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, séances, 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, remote healing, 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 endeavor 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 and creativity. 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, breathe 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 cannot 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 nonphysical: 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....