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FOREWORD
This engaging road map to all things psychic, intuitive, and paranormal is here to tell you that if you're having little inner pops of sixth-sense knowing, you're not weird. That's the good news. The bad news is, you're not special either.
Everyone is psychic, and it's no big deal. We were all born with a built-in ability to know things in ways other than logic. Our intuition is simple, standard-issue equipment, along with our eyes, ears, tongues, noses, and skin, and only as magical and ordinary as they arewhich is plenty magical enoughbut no more and no less.
No doubt this is how, eons ago, our ancestors avoided becoming a tasty hors d'oeuvre for some nasty sabertooth tiger. They certainly couldn't have outrun or out-brawned those powerful suckers. It had to be intuition that kept adrenalized encounters between us and them down to a blessed minimum.
Unfortunately, our left-braindominant culture tends to view psychic ability as any-thing but normal. It's been mystified, glorified, obfuscated, eroticized, demonized, and reviled. And that's probably why, up until recently, so many books about this much-maligned subject were so sadly out of balance: either so serious and weighty that they managed to take a really interesting subject and turn it into a big yawn, or so insubstantial and fluffy that they took awesome, transcendent mystery and gave it all the heft and staying power of cotton candy.
And that's too bad, too, because intuition is such a darned handy skill to have at our beck and call, so easy to integrate into our other ways of thinking, knowing, and doing, if we're not bent on ignoring it and keeping it separate from life as we know it.
That's one of the things I appreciate about The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic. Refreshingly light-hearted, but knowledgeable and practical all the same, this book is the perfect antidote for those who take psychic mattersand themselves, for that mattereither too seriously or too lightly.
I know you'll enjoy the considerable information, background history, practical tips, cautions, and encouragement waiting for you in these generous, wide-ranging pages. When you get done with this book, you'll be better able to recognize the functioning of this fabulous psychic equipment of yours, and better able to develop it and use it wisely and well.
Have fun, and enjoy the ordinary magic of your sixth sense!
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BELLERUTH NAPARSTEK
BELLERUTH NAPARSTEK, A.M., L.I.S.W., IS THE AUTHOR OF YOUR SIXTH SENSE: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF YOUR INTUITION. A CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST WHO HAS PRACTICED FOR 33 YEARS, SHE IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED PIONEER IN THE APPLICATIONS OF GUIDED IMAGERY FOR HEALING AND NUTRITION, AND THE CREATOR OF THE POPULAR, 24-TITLE TIME WARNER AUDIOTAPE SERIES HEALTH JOURNEYS. MS. NAPARSTEK LIVES IN CLEVELAND WHERE SHE WRITES, LECTURES, CONSULTS, AND RUNS IMAGE PATHS, INC., HER AUDIOTAPE PRODUCTION COMPANY.

 
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