Most of us know it well – the almost physical sensation that we are the object of someone’s attention. Is the feeling all in our head? And what about related phenomena, such as telepathy and premonitions? Are they merely subjective beliefs? In The Sense of Being Stared At, renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have imagined.
Despite a traditional academic background, Sheldrake has devoted his notable career as a scientist and writer to challenging the boundaries of ‘acceptable’ science. A firm believer in the power of an experiment to yield answers about nature, he has dedicated years of intense research to investigating our common beliefs about what he calls our seventh sense. After compiling a database of 4,000 case histories, 2,000 questionnaires, 1,500 telephone interviews, and the results of a decade of scientifically controlled experiments, Sheldrake argues persuasively in this compelling, innovative book that such phenomena are real. In fact, he rejects the label of paranormal and shows how these psychic occurrences are a normal part of human nature.
As an explanation for this more intimate connection with the external world, Sheldrake suggests that our minds are not limited to our brains, but rather stretch outward to touch the beings and objects that we perceive. Once this extended influence of the mind is taken into consideration, many puzzling phenomena begin to make sense, including telepathy and phantom limbs.
Sheldrake shows that telepathy depends on social bonds. He traces its evolution from the connections between members of animal groups such as flocks, schools, and packs. In the modern world, telepathy occurs most commonly just before telephone calls.
Sheldrake summarizes startling new experimental evidence for the reality of telephone telepathy, and shows how readers can do tests for themselves. Combining the tradition of pragmatic experimentation with a refusal to allow science to fall into dogmatism, Sheldrake pioneers an intriguing new inquiry into the mysteries of our deepest nature. Rigorously researched, yet completely accessible, this groundbreaking book provides a refreshing new way of thinking about ourselves and our relationships with other people, with animals, and with the world around us. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.
He worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College. He was then Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project. , funded from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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In this edited excerpt from his forthcoming book, renowned researcher and author Stephan Schwartz discusses the subtle and transformative impacts of “remote viewing” and accessing nonlocal mind.
Three of the most mysterious things a person can experience are spiritual ecstasy, the ah–ha! moment of creative genius, and a verifiable “non-local awareness” event—what is often called a psychic event. Let me propose what I think a growing body of interdisciplinary research and a millennia of ethno-history both suggest: These three enigmatic occurrences are, in fact, different manifestations of the same process, sometimes seen as spiritual, sometimes as brilliance, and sometimes as merely strange. Each is modulated by the intent of the practitioner and the context in which the experience is placed.
A transcendentalist, for example, seeks spiritual experience and has one appropriate to their personal psychology. A scientist seeks, and sometimes discovers, a fundamental insight into how the world works. A person practicing a psychic discipline such as remote viewing seeks to describe a person, place, or event from which they are separated by reason of time or space. They get sense impressions and have a sense of knowingness just as if they were physically present. Sometimes these experiences come unbidden—and you yourself have probably had one at some point in your life.
Stephan Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research.
He is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which covers trends that are affecting the future. He also writes regularly for The Huffington Post. Previously he was the founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory, and Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center, Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society, Special Assistant for Research and Analaysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, and an editorial staff member of National Geographic.
For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra’s Palace, Marc Antony’s Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas.
He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. Since 1978, he has been getting people to remote view the year 2050, and out of that has come a complex trend analysis. His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote Viewing helped determine that nonlocal perception is not an electromagnetic phenomenon. Other areas of experimental study include research into creativity, meditation, and Therapeutic Intent/Healing. He is the author of 50 technical papers and reports. In addition to his experimental studies he has written numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, as well as other magazines and newspapers. He has produced and written a number of television documentaries, and has written four books: The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover and his latest, Opening to the Infinite.
John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, sent me a list of questions he would like to ask me when he interviewed me in New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on March 14. Dr. Esposito has had to go Kuwait for an urgent meeting (see details of the event and the new moderator below), but I decided I should take the opportunity to answer some of his questions here.
Are all angels created at the beginning of time, or are they still being born or created?
Angels are creatures created by God.
People will frequently refer to a loved one who is dead such as a grandmother as their guardian angel, but the truth is their grandmother is more than any angel: Each and every human being has a soul, but no angel has a soul. This is why you and all humans are more than any angel. One of the reasons angels love being around us is because we have a soul.
All angels were created at the beginning of time and were created in abundance. No angels have been created since then.
How was the relationship between God, angelic beings and humans designed? Why is everyone assigned an angel or multiple angels, are they the lifeline to God?
I see a guardian angel with everyone, regardless of their religion, or whether they believe in angels. I see angels physically, as I see a person standing in front of me, and I have done so every day since I was a baby.
