Psychic Knowing
(Mental Intuitive Type)
Mental intuition is the ability to receive energy information through thoughts, a sense of knowing, and inner hearing. Intuiting energy information through mental intuition usually feels natural and normal. You may not recognize it as a psychic experience. You simply become aware of or know something without knowing how you know it.
For instance, have you ever suddenly known what someone else was going to say immediately before they said it? Have you ever experienced an unexpected sudden awareness or realization about yourself or another that provided helpful understanding? In a spontaneous aha moment, have you ever received understanding and insight into an issue that has been plaguing you? Do you ever know the outcome of a situation without knowing how you know it?
Mental intuition is the ability to absorb and become aware of energy information through your thoughts, consciousness, and mindful awareness. Mental intuition might be experienced as the ability to know what others are thinking or becoming aware of complexities that you have no logical way of knowing. Many receive personal guidance and insights through spontaneous intuitive knowing. Mental intuition may also emerge as a sudden idea that solves complicated issues or problems or the awareness of how to do something in a new and more efficient way. For instance, new technologies and inventions are often intuited through mental intuition. Some may be so revolutionary that they are not easily understood and their potential is not fully realized.
Common Characteristics
of a Mental Intuitive
People with a high degree of mental intuition share some common characteristics. For instance, those with a high degree of mental intuition tend to be creative thinkers who enjoy exploring all possibilities before coming to a conclusion or making a decision. Nonjudgmental and open-minded, a mental intuitive is curious and tends to collect information about a wide range of issues. Nothing is too far-out for them to consider and probe a little bit deeper into. With this natural desire to know and search for the truth, they can be overly objective, ignoring the subjective and emotional. For this reason, a mental intuitive may be viewed as detached and impersonal.
With their love of complexity and ability to generate new ideas and solutions to problems and issues, they can be leaders in their chosen field. Scientific research, engineering, technology, computer science, and advanced studies are often populated by mental intuitives.
Unlike the emotional intuitive who may be overly sensitive or the spiritual intuitive who may be aloof and enjoy hanging out in the ethers, a mental intuitive is tough-minded and likes a problem to solve or a puzzle or mystery to uncover and decipher. No-nonsense people, they may keep probing and following their intuition when others have given up and walked away. At times their reliance on logic and reasoning can hinder their psychic development, as this highly attuned thinking function can get in the way of intuitive receptivity. Those with a high degree of mental intuition may experience an excessive amount of mind chatter, be indecisive, overthink, and think more than feel.
Although psychic awareness is often viewed as a paranormal phenomenon, it naturally and frequently occurs within conventional fields such as science, medical research, engineering, and similar areas. Intuitive people may be stereotyped as free-spirited, creative, and artistic, or perhaps a bit kooky, out of the box, naive, and out of sync with the status quo. Yet intuited energy information often provides useful insights into broad-based issues and practical areas of concern.
Throughout my career as a psychic and medium, I have often been asked if any of my other family members are psychic. Just as musical talent, intelligence, and athletic ability tend to run in families, so does psychic ability. However, in my family there were no free-spirited or gypsy-type psychics. Instead, intuitive and psychic tendencies were more evident in my scientific and engineering-focused family members.
For instance, one of my uncles worked on the Manhattan Project, the enterprise that led to the development of the first atomic bomb in 1946. This uncle also had dozens of electrical and nuclear patents and inventions. Years later his work is still included in scientific textbooks. Another one of my uncles, an aerospace engineer, was the project manager for the main engine of the first space shuttle and worked on many other inventive technologies. Of course, like most mental intuitives, they would argue against the idea that their intuition was aiding their efforts. However, you did not need to be in their company for long before it became evident that they were perceiving energy information that others did not have access to.
For example, years ago I was backing out of my driveway with my uncle Bob, the aerospace engineer, sitting in the passenger seat next to me. Before I made it to the street, he told me that there was a problem with the car’s engine. When I did not understand what he was talking about, he wrote down what he believed was the issue and told me to take it to a mechanic. He never looked under the hood or asked me any questions about my car’s performance. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with my car, but I was curious and took it to a mechanic. When he asked me what the problem was, I felt a little silly handing him the notes that my uncle had written down on the back of a napkin.
I went back to the car repair shop the next day and the mechanic told me that he had hooked the car up to a machine that checks the engine and everything seemed to be in working order. However, just to be safe, he tested some parts himself and found there was a problem. He was surprised, he told me, to discover that this was the issue that was written on the napkin. The machine had not yet been able to detect the problem with the part in question, which was in the beginning stages of decline.
