Being Psychic, And Why Erin Pavlina Rocks
June 7th, 2008
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Steve and Erin Pavlina have just recorded the first podcast that they’ve done together. It’s called Being Psychic, and it focuses on Erin’s explanation of what being a psychic is all about. After falling off a kitchen barstool and splitting her head open at the age of 4, she started running around telling everyone she had ESP. Today she’s a professional psychic, in high demand and charging $295 for a 30-minute reading.
The podcast covers topics such as lucid dreaming, astral projection, spirit guides, what happens when you die, psychic impressions vs. emotions and imagination, what happens during a reading, how to develop your own psychic skills, and skepticism.
I don’t think it’s necessary to be a believer in order to enjoy it. If you’re at least somewhat open to the possibility of psychic phenomena, you’ll probably find it very appealing. It’s pretty long at 96 minutes, and the sound quality isn’t as good as Steve’s other podcasts, but it’s good enough.
I thought it was very interesting and entertaining, and I learned some things about Erin’s psychic journey that I didn’t know before. She seriously rocks, and now I’m even more appreciative that she picked my How To Be A Woman post as her third favorite of 52 submissions (and her #1 favorite by a guy).
Has anyone here ever gotten a reading from Erin?
June 7th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Actually, I think that we should each try to develop our own intuition and learn to trust our own instincts instead of relying on others to give us readings. As we become more and more “technology oriented” we’re losing touch with an incredible source of knowledge which is our sixth sense and the knowledge the resides in our bodies, or instincts (as I wrote in my “Tap the Warrior” post, the body knows things).
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
@ Marelisa, Erin would agree with you to a large extent. She says that after giving someone a reading, they’ll sometimes ask “What’s next? Should we do another one next week?” And she’ll say no, they shouldn’t come back to her unless they’re really stuck. She doesn’t want to tell people what they have to do, but just provide guidance when they’re at a crossroads, and let them figure out the rest.
Can you give us a link to “Tap the Warrior?”
June 7th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I’m one of the BIG skeptics. I find it very difficult to shake off my cynicism and accept that the world might have a spiritual aspect, even if it can’t be proved by science.
I think Marelisa referred to this post:
Awakening The Warrior
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
@Vered: Hi, thank you for adding the link to “Awakening the Warrior” (its “Tap into the Power of the Magician and “Awakeing the Warrior”, apparently I can’t keep the names of my posts straight
).
@Hunter: So she discourages people from becoming dependent on her? That’s one of the signs of people who are very good at what they do and are truly interested in helping others.
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June 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hunter -
I just listened to the podcast. It surely is interesting but I agree with Vered, I’m still skeptic about the whole pyschic reading business. She seems to be a very astute person.
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June 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
@ Marelisa, yeah, I think that’s a good sign. Also that she doesn’t use crystal balls!
@ Vered and Shilpan, I can certainly understand being skeptical about this. I’ve never had a psychic reading, and I’ve never met anyone who seriously claimed to be psychic, so I don’t really know what it’s supposed to be like.
I’m pretty sure that if I were to work as a professional psychic, I’d flunk all my readings since I wouldn’t be able to see anything, everyone would demand their money back, and I’d get no referrals. Erin starting doing readings for free, got lots of referrals, and had to keep raising her rates to handle the demand. I think that says something, but of course, you can’t really believe it until you see it for yourself, and sometimes not even then.
I was going to say more, but then I decided to write a separate post about skepticism. Thanks for the idea!
June 8th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Reading your post, Hunter, I was wondering what would make me go to a psychic. I can’t quite imagine what would drive me to that. Because I think it’s great that we don’t know what the future holds. Personally, I’d hate to know!
I do however know that there are psychic powers that we all have access to. A simple example in my life is something that happens when I’m in a retreat. People come and see me individually during certain times of the day. And when I’m deep in retreat I know who’s going to step into my room next. I see their face or think of them. Next thing I know, there at the door. I always find that quite strange.
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June 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@ Mary,
“I have long considered it one of God’s greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.” - Eugene Forsey
Steve and Erin say that psychics are not really about predicting the future. Because we have free will, even if a psychic knew our future, we could always change it anyway. I think it’s more about seeing if you’re on the right track, instead of spending 10 years to find out you’re in the wrong career, for example. It’s also about communicating with dead relatives.
Not to say that they never predict the future, though. An interesting thing I read on Erin’s blog is that when Bush beat Gore in the election, she felt what might be called “a strange disturbance in the force,” because he wasn’t supposed to win. And she foresaw a lot of death (September 11th and Iraq). Of course, a lot of Democrats would say that you didn’t need to be psychic to know that!
That’s interesting about knowing who’s coming to visit you. Are you always right, or are you just right more often than you should be according to chance?
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