Everyone has only one guardian angel and this angel is with them from before their birth until after they die. This angel never ever leaves them, not even for one moment. I will often see other angels with someone in addition to their guardian angel. These angels come and go and it is their guardian angel who allows them to be there.
The guardian angel is a gift from God and is the gatekeeper of your soul. Your guardian angel is there to help to guide you through life, to help to make you aware that you are more than a physical body that you have a soul and that God is real. One of its most important tasks is to bring your soul home safely to Heaven when you die.
Your guardian angel is a lifeline between you and God. If God didn’t give us a guardian angel we would find it much more difficult to connect with Him. Don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that we need to go through angels to reach God — far from it. I have never in my life prayed to an angel; I pray to God, but I know the angels enhance my prayer.
You say that angels can bring religions together, how? What is our role in making this happen, in helping angels stop or prevent evil? Why do angels need us to speak to them, don’t they already know from seeing us in trouble that we need their help?
Guardian angels are something we all share in common, regardless of our religion. I am a Catholic, born into an Ireland that at that time was largely Catholic. The first time I got any inkling of the different beliefs people have of God was when I was about 6 and was walking past a Protestant church near my home. I was looking at two big powerful angels who were standing on guard outside the church when my aunt told me I was never to go in there — that that was a Protestant church and no place for any Catholic. I was very confused by her comment.
In the years following, the angels explained to me that different religions have different beliefs, different traditions and different ways of praying. They always emphasized, however, that it was one and the same God that while religions are different one is not superior to another, and that one day all religions would come together under one umbrella.
I see angels in every place of prayer regardless of religion. No one ever prays alone, I see angels at prayer with everyone, even if one is simply saying a short prayer while waiting for the bus.
The angels have told me that when people of different religions come together to pray with an open heart and mind, not wishing to convert or defend, but simply to praise God and talk about him, then the power of their prayer is magnified.
Many people have fears of other religions. There is so much ignorance that leads to distrust and prejudice. The more people of different religions pray together the more we will break down these barriers. Through praying together the angels tell me we will learn to live in peace together and in doing so will create the cornerstone of a new, more peaceful world.
God has given us all free will and no angel can overstep this. This is why no angel can stop a person from doing evil. This does not mean that they are without power; angels are very powerful, but we need to play our part. When someone is listening to the other side (yes, have no doubt evil does exist, we only have to look at our world to see proof of this) his or her guardian angel is working hard trying to get them to listen. Very often, though, we don’t listen, and it is often easier to do wrong than right. I assure you your guardian angel never, ever tells you to do anything wrong, or hurtful, or dishonest, so if you are doing this you are not listening to your guardian angel.
The angels will also work through other people to avert the affects of evil, to change the course of events.
Your guardian angel is constantly in communication with you. However, you have to listen to it; when you acknowledge that you have a guardian angel and ask it for help, you empower it.
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Lorna Byrne has been seeing and talking with Angels since she was a baby – in this interview she talks about her experiences and new book called Angels In My Hair
On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced, “That’s the ringleader.” The man was Donald DeFreeze, who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car, enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120,000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market.
As a scientist, Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments:
1. Remote Viewing, in which a person describes places and events independent of space and time. For example, while in California Price drew to scale a Soviet weapons factory at Semipalitinsk with great accuracy later confirmed by Satellite photography. In another remote viewing, Targ accurately sketched an airport in San Andreas, Columbia himself.
2. Distant Mental Influence, where the thoughts of the experimenter can positively or negatively affect the physiology (heart rate, skin resistance, etc.) of a distant person.
3. Whole field isolation, where someone in a state of sensory isolation accurately describes the visual experiences of someone else in another place.
4. Precognition and retrocausality, showing that the future can affect the past. That is, the elephant you see on television in the morning can be the cause of your having dreamed about elephants the previous night.
Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; discuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilities,and show us how to explore ESP ourselves. “I am convinced,” Targ says, “that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?”
Russell Targ is a physicist and author, and was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications. He holds his B.S. in Physics from Queens College, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. Targ has received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications, and has published over one hundred scientific papers on lasers, plasma physics and ESP research.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Targ co-founded and worked for the CIA-sponsored Stanford Research Institute’s investigation into psychic abilities. His work in this new area, called remote viewing, was published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1983 and 1984, he accepted invitations to present remote viewing demonstrations and address the USSR Academy of Sciences on this research.
