With this chapter, we will now move on to the next section of the book where we begin discussing the topic of psychic abilities. Similar to chapter 2, we will take a bit of a detour from focusing on the subconscious mind for a moment and instead will focus on psychic abilities from a slightly different perspective. But instead of focusing on psychic abilities from a purely philosophical perspective, I’d actually like to discuss some rather pervasive misconceptions about psychic abilities. There are so many misunderstandings about the nature of psychic abilities, I thought it would be helpful to simply have a chapter discussing some of them first. Of course we cannot really go into all of the most common misconceptions here as you will no doubt discover more when we actually discuss how to use psychic abilities in the next chapter. However, we can cover a decent amount of them in this chapter. In particular, I'd like to especially cover perhaps the most common misconception, the idea that psychic abilities have never been proven.

 

 

PSYCHIC ABILITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN PROVEN

 

Perhaps the most ubiquitous and most pervasive misconception about psychic abilities is simply the idea that they’ve never actually been proven in a laboratory setting. If you were to ask someone who doesn’t believe in psychic abilities why it is that they don’t believe in such abilities, they would most likely tell you that such abilities have never actually been proven by science and that if such abilities truly did exist, then “science” would have likely discovered them by now. Certainly a logical and rational conclusion to draw in its own right. But the problem with it is that it hinges on an implicit assumption about the nature of modern orthodox science that we’ve actually been questioning throughout this book. The non-believer is assuming that science has tested these abilities in the most objective way possible and has done so using the best and most accurate experimental methods that we can hope to achieve as far as modern scientific understanding and technology goes. However, I would argue that historically this has actually not been the case and that the primary reason it hasn’t been the case largely, once again, has to do with the quasi-religious function that orthodox science tends to play in our society.

          I remember when I first began to practice psychic abilities, I started to, after about a year or so of on and off practicing, really get the hang of these abilities. I started to understand more deeply how they work from a subconscious perspective and began to wonder how it was that such abilities had simply never shown up in a lab experiment as I’d often heard by so called “science”. Although it took an immense amount of effort on my part to learn about psychic abilities both in how they work and how to use them, I didn’t feel that they were so hard and counter-intuitive to use that they should just never show up in experiment. That didn’t seem to make sense to me. After verifying for myself how much difficulty was actually involved in using these abilities, I thought for sure that they would’ve shown up occasionally in experiment, even if by random chance. After thinking about this for a moment,  I decided that I might be making a mistake by simply taking “science’s” word for it. Real science is about making an observation, creating a hypothesis from that observation, testing that hypothesis in the form of an experiment and then drawing a conclusion based on the results of that experiment. I realized that whenever I’d heard that “science says psychic abilities have never been proven”, I was actually appealing to someone else's conclusion.

          In the context of scientific method, an experiment involves collecting data about a particular phenomenon and then drawing a reasonable conclusion about the veracity of your hypothesis on the basis of data collected during the experiment. In other words the conclusion part of scientific method is actually somewhat open to interpretation. Although we want to avoid circumstances where some set of data is open to interpretation as much as possible, we still have to acknowledge that there will be times when such a condition is basically impossible to reach. For example sociological data collected to test the hypothesis that a certain approach to education will always yield the best results, will likely always be open to interpretation and could never be quite as air tight in its implications as empirical data that tests whether or not Newton’s laws of motion are true. By the same token, I thought that it might be the case that the data collected by these experiments could be interpreted differently from the way that scientists are telling us. Now I’m certainly not a scientist myself and am probably not qualified to draw meaningful conclusions on my own from such complex experiments. However, in spite of this fact, there was one thing that I felt I did have going for myself that probably holds some kind of weight. I actually had a positive theory for how psychic abilities are supposed to work when drawing my conclusions. This means that I actually had a well formed theory that attempts to explain how psychic abilities work, something generally missing from most experiments that have attempted to test psychic abilities.