For someone with a high degree of mental intuition, events such as these are often viewed as logical and easily explained. Mental intuitives assume that their access to insights and unknown information is a normal mental function. There is often a fine line between the biological functioning of the brain and the intuitive ability to absorb energy information and translate it into useful material.
For a mental intuitive, reality is malleable, and what may appear to lie out of their cognitive grasp can be as real and concrete as solid matter to them. There is little that a mental intuitive will not explore and consider, as they are generally curious and driven to understand and make sense of all things. Energy information flows into their thoughts with ease, and they accept them without questioning their source.
Yet an interesting dynamic occurs when there is the possibility that the information they have received has been accessed through psychic channels. When it comes to a sixth sense or paranormal phenomena, a mental intuitive may want proof and verifiable evidence in order to accept this possibility. It is not so much that they disbelieve in psychic energy and awareness. Instead, they want to know the definitive truth of what lies beyond the five senses and, if possible, to control and use it for their own purposes. Although they are driven to understand the unknown, they do not want to waste time and energy pursuing empty suspicions and illusions. Their inner drive is to harness the potential and power of any creative force or phenomenon, including psychic energy.
Self-Generated Thoughts
Because mental intuition surfaces through the mind, the most difficult obstacle to developing and using it may be the ability to discern the difference between intuitive and self-generated thoughts. Although the two types may initially appear to be similar, self-generated thoughts are created from cognitive awareness, the conscious mind, the personality self, the subconscious, and the ego. They involve reasoning, memory, past experience, recall, and logical thought progression. Self-generated thoughts derive from our unconscious beliefs and biases and judgments.
When we have a problem to solve or need a new idea or understanding, we usually draw from what we believe is possible, past experience, and the known. Self-generated thoughts are consecutive and linear. One thought leads to another thought, which in turn leads to another thought, and on and on, until we arrive at a satisfying conclusion. Most self-generated thoughts are driven by our emotions, feelings, and beliefs. Listening to and acting on these thoughts reinforces what we feel and believe. This cycle then continues to recreate and confirm our reality.
For instance, if we fear and believe that change in our work environment may lead to possible job loss or instability, we will likely become pessimistic and defensive when some form of change inevitably comes into our work life. These negative thoughts will in turn create a negative outcome. Unfortunately, self-generated thoughts tend to stay within the security-driven arena of the known, where there is no room for true insight and awakened thinking.
Psychic Thoughts
The human mind is capable of connecting to a vast source of energy information. It is not paranormal or spooky to use your higher intuitive mind to access energy information. We tend to have an expectation or preconceived idea that a psychic thought is markedly different from an everyday self-generated one. However, psychic thoughts seldom stand out or appear significantly different from self-generated thoughts. Everyone has psychic thoughts, and without knowing it, you likely receive them on a daily basis. To better discern and notice them, especially at the beginning of psychic development, it is important to become aware of the different types of psychic thoughts.
Individual Thoughts
The ability to psychically tune in to the thoughts of family members, lovers, friends, colleagues, or even those we do not know is likely the most common form of mental intuition. Over time we tend to form a mental bond and connection with those we are close to and those we encounter in our day-to-day environment. We begin to think alike and even think the same thoughts. This happens in simple ways that we do not always notice.
For instance, as Carla, a client of mine, passed a barbecue restaurant on her way home from work, the thought came to her to stop and pick up ribs for her husband for dinner. When she arrived home, she was surprised to see his car already in the driveway. She opened the door and called her husband’s name a few times, but there was no answer. When she walked to the back of the house, she found him on the patio at the grill, barbecuing ribs.
Although this and other similar types of situations may appear to be just chance encounters or coincidences, we often form a psychic mental bond and psychically communicate with those we are close to.
Collective Thought
Collective thought is a potent collection of similar thoughts and beliefs that are generated by individual thoughts. When we think a thought, especially a habitual one, we release it out into the energy environment. Similar thoughts and beliefs share an energetic vibration and bond to one another. Collective thought energy can be a positive or negative force and can affect individual thoughts and beliefs. Political beliefs, societal norms, and cultural shifts and changes are influenced by our collective thoughts.
