The Psychic Handbook [Paperback]

Betty F. Balcombe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

A psychic healer, tells you what it's like to be psychic. Balcombe's visualization and meditation techniques help you gain comfort with and control of your psychic powers. She describes how to use divination, the tarot, pendulums, dowsing rods, dreams and symbols, premonitions, automatic writing, and other techniques to develop psychic ability.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel / Weiser (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578632137
• ISBN-13: 978-1578632138
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,841,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cuts to the chase, March 17, 2001

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Elsah Cort (Three Rivers, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Psychic Handbook (Paperback)

Gifted pyschic, Betty Balcombe, has written a primer for utilizing our natural God-given sixth sense. This is a quick reference for those interested in accessing and exploring intuition, inner knowing and other psychic gifts. Note: this is a year 2000 reprinting of Everyone's Guide for Using Psychic Ability. The book first appeared in print in 1988.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Simply cannot relate to her views, October 4, 2005

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Evance Wong "EWw" (Cali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Psychic Handbook (Paperback)

I've read the first two chapters. Personally this book doesn't cut it for me. The way she sees the chakra is completely different from what I'm used to (ie: 7 levels) and she attributes different colors to them. That in itself isn't the biggest deal, but her exercises seem to require extremely specific hand positions and such things which personally (from experience) doesn't require such complex coreography.

I have no doubt that what she wrote works for her and will work for someone else our there, but to me, this book isn't what I would see as a "good book to learn from". It's more of "this is my way to do it" with a laundry list of what I can do and you can do the same thing.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars In depth, November 2, 2005

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Micky L. Johnson "The Page Turner" (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Psychic Handbook (Paperback)

Read the entire book, from cover to back. She offers alot of what I would call theories or ideas; ways to look at situations! I would say that having the gift she does, the things she says are true; however, some of the book seems to have just someones perceptions of things in general. I liked what I learned, and I also have opened up a few things in my mind, and I have to say I felt something while reading this book. First book on psychics I have ever read, and I would reread a few of the chapters. Betty offers a few mental exercises to tap into your abilities which, given time, has shown me a few things I've personally never thought I would've experienced without having read the book. The approach and beliefs I personally do not find to be able to handle by everyone, but some of the things mentioned in there are provable by science. A good book, gets better in the later chapters.