          Thinking about this possibility, I then decided to try to actually look at the experimental data gathered during these experiments that supposedly had absolutely no demonstration of psychic abilities whatsoever. In my research, I actually found many historical experiments that attempted to test for the existence of psychic abilities. Some of the most famous were from J.B. Rhine at Duke University in the 1930s. Others include Ganzfield experiments performed by Charles Honorton in the 1970’s and by Lance Storm in the late 90s – early 00s. Even the government is on record running experiments, in a previously classified project called Stargate, that tests for a psychic ability called remote viewing. Now while there were a great a deal of experiments that historically did attempt to test psychic abilities in a controlled environment, I actually wasn’t all that successful in finding the raw data recorded by those experiments. This was especially true for secondary experiments that were set up as an attempt to replicate the results of an original. It could’ve been that I was just really bad at searching for this information and that it’s very much out there and easy to find. But, for whatever reason, I wasn’t really able to find this information to test out my own hypothesis regarding the data recorded in these experiments.

          However, while I wasn’t able to necessarily to find the specific information I was looking for, I was at least able to gather enough information to confirm much of what I had hypothesized about the nature of these experiments. For one, many of these so called controlled experiments were actually set up quite terribly as far as ideal conditions that enable psychic phenomena to manifest. The experimental set up, in many cases, practically played as much a role in preventing physic phenomena as they were meant to play in testing for them. In other words these experiments were usually set up in a way that made it extraordinarily difficult for psychic phenomena manifest. For example psychic abilities follow the same three main tenants of all transcendental abilities that we discussed in chapter 3 of book I. Namely they have the property of timing, they can’t be used just any time one feels like, they have the property of quantization, they can only be used in conjunction with the proper intention and subconscious frequency, and they have the property of energy, they have to be charged in a transient way first. Now in most experiments meant to test for psychic abilities, they’re rarely tested in a way that favors this operational quantization paradigm. From what I can see, scientist usually test these abilities in a manner that’s more favorable to negative mind properties. That is, they test these abilities under the assumption that, if they exist, then they can be used any time a person wants to, in any way that they want to and as much as they want to – which according to our theory is a false presumption.

          Some examples of this include asking someone to use their psychic abilities to verify some hidden picture or item but doing so with a large number of items in relatively quick succession. The experimenter will then check how many items the psychic guessed right out of the total and then make a conclusion based on this number. However, this experiment is already insanely flawed for the simple fact that the timing of the tests are way too rapid to properly allow for psychic abilities to manifest. I’ve seen experiments that conducted such a large number of trials that I doubt that they could even be ran under psychically favorable conditions in 10 years time let alone a few days or weeks. Because psychic abilities have to charge, they tend to take quite a while to use in a way that allows you to predict some target accurately. It’s very unlikely that you’d be able to use them in any detectable way when testing for them in quick fashion with a large number of different items as is often done. That would be like showing you 100 women in relatively quick succession, asking you to feel the love emotion very intensely for each of them and then, if you can’t do so, using this as proof to conclude that you’re incapable of feeling the love emotion at all – an absurd conclusion from data gathered under that premise. Another problem I’ve noticed is that psychic experiments will often ask a psychic to guess something right out of a group of similar things. For example they will have a deck of cards with symbols on them – called zener cards, choose one at random and then ask the psychic to guess the card they chose. The problem with this experiment is that it is incredibly difficult to use psychic abilities to distinguish between similar or like things. This will make more sense when we discuss psychic abilities in the next chapter. But from a psychic perspective, most of these cards would look the same. Any information retrieved psychically would rarely ever be specific enough to accurately determine the correct card picked.

          Another major problem with these experiments is in the definition of what is considered to be “proof” of psychic abilities. Usually experiments go with what you might call the “above chance” standard of proof. This means that if you can get a certain amount of guesses correct, about the nature of items that are hidden from you, at an above chance rate, then that is generally considered to be proof of your psychic abilities. However, the problem with this approach is that it inherently makes two erroneous presumptions. It assumes that if psychic abilities exists, then they must necessarily be capable of being controlled well enough to equally count every experimental trial in the total calculation of the psychic’s hit rate – which refers to how many guesses were correct. However, there isn’t necessarily any real reason why this needs to be the case. After all we already know that there are many mental abilities we have, like emotions, which can’t necessarily be perfectly controlled at will. Why can’t psychic abilities fall under this same category? Because if we’re to make the presumption that psychic abilities are difficult to control, then we could make the experiment more fair by applying what’s called a weight function to it. This is a multiplier that would increase or decrease the actual hit rate to give you the more fair effective hit rate.

