in our feeling centers, we don’t easily forget these experiences.
Several years ago I was in a copy shop, happily duplicating a sheaf of papers to be delivered to government offices down the street. Suddenly, out of nowhere, powerful stirrings of fear and foreboding gripped my abdomen and took my breath away. The clench of fear was too strong to ignore, so I did an inner check to see if the source were physical, mental, or emotional; and to my surprise, it was none of these.
When a car rear-ended my Toyota Camry at a stoplight a few minutes later, the shallow breathing caused by the tightness in my solar plexus instantly released and my usual equanimity returned. The other driver was visibly surprised by my lack of concern over the accident. In fact, the perplexed expression on his face made me laugh out loud. I had already experienced the shock wave of the collision in the copy shop, and now the foreboding was over and done with!
The driver and his wife questioned me about what looked to them like surreal calmness. I let them believe it was simply because I am a meditator—and that was true enough. It is the quiet, self-aware mind that is best able to pick up psychic signals and “feel” ahead, which is what I had unconsciously done.
Why did my clairsentience bother to forewarn me about a minor accident? No doubt it was on-the-job training meant to convey a reassuring message: everyone possesses gut instincts that will warn him or her of danger. Only the psychic soul is with us all of the time to perform such a protective function. Our responsibility is to attend to our feelings and ask where they are coming from. If we listen deeply, the soul will tell us.
Dealing with Doubt and Ambiguity
It can be difficult to distinguish a clairsentient alarm bell from an unfounded fear rooted in the memory of an unresolved experience. In other words, is the woman sharpening a knife at the kitchen counter a real threat, or does she resemble someone who once was?
Negative emotional experiences are stored in the subconscious mind in long-term memory alongside the soul’s sixth sense. Both control the involuntary nervous system. Once an instinctive warning sets off the fight, flight, or freeze stress response, adrenaline surges through the body, and the rational mind is overtaken by the primitive reptilian brain, which strikes first and asks questions later.
The best way to resolve ambiguity is to clean up the subconscious. How do we stop people from pushing our “hot buttons”? We get rid of them (the hot-buttons) through personal transformation. Until then, we can mitigate the potential damage done by the reptilian brain. When we catch ourselves flaring up in anger or defensiveness, we can quickly relax, grow quiet inside, and psychically look at the buried memories that created those buttons. Mastering the inner reptile increases the power of the intellect, and tossing out the garbage leaves the subconscious calm and clear. Once we have clarity, we can trust our psychic feelings.
By far the best way to transmute emotions is to meditate. Happily, meditation is the natural way to increase psychic sensitivity, as it puts us in direct touch with the psychic soul.
Powering Up Clairsentience
Besides emotional transmutation, what powers up clairsentience the most is the loving intention to heal or to help, as I discovered in an EEG-monitored study on healers and healing carried out in early 2011. Six healers were transmitting spiritual energy to a single recipient lying on a massage table, and toward the end of the session, I followed a hunch and asked them to send distance Reiki (a type of energy healing) to their loved ones. Later, they reported that compared to the stranger lying on the table, the distance healing felt much more effective because they were emotionally connected to their loved ones.
While they were sending distance Reiki, their brainwave patterns showed a clear rise in consciousness, due entirely to the transformative power of love. Clairsentience similarly amplifies when two people have an affinity for each other. People who live together often know what the other person is thinking or feeling, and this connectedness is the reason why.
The principle in physics that governs the transmission of healing energy is sympathetic resonance, wherein similar frequencies connect and communicate with each other as in cell phones and radio telescopes. Musically, the sympathetic resonance of a fundamental frequency with multiple harmonics, as in thirds, fifths, and octaves, is called harmonic resonance. Everything in life—especially psychic perception— is governed by sympathetic and harmonic resonance.
This law of nature gives the psychic empath a means of self-protection. Since we are always in resonance with environmental energy fields, we can choose to resist them. Resistance only creates pain. Or we can surrender to the energy while producing positive emotions that shift surrounding fields, as shown in the story below.
In laboratory studies, neuroscientists working with the Mind and Life Institute studied the interaction between a placid Tibetan Buddhist monk—a longtime meditator—and an infuriated history professor who was ranting about the stupidity of the rising belief in reincarnation. The orange-robed monk continued to nod his head benevolently and smile in understanding. Soon the history professor, who had become increasingly aware of his inappropriate behavior, sat down and calmly asked the monk what he thought about reincarnation.
Serenity in the midst of a raging storm usually causes overexcited people and events to calm down, too. Sympathetic resonance works! It’s a law of physics, playing the music of the universe.
Naturally enough, psychic feelers are exceptional at psychometry, the psychic technique of attuning to objects to read their history. Vibrations travel from the hands to the energy field and then into the solar plexus and brain for perceptual processing by any or all of the psychic senses. Since everyone is a psychic feeler, anyone can succeed at psychometry.
Clairsentience is a wonderful gift that draws us to like-spirited people, places, and things. Similar, like-spirited people are drawn to us by our good vibrations. Continually monitoring our feelings keeps us moving in the safest and best directions.
The Prophetic: Psychic Knowing
The psychic sense of intuitive knowing is found in high-powered, quick-thinking people who simply know what they know. Prophetics, as Sanders terms them, don’t know how they know what they know or where the knowledge came from, but they are certain of it and will go the distance to uphold or defend their intuitive knowing. Religious prophets have had precisely this strong sense of knowing for thousands of years.
Naturally enough, prophetic insights stream into the crown of the head, according to Sanders. I haven’t seen anyone else correlate the crown chakra, a spinning wheel of physical and subtle energies, with the brain’s two parietal lobes, which are located at the crown of the head. Nevertheless, the correlation is real.
The parietal lobes govern our sense of personal separation in time and space. Researchers have found that in people meditating on compassion, the cessation of the neural stream into the parietal lobes gives rise to divine union, spiritual ecstasy, and super-ordinary psychic insights. By their consistent use of the crown chakra, prophetics might get a jump on enlightenment.
Do You Know a Prophet?
Prophetics proliferate in our busy modern society. Sanders cites a few examples. The stock broker gets a sudden intuitive “hit” on a commodity; the real estate salesman spots the serious buyer in a crowd of strangers; the business traveler knows, despite misleading timetables, which train to catch to a critical meeting. Prophetics are smart, super-charged people who operate on the “high octane” of the crown chakra.
Steve,
