Let's start with an exercise, if we could. This is an experiential workshop so, that simply means that you'll just be able to sit there and do it, you don't have to do much, and you can even fake, if you want, fake it.  But we'll be doing a number of exercises tonight, usually to music.  Serious, serious group! Good.  

 

Let's say that you would like to become psychic.  Meaning not simply that you can go down to Madame LaGoza who will read the leaves... "I see for you two mercedes," you know, that sort of thing.  But let's say that you'd like to be able to perceive the deeper truths of life or of your own being, or maybe you'd like to know when someone is lying to you.  That's very useful because people do that a lot.  They do that a lot!  They not only lie to you, they lie to themselves.  Those are the most convincing liars, because they don't know the truth themselves, so when they say something, they really sincerely believe it themselves.  And it's very hard to tell because they don't know themselves, you see.  So let's say that you want to know that the peanut butter is good before you pick it off the shelf?  How do you do that?  How do you become aware of eternity, of god, of immortality? I ask a lot of questions. 

 

If you'd close your eyes, please.

 

Now, I'd like you to relax. We're going to do some very simple meditative techniques.  It's not really necessary for you to do them phenomenonally well tonight, rather this is just a run-through so you can practice them at home.  You'll find that these methods of expanding awareness are extremely powerful, and if you practice them even just once in awhile, let alone once a day, you'll see that you will become extremely sensitive and suddenly you will start to see inside people, inside yourself, you'll just come to know things having to do with all of life.  Yet they're so simple, you can be fooled by them, they're so simple.  

 

What I'd like you to do to start with is to focus on what the mystics call the 'third eye'.  The third eye is an energy center.  There are seven principle energy centers, also known as chakras, that are contained not in the physical body, but in what we call the etheric or subtle physical body, which is a body of light or energy that surrounds our physical body.  What I'd like you to do is to focus your attention on what they call in Sanskrit, the agni chakra, which is the psychic energy center of vision.  It is located between the eyebrows and about a half an inch above.  If for a moment you will take one of your hands and touch a finger, OK, to that spot.  Everybody just take their hand up there for a second, like I am, and put a finger right there, very, very gently. OK.  Now what you're really doing is not focusing on the body, but let's say you want to focus in that area.  It doesn't have to be a pinpoint, but just that general area.  Very good, you can put your hand down.

 

What I'd like you to is to close your eyes, focus your attention on that spot.  Relax, and see what you see. Now, this is not hypnosis, it's meditation.  And what you are trying to do eventually, is to stop all thought, but that takes quite awhile unless you've been doing this for some time or you're just gifted.  So what I'd like you to do is to focus your attention on this spot and it might help you, this is up to you, this is the optional part, to picture light... sort of a turning light going in a clockwise direction, just going round and round.  Right there.  Focus your attention there and relax for a minute.

 

Now, naturally, when we do these exercises together, I go into a psychic state of consciousness of course and increase the energy to make it a little bit easier for you.  W'ell be listening to a little bit of music just to even things out a little bit, all the different energies.  And then we'll talk about the psychic network, the network of light, that all people who are engaged in the psychic studies are part of, not just in this world, but in many other worlds...

 

So, if you'd close your eyes, focus on that spot and just for about three or four minutes I'd like you to relax.  This is just to get you to relax so that we can have a good evening here.  Good.