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Yet another myth...the question of whether women are more psychic than men....NOT!

2010-02-22T21:08:00Z

Update

2010-02-22T18:49:00Z

I admit it. I've been a very bad girl. I haven't updated my blog in over a year. What can I say? I've been really busy. And soon you'll be able to see some of the fruits of my labor. So what's new?

I did an interview with the bright and funny Jeff Balanger of Ghost Village. You can read it at www.ghostvillage.com.

I wrote an original article for my friends over at Windbridge, which will be in their March newsletter. You can read about it here...

I finished three rounds of copy-editing for Handbook to the Afterlife, which will be released April 20, 2010. I also created a website for the book at Handbook to the Afterlife

I have the Mind-Matter Book in copy-editing over at McFarland, which will be out as a print and Kindle edition this summer (probably late June 2010) and created a website for that book at Mind-Matter Interaction

And then I created an author page over at Amazon.com (bless them, one of the best resources for new and old parapsychology books today and available to readers around the world). You can see it at Amazon Author Page It has a short bio and a blog of sorts.

I've also be working on three paranormal screenplays, which I'm hoping may eventually catch the interest of Hollywood, a novel, a nonfiction book about the unconscious mind, and lots and lots of paintings. I tend to go underground when I have so many things things to finish, which is why I disappear for a bit. However, if you want to catch me in person, I'm often on the USS Hornet Flashlight Tours and I will be speaking at the California Ghost Hunter's 2010 Conference sponsored by Ghost Trackers in Hayward, California on May 22nd. See you there!

The problem of sensing spirits during group investigation

2008-10-26T17:08:00Z

It has become really popular in recent years to investigate haunted places in really large groups, anywhere from 30-250. I can see the appeal. It's fun. If gives more folks an opportunity to investigate. And there's also the social aspect of seeing, and hanging out with, your friends. Group events can pay for access to locations that might be hard to see otherwise. You can hear interesting speakers. So, there's a lot to recommend it. But it has drawbacks, too.

You generally don't see parapsychologists working real cases with groups larger than about four or five if they want to do a serious investigation. My own preference is to work with one or two others. It's not about ego or exclusivity, or even just the difficulty of controlling variables that screw up EVPs and other forms of evidence. It's that your senses are stretching to be aware of something very subtle. The living put out the same energy as the dead. Your job as a psychic is to distinguish a shift in the energy. So, the living can confuse and obscure the subtle energy you're trying to pick up from ghosts. Now, there are very gifted professionals who can do this easily, but most parapsychologists and ghost investigators (especially if trying to improve their natural psychic abilities) will have trouble when dealing with a low signal to noise ratio.

Let me give you a comparison. Say you're at a party, and you're trying to listen for the arrival of one or more particular newcomers. The larger and louder the party, the harder it will be to sense, and speak with, your awaited guests --especially if they're a bit shy and quiet to begin with. Of course, if someone (living or dead) really wants your attention, they can do so regardless of whether you're watching for them or surrounded by a group! But it's always easier to sense spirits when you're alone or with a handful of others.

So, while group investigations are fun, they also create a lot of "noise" from the living (who put out as much or more energy than the dead) that makes it hard to pick out the more quiet energetic shifts of the dead and the subtle information of place memory (sometimes called "residual energy" in ghost hunting circles). This is especially true for beginners.

Is there a way to compensate? Sure. It's called meditation and practice. It may surprise you that not all of what you need to practice involves psychic tasks. There's also an element of this, which is simply learning how to really LISTEN to others, which you can perfect with the living. Very few of us do this well unless early in the stages of romance. Spend time really paying attention, completely, 100%, to what people you interact with on a daily basis are saying. Not only will in improve your interpersonal relationships, but it will also help you to connect with the dead.

The second factor has to do with the fact that we all have psychic abilities. Every one of us--even skeptics. There are plenty of places to find exercises that you can use to develop these natural abilities. I list a few on my main website (www.pamelaheath.com) in the FAQ pages. Annette Martin also has a nice workbook out called "Discover Your Psychic World" with the exercises she assigns her students. Mostly it boils down mostly to learning how to still your own thoughts and practicing in ways where you can get tangible feedback. Then build up your experience at putting it into action, starting with simple or small things, and working your way up to more complex situations. You'll have more success, and probably a lot more fun that way, too!

Tuning Spirits In

2008-03-01T21:19:00Z

A number of things piqued my curiousity at the Queen Mary. One of them occurred when I was standing in line, waiting to register for the event, surrounded by ghost hunters. Every few minutes a spirit would be there, tapping me on the neck to get my attention so they could talk to me (it was a busy, BUSY time). But the people around me, who were there to see the ghosts, were oblivious. And it made me think that many folks don't understand how they can see spirits. For the most part, it's just a matter of tuning them in.

Think of your consciousness as a kind of radio tuner. You can slide your mind up or down through various states, like turning the dial, letting you tune in various channels or stations. We all do this every day. There's nothing special about it. Normal states include awake and alert, daydreaming, sleeping, deep thought, prayer, meditation, road hypnosis, etc.

