Basic Psychic Development: A User's Guide to Auras, Chakra & Clairvoyance (Paperback)

by John Friedlander (Author), Gloria Hemsher (Author) "The first relationship we'll explore is the deeply loving and supportive relationship we each have with two vast entities-our living Earth and the cosmic energies..." (more)
Key Phrases: God of the Heart, Deep Self, Higher Self (more...)

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Amazon.com Review
Based heavily on the work of Lewis Bostwick, founder of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, Basic Psychic Development is a complete learning system for would-be psychics. Rather than closing oneself to outside energies, Friedlander's system encourages an open, playful approach to experiencing the energies around us with new tools like auras, chakras, and clairvoyance. While the premise of Basic Psychic Development is to advance awareness, understanding, and control over one's psychic abilities, the ultimate goal is individuation--owning one's identity--something more valuable than any psychic ability. --Brian Patterson

Product Description
This text presents an integrated approach to psychic development through aura awareness - the key to personal and spiritual healing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 155 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books; illustrated edition edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578630231
• ISBN-13: 978-1578630233
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #277,828 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro, Accessible and Fun, April 25, 1999

By	[e-mail] (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

I like the way this book is organized. It places psychic development in the larger context of life, by explaining everything in terms of relationships: relationships with other people, with the planet, and with our unique spiritual essence.

The tone of the book is light, friendly, and fun. The exercises are explained in simple steps. And the authors give many real world examples of how psychic work can have positive impact on everyday life.

All in all, it's enjoyable reading, and gives enough material for exploration to keep a person busy for years. I've read some other books on the subject, this one's my favorite.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Informative, March 10, 2003

By	Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This book contains a lot of great basic information and numerous exercises for expanding your psychic awareness. Also, the descriptions of the various chakras are excellent. I had no idea for example that we all have hand and feet chakras, as well as four chakras above and below us. I also discovered each person's aura is quite complex with several different layers that correspond to each chakra.

The book's first chapter starts off not surprisingly with grounding exercises, running earth and cosmic energy. Always good to start with basics. The next chapter discusses the various chakras. Subsequent chapters discuss topics like distinguishing your energy from others, cords and how to "dissolve" them, "screens," aura layers and repairing them if needed.

I found the book along with all the various exercises, to be fascinating and plan to refer to it often in the future as I expand my psychic awareness.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Psychic Development, March 11, 2001

By	"loridaystar" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

The word "practical" easily applies to this book--much like one of John Friedlander's other books, The Practical Psychic. This book is full of down-to-earth and literally "connecting to the earth" advice about living in a physical world with more awareness that you ever imagined possible. Beginning exercises include grounding and running earth and cosmic energies complete with helpful diagrams and full explanations of each step. The reader quickly graduates to exercises directed at cleansing the chakras, learning easy and simple techniques to clear energy blocks, past, present and future. Next comes helpful advice for distinguishing personal energy from the energy of others. Awareness leads to the ability to cleanse the chakras of "stuck" energy and shed the intrusion of other's energies. Once the reader has bookmarked and practiced these exercises over and over, a sense of freedom, lightness and clarity rarely achieved in a lifetime is the expected result. The reader is ready to move on to achieving a profound place within to connect with Higher Self, your God of the Heart. With a sense of humor throughout, the reader can finally gain access to "a gentle state of neutrality, one of the most powerful and effective tools for dealing with difficult situations," the core of the entire practice. Neutrality is not the absence of emotions, but rather it is "an opening up to the complexity, subtlety, and multidimensionality of emotions and experience." Eventually the reader is able to find an increase in compassion, both personal and for others. This compassion leads to a state of forgiveness, both for yourself and for others, and the creation of a place of gentle acceptance of the self and the absence of blame and guilt. Add this book to your tool kit for forging a new self for practical living in the new millennium.