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with the latest scientific findings. Dr. Kierulff’s chatty, user-friendly ap-
proach to developing psychic ability is the perfect complement to Dr.
Krippner’s lucid explanations of relevant parapsychological research. Brim-
ming with intriguing personal experiences and the latest scientific findings,
this readable and inspiring volume touches heart, mind, and spirit.”
—Carolyn Godschild Miller, author,
Creating Miracles: Understanding the Experience of Divine Intervention
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Becoming
Psychic
Spiritual Lessons for
Focusing Your Hidden Abilities
By
Stephen Kierulff
and
Stanley Krippner
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Acknowledgments
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The Gift of Love
Though I may speak with bravest fire,
and have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love,
my words are vain as sounding brass,
and hopeless gain.
—Hal H. Hopson
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Contents
Preface 17
Chapter 1. 19
The First Way to Become Psychic: Mind Reading
Puppy Boy (1975) 20
Chipper, Stout, and Telepathic (1981) 22
Mechanisms, Wave Functions, and Fields 24
The Spiritual Lessons of Telepathy 26
A Lifelong Lesson 28
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Telepathy 29
Guideline: How to Read a Mind 35
Chapter 2. 43
The Second Way to Become Psychic: Remote Viewing
Real-Life Psi 45
The Spiritual Lessons of Clairvoyance 46
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Clairvoyance 47
Wheeler Hot Springs 50
Guideline: How to See Things Your Eyes Can’t 51
Chapter 3. 53
The Third Way to Become Psychic: Moving Matter With Mind
Up Close and Psychokinetic (1976) 54
Fundamentalism in the Religion of Science 59
Conceptual Help From Quantum Mechanics 60
The Spiritual Lessons of Psychokinesis 62
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Psychokinesis 62
Guideline: How to Move Matter With the Mind 66
Chapter 4. 69
The Fourth Way to Become Psychic: Healing From a Distance
Healing TB (1950) 70
Healing Kathy (1953) 72
Education (1959–1962) 75
Edgar Cayce (1966) 76
Mediums and Thistles (1968) 79
Mediumistic Precognition (1969) 81
Rogue Spirits (1968) 83
J.B. Rhine (1968) 85
Healing Shirla’s Toothache (1969) 87
Annie Heals My Ear (1969) 88
Healing a Headache (1976) 89
Marital Healings (1976) 91
At the Foot of Love (1977) 93
The Sharks of God (1978) 96
The Laying on of Hands (1990) 100
Fertility Rights (2002) 101
Explanations of Transpersonal Healing 103
The Spiritual Lessons of Transpersonal Healing 103
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Anomalous Healing 104
Guideline: How to Heal From a Distance 114
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Mediums and Oracles 115
Chapter 5. 117
The Fifth Way to Become Psychic: Seeing the Future
Chess and Precognition (1969) 117
An Eerie Feeling (1970) 121
A Voice Providing Protection in the Mountains (1972) 122
An African Cross (1990) 123
Dreadful Premonitions (1984 and 2001) 123
Precognition Versus Prediction 125
True Cognition Versus Contrived Precognition 126
Schmoozing Deeper Into Precognition 127
Two Cases of Precognition—True or Contrived? 129
Wiggling Along Like a Wave 132
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Precognition 133
The Experimental Evidence for Precognition—Is It Valid? 138
Explaining How True Precognition Works 139
A Flimsy, Filmy Explanation for How True Precognition Works 141
Precognition and Free Will 143
The Spiritual Lessons of True Precognition 143
Guideline: How to See the Future 145
Chapter 6. 147
Becoming More Receptive to Synchronicity
Bobby and the Bass Guitar (1982) 148
The “Vampire” (1978) 152
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Synchronicity 155
Chapter 7. 159
The Spiritual Lessons of Psi
Psi Categories and Dichotomies 159
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Psi Categories 161
No Schlock, That Sherlock 162
Theodicy: The Question of Evil 164
Beyond Logic 166
Survival 168
Survival and the Spiritualist Hypothesis 168
Super Psi 170
Survival Sunk by Evolution? 172
Spiritual Implications of Survival 173