In 1997, Targ retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist, where he developed airborne laser systems for the detection of windshear. Targ now teaches remote viewing workshops worldwide and continues to write. He is co-author of eight books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities, including Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing, Transformation of Consciousness and his autobiography Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker.
Russell Targ is also an editor, publisher, songwriter, producer and teacher. He lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife Patricia.
Russell Targ, laser physicist and well-known author, cofounded Stanford Research Institute’s $25 million program to explore psychic abilities in the 1970′s and 80′s. His new book “The Reality of ESP” details this research. Much like the meditative practices described by Buddhists teachings for the past three millennia, Targ teaches how to separate the analytical overlay, or mental mind chatter, from the true psychic information we all inherently possess.
Interview with Russell Targ CIA REMOTE VIEWING
An interview with the famous American physicist Russell Targ who discusses the Remote Viewing research done by his team at the Stamford Research Institute.
The bestselling author of Life After Life, Raymond Moody, offers a stunning, myth-busting memoir of everything he has learned in a lifetime studying “the other side” and our connection to it. The grandfather of the NDE (near death experience) movement, Raymond Moody has, in the words of Dr. Larry Dossey, author of The Power of Premonitions, “radically changed the way modern humans think about the afterlife.” Paranormal, essential reading for fans of Dannion Brinkley and Jeffrey Long, is “a thrilling and inspiring literary experience. Anyone who is not grateful for Moody’s immense contribution to human welfare ought to check his pulse.”
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Life After Life and pioneer researcher and leading authority on near-death experiences comes Paranormal, an intimate look at a lifetime spent fearlessly wrestling with humankind’s most important and perplexing question:
What happens when we die?
Paranormal begins with a harrowing account of Moody’s suicide attempt—due to an undiagnosed illness that led him into depression—and proceeds to explore his lifelong fascination with life beyond our bodies. Moody traces the roots of his obsession with the point of death and how, at age twenty-three, he launched the entirely new medical field of near-death studies. He went on to explore the world of past lives and possible reincarnation before stumbling into the fascinating realm of facilitated visions.
Moody’s rural research center, Theater of the Mind, dramatically advances paranormal research by melding ancient and modern techniques to arouse many of the transformative elements of the near-death experience in people who are still living.
After more than four decades of studying death and the possibility of an afterlife, Moody still sees endless promise in the fringes of psychological sciences, where he continues to seek answers to what happens to our souls after death.
Biography
Raymond Moody
Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D. is the bestselling author of eleven books which have sold over 20 million copies. His seminal work, Life After Life, has completely changed the way we view death and dying and has sold over 13 million copies worldwide. His latest book is GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from this Life to the Next.
Dr. Moody is the leading authority on the “near-death experience”–a phrase he coined in the late seventies. He is best known for his ground-breaking work on the near-death experience and what happens when we die. The New York Times calls Dr. Moody “the father of the near-death experience.”
Dr. Moody has enlightened and entertained audiences all over the world for over three decades. He lectures on such topics as: Near Death Experiences, Death With Dignity, Life After Loss, Surviving Grief & Finding Hope, Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones, The Healing Power of Humor, The Loss of Children, The Logic of Nonsense, and Catastrophic Tragedies & Events causing collective grief response.
PARANORMAL: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife by Raymond Moody
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The bestselling author of Life After Life, Raymond Moody, offers PARANORMAL: a stunning, myth-busting memoir of everything he has learned in a lifetime studying “the other side” and our connection to it. The grandfather of the NDE (near death experience) movement, Raymond Moody has, in the words of Dr. Larry Dossey, author of The Power of Premonitions, “radically changed the way modern humans think about the afterlife.”
PARANORMAL: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife
By Raymond Moody
What can we expect after we die? – Dr Raymond Moody, US
Published on Sep 22, 2012
Raymond Moody (born June 30, 1944) is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975. His best-selling title is Life After Life.
Anita was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and doctors told her family she was just hours away from death. It was at this point that she “crossed over” and then returned again into this world with a clearer understanding of her life and purpose on earth. This understanding subsequently led to a total recovery of her health.
Anita was born in Singapore of Indian parents, moved to Hong Kong at the age of two, and has lived in Hong Kong most of her life. Because of her background and British education, she is multi lingual and, from the age of two, grew up speaking English, Cantonese and two Indian dialects simultaneously, and later learned French at school.
She had been working in the corporate field for many years before being diagnosed with cancer in April of 2002. Her fascinating and moving near-death experience in early 2006 has tremendously changed her perspective on life. Her work is now ingrained with the depths and insights she gained while in the other realm. She works on the premise that our inner world (consciousness) is our primary reality, and if our internal state is healthy and strong, then our external world will align itself and fall into place as a result.
