Create Your Own Future: A Practical Guide to Developing Your Psychic and Spiritual Powers [Paperback]

Linda Georgian (Author)

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Publication Date: July 18, 1996

Nationally known psychic Linda Georgian has guided thousands of people along the holistic path to spiritual and personal growth. In Create Your Own Future, Georgian introduces the universal metaphysical principles that lead to spiritual enrichment, and shows how, by understanding and incorporating them into your life, you can attain -- and even surpass -- your highest expectations. Offering insight on issues and attracting ideal relationships, prosperity, power, and success, to becoming more open to and aware of the spiritual realm, Create Your Own Future opens the door to a harmonious and rewarding life.

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About the Author

Linda Georgian, creator of "The Psychic Friend's Network,"™ and founder and host of The Linda Georgian Psychic Network, is the author of Communicating with the Dead and Your Guardian Angels. She lives in Vero Beach, Florida.

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Chapter 1

The Early Years

THE RECOGNITION OF MY PSYCHIC ABILITY

I am often asked if I was "born with a veil" and if my abilities are a result of that special circumstance. To be "born with a veil" means that, at the time of birth, a part of the amniotic sac (in which the fetus has lived in the mother's womb) covers the face of the newborn. A superstition persists that those born with a veil possess extraordinary psychic powers, that they are psychically superior to the average person, and that it represents an omen from God.

To me, this theory is unfounded; it remains nothing more than a superstition. Many who were born with a veil don't even know it, and those who do know it certainly don't all exhibit fantastic psychic powers. It is also true that some of the most psychic and intuitive among us were definitely born without a veil. The answer I always give is, "Yes, I was born with a veil, but I don't attribute my psychic ability to an amniotic sac!" I have worked too long and too hard, developing this ability to a finer degree, to believe it is just a circumstance of birth.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, of Italian ancestry. Both sets of grandparents came from Palermo, Sicily. Growing up, I experienced all the excitement, emotion, and intensity typical of an Italian family!

My school years were filled with sports, social activities, and just about every contest I could find to enter. Winning academic and sports awards brought me the attention I craved. With all my many activities, I was a highly self-disciplined student, so my parents never had to force me to study. I realize now that I was a perfectionist even way back then, and I took great pride in my ability to stay at the top of my class.

As early as age twelve I knew I had special psychic abilities. I recall, in particular, one day when I noticed what appeared to be colors around a junior high school teacher's head and shoulders, as he lectured. A flash of the color green, then an airplane, and then the city of Philadelphia appeared to me to the right of his head. I had had no psychic training -- in fact, I didn't even know what a "psychic" was -- but I felt this was an event coming up for him and that it would be good. (The green light gave me that indication.)

After class, I went up to the teacher and asked if he were planning a plane trip to Philadelphia. He said yes, he was, and then asked if he had mentioned it in class. I said, "No. I just had a feeling about it." Later, it was confirmed that he had a safe and enjoyable trip.

As time went on, it became apparent that whenever I saw or felt something to the left of a person, it represented the past. Something to the right represented the person's future. This remains true for me today: I "read" people like a book, left to right.

I began to understand that the colors I was seeing around people were part of the aura, or energy field, surrounding all living things. I began picking up thoughts from others telepathically and became adept at the most common form of extrasensory perception (ESP), the feeling of "just knowing" something was going to happen. This occurred more and more frequently, and I was right most of the time.

In high school, when I knew the answer to a question the teacher was asking, I would concentrate on my name being called without having to raise my hand. A good percentage of the time my little game worked! Without even realizing it, I was sharpening my mental abilities through practice. In college, my roommates constantly tested me, asking what grade they might get on an exam or whether they would hear from a certain boy at a certain time. The more I used this intuitive sense, the more accurate I became. (Practice does make perfect!) And because I felt close to God, having grown up in a devout Catholic environment, I believed my faith had a lot to do with my abilities.

MY PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT

After graduating from Ohio University in 1968, I moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with my family. I had been suffering for some time from severe migraine headaches and was experiencing some personal problems with relationships. These problems turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because in searching for answers, I took the advice of a friend, who told me to see a local psychic, the Reverend Jewel Williams.

I had been quite hesitant, at first, about seeing Jewel, because of my Catholic upbringing. Jewel was minister of her own church, the Universal Church of the Master Jesus. I knew my faith did not allow its members to attend or even enter other churches, but my intuition told me this was the right thing to do, and that intuitive feeling, once again, paid off. Meeting Jewel was to be a turning point in my life.

I began by attending -- with a friend! -- one of Jewel's regular Friday night "message services" at her home. About thirty people attended. Each of us wrote a question and put our initials on a slip of paper, which we folded and put into a basket. Jewel would take one of the papers, put it to her temple, and read exactly what it said -- without looking at it! This is known as "billet" reading. (Many famous psychics, such as mentalist the Amazing Kreskin, are adept at this practice.) On this night she selected my piece of paper, called out the initials "L.M.G." and said, "You do this work." Then she added, "You will do this in front of millions." She also knew -- intuitively -- about my migraine headaches and said I should have my neck examined by a chiropractor.

Everything Jewel told me turned out to be accurate and a blessing. Her puzzling prediction about my life's work has been and is now coming true. Even the advice on my headaches -- rather controversial at the time -- made a difference in my life: The chiropractor I chose was a practitioner of holistic health, a subject that has always interested and influenced me greatly.

