It's pretty much commonplace nowadays to assert that every one of us is psychic and capable of experiencing the paranormal – to a lesser or greater degree, of course.
Maybe the riddle of psychic powers will be solved one day by the psychic together with the scientist, for the benefit of humanity in the unlocking of this extra sense in most of us who feel we have no psychic abilities. But, in the meantime, with the psychic faculty latent in you, how can it be realized? Why should the quotidian exclude you from the experience of fulfilling your psychic potential?
Who better to answer these questions than US psychic detective Noreen Renier? She was the first psychic to work with the FBI, and one of the few psychics to have lectured at the FBI Academy. She has more than 30 years' experience of working with law enforcement agencies across America and overseas, and has been involved on more than 600 criminal cases.
The Gifts Our Intuition Offers
Naturally, not everyone would want to turn psychic to investigate crime, but the gifts our intuition offers – foresight, insight, knowing and awareness – can be used in myriad other ways if we learn to use our brain in a different way, says Renier, 'to explore its vast areas of untapped potential'.
Psychic criminology, health diagnosis and finding missing people or objects are some of the applications discussed in The Practical Psychic: A No-Nonsense Guide to Developing Your Natural Intuitive Abilities, as Renier explains how we can develop powers of telepathy, psychometry, remote viewing, dreaming and even dowsing. Visualization, memory recall and meditation are crucial aids to psychic prowess, she says, and methods for maximizing their usefulness are described.
The book has a friendly and conversational tone and lives up to the 'no nonsense' claim of its subtitle. It sets out numerous ways in which psychic abilities can be developed, with routes to suit everybody. This approach reflects Renier's belief that development of the mind's capabilities is critical to the improvement of our lives and the world, and that, to this end, more people are needed to delve into the psychic realm.
Regaining Our Psychic Heritage
One small but interesting section of the The Practical Psychic deals with tuning in to the past and exploring historic sites psychically. Much lost knowledge lies in this direction.
Highly developed right-brain intuition is something which, evidently, our distant ancestors possessed and used to harmonize their lives with the universe. Over the centuries, with the rise of left-brain rationality, we have lost this attribute, and been cut adrift from nature.
Thus, in an important sense, Renier's book is all about regaining our psychic heritage and our true nature as human beings.
Source:
Renier, Noreen, The Practical Psychic: A No-Nonsense Guide to Developing Your Natural Intuitive Abilities. Adams Media, 2011. UK £9.99 / US $14.95 / CAN $16.99. ISBN 978-1-4405-0623-9.
Geoff Ward - Geoff Ward, MA Lit., is a British journalist, media consultant, author and lecturer/tutor in literature and creative writing