As people accept a collective thought, it increasingly affects and influences more and more people. It can become dangerous when the collective thought is negative, judgmental, and prejudicial. Throughout history, political and influential people have used collective beliefs to gain power and control. The rise of many political movements such as the Nazi regime and cultural norms such as slavery were successful in large part because the collective thought of their acceptability influenced weaker-minded individuals. Many of our beauty standards and beliefs about what is sexually desirable are based on the collective thought of attractiveness and sexuality.
Collective thought can also have a positive effect on others and the planet. When we let go of negativity and think positive thoughts, we send this vibe out to the planet. Knowing the goodness within ourselves and perceiving the good in others reinforces others’ ability to perceive this within themselves. We never do anything in the solitude of our mind. Our thoughts affect others and contribute to the collective energy that influences others near and far.
The next popular trends in art, music, and fashion and soon-to-be popular political and cultural movements first exist as collective thought energy. Many people unknowingly and some knowingly intuit these trends before they manifest in our collective experience. When it is time for an idea, invention, gadget, technology, or evolutionary step in our mass consciousness to manifest, there are individuals who intuit this information before others. Most of the time these inventors, creative geniuses, financial wizards, politicians, and evolutionary thinkers do not recognize the intuitive nature of their thoughts. They simply know what is needed and what direction we are collectively moving in. Capitalizing on this awareness, they often become wealthy, popular, highly admired, and successful as they usher in and manifest what is already present in our collective thought.
Higher Source Awareness
The source of creative, original, and pure thought energy is higher consciousness and the divine mind. Our higher self, spirit, and divine presence speaks to us through intuitive thoughts and awareness. Quite often these intuited thoughts and messages do not seem extraordinary. Instead, they address everyday conditions and situations and often provide comfort and guidance. Higher source messages are often intuited through a still and quiet inner knowing. Quite often these thoughts are so subtle that we dismiss and disregard them. However, when we notice and listen to them, we are guided to positive outcomes and a deeper truth.
For instance, Emily, a client of mine, lived in the same house for over thirty-five years. She raised her children in this house and continued to live there after her divorce. Since it was a large and older home, the cost to keep it up continued to mount year after year. Emily wanted to move but didn’t know where to go. Looking at homes for sale and talking to friends and family about a possible move only created more confusion. In the midst of indecision she began to inwardly hear this message: Be patient. It is not yet time. This message gave her a sense of peace, but she still continued to look at homes for sale and widened her search into neighboring areas. During this time she continued to hear the same inner message: Be patient. It is not yet time.
Feeling frustrated by the lack of results after a year of searching, she decided to listen to this voice. She gave up her search and decided to focus on gardening, volunteering, and relaxing with friends. Several months later, during a meeting with her garden club, a friend of hers mentioned that she was planning to move to a distant state to be closer to her grandchildren. Her friend was excited about the move but shared with Emily that it would be difficult to leave her home and garden. For years her friend had devoted time and money to create a home that was an oasis of beauty and peace.
Emily asked if she could take a look at her friend’s home before she put it on the market. When she stepped into the home a few weeks later, she knew that this was the home she had been waiting for. Her friend accepted her offer, and she moved in a few months later.
Divine Thoughts
Intuited divine thoughts bypass logic and may be referred to as revelations or enlightened thoughts. One way to identify if a thought is from a higher divine source is by examining the effect it has on you. The ego mind does not argue against a divine thought, while a self-generated thought often provokes an inner argument.
For instance, when you think an affirmative thought, such as I am connected to a vast source of love and abundance, a thousand little voices inside your head may disagree and persuade you to disregard this belief. Your mind cannot comprehend how this is possible. It informs you that this is illogical and there is no evidence to back up this assertion. You may want to believe the statement, but your personality and ego self may refuse to accept and embody this truth based on your past experiences and subconscious thoughts.
However, when you intuitively receive and absorb the same truth from the divine mind or higher consciousness, its transformative energy bypasses your thought processes. You know and experience it as an aha moment of clarity and truth. The experience of this truth overrides your subconscious thoughts, past experiences, and limited, finite thinking and replaces it with a new truth to act on and create. This intuited enlightened thought alters your experience. This is one reason why meditation is so important. It gives us the opportunity to receive and absorb intuitive, transformative, and higher truth.