She is the embodiment of the truth that we all have the inner power and wisdom to overcome even life’s most adverse situations, as she is the living proof of this possibility.
“This is a life story that’s very different to any that has been written before.
It’s about a person living between two worlds: the human world and the spirit world. I’m human of course, but for a number of reasons as a child I found it easier to live in the spirit world than in the human world.
This book isn’t based on anything anyone else has written; the only source of knowledge for this book is the angels. They taught me everything I know. As a child, I found learning very hard and I have dyslexia, so as a result I am uneducated in conventional terms. I only read books with difficulty and so I haven’t been influenced by other people’s thinking. This book is the wisdom and truth that the angels have given me as I have grown throughout my life.
I may not be able to prove it, but the wisdom in this book genuinely comes from the angels and God and this book is based on reality, on a true life that has been lived and continues to be lived.
Anyone who reads this book will discover that they are not alone, that there is always someone there by their side, to help them no matter what difficulties they are in. They will discover that they are loved unconditionally.
This book will help readers recognise times in their past when angels have helped them, even if they didn’t realise it at the time. We have all been helped at times by angels, and recognising these events, even in hindsight, is a very powerful support when we face challenges in our life.
It will help them to understand how easy connection with the angels can be. It’s so simple, all they have to do is ask. That realisation alone is something wonderful.
Readers will find answers to many of the questions they have deep inside themselves, the questions that they hide, that they may be afraid to ask in case they are ridiculed. It will stir questions in their minds about what is happening in their lives and give them insights which will help them.
I can’t say everyone will find the answer to every question though because at times the angels won’t answer a question; it’s simply not the right time in that person’s life to know the answer.
Anyone who reads this book will be given hope and affirmation that there is a reason for life. It will open them up to the world of the angels and of God, they will realise that they are not just flesh and blood, that they have a soul, that there is a meaning to life. They will understand more about how precious this gift of life is.
If you do read this book with an open mind, it will make a big difference to you. Even If you say you don’t believe in angels, read it for curiosity, suspend your cynicism for a short time and have a look. What have you got to lose?”
Book Description
In this uplifting autobiography, a modern-day Irish mystic shares her vivid encounters and conversations with the angels and spirits she has known her entire life.
For anyone who has ever wondered about the mysteries that lie beyond everyday experience, or doubted the reality of the afterlife, Angels in My Hair is a moving and deeply inspirational journey into the unseen world.
For as long as she can remember, Lorna Byrne has seen angels. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the otherworldly beings who always accompanied her. Yet in the eyes of adults, her abnormal behavior was a symptom of mental deficiency. Today, sick and troubled people from around the world are drawn to her for comfort and healing, and even theologians of different faiths seek her guidance. Lorna is trusted for her ability to communicate with spirits and angels—and by sharing her intimate knowledge of the spiritual world she offers a message of hope and love to us all.
Angels in My Hair is an engrossing chronicle of Lorna’s incredible life story. Invoking a wonderful sense of place, she describes growing up poor in Ireland, finding work in Dublin, and marrying the man of her dreams—only to have the marriage cut short by tragedy. Already a bestseller in Ireland, her story gives readers a unique insight into the angelic help that is around us and available to us all the time. As Lorna says, “All you have to do is ask.”
Lorna Byrne has been seeing and talking to angels since she was a baby. Now that her family are raised she talks openly for the first time about what she has seen and learnt. She lives quietly in rural Ireland.
Lorna Byrne – Why we should all support the Occupy Wall Street Movement
LORNA BYRNE INTERNTIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ANGELS IN MY HAIR AND STAIRWAYS TO HEAVEN ON WHY WE SHOULD ALL SUPPORT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET GLOBAL MOVEMENT.
Lorna Bryne talks about Angels in Human Form
Lorna Bryne talks about Angels in Human Form
Possible Futures for the Earth by Lorna Byrne
The angels have told Lorna Byrne that it is up to us to determine our own future as a planet…. There are some amazing times ahead for humanity, if we all work and love each other.
LORNA BYRNE TALKS ABOUT ANGELS IN AMERICA AND MUSLIM IN PRAYER
Lorna Byrne, Author of International bestseller Angels in my Hair, talks about Angels, Islam, Mecca and people of people faiths praying together.
Working as a medical examiner, Dr. Janis Amatuzio has found that by listening and talking to loved ones of the deceased, she can offer them a sense of closure. In doing so, she has heard — and here retells — extraordinary stories of spiritual and otherworldly events surrounding the transition between life and death.
