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locate the seat of the disease. Many psychics see the auric conditions of the patients, and can tell by the color of their emanations, or of the psychic counterparts of their organs, where they suffer and what are the causes of their illnesses. 280 A Guide to Mediumship Tell your visitors what you feel to be the truth, but use your own discretion. It may be necessary to withhold some things. Do not be merely a prophet of evil. Exert your influence on the side of hope, health, and goodness. Encourage the weak, the weary, and the sad. Admonish gently; condemn no one. While you should deplore wrongdoing, try to prompt and help the wrong-doers to better motives, purer purposes, and nobler deeds. If you 'take on' the aches and pains of your subject be careful to 'will' them away. Make demagnetizlng passes over yourself and throw off the influence. Wash your hands and dry them thoroughly, and then practise deep breathing for a minute or two to regain a positive condition. Be careful to avoid exhausting your powers. If you feel weary, or overstrained and excited stop! Get out into the open air, or change the conditions by enjoying social conversation, genial companionship, music and song. Take a hot bath and a smart rub down, hold the handles of a good battery, or turn your attention to something else. Get a good sleep if you possibly can. Remember receptivity may be carried too far, and the practice of intro- vision may render you too negative and too open to intrusive, dominating psychic influences from people on this side or the other; and you must carefully guard yourself against any 'suggestions' that would lower your tone, weaken your will, or cause you to lose self-control. HOW TO BECOME A CLEAR-SEER. The instructions that we have already given for the cultivation of psychometrical power, or susceptibility to the auric emanations of people, places, or things, will in the main apply to and cover the ground of the preparations necessary for the development of lucidity, or clairvoyant perception; for many psychometrists find that they literally see with the mind's eye, by means of the so-called 'astral' or etheric light, the scenes and persons that come before them, almost like cinematographic 'living pictures.' Indeed, they frequently hear as well as feel, trace, and A Guide to Mediumship 281 see, and the suggestions we have made will apply to all phases of psychical perception with his proviso, that you must try to see if you desire to be clairvoyant, and to hear if you wish to be clairaudient. In other words, you must pay attention you must listen, took, and learn, and should either speak of or record your experiences. It has been frequently observed that clairvoyants have a 'far away look' in their eyes, and that when in the lucid state they appear as if they were 'lost in thought.' It is this absence of self-consciousness which is so necessary, and yet so difficult to obtain; for anything which tends to mar the complete subjugation of the outer self, and bring the psychic back to the normal state, interferes with the conditions required for clairvoyance. Some sensitives breathe very rapidly and become very much agitated, they are restless, 'all nerves,' and get 'worked up' and excited before they have attained the condition where the inner self dominates the physical body and the ordinary consciousness. Others are quiet and placid, and pass easily into the receptive state, and require the utmost harmony and peace to secure the best results. You may feel as if you had a band drawn round your head or across your forehead, just over the eyes; or it may feel as if it is on fire. In any such case you should make a few passes over your brows, just, or barely touching the skin with the tips of your fingers; beginning with both bands in the centre and passing outwards over the temples and ears. This will prove soothing and helpful. After you have developed your powers somewhat you will require to have an audience to whom you can describe your visions or for whom you can exercise your gift. When the condition of lucidity has been attained you may be able to see pictured representations of the past life of persons with whom you have established rapport, or of their future experiences; or you may see into the human body and be able to describe the appearance of the organs of your visitors and give a diagnosis to those persons who are diseased. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |