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Awakening Second Sight

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This was the first book or audio tape I purchased from author Judith Orloff, M.D. She de-mystifies the psychic abilities that lie dormant in each one of us and approaches the subject from a logic point of view. I have since purchased two other books from this author and can't wait for the next one. I am truly impressed with her abilities to teach this subject from the basis that this is a practical sense we all need to engage to enhance our lives. I highly recommend these tapes!

I was so moved when Judith Orloff talked about her experiences growing up in Southern California as an intuitive empath, the years when she turned her back on her intuitive insights in order to practice traditional medicine, working with hospice patients at a VA hospital, helping her mother let go as she was dying or the various interactions with patients in her psychiatric practice. It was all so fascinating. It wasn't until she started discussing how we can also develop our second sight that she lost me. Maybe it's because it came so easily to her while the rest of us must really work at it. She does make you believe that it's all worth it in the end. She has chosen to share her amazing gift with the world and I for one am grateful.

Dr. Judith Orloff is a true medicine woman. A board-certified psychiatrist and psychic from birth, Dr. Orloff shares techniques that foster a right and left brain approach to healing from the intellect and intuitive side. Still a practising psychiatrist, Dr. Orloff offers sound wisdom based on her clinical training for anyone who seeks to enhance their healing practice. What is to be noted about Dr. Orloff is that (A) she was born psychic and it was something passed down from her family, (B) she went through a rigorous medical training and still is willing to be acountable to an authority, and (C) has found a way to harness her gifts with a true spirit of service to others.

This is my first Judy Orloff purchase, but I intend to purchase more. These CDs spoke to me because many of her experiences mirrored my own. The solutions she offers to dealing with problems I still face are helping me cope with my own personal issues. I highly recommend these CDs to anyone who feels adrift in today's society with no obvious place to turn for help.

I need to be up-front here and state that I had contacted Dr. Orloff on Twitter, praising this book. She appreciated my comments and requested I write a review of it on Amazon.com. Because I have profound respect for Dr. Orloff and her work, I am writing this review.

I am an unconventional transpersonal psychologist, someone who is not clinically inclined. I am also intuitive. Living as I do in the wilds of the conformity-oriented Midwest, in such an environment it is helpful to have means of affirming spirit. The good Dr. Orloff's CD, *Awakening Second Sight*, helps to fill the bill.

How does it help? you ask. Quite simply, listening to her life story and what she has to say about awakening and expanding intuition when, say, reading the paper online or doing course work for an online grad school class (Ph.D. in General Psychology), it helps to act as a review of some of my transpersonal psychology course work. In the process, it helps me to keep focused on spirit when I do use the audiobook. Additionally, given that there is still considerable hostility in science to the very idea of spirit - something that's been true since well before William James published his *Principles of Psychology* in 1890 - her kind words and soothing tone of voice help me to get through my classes.

While this is not a conventional use of Dr. Orloff's audiobook, I feel my comments above may be useful for others and provide them in that spirit.

Received as described, fast delivery, will purchase from vendor again
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M Haynes