Leaving the Dark Ages

 

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

 

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is impossible,

he is very probably wrong. 

 

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

 

~ Arthur C. Clarke’s Laws of Prediction

 

For the first 15 years of my career, I referred to myself as a psychic-medium, purely out of forced practicality. The term never really captured the fullness of the work I did and, given the choice, I would much rather have avoided all the baggage that came with the label.  Most people have let go of thinking of fortune telling, curses, seances, woo-woo moments, ghosts and spirits when the term psychic-medium comes up, but stereotypes and irrational fears endure. People still tend to freak out when they find out what I do for a living, sometimes in fear, sometimes in arrogant disbelief. I spend a lot of time dispelling myths and calming irrational fears about being psychic; time that I think could be better spent talking about what we can do with psychic abilities, or actually doing something useful with them.

 

I now introduce myself as a conscious living coach, the best term I can come up with to explain what I actually do with my psychic abilities:  help people to bring consciousness to every area of their lives to solve problems and live happier, more enjoyable and accomplished lives. I also prefer the term telepath over psychic-medium. Telepathy is simply defined as mind to mind, or consciousness to consciousness communication. Mediumship is a form of telepathy, along with intuition, clairvoyance, animal communication, remote viewing, and a range of other psychic abilities and phenomena.  It’s all the same ability, applied in slightly different ways. 

 

I think of  telepathy as a skill with broad applications rather than a mystical ability to turn to in secret, when everything else has failed. Used openly with skill and purpose, telepathy is a technology that can be applied to every area of human endeavour with tremendous individual and collective benefits.  Contrary to popular desire, psychic abilities and telepathy don’t work well for picking lottery numbers or winning horses. Telepathy isn’t consistently useful when competition for personal gain at the expense of others is the aim. Predicting the future to avoid negative and unintended consequences does work well, but the true power and potential of telepathy lies in co-creating the future, not predicting it.  Telepathy is far better suited, and exponentially more powerful, when it is used openly, to facilitate cooperation. The real promise and power of telepathy is in its astounding ability to orchestrate and facilitate all sorts of cooperative relationships, interactions, adaptations and transformations. 

 

To appreciate the sophistication and genius telepathy offers in this regard, we have to  look to the miracle of nature. If you look closely, you will notice that everything in nature from schooling fish, to migrating birds, to spawning salmon, to pollinating bees, to the cells in our bodies, functions through a sort of telepathic connection. Anyone who has spent time in nature, or studied it scientifically, is left with a sense of appreciation for the astounding intelligence that appears to orchestrate the natural world. Nature knows when it’s time: when it is time to grow, to hibernate, to migrate, to reproduce, and when it’s time to die. Trees know when, and how to grow, how to harvest sunlight and how to work with bacteria to get nutrients from the soil. Your body knows how to move, grow, breath and work with bacteria in your gut to digest food. Animals know where to travel to find food, or dig dens, even in a changing world, sometimes as if they know the future:  digging dens high on riverbanks to avoid once in a decade spring floods or collectively seeking shelter hours before severe weather or earthquakes. 

 

This knowing, instinctual and collective intelligence we see throughout the natural world can not be found or fully explained by the DNA, brain function or the intelligence of individual organisms. There is something more going on, something bigger, something that looks a lot like a vast collective intelligence coordinating and orchestrating the miracle of nature, the beautiful and immeasurably complex dance of symbiotic, competitive, and synergistic relationships we see at every level of the natural world. Though we can often glimpse this intelligence at work, we can’t explain how it works through physical-material means. The deep interconnectedness we see everywhere in nature functions through an invisible connection that can’t be sampled, measured or seen under a microscope. The connection is non-physical: a sort of telepathic connection.

 

Telepathy is universal to all nature, as well as the human experience. I now teach the concept of natural telepathy rather than law of attraction, karma or destiny because at the heart of all of these concepts is a universal and natural telepathic connection.  When we tune into and consciously use our own natural telepathy, we can tap into the same extraordinary collective intelligence that orchestrates the miracle of nature to guide and inspire our own lives. In doing so, we can create wildly fulfilling, joyful and abundant lives for ourselves, to the benefit of one another and the rest of the planet:  a perspective I like to refer to as win-win-win, or collective synergy.

