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Psychic Development: A Beginner's Guide to Developing Psychic Abilities
Psychic Development: A Beginner's Guide to Developing Psychic Abilities
Psychic Development: A Beginner's Guide to Developing Psychic Abilities
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PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT


Contrary to popular belief, everyone is capable of developing psychic abilities. They are similar to the five senses that observe the physical world but relate to things occurring in the spiritual world.


LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 3, 2022
ISBN9781761037597
Psychic Development: A Beginner's Guide to Developing Psychic Abilities

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    Psychic Development - Lauren Lingard

    Psychic Development

    A Beginner’s Guide to Developing Psychic Abilities

    Lauren Lingard

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: The History of Psychic Development

    Chapter One: The Different Psychic Abilities and How to Develop Them

    Chapter Two: How to Have a Third Eye Awakening

    Chapter Three: The Art of Psychic Mediumship

    Chapter Four: The Energy of Reiki and Other Healing Modalities

    Chapter Five: Psychic Readings from a Divinatory Lens

    Chapter Six: The Psychic World from an Astrological Lens

    Chapter Seven: Automatic Writing and its Modern Uses

    Chapter Eight: Healing Crystals and Colored Stones

    Chapter Nine: Divination Continued: Tarot Card Reading

    Final Words

    Introduction: The History of Psychic Development

    The word psychic comes from the Greek word "psychikos (of the mind or mental) and speaks of the human mind or psyche. This particular Greek word can also mean soul. In Greek mythology, the maiden Psyche both personified and deified the human soul. The Latin derivative of psyche is from the Greek word psyche, which means breath, and comes from psychein, meaning to breathe or to blow."

    The French astronomer and spiritualist Camille Flammarion is known for first having used the word psychic, whereas it was later brought about in the English language by Edward William Cox in the 1870s.

    Initial systems of fortune-telling and divination were introduced in ancient times. The most well-known system of early fortune-telling was astrology, where those who practiced it believed that the positioning of celestial orbs could provide either future or present insight into their lives. Certain fortune-tellers were also able to make predictions without the usage of any of these systems. They claimed to be able to predict the future through visions or another kind of direct means. These types of individuals were known as seers or prophets, and later on, they were known as clairvoyants (which is the French word for clear sight or clear seeing) and psychics.

    Seers, however, also played a vital role in early civilization, given that they acted as advisors, priests, and judges. Various instances are included in the Bible. The Book of 1 Samuel (Chapter 9) depicts this when Samuel is requested to find donkeys of the future king Saul. The prophetic role appeared consistently throughout ancient cultures. In Egypt, for example, the priests of the sun deity Ra at Memphis behaved as seers. In ancient Assyria, seers were known as "nabu, meaning to call or to announce."

    The Delphic Oracle is one of the earliest and most classical stories of prophetic abilities. Pythia, the priestess who was presiding over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, was thought to be able to come up with prophecies that were inspired by Apollo during rituals that started in the 8th century B.C. It is frequently thought that Pythia came up with oracles in a frenzied state of mind, induced by vapors that were rising from the ground, and that she spoke gibberish, thought to be the voice of Apollo, which priests remolded into the mysterious prophecies that were beheld in Greek literature. Many scholars think that records from the time suggest that Pythia spoke clearly and intelligibly, providing prophecies in her voice. Pythia was a position that was served by a succession of women who were more than likely chosen from a group of priestesses of the temple. The last response that has been recorded was provided in 393 AD, which is when the emperor Theodosius I ordered pagan temples to be destroyed. More recent geological investigations suggest that perhaps ethylene gas caused Pythia’s state of inspiration.

    One of the most significant historical findings regarding psychic abilities is the prophetic abilities of Michel de Nostredame. Nostredame was a French apothecary and seer who wrote collections of prophecies that have since been made famous on a worldwide level. He is most well-known for his book Les Propheties, which first appeared in 1555.

    In the mid-nineteenth century, Modern Spiritualism became well known in the United States and the United Kingdom. The movement’s most distinctive feature was the belief that the spirits of the dead were able to be contacted by mediums in order to provide insight into the world of the

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