Here and Now 173
Ethical Implications of Psi 174
Confession 174
“Talk About” Versus “Talk To” 175
Psychic Psychotherapy 176
Dark Angel 177
Incarnation Stories 179
Dr. Krippner’s Commentary on Reincarnation 181
A Profitable “Prophetic” Dream (1993) 183
R.D. Laing and Caritas 185
Epilogue 191
Appendix A: Attachment Versus Uplift 193
Appendix B: Telepathy “Explained” 195
Appendix C: Vertical Versus Horizontal Explanations 199
Appendix D: Definitions 203
Appendix E: Professional Psychics Who Participate 205
With the Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies
Appendix F: Alternative and Supplementary 209
Healers, Psychics, and Organizations
Appendix G: Professed Psychics and Healers 215
Appendix H: Psychic Training Schools, Research Centers, 219
Workshops, and Programs
Notes 221
Bibliography 235
Index 247
About the Authors 255
Preface
Preface
Thinking adds not one whit to your stature materially, but
mentally, spiritually, it may produce the revolution which brings
peace and harmony to the world.
—Edgar Cayce
W ater from a nearby creek, poured onto rocks baked almost to burst-
ing, exploded into vapor. Everyone in that small canvas-covered
dome in Paiute country bent under the hot, heavy steam.
Some things can’t be met proudly, they have to be met humbly. The
heat of a Native American sweat lodge ceremony is one. Another is the
Mystery. I attempt to write with humility. If any of my words suggest puffery
or pride, know that I, too, bend before the Mystery.
Our “sixth sense” constitutes an invisible, but nevertheless real, feature
of the natural world, and due to its staggering implications—the spiritual
lessons, if you will—it is arguably the most significant facet of life on Earth.
It’s easy to develop psychic capacities. The biggest barrier is not be-
lieving it’s possible. Two of the most effective means of overcoming that
disbelief are science and story.1 By and large, I’ll provide the stories, while
the science aspect will be handled by Stanley Krippner, a winner of the
Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Career Award. Dr. Krippner
will also share a few juicy stories of his own. The commentaries he’s pro-
vided for this book are a treat, because Dr. Krippner really is one of the
“grand old men” of parapsychology, and his insider stories are a wonderful
addition to the literature.
Nevertheless, I don’t always agree with Dr. Krippner and he doesn’t
always agree with me. If we always agreed, one of us would be unnecessary.
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Becoming Psychic
The tale of how I learned to become psychic—and, in one domain,
failed—begins each of the first five chapters of this book. While the ac-
counts necessarily involve a lot of “me, me, me,” their purpose is to lay
down a path for you, the reader, that will engender stories of psychic suc-
cess featuring “you, you, you.”
Egos aside, psychic events are interpersonal, even transpersonal, and
their essence entails love and connection rather than personal glory. In any
case, being psychic isn’t that big of a deal. Most people are psychic. And
everybody has the potential to become even more psychic.
The important thing about my psychic experiences is that I wasn’t born
psychic. I learned to become psychic. And because I’m a more-or-less
ordinary guy, it stands to reason that if I could learn to read minds, view
hidden objects, see the future, and heal at a distance by mental intention,
then you can, too.
But the learning to become more psychic sections are only one as-
pect of this book. The main course, the real “meat and potatoes” (or, for
vegetarians, the soybeans and bok choy) is exploring the spiritual implica-
tions of psychic phenomena.
In the following chapters, I refer to others’ psychic experiences only
rarely, because mine are the only ones I can guarantee are true. Some of
the names and other details have been changed to protect privacy, but all
the psychic adventures are 100 percent authentic.
While I’m not a professional psychic, and not always psychic, life has
mysteriously given me these gifts and I express my thanks by honoring and
sharing them.
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