runs through Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Over the weekend, I had forgotten about the appointment. By now, though, I had grown fearful. I sent up a silent, heartfelt little prayer: “I don’t know if there is a God or not, but if there is, please don’t let anything happen to me. There’s no one else to take care of my little girl.”
Before the end of that sentence, a cold chill swept over my body and changed into a sensation of warm, radiant bliss. Waves of light poured into me and intensified until my heart overflowed with awe and gratitude. I gazed into my rearview mirror and saw tears of joy and wonder streaming down my face. I was who I was, but I was more than just myself. Somehow I was inside and outside of my body at the same time. Everything was radiant with light—the car, the highway, the sky, and my entire being. The pouring light intensified, and I expanded into an infinite sea of joy. It came to me, suddenly, that being filled with light is what it feels like to die, and the body is a prison that separates us from this sweet bliss.
I was not aware of driving the car—who was driving?—but as the interstate exit approached, the warm light slowly ebbed away. Sensation came back into my hands, and I carefully steered the car down the ramp in what seemed like slow motion. At home, I prepared for the doctor’s appointment and telephoned my charismatic Christian mother-in-law to tell her what had happened to me. She was the only person who, at that time in my life, understood.
In the gynecologist’s office, I was still exhilarated and overflowing with joy when he examined me and announced that the large tumor on my left ovary had disappeared. “It must have been the prescription I gave you to take over the weekend,” he said. I knew better. I had been healed by radiant light and the blissful love inside of the light. Some mysterious force had touched me, and I would never be the same.
Over the next twelve years, I could neither doubt nor deny this healing. Was the light inside or outside of me? How could I get back to it again? Not knowing where or how to get logical answers to my questions, I stayed busy working as a freelance writer, directing a peace and justice group, and managing two headstrong daughters as a single mother.
It was years before I recognized it, but an invisible current was directing me to the answers to my questions via story assignments on psychic phenomena, altered states of consciousness, and creativity and the brain. Everything converged in late 1987, at about two o’clock in the morning. I had just finished writing an eye-opening article about a social justice advocate that was powerful enough to make a difference in people’s lives. So I was happy and unusually quiet as I closed down my computer and roamed around in my bedroom—a little sleepy yet exhilarated—when an indefinable urge came over me to sit down with pen and paper, listen inwardly, and write down what I heard.
Thus began my relationship with my soul, whose kind, gentle wisdom in hundreds of meditative writings led me out of a dark pit of self-hatred and worthlessness and into the clarity, peace, and light of my spirit. Twelve years later while in Virginia Beach, VA writing a book about this transformation, I asked inwardly for a scientific explanation of my journey in consciousness—without which I would not have published the book. The next day, I was intuitively urged to visit the A.R.E. Bookstore to find an issue of Common Boundary magazine, a national publication for which I’d written in previous years but had not seen since.
Emblazoned on the magazine cover was a headline, “Evolving Consciousness,” which struck an instant chord of recognition. This interview about Electroencephalography (EEG) with the awakened-mind pioneer, Anna Wise, scientifically explained the brainwave development that opened up my psychic abilities. The information was the first of three logical proofs that I’d sought for my first book on inspired writing and the science of spirituality, titled The Voice of the Soul: A Journey into Wisdom and the Physics of God.
Little did I know, as I reluctantly followed my writings’ guidance to study with Anna Wise seven years later, that I would assist her at the Esalen Institute and succeed her as a world authority on EEG and the development of consciousness. Teaching this work across the United States and writing about it in international publications turned out to be my soul’s destiny, a fascinating and deeply fulfilling lifework that is more than I ever hoped for or could have imagined.
Soul guidance in dreams led me to record meditation CDs and to write this book, a scientific and mystical explanation and experience of intuition that comes out of some thirty years of investigation—all of it incredibly synchronistic—of the brain, meditation, consciousness, and how the psychic soul manifests in our daily lives.
You will find in these pages the compelling stories of meditation masters, professional psychics, angel communicators, hands-on healers, neuroscientists, physicists, and many other credible people engaged in the experience and study of consciousness and intuition. Foremost among them is Edgar Cayce, whose psychic readings helped bring about the spiritual awakening that is now taking place all over the world.
Writing this book has been a joy and a privilege. It motivated me to delve more deeply into the Cayce readings on psychic material, where I was delighted to find the language and concepts used by quantum physicists to describe the intuitive process and the nonlocal mind of God. The brainwave research and two new superconscious patterns I present here for the first time validate the Cayce readings about the psychic soul as well as the scientific findings of quantum physicists.
On a personal level, the revelations in this book have inspired me to open up to new psi experiences that have expanded me into deeper and higher states of awareness. For this personal growth, I am inexpressibly grateful.
I hope and trust that this book’s journey into the superconscious will be equally as exciting and rewarding for you.
Introduction
This is an extraordinary time in the history of humankind. Just below the surface of every city and nation is a powerful current of change that is churning up the promise of a new reality on Earth. In America, the current runs through television shows hosted by psychic mediums, yoga studios and meditation centers popping up on every Main Street, new scientific disciplines like bioenergetics and neurotheology, and spiritual themes in art, music, literature, theater, and film that were once considered “New Age” but are now mainstream.
One of my favorite signs of this spiritual awakening is the number of movies in which the protagonist dies in what might have been a tragedy, except that he or she rises up out of the body into eternal life!
Worldwide, we are seeing a paradigm shift in consciousness. There’s a new kid in town, and it’s the psychic soul, the subconscious source of our natural intuitive abilities, and here is its message: everyone has psychic abilities, and there’s nothing strange about it.
Listening to the voice of the soul in dreams, meditation, inspired writing, and everyday life expands the mind into heightened sensory perception and higher levels of awareness that transform and evolve consciousness in amazing ways. Not only great psychics like Edgar Cayce say so. Science now shows how meditation and intuition evolve the brain and body, how we telepathically communicate with each other on an unconscious level, and how the nature of God as a quantum sea of light connects each and every soul to a superconscious intelligence made of pure, perfect love.
The purpose of this book is to show you, the reader, how to tap into the knowledge and wisdom of your soul and its higher self in order to reach your highest potential and perhaps teach others how to do so. In this book you will find fascinating stories, exercises, and meditations meant to give you direct experience of your soul’s inner wisdom and peace. Also available is an EEG-tested, guided meditation CD titled, The Meditation Experience: Listening to Your Psychic Soul.
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