John Edwards – After Life

So I finally finished John Edward’s latest book After Life: Answers from the Other Side. It’s been on my to-do list for a while since I think this man has a fascinating ability and a wonderful TV show, but I just didn’t get around to it until now.

Overall, this was a decent book, but it doesn’t do too much for me since I felt like I had read everything before. This was basically the same book as his last, One Last Time, same cover, same format, same information, albeit with a few different examples. If you’ve read that one, you can probably skip this one entirely without missing too much, but there are two chapters which are particularly interesting.

The first is the chapter where Edward’s talks about his father. This is something that a lot of us were dying to read after having found out that the man was basically estranged from his father and his family because of their skepticism towards his abilities. I won’t reveal what John says about the book to keep those of you interested in the book with something to discover, but it is quite interesting.

I also really liked the chapters where John has discussions with some of the families from the 9/11 attack. Those were heart-warming and very well done.

The format of this book reads like a screenplay, so there’s little commentary. I think that had we gotten the opportunity for John to reflect on what he saw, we would have had a much better book.  Being the star that he is, this was rushed to production, and the book, and his readers suffer because of it.  What we learn in the book is nothing “new” per se, particularly from John’s other books, but it is a very touching story which confirms a great deal of our beliefs in life after death.

Predestination, or Choice?

The topic of predestination and choice always makes for a lively discussion, particularly when you get a group of psychics together. How do psychics feel about this topic? Divided, just like everyone else.

The side that feels that life is predetermined explains that the choices we make in life, while they may seem random and circumstantial are choices which we must make and cannot go against. These kinds of psychics believe that they can prophesy far into the future and do not worry about temporal shift because they think that nothing can be done to change the events in between now and then.

The side which feels that life is not predetermined often limits themselves in terms of making predictions far into the future, and may even decline clients who want to know details and specifics, fearing that their reading will impact the choice of what the client does, for better or for worse.

No matter what you believe, you can still be a psychic. There is no right or wrong answer to the question, and your beliefs are your own.

Psychic Kids on A&E

Psychic Kids is a new TV show on the A&E network, which focuses on a few youngsters who can see ghosts and spirits. If you haven’t checked this out yet, I would highly suggest it. It’s a wonderful show.

Psychic Kids airs Monday nights at 10:30 with a repeat showing on Tuesday at 2:30.

Homepage: http://www.aetv.com/psychic-kids/

When should you become a Professional Psychic Reader?

A question which is asked often by beginners who achieve an excellent ability to develop their psyhic abilities is “when should I take the next steps to becoming a professional reader?”

There is a lot of money to be made, and a lot of people whom you can help, by becoming a psychic reader, but I would caution you against charging for your services too soon. Remember that even one or two mess ups could lead your clients in a completely wrong direction, and they could spell doom for your proposed business.

However, it must be mentioned that you can do a lot of good for others by sharing your talents.

I would recommend practicing for a year, at the very least, before offering your services to the public at large. This may seem like a very long time, but remember that psychologists and doctors, two other professions which give advice to others, require over 6 years of schooling after high school before they are even offered an internship position where they can help others directly.

When you feel like your abilities are developing well, then a good first step to becoming a professional psychic reader is to offer free readings to your friends and family members once or twice a month and asking for feedback. This will give you more practice in dealing with clients, and teach you more about how to word your predictions in such a way as to help them understand what you see without distressing them (trust me, this is a skill which a lot of readers, amateur and professional,  desperately need to work on).

How to Increase Psychic Communication

Looking back on my post about why psychics don’t win the lottery, I feel compelled to continue by talking about how to increase psychic communication.

After all, I am a firm believer in the fact that most real psychics cannot summon their powers on demand. I would venture to say that you must be an incredibly powerful psychic in order to do so, and even that the majority of professional readers in the world have become at least a little disillusioned by the true nature of their powers.

Every reputable psychic who I’ve come to trust and talk with on a regular basis agrees on one thing: the most powerful psychic predictions are not “made”, they simply come to you out of the blue, about something which you might not have even considered or thought about before in your life. This is called psychic communication: the act of receiving some kind of premonition without having asked or thought about it ever before. These psychic communications are like a psychic memo from the world, and are a natural part of your being, and you cannot control them.

For example: My first major psychic premonition occurred when I was about 17 years old. I was sitting in my kitchen after dinner, and I was working on my homework when I suddenly felt a certain amount of distress over nothing at all. I calmly closed my eyes and entered a state of openness as I had learned from a book I read on the subject and I had a mental image of a street corner about half a mile away from my house.

I jumped up and ran out the door and headed over to that corner, when I noticed a drunk driver careening down the road, and his car swerved funny, hitting a light post on the corner, hard, knocking him unconscious. Nobody else was around, except for me. I called the police, and they came to take him to the hospital to treat his wounds. Fortunately for me, nobody asked me how I knew that he was going to be there, and why I was out so late at night wandering around my town.

As should be obvious, this is not an everyday kind of psychic premonition, however, it was a very powerful one, and very lucky for the driver of the car that I was able to determine what I should do with it. Many students of psychic powers ask me after hearing this story: what can I do to increase psychic communication? Considering examples like this, the more profound predictions we can make, the better off we will be as a species.

Unfortunately, in my years of study, I have yet to find a single viable method which shows how to increase psychic communication of this kind. It is very likely that these kinds of predictions are sent out to everyone, and that only a few people know enough about the subject and their own intuition to act on them in time.

So what can you do? I feel like learning how to increase psychic communication is best done through learning to develop your native psychic abilities and your ability to interpret them correctly. This is essential to all psychic development, and an integral part in learning how to increase psychic communication.

After all, I was young, and the only message I got was an image of a street corner. I didn’t know exactly what was going to happen, and that message could have been interpreted in a number of different ways (for instance, I could have interpreted the area as a zone of danger, with the message of “stay away from there”).

Hopefully, this gives you a little guidance.