Unless we know, in a robust and reality-grounded way, what psychic experiences really are, and what true interplay with the realms beyond the material can look like, we’re going to have a hard time discerning how to navigate experiences at the edges of consensus reality.  The thing is, those experiences happen whether we want them to or not.  Even though as a culture we've become illiterate in the languages of the subtle realms, they are the basis for many of our experiences. (As an aside, our illiteracy here…

More thoughts on why mystical, psychic, paranormal and High Strangeness experiences are typically dismissed as “crazy” in the mainstream — and why many of us fear and avoid woo-woo: The medical establishment — and specifically the field of psychiatry, as a cultural locus of authority — has been indirectly one of the major gatekeepers of what gets to be considered “valid reality”. By designing diagnostic criteria that aim to flag when an individual’s mind has broken with reality, they’ve needed to come up with a standardized…

You’ve probably heard of the metaphorical “veil” between our earthly world and the world of spirits.  Well, my sense is that our bodies are the veil. Our physical brains and bodies block many of the myriad incoming signals from Infinity to create our singular perspective here and now. With practice, we can learn to open up our capacity to perceive more, if we so choose.  Is it “bad” that our individualized organism “locks us in” to a singular perspective? Some spiritual approaches would make it seem that…

There’s something that comes up in my psychic sessions often enough that I think we could all use a reminder.  The scenario is that my client is hoping I can tell them about what awaits them should they choose door A, B or C. Naturally, they'd like to me to decipher which alternative will provide the highest success or satisfaction.  Makes perfect sense. And in many cases, much can be gleaned as to what the more aligned choice is for them.  But what I see pretty…

Happy Equinox, dear friends, whether you're entering Spring or Autumn today on our magnificent planet Earth.  Revisiting the first degree of Aries through the lens of the Sabian symbols — I'm always strongly reminded of the mythical Selkie with this one:  A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER.  "...The possibility of success and that of failure is implied throughout the entire process of actualization. Every release of potentiality contains this two-fold possibility. It inevitably opens up two paths: one leads to…

Understanding karmic imprints is what unlocked my whole life, from cycling through the same patterns over and over, to feeling like I'm truly doing what I'm meant to do in life.

The Western assumption that matter is all there is, and that realms beyond the physical are a figment of the foolish, superstitious, immature imagination — or worse, a product of madness — has fostered in us a deep ontological fragility.

Psychic connectedness is the basis for existence.  The catch is, for many of us, the processes by which we connect to the psychic realm take place in the background of our unconscious, at such a fundamental level, that most of us don’t notice our ESP humming along merrily, doing its thing.

I've been working with various forms of energy healing since I was a kid. My mother introduced me to hands-on energy work as early as 5 years old. The most groundbreaking energy healing approach I've learned about since is the Bengston Method, detailed in author William Bengston's book, The Energy Cure. This healing method has been used to effect 100% cure rates in lab mice injected with fatal doses of cancer, in multiple replicated experiments.  The mice were expected to all die, but they were all…

Last year, someone bowled me over with unsolicited, channeled advice.  None of it made any sense to me, in fact a lot of it sounded like word salad. I know the spiritual planes can be a bit abstract, vague or ambiguous, but there's a threshold where it's just not effective to receive this "guidance" when it could mean anything. I don't know why the person felt so compelled to share this with me, but I'm leaving some margin of "we're all figuring this stuff out" in it all,…