 

If we can get over our collective fear and embrace what is a natural human ability and really, our first language, telepathy might even help us accomplish results on a global level that few of us can even dream of now, without negative and unintended consequences that harm others and the planet. As with other soft technologies such as language, the telephone, or the internet, the promise and power of telepathy as a technology will only be realized when many people begin using it consciously and cooperatively. Few people dreamt of, let alone predicted, the far reaching ways that the internet and wireless technologies have transformed lives around the globe. The next wave of revolutionary technology might have less to do with little black boxes and more to do with how we collectively use and navigate our own consciousness. 

 

Sadly, even though the reality of telepathy is a broadly proven scientific fact of public record, many people still can’t get past their own skepticism and the question of whether psychic abilities are real or not. It’s natural to be skeptical, but more natural, I think, to be curious, and to follow your curiosity. Those who do embrace the reality of these abilities often can’t get past the awe or amazement that these abilities arouse when experienced first hand, are stuck in wonder and proving the existence of these abilities, and don’t do anything productive these abilities.  Collectively, we can’t even get to the interesting questions, like,  “What can we do with telepathy?” or “How much could telepathy improve our lives and collective fate?”.  

 

I’ve done my best in recent years to distance myself from any talk of spirits, ghosts or the paranormal, as well as the words such as “psychic-medium”, because the fear these words arouses distracts from the real magic and benefits of telepathy. That said, I still spend a lot of time talking to dead people (I prefer the term dead people to spirit or disincarnate - it’s less spooky - dead people are just people, without physical bodies). I’ve learned a lot talking to dead people over the years, and, I think the key to understanding how telepathy works happens to lie in the answer to a question people ask a lot: “What’s it like to be dead?”.  So even though this is a book about telepathy, “What’s it like to be dead?” is where we have to start. 

 

Although the question comes up a lot, people tend to avoid the real question, and the real answer, by asking something like:  “What’s it like on the other side?” as if death is a vacation destination. Death is an uncomfortable subject that people tend to avoid, to their detriment. When we get comfortable with the question of death, a huge range of fears and anxieties often disappear from our lives. It’s a very important question, and I spent years taking every opportunity I could to ask dead people the question directly. For a long time, the bizarre range of seemingly evasive stories I received made it seem as if the question was not an important one.  In fact, most dead people I asked the question of didn’t answer at all, as if nothing was the answer.

 

Of course, talking to dead people isn’t like having an ordinary conversation. They communicate without words. They show me images and share perspectives and feelings with me. If you’ve ever played charades or Pictionary, you can imagine some of the challenges of my job.  I have had lots of dead people show me pictures that might be construed as something like heaven. A three year old who died after being struck by a car once showed me that, when he wasn’t visiting his living siblings in the playroom of their new home, he went to school. The school he showed me was outside in the grass, which was blue, and there were lots of bunnies hopping around. There were other kids there, and he liked his teacher a lot. More than a few men I’ve talked to have shown me images of themselves fishing, or golfing ‘on the other side’ in stunning landscapes, but for the most part, dead people don’t share a lot specific information on the subject.

  

Communication challenges aside, I realize in hindsight that the stories dead people show me aren’t evasive at all, rather the stories are the answer, but not the kind of answer we’re used to. You have to put a lot of stories and pieces together to get the kind of answer living people want.  Dead people don’t give the types of answer we’re used to, I think, because their minds simply don’t work the way our earthly thinking minds do. Many of the things that we are so deathly concerned with while alive don’t even register as something to think or talk about when you’re dead. Rather than what it’s like on the other side, or what they do when they’re not talking to me, most of the dead people I talk to simply want to connect with their loved ones, let them know that they're alright, reminisce and maybe help them heal something so they can make their time here on earth their highest quality experience. In fact, the first thing all dead people almost universally share with their loved ones is “I’m good” by sharing images of themselves smiling, youthful, vital, strong, healthy and happy which is probably really the best indication of what it’s like to be dead.   