          For example let’s say that you give two people a math test but only allow one of them to take the test twice. You then compare their scores to see who got the higher results and make a conclusion from that about who knew their math more. It would be unfair to compare their two actual scores evenly because one of them was allowed to take the same test twice. On other hand it doesn’t necessarily mean that any score from the individual taking the test twice is invalid either. For example if the person who took the test once got 20% of the problems correct but the other individual got 80% correct on the first try and then 90% correct on their second try, then it is still fair to conclude that the one with higher test scores knows their stuff more. To make their scores more fairly comparable to each other though, a multiplier would be used to either increase the score of the person who took the test once or decrease the score of the person who took the test twice. Of course knowing what kind of multiplier is accurate requires a great deal more information about the conditions of the test and even the historical backgrounds of the two individuals. In the case of psychic abilities, not enough is known about them to accurately give any kind of effective multiplier for the difficult to control nature of psychic abilities. It could be that halving the above chance rate is the more fair interpretation or that reducing it by a third is more fair. Without knowing more about psychic abilities, it’s unfair to treat them as though they’re like other mental abilities that can be used at will and therefore can be accessed in each trial equally without the need for a weight function. But this isn’t the only problem with the above chance standard of proof.

          In the absence of a positive theory on psychic abilities, it could also be the case that the experiment itself is interfering with the manifestation of psychic phenomenon. In fact I’ve already stated that I believe this to be the case. If the experiment is making it harder to use psychic abilities, then it is simply rigged and it would be even less fair to use the above chance standard of proof in that case. Imagine if you were in a casino playing a rigged game but were told that the odds of winning were the same as a non-rigged game. That would be a clear deception in favor of the house. A win that still occurred under those conditions would have to be treated as beating extraordinary odds and not simply above chance odds. That’s basically the same paradigm under which psychic abilities are tested. Although the experimenters claim they’re measuring the psychic’s hit rate against pure unbiased chance, that’s actually not true. You can’t even make that claim without knowing more about the nature of psychic abilities to begin with. And from what I’ve seen, the experimenter, more often than not, is actually rigging the experiment in favor of psychic abilities not manifesting – even if they don’t realize that they’re doing this. In the end, to still perform well enough to have an above chance actual hit rate would be extraordinary and, in this case, the effective hit rate would actually be way above chance.

          Now because psychic abilities aren’t tangible things that can be studied objectively and because experimenters generally don’t know enough about them to ensure that they’re performing a proper experiment to test for them, we must then ask – if we want to practice good science instead of bad science – what is the proper standard of proof to use in deciding whether or not such abilities exist. If a person isn’t necessarily able to use these abilities at any time during the experiment, then this isn’t necessarily proof that said abilities don’t exist. Again emotions can’t necessarily be controlled at will either and yet we know of their existence. It would seem to me that the correct remedy for this possibility is to test if a person can at least use their psychic abilities some of the time even if not necessarily all of the time. Whether that person has trouble using such abilities in the moment due to their own personal shortcomings or due to the experimental errors that have effectively rigged the test, it is reasonable to assume that such abilities would still exist within the individual if they truly do have them. Now any one trial could simply be guessed right as a matter of chance depending on the number of random variables, which just means the number of options the psychic has to choose from. For example the odds of the psychic correctly guessing a number from 1 – 5 is 20%, certainly not enough for most to be considered proof of psychic abilities if a correct guess is made in a single trial. However, if the psychic were to guess the proper number, even if just once, from 1 – 1,000,000, then that is much more compelling evidence that they might have psychic abilities. This is a well known standard of proof in parapsychology called the “psi assumption”. It assumes that psychic abilities are probably real if a person can make a correct but statistically extraordinary guess at least once.

