The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities

by Echo Bodine, Melody Beattie (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781577312055
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	01/31/2003
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	955,107
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xv
Chapter 1	Psychic Abilities	1
	The Four Psychic Gifts	2
	How Psychic Gifts Work	6
Chapter 2	Professional Psychics	13
	Stereotypes	15
	Discerning Who's Who	20
	Misconceptions about Psychics and Their Abilities	21
Chapter 3	What the Bible Says about Psychic Abilities	33
	The Bible	36
	In Closing	42
	And Greater Works Shall You Do	43
Chapter 4	Psychic Development Preliminaries	47
	Psychic Journal	49
	A Special Note to Teenagers	50
	Detachment	51
	Giving Advice versus Channeling Information	53
	Where Does the Information Come From?	55
	Sources of the Information	56
	Asking for Accuracy	57
	Boundaries	58
	People Can Psychically Block You	60
	Grounding	62
	Protecting Yourself Psychically	65
	Protection Exercises	68
	Psychic Protection	70
	Psychic Attack	72
	Two No-Nos	73
Chapter 5	Understanding Psychic Information	75
	Prophetic Visions, Fear, and Ego	77
	Learning to Receive	82
	Intuition, Your Greatest Helper	85
	Developing Clairaudience	86
	Developing Clairvoyance	87
	Interpreting What You See	88
	Using Personal Symbols to Make It Easier	92
	Examples of Misinterpretation	97
	What If the Messages Are Wrong?	101
Chapter 6	Getting Started with Psychic Development Exercises	107
	Gathering People of a Like Mind	107
	Turning Your Abilities On and Off	108
	The Exercises	110
Exercise 1	Names	114
Exercise 2	Photographs	120
Exercise 3	Billets	123
Exercise 4	Psychometry	127
	Asking Questions	129
Chapter 7	Where Do You Go from Here? Continuing Your Psychic Development	133
	Meditation and Reading	134
	Upgrades: Your Level of Development Continually Changes	136
	The Possibilities Are Endless	138
Chapter 8	Some Final Advice and Cautions	149
	Proving Yourself	150
	We're Not Fortune Cookies	151
	Avoiding Dependency	154
	Friends and Acquaintances	155
	Let Your Light Shine	156
	Appendix: Personal Stories of Five Gifted Psychics	159
	Valerie Celene	159
	Paula Hill	163
	Susan Reishus	165
	Sunni Welles	168
	Beverly Williams	172
	Recommended Reading	177
	About the Author	179