over you. Start to talk to them about what you see or feel when you begin to understand what you are picking up and are able to put it in a coherent order.

The impressions that you can pick up from psychometry are limitless. Always structure and keep what you see as practical as possible so the person who you are reading for understands what you are telling them. You may see images that appear not to have any physical relevance, such as an animal or a picture of a sunset or a raging fire. These images could symbolize the person’s emotional or spiritual life and indicate an interpretation rather than a prediction.

1 THE OWNER

Talk about the character of the object’s owner, how you see them. Just guess and go with your instinct. Are they tall, small, male, female, old or young? The colour of their hair, eyes and any physical disabilities, etc.

2 THE PAST

Next focus on their past – childhood, relationships, family, siblings, and any births or deaths that have ocurred in the family.

3 LIFE HISTORY

Gradually move forward in time and pick up their current profession, emotional relationships, marriages, children, etc.

4 THE PRESENT

Keep going until you reach the present and then describe events that have recently happened, the car they drive, their home, their profession and family life.

Note: when you open up your sensitivity, you must then close down afterwards (see Psychic Protection, pages 92–105).

Images that come through from the psychic realms have their own linear level so it requires a grounded and practical mind to discern all the symbols and images. This takes the most practice, as you need to know when you are actually picking information up or when it is your imagination interpreting something else.

Later, when you learn about the development of other psychic gifts, such as mediumship and clairvoyance, you will understand the importance of getting your impressions into a workable order. The work you do now is the cornerstone of the clear, concise and evidential clairvoyance that marks a good psychic. Students who come to my psychic awareness workshops work hard at developing their psychometric skills so after a few months of laborious practice they are able to move on naturally to reading auras and communicating with the spirit world.

Once you have practised psychometry a few times with familiar people try using it with someone you do not know – this will really test your skill.

Dreaming

The ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed that dreams were messages from the Gods that revealed future events. In many early cultures the term ‘incubation’ meant seeking information by way of dreams. It was believed that transmitted material from the spirit world was passed into a channel for the recipient to pick up while they were dreaming. However, as this material is incorporated into the dream, the dreamer must recognize it as such and decipher it before waking.

Dreams contain prophecies and are an important key to self-knowledge. Known as the gateway to psychic powers, dreams are our means of bringing spiritual information and intuition from our higher self into our consciousness. We dream every night and, whether we remember them or not, our dreams reveal our innermost desires. They can also be used to solve difficult problems. The dream state allows the brain to interpret the events of the day: it digests the information we have received and, free from the constraints of our conscious mind, can solve issues, worries and fears and, occasionally, tell us about the future. Nightmares in particular provide important clues about fears and problems and recalling them, however scary, can help release these emotions.

Thoughts, ideas, worries, hopes and fears are all represented by symbols, metaphors and images within our dreams. The subconscious mind draws from our experiences and writes them into a mini play. Most of us are emotionally at the mercy of our worries and troubles, but if we use dreams properly we can, with a little effort, become the master of ourselves and learn how to connect with our psychic powers.