1. Psychic Abilities- A Feast for the Soul
What is this life if not a feast for the senses? The feel of satin sheets on a warm spring
morning, the taste of fresh juice as it rolls down the throat and the comfortable laughter
of friends around a campfire; events like these fill our lives with a magnificent pleasure
derived from our ability to touch, taste, feel, hear and smell. Our senses give us a lot to
play with, though they don’t give a very well rounded view of how we really experience
life. To live fully we must use all of our faculties, including logic and reasoning, intuition
and psychic abilities. In this way we can enjoy the spectrum richly.
We make decisions in each moment that have as much to do with non-physical interpre-
tation as do the facts or the tangibles involved. Ever had a cold chill slither up your back
while walking through a dark hallway in the middle of the night? Perhaps you couldn’t
shake that feeling someone was watching you only to look up to see a stranger on a
bus gazing in your direction? Or how about a moment when you had one specific stan-
za of a song repeating through your brain; a song that you haven’t heard in five years,
only to walk through a grocery store two hours later and hear that exact refrain? We
have all had such experiences, chalking them up to coincidence. But what if the energy
that fuels those very events are psychic abilities working their way out into your life from
the inside out?
The energy and the spirits of the non physical realms weave within and throughout our
societies and our world. We share all realms with all beings, but most of us are so firmly
rooted in the material quest for sensation that we shoulder these experiences rather
than embrace and learn more from them. We perceive the world in many subtle ways,
and this inner knowing is the seed of an expansive realm of psychic abilities that we not
only have access to, but that we can use to develop a unique universal connection to
Source.
A psychic ability is said to be any perception, sensation or knowing that comes from
something other than the material, sensory experience. People with developed psychic
abilities operate from a deeper level of trust that what they ‘know’ or ‘see’ is true. It often
becomes so. Visions of the past, present or future are seen as something that did, does
or will exist. Such people are very sensitive to changes in energy or vibration. They can
size up a crowd, energetically, before they even walk through the door.
There are many layers of psychic abilities. Auric sight is the ability to see and read the
energy field around the human body. We are all made up of a beautiful rainbow of color,
pattern and flow that extends out from deep within transcendent realms and manifests
our physical bodies from the heart of being. We don’t simply have an aura... we ARE an
aura. It is the energetic basis for our existence. The ability to see or sense the aura
comes easier for some than it does for others, but with practice most people can learn
how to recognize it, at least to some degree.
Another psychic ability that is more common than most people realize is astral projec-
tion, or the process of allowing your etheric body, which is basically your aura, to leave

2. your physical self behind and experience timelessness in the astral realms. Essentially,
during astral projection, the aura goes home to recharge. It happens every night during
sleep, though the majority of people aren’t consciously aware of it. People who have
had out-of-body experiences often report them as being some of the most noteworthy
and liberating experiences of their lives. Channeling wisdom from ancients, the Akashic
Records or from collective societies co-existing with us on other planes becomes much
more realized once you have visited the astral realms for yourself. Astral projection is
another achievable process for people who are interested in practicing it.
Psychic abilities are an inherent part of the way that we function, grow and live, whether
we give them credit or not. Everyone has access to the non-physical world. Each per-
son has their own proclivities, or things that they are intuitively good at. Finding the
ways that developing your psychic abilities can change your life is part of the fun of liv-
ing. And though it may clash with the logical, critical nature that our reasoning minds
possess, when acknowledged, psychic abilities provide more food for the soul, more
charge for the battery, than just about anything else we might pursue.
So, how do we begin to refine these dormant abilities? Start small. Keep a dream jour-
nal and write your dreams down upon awakening. Dreams are potent carriers of infor-
mation about our subconscious and they can even be thought of as mini journeys to the
astral realms in some cases, such as when you are flying in your dreams. Another way
to develop your non-physical awareness is to slow down. Meditate more, love more and
stop often to ‘get a feel’ for what is going on around you. Acknowledge impressions that
don’t seem to make sense and see where it leads you. And most importantly, trust your
instincts. If you have an irrepressible urge or an off the wall idea, go with it, even if just
for a few steps, and do so with confidence.
The more comfortable you become with the fact that your body is more like an antenna
than anything else, the easier it will be for you to recognize these experiences when
they happen. Develop a mindful practice of paying attention to the non-physical ener-
gies that are coming through you. Do not let a day go by where you fail to acknowledge
that you are more than your body, more than your identity, more than even your emo-
tions, though emotions can play a very large part in the experiencing of many psychic
abilities. Life is a feast for both the physical and the non-physical senses. Taking steps
towards this enlightened way of living, your consciousness will evolve beyond flesh,
bone and brain and become immersed in the beauty and complexity of all of the layers
of experience that are available to you, and to all of us.
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