Awakening Your Psychic Ability: A Practical Guide to Develop Your Intuition, Demystify the Spiritual World, and Open Your Psychic Senses

Reiki teacher Campion (The Art of Psychic Reiki) sets out to help readers sharpen their psychic skills in this comprehensive guide. Hollywood portrayals aside, the author writes, psychic encounters don’t entail “shadowy spirits whose motive is to scare the life out of you at 3 A.M.” Rather, everyone has some degree of psychic ability, and honing it can lead to spiritual insight. Beginners should start by “tuning in” to their physical and emotional states, recognizing bodily “truth signals” (such as spine-tingling), and trusting initial psychic impressions “even if [they’re] weird.” Campion outlines different psychic senses, from clairvoyance to lesser-known clairaudience (“hear[ing] psychic phenomena”), and lays out characteristics of each (clairvoyants, for instance, are prone to particularly vivid dreams). As well, she writes that readers can connect to “benevolent” spirit guides such as angels or earth spirits by calling for day-to-day guidance or requesting omens. Campion packs this primer with plenty of useful detail, from dream types to symbols and signs, and takes pains to assure that psychic abilities aren’t abnormal or signs of “dark magic.” This is perfect for budding psychics eager to take the next step on their spiritual quests. (May)