As in her first book, Forever Ours, Dr. Amatuzio presents the amazing, heartfelt accounts told to her by grieving family members, patients, doctors, nurses, clergy, and police officers. Along with these stories, she shares her own story — reflecting on the course of her career, the bonds she has formed over the years, the lessons she has learned, and her conclusion that “Everything truly is all right.”
This powerful book honors the mystery of life and death, exploring the realms of visions, synchronicities, and communications on death’s threshold. Told in the voice of a compassionate scientist who sees death every day, these stories eloquently convey the patterns of truth Dr. Amatuzio has found in what she sees and hears. Beyond Knowing explores the wisdom the living might find in these accounts and shows how that wisdom changes lives.
Janis Amatuzio, MD, trained at the University of Minnesota, the Hennepin County Medical Center, and the Medical Examiner’s Office in Minneapolis before founding Midwest Forensic Pathology, P.A. Board-certified in anatomic, forensic, and clinical pathology, she is a recognized authority in forensic medicine and has developed many courses on topics such as death investigation, forensic nursing, and forensic medicine in mortuary science. Dr. Amatuzio serves as the medical examiner and a regional resource for multiple counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin. A dynamic speaker, she is frequently requested to speak on her experiences. She lives in Minneapolis. Click Here to browse inside. Dr. Janis Amatuzio author of FOREVER OURS
In A Still, Small Voice, famed psychic Echo Bodine turns to a subject she knows deeply and is passionate about: intuition. Using humorous anecdotes and a positive, readable style, this sequel to Echoes of the Soul explores what intuition is, where it’s located, what it sounds like, and how to cultivate it.
The author, who comes from a family of psychics, exposes the various internalized voices that can mask one’s intuition. These include the voices of parents, grandparents, peers, therapists, significant others, religious figures, and society, along with such emotions as anger, fear, guilt, and despair. The book challenges the notions that psychic abilities and intuition are the same or that they are in some way suspect. One chapter is devoted to the many practical benefits that come from listening to intuition; another looks at the “faith-building times” in life and how to cope with others’ negative reactions to one’s setting off on a spiritual path.
Echo Bodine first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at the age of 17. Her abilities include clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), and clairgustance (smell). She took psychic classes for two years and practiced on friends and family for twelve years before beginning her full time practice as a psychic, healer and ghostbuster in 1979.
In 1981, Echo began teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing. She has appeared on numerous national television shows including Sally Jesse Raphael, Sightings, Beyond with James Van Praagh, NBC’s The Other Side, Un-explained Mysteries, NBC’s Today Show, A&E, and Encounters. Paranormal Borderline did a feature story on her family, calling them the “world’s most psychic family”.
Echo hosted her own cable TV show called New Age Perspectives for two years, and co-hosted the The Edge TV. She also had her own radio show on FM107 in Minneapolis for 3 years called Intuitive Living, and Paramount Pictures solicited her services for the promotion of the movie Ghost.
From 2003 to 2009 Echo was the director of The Center for Spiritual Development where she taught numerous classes on spiritual development, living by intuition, ghost busting, psychic development and laying on hands healing classes. In 2010 she began doing on-line psychic development classes with instructor Leigh Hopkins of the Viva Institute in Brazil.
Echo has written several books, produced numerous meditation CD’s and instructional DVD’s. Check out her store for details.
Psychic and Healer Echo Bodine tells how she discovered her psychic skills as written about in her book LOOK FOR THE GOOD & YOU’LL FIND GOD Psychic Echo Bodine – Part 2
Psychic Echo Bodine – Part 3
A Still Small Voice: An Interview with Echo Bodine By Tim Miejan
In an interview with The EDGE, Echo Bodine discusses her latest book, A Still Small Voice: A Psychic’s Guide to Awakening Intuition (New World Library), and offers encouragement to those who are on the path to knowing themselves.
The first chapter of your new book is entitled, “Humankind’s Best Kept Secret.” You are referring to that still small voice. What is it, really? Echo Bodine: Very simply, it’s your intuition. It’s that gut feeling inside. It’s the feeling of having a hunch. What describes it best is when we hear ourselves saying, “I just know what I’m supposed to do.” Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.
There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should’s and shouldn’ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there’s a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.
There are some problems with hearing that voice. Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It’s been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that’s not true at all.
Intuition is something all of us have been given. I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path. People say to me all the time, “I talk to God all the time and He never answers me, so I’ve given up.” A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It’s always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that’s what we all expect when we’re asking God for some answers.
