MY STORY

Some years ago, I embarked on the journey of a lifetime — or maybe several lifetimes. I had lived a fairly nomadic professional life, moving from one career or enthusiasm to another. I'd been in the air force, worked as a probation officer, taught young people, and been a professional cyclist. Once, when I was working as a probation officer, my chief described my life as being "rich with escapades." She wasn't entirely wrong, and in spite of the fact that the description appeared accurate, it was not how I would have described it. I had an overwhelming sense — a primordial urging — that something was not right, that there must be more to life than this seemingly fortunate life I was leading.

I remember sitting in my office, comfortably employed with the state in a position many would have been thrilled to hold, knowing I was not living up to my potential. Life should be engaging, passion-filled, and stimulating. That realization prompted a couple of questions I had never asked myself before: What exactly is my potential? How do I go about pursuing it?

These questions brought awareness that the only way to complete fulfillment was to embrace the thing I had inwardly desired my entire life — the development of my mind, my consciousness, my inner leanings, and my psychic propensities.

Once I committed myself to this journey of self-discovery, I focused all my attention on growing an awareness of my higher self, my connections with the universe, and the psychic abilities I had overlooked and ignored. I haven't looked back since that day.

I began formal psychic training at the Chico Psychic Institute. Later, I studied at the Reno Psychic Institute in Reno, Nevada. Shortly thereafter, I discovered mediumship abilities and studied at Mystic Shift Mediumship School. Each class and each new revelation served to kindle my excitement and energy for more. My skills were expanding, and my abilities were blossoming and developing. I no longer had superficial ideas about the psychic realm and just how psychic development happens. I studied and read everything I could and began practicing my innate abilities earnestly and sincerely. Several psychic practices caught my interest, but I was most intrigued by the practice of controlled remote viewing, what I now call Distant Sensing.

Like anyone who embarks on this lifestyle quickly discerns, I had an inclination for practices for which I later learned I had a talent. I soon discovered that practice was Distant Sensing. I found it captivating and fascinating. With fervor, I sought out expert guidance from Dr. Paul H. Smith, one of the longest-serving remote viewers in the Star Gate psychic military espionage program. Distant Sensing was a scientific connection to a profession — psychic examination — that I knew to be valid but others found hard to trust. I believed that if the Central Intelligence Agency found value and significance in psychic research, it was possible to change the public's negative perceptions and prejudices.

If you're reading this book, you must be curious about the powers of the mind. Like me, you may have the feeling there is more to life than can be explained by our physical experience of the world. Quoted in the book The Joy of Kindness by Robert Furey, I thoroughly believe what the French philosopher and Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, wrote about the reality of living: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

It didn't take long before I teamed up with Deborah King, an internationally known life coach and alternative healer, and things changed even more dramatically. Her biography — a study in overcoming obstacles, moving on to success, and the recounting of her quest for self-knowledge — resonated with me. It was her life story that led me to realize the importance and impact of reaching one's higher self. Deborah helped me orient my teaching and focus my objectives. I soon opened my own practice and currently work to help thousands who need answers to life's big questions. My practice consists of mediumship, controlled remote viewing (Distant Sensing), psychic readings, and intuitive life coaching. It is my hope that you will dive deeply into exploring your own higher self and give credit to your special psychic callings.

TAKE THE LEAP: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE PSYCHIC

The steps we take on life's journey are fraught with ups and downs, misconceptions and falsehoods, unexpected realizations and unprecedented understandings. Life is learning. Even our ability to observe firsthand events correctly is impacted by the inability of our brains to record more than five specific facts at one time. The other facts — rightly or wrongly remembered — are filtered out of our recollection. Our observations are also influenced by our worldview and past influences, not actual facts. The realm of psychic and otherworldly happenings, like our observations, can't be definitively defined. But in spite of that, the world of psychic phenomena has thousands of followers, and the people who believe in an active, unseen world practice its teachings.

What we do know about this area of life is that such belief structures are part of our culture. The world of active spirituality, of psychic seeing, mediumship, and other psychic modalities, is growing. Just as many people are interested in religious principles and inspirations, many are interested in the mysterious realm of the supernatural. In the past, people thought something was wrong with anyone who thought about psychic or spiritual matters. Now people are curious. They are in the midst of reconsidering any information they've learned about the...