          Now going back to psychic experiments conducted in the past, we can now ask if these experiments have ever met the psi assumption standard of proof rather than the less accurate above chance standard? And the answer is a resounding yes, they have, and have done so many times! In fact in my research, it would appear that any time conditions are set up to be even slightly favorable to psychic abilities – as suggested by this theory of subconscious – the psi assumption standard of proof is usually met relatively easily as it is often achieved multiple times throughout the experiment. This is especially true in dream telepathy experiments where one participant is asked to try to influence the dream of another participant. One of the most prominent of these experiments occurred at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn NY over the course of many years between 1964 and 1974. It makes sense this would be one of the most successful of psychic experiments because our minds are more free in dream states while our transcendental connections remain the same. Now, to be fair here, there are criticisms about these experiments regarding their replicability. When scientist attempted to copy some of these experiments, they found that either the repeated experiments failed to produce above chance results or the original experiment was too difficult to replicate. Although according to Stanley Krippner, former president of the Parapsychological Association and director of the Maimonides dream telepathy experiments, the total hit rate out of all trials across all experiments, was still above chance – which again, without a positive theory on these abilities,  could effectively be way above chance. Unfortunately I was unable to go over the results of the replicated experiments myself to determine if testing was performed correctly according to subconscious theory.

          However, many psychic experiments have been able to reach the psi assumption standard of proof, even if not every single time. When hearing that the US government spent millions of dollars testing for the possibility of remote viewing, skeptics will say that this was only done out of wishful thinking and the unwavering hope that such abilities exist – and also to combat Russia's similar experiments. But I don't entirely believe this. I’m sure it is true that American government officials wanted keep up with the Russians in psychical research. But if the Russians were doing experiments looking for a kind of universal elixir which cures all diseases and keeps you young forever too, would the American government start performing similar experiments and invest millions of dollars in it? I doubt it. The reason they invested in remote viewing so much is because it was clear that some participants – especially Ingo Swann – were able to regularly meet the psi assumption standard of proof which – if you’re actually being objective – should indicate that psychic abilities probably do exist. It was just still unclear what the positive theory underlying such abilities was, which again is very difficult to test for in an objective way since they involve subjective inclinations. Skeptics will continually claim that testing for psychic abilities is only done because of how badly someone wants them to exist but you could make the same claim about them. They continually avoid acknowledging the obvious evidence that psychic abilities likely do exist because they follow a more secular faith and don’t want such experiments to be “likely true” since it goes against their faith.

          I say all of this to say that you shouldn’t blindly trust the commonly heard sentiment that says “science” hasn’t proven that psychic abilities exist. On the contrary, there is a great deal of supporting evidence from “science” that it has. However, because psychic abilities are not objective things that can be empirically studied, it can be difficult to fully describe some conclusion as “proof” of such abilities. This is especially true considering the lack of a positive theory on how these abilities are supposed to work. According to Stanley Kripper, many of the criticisms of the Maimonides experiments were actually distorting the data. He indicated that one critic, C.E.M Hansel, practically lied about the nature of the experiments in one of his criticisms and never bothered to correct the record when advised of his error. This is expected behavior among many in the skeptic community because they are more or less following a form of scientism rather than actual science. If the scientific community were honest and being unbiased, you’d hear it stated more often that psychic abilities probably exists as opposed to it being stated that there has never been any clear evidence of psychic abilities. That’s not a true interpretation of the data in my opinion and inappropriately skews it away from the conclusion that there is a high probability that psychic abilities do exist and more toward a certain certitude that indicates that they do not.

 

 

PSYCHIC ABILITIES ARE FUN AND COOL TO USE

 

Another widely held misconception about psychic abilities is that, if they did exist, they’d be very fun and cool to use. Many people who are into psychic and supernatural phenomena tend be quite fascinated with the allure of having powers and being able to know or influence things at a distance. Furthermore they assume that if such abilities did exist, they’d work in the nice and seamless manner that is often portrayed in movies and cartoons. Well I feel it incumbent upon myself to throw a bit of cold water on this belief right here and now. Like many things in Hollywood, the use of psychic abilities is often greatly exaggerated. For one, psychic abilities are certainly not quick and easy to use in the manner often portrayed in stories. They take quite while to charge up and, in fact, are actually much harder to charge then other than transcendental abilities and tend to charge at a much slower pace. They’re also a lot more difficult to use than other transcendental abilities because you’re not necessarily just wanting your imagination to run wild and free in the usual way. This will make more sense later but using psychic abilities to retrieve some piece of information at a distance will often require an extraordinarily meticulous amount of mental labor. It won’t simply be “show me what’s behind door number 2” and just like that you now know precisely what the hidden item is. I know that’s how it’s demonstrated in Hollywood and is also how scientist like to test for it in labs, but there’s way more work involved in it than that.

