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PSYCHIC
OPENING
A counselor told me of a woman who came to him with this story. She
had dreamed of a dead body being washed up on a beach. She went to
an evening party the next day at a house on the beach. There was suddenly
a commotion outside the house and people found a body that had washed
up on the beach, just as in her dream. She was frightened, and asked
the counselor if she had caused the death. p. 146
Hastings, A. (1983). "A counseling approach to parapsychological
experience." Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 15 (2): 143-167.
OPENING UP TO THE UNKNOWN
When psi is turned on I don't know what's going to come up, and that's
out of control. I don't like that. We're talking [about how psi affects
your life] from the view of a rational person on the path, not from
that of someone who has transcended. We're in a great limbo, a kind
of purgatory. Where you haven't got the great transcendental feedback
to drive you on, you need to go on faith. Once you get there, all
that crazy stuff [like fears of the unknown] grinds to a halt. What
a relief! I am working on it [psi and spiritual development] now
with positive thinking, in the hope that this will bias the function
so only positive stuff will come up. This should eliminate the fear
as to whether I can handle the information that will come up. Who
knows what you might be opening up to? It's a loss of ego. My husband
is also psychic, and we took a dive into real madness. We didn't
know it until we landed in the hospital. I can see the line [between
sanity and insanity] now, but I still have a fear of that happening
again. You have to develop faith. I wake up in the night energized.
What I would do before would [be] sit, let it clog in my head, my
fears would rev up, my hearing get acute, I would imagine someone
was trying to get in the house. Now I get up and try to move the
energy, and I have nice experiences with it. It's developing a faith
for me that there is something. It feels safe to go with the energy.
But it's scary taking the first step. You've got to build the base
really strongly with work on personality. Then the peak of the pyramid,
the peak experience, is not so scary. Support the ego, keep it real,
and sooner or later you will transcend, but you don't force transcendence.
The samadhi experiences, the heavy experiences, are rare, they blow
you out. Psychic reading is a cinch by comparison. I'm very cautious
[about] high energy states. Those who were opened up with a big bang
don't try to go back to it very much, but those who are working their
way up gradually keep trying to go [higher].
LOSING ADAPTIVE ORDINARY WORLD FEARS
You may get so "high" from psychic spaces that when you go
out into the ordinary world you aren't discriminating, you're too accepting,
and that can get you into trouble. All those wonderful cans of tomatoes
in the store! You can get hooked on that state! You're feeling so good,
and here's this 2,000 pounds of car coming down the street! A fear
that you're not going to be afraid when you should be! You should,
but you're not, that's the problem. A funny fear, you don't feel fear,
but your mind knows you should be objectively afraid. You know you're
being inappropriate. I like to spend some time with conservative friends
who don't believe in any of this every couple of weeks, it's checking
in on what the rules are!
ISOLATION FROM ORDINARY PEOPLE
I was feeling really isolated for a while, my friends would say "You
know that already" or the like, it was disconcerting for people
to feel you were scanning them all the time. That kind of dissolution
might not feel so bad if you're in a group that supports that and you,
but if you're out there alone, it's kind of spooky. This calls for
a tremendous act of faith, with no feedback. Everyday life can be made
difficult. When I go to college functions with my husband I go by his
name, not my psychic practice name, to avoid the complications and
rejections I would otherwise run in to. I don't open myself.
These Three Case Examples are drawn from:
Psychics'
Fears of Psychic Powers
Charles T. Tart, PhD
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