Alexandra Chauran - So You Want to Be a Psychic Intuitive?: A Down-To-Earth Guide

Kyle Cassidy

About the Author

Alexandra Chauran is a second generation professional fortune teller. She has been reading the crystal ball professionally since 1999. Holding a Masters Degree in Teaching from Seattle University, she enjoys building carefully upon what is already understood by the student and she offers an apprentice internship to her local practice in the greater Seattle area. Alexandra is also proficient in other forms of divination.

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Woodbury, Minnesota

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So You Want to Be a Psychic Intuitive? A Down-to-Earth Guide 2012 by Alexandra Chauran.

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Dedication

So You Want to Be a Psychic Intuitive? is dedicated to my mother, who first encouraged me to trust my intuition; to my husband, who used psychic pendulum dowsing to psychically determine our babys gender while I was pregnant and who put up with me writing this book while she was a newborn; and to my daughter, about whose future I am constantly dreaming.

Contents

Get Ready, Get Set, Go!

Techniques

Who Are You Talking To?

How to Listen

Communicating Psychically

How to Convey Messages

Where to Go From Here

Introduction

Common Experiences

Sorting through some old clothes in the closet, you stumble across a t-shirt that you wore every week in high school. As you hold it up to view the front, the old cloth soft on your fingertips, your mind is instantly flooded with flashes of memories. Friends laughing, enemies jeering, an old buddy stealing a slice of pizza off your plate. For a brief moment, you allow yourself to wonder what has happened to that buddy, even though you know that you could get back in touch if either of you wanted. Suddenly, your telephone rings and a familiar voice greets your ears. I was just thinking of you And its your buddy.

Weve all had those seemingly psychic moments, havent we? Have you worried about a family member just in time to catch him or her during a tough time? Have you avoided getting on the freeway just before a major accident blocked all the roads for miles? Have you experienced love at first sight? Most importantly, does one person have more of these coincidences happen than another, and do having experiences like these make you special?

What is a psychic,
and why would you want to be one?

The definition of psychic in everyday speech in popular culture seems to change fluidly. When an annoyed friend shouts Im not psychic, he or she most likely means that mind reading is not a reasonable assumption, and that you have not clearly communicated verbal instructions. But being a psychic is a bit more (and in a way a bit less) than the mentalist party trick of being able to correctly guess what a person is thinking. In this book, we will explore the concept of a psychic as being a person who is in tune with phenomena or information that is perceived from non-physical or even supernatural sources.

Popular science states that we only use ten percent of our brains, and while that is not technically true, you can think of psychic work as a way to access the other ninety percent. The other ninety has not only a great stored memory but stored knowledge and perhaps instinct that can be thought of as the collective wisdom of millions of years of evolution, or perhaps even a product of our society and culture.

Why would anyone, particularly you, want to be a psychic? Chances are that you didnt arrive at the desire to be a psychic out of the blue. I would guess that the most common reason for wanting to be a psychic is that youre a little bit psychic already, and youd love to be able to develop those abilities into real skills and talents, rather than just another reason to be teased by your family and friends or to be paranoid about this strange and often dangerous world in which we live today.

Thinking that you might already be a little psychic is a perfectly acceptable reason to want to be a psychic. Getting to know yourself is certainly a more lofty goal than to want to be a psychic because you saw one on television and thought this was a good way to become rich and famous. In our culture, we are often encouraged to laugh away those things that are strange, or at best, encouraged to capitalize on being so strange that we are considered freakish.

In my opinion, another good reason to want to become a psychic is the desire to help other people. But why would one dedicate their life to helping people in this way if everyone has psychic moments? Because being a psychic, walking the line between the real and the unreal, can be an exciting experience, and can help you become a hero among friends and strangers. The idea of journeying to a place unseen by most people and bringing back kernels of knowledge, truth, and wisdom is one that has been played out by archetypical heroes in stories throughout time. The archetypical heros journey is the work of the Shaman.

In many cultures, a Shaman is one who can enter a trance or a world others cannot share, speak with the dead, or discover messages from the divine. Sometimes a Shaman will even take a sickness or an affliction upon himself or herself in order to spare another person. All of this work might be frightening to some people. If you have the nerve or the belief system that allows you to feel at peace with your reality melting away before your eyes, and you wish to allow that to happen in order to help others who cannot or will not do it themselves, this is certainly a noble reason to want to be a psychic.

I think that all of the above reasons explain why I wanted to become a psychic myself (yes, even the one that involved fame and fortune.) Since there arent any sports cars in my driveway nor celebrities beating down my door, I think it is now evident which of my initial reasons were more enduring and fulfilling than foolish daydreams.

I had a healthy dose of prior experience with psychic flashes. A psychic flash is an instant in time during which you feel flooded with information that might be perceived through your senses or just understood in your mind. Since my mother is now a professional psychic herself (amongst other amazing accomplishments), such things were so encouraged in me as a child that they were treated as routine and mundane occurrences in our household. Rather than being made to feel discouraged or dismissed, as might have happened with another mother, I felt confident and curious about those times when I anticipated a future event, shared a dream that had meaning, or experimented with tools of divination as a child.