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Psychic Development for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Developing & Releasing Your Psychic Abilities (For Beginners (Llewellyn's))

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This is one of my favorite metaphysical books. It contains 44 practical exercises that you can use to help develop your psychic abilities, including creating a psychic shield for protection, sensing psychic information just by touching an object, and creating a psychic goal bowl. It can be used by beginners and non-beginners alike. I find that every time I return to it, I learn something new. There are many metaphysical truths lying buried in William Hewitt's words. Very highly recommended.

I readed this book in one sitting . As I read it I try out some of the things he offers. I have been working with the psychic world for a few months on a serious level. I always knew I could do it . I just hide it away. Like so many people do. So when I started I try to find a book that was plain and to the point on the how too.I had read books by John Edwards and Sylvia Brown for years.And I have gotten some good ideas from John Edwards. But I think this book is more to the point for all who are really interested it trying all they can . They all give examples . But this book is more the hands on do it your self type that a person needs who knows they need to take one more step . But what is that step. I borrow this book from a library to see if it was what I thought I wanted . After reading it I am now buying it today . In the book he mentions that you need only one good book in a time frame of say one year to get you started and I would say this is the one good book. I have read MANY books on the subject and so far this by far the easiest to understand and work with.

I simply could not allow myself to go buy other books without commenting on William H. Hewitt's book, Psychic Development for Beginners. It is an excellent book with simple, practical excercises that make meditation and awakening the awareness of one's inner self as easy as following a proven recipe in a cookbook, and it works! The simple undeniable assurance that all ages, genders, nationalities, vocations, etc have psychic abilities is wonderfully refreshing, and releases doubt one may have in the matter. Afterwards practical information creates a sensible understanding of why we have such abilities, and how they can be best used. William H. Hewitt is a humanitarian, and an excellent author. The excercises are reasonable with out any need for special equipment, except your mind. The steps lead to wonderful daily tools, greater abilities and safeguards to help you protect them and yourself from mismanagement. Mr. Hewitt encourages practical daily applications without fear of wearing something or someone's welcome out. The "More practice the better" is encouraged with a lighthearted "be creative and have fun with it" attitude. I have found wonderful tools in my psychic abilities. Thank you Mr. Hewitt for helping me to see that I could programm my subcounscious for an alarmclock which means that now I don't have to worry about power outages, it just works so well! :D And thank you for the Beach of Time, my favorite place now to do a great many things. All the excercises can develop and gradually become more advanced without discouragement, many of my internet friends have read my tiny excerpts and have bought their own copies just for some tidbit of common sense here or there they missed in other books. The excercises and references are easy to relocate.Chakras and chakra cleaning are not mentioned much in this book, but healing, by the hands, is. This is the best book on the metaphysical that I currently have, it helped me to have a few wonderful experiences that are quite profound for me. I enjoy going back to it for review and encouragement. I am not through with this book by a long shot! :) I highly recommend this book for all beginners and searchers of psychic awareness and awakening.

When I started to become intrested in the psychic phenomenon, I nearly jumped for joy when I found this book, Psychic Develpment for Beginners, by William Hewitt. It informed me a great deal about my inate psychic abilities. It told me how to use the abilty invested in everyone by Our Creator, to make the things that have eluded me forever, to happen! It's an amazing book, and anyone intrested in the New Age phenomenon should read it. It enabled me to choose the path that I like the most. It's probably the best book written that teaches beginners to develop their psychic abilities. I've been praticing the excerises in the book, and have had extrodinary sucess. I never knew I could do such amazing things! Since I've finished it, I lead some of my friends into reading it, they to loved it. And you will to. If you have any intrest in psychic abilities, this is the one book you should read. I'm sure you'll learn from it, and hope you have as much sucess with it as I did.

This is surely a book for beginners. After a few basic mental exercises to easily and quickly go to 'your basic psychic level', the rest of the book is mostly a long list of pleasant case stories intermixed with very short and easy descriptions on how to do something similar - just by asking your higher mind and/or guide/angle for it.
I see the value of the book as an appetizer to a potentially wonderful and very pleasant life with just about any power and knowledge one could imagine. But it will probably not make you a psychic unless you are already VERY close. Perhaps one should keep in mind that the author has a background in hypnotherapy and builds somewhat on (self-) suggestion.
I bought the book because of some exercises mentioned in a review, and indeed some of them might show up to be beneficial over time. As usual, this will depend more on the student than the teacher. But again, more depth would have been nice.

William Hewitt is a hypnotherapist who trained himself to be psychic. The premise behind his book, Psychic Development for Beginners, is that anyone can train themselves to be psychic. From this empowering and very accessible stance, Hewitt builds a book that includes 44 exercises and nearly thirty "case histories" -- brief, anecdotal tales derived from Hewitt's own life experiences.

