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Friday, March 25, 2011

Psychic Mind: The Psychic Art of Automatic Writing

The Psychic Art of Automatic Writing by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

I have no memory of how I got a copy of James Joyces’ FINNIGANS WAKE, an experimental literary novel, back when I was maybe only 14. I found it impossible to understand, but I did read the Introduction that conjectured that first of all, the author employed the “stream of consciousness” technique, but most interesting was the psychic interpretation, that Joyce had “caught” the book via AUTOMATIC WRITING. That idea really got my attention! So much so that I decided to experiment with automatic writing myself.

I was home alone a lot out on the edge of Grandpa’s farm since both my parents worked, and it must not have been a school day. I set my ballpoint pen to paper, or was it a pencil. I cannot remember. And waited like I’d read about doing. Sure enough. I felt the psychic energy come into my arm and hand, and the pen began to write, ALL BY ITSELF! All I had to do was hold it up and watch. I suppose then as now there was an impression of voice in my head, psychic impressionistic clairaudience objectified in writing, but during that first experiment, nothing but a string of raw filth came spewing out. Every swear word, every dirty word or expression I ever heard or knew, and maybe some I didn’t, spewed forth and out! I was horrified and profoundly afraid. So I pulled back and stopped, vowing I’d never open to that again!

Just as I suspected. I was a totally evil boy, not a budding or natural psychic. I was a Christian, a Methodist, even though I’d begun to question what I heard in church. I even tried to read the entire Bible all the way through but never succeeded. And being the age I was, my adolescent frustrated sex urge was strong. I was a committed masturbator but only because I could not yet get girls. So, I knew I was probably on my way to Hell... in a hand-basket! Upon that psychic experience with automatic writing, I “closed the channel” and never tried the process again until twenty or so years had passed! But when the call to write came again, it was a whole different, and far better, story!

It was 1975, not 1951, and I meditated twice a day. By then I was already reading Tarot for clients. $5 a psychic card reading. I was no longer a college professor after 14 wonderful successful years of teaching, and I was in limbo about what to do with the rest of my life. Having been very successful as a teacher, I don’t know to this day why I didn’t simply wait out the year after Nixon’s budget cuts to Higher Education and make my return in glory. It as if I was psychically, spiritually overshadowed somehow, perhaps by my own High Self, and led to what turned out to be a greater, more satisfying, more growth-producing way of life.

One mid-afternoon, I sat on my sofa in my cheap upstairs apartment in Lansing, Michigan deep in meditation. Suddenly, a psychic voice came into my head and said, “Take up your pen and write.” During meditation I always kept pen and paper at my side in case a bright idea came in. Or a psychic experience I wanted to record. But that day, the day of a special psychic opening, was different. I obeyed, and after all those years, the pen scribbled quickly and smoothly, then doubled back in a swirl at the end of each line, no break, no stop. After my meditation I ran off to see my older lady friend and somewhat mentor, the psychic spiritualist Dorothy. She was delighted with my news.

Dorothy pronounced me then and there a natural psychic channel for Spirit, for the forces of God and Good. She gave me assignments, information I was to ask and receive for her. I passed every test. We were both delighted. Each time she forced money onto me, and told me that I was destined to do The Work. Spiritual work. And because it was to be my way of life, my career, I had to accept pay for services. She told me, and I never forgot, “A servant is worthy of his hire. You must never forget that.” And so it happened just as she predicted.

Automatic writing evolved and became a psychic channel for an inner plane grouping who has worked through me all these many years. My psychic process began when I was a guilt-ridden boy, and only resumed in a new and pure way after much life experience and learning. I had been chosen by Those of the Light in Spirit as a psychic vehicle, channel or mouthpiece here on material earth in service to real people suffering real problems. Once the psychic processes started working through me in a controlled way, I committed to The Work and never looked back. I became one of many vehicles, and like Jesus, I often quote, “Of myself I can do nothing. The Father doeth the Work through me”. God and I are one... Aum, Aum, Aum...

Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A. Please see my website that includes books, blogs and psychic services at http://psychicconsultingbyemail.com. For more information about psychic readings my e-mail my address is psychicmind.vandervoort231@gmail.com

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Psychic Mind: Weather Sensitive Plus A Sleep Tip

Weather Sensitive Plus A Sleep Tip by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

While reading a book by Colin Wilson who wrote on many psychic subjects, I was excited to find a discussion of how certain people are extra-sensitive to weather, and changes in weather. That immediately explained much of my own suffering over the course of my life. Yes, everybody, almost, knows about people who say that their arthritis pain is worse on rainy or cloudy days, and those more sophisticated weather-watchers correlate high and low pressure systems to not only pain, but anxiety. And much else!

Off but near the subject, here is another tip I read about years ago in a book by Dr. Joyce Brothers. Want to know when your natural time for best sleep is? Take your basal temperature every hour for 24 hours. When your body temp DROPS, even if ever so slightly, THAT is the time you will get your deepest and best sleep and rest. It works! I found that at 5AM, I become naturally drowsy and find sleep delicious and easy! If I can sleep between 5 and 10AM and not be disturbed, I wake rarin’ to go! and I am much sharper as a psychic counselor. And I stay good all day and evening. I may have a “bad night” or be “in and out” of sleep, or sleep lightly from say 11PM until 4 or 5AM, but from 5 to 10 I am “down” and “in”!

I have a story that underscores weather sensitivity, a story that proved that for sure I AM a “Weather Sensitive” which goes along with my other sensitivities, psychic and otherwise. Along about the mid-80s (yes I am a geezer) I was living and working as a professional psychic oil finder and business consultant. At the time I was married to the “worst wife of my life”. #5 I think she was. She was determined to have a child, a son, and so I entered her life to help her out. Once the Mama’s Boy was sprung, I split!

While she was incredibly huge and pregnant one day, this was in Austin, Texas, the power went out so we went out for a walk. I walked, she waddled. No complaint from her since her goal was in sight... right down in front of her. I recall how very peaceful and calm I became, in spite of her presence. It was such a balmy peaceful afternoon with no electric buzzing through the lines or in the atmosphere. It had become “Country Calm” like how I grew up in Michigan on the edge of Grandpa’s farm back in the 40s and 50s. But then came the change. I had a profound psychic sense that there was a BIG CHANGE in the air.

My nerves grew taut, I became tense, and I heard a psychic sound experienced clairaudiently. A kind of buzzing, singing, whirring sound that became faster and louder and faster and louder until I wanted to scream! Why? Because the power was coming back on and revvin’ up! and I changed back to my tense and anxious self! It was then I put it together in my mind. My body was sensitive to the all-pervasive electric in the air! I didn’t yet know Colin Wilson’s term “Weather Sensitive”, but I certainly knew that I was one. Not only to weather, but to electric especially, and anything else, such as toxic allergens, that lived unseen in the infested atmosphere.

Not everyone is psychically aware enough to recognize physical and psychical changes within themselves caused by atmospheric variables, and that is fortunate. Being sensitive is not a wonderful way to be in regard to personal comfort. I guess the idea parallels the old saying my father was so fond on, “Ignorance is bliss”. He too was a Weather-Sensitive, and screwily psychic as well, so maybe it is in one’s genetic make-up. My mother often said she was sensitive, but in fact she was only “thin-skinned”, meaning, that her narcissistic feelings were easily and often hurt. When the foot was on the other shoe, however, she had no problem poking a pin in someone else’s sensitive nature. But, we humans often live by that old standard called DOUBLE.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Psychic Mind: What Does Psychic Mean?

What Does Psychic Mean? by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

The psychic tradition no doubt goes back in antiquity before written language came into existence. The Oracle at Delphi and Tiresius, the blind prophet, of Ovid’s Greece and the ODDYSEY are recent expressions of soothsaying. When authentic, and I say that because psychic cons have existed just short of forever, psychic means that which is of EXTRA-RATIONAL function or process. That which transcends or goes beyond reason and its pal, logic. It is the ultimate form of subjectivity that contains truth value.

Normally, as thought by the great mass of humanity, or those capable of thought at all, regard the five senses as basic, and the sixth sense as rare or non-existent. Our sense of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell (especially if one ate saurkraut) are admissible to mass mind. ESP, extra-sensory-perception, is iffy. Psychics are called fortune tellers by mass mind. Esotericists, such as I am, by contrast appreciate the extra-rational functions of human mind. The psychic forms are varied but essentially they are super-forms of the basic five. Inner or clear seeing, transcendent hearing, and so on.