          Lastly, psychic abilities are rarely ever “fun” to use. On top of requiring a great deal of time to properly charge as well as having to devote a great deal of focus and mental effort toward the act of psychically perceiving some hidden item, there’s even another and much more consequential problem with psychic abilities as it relates to the concept of fun. This additional problem not only makes it hard to have lots of fun while using psychic abilities, it actually makes it nearly impossible. We did go over this problem in the previous chapter already but we’ll continue to revisit it in this chapter and the next. In a nutshell though, psychic abilities tend to affect your emotional state in a negative way as they charge. You’ll likely have a harder and harder time feeling the fun emotion as you charge your subconscious to use psychic abilities more and more. In many ways it will feel as though you have to give up your ability to feel good and to enjoy yourself in order to use your psychic abilities and vice versa. The two subconscious charges are relatively antithetical to each other and generally cannot both be performed at the same time.

          Thus psychic abilities are really not fun, cool or enjoyable to use at all. This was something I had to learn the hard way when I began studying them and began to understand more and more as I continued to do so. The only reason I continued to study them in spite of the negative emotional side effects was because I was determined to figure out how they work and verify to myself that the subconscious was truly supernatural in nature. But it was much more enjoyable to stop using psychic abilities rather than to continue using them. Again I will talk more about this apparent anti-thetical nature between psychic abilities and positive emotions shortly.

 

 

PSYCHIC ABILITIES ARE SAFE TO USE

 

A very common misconception about psychic abilities that you hear from a lot of new agers is that they’re perfectly safe to use. You hear things like “you shouldn’t be afraid of your own natural abilities” and “any negative experiences you have is just your own subconscious working out pre-existing negative beliefs of yours” or something like that. Not only do I believe that this not true at all, I think it’s largely irresponsible to even say this. I think it’s fair to say that there are a sufficient amount of personal reports from people who’ve gotten into the occult and new age, as it relates to using psychic abilities, to say that there are certainly aspects of using these abilities that aren’t safe. Many people who keep on practicing psychic abilities will often begin to start having negative experiences as a result. I experienced this myself as well. On the one hand, psychic abilities are hard to charge if you don’t know what you’re doing, so a lot of people just practice using them but don’t actually charge their subconscious to use them and so it will mostly appear to them that nothing is happening aside from some confirmation bias. However, some people do successfully manage to charge their psychic abilities and, as they keep doing so, will start to notice very dark and strange phenomena whether it be in their dreams, during astral projections or what they’re psychically sensing while wide awake.

          The main problem here is exactly what was mentioned earlier, that psychic abilities charge in a way that makes it more difficult to charge positive emotions. In other words psychic abilities are to spiritual energy as the hate emotion is to the love emotion. And just as it is very difficult to charge the subconscious to feel both love and hate at the same time, it’s also very difficult to charge your subconscious to connect to God and use psychic abilities at the same time. In many ways, psychic abilities seem to function more like the way sinful behaviors do as defined chapter 3 – which again are just behaviors that tend to push spiritual energy away rather than bring it in. This antithetical nature of psychic abilities is actually somewhat consistent with the way they’re portrayed in the bible, which refers to these practices as sinful and evil. When I later started drawing nearer to God though, I learned that there may be an exception to this rule regarding psychic abilities and that I was not practicing psychic abilities under this more acceptable condition. That was why I felt miserable and started having negative experiences when using psychic abilities. We’ll talk more about this antithetical nature of psychic charges to spiritual energy and that one more acceptable condition in the next chapter. However, because you tend to lose more and more spiritual energy as you charge psychic abilities more and more, you tend to feel more and more depressed and open yourself up to demonic contact and interaction more and more. This of course can lead to psychic possession if you continually interact with some negative entity.