Messages from Angels, Spirit Guides, and Loved Ones
on the Other Side
Many of the intuitive messages we receive through mental intuition are sent to us by our angels, spirit guides, and loved ones in spirit. When spirit beings speak to us, most of the time we are not aware of their presence. When we experience a helpful new idea, an aha moment, or a spontaneous insight, we do not give too much thought to its origin. It is not necessary to know where the message is coming from. Overall it is more important to listen to and receive the message than to definitively know who may be sending it. As psychic ability strengthens, it becomes easier to discern who may have sent it.
Angelic messages help us to feel loved and watched over. However, they can also be instructive and informative and warn us of potential danger or conflicts. Mental intuitive messages from your angels may be subtle, like a soft whisper, or more dramatic and feel almost like a command.
For instance, Madeline, a client of mine in her mid-twenties, was in a relationship that was becoming more and more difficult. She knew that Robbie, her boyfriend, had experienced a troubled childhood, and she tried to do all she could to help him feel loved. Still, his insults and angry moods just seemed to get worse. Feeling that love could conquer all, she endured his bad behavior in the belief that one day he would recognize how much he loved her and treat her better.
On her way to pick him up from his job one evening, she heard a soft inner voice telling her that the relationship was not going to get better and that it was time to leave. Although she ignored the voice, it kept coming back, and each time it did, it got louder and louder. Then one night at Robbie’s home after she had endured a few stinging insults, the voice in Madeline’s head told her it was time to leave—now! The voice was so forceful and startling that she picked up her things and left.
A few weeks later while reflecting on her relationship with Robbie, Madeline suddenly felt a warm wave of energy surround her, and she became intuitively aware that she was being watched over by her guardian angel. Her self-esteem had sunk so low that she knew she wouldn’t have had the strength to leave Robbie on her own. Although the relationship was over and she had a lot of healing to do, her heart filled with courage and strength knowing that her angels were guiding her.
Mental intuitive messages from spirit guides often nudge us to take action, move through a limitation, or learn a new skill, and they steer us in the direction of opportunities. They can help us to be in the right place at the right time and guide us to our highest good. Wherever and whenever we are growing, learning, helping, or creating positivity for ourselves and others, spirit guides are present. It is not always easy to tell the difference between an angelic message and a message from a spirit guide. However, messages from spirit guides tend to be more matter-of-fact and often offer insight and guidance, while messages from angels can feel loving and comforting.
Loved ones on the other side often communicate through mental intuition. While we are often not aware of the presence of angels and spirit guides, we tend to better intuitively recognize when a loved one on the other side is communicating with us. We may simply know who is present without knowing how we know. It is common to telepathically converse with loved ones, much more so than we may think is possible. We naturally do this while driving or doing other mundane tasks. If you suddenly wonder what your mother, father, grandparent, or another loved one might think or what their advice might be about a current condition, they likely want to share it with you.
Identifying Psychic Thoughts
Whatever the origin of a psychic thought, you can become more aware of when you are naturally intuiting them by detecting and becoming aware of the subtle differences between psychic thoughts and self-generated ones.
Unlike self-generated thoughts, which are driven by the ego and our emotions and desires, psychic thoughts are free of these influences. Compared to ego thoughts, psychic thoughts may feel flat, unemotional, and not personal, yet there is often a calm awareness that accompanies them. Usually persistent, psychic thoughts tend not to arouse or invoke an emotional response. Even in situations where you would normally have an emotional reaction, psychic thoughts may be persistent, repetitive, and even-toned and not alarming.
For instance, imagine that you are getting ready for work one morning and you have the thought to take a different route to your office. You find the thought interesting but not necessarily important. As you get into your car, the thought returns. It may even sound like an inner voice telling you to take an alternative route to work today. You dismiss the thought and head out onto the highway listening to your favorite music. A few miles down the road, the traffic comes to a standstill because of an overturned tractor trailer. However, it is too late to turn around and go another way. You are stuck in traffic and end up arriving late to an important meeting.
Psychic thoughts can feel like a matter-of-fact awareness. Unlike self-generated thoughts, psychic thoughts are not linear. One thought does not lead to another and then another. Instead, they surface spontaneously and are concise, simple, and cohesive. Quite often a psychic thought may be a statement that repeats itself over and over.
For instance, have you ever had an easy choice to make where you know exactly what you want yet you repeatedly receive the thought or message that your choice is not going to turn out the way you expect it to? Still, you dismiss the thought because you have no known evidence or reason to trust it. Later, when the outcome that you had hoped for does not manifest, you remember the thought and wish that you had acted on it.