Psychic in general means fore-knowing. One attuned to deeper levels of mind in an altered state of consciousness may discern probable future events. How can one know that which hasn’t happened yet? I conjecture that since ALL IS MIND, any action occurs first as an IDEA, and the stronger the IDEA (or IDEAL FORM as suggested by Plato), the more likely it is to manifest. An attuned psychic may discern an idea that will or is likely to manifest in physical or experiential reality. Such a person, WHEN AUTHENTIC, is called a psychic. But psychism is about a whole lot more than that.

In modern times, and in my case, psychic function or process merges with the psychological counseling arts. Psychic processes are pragmatic. They have use-value. They are helpful in accord with human values. Psychics in our times are counselors of a different order than those who restrict themselves to reason, to that which is socially acceptable, but even in those cases, bright ideas or intuition creeps in the process. If it doesn’t, a psychological counselor is second rate. Oh, intuition, especially women’s, is a more socially acceptable term, but the word psychic is often condemned as, yes, BS.

When someone condemns my psychic work as nonsense, I simply tell them this: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BELIEVE SOMETHING IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE TRUE. I get a blank stare in return, because ignorant people can’t even understand what that means. Is ignorance bliss? Are ignorant people happier than us? My father used to think so, or at least he often said that. Yes, learning can be confusing because there are so many conflicting ideas. Is this or that the truth? We have to think and choose. And that is oh so much work for the lazy-hazy-minded folk.

In short, as in, in brief, psychic is, and those who exercise higher mind know that from long experience. Also, only in the western cultures, those whose god is science, are psychic functions and processes so condemned. So, in some cases, the most educated people remain terminally ignorant when it comes to the subjective, the world of the extra-rational. How stupid is that that intelligent people choose to remain ignorant? And that is my brief rant for today.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Psychic Mind: Metaphysical Terms and Psychic Devices

Metaphysical Terms and Psychic Devices by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

Three basic terms indicating psychic abilities or talents are: clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. In popular media imagery, the clairvoyant is often portrayed as a gypsy fortune teller wearing a bandana on her head and gazing pensively, mysteriously into a crystal ball where supposedly pictures appear and foretell the future. That’s how poorly understood the concept of psychic clairvoyance is to this very day. The Objectivists, the Materialists, the Technologists all are well-understood in popular culture, while subjectivism, mysticism, spirituality and psychic matters are not and often disparaged. Psychics and psychic practices remain part of a fringe culture and are thought to be kooks and self-deluded crazies or cons by mainstream materialists.

Clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience, however, have always been experienced by tuned-in human beings. Maybe even by the Great Ape but we don’t know that for sure. He never said. Clairvoyance or “clear seeing” involves inner pictures that appear, it often seems, in the forehead region where ancient psychic lore tells us the Third Eye resides, that which is connected to the pineal gland. When that opens, it is said, we see images with our inner eye, and those pictures are sometimes MEANING-FULL. They have referents, and may refer to future events, depending on the discussion at hand when such images appear in the head of a clairvoyant type psychic.

Clairaudience is similar, but like clairvoyance, it may be of two types. Our inner hearing may be audible, or it may be impressionistic, an impression of a heard voice. Similarly, a clairvoyant image or picture may be actual or an impression of what is being seen. I have experienced actual or true clairaudience at least twice in my life. The first time, while a passenger in a car that was about to crash, a voice yelled “Wake up!” A split second later I turned and yelled at the driver who had fallen asleep at the wheel, “Wake up!” and we avoided what might have been a tragic auto accident. Many years later, while typing on a book manuscript, the distinct voice of my dying Uncle Frank spoke in my right ear. “I’m goin’ now, Dick,” he told me. He had come to say goodbye. He was back in Michigan, and I was up in the northern Philippines half way around the world. But when I do my psychic channeling from Spirit, the inner voice is impressionistic, not actual or typically auditory.

