The Practical Psychic: Practical Techniques for Enlisting the Resources of Your Own Ability

by John Friedlander

Book Overview

Human beings have always longed for more power over their lives. The allure of becoming psychic is a reflection of this wish one that has persisted through centuries and across cultures. It is the premise of this book that mankind's wish has already been granted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877287287
• ISBN13: 9780877287285
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A fun way to explore one's Self.

The title may sound like an oxymoron; in fact the authors themselves give an explanation of their title in several places: in the bottom of the front cover of the book, in the Introduction and the second page in Chapter 1; the last one is the esoteric amplification of the first two, and it is that a practical psychic is one who works with one's deep/higher self ( not an exact quote ). A practical psychic tries to achieve harmony and balance with oneself and the deep self ( Chapter 2 ). Now the question is what is this deep / higher self (Chapter 3). Essentially, it is a spark of All That Is which in the human context is exploring life and its experiences on the Earth through a physical body. The deep self is not dictatorial but rather collaborative in cocreating realities. However, these realities - all heroic indeed - whether palatable for one or not are formed in accordance with one's belief systems and thought patterns. This was the great mind bending message of Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts in the early seventies. One will find details of this idea in the book "Seth Speaks" and others by Jane Roberts. What this tells is that one is always in charge, whether one is aware of this or forgets.The first author, John was a lucky member of the classes that Jane conducted in those heady days and one may even see a caricature of John in the second volume of the book, "Conversations with Seth" by Sue Watkins, another member of the above mentioned class of Jane. (See also the appendices of the book under review.) The authors present two levels of understanding, changing one's life: one a high level view and another more detailed view; the former method is the "feeling tones" method in Chapter 5 and the detailed view is obtained by looking at beliefs.So an important part of the book consists of Chapters 6,7 and 8 wherein the authors present various fun ways of understanding, unearthing the beliefs that a person has, through various exercises. The authors also discuss the cosmology of beliefs as to how they are multidimensional and how they are interconnected. They also offer ways to change one's beliefs consistent with the universal laws under which life on Earth operates. They do all these with great honesty, clarity and humor. The presentation has several real life anecdotes culled from the experiences of John as a teacher, mystic and Harvard trained lawyer. An important question in the context of changing and choosing beliefs is how to work with contradictory beliefs and this is addressed in Chapter 9 on impulses where one works with choice in a playful attitude. The authors present an exhaustive account of how to practice the art of manifestation using the Chakra Technology in Chapter 12. Also one of the useful techniques for a practical physic is the art of visualization and this is exhaustively explored and used in Chapters 4 and 13. According to me, the most important chapter