Psychic thoughts do not try to convince you that they are right and that you should listen and act on them. They simply repeat a statement without making you fearful or anxious or appealing to your ego. Psychic thoughts do not reinforce our illusions, as they are not necessarily what we want to hear. For example, when I was single and dating, I would at times receive the psychic thought that a hoped-for relationship with someone was not going to work out. More often than I would like to admit, I would argue against the little voice that calmly stated, This is not the right person for you. I ignored it more than once and, of course, later regretted doing this, as it was always correct.
Ideas and Insights
Psychic thoughts also emerge in the form of ideas and insights. They, too, are matter-of-fact and do not arouse stress or other emotions. However, instead of being a simple, concise statement, some psychic insights and ideas surface in a cohesive whole, with a complete understanding of an area of concern. Providing deeper knowledge or a blueprint-like overall awareness, some psychic ideas and insights are often described as aha moments. They are not always logical and rational, but when you experience one, you recognize it as truth. Like a flower bud that gently unfolds, an intuited idea or insight may have many facets that lead to a complete but unexpected awareness.
Psychic thoughts often inspire new inventions, scientific insights, and genius-like knowledge. Artists, musicians, writers, and others in creative fields, along with engineers, scientists, and inventors, are often led and guided by psychic ideas and insights. In a moment of synergy where the mind receives and absorbs what it may have not been able to fully grasp through linear and self-generated thought, psychic energy arrives with the answer.
Psychic insights can also provide personal guidance and increase self-awareness. They empower us to perceive and understand new aspects of who we are, and inspire us to change and evolve. When the source of psychic thoughts is divine energy, they guide us to our highest good. Some may be experienced as subtle whispers that gently open our heart and mind to new awareness, while others offer a profound awakening that alters our sense of reality and what is possible. One of the telltale signs of a divine thought is the sensation of connectedness to a vast source of all-knowing wisdom. Such thoughts expand consciousness and can be transcendental, uplifting, and transformative.
The Psychic Abilities of Mental Intuition
The three primary psychic abilities of mental intuition are claircognizance, clairaudience, and telepathy. You unknowingly receive these kind of psychic thoughts on a daily basis. However, further developing the psychic abilities of mental intuition enables you to harness the power of the mind to intuitively receive guidance and information when you need it most.
Claircognizance
Claircognizance is the psychic ability to receive energy information through thoughts and a sense of knowing. Energy information received through claircognizance may surface as a spontaneous awareness, a persistent thought or message, or a series of insights. When you receive a claircognizant thought, there is a spontaneous awareness of its truth. Even if others disagree and there is no confirming evidence to back up your intuition, there is little doubt of its validity. Although you may question yourself at a later time, an initial positive and without-a-doubt sense of knowing and insight is the hallmark sign of claircognizance.
For instance, when my son was five years old, he told me, “I am going to go live in New York City. Is that okay with you?”
“When are you planning on moving?” I jokingly asked.
Without a pause he answered, “When I am older, but not too old. I need to live in New York City.”
At the time we lived in North Carolina and had visited family on the West Coast a few times, but he had never been to New York. I was surprised that he even knew of the city.
However, his five-year-old claircognizant knowing was right on target. Many years later he received a scholarship to a college in Manhattan and now lives and works as an artist in New York City.
Exercise: Differentiating Between 
Intuitive Thoughts and Ego Thoughts
To develop claircognizance and receive thought energy information at will, begin to pay attention to your everyday thoughts. As you do this, notice their quality and look for clues as to their origin. Do they fit the description of a psychic thought, or do they embody more of the characteristics of a self-generated ego thought? This simple practice encourages and allows for claircognizant awareness to emerge.
Here is a simple format to guide you through the process of increasing your awareness of psychic thoughts.
To begin, find a quiet place, get comfortable, and begin to breathe cleansing breaths. Inhale a deep and relaxing breath and exhale any stress or tension through the out-breath. As you do this, listen within and continue to breathe. You may want to close your eyes to further relax and focus your attention inward. Imagine a bubble of high-vibration white light completely surrounding you.
Notice each thought that emerges and become aware of signs that indicate whether it is a psychic thought, idea, or insight or a self-generated one.
Psychic thoughts do not invoke emotion, desire, or stress. They are not linear, one thought after another, but are concise, even-toned, and matter-of-fact. Psychic thoughts are often subtle and not as intrusive or attention-getting as self-generated thoughts. They are a quiet, still knowing.
