Being Your Spiritual Nature

I'm a Graduate Student of the Clairvoyant Center of Chicago and wanted to throw my "two cents" into the discussion about the discipline of clairvoyance. English is a very psychic language. For instance, when you explain something to someone and they respond by saying, "I see what you mean," that's clairvoyance! Other times we literally say "I could see that she was a phony" (or "nice person" or whatever). The point is that there are two awarenesses: your body's awareness.. and yours.  We are reading each other and our surroundings all the time. Our bodies are also registering data; but, our bodies are not who we really are. And maybe I can't prove this to anyone; but after doing a few hundred readings in a disciplined setting-- aside from my everyday "reading" of people and things, I know that there is a unique being sitting in front of me who is definitely separate from her body. In fact the expression we have "I nearly jumped out of my skin," is one we use all the time. It literally paints a picture of you leaving your body! No one questions this because everyone has felt their energy as separate from their body.

So, for me, one of the disciplines of clairvoyance is the day-to-day practice of separating my awareness from everyone else's. Haven't you ever seen yourself or a friend behave "not like themselves"? For instance, have you ever said to a friend, "Hey, stop it, you're channeling your mother" ? Yes, a "rationalist" might be able to explain everything in some other fashion, but my point is that intuition and imagination is not something to prove-- it's easily provable! And just as a baseball pitcher studies technique and proper form and practices and then goes out there and plays a "real game." Sometimes the ball player has a great game and sometimes has a lousy game and feels like she doesn't "have her stuff" today. She is still a baseball pitcher. No one questions whether she is a pitcher or not or whether pitching is something that people only do for three reasons: to feel grandiose; to feel confident; or to justify a decent salary.

I'm merely suggesting that the subject of clairvoyance can be opened up a little; that one's intuition can be strengthened by working at it day by day, just like any other human endeavor. And, I'll let you in on a little secret about clairvoyance-- and psychic abilities in general-- that I've learned over the years: to the degree that you are neutral, or non-judgmental, to what you are reading is the degree that you can see it clearly. It's a wonderful healing for a person to come to receive a clairvoyant reading and just be seen for who they are and where they're at with no judgment. Sometimes this "clear seeing" is all a person needs to be able to get unstuck and move forward in their life; or to receive some much-needed validation that it's okay to be where they're at.

Jim Piper

Posted in the Columbia Chronicle - October 7 issue, page 34