Clairsentience has to do with our inner feeling or sensing nature. We humans are said to be sentient beings, at the head of the food chain. As carnivores, we are free to eat our way down to the lowest mini-micro-organism. Yum! But seriously, the clairsentient type of psychic person feels his and her way through life. “I have a feeling” such and such is going to happen, and it does. “I sense that” the old maple in the front yard is going to fall on the roof, and it does. Cee-rash! But, if a tree falls in a forest and there is no ear to hear it, clairaudient or not, does it make a sound? But back to my point: clairsentients are like people with extra-sensory radar. They feel their way through life, and if they train themselves to be aware of and interpret their meaningful sensations, they may be called clairsentient.

Psychics come in all forms and combinations, but clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience are the three psychic talents that top the list. Whether a psychic is doing the Ouija Board or reading Tarot Cards or holding a dowsing rod or pendulum, one or more of the above are in operation mentally, psychically. We are MINDS wearing a body. We are SPIRIT-MINDS housed in a seemingly physical body. Are we real, or are we illusory? Only God knows. But we are all, more or less, developed or not, naturally psychic. Even certain objectivist scientists who are often in denial. Being psychic is the nature of the animal.

Psychic Mind: Many are Called, but Few are Chosen

Many are Called but Few are Chosen by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

In saying that many are called, we may mean that many are attracted, many become interested, but few have adequate talent and dedication to become competent or expert in whatever the field of endeavor. So it is with becoming a professional psychic counselor, a spiritual healer and Light Worker. During my development period, perhaps the most exciting and important time of my life during the mid-70s, I had something to look forward to every hour, every minute. Something new to try, to experience, to accomplish.

As a budding psychic, a Seeker on the Path spiritually, a chela or student, I gorged myself on esoteric knowledge and the ancient spiritual wisdom of the ages. Especially the wisdom of India and China. Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta. The Bhagavad Gita, the I CHING, and all the books of the day such as Jane Roberts’ Seth books, THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY, Edgar Cayce, America’s greatest seer, the books of Ruth Montgomery and books about healing such as George Meek’s HEALERS AND THE HEALING PROCESS that introduced me to the psychic surgeons of the Philippines. It was a grand time of psychic unfolding.

Reading Tarot cards came easy. Perhaps something I’d learned as a psychic in a past life some long ago in time, during another incarnation. In a past life regression I saw myself as a scribe to an ancient prelate with a long gray beard, and realized that that was why automatic writing, channeling, came so easy to me. I’d done it before. Until finally my Guides introduced themselves and caused me to have a psychic inner plane initiation that led to my current work as a professional psychic, and, back then, as a healing vehicle as well. “Service serves us,” I wrote. As we serve others in the Light of God, we evolve ourselves. Yes, it was a wonderful time of life.

I’d done fourteen wonderful years as a college professor of modern literature and creative writing, and became poet and writer-in-residence on two occasions. As a poet-writer-teacher, I was ready for a top permanent post, but instead, a personal epiphany put me on a different path, and I was led away to a still yet more fulfilling life, a life of greater freedom and service, and of personal evolution and growth.

I didn’t make a lot of money at first, but that did not matter. From that time on, I traveled to many cities and countries, gave talks and small seminars, went on radio and TV as guest psychic, wowed audiences and attracted clients. I even had along the way eight call-in psychic, metaphysical radio talk shows of my own. I was sailing! And my life had profound purpose and meaning. It still does to this very day... all these many years later. That I was chosen to do important psychic and spiritual work has been and is a blessing, something I could never have conceived of as a boy growing up on the edge of my grandparents’ farm back in Southern Michigan during and after WWII.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Psychic Mind: Good Psychic, Bad Psychic

Good Psychic, Bad Psychic by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

Good character and right motive is the very first thing a client ought to look for when choosing a psychic counselor. When I was first called to do “The Work”, I puzzled over taking money for doing the work of Spirit. Because the great Law of Attraction is absolute, Reverend Dorothy, a minister of a Spiritualist Church, came into my life to give direction and help. She was a talent scout and I was her latest discovery. Regarding the issue of compensation, she always instructed me, “A servant is worthy of his hire”. That was good to hear because if I was going to devote all of my time and energy to doing the work of the Light, I needed to make a living.