When a thought emerges that you feel may be a psychic thought, write it down. Do not overthink it and try to make sense of it. Just write it down and continue to breathe and remain attentive. If your mind begins to wander, pay attention to your breath.
If you feel as if you are not receiving many psychic thoughts, or if the thoughts you are receiving do not necessarily feel as if they are psychic in nature, continue to breathe and listen. Eventually psychic thought messages will begin to flow in. Be patient and let go of your expectations as to what kind of information you will receive. It will likely not feel earth-shattering. Remember that psychic thoughts tend to be quiet and nonintrusive.
Many psychic thoughts are precognitive and provide information about future events, issues, and concerns. However, they may not feel significant and may make sense only when something occurs that confirms the message.
If you begin to feel overwhelmed with thoughts and energy information, focus on your breath and ask within to slow down the process. When you are attentive and open to receiving psychic energy information, you may be flooded with thoughts and insights.
If this happens, give space for all of your thoughts to surface, one after another, and be patient. As you allow them to surface, they will dissipate. Once the random thoughts begin to slow down, listen and write down the psychic thoughts. Don’t try to ignore and push self-generated thoughts down. Just notice them without focusing on them and they will begin to dissipate.
Eventually you will be able to better identify psychic thoughts from random thinking. As you notice, pay attention, and act on the direction of psychic thoughts, they will intensify and increase.
Clairaudience
Clairaudience is the psychic ability to hear energy information. Clairaudient thoughts may sound and feel like your own inner voice. Only rarely do they sound as if they are coming from someone else or an outer source. We all talk to ourselves. Sometimes our self-talk is spoken aloud, but usually we talk to ourselves silently and inwardly. Just as some thoughts are self-generated and some thoughts embody psychic energy information, some of our inner self-talk is ego-based and some of what we inwardly hear contains psychic energy information.
Clairaudient messages are never negative, judgmental, or critical of who we are or of others. They also do not put us on a pedestal and tell us that we are better or more worthy than others. These kinds of thoughts and messages are from the ego and the unconscious. Instead, like claircognizant thoughts, clairaudient messages are subtle, even-toned, and informative. They are positive and affirmative and lead to our highest good. Clairaudient messages may be personal and lovingly guide us through our day-to-day affairs. For instance, they may whisper to us to avoid certain situations or people or inform us of what route to take to a destination or what kinds of food to eat. Looking out for our best interests in every area of our lives, clairaudient thoughts can help us to feel watched over and taken care of.
Clairaudient and claircognizant thoughts are often intertwined and occur simultaneously. It may be difficult at times to differentiate between the two, and it is not necessary or important that you do so, as they complement and reinforce one another.
Exercise: How to Receive
Claircognizant and Clairaudient Messages
This exercise empowers you to use claircognizance and clairaudience to gain insight and guidance into a particular issue or area of concern. It also helps you to further understand the difference between psychic thoughts and self-generated ones.
To begin, choose an area of your life that you would like to psychically tune in to. For instance, relationships, career, finances, or spiritual guidance all work well. It is best not to begin with an area that is too philosophical or a question that is too specific. This exercise is focused on helping you strengthen your mental intuition and become more familiar with the process of receiving energy information through claircognizant and clairaudient thoughts.
Once you decide on an issue or area of concern, write it down. Think about this issue and write everything that comes to mind with the following questions:
In relation to your issue or area of concern, what kind of energy information would you like to receive? What are your concerns about this area of your life? What are your desires, hopes, and expectations surrounding your question? Do you have any fears or stress about this issue?
Write down everything that comes to you. This step may not seem essential or worthwhile and you may want to skip it, but please don’t. Gaining an awareness of your personal biases, desires, and expectations will help you to be able to discern and receive psychic information, feelings, thoughts, and sensations.
Once you feel that you have written down the thoughts, concerns, feelings, and expectations you have about this area or issue, begin to relax. Breathe long, deep, relaxing breaths and exhale any stress or tension. You may want to close your eyes to further relax. Imagine a bubble of high-vibration white light completely surrounding you. When you are ready, focus your awareness on the area or question of concern. Continue to breathe, relax, and focus inwardly.
Listen within to your thoughts, and identify those that may contain energy information. Pay attention to the still, small inner voice. Clairaudient thoughts will most likely sound like your own inner voice, as if you are talking to yourself. Only rarely do they sound as if they are coming from an outer source. Take your time and listen. The tone of a clairaudient or claircognizant thought will be persistent, even-toned, and repetitive. Intuitive thoughts do not go into a lengthy explanation or try to convince you of something or argue against your desires and hopes. They are concise, simple, and repetitive. You might hear one word or phrase or receive a spontaneous insight through a sense of knowing.
