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 My
name is Sonia. I was named after my mother, Sonia,
a psychic, and I am psychic. For 25 years I have given
psychic readings. For a decade and a half I have taught
psychic development. Perhaps more important, I have
lived my own life on what I call the “Psychic
Pathway.” I have developed my own psychic gifts,
and I have learned to develop them in others. This
means I have lived my life publicly as a psychic.
The book which follows is a practical sourcebook,
a developmental guide to nurturing your natural psychic
gifts. It is the fruit of my life experience —
and it works.
I like the word psychic because no one knows exactly
what that means, and it doesn’t mean the same
thing for any two people. For me, being psychic means
being able to look at someone and know who they really
are. I can see past the facade people stand behind.
I can recognize their soul. I understand where their
fears are, where their dreams lie and where they must
concentrate their growth. Most of all, I can see the
ancient and beautiful self lying deep within the personality
of each person I meet. I’ve always been able
to see the real soul inside each person, but it’s
been a long learning process for me to come to the
understanding that that is what I’ve been doing
all along. Even I wasn’t really aware of what
I was seeing at times, especially when those around
me didn’t know what I was talking about and
laughed at me. I found myself doing psychic readings
for people ever since I was a young child, as early
as age 11.
People frequently ask me how I came to realize I was
psychic. I never remember realizing I was psychic,
but after I began first grade it became apparent that
what was obvious to me was hidden from others. It
took me a few months to realize that my perceptions
were different from those of others. I was constantly
trying to fit my reality into the more limited framework
of those around me.
Helping people see their souls’ work is my soul
work. The psychic details now only serve to get their
attention. My real work, after gaining their attention,
lies in teaching them to look into their own experience
with a wide open heart, and helping themselves to
become content.
But What Is Psychic?
When I talk about psychic ability, people conjure
up a widely differing ideas and beliefs about what
psychic means. Some people imagine that it bestows
upon a person extraordinary abilities to know all
things at all times. Some think it’s like having
“X?ray vision.” Some people think it gives
one the ability to know the future, or the past, including
past lives. Some people believe it means seeing ghosts,
or talking to dead people. Some people believe it’s
a great power. Others feel it’s an evil affliction.
What we can all agree on is that rarely do any two
people hold the same beliefs on what “psychic”
means, so let me begin by establishing what I mean
when I say psychic ability.
The word psychic comes from the Greek
word psyche, meaning soul. Therefore, psychic means
“of the soul.” In following the psychic
pathway, you are following the pathway of the soul.
What is the pathway of the soul? It is the pathway
of life lived with the belief and understanding that
you are a soul, and that spiritual growth is your
primary purpose. It is the understanding that your
true essence is spiritual, and that your physical
body is your instrument of expression, just as a piano
is an instrument through which music is expressed.
The piano is designed to be capable of expressing
beautiful music, but without the understanding and
discipline of a talented and developed musician playing
it, the piano may sit silent, or worse yet, if played
carelessly, will send out awful and discordant noises.
The piano expresses the creativity and awareness of
the musician. It does not create the music, it channels
the music.
An evolved and knowledgeable musician creates beautiful
sounds that soothe and inspire all who hear its vibration.
The same holds true for people. We are souls, here
on Earth to express our divine gifts of creativity.
Our physical body and our mind are our tools, our
instruments of expression. The creative force behind
these miraculous instruments is our soul. If we are
knowledgeable and conscious of our true spiritual
essence, we too send out beautiful and soothing vibrations
that inspire and heal all who are around our vibrations,
including ourselves.
The psychic pathway is the pathway of learning how
to express our highest degree of creativity and love
in this lifetime. It is the pathway of living life
receptive to spiritual assistance, and conscious of
all planes of energy we share with each other, with
higher planes, and with God. The psychic pathway is
not the usual pathway so many follow, focused on the
ego, feeling alone and frightened by others. It is
a spiritual pathway focused on connection to God,
on our creative purpose, and on spiritual growth.
It is the pathway of the extraordinary life.
Psychic development is training your awareness to
expand and receive more information from others, from
astral planes, and from God than it receives now.
It is learning how to expand your consciousness and
to better understand how your instrument of expression
— your body — receives energy. It is the
art of evolving your physical body into a highly sophisticated
receiver of vibrations, thus giving you much more
accurate information to work with as you interact
with others in life. It is training your mind to be
open and receptive to the subtle planes of energy
that constitute psychic activity. It is living a life
that communes with spirit, sees into things rather
than looks at things, and is open and responsive to
the guidance of God at all times.
If you walk the psychic pathway, you
live in the world differently than the ordinary person.
You look at life differently, and respond to it differently.
You know that you will be helped with each experience
you face, however difficult. It is the pathway of
trust and belief. That is what we mean when we talk
about psychic ability.
Different psychic skills, such as clairaudience, clairvoyance,
telepathy and precognition, are like different melodies
a pianist plays on the piano. Each is beautiful, and
some may be more appealing to you than others. You
will learn to play all these “melodies,”
to express all these psychic faculties naturally,
if you remember that the musician, the creator, the
true you, is Divine soul, a beautiful reflection of
God.
1. Psychic gifts are gifts of the soul.
2. We are all souls; therefore we all
have psychic gifts.
3. The development of our psychic gifts
is our birthright.
4. Psychic gifts are messages from a
divine source, directing us toward our own divine
nature and its highest creative xpression.
5. The development of each soul’s
psychic gifts is not selfish; psychic gifts benefit
us all.
6. Psychic gifts bring light and healing
to us all.
7. The psychic pathway is born in love
and results in understanding.
8. The psychic pathway is gentle, powerful
and always non-coercive.
9. The psychic pathway does not flatter
the ego; rather it supports the soul’s true
essence.
10. Exercising psychic gifts is fun. |