 

Dead people also love to talk about what they loved in life, and it’s even easier for them to communicate about an interest if it’s also an interest of mine. If I share an interest with a dead person, we share a vocabulary, both sensory and verbal, and the passion and emotions they share with me are heightened, which can make for some entertaining exchanges. For example, I love to cook, which means that anyone who comes through whom also loved to cook in life can, and will, show me foods they used to make, how they made it, and sometimes the ingredients. Sometimes they share who’s making that favourite dish now, which ingredients are being left out, what new ingredients are being added, and sometimes even all the ways the recipe has since been mangled by the new cooks all so I can rib living family members. Maybe it’s partly because I love to cook so much, or possibly just that food is what brings family together most often, but I spend a lot of time talking food with dead people.

 

Sometimes dead people share what they’ve learned since their death. They often come through with a completely clean, objective retelling of the facts of their life, often taking full responsibility for their life, and for some, even owning up to things they would never have owned up to in life. I once even had the very strange experience of having a conversation with a dead mobster who had killed a lot of people. It was already happening before we realized who he was. I didn’t feel any danger or any kind of threat. He wasn’t evil or unpleasant, he just shared the facts of his life. That was all. No muss no fuss.

 

What I want to make really clear is that the dead people I talk to are still people with fully intact personalities, preferences, likes, dislikes, memories and some, though not all, emotions. They’re very much like normal people to talk to, except they communicate through thoughts that mimic sensory information rather than words, and are never in a bad mood (with two notable though rare exceptions). Their personalities, quirks and habits come through loud and clear. The less I get in the way, the clearer the personality of whomever I’m talking to comes through.  Dead people reference and communicate with the same quirks, mannerisms, memories and preferences they had in life. The only thing they have left behind, other than their body, seems to be the part of their mind that created stress, anger, worry, hate and fear while they were on earth. Turns out we have a lot to learn from the dead.

 

I do need to take a moment to talk about the two exceptions to the universal beneficence of dead people. Most dead people report experiencing death as an instant relief from physical and emotional pain, as well as from negative or impaired thinking. Alzheimer's patients report their mind functioning perfectly upon death, and having spent protracted periods outside of their body during the latter stages of their disease. People who have died of cancer and other such progressive illnesses also report popping in and out of their bodies as they transitioned towards physical death, especially when heavily medicated or in pain. Car crash victims who passed instantly often show images of the crash scene from inside the car and then from about ten feet above looking down. Sometimes they imply a popping sensation before they tell me:  “....and then I was out...it wasn’t that bad.”

 

I’ve never met a murder victim who had any interest in helping police catch their killer, let alone seeking justice or vengeance. Every murder victim I’ve met has encouraged their family and friends to focus on their life, on good times together and on connection, not on a brief moment of tragedy. From their perspective, they can see and understand how everything works itself out, seeing justice and karma from a much higher perspective than we do. Even the most innocent victims of heinous crimes, like a young local girl, who was abducted and murdered by someone she knew, who I’ve talked to a number of times, doesn’t want to talk about her killer. Murder victims want to visit and enjoy their time and connection with the people they loved in life, and often encourage living family members to let go of anger and the desire to catch or punish their killers. 

 

A few dead however people do seem to need some time to let go of their earthly mind’s thinking patterns. For example, a distant neighbour of mine’s father once showed up in my driveway as I was leaving my house. He was panic stricken and distraught. He had been murdered only hours before, just a few kilometres from my home and was so deep in his feelings of panic and fear about the fight he was just in, that his focus kept him attached to his physical life. As I talked to him though, helping him notice that he was okay, even though he didn’t have a physical body anymore, his state shifted. He became less demanding and fearful, and softened both emotionally and energetically. It only took a few minutes for him to calm down and go on his way. Quite a few people seem to need a few days, usually the time between their death and their funeral, to acclimate to their new state, and many still behave as if they have a physical body during that time, getting around by riding in cars, buses, or by walking for example.  

 

I have also had the experience of speaking with dead people who were addicts or narcissists in life, deeply focused in anger and drama, whose negative focus continued for a short time after their death. I have done follow up sessions with a few of these people over the course of several years following their deaths and I’ve noticed that, in every case, these people become more and more accountable, apologetic, wise and lovely as time passes, allowing their living families to reconcile, forgive and come to terms with how they were in life, as well as see how far they’ve come after their deaths.

