Musings of a Bewildered Psychic

by: Michel Francois Gerard

Ever have one of those days where you knew there was something you were forgetting but just couldn’t put your finger on it? Sure, everybody has. Now, take that feeling and go a step further. Someone whom you can’t see or hear is speaking to you on a telephone with extremely poor reception and all you can get are the words, “He knows.”

Add to this the fact that lights are flickering off as you pass them walking along a dark street. Finally, in desperation and with an exasperating tone you say aloud, “Okay, okay, I get it. I know! Now, tell me, just what is that I’m supposed to know?” Suddenly, the line falls silent and you’re left with a slight sense of frustration; a bewildering angst of unresolved questions.

This is how some of my first encounters with the spirit world would occur. And, as confusing as it all seemed, I really wanted to understand. I guess, in a way that I really did know; at least in retrospect. They were just acknowledging the fact that I could hear them and perceive their presence. Guess you might say that the spirit world does have a sense of humor. Like any dry wit, it takes a while for the punch line to sink in.

Fear of the Unknown

For some reason I’ve never experienced the fear some of the present generation of psychics seem to be relating. Of course, I never was exposed to some of the ghastly horror flicks on the market today. In my day the most we feared was a can of split pea soup being vomited from a young lady who just couldn’t keep her head on straight. That’s a scene from “The Exorcist” for those too young to know.

In reality, based on my humble but widely accrued experience with spirits, there is nothing to fear. Respect perhaps, fear absolutely not. Respect is a must in the sense that not all spirits are well-intended. As I will explain later, some spirits can be confused to downright malevolent; a good reason to seek the advice of more experienced psychics.

Can a spirit do someone harm? Although physical harm is a possibility in very rare instances, most ghosts have only the slightest ability to move or manipulate objects in this plane. Most of the time an entity is more concerned with communicating than they are in frightening someone. In fact, frightening someone is the very last thing they want because it only adds murkiness to the already dense medium through which they have to communicate.

Beyond Ghosts and Goblins

Of course, not all psychic communications are with spirits. In fact, one of the first signs of spiritual development is empathic ability. The term empathic literally means understanding and entering into another's feelings. In short, we can feel what another person is feeling. For a young empathic this can seem very odd, extremely confusing, and a bit embarrassing at times. Anger, for instance, is a very powerful emotion that can be easily picked up.

The problem for the new empathic isn’t reading the emotion as much as it is separating it out from personal emotions. In fact the boundaries can become so blurred that the unwitting empathic will absorb these negative energies as his/her own. As a result the empathic will frequently be seen as moody or become frequently depressed.

For this reason, it is important that the empathic to learn how to meditate properly. In addition to meditation, learning how to properly cleanse and protect one’s aura is also a must. Most of these techniques will be discussed in more detail further along. As an introduction to certain psychic skill sets I will attempt to keep things brief at this point.

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