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Using Psychic Abilities in Our Lives
No discussion about applying psychic abilities in daily life would be complete without mentioning the term "intuition." For us, intuition is a nonanalytic awareness that can come from either internal subconscious processes, or psychic sources such as mind-to-mind connections, or direct clairvoyant perception of the outside world. Medical intuitive Caroline Myss believes that "intuition is a natural by-product of the flowering of a mature self-esteem and sense of empowerment  not power over, but power to be." 14 Myss also believes, as we do, that intuition and psychic abilities are our birthright, and are trainable, rather than being capabilities possessed only by a few special people. We discuss Myss' highly developed intuitive faculties in the field of illness diagnosis later in this chapter, as well as in Chapter 10.
Four different types of applications of intuition in the real world have been suggested to us by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, author of the informative and engaging book The Roots of Consciousness.15 Mishlove is also the director of the Intuition Network, an organization devoted to developing and incorporating greater use of intuitive processes in the workplace as well as in other venues of daily life.16
From Mishlove's business perspective, evaluation is one of the key psi application opportunities. Evaluating design and construction alternatives, investment choices, research strategies, and technology alternatives are all applications with significant business potential. For these applications, the distinction between intuition and psi is somewhat murky. Some would say that intuition involves access to and associations with subconscious material buried in one's memory. Others use intuition interchangeably with a psychic sense that accesses material coming in from beyond one's actual life experience. We are aware that once we are dealing with a world that includes psi data, there is no firm boundary between internal and external information. But we can be quite clear about what has actually been experienced during the course of our life's activities.
Mishlove's second category of workplace applications for psi is that of location. Locating oil, mineral deposits, and buried or hidden treasure has

 
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