 

I cringe to bring up the second exception to the universal beneficence of dead people because of the stigma and fear associated with it. Still, I must responsibly address the entities I call the loveless: the negative dead people who won’t, or can’t, let go of their earthly focus and accompanying negative emotions, sometimes referred to as earthbound spirits. Such people, who do not seem to have any loving connections, or perhaps the capacity to love, can show up while working in altered states, particularly when there’s a negative focus like investigating murders, or paranormal phenomenon. 

 

Most haunting type phenomenon I have investigated (back when I was interested) have not involved dead people at all. Most haunting phenomenon in my experience stem from energy signatures, sort of like memories having been imprinted upon spaces; memories that play over and over in loops that people entering the space can experience. There is really no danger from such energy signatures, unless you consistently focus on the energy signature, and start to unconsciously play it out in your life. However, focusing on anything negative or unpleasant in altered states, doing such work with a fearful mindset, or in secret as if it’s something to be ashamed of, can bring resonant negative beings, or things into your awareness. Avoiding such experiences requires clear and purely positive intentions before doing any altered state work, a positive emotional state, and preferably wise and experienced guidance. Even with disciplined focus and thorough preparation though, unwanted and unpleasant interactions can and do happen at first. 

 

If negative encounters do happen, in my experience, if you believe you are safe and act accordingly, you are safe. You have a body, and anyone that doesn’t can’t physically harm you,  however they can impact your energetic body, scare, and annoy you if you let them. Calm confidence, knowing that you are safe, along with learning to firmly shift your focus away from unpleasant things and exerting firm and healthy boundaries in every regard is the best psychic protection in altered states, and in life, that I’ve been able to find so far. I am not alone in having had some tough experiences though, such as being shown grizzly images or being aggressively screamed at while I’m trying to concentrate. This happens with regularity in the general population but rarely gets spoken of, to the detriment of many. 

 

Statistically, around one in ten people have heard voices spontaneously and many of these people end up dealing with such experiences in fear and isolation, fearing that, if they seek help, they will be met with one of two answers, if not both:  they’re imagining things, or they’re crazy. These encounters with the loveless can be emotionally scarring or traumatizing if you let them, but they don’t need to be. I think we need to acknowledge that these encounters do occur, and collectively learn how to deal with them in clear, effective, and empowered ways. You don’t need to fear the entire universe because of one bad neighbourhood and a few miserable people.  What I would like to stress is that the potential applications of telepathy are endless, and do not need to involve the paranormal, solving crimes, dead people, or anything negative or unpleasant at all. 

 

Apart from the anomalies above, what is universally consistent about the dead people I talk to, is their absence of anger, guilt, stress and worry. They come through to me with peace and ease.  They don’t communicate anything to me from a place of fear or stress. It’s as if they are missing the ability to feel negative emotions altogether. They will often share the kinds of emotions they lived with in their life but only to explain their circumstances or perspective. They never do blame, or become angry in the moment, ever. Some dead people even apologize for their negative emotions in life, but they never communicate from a place of guilt or shame.  It’s not like they’ve lost any personality; quiet people are still quiet; people who were loud or obnoxious in life are still just as loud, and usually the first to come through, sometimes even interjecting over other dead people long after they’d supposedly finished talking. What dead people share with me most of all is love, sometimes with such overwhelming intensity that it makes me cry. I feel deeply lucky to be able to communicate this way; it’s a profoundly sacred and beautiful experience.  

 

Although it may seem trite, I cannot emphasize enough that while working in altered states the most important element or ingredient to include is unconditional love. Think of love as a way of focusing the mind, a powerful skill and ability, and a measure and flavor of connection. The ability to attain, retain and focus from a loving state is, I believe, what permits telepathic communication, as well as what keeps you safe in altered states. You can end up in some unpleasant places if your focus slips towards fear, anger, anxiety or judgement in altered states of consciousness. Emotions in altered states are like Velcro hurled out into the dark in search of a match: there are plenty of matches to any emotional state and you get back what you put out. 