          This again is why many people who get very deep into the occult, witchcraft and new age, tend to feel very depressed and start having very dark experiences. In the spirit world, you absolutely need spiritual energy to, in a sense, protect yourself from these entities. You can’t just get away with ignoring your connection to God in the spirit world like you can with this world. And since psychic abilities enable you to start sensing the spirit world, it’s definitely going to be a problem if you have a low amount of spiritual energy as you do – which, as was mentioned, is almost a necessary requirement for using psychic abilities in a significant way. Lastly, because your subconscious charge for psychic abilities reduces your spiritual energy, this also tends to have a negative effect on the way your chi energy affects your body. We’ll talk more about this in chapter 8, but psychic abilities can even have the effect of reducing your body's vitality and making it somewhat easier for you to get sick. Thus all in all, psychic abilities really aren’t safe to use and can be quite dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Why I’m even still teaching you how to charge them will be discussed later in the chapter when we focus on one of benefits to charging psychic abilities.

 

 

PSYCHIC HEADACHES

 

Another unsafe side effect involved using psychic abilities, which I have not yet mentioned, has to do with the potential headaches that are involved. You’ve probably heard of a very special gland in your endocrine system called the pineal gland and have read that this gland has a very special, though still somewhat mysterious, relationship to your psychic abilities. This is a belief that is commonly held in many psychic and spiritual communities although orthodox science, as usual, claims that this belief is hogwash and that there’s no evidence of anything supernatural going on with your pineal gland. And, as usual, orthodox science is completely wrong about this. I have confirmed through my own personal experience that the pineal gland does have a very strong connection to the practice of using psychic abilities.

          The very first day I started to practice using psychic abilities, I immediately felt a build up of pressure in the center of my forehead, right in the area that the pineal gland is supposed to be located. At first it just felt like a really peculiar and unusual buzzing feeling in my head. It was an interesting feeling that I hadn’t really felt before, except for those two times I was about to astral project. Because of this I figured something special must be happening with it in response to my attempting to use psychic abilities. It wasn’t too uncomfortable at first. However, as I kept practicing to use these abilities, this feeling of forehead pressure started to get stronger and stronger. Eventually it got quite uncomfortable and started to give me a headache. Because I was so determined to try to understand the nature of psychic abilities and how they work, I decided that I would continue practicing them and would try to simply push through the discomfort of these headaches.

          Well over time, as I continued to practice more and more, the headaches continued to get worse and worse. Eventually I had to start slowing down and couldn’t actually practice as much as I wanted to because the headaches were so bad. At one point, they were so bad that I thought I might be giving myself brain damage by continuing to practice using psychic abilities. Although, so far at least, there doesn’t seem to have been any lasting physical effects from this experience except for one. Ever since practicing to use these abilities years ago, I seem to have become more sensitive to light when I’m sleeping. Normally, whenever I slept back then, I just closed my eyes and allowed myself to drift off to sleep, easy peasy. But since practicing psychic abilities, I found that even after closing my eyes and turning off the lights, it still always felt too bright and I had a bit of trouble sleeping because of this. Eventually I just started putting a cloth over my eye lids to make it darker. This helped a lot with my ability to sleep at night and is still something I do till this day.

          But other than having some trouble sleeping with the lights on, I luckily haven’t noticed any other lasting side effects from this experience. With that being said though, every person’s body is different and just because I didn’t have any lasting side effects doesn’t mean someone else may not. It is highly possible that another individual could get some kind of brain damage from these headaches quite easily. It is also possible that you could end up practicing these abilities too much and might end up going even further than I did with it and could get brain damage from over practicing. And even if you don’t end up getting any kind of permanent brain damage, the headaches themselves are simply very unpleasant to deal with. I should mention that no amount of aspirin or pain reliever that I took during this time seemed to help at all. I just had to wait for the headache to subside which usually took about 1 – 2 days. Again these headaches were so bad that I couldn’t really do the kind of research on psychic abilities that I actually wanted to because of them. There could also be physical effects and consequences that I have not experienced myself, so be cautious and keep this possibility in mind if you decide to practice charging psychic abilities.

          But then why do psychic headaches occur? What does charging the subconscious to use psychic abilities have to do with these headaches? Well one theory I had as to why these headaches occur involves how I believe the pineal gland functions when it comes to psychic abilities. I believe that whenever you use these particular abilities, blood rushes to your pineal gland and causes it to expand. This is similar to how blood rushes to your sexual organs and causes them to expand whenever you become sexually excited. In the case of psychic abilities, your pineal gland expands and takes up more volume. The problem however is that your pineal gland is actually encased inside a wall of calcium that naturally tends to build up in your brain as you become older. Normally this wall doesn’t pose too much of an issue since your pineal gland is usually too small to bump into it. However, this changes whenever you attempt to use psychic abilities. In this case, your pineal gland expands and does become large enough to bump into this calcium wall.

          This is why I felt this feeling of pressure in my forehead when I first began to use psychic abilities. I believe that as you continue to use psychic abilities day in and day out, your pineal gland actually starts to grow in overall size. This is similar to how other parts of your brain tend to grow whenever you continuously engage certain kinds of activities. We discussed an example of this in the case of juggling in chapter 5 of book I. Now when your pineal gland grows as a result of all of this psychic activity, it continues to expand further and presses into the wall of calcium in your brain more and more. This causes the feeling of pressure in your head to get even worse over time. Eventually it will get so bad that you start to experience psychic headaches. I’m not a physician or doctor so I don’t really even know if it’s possible for blood to rush to your pineal gland in the manner that I’m describing here or if your pineal gland can expand far enough to bump into the calcium wall. However, that is the current theory I’ve come up with as far as why these headaches occur.

 

 

PSYCHIC INSOMNIA

 

On top of psychic headaches, there’s actually another side effect I used to experience from practicing psychic abilities which also seems to come from pineal gland activity. When I charge my subconscious to use psychic abilities, I notice that I suddenly have trouble sleeping. And I don’t just mean that I become too sensitive to light when I sleep, which is actually a separate issue. I mean that psychic abilities actually seem to induce a mild condition of insomnia. My mind seems to be very alert when I charge psychic abilities and it becomes very difficult for my mind to drift off the way it normally does when I’m trying to fall asleep. Although I can still sleep eventually, it feels very difficult to enter a deep sleep and my mind still feels somewhat alert even when I’m in a deeper sleep during this time. I believe this insomnia effect comes from the way psychic abilities affect the pineal gland. Whenever you charge your subconscious for psychic abilities, your body is aware of this and responds by increasing activity in the pineal gland. This increased activity however seems to also makes it hard for the pineal gland to help you fall asleep and actually seems to disrupt the regulatory role your pineal gland plays in your sleeping behavior. Now unlike my slightly increased sensitivity to light, which has lasted for years after using psychic abilities, this side effect only lasted during the time that I was regularly using psychic abilities. Whenever I stopped charging these abilities, I can usually sleep normally again after about 5 – 7 days depending on how deeply I charged these abilities. Bear in mind that we’re all physically different and therefore psychic insomnia could potentially affect you much more than it did me so it is important to be cautious when using these abilities.

 

 

YOU HAVE TO BE BORN A PSYCHIC

 

One more misconception about psychic abilities, although this probably isn’t necessary to clarify at this point but I’ll do so anyway, is the idea that you have to be one of the lucky few to be born with these abilities. If you weren’t endowed with such abilities at birth, then there’s no way you can learn them and you’ll forever be incapable of using these abilities. I, of course, do not believe this to be true at all. In my opinion, that’s the equivalent of suggesting that you have to be born with the ability to feel emotions and, if you’re not, then you’ll never be able to feel them. I believe that emotion is an innate property of awareness and that you’ll always be able to experience it regardless of the state of your physical body. There are no people born with some condition that prevents them from experiencing emotion. By the same token, I also believe that psychic abilities are an innate property of consciousness that you’ll always be able to use regardless of what genetics you were born with. I believe that this myth about psychic abilities has largely been born out of the absence of a positive theory on how psychic abilities work. However, once you have this theory, I think that anyone can learn how to use these abilities.