After that first visit, I returned to Jewel's house on many occasions. At the same time, I visited other psychics and attended seminars and classes on "positive programming" given by Science of Mind, Unity Church, Maxwell Maltz, Napoleon Hill, Joseph Murphy, Norman Vincent Peale, Anthony Norvel, Dale Carnegie, and others. This proved to be an invaluable combination: While different psychics sometimes told me things about my future that upset me, I learned in my positive-thinking classes that I could change my future by "programming" for what I wanted.

Putting the psychic predictions and the positive programming together, I decided to concentrate on changing the things I did not want to happen. I decided to create my own future.

Before you jump ahead to the How-To section of this book, let me caution you that some crises or problems may not be "programmed away" if they are necessary for our personal growth. The trick lies in learning how to trust what you are doing and what is happening. As some would put it, "Let Go and Let God."

Once interested in all aspects of psychic phenomena, I read every available book on the subject. I also became involved in astrology, discovering that I was a Libra on the cusp of Scorpio, with my moon in Gemini and Capricorn as my rising sign. It was fascinating to learn that many aspects of my astrological chart -- based on the date, time, and place of my birth -- pointed toward an interest in health and spiritual topics and my concern for the well-being of others. My chart showed a good combination of influences on what has now become my life's work. (Though there remain many in our society who are skeptical of "these New Age practices," in fact astrology goes back to the ancient Hindus and is based entirely on the science of astronomy.)

I began working on my own psychic development with a combination of prayer, meditation, positive-thinking techniques, and creative visualization principles designed to bring only good into my life. I continued to search for a way to test my faith and theories and for relief from my lingering migraine headaches.

One thing I began to realize, by this time, was the fact that my whole concept of God had evolved considerably, from what had been my early experience. Growing up as a Catholic child, I thought God was a man in a chair, with Saint Peter sitting at his right-hand side and Gabriel blowing his horn. I believed that, if we were good, we would go to heaven when we died, get wings, and be assigned a cloud. If we were bad we would go to Hell, where there was a lot of fire and we would be forced to shovel coal while the devil poked at us with his pitchfork.

I now know "Him" as a vibrating sea of intellectual energy, a cosmic power, an infinite intelligence -- omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. "He" is infinite light, unmanifested, the Higher Power. I learned that this Higher Intelligence, which I call God, is known by different names to different people, and that although I refer to this Intelligence as "He," in fact it is neither man nor woman, personal nor impersonal. God is, for me, an energy, nondenominational, not limited to any religions, dogmas, ideologies, creeds, or preconceived ideas of man. Through my studies I realized we were all created in His image and should, therefore, not limit ourselves, and I learned to strive for an ever-increasing awareness of His all-encompassing light and love.

MY TRIP TO JAPAN

In 1970 I decided to go to Japan. At that time, I believed in reincarnation, and thinking that I had lived at least one previous lifetime in that country, I felt driven to find my roots there. My desire and need to prove certain metaphysical theories compelled me to go to a completely foreign land, where I knew nothing of the language or the people, and where I would be forced to depend upon the guidance of God, Jesus, and the angels for every move I made. The lack of itinerary would surely prove my faith and my ability to communicate with God.

This was to be a metaphysical experiment to prove that I could create my own future through the powers of my mind. I decided to program ...

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (July 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684810891
• ISBN-13: 978-0684810898
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ~LIFE CHANGING~, October 31, 2004

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GeminiGuy1 (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Create Your Own Future: A Practical Guide to Developing Your Psychic and Spiritual Powers (Paperback)

Simply put, there are many self-help books that make a lot of sense to readers, they then go on and attempt the things in the book, some may see results, while others may not. This book is different. If you use the techniques that this wonderful writer has put together, you WILL see results. It's a self-help book, mixed in with Sprituallity, and I can't say this about too many books, but this book was truly LIFE CHANGING, from the Positive affirmations, to the creative visualization, the reader who truly feels and understands the importance of this will be enlightened..I was.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally "Universal Laws" in print ;), March 21, 2000

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Lisa R (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Create Your Own Future: A Practical Guide to Developing Your Psychic and Spiritual Powers (Paperback)

I have read some great books like Embraced by the Light by Betty Eadie and You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L Hay, and they both say that there are Universal Laws which we must adhere to or reap the consequences, and the more we know them the better life gets, BUT they don't tell us what they are! It was so frustrating! Linda wrote out 31 of these Universal Laws and they seem pretty reasonable, she doesn't say her source but I assume it would be the Universe and Life from her psychic powers. At least it seems like something to build on! She speaks about life, religion and psychic things in a very practical way, ie "God rewards hard workers...", and in a way that gives hope for the future. Practical advice, insightful. Thank you Linda ;)

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Knowledge is Empowerment, August 29, 2002

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Essie (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

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I was looking for some book under the New Age section in the library when I accidentally bumped into Linda's book on the same shelf. The moment I read the title, I was determined to check the book out and read it. To my amazement and amusement, I find it absolutely breathtaking and educational, especially since I am constantly seeking ways to define my philosophy of spirituality. Linda covers in-depth topics on paranormal, psychic, meditation techniques, life-force, creative visaulization, universal laws, relationships, reincarnation and much more. In essence, she focuses on the concept of "holistic healing". Readers who desire to lead a spiritual life but are not sure where to start can begin finding answers within this book which will prepare them for this journey. I certainly found myself enlightened by the wealth of knowledge shed by Linda's wisdom and love for humanity.