It says in the Bible, “And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and break in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.” — 1 Kings: 19
I’ve come to believe, on the journey of mine, that we have a still, small voice — and that voice does come from God. It’s there to bring us comfort and to bring us guidance with everything.
You talked about all the voices that exist in our minds. How does one strip those away to hear the still, small voice? Bodine: First of all, it’s important to identify the other voices. There are so many situations that we go through in life. In the book, I use the example of a young man who goes out to buy a new truck. He’s at the dealership and the car dealer is really putting the pressure on him, telling him that he has to buy today at the special deal.
Then in his mind he hears the voice of his grandma saying, “I’d never ride in that. It’s way too souped up for me.” He can hear the voice of his Dad asking, “Are you going to be responsible enough to pay for that thing? It looks pretty expensive.” He can hear the voice of his best friend saying, “Cool, man. Can I take it for a ride? Can I borrow it for my date Friday night?” His self-worth pipes up, saying, “You don’t deserve that! You haven’t worked hard enough for that.” He’s standing there, and he’s listening to all the voices.
We need to learn how to identify them and shove them aside, saying, “OK, Dad, that’s your voice. Grandma, that’s your voice. Best friend, that’s your voice. Self-worth, that’s your voice.” We need to be able to set all of those voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, “Show me the truth of this situation.”
You will get a response, like a thought coming from the inside of your stomach. You may get a knowing: “Yes, you should buy this, because it is a good deal, and your job and paycheck will remain steady.” Or the inner voice may say, “No, don’t buy this.” It could be because there are some changes coming in this person’s life that he can’t see yet.
The thing about the intuition is that there’s always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It’s always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.
Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of those voices and get to that deep voice within. A lot of people, unfortunately, say to me, “Oh, that’s too much work. I’m just going to do things the way I’ve always done them and hopefully life will turn out OK.”
Most people do that. Bodine: Yes. And then when life doesn’t turn out the way they had hoped, they blame God. “Look at what God has done to me. Look at the mess I’m in because of God.” Or, “God’s never here for me. God doesn’t help me.”
It isn’t that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it’s so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition. The day does come when you can instantly recognize the other voices, push them aside and feel and hear the intuition so clearly. Once you’re there, you’re on the path and you’re ready to roll. Now you’re aware of the inner guidance and the two of you can do anything together.
It seems that those people who say it’s too much work to use intuition are forsaking their responsibility to connect with God to get the answers they are looking for. Bodine: One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren’t worthy of having a personal relationship with God.
People will say to me, “Well, I’m a sinner. I can’t have that kind of close relationship with God. God would never love me. God would never care about me, or help me with my life’s decisions.” Their church teaches them that they are sinners. What I have found is that when we get to that still, small voice inside and begin to live by it, we see that that still, small voice doesn’t judge us the way we are being judged by others all the time.
Using your intuition is such a wonderful way to live. It’s very exciting.
The other thing about it is, a lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to that inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore — by going inside and finding our own voice — then life just becomes magical.
But it is scary, because we’re always taking a chance of not being accepted by others. A lot of people tell me that I’m crazy for living this way.
And who has the roadmap of where this will take us? Bodine: That’s right. And you know, we have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we’re trying to get on the spiritual path.
There are lots of roadblocks, but the thing is, all the roadblocks can come down — but it takes work. I think so many people are asking themselves, “What am I searching for? What is the emptiness inside?” These seem to be different times right now, with a lot of crisis and living lives in different ways.
Perhaps a sense that what we have been doing hasn’t worked, so let’s try to go within? Bodine: Yes. We’re getting older — and I don’t mean that in a physical way. Our souls are getting older and we’re tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions here.
Everybody read Neale Donald Walsch’s books because they wanted to know what God had to say. And yet, you don’t have to go to the books to find out what God is saying. All you have to do is start talking to God yourself, have a conversation with God yourself. You can get the same kind of information that Neale received. A lot of people want to stay a part of the herd and say, “No, Neale, you do the work and you tell us what God is saying.” People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.
From a positive perspective, I think this is a good time, because people are searching more. I don’t know if it’s just my age group — I don’t know if the younger people are doing it — but it seems fewer people are reaching out for the material things to fill up the empty hole inside of them. A lot of people are continuing to read and study and go to lectures to figure out the missing piece.
For me, listening to the still, small voice is the missing piece for all of us.
How do you know if this inner voice truly is that of your Higher Self, of God? Bodine: I think the word “voice” still throws people off. It’s really an inner feeling, a thought, a knowing. Once we hear it and get used to going directly to that part of ourselves and communicating for guidance, it just gets easier and easier to decipher it.
