I’m often asked, “How did you get started as a psychic?”

In junior high school, my innate interest in extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychic phenomena sprouted in the form of my seventh grade term paper about ESP. When my friends would sleep over, we would do normal things young teenagers do: eat potato chips, play phone pranks on boys, fight over who was cuter—Paul McCartney or Herman’s Hermits—and shriek every time our favorite songs would play on the radio. I managed even then to inject psychic exercises into those hen parties. My favorite psychic thing to do with my transistor radio was to predict the next “oldie goldie.” (Yes, we had oldies even back in the ‘60s.) The other girls were fascinated when I was right.

So I must say that what initially attracted me to psychic phenomena was the fun part of it, which prepared me for the more serious, responsible part of it when my psychicness began to develop. The subject of psychic phenomena is something to be taken seriously. It is real, and the concerns of people who seek psychic help are real. The sensitive, serious side of me takes care of those.

I believe that most people possess ESP, just as we do the other five senses. The sixth sense, ESP, can be developed in some fun ways with some fun exercises. The fun side of me that was first attracted to psychic phenomena would like to share those:

1. Here’s a test in psychic spontaneity you can take by yourself. Be sure to be as honest as possible because no one but you has to see the answers. Stick with your first answers, because psychic research shows that first impressions, thoughts, and feelings are often psychic.

   Think of your favorite color. Write down the first three words that come to mind describing this color.

   Think of your favorite animal. Write down the first three words that come to mind describing this animal.

   Imagine yourself in your favorite body of water. Write down the first three words that come to mind describing how you feel in the water.

   Imagine yourself in the middle of a forest. Write down the first three words that come to mind describing how you feel in the forest.

   At the end of this article, check your spontaneous answers.

2. This exercise can also be done by your self. Tune in to a game of “Wheel of Fortune” on TV. As an unsolved puzzle appears on the TV, do you get any strong impressions about which letters should be chosen? Or, while waiting for the answers to appear on the real TV screen--with your eyes opened or closed—in your head visualize a blank screen. Does an image appear on that screen, no matter how silly the image may seem? Then watch for the answer to the puzzle on the show. Does what you tuned in on psychically relate to the answer to the puzzle?

   Example: Once, when experimenting with this exercise, I saw a black hat on the screen in my head. The answer to the puzzle turned out to be “Candice Bergen.” Could the black hat have been the hat her ventriloquist father’s puppet was famous for?
   

   Another time I saw a locomotive. Although it didn’t relate to the answer to the puzzle, a few seconds later one of the more colorful contestants got so excited he started shouting, “Choo! Choo!”

3. With a group of people, everyone sit at a long table, each of you with paper and pencil. Have each person draw an object that most people own. No one look at the other people’s paper, of course. When everyone is through, compare drawings and see how many answers match.

   Example: At a parapsychology workshop I attended, three people sitting next to each other at one end of the table drew the same object; the five at the other end of the table matched drawings; and the person in the middle matched no one’s drawings.

4. Here’s a game my daughter and I used to play. You will need at least two people to play. One of you go out of the room. Pick up an object, close your fist, and come back into the room. The other player touch the fist holding the object. You may close your eyes or keep them open. Do any impressions come to mind? What is the first thing you thought when you held the person’s fist? Then tell the other person your impressions. Look at the object and see if your impressions relate to the object.

   Keep in mind that psychic work is not an exact science. It is not like pushing a button on a computer to get the correct calculation. It almost always requires experimentation, exercise, and patience before one can find his or her psychic niche.

   So if you try some of these exercises and nothing seems to happen, don’t get discouraged. Something should break sooner or later, either experimenting with the ones I have suggested or with your own.

   Answers to exercise #1:

   The words you wrote down describing your favorite color should describe the way you see yourself.

   The words you wrote down describing your favorite animal should describe the qualities you look for in a friend.

   The words you wrote down describing how you feel in your favorite body of water should describe your sexuality.

   The words you wrote down describing how you feel in the middle of a forest should describe how you feel about life.

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