Psi
Spiritual awakening for skeptics
Psi is what the cool kids call extrasensory perception. Well it’s what I call ESP or psychic gifts… when I’m feeling cool.
Psi blog.
I write about psi when I get irritated with all the bullshit out there. Managing and interpreting psychic phenomena is unmistakably a part of a spiritual awakening, but it should never be mistaken for the end-goal.
Any zen master worth their salt will tell you to ignore the psychic stuff and focus on the real deal. And they’d be right because misusing or hyper-focusing on psychic abilities can halt spiritual progression.
If you have abilities I recommend using them to wake up even faster!
Sanity is a numbers game. During a spiritual awakening its incredibly important to both redefine, and maintain sanity.
A mystic is someone who has (or claims to have) direct experience of the divine. Mysticism is practices and behaviors which reinforce that experience.
Lots of people are mildly psychic and don’t know it. Generally, they tend to hide in plain sight.
Channeling is the direct transcription of spiritual information from a higher source.
On a spiritual path psi abilities tend to converge into an integrated sense of the world as “more-than”.
The experience of psi and psychic phenomena can be one of the most distressing aspects of a spiritual awakening for a scientist.
One of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that my “mental magic 8 ball” was a psychic ability.
Without an adequate language, we will not be able to communicate clearly about spiritual topics.
Any form of advanced education is about learning a technical language — then populating that language with practical experience.
I’ve always been a bit psychic, but I didn’t think much of it when I was younger.
Psi resources.
I really struggled to control my psi abilities. I was a rationalist and a Western doctor when they suddenly manifested at age 30. Strong gifts can be disabling, especially for those of us doing our best to survive in environments that don’t accept psychic phenomena. These authors saved my life.
Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner examine research on people who are better than experts at predicting the future.
Tricia Barker describes her near-death experience, and residual effects of psychic abilities and medianship.
Dolores Cannon is a well-known hypnotist who faithfully transcribed her sessions with her clients. Read with discernment.
Psi ability is a natural extension of mental fittness. Tony Buzan did a great job at rewiring the assumption that IQ is hardware vs software.
Maxfield Parrish has artwork that is really otherworldly beautiful. It looks like what I see in this world with my psi senses.
Shucman describes in clear and kind terms the use of the human lifetime to progress through spiritual curriculum.