As you listen and discern ego thoughts from psychic ones, be patient. Your mind may flood with thoughts, and you may feel overwhelmed and begin to overanalyze them. Pay attention and be alert to the common signs that indicate claircognizant and clairaudient thoughts. When self-generated thoughts emerge, guide yourself back to the breath, taking long, deep inhales and exhales. When you receive what you believe to be a claircognizant or clairaudient message, write it down. Don’t overthink it and try to fully understand what you receive. Then turn your focus inward, breathe, and become receptive.
When you feel that you have received all the psychic thoughts that you can at this time, pause and ask within if there is anything else you need to know. Listen, be patient, and continue to breathe and relax. Write down anything else that you receive.
Take a deep breath, come back to a normal state of consciousness, and review the energy information that you intuited. Did you receive any new insights or unexpected guidance? Did you have an aha moment of insight? Do you feel that you can trust and act on the thoughts that you intuited? Write down your impressions.
Repeat this exercise often. You can use it to intuit useful energy information about personal issues or experiment and tune in to more global issues, such as a political situation or future event. This will help you get a better sense of the differences between tuning in to issues that personally affect you and tuning in to issues where you may have more objectivity.
The more you practice this exercise, the easier it will become to elicit claircognizant and clairaudient psychic information when you need and desire it most.
Telepathy
Telepathy is the transmission of thoughts between two individuals or between an individual and a group. Through telepathy it is also possible to communicate with another’s higher mind. We naturally use telepathy in our relationships. It is so common to know what a loved one is thinking and tune in to their thoughts that we tend not to view it as psychic.
Telepathy is also commonly used as a research tool to study the validity of psychic awareness. Those with a high degree of mental intuition innately understand and are comfortable with telepathy, as it involves the transference and receptivity of thought energy between individuals. Many of the scientific studies of psychic abilities are conducted by mental intuitives. They tend to enjoy researching and testing the authenticity of psychic phenomena. For this reason, telepathy has become a standard testing model in scientific circles for proving or disproving psychic abilities.
Zener cards have been used since the early 1930s to develop telepathy and to conduct telepathic research. They were designed by psychologist Karl Zener and were used by parapsychologist J. B. Rhine at Duke University. Similar in size to playing cards, each Zener card has a specific symbol printed on it. Zener cards can be used not only to research and test telepathic and clairvoyant ability but also to help develop it.
In research studies with Zener cards, two people sit opposite each other. One individual picks a card from the deck and forms a mental thought image of the symbol printed on it. This thought message is then sent to the other individual, who receives the thought message.
Exercise: Developing Mental
Telepathy with a Partner
In this exercise you can practice developing mental telepathy through the kind of method often used in research studies.
This exercise requires a willing partner. To send and receive a telepathic message may take a few minutes to fifteen minutes or more. After this amount of time, the ability to clear the mind and focus diminishes. When you begin to develop telepathy with a partner, you may want to have a timer set at ten to fifteen minutes and then end the session at that time.
Designate who will be the conductor and who will be the receiver. Then decide what kind of message you are going to send. Items that are good for mental telepathic development and transmission include such things as a name or short phrase or the name of a state, town, song, or movie. Other possibilities include a specific time, a number, or a calendar date and year. You can also use one card out of a deck of playing cards or a tarot card. If you are the conductor, choose the one item or subject that you will telepathically transmit to your partner before you begin.
You do not have to be physically close to the receiver to practice telepathy. It is possible to send and receive telepathic messages to another at a distance. However, when beginning to develop telepathy, it may be helpful for you and a partner to sit facing each other. If you have a high degree of physical intuition, you can hold hands or touch knees.
Before you begin, talk with your partner and pick a sign that will signal your readiness to send a message and alert the receiver to receive it. For instance, when you are ready to send a telepathic message, you can tap your partner’s knee a couple times, or if you are not physically close, you can put one finger in the air. If you are doing this by phone, you can simply say that you are ready.
To send and receive telepathic messages, it is crucial to relax and clear the mind. While you and your partner sit and face each other, take a few minutes to breathe long, deep cleansing breaths and exhale any stress or tension. As you breathe, allow any thoughts or emotions to surface and then release them through the exhale. Continue to breathe cleansing breaths. As you do this, imagine a protective white-light bubble that surrounds both you and your partner. Imagine that within this bubble the vibration of psychic energy intensifies.
