Psychic Development for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Releasing and Developing Your Psychic Abilities Paperback – September 1, 1996

Many years ago, I visited Lilydale and met with a gentleman who was then in his late sixties or so. He told me what his definition of being psychic was. "It's being in control of your life". I nodded knowingly. I didn't have a clue as to what he meant. This book has been criticized as having a bunch of stupid, useless exercises in it by one reviewer. I'm not surprised. Most of us are looking for those Cecil B. DeMille moments to become excited about. We want to join that group that is making a lot of noise about an issue and promising grand results. We're not too concerned by those who say, "Hey, this is simple and you can do it quietly at home. The trick is to keep at it". The exercises in this book are designed to hone skills that would, indeed, increase your abilities as a psychic. They also will help to make you a more thoughtful, aware human being. Not all that exciting to some. This is a thoughtful book. I like it. Remember these lines from a Robert W. Service poem: "And each forgets, as he cuts and runs with his brilliant, fitfull pace, it's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race". Good luck if you purchase this book. I don't think you'll go wrong.

I’ve not ever read this subject matter because as a young person I was a devote in my Christianity & was told to stay away.You can be a Christian & a practicing psychic. (I’m a Zen Buddhist, for those of you keeping score.) Now that I’m much older I wish I would have read this book years ago. But I digress, this is a straight forward easy to read book with practical exercises anyone will benefit from. Does it hurt anyone if you are more aware?I have had spiritual experiences before, now I can put them in context.I highly recommend this book. It is positive, teaches you how to protect yourself and get results beneficial to yourself & others.

When I bought Psychic Development for Beginners, I had expected a lot of useless New Age silliness but I was surprised to find that the author really knows his subject. He knows that the true key to psychic abilities is being able to enter the theta state, and points this out quite often. The only problem is that the exercises he has, doesn't help much to achieve that end, though. If you could enter that elusive theta brainwave state, then the exercises would be of considerable value but those exercises won't help you get into alpha or theta; you have to figure that out for yourself it seems.But that matter aside, the author covers a lot of ground and provides considerable and reliable information for someone who has no previous knowledge of ESP and psychic phenomena other than what they might have seen in the movies or on TV. This is indeed a very good book for begining psychics and I don't know of any book that's any better.

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Plenty O Plenty of stuff in here. This reminds me somewhat like the Silva Method in that it has a lot of mental, psychic, relaxation, visualization exercises to use, about 44 in all. Plus goes into like 28 case examples to give you an idea, that helps to get into that grove to better acquaint yourself with.One of the better books out there, you won't go wrong with it.

In `Psychic Development for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Developing and Releasing Your Psychic Abilities,' psychic and hypno-therapist, William Hewitt writes an extremely easy book to read on an interesting subject which he claims everyone innately possesses in some degree. Training is key to developing this ability, but more so is to understand the mechanism and science that lies behind the power of the human brain and the health benefits that will be accrued.Hewitt offers rudimentary information with regard to the actual science behind developing the skills he discusses and exemplifies. He explains the benefit of lowering the brain's operating frequency in a manner that I propose is similar to that of health and wellness practitioners who have proven that the key to good corporeal health is in lowering our resting heart rate through diet and exercise. The brain needs its own brand of exercise that like beneficial cardio for the heart through repetition allows the brain to function more optimally with less work. Hewitt describes the various brainwave states as discovered by Hans Berger, the first person to record electroencephalograms in 1929 and introduces a series of preliminary exercises that will enable the frequent practitioner to achieve the all important alpha and theta states. For the curious reader who needs a little more information regarding this science, I recommend an older book entitled "Megabrain" by Michael Hutchison that allows a more detailed comprehension of pioneering brain research.Most of Hewitt's book consists of visualization exercises that firstly develop the five senses and then moves on to what he calls the basic psychic level. Depending on your innate creativity and ability to envision within your mind's mental screen, the perfect execution of these first exercises could take many months to achieve. Once this occurs however, Hewitt believes it is extremely important to protect oneself with what a spiritual teacher of mine calls the "canopy of light." Another spiritual friend invites the presence of Archangel Michael to spiritually protect her. Another prays to God to encircle her in white light. Nevertheless, however you perceive this psychic armor, the idea of surrounding oneself with positive energy is the one imperative step that cannot be omitted as the encroachment of anything negative can overwhelm and make one ill. In addition, right-mindedness also reigns supreme when moving forward to the next series of exercises that focus on visualization, healing, clairvoyance, divination, astral travel, issues in the past and the future and the handling of many other quotidian events that once dealt with can allow one to create the kind of life about which he/she dreams. Again practice make perfect.Like many other books of this nature, Hewitt includes many affirmations of the techniques described, some of which are vague and most of which just invoke the technique employed to reach the basic psychic level. Keeping in mind that attaining alpha and theta states helps the body to heal should be reason enough to develop the skills he mentions.Hewitt's style is easy to read; his exercises are simple to understand but more difficult to put into action. Benefits derived from repeated use, however, will definitely result in the necessary decrease in brain operating frequency that promotes better overall health.Bottom line? William Hewitt writes an easy to read and implement beginner's book that helps the reader to develop the senses and exercise the brain like cardio works out the heart. In the first half of the book, one learns to visualize and get to the basic psychic level. In the second half one uses the basic psychic state to handle various everyday issues. Some of his case studies are trite, but they add breeziness to the read that urges the reader to get to the last page and think about the exercises in terms of functionality. Recommended as Beginning Brainwork 101.Diana Faillace Von Behren"reneofc"

Amazing book! I would have paid $1000 for this book. I learnt how to tap into theta state and get answers from the psychic realm. At one point I wasn't even looking for an answer but was in theta state thinking actually quite the opposite when I got clairvoyance of what is going to happen without me asking for answer. It has not happened yet, but I know it will. It also helping with highway driving anxiety. Wish I read this book years ago!