 

 

BENEFITS OF PSYCHIC ABILITIES

 

Throughout this chapter, we’ve poured a lot of cold water on many common misconceptions about psychic abilities and have spoken a lot about the potential dangers and negative side effects involved in using these abilities. A great deal of caution has been advised because of this. But then if these abilities incur such a risk, why talk about them at all? Well in spite of all of the potential negatives, there is actually one benefit in practicing psychic abilities that I’ve come to learn and appreciate. Although I'd like to believe that I understood a great deal about spirituality before using psychic abilities in the first place, I’d still say that actually using these abilities for the first time gave me much greater insight to the mechanical workings of the spiritual world, particularly how it relates to sensing things. From the perspective of these experiences, it all just made more sense. In the spirit world, you have no physical body to sense the reality around you, so it is a huge help to be able to understand that reality from the perspective of your spiritual senses, which is what your psychic abilities actually represent. For example, as mentioned previously, most communication in the spirit world is generally done through telepathy, which is actually a much clearer and more precise form of communication. It is a lot easier to understand the nature of this communication after you’ve used psychic abilities.

          It’s also easier to recognize when someone or something is communicating with you telepathically, or at the subconscious level, after you’ve used psychic abilities. For example, it was much easier for me to recognize when I was receiving a vision from God after using these abilities because the experience of having them feels very similar to what it feels like when you’re retrieving information psychically. The same principle applies to negative entities. I felt it became much easier to tell when a negative entity might be planting thoughts in my mind as well as appearing in my dreams after learning how to use psychic abilities. Again this is because negative entities will attempt to influence my subconscious in a way that I can tell isn’t coming from me. The foreign feeling of that influence is also how psychic abilities feel. When using these abilities, you receive information that you can tell isn’t just being created by your imagination. In fact this feeling, again, is what governs all spirit word communication. When people have visions or near death experiences, they will often claim to just know or understand complex things intuitively. This phenomenon becomes much easier to understand after using psychic abilities yourself and experiencing something similar to it.

          Earlier I mentioned that psychic abilities tend to push away spiritual energy. Well there actually may be a way to use psychic abilities without experiencing this phenomenon and that is by using them through the influence of the Holy Spirit. We’ll talk more about this in the next chapter. However, if you wish to use these abilities in a way that is based on prayer and direction from God, then this will be a lot easier to do if you have a solid understanding of these abilities.

          Lastly using psychic abilities really cemented the idea to me that there was a such thing as the supernatural. This is in spite of all of the supernatural experiences I’d already had prior to using these abilities such as witnessing the power of prayer, astral projection and seeing both angels and negative entities in my dreams. I’d also read about supernatural experiences from others, many of which, though not necessarily all, I was convinced were true. Although all of these experiences were very believable as being truly supernatural phenomena, there’s nothing like using your own psychic abilities to correctly guess something with one and a million odds. Beating the odds in this manner really helped me to know for sure that I wasn’t just deluding myself into having a whole bunch of beliefs about the metaphysical nature of the subconscious. I knew for sure then that the subconscious truly had to be metaphysical in nature and that I was correct in thinking of it as a non-physical substance. Although, to be fair, that did become much clearer to me later on anyway as I learned more and more about controlling my subconscious. Since you’re already reading the final version of my theory of the subconscious, it may not be all that necessary to obtain this convincing if you’re already used to controlling your subconscious, charging spiritual energy and praying to God, as you should be at this point. However, it still doesn’t hurt to have that extra bit of confirmation.

          That being said, I don’t recommend charging psychic energy too far since you’ll lose too much spiritual energy and may start to have negative experiences if you do. At least that’s what happened to me when I charged these abilities too far. However, you may still be able to explore using psychic abilities in a way that coincides with God’s will and the Holy Spirit. Again we’ll talk more about this in the next chapter. I should also mention that, because psychic abilities affect your pineal gland, it is important to be cautious about the effect these abilities might have on your gland. If you believe you may be at risk for pineal gland damage or dysfunction, I recommend consulting a physician before engaging in psychic abilities. I know that might sound a bit crazy but the effects of charging psychic abilities is neither widely known nor studied so there may be unforeseen consequences to them that you could potentially experience which I have not. I believe this could especially be the case with your pineal gland but other parts of your body could also be affected as well. So yea, I recommend to consult with a physician about your pineal gland health before using psychic abilities even if you look crazy for it.