 

Unconditionally loving states, states of pure love, harmlessness and gentle curiosity are required to create the telepathic connections that allow conscious telepathic communication. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that avatars, sages and saints, people who have historically been reported to have various superpowers, from knowing the future and the nature of the universe to making wine out of water, have all also been living embodiments of love and have primarily taught about love. Unfortunately, I think the institutionalization of these teachings about love has created widespread confusion between concepts of what love is and the state of being that such concepts point to and flow from. 

 

Untangling some of this confusion, the notion that love has conditions, is about being nice, grandiose gestures, romance, sex or self-sacrifice is a key step in accessing and understanding telepathic abilities. To untangle such confusion, I often refer my clients to heart centred therapy, or suggest reading material like, Diane Zimberoff’s book, Breaking Free From the Victim Trap, or The Power of Ted by David Emerald. Diane and David both eloquently describe the life dramas that ensue when we place conditions on love and acceptance, and live on the co-dependent triangle:  in the roles of victim, persecutor and rescuer, roles Zimberoff says seven out of ten families relate to one another and function through. To get a sense of your own ability to access loving states, and telepathic connection, consider the places and ways you already love, feel loved and experience joy in your life. These are the places and ways you are already in connection in life, and are excellent places to begin exploring from.

 

When you start putting all the pieces together, dead people’s complete absence of stress and fear makes sense: they’re dead; they don’t have to worry about survival because their death has already happened. From what I can deduce after years of what seemed like cute stories and cryptic babbling, dead people seem to spend time creating whatever experience they want in a shared, spontaneously created environment with the ease and speed of thought. Think about that for a second. You can think of your favourite food and your favourite place, and your favourite thing to do, and boom, you’re eating your favourite food, in your favourite place, doing your favourite thing instantaneously as you think the thought. No waiting, no compromise, no working for weeks or months to save up for what you want, no planning, scheming, competing or worrying about variables or surprises. 

 

While you entertain yourself with your favourite things, others can join you, or not, and when you’re over it, you can go play in someone else’s creation or a new one of your own. Heaven is a good name for a place like that if you ask me. I have never once had a dead person reference lack, pain or judgment in their experience since their passing in any way, let alone the existence of hell, no matter how they were in life, including the hundreds of people I’ve talked to who have taken their own lives. Now, I haven’t gone looking for such places either, and they may exist in some way, but no dead person has ever taken me there, nor do I have any interest in seeing or experiencing such places, if they do exist at all.  

 

So, the first part of the answer to the question “What’s it like to be dead?”, is, it’s liberating. The problems of earth are gone and there don’t seem to be any new problems let alone any judgement, fire or brimstone. There is no hunger, no vulnerable body to fuel or protect from disease or attack, no money to earn, no rent to pay, no ageing and no need to argue over anything. There’s never a rush because there isn’t the same time crunch we have the minute we are born into a body with an expiry date. The environment dead people seem to exist in is so different from the environment we live in, that dead people have no need for the part of our minds that we use to function and survive on this planet:  the part of our minds that I call the survivor mind or the bio-mind.  Without their earthly survivor minds, dead people’s minds are much cleaner, faster, freer and more objective than our thinking minds; clear facts and insight minus the running emotional commentary that so often bogs down our daily lives. For me, the difference between dead people’s minds and most living people’s minds is jarring and clear, with a few notable exceptions. 

 

Some living people’s minds are very much like dead people’s minds. The minds of more than a few exceptional and lovely people on this planet aren’t bogged down with the emotional baggage, worries, guilt, anger and stress that most of us carry around. Almost every living person has moments in life where they escape their survivor mind, drop their worries, judgements and fears, show up in the moment, and suddenly turn into lovely, radiant beings, just like our dead friends. These moments are also often moments of clarity, wisdom, love and connection, or moments of epiphany where brilliant ideas show up, amazing things are accomplished and beautiful things happen. These are the moments and times when we lose ourselves in something we love, and time flies by; times of connection, delight, laughter, fun and joy. 

 

What I’ve come to realize is that although we all have survivor minds, and we need them to function on the planet, we also have what I call connected minds:  the part of our minds that dead people live in, that we all come from, and will all return to. You could call this part of yourself your spirit or soul, but I don’t think such words capture the true nature of this part of the self. A soul is something you have, protect and save, not something that is part of you, that you can access at will, just as you can access your thinking mind. Spirits can seem scary rather than something that is an intimate part of you, a part of you that is more You than your body and thoughts are You;  and spirits are certainly not thought of as the true source of inspiration, clarity, love and peace within ourselves. 

