The Gift Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities

by Bodine, Echo; Beattie, Melody

• ISBN13: 9781577312055
• ISBN10: 1577312058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-31
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

For thirty-five years renowned teacher Echo Bodine has been using her psychic powers to help people heal and get more clarity about the important issues in their lives. Now she presents a clear guide to developing psychic abilities.

In the first part of the book, "What Does It Mean to be Psychic?" Echo shows us that being psychic is a gift of the spirit we all have. Then she helps dispel the fear many people carry about psychics. A lot of this fear comes from the Church, and it’s based, as Echo puts it, on a profound misreading of the Bible. Echo says it best — with prose so simple and clear and inviting it's just like, as one reader put it, sitting down and having a cup of tea with Echo.

Author Biography

Echo Bodine is a renowned psychic, spiritual healer, and teacher. She has appeared on many national television programs, including NBC's Later Today, Sally Jesse Raphael, Sightings, and The Other Side. She is the author of several books about psychic and spiritual phenomena, including Echoes of the Soul; Hands That Heal; A Still, Small Voice; Relax, It's Only a Ghost; and Dear Echo. Echo lectures throughout the country on life, death, life after death, living by intuition, and developing psychic abilities. She can be reached at: Post Office Box 385321 Bloomington, MN 55438 [e-mail] Visit Echo's website for information about her books, videos, and tapes: Echobodine.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Psychic Abilities	p. 1
The Four Psychic Gifts	p. 2
How Psychic Gifts Work	p. 6
Professional Psychics	p. 13
Stereotypes	p. 15
Discerning Who's Who	p. 20
Misconceptions about Psychics and Their Abilities	p. 21
What the Bible Says about Psychic Abilities	p. 33
The Bible	p. 36
In Closing	p. 42
And Greater Works Shall You Do	p. 43
Psychic Development Preliminaries	p. 47
Psychic Journal	p. 49
A Special Note to Teenagers	p. 50
Detachment	p. 51
Giving Advice versus Channeling Information	p. 53
Where Does the Information Come From?	p. 55
Sources of the Information	p. 56
Asking for Accuracy	p. 57
Boundaries	p. 58
People Can Psychically Block You	p. 60
Grounding	p. 62
Protecting Yourself Psychically	p. 65
Protection Exercises	p. 68
Psychic Protection	p. 70
Psychic Attack	p. 72
Two No-Nos	p. 73
Understanding Psychic Information	p. 75
Prophetic Visions, Fear, and Ego	p. 77
Learning to Receive	p. 82
Intuition, Your Greatest Helper	p. 85
Developing Clairaudience	p. 86
Developing Clairvoyance	p. 87
Interpreting What You See	p. 88
Using Personal Symbols to Make It Easier	p. 92
Examples of Misinterpretation	p. 97
What If the Messages Are Wrong?	p. 101
Getting Started with Psychic Development Exercises	p. 107
Gathering People of a Like Mind	p. 107
Turning Your Abilities On and Off	p. 108
The Exercises	p. 110
Names	p. 114
Photographs	p. 120
Billets	p. 123
Psychometry	p. 127
Asking Questions	p. 129
Where Do You Go from Here? Continuing Your Psychic Development	p. 133
Meditation and Reading	p. 134
Upgrades: Your Level of Development Continually Changes	p. 136
The Possibilities Are Endless	p. 138
Some Final Advice and Cautions	p. 149
Proving Yourself	p. 150
We're Not Fortune Cookies	p. 151
Avoiding Dependency	p. 154
Friends and Acquaintances	p. 155
Let Your Light Shine	p. 156
Appendix: Personal Stories of Five Gifted Psychics	p. 159
Valerie Celene	p. 159
Paula Hill	p. 163
Susan Reishus	p. 165
Sunni Welles	p. 168
Beverly Williams	p. 172
Recommended Reading	p. 177
About the Author	p. 179
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