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Some might think this book proves that the Complete Idiot's series is running out of subjects to simplify, but it is more likely evidence that psychic phenomena have finally found acceptance in the mainstream. The perfect bridge between the mundane and the paranormal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic introduces readers to forms of extrasensory perception (ESP)--such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition--and discusses ways to improve personal psychic abilities. Arranged much like a classroom text, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic offers plenty of history on psychic phenomena and information on how established scientific fields view and study the subject. Sidebars handle jargon and technical information with easy-to-understand definitions and examples. You don't have to be a complete idiot to read this book, but even if you are, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic will take the mystery out of ESP. --Brian Patterson

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A famous psychic authors a beginner's guide that welcomes newcomers to the world of the paranormal and shows that it is possible to tap into hidden energies of the mind through intuition and see things no one else can.

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Let's clarify what we suspect you already intuit: Everyone is psychic. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Psychi-atric Intuition, Aug 13 2003

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Patricia B. Ross (Wellesley, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Psychic (Paperback)

When we begin to decide not to fear the world of the mind and embrace it for its unknown rather than condemning its capacity, we may begin to tap into the wonderful rich resource that prevents throwing away the exquisite benefits it offers - daily - to understand each of us, and our integrated existence in the world about us including those with whom we share this wonderful experience of being alive. Rather than fighting it, we might appreciate the opportunities we now ignore as unworthy of our attention and our awareness that now must beat us over the head to compete with our well conditioned intellect to keep us falling all over each other like buffoons, or fish swimming upstream.

Having long relegated those spiritually and intellectually moved by what appears to be paranormal or divine intervention, and too often warehousing them in psychiatric offices and asylums, we may be ignoring what has always been a natural function of living because of our fear and confusion.

As human animals possessed of instinctive intuition, gut reactions are far more likely to be right than wrong given openminded perceptions, yet we continually outsmart ourselves with the precautions we require of ourselves to appear normal usually making our lives far worse in the process than they need to be.

A comprehensive survey like this one provides the alternatives to reduce that fear, to become sensitive to our own potential and to assess the purposes for which we have been assigned this marvelous instinct or intuition, when it can be relied upon to work, and when it might not based upon our ethical use of it and the expectations in our approach of its acceptance in using it.

While unlikely to anticipate the wealth that arises from tapping into it as a rich resource of information, respect for individual capacity in recognizing its power, can produce the intangible benefits that are characteristic of its availability. Without being confined to the type of wealth it affords, an entire world of instinctive intuition that, undiscarded, works to our benefit to unlock that potential. The key is to keep the mind open to those possibilities and respect the human process rather than focusing upon the goal that we "think" we might be seeking and allow the process to work unfettered to unlock those riches.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable book, Aug 25 2002

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What I like about the Complete Idiot's Guide series is that you are assured that the authors involved in writing each specific topic are both well-established and well-respected in their field. And this could not be more true for this book on being psychic. When I became interested in this topic more than 20 years ago, there were very few books around that did not have an "occult" or "other-worldly" tone to it, which I found off-putting. It has been well worth the 20-year wait for a book like this, which deals with all aspects of being psychic from just that gut feeling to astral projection and written in a style that recognizes that these are very real intuitions/communications that a lot of people experience and that can be developed in each individual (although not all people may be able to develop all of the skills). This is a remarkable book that packs in more than you can imagine on this vast topic - well worth buying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great "starter book", July 22 2002

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Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews
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Over the last few months, I've had more and more experiences that one could consider to be "psychic ones." I got this book as one way to learn more about the "psychic world" and what I could do on my own to enhance my psychic abilities. And there's a lot that this book covers. One main thing I did learn was that I need to explore doing meditation. There are a number of meditation exercises listed in this book. There are also numerous anecdotes throughout the book to prove that there is indeed such a thing as "psychic phenomena."

Starting off with determining whether or not you or indeed psychic, a "history" of pyschic-related events through the ages, and what science has to say about psychic phenomena, this book's goal is to inform, not preach and offer some good advice about expanding your psychic awareness, which it does in the second part of the book. Chapters about receiving information, opening up to, and "tuning in" to your awareness are feautred here. There are also later on in the book chapters about psychic healing, hypnosis, telepathy, precognition, channeling messages from "beyond our world," even some "tools of the trade."

There's nothing "new agey" about this book, it presents information in a clear and straightforward manner and one that is easy for everyone to understand.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Idiots
When I read this book I was like "wow"!! I couldn't believe that someone had finally put down into an EASY to understand form all of these theories and techniques for... Read more

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