 

We all have connected minds, and our connected minds are more who we are than our thinking survivor minds:  our connected minds are our authentic selves. We all naturally cycle between our connected minds and our survivor minds organically all day, but we can choose which part of our minds we want to spend time in and use. Most of us have become so focused in our survivor minds and bogged down with earthly problems and worries that we spend little time in our connected minds. We have forgotten that we can go into our connected minds at will, and we’ve forgotten how to get there. Many of us have tuned right out of our connection to the greater whole altogether, and can no longer get in touch with the part of ourselves from which inspiration, happiness, and ease flows.  We spend little time in connection, and live mostly in our problem solving, worrying, stressed out survivor minds, so much so that we have come to fear our natural telepathic connection to the world.

 

To get back in touch with this sacred part of ourselves, our connected minds, and remember how to access their power and potential, we need to go back to the second part of the answer to the question of  “What’s it like to be dead?”. The answer:  it’s not that different from being alive. If you’re already showing up in your own life, playing and loving, and not stressed out, worried and angry all the time, you’re spending time in your connected mind. You already understand what it’s like to be dead, though that’s just part of the experience.  To really explain what it’s like to be dead, I’d like to tell you about a  friend of mine, we’ll call Bradley, who best answered the question “What’s it like to be dead” for me, and in doing so, helped me truly see for the first time what it’s like to be alive.  

 

A few years ago, not long after I’d decided to try and explain the mechanics of being psychic and write a book, Bradley passed away. He was a surgeon and a very special man who touched and saved the lives of many. His passing was a loss the entire community felt. The morning of his funeral, he showed up at my house. He was excited, but still a little thrown by the unexpected persistence of his consciousness. As a medical doctor, part of him was absolutely sure that his consciousness existed only because of, and in his brain, and the logical, doctor part of his mind hadn’t expected that he would exist after death. He appreciated the new freedom and abilities he had and was totally stoked to talk about his experience. 

 

What Bradley loved most was that he was free of the confines of the body, and even more so, his brain. When we got in the car to go to the funeral, Bradley jumped in the backseat. He shared with me that his experience was that his brain had actually slowed his mind remarkably and being free of it was a wonderful relief, like a weight had been lifted. He could now get answers to questions just by wondering about the question or subject. He could not only travel wherever he wanted just by thinking about where he wanted to go, he also found that he had instantaneous access to any information or understanding he wanted, and no subject seemed to be out of reach or over his head. Like Google only way better!  

 

Bradley’s perspective let me firmly put the pieces of the psychic puzzle together and let go of all the baggage, stories, fears, judgements, and half truths that science, religion and pop culture have projected onto what is just a basic human ability. When I could finally see the raw ability clearly, I started to see and feel for the first time in my life, what it is really like to be human, and I could also clearly see how we have been taught to be afraid of who we are and our basic wiring. I used to explain that to access psychic information, I would alter my state through meditation and create a blank space in my mind. From this state, where part of me was ‘one with everything’ I would wonder about whatever, or whoever I wanted to know about. Information and understandings about whatever I wondered about would then instantaneously pop into this blank space in my mind, as if I was directly connected to whatever or whoever I was wondering about.

 

The way Bradley described death to me was exactly like my experience of getting psychic information, and exactly how I did what I did as a telepath. It also explained why dead people provide such good advice, and why psychic information during my sessions often came from the dead people I was talking to, rather than me having had to look for it during mediumship sessions. Bradley had inadvertently given me the best answer I had ever thought of to the question “How do you do what you do?”  Finally, thanks to Bradley, I had an explanation that really made sense:  I am just bringing  awareness to the part of my mind that dead people live in, and we all have. I’m not doing anything special or unusual, I’m just freeing myself from my brain and my survivor mind momentarily, and using a part of my mind that we all have and will all return to:  my connected mind.