Psychics of good character do not make money their primary motive in a profession that is devoted to service. For a time I used a motto, “Service serves us.” By being of service to others, we build good karma. We evolve ourselves, and that is the point of being here in human life in the first place. The Materialist cannot take his money with him when he goes back to Spirit, but the Spiritist takes back with him whatever improvements of the Self he has made.

Goodness we CAN take back with us when we return Home. At the same time, a psychic consultant needs to set a fair fee for his service in order to make a decent living from his or her profession. But as in any line of work, one must work his way up. Commanding top dollar for psychic service comes after one has become well-developed and performs at a high level of competence and excellence.

The Right Motive for a psychic counselor is to be of help and service to his client. He or she must be a person of natural easy empathy and compassion, one who has a natural urge to be of help. The Buddha taught that compassion is the highest form of love. The Master Healer and Teacher, Jesus, also put love at the base of all else in human life. Right use of our talents, our abilities, is basic to the Light Worker, as we have been called. The Light Worker cooperates with Spirit in service to God and human kind.

Negative ego has no place when we are in service to the Light. Positive ego or self develops itself to evolve the Self and to be of service to those in need of help. One way of putting the matter is that we practice ALTRUISTIC HEDONISM, NOT EGOISTIC HEDONISM. While doing what is good for us, we help others get what is right and good for them. It is and ought to be a win-win situation.

Psychic work is like any other job in the sense that the psychic practitioner develops and uses his skills in order to perform, to function well in his chosen discipline. Or to put it more correctly, to work well after we have been chosen by Spirit to do the Work. “Many are called but few are chosen” is a true saying. One does not one day decide he is going to take up being a psychic. First the ability is inborn, and after that it is developed. Yes, everyone is psychic, up to a point and in a way, but few possess extraordinary psychic abilities and develop to work on a professional level. The only kind of psychic worth his salt is one of good character and right motive.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Psychic Mind: Mary, Strange Psychic Visitor

MARY, STRANGE PSYCHIC VISITOR by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

As a touring psychic counselor, metaphysical speaker and media personality, I based out of Houston for almost twenty years before moving to the Philippines on a gold deal. Basing out of Houston, I lived in both low and high rent districts. I preferred the low because people were friendlier and socialized readily. High class folks keep distance, and are not as ready to help each other as “plain people”. Living upstairs in a modest apartment, I never knew who might come a’knockin’ at my door. The most interesting uninvited visitor was sweet Mary who was almost as wide as she was tall.

Had Mary, a black woman, trimmed off a hundred pounds, she would’ve been beautiful. Even at that, there was something magnetic about her. She visited often, and when I asked her, “Why my door?” she told me it just “felt right”. She said she lived in another part of town in a small house that had been her grandmother’s place. “Who is the man name’ Ralph?” she asked me one day. I was taken aback and said, “Why, that was my father’s name.” “An’ a small woman name’, uh, I think, uh, Esther?” Totally blown away I answered, “That’s my mother’s name.” “You an’ she don’ git along too good, do you...” It was a statement, not a question. “Who’ve you been talking to?” I asked her, but no one around there knew items such as that about me. “Things, names, I dunno, jus’ come in my mind and I say ‘em,” Mary told me.

Mary, who made my easy chair sag, was a natural psychic, I concluded. “What’s this, uh, nam myo ho renge kyo sound that comes in my mind. Almos’ kinda sing songy like?” I said, “Oh, you know about Japanese Buddhism, Nichirin Shoshu of America, and chanting?” “What’s that?” she asked innocently. The things she came up with on her many visits amazed me. She swore she knew no one who knew me, and even if she had, she could not have learned those things from them.

It was strangely comfortable sitting with Mary, almost like having an old friend visit. The only difference, she was a natural mind-reader, but totally undisciplined as a psychic counselor. She just picked around in my mind like an intuitive scavenger noticing at random one item or another, commenting on what caught her inner eye. No ulterior motive, never accepting food or drink when offered, nor was money ever mentioned.

I did have evidence that she’d fallen a little bit in love with me, and I could have been interested as well if she hadn’t been so obese. Mary was a beautiful soul, a kind of psychic innocent, and I never stopped wondering about her and her natural untrained talent.