John Friedlander - Basic psychic development

First published in 1999 by

Samuel Weiser, Inc. an imprint of

Red Wheel/Weiser, llc

with offices at

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Copyright 1999 John Friedlander and Gloria Hemsher All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, llc. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-023-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Friedlander, John

Basic psychic development : a user's guide to auras, chakras, and clairvoyance / John Friedlander, Gloria Hemsher.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-57863-023-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Parapsychology. 2. Aura. 3. Chakras. 4. Clairvoyance. I. Hemsher, Gloria. II. Title

BF1272.F75 1999

133.8dc21

98-48101

CIP

Cover design by Kathleen Wilson Fivel

Typeset in Janson Text

Printed in Canada

TCP

10 9 8 7

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.

Dedicated to

LEWIS BOSTWICK AND JANE ROBERTS

To our nonphysical teachers, Seth, Ruburt, Mataji, Yukteswar, Lahiri, Baba Muktananda, Babaji, Laxshmi, Saraswati, Purrball and Licker, who playfully engage us and help make life a joy.

With great respect and love to Gurumayi.

To all our friends, clients, and students who have been so helpful and encouraging.

To Gilbert Choudury, Lucy Duggan, Norma Gentile, Sue Remington, and Linda Sauernman for their careful reading and substantive suggestions.

To Ann Richer and April Schmidlapp whose many years of support of Basic Psychic Development classes provided an opportunity to hone the system.

To Anita McKay for her aura drawings and insight.

To the folks at Weiser for their patience, care and skill.

To Art Giser and Donna Ryen for their tireless support, insight and wisdom.

From Gloria: to my husband Gilbert Choudury for his tremendous support and for being mom when I wasn't there. To my son, Narayan, for his wit, computer wizardry and love. To my daughter, Sarah, for her sweet notes and hugs. To Elizabeth Meek, Rebecca Robinson, and Sue Remington for their faith in me and their loving support.

From John: to my wife, Pamela Moss, whose love and support has made my work possible.

What are the attractions of Basic Psychic Development? They are heightened self-awareness, healing, and insights into our relationships. Share a recent conversation between the authors:

John: Hi Gloria, I had a very enlightening experience while giving a reading this morning. A client was telling me about some difficulties she was having with several men in her life.

Gloria (jokingly): Are you one of them!?

John: Well, I quickly became one. We were talking quite cordially and I was watching her aura. All of a sudden I noticed she was upset, there was a disturbance in her aura. Together we explored the nature of her concern and figured out that I had changed the direction of the conversation before she was comfortable. I was so grateful for the understanding and the opportunity to reconnect with her. Instead of my faux pas undermining our friendship, the whole interchange increased both our intimacy and our confidence. Being able to catch such clues in people's auras is just what I needed all my life.

Everyone has an aura. The aura is a bubble of spiritual light, sound, and feeling that surrounds each person. Through simple techniques and practices, you can learn to become more aware of both your own and other people's auras. As you explore your growing awareness the world becomes new, like the emerging world of a two-year old. Every day you can discover, understand, and interact more deeply with some aspect of your life that you couldn't even perceive the day before.

Auras are the wellspring of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Our lives and relationships emerge out of the interaction between our own auras and the auras of others, and out of the interaction between our own auras and the inner energies of different spiritual dimensions of reality.

By developing your aura awareness, you can learn to heal the two major types of aura limitations: blockages and identity diffusion (boundary issues). Basic Psychic Development provides an integrated approach to removing blockages and clearing identity, which beginners and advanced practitioners both find life-changing. After establishing a secure foundation, Basic Psychic Development specializes in developing your ability to see auras. This ability, called clairvoyance, adds power to healing abilities, provides a path to connect with guides or angels, and eventually adds skills and intimacy to our daily interactions, to our relationships, to our lives.

Two simple exercises will introduce you to the power you can utilize to heal the two kinds of aura limitations. The first deals with blockages, the second with identity clarification.

To remove a blockage from your aura, choose a past event that still causes you mild distress. Wait until you have the powerful specific techniques which come later in the book before healing a very distressing event; a mildly distressing event will do just fine for now. As you recall the event to your mind, sit comfortably straight and breathe freely. As you breathe in, draw all of the knowledge and wisdom to be gained from the experience out of the event and back into your body, mind, and aura. Whether you are able to identify the actual blockage in your aura at this point is not important. Just the intent to breathe in the knowledge and wisdom will help. Then, as you breathe out, breathe out any pain or confusion. Repeat the breathing cycle until you feel more at peace. The event may still be an unpleasant memory, but you will release much of the stuckness; you will be more free to move on.

You can repeat this exercise as often as is comfortable. Some experiences may require many repetitions over a period of weeks or months. Some will require the more integrated and specific approaches which come later in this book. Just the use of this single simple technique, however, can free up much of your spiritual power.

1. Sit straight and breathe gently into your belly.
2. Recall a mildly distressing event.
3. As you breathe in, draw all of the knowledge and wisdom from the experience out of the event and back into your body, mind, and aura.
4. As you breathe out, exhale all the pain and confusion from the event.
5. Repeat the breathing cycle until you feel better and more comfortable with the event.

Breathing can also help you sort out your identity from others. Your aura is the ground of all your emotions and ideas. If your energy is in other people's auras (and theirs in yours), your identity is undermined, your emotions are faded and distorted, your ability to create your reality is impaired.

To help clear out your identity energy, imagine someone with whom you are entangled. Imagine them at a great enough distance that your respective energy bubbles (auras) have room to separate. As you breathe in, imagine that all of your identity energy that is trapped in the other person's aura is pulled back into your aura. As you breathe out, let all of the other person's identity energy that is trapped in your aura return to its owner. There are some people from whom you may never be entirely disentangled (such as parents, children, ex-spouses), but every little bit helps. Even more impressive results may come from using the integrated specific techniques that follow, but most people experience a remarkable success using just this simple breathing technique.