 

In your connected mind, everything is just a thought away. You’re connected to everything, all at once. You can relax in calm awareness and enjoy the feeling of connection, or you can focus on something -  a person, place or thing - and get intimate information about any aspect of what you’re focusing on. It’s almost as if you momentarily become the thing you’re focusing on; like you understand it from the inside. When you’re fully in this part of your mind, it always feels safe and familiar; you just know that everything is going to be okay; that you will be okay.  To get details about anything, you merely wonder about it,  or who you want to talk to and you connect with it or them on a level that is best described as knowing, or what I call clairiscience. You don’t get word answers,  it’s more like information comes in blocks or thought bubbles that contain all sorts of details, like the connection is mind - to- mind or mind- to- source: communication happens through your inner senses.

 

In more new age terms, you connect to the energy of someone or something; how it feels in its totality. It’s information without words, raw information that needs to be translated as well as contextualized for it to make sense or be useful. It’s not always easy to decipher and understand what you’re looking at with your connected mind or what it relates to, let alone what it means. It’s a skill that can be remembered, since it’s an ability we all naturally possess but have forgotten how to use. The real challenge is distinguishing your connected mind from your survivor mind’s projections, judgments and beliefs about how it thinks and imagines things should be, a challenge that becomes more and more difficult the more you try.

 

This book is not about convincing anyone that there is a connected mind, you know this place. You may already know this place really well, and seek it out regularly without consciously noticing or being able to explain the experience. Everyone on the planet spends some time in their connected mind, or has mastered using it in a particular way. Anytime you lose yourself doing something you love, when time seems to fly by, or slow down, when details or connections jump into sharp focus, everything is suddenly clear, you are in your connected mind. You’ve probably had many such moments, on a quiet nature walk, maybe cooking, painting, drawing or acting on stage, having a meaningful heart to heart with someone, playing a sport, or maybe while running or doing yoga. Almost all of us know this place, and intuitively seek it out for pleasure, to feel peace, or solve problems, but for the most part, we don’t have the slightest inkling what’s possible when we bring consciousness and skill to this place.   

 

Learning about the connected mind can help you accomplish the extraordinary in life, the arts, athletics or business and can open the doorways to developing your own siddis, or mind powers, but that’s not really what this book is about. More than anything, it is about accepting and playing in the connected mind. I want to share what I’ve discovered and  in doing so, give you a new lens through which to see the world, and maybe your life.  

 

To start, before I explain my personal experience of the connected mind, how to access your own, and what you’ll find when you do, I have to address the biggest barriers most people face in accepting and understanding telepathic abilities:

• Mistaken identity - the belief that you are your body, and that your mind is the product of nerve activity in your brain (and is therefore stuck within your skull, isolated from the world except through the physical senses, and will cease to exist with the demise of the body).

• Materialism - the belief that nothing other than physical matter exists and that anything that cannot be explained by the interactions of material things is impossible.

• Overconfident modernism - the belief that modern science (or any one book) has all the answers, and that we know pretty much all there is to know about the universe, the body, the brain, and the human condition.

• Fear of the unknown, which masquerades mostly as denial and dismissal in modern society.

 

To understand telepathy, and eventually get you back into your own telepathic abilities, there is a lot to unlearn. We have all experienced a surprisingly vast number of little moments over the years that have deeply implanted limiting beliefs into our psyches; beliefs that keep us out of connection and can be hard to let go of. It’s surprising how visceral and irrational our reactions can be when we are first faced with undeniable evidence of the reality and power of telepathic abilities, or have our own connected mind experiences. 

Initially, it all seems like magic, which many of us have been trained to fear. It’s time to stop living in the dark ages though, time to stop fearing, persecuting and denying the existence of everything we don’t yet understand. To do so, we’re going to have to get a little uncomfortable while we look at some science, explained from a telepath’s perspective, to unravel some of the deeply held beliefs we’ve all absorbed through school, the media and little moments over the years. It’s important information that should not be glossed over, but feel free to read this book in any order you are inspired to, and skip to Part II - The Connected Mind, if the unlearning gets to be too uncomfortable. Don’t give up too quickly though. Remember, you are far, far more intelligent than conventional wisdom would have you believe (as you will soon find out), and in your connected mind, nothing is beyond your understanding. Any understanding you desire is accessible when you let yourself slip into connection, gently wonder, and follow your curiosity.