Podcast #21: Being Psychic by Steve and Erin Pavlina. Well Worth a Listen in my Opinion

 I came across a pod-cast at Steve's site 

http://www.stevepavlina.com/audio/ while listening to his motivation pod-casts.

I was going to skip over this one,but I'm glad that I didn't.

Here's a direct link to the pod-cast;

http://www.stevepavlina.com/podcasts/Pavlina-021-Being-Psychic.mp3, 

and I was stunned that they had had astral projection experiences similar to the one I had around 12 years of age (mine was an 'accident' though).

I think Steve's wife Erin, is the real deal ... but you make up your own mind.

Erin Pavlina

 Here's what the pod-cast is about in their own words:

"In this podcast we discuss psychic development and psychic skills in great depth. At almost 96 minutes, this is the longest podcast we’ve ever done. 
We didn’t originally intend to make it so long, but we got on a roll and covered many interesting topics that readers frequently ask us about.

Topics discussed in this podcast include (not necessarily in order):

• Story of how Erin developed her psychic skills from a young age
• Lucid dreaming
• Astral projection
• How Erin made the shift to doing professional psychic readings
• Erin’s Criss Angel story
• Lessons from 1000+ professional readings
• Skeptics, skepticism, disbelief, and reading for skeptics vs. believers
• Psychic junkies
• The role of free will
• Spirit guides, angels, and humans who’ve crossed over
• What happens when you die? What is it like on the other side?
• Distinguishing genuine psychic impressions from emotions and imagination
• Why charge money for readings? Why not do them for free?
• How to price your readings when you read professionally
• What happens during a psychic reading? How does it work?
• Why do different people get such different readings?
• Chakras
• Do psychics predict the future?
• Difference between a psychic and a medium
• How to develop your own psychic/intuitive skills
• How personal development continues after you die

Aside from jotting down a short list of topics to address, this was totally unscripted. 
We’re both very candid and share many stories about our personal experiences. 
I also toss in a few of my own theories about how various psychic phenomena work. 
If you’re curious about any of the the topics above, I think you’ll learn a lot from this exploration of psychic development, regardless of how skeptical you may be."

I found it all quite fascinating ... not that I agree with everything said ... but I do feel most of it rings true for me.

If you would like to read/hear/see more from Erin Pavlina.
Here are her websites;
http://www.erinpavlina.com/index.htm
http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/

 I particularly liked this post on her blog, that she put up this month, called "Are You Trading Your Soul for a Paycheck?".
The Universe just keeps whacking me over the head with this topic;-)

http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2011/04/are-you-trading-your-soul-for-a-paycheck/ 

Cheers.

Speaking About Fishy Things and Librarians

The book about Andrew Fitzherbert's alleged crime

I have only ever been for one psychic reading where I paid money for it ... well that's not really correct,because it was a palm reading, and according to my acquaintance and palm reader, 

Andrew Fitzherbert, it was actually a science.
In fact he had written a few books about it (which I haven't read) and one was even called, "Career Success and Self-fulfillment: How Scientific Hand Analysis Can Change Your Life".

Another more recent one, which is still available for sale is called, Hand Psychology.

Andrew's Palm Reading  Book

Now, I knew Andrew for a few years prior to the hand reading, as he was a librarian for a library run by the Theosophical Society in Brisbane and sometimes he would give lectures for them on Friday nights.
Not that I attended them, I would have liked to, but Fridays weren't convenient for me, so I would borrow audio tapes of them from the library and listen to them at home.
I was never a member of the Theosophical Society, but I was a member of the library, which the public could join, and then borrow books.
I must say though, that I did admire their motto and philosophy ... and still do to this day ... the Society just never seemed quite right for me, so I was happy to just borrow their books.

Where Andrew and I first met. He was a librarian there.

How true?

I'd heard Andrew talking about palm reading, and I knew that he did private readings for $25 at his own private residence, and I was curious to see how good he was, so I booked a session and went to his house for a reading.
I only knew Andrew as a librarian mainly, and I saw him give a talk once at the Spiritualist Church, that he was a member of, but I didn't know him all that well.

I remember walking into his house, and thought that it was nothing like I had expected it to be.

He had nearly a whole bookcase of murder mystery novels, which soon as I saw them, put the thought into my head that I was a fool for going there without telling anyone where I was going.

'What if this guy was a murderer?', I thought.

He did the reading, and taped it onto an audio cassette, and then gave it to me after he had finished, approximately an hour later.
I didn't give him much information about me during the reading, and I was fairly impressed with what he had to say.
We shook hands and I left with the cassette tape and $25 less, thinking what a nice (although maybe just a bit eccentric) man.

And here I was all the time there thinking, what if this guy tries to kill me?

I never really saw him much from that time on.
As we drifted our separate ways on the river of time.

But I will always remember the cold feeling that ran through me on the morning that I picked the local paper off the front lawn and looked at the headlines, seeing the photo below, and the story about the arrest of Andrew Fitzherbert for murdering Kathleen Marshall, who was president of the Cat Protection Society.

And that she was stabbed more than 50 times in the surgery beneath her home at Wilston, in Brisbane's inner north.
DNA Case Questioned

Andrew and the murder victim, Kathleen Marshall

I remember for years telling people how I had a reading at his house, and the creepy feeling I had about possibly being murdered in there myself. 
But I could just never believe Andrew could do something like that ... and I do mean ... I could NOT believe it, no matter how hard I tried to think of him as the murderer.
It just never added up in my head, mentally.

Then years later a book called Five Drops of Blood was written by a well known Brisbane criminologist named  Paul Wilson. 
In it