UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE OF THE CLAIRVOYANT STATE.

Before we start, prayer is essential for the spirit world to notice us; it’s like knocking on their door, humility in the asking goes without saying.

State your purpose and they will gather round and do their best to help. How do I know this? Because the Masters tell us that no spirit guide or helper lets an opportunity go by for the progression of either us or them! They come in love, and in love we accept their strengths.

The clairvoyant sight can be seem as a physical manifestation to some mediums, but in recent times it is more often a mental process that is viewed on the inner eye; this is the thing that most students have a problem with in the early stages. “How do I do that?‿ They ask me. “What are the processes one needs to go through?‿ The answer is “Change your brain waves!‿

The Concept

First we need to be aware of another concept inside the self, the thought inside the brain is not enough, that is only theory; a thought is only the first step to a concept, it is information that has been introduced to us and then assimilated [most important] to make it into acceptable, and digestible to the spirit self, and only then we can use it in the way we need to open clairvoyance. We need the practical act of conceptualisation, which is a conscious process albeit at times subconscious - in other words acceptance is followed by inner realisation.

In order to arrive at the point in our lives where this is possible, we must have gone through various phases, away from the physical weighing more in our lives, shifting over to the spiritual now tipping the scales, this is necessary so we have prepared our way towards accepting a thought / idea, only then can we assimilate it into the concept / inner being.

For instance, if I said to you ‘mediums talk to spirit people’, and if you do not accept the basic concept, in fact you will not ever see them although they are there, your mind will not allow you to see them. This is not a trick. This is why the average clairvoyant medium is not about to even try to explain anything to the questioner who he knows [through his ESP] that they do not have the concept in their inner selves. No matter what anyone says, they are not going to accept a nything to do with it.

The Philosophy of Spiritualism is a concept, not just an idea we are aware of, it is a shifting of our universe that is very difficult to describe. We are ‘born again’ into a new dimensional existence. I have heard friends describe the acceptance of the Spiritual Truths, as life changing as the news of, for instance, a death in the family, for this is indeed the 'death' of previous conceptions, and ones life and the universe will never be the same again.

This is the difference between ‘knowing’ with your head and ‘realising’ in your heart.

But off course all this understanding in itself is not going to make one automatically mediumistic in anything, but you are well on the way now to making it possible, you have opened your mind.

Mental mediumship

Thoughts come into our brains through the electrical fields of what we call Auras, which have the full spectrum of senses within them, from the aura of the spirit person, and are projected onto our own mind screen as an image, [or idea or sound or whatever] in a very delicate way.

They are like the ‘magic lantern’ of a by-gone age. The waves of energy, like light, project onto our inner ‘screen’, only through a different route to that of our eyes. [The glands used by the spiritual energies are believed to be the pineal and the pituitary, which belonging to the ductless hormonal system, incidentally the main chakras link up to this system. See Article ‘Auras and Chakras’ click on orange words]

So what is the next step? Answer; putting yourself in the best frame of mind to help the opening process.

“What’s that?‿ I hear you ask! Simple, you need to practice the art of a special kind of viewing in a different picture house … but far easier for you than those viewers of the miraculous magic lantern in that long gone age, you need not leave your chair!

The exercise.

[I have described this exercise in other essays for the student under visualisation in the Clairvoyant section .]

Visualisation means make the picture inside your head. There are many other exercises for you to find in books and on this site.

First suspend interference! Quiet is essential. Peace and tranquillity. Turn off the phone and put ‘do not disturb’ on the door.

Second visualise on your minds eye that picture house / cinema …

Walk in and sit down …

Wait …

The lights go down …

The curtains pull back …

The film is about to start …

Be patient …

Maybe the projectionist is a bit slow …

Quiet expectation is the key …

No excitement …

Relax …

Waiting for the guy to get going …

This is the hardest part; you need a lot of patience … wait … wait …

What is happening is this; you are suspending your brain activities so spirit can use the energy to project their image for you. The visualisation part is a slowing the brain waves down, stepping mentally through the alpha – beta – gamma - delta – phases, from activity to passivity. We do this every night, we pass through all these stages into sleep, and in certain circumstances we go even further into a trance, and we can pass further again - that’s called a coma.

Now when you have had a few ‘goes’ at this, visualising and waiting, you will learn to stay in the passive state just waiting for contact. And later on still it will be as easy as blinking. The spirit world is always there; we just don’t look at it all the time. Sometimes people ask me “What can you see now this minute?‿ my answer is “Nothing because I am not looking!‿

Barriers to Success

It’s not hard, but does need a discipline of mind, and if you are tired you will go too far into the sleep phase, or if you are upset the interference of that emotion will also inhibit the process of decent into the best phase.

Another blockage is the overactive mind that we all experience in our everyday lives, what to have for tea, when to do the washing, these thoughts skip about in our minds like naughty children seeking attention, don’t they? Well, treat them as such, let them float away, put them as babies into bubbles and watch them float away. [A little bit of visualisation practice here.] Then go back to looking at your screen patiently.

Recap

So, Spirit help is asked for in humble prayer, we offer ourselves as mediums to be in service to the spirit guides and helpers.

When the realisation of spiritual awareness has seeped into the inner self, we are ready to open up the inner eyes of awareness. Then, with spirit and practical knowledge, we use some personal discipline to practice visualisation to achieve the mind and emotional state needed for opening up to clairvoyant ability.

The circle group is a good way of giving and receiving the energies to assist the process for all participants, people in spirit and the physical. Spirit guides and helpers will find you a quicker study when you let others [in the same ‘boat’ of learning as you,] together with a good teacher, assist the whole process. The spirit teachers gather together just as we do, in order to assist.

Any practicing Medium, be they Speakers, Healers, or Demonstrators, will tell you that they started out in trepidation, thinking they imagined the first contact, don’t worry, talk to the spirit people, yes they are people too, and somehow they will confirm that all is well, your path of progression is still in your control, but you have a vast army of helpers to assist.

Now, just ask!

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: Life itself is the miracle of miracles.

- George Bernard Shaw