Hewitt has a considerable amount of experience that he brings to bear in Psychic Development. Born in 1929, he has been a practicing psychic for nearly forty years. In addition to working as a hypnotherapist, Hewitt is also a lecturer who leads workshops on both hypnotherapy and psychic development. His main experience in communicating his ideas comes from these workshops, and it is very clear from the arrangement of "Psychic Development for Beginners" that the book grew out of Hewitt's classes.

* Hewitt's writing style is heavily influenced by his background in leading workshops. He is clearly a speaker first and a writer second. While this gives Psychic Development a very easy-to-read style, there are times where it feels unfinished and even skeletal.
* Hewitt's teaching style is heavily influenced by his profession as a hypnotherapist, to the extent that many of the exercises default to what amounts to self-hypnosis. The biggest problem with this is that Hewitt uses the self-affirmations in place of actual theory that might allow his readers to understand the mechanics well enough to develop techniques of their own.
* Hewitt's "Psychic Development" falls into the same trap that most "for beginners" books fall into, presenting the material in such simplistic terms that only people with absolutely basic knowledge will be able to find anything relevant in the text.
* Although Hewitt's book bills itself as a text on psychic development, it jumbles a number of unrelated techniques together, including exercises which might more properly be called magick or neural linguistic programming. There is often no connection from one chapter to the next and there is certainly no overall theory presented in the work that indicates just how all these various tricks and talents work together as a whole.

In spite of these shortcomings, "Psychic Development for Beginners" remains one of the best books on this subject that I have read. There are obvious reasons why this book is in its eleventh printing, and I expect it will continue to appeal to readers in the coming years.

--Michelle Belanger

I am so glad I found this book, "Psychic Development for Beginners" by William W. Hewitt, it is an excellent book to read if your interested in your natural psychic abilities or would like to learn more on how to better use your psychic gift. It both confirmed and taught me more about some of the experiences that I have been having and brought me more in tune with myself and my abilities. I have so many of the excerises highlighted and practice them on a daily basis. This book is very easy to read and understand and the excerises in this book are also very easy to practice. All in all, I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is wanting to learn more about the gifts that Our Creator has given us. A book I couldn't put down and finished reading in less than 2 days. Very well done William W. Hewitt, I applaud you!!!

If you are looking for some quick and easy exercises to bring out or enhance your innate psychic ability, this is your book. I consider it a "must-have" for anyone. I actually read it pretty much in one sitting! The book contains many exercises and meditation techniques which in many cases can be done almost anywhere, anytime. With just a little practice and perserverance, they really do pay off!

I did however drop a star because I didn't care for the exercises on getting your own parking space and moving traffic. To me that just seems like inappropriate and unnecessary utilization of your gifts. But that's just my opinion and if I could've just dropped only half a star for it I would've. Anyhoo...

Bottom line: I highly recommend buying this book if you are looking for simple psychic development techniques that don't wreak of "new-agey" terminology. It's truly a book for the layman...or lay-woman for that matter :)

This book is absolutely amazing. From the first time I picked up the book and read the back cover, I got hooked on it as it swept me off my feet and into the psychic world... I just HAD to buy it...

Willam W. Hewitt explains very well and step by step how to perform certain psychic abilities and also develop them. In the book, you start out in an introduction where it explains very well what it's all about and what being psychic means, what psychic is, how it is not impossible as lots of people believe and it'll get you to read another chapter.

The book is very well structured as it's easy to read and very understandable for anyone to get into. You are then tought about the functions of the brain frequency and how to alter it. Then you are taken a journey on relaxing and concentrating your energies for psychic abilities. The book then explains how visualization improves your psychic skills and performance as it gives you very good exercises to improve your visualization skills. In the middle of the book, it starts telling you how to perform psychic abilities such as Psychic Healing, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and quite, QUITE a few more...

The exercises are very well structured as STEP by STEP (literally), it tells you what to do and how to do it...

The things it has tought me and is STILL teaching me, are amazing, gazing into the future, the past, another place, contacting and healing other people, entities (ghosts), and animals and even healing yourself... You WILL LOVE this book...

Two only things I got a little dissapointed from the book, I did mention LITTLE :) Well, one is that William doesn't exactly explain a lot of what you should feel or see on some exercises, this sometimes leaves you thinking, "Did it work? Or did I do something wrong? What am I supposed to see/feel?" The second thing is that it doesn't teach you Telekinesis! Telekinesis is not included on the book whatsoever... Not even mentioned! Though, you will learn a lot of stuff about ESP, Telepathy, Psychic Healing, Shields and a lot more things...

I definetely give this book 5 stars and I give it around 97% and I tell you to freaking stop doubting and reading reviews and BUY the book! ;)

Kayron James Mercieca

I just could not put the book down. This book makes you feel like you're in total control of you life, and you have total power over your life just by using your mind's eye! This book also helped me better my visualization techniques, which are very essential for psychic enhancement. I also recommend Sonia Choquette's, "The Psychic Pathway" Workbook alongside this book for further studies.