Tuning spirits in involves being aware of two things. First, that you CAN do it. It's just a matter of practice, which is where meditation can help you (it limbers up your ability to change your state of consciousness in a controlled, intentional way). Second, that what you can tune into easily will depend on what your level of vibration is. Believe it or not, we vary. Some, especially if they are spiritually developed, normally operate on a higher frequency than others. For them, it takes less effort to tune in spirit guides (who have to drop their vibrations less to connect with you than they might for others), but may take more effort to tune in negative entities. Think of it as being like where you start on the dial. Say you are low down on the frequency rate, at 92 FM. You only have to go a short ways to reach 94 FM (which could be a low level spirit, near the earth plane in frequency). But to reach a spirit guide at 107 FM, you have to go farther, work a bit more to dial up to them. On the other hand, if you were meditating regularly and spiritually, you might normally live at a level of 102 FM, you might find it easier to bump up to, and connect with, the spirit guides than to try to drop your frequency to tune in low level spirits. Because of this, not all psychics will be able to easily get all types of being.

One way to connect with those spirits who don't come easily to you is to watch for signals they may give you to let you know they are there and want you to tune in. For me, I get extremely cold when high level guides are around (their signal to let me know they are there and I should tune in), whereas I will feel earth-bound ghosts tapping me lightly on the back of the neck to get my attention. Really negative entities can be felt by the yuckiness or heaviness of the energy (it's like an oil slick fouling the water).

With effort and practice you should be able to tune in most spirits at will. It's all a matter of practice and paying attention to not just to the outer world, but also your inner one.

Karma

2008-02-12T00:04:00Z

I've recently heard a number of folks talk about the fact that they won't interfere with a ghost, even if it is hurting one or more others because of the issue of karma.

I think the real problem may be that they don't understand what karma really IS.

I've read a great deal on the topic, both from living enlightened masters and the dead. From what I can tell, karma boils down to one thing: your choices have consequences. There is a reason for this and it's not about payback or balancing the scales. It's that those choices will draw the best lessons--the ones you most need to learn--to you.

Understand one thing. The spirits say there are no right or wrong choices. Some choices are simply "more enlightened" and draw more pleasurable lessons to you than others. What spirits say IS important, is that you make thoughtful, well-considered choices. That's really what they care about, along with good intentions. Intentions are nearly everything in the spirit realm--far more important than the consequences that may follow.

Now, say you see a spirit that is harming others, whether living or dead. You don't know the karma of those involved. Of course, if you're psychic, you can SIMPLY ASK. I mean, come on! Why not? Tune in your guides or those of the spirits involved (they're always there if you look) and ask, "What's the situation here? Is it in the best interests of those involved for me to interfere?" If they tell me to leave things be, then I will. But if the guides say "Yes," then I have no qualms at all about intervening.

But what if you aren't psychic? What then? Should you interfere?

Yes.

Let me explain why. What you need to understand is that once your path crosses that of the spirits, it is no longer simply about their karma, it's also now about YOURS. Your choice is one that will draw consequences to you, so you would be wise to consider what you want it to say about your intentions. Are you someone who turns a blind eye to violence (whether emotional, spiritual, or physical) done to others? We're not talking self-defense, which does not continue any further than absolutely necessary.

Maybe it would help if I give you two analogies. Let's consider a situation where harm is unintentional.

Say you see a 2-year old child throwing a tantrum, kicking and screaming on the ground, flailing around. And there are little kittens there, getting crushed and hit. Now, the child may not know it is breaking the kittens' bones. The child may simply be thoughtless and not intend harm. Moreover, you don't know whether one of the kittens may have scratched or bitten the child to start the incident. The question is, would you stop it? I would. I'd pick the child up (doing my best not to hurt them) and move them to a safe location where they can no longer cause harm, or have worse to feel about when the tantrum is over and they realize what they have done.

Let's look at another situation. Deliberate harm.

What if you saw a teenager beating up a homeless man with a baseball bat. It's happened. What would you do? Would you turn a blind eye and walk away? Or would you try to sort things out, ask what's going on, maybe ask the teenage to stop or take away the bat? You don't know the karma between them. But does it really matter? One person is abusing another. It's now YOUR karma, YOUR choice, what you do about it. It's no longer just THEIRS.

My own feeling is that two wrongs don't make a right. There are more enlightened ways for lessons to be learned than through abusing others. And as someone who tends to be very tuned into karmic issues as a psychic, I've seen the desire for karmic payback get WAY out of hand, even if it started as a consensual situation, with all parties in agreement that it would be acceptable. And it's crossed the line, to where the soul "getting even" for what may have happened in the past, ends up creating bad karma for themselves because of going overboard. And if you could have stopped that, then that becomes your bad karma, as well.

There's something used a lot in the medical and business worlds, which is called a decision tree. This is a way of figuring out how to deal with situations you might encounter. It starts with a question and looks at what one would ask or do, depending on whether the answer to that question is yes or no. You can see my own decision tree for dealing with ghosts as a PDF file if you click on the link below. Needless to say, it reflects my belief that, once a ghost has crossed my path and my karma becomes involved, I not only have a right to intervene but it is necessary for me to make a thoughtful, well-intentioned choice for how to deal with things, and to carry that choice out.

My ability to move ghosts on makes it my responsibility to act should it be necessary. To do anything else, is, in my opinion, simply wrong.

PDF Decision Tree for Dealing with Ghosts