In the second chapter of the new book, you mention that one’s attitude about God plays a part in whether or not a person will try to make that inner connection with that still, small voice. Bodine: At the beginning of my intuition classes, we go around the circle and share intuition stories from the past week. And most often, I’ll have the whole group sitting there silently, looking at me. “OK guys, what?” When talking about it, I learn that they are afraid, because they’re still in the mindset of the old religious God: “God’s not going to tell me to go buy the new car. God’s going to tell me to go get that used Pinto. God’s not going to want me to try to get that new job. God’s going to want me to suffer. God’s angry with me because I’ve done wrong things in my life. I can’t turn to God. I’m afraid.”
That comes up a lot. Another big challenge relates to when Jesus told his disciples, “OK, just leave all your belongings here and follow me.” A lot of people are afraid that God is going to say to them, “Just leave everything that’s important to you behind, and come follow me and live a life of abstinence where you can’t have a nice home or nice furniture or new clothes. Just wear what’s on your back and come with me.”
A lot of people tell me they cannot give up the things they love. They wonder, “Am I going to have to give up the things I love if I get on my spiritual path?” A wealthy friend of mine several years ago was struggling and praying and asking for God’s will. I asked him what he thought it was, but he didn’t know. Finally my friend told me he was scared to death that he’d have to give away all his money because there’s a story in the Bible of a man who had to give up all of his money.
“Echo,” he said, “I’ve worked so hard. Just the thought of it is too much.”
“Maybe God doesn’t want you to give up all your money,” I said. “Maybe God wants you to make more money.”
He had never thought of it that way, because of what he had read in the Bible. We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also. I see a lot of healers and “spiritual” people having that mindset that doing God’s work means they have to be poor like Mother Teresa was or like the Disciples.
Or even that they don’t feel worthy to be considered a disciple of God. Bodine: That’s right. There’re a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we’re afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don’t ask the questions of God. We think we know what the answers are going to be, but it’s just not that way. God doesn’t want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.
A few years ago, I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter. I was paying for my own house and I had nice furniture and there were bills and payments. When the voice said that it was time to let it all go, at first I felt like a victim — poor me. But, all kinds of doors and opportunities opened up and my load got so much lighter. I was no longer so burdened by all the material responsibilities. I was then able to hear my inner voice more clearly. You know, if you’re sitting around worrying about bills all day, it’s hard to hear the guidance that’s coming from the inside.
If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us. What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it’s always going to be for our highest good — and it’s always going to bring us more joy than we think.
I believe you wrote about how much easier it was for you to hear the inner voice when you were single than when you were in partnership. Bodine: It’s not harder to hear the inner voice when you’re in a relationship, but it’s more of a challenge to follow it. When I’m in a relationship, I’m always thinking, “Well, what about them? How’s this going to affect them?” And yet, I’ve learned over and over that God has a plan for “them” as well. Again, it always comes back to the fact that it is best to listen to that inner voice, whether you’re in a relationship or not.
People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives — or their jobs. Well, if that’s really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse’s or partner’s. There is a plan for everyone.
It all boils down to trusting and believing that this inner voice is the voice of the Source that created us. This inner voice really, truly loves us, and believe it or not, it wants to make our path easier, not harder.
How do you know if this inner voice truly is that of your Higher Self, of God? Bodine: A guy said to me recently that he really wants to get out of his marriage and thinks it’s his Higher Self telling him to get out of the marriage. But how does he know?
I asked him, “Do you feel peaceful when you hear it?
“No, not really,” he said.
I said, “Then you’re not ready to act on this. You need to get really clear about whether this is your inner voice or just a desire that you have.”
One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, “Just show me the truth of this situation, God.” That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.
In the Bible, it talks about going to the secret place within. That’s the place I think they’re talking about. It’s a very secret place inside where it’s just you and God talking about your life. You ask for guidance by going inside, not outside of yourself.
It’s a very sacred place. When I am in meditation and go to that place, I see it in many different forms. Sometimes I see it as a room with beautiful white light in it. Sometimes I see it as an energy form, as a male, perhaps as a female. But it always has a voice. I mentioned in the book that the first time I ever saw it, I saw it as a white sword. I was kind of surprised. I closed my eyes and was looking in the area of my solar plexus. I asked, “God, are you in there?” And this white light just appeared to me and it made itself into the shape of a sword.
And I asked, “Why do you look like a sword?”
This inner knowing said, “Because I’m your protector, as well.”
It was just so beautiful. Then for a while every time I meditated, I would go inside and look for the sword. After a while, it took on different shapes and colors.