If you are the sender, form a mental thought message of the item that you are sending to your partner. You can inwardly speak the name of the item or think it. When you are ready to send the message, signal the receiver. Continue to focus on the mental thought and project this thought to the mind of the receiver. An alternate technique for sending a thought message is to imagine a white-light tube of energy that extends from your mind to the receiver’s mind, then imagine sending the thought message through this tube of white-light energy.
If you are the receiver, wait for the signal from your partner. While you are waiting, breathe long, deep breaths and relax. Allow any thoughts and emotions to surface and then release them through the exhale. Once you receive the sign that the sender is ready, signal back with the same sign when your mind is clear and you are ready to receive. Take your time, continue to breathe, and stay in a relaxed and receptive mode. You may receive the message immediately or it may take more time. Become aware of everything that you receive without judging or rejecting anything. Keep in mind the qualities of a psychic thought: even-toned, repetitive, and matter-of-fact.
When you feel that you have received all you can, give your partner the agreed-upon signal that you have completed receiving. Before relaying what you have experienced, write down your impressions. Sometimes when we write down our psychic impressions immediately after receiving them, more psychic energy information surfaces and we gain additional clarity.
Once you have written down what you received, share this with your partner. Try not to judge the experience as being either right or wrong. Instead, review the process and get a sense of your intuitive strengths and weaknesses. At times the receiver will intuit the sender’s feelings or thoughts instead of the intended message. Be open to exploring any information other than the intended message.
Higher Mind Telepathic Communication
Telepathy is a common form of communication between people who know each other well. Our thoughts intermingle with others’ thoughts on a daily basis, and we rarely notice or pay much attention to it. As you become more aware of telepathic communication, it is possible to focus on an individual and receive their thoughts and further communicate with them. This is possible to do with those you have a close relationship with as well as those you do not know well or at all, as telepathic communication speaks to another’s higher mind. The higher mind is connected to our soul and is free of the influences of the personality and ego self. In this free and open state of nonjudgment and acceptance, the higher mind communicates our core truth. Spiritual teachers, guides, and gurus often impart wisdom and knowledge to others through this kind of telepathy.
Exercise: Telepathic Communication
with Another’s Higher Mind
To practice higher mind telepathy, find a quiet space and become quiet. Take a few deep breaths and relax. Imagine a bubble of high-vibration protective white light completely surrounding you. When you feel calm, imagine an image of the person you would like to communicate with and say their name. This can be someone in the physical body or someone in the spirit realm. You may not see a clear image of the person, and this is fine—the exercise still works.
Send a thought message to this person asking permission to communicate with their higher mind. Continue to breathe and relax.
Ask this person a question through a thought message. Make it a simple question asking them about their thoughts regarding a specific area, issue, or topic. Think and focus on the message, then imagine sending it to the person’s higher mind.
Breathe, be patient, wait, and listen. The intuitive thoughts you receive will most likely feel as if they are your own. Remember, an intuitive thought is an even-toned, matter-of-fact, concise statement. At times they may be subtle and repetitive. However, when another knowingly sends you a telepathic thought, it may be louder, stronger, and more persistent.
Once you have received a telepathic thought, you can continue to ask questions, one at a time. Then be patient and wait for a response. If you have waited patiently for a response and do not receive one, it may be that the person you are tuning in to does not want to communicate. This is through no fault of your own. We all have free will, and some decline to intuitively communicate. If you are not sure what is happening, try communicating with someone else.
It is best to keep these sessions short to reduce confusion and mental exhaustion. To keep the intuitive connection strong and reliable, it is best to receive just a few thought messages and, if needed, continue in another session.
Once you have completed this telepathic conversation, send the person you have been communicating with a white ball of cleansing love energy. Imagine white light filling the person’s mind and body. Then imagine a pure ray of white light filling your mind and discharging any thoughts, feelings, and energy that are not in your highest good.
Mental psychic awareness tunes in to day-to-day concerns and issues and empowers us to create and live better lives. Through it we can receive personal guidance and insight into everyday challenges. Mental intuition can inspire cutting-edge and valuable inventions and provide ideas and solutions to long-standing problems. Grounded and pragmatic, mental psychic skills tend to be straightforward and easy to put into practice in every area of our lives.