The Natural Psychic: Ellen Dugan's Personal Guide to the Psychic Realm

by Ellen Dugan

Overview

Everyone has some type of psychic ability, but the skills that come easily for some may be more challenging for others. However, no matter where you are on the psychic spectrum, The Natural Psychic will help you develop and refine your natural talents.

Renowned author Ellen Dugan is your personal guide, helping you to build your psychic repertoire. With humor, easy-to-follow instructions, and no-nonsense advice, this engaging book offers lively lessons on:

• The Three P's:
  • Premonition
  • Precognition
  • Postcognition
• The Five C's:
  • Claircognizance
  • Clairaudience
  • Clairvoyance
  • Clairsentience
  • Clairtangence
• Psychometry
• Group Readings
• Tarot
• Psi-Sensitives
• Ghost Hunters
• Séances
• Ouija Boards
• SLIders
• Psychic Training
• Psychic Hangovers and First Aid
• Psychic Attacks
• Psychic Self-Defense
• Repairing the Aura
• Crystals for Psychic Work

Psychic ability is accessible to everyone regardless of spiritual or religious belief. The Natural Psychic is a down-to-earth, straight-up guide that will help you use psychic abilities to enrich your life and expand your world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738743356
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	06/08/2015
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	478,236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ellen Dugan is the award-winning author of fifteen books, and is known as the "Garden Witch". A psychic-clairvoyant, she has been a practicing Witch for over thirty years. Well known for her candor and humor, she is a Master Gardener, and is the High Priestess of her Coven in the St. Louis area. Ellen teaches classes both online and across the country on Witchery, Psychic Protection, and Magick. She has contributed articles for over twelve years to Llewellyn's Magical Almanac, Witches Datebook, Sabbat Almanac, and Witches Calendar.

Ellen's popular magickal books have been translated into over ten foreign languages. When she's not working on her next book project, or keeping up with her family (the kids are out on their own, and the youngest is in Graduate school), Ellen likes to unwind by working in her perennial gardens at home with her husband of 31 years. Ellen wholeheartedly encourages folks to reclaim their personal power and to personalize their Spell-craft. To go outside and connect with the spiritual side of nature. To get their hands dirty and discover the wonder and magick of natural world that surrounds them.

Visit her popular syndicated "Blog of Witchery" at www.ellendugan.blogspot.com 

You can visit her website at www.ellendugan.com

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

• How I Came to Write This Book 2
• Experience: Here Is How I Gained Mine 3
• Psychic Ability Is a Natural Talent or Skill 8

Chapter 1

• Psychic Experiences 11
• The Three Ps of Psychic Experiences 12

Chapter 2

• Psychic Abilities: Presentation, Identification, and Perception 27
• Four Main Varieties of Extrasensory Perception: Identifying Your Own Innate Abilities 28
• Claircognizance/Intuition: Psychic Knowing 30
• Clairvoyance: Psychic Seeing 34
• Clairaudience/Telepathy: Psychic Hearing 37
• Clairsentience/Empathy: Psychic Feeling 42

Chapter 3

• Clairtangency and Psychometry 45
• Clairtangency and Postcognition 46
• The Art of Psychometry 48
• Clairtangency and BlockingUnwanted Personal Information 55
• Clairtangency Practice, Anyone? (It's Easier Than You Think!) 57

Chapter 4

• Mediumship 61
• Oh, Crap! I Can Talk to Dead People? Getting Down to the Mechanics 65
• Medium-Style Readings in a Crowd: Are We Having Fun or What? 68
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Group Reading... 69
• Lastly, Consider This... 74

Chapter 5

• Tarot Cards: Tools of the Psychic's Trade 79
• How Does the Tarot Deck Work? 82
• Performing a Tarot Reading for Another 83
• Tarot Card Spreads for You to Try 86
• Survival Guides for Tarot Readers and Psychics 90

Chapter 6

• Psychic Phenomena: Psi-Sensitives, Ghost Hunters, Séances & SLIders 97
• Psi-Sensitives vs. Mediums 99
• What About Ghost Hunting and Paranormal Investigations? 100
• No, Really, I Am Not a Ghostbuster! (Or, Ellen Encounters a Ghost) 102
• Ouija Boards & Séances 106
• SLIders 108

Chapter 7

• Psychic Training 113
• Work Those Psychic Muscles! 115
• Simple Training for the Five Cs: Claircognizance, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Clairsentience & Clairtangence 122
• Honing your Skills, Accepting Your Talents 125

Chapter 8

• Psychic First Aid, Protection, and Self-Defense 127
• How to Deal with Psychic Hangovers and Overextensions: Recharge and Recoup 131
• Four Steps of Psychic First Aid 131
• Psychic Attacks and Psychic Protection 133
• A Tarot Reading to Confirm an Energetic Attack 136
• Psychic Self-Defense 138
• Active, Not Passive: Tips for Psychic Self-Defense 140
• The First and Last line of Defense: It's You! 145

Chapter 9

• Where Do You Go from Here? 147
• The Aura: A Rainbow of Colors 148
• Auric Upkeep: Psychic Hygiene 150
• Ceremony for Repairing the Aura 153
• Complementary Crystals for Psychic Work 155
• Closing Thoughts 161

Glossary 163
Bibliography 173
Index 177

Editorial Reviews

05/11/2015
Best known for her writings on witchcraft, here Dugan (Natural Witchery) takes a “non-denominational approach to psychic development,” framing it as a skill that requires practical application for success. Her style alternates between bland introductory seminar and humorous coffeeshop chat with an old-timer from the psychic circuit. The beginner’s portion of the book describes the types of psychic experiences—premonition, precognition, and postcognition—and the ways different psychics naturally receive information via abilities such as claircognizance, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, or clairtangency. Dugan covers mediumship, which she believes is an innate ability only some people have, for the budding professional, teaching how to do a reading for individuals or groups, handle otherworldly presences, and use tarot cards. Dugan returns to self-knowledge and self-care with a short training section that recommends engaging with the world and journaling, and discusses methods for psychic self-defense and auric maintenance. Readers who like the feel of Dugan’s spellbooks may also enjoy her take on being receptive to the universe, but those looking for a practical program will find this too vague to be useful. (June)

Publishers Weekly