There are guides and other helpers one can connect with. Do you believe it is important to first make a clear connection with that still, small voice inside before connecting with guides? Bodine: I was a little girl when my Mom began teaching me about my intuition. I am really glad that I connected to it as a child. I wasn’t in my head intellectualizing it all too much, so I listened to my intuition many years before anyone ever told me I had spirit guides or angels.
I just had surgery not too long ago, and many of my students asked me, “Well, how come your guides didn’t tell you that you were going to have surgery?” You know what? I don’t really turn to my guides for guidance. I turn to my guides when I am doing psychic or healing work with people. I always turn to my intuition for personal guidance. When I wake up in the morning I ask, “Is there anything I need to do today?” I get plugged into that inner voice right away, before I even crawl out of bed.
I don’t focus outside of myself to my guides. I always focus inside to that secret place.
Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life. I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do. The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we’re not relying on outsiders.
So it is actually a disadvantage to put so much focus on guides and angels. Bodine: I think so. I’m sure people are going to be shocked that I say that. Here I am a psychic and I talk about spirit guides and teach about them, but I do think it’s a disadvantage. It keeps people not focused on God but on these spirits out there. I can’t see them, I can’t hear them, but they’re there and are supposed to protect me and take care of me.
I cannot tell you how many times guides have said to me, “Please tell them to stop praying to me. I can’t make things happen. I can’t protect them from going through challenging experiences. These are experiences their soul has chosen to go through. I’m here to keep them on their path, but I don’t want them to give me all this attention or power or focus.” Realistically, the guides I work with are really encouraging people to find their inner voice.
I have heard in a class I have had that your angels or guides may not be the best place to ask a question about earthly concerns, because they may not have ever incarnated on Earth and may not have any idea about how things work here, materially. Bodine: And those who have been here on Earth may not be highly developed. A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?
Some people also rely extensively on books, as well as on particular authors and lecturers, for guidance, as opposed to their inner guidance. Speak to that issue of how to use books. Bodine: I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it. I’ve never read any of Neale Donald Walsch’s books. It doesn’t mean they’re not good books, but when I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don’t do that.
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don’t absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
Again, if we’re stepping outside of the herd, we ask God, “OK, help me on my path, and show me what I need to learn. Guide me to the right books, to the right teachers and to the right classes.” That’s the most important thing to strive for, to stop doing what everybody else is doing. Stop reading a hundred metaphysical books and think that you’re a spiritual person. I have met people who have read every book there is, and yet, they are still in their heads, they’re still angry and they have no idea what intuition is. They’re usually controlling people who are telling everybody else what to do and how to do it.
I think it’s very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, “Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn’t, guide me to what I need.”
In your work, you’re helping to connect people with themselves. Bodine: I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don’t have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance. What they’re searching for can be found inside. I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.
And on a much deeper level, I want to help them to connect with their souls, helping them to connect with God. I want people, when they leave “An Evening with Echo Bodine,” to go, “Yes, I can do this. This is exciting.”
It is an exciting path to be on. I see my role here as being a person who says, “Here, try this on and see how this fits.”
And give them permission to do it. Bodine: Exactly.
As a psychic medium, Karen Lazzarini Noe has repeatedly received messages from those on the other side who have gone through their life review, saying that they “should have” or “could have” done things differently when they were still here on earth. In this book, Karen shows you how to make amends with your living and deceased loved ones by going through your life review now.
She explains how to write different types of letters to help you to see the “bigger picture” of how you are affecting those in your path. Karen takes you on a personal journey of how her own life was transformed after she wrote these types of letters to her loved ones, and then goes on to show you how you can do the same.
By seeing everything through the eyes of others, you will learn how to:
-Heal your relationships
-Love and respect yourself
-Forgive living and deceased loved ones
-Become more compassionate
-See more positive aspects in those around you
-Understand more fully why others do certain things
As an added bonus, Karen shares stories from her favorite readings to answer some of the most common questions people have concerning the afterlife. She also talks about how to look for signs and receive messages from your deceased loved ones. Click Here To Look Inside
Karen Noe is a psychic medium and author of The Rainbow Follows the Storm: How to Obtain Inner Peace by Connecting with Angels and Deceased Loved Ones. She is the founder of the Angel Quest Center in New Jersey, USA, where she teaches classes, gives readings and practices alternative healing. Karen is also the host of The Angel Quest Radio Show. Through the Eyes of Another – Karen Noe
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Through the Eyes of Another: A Medium¹s Guide to Creating Heaven on Earth by Encountering Your Life Review Now
Karen Borga and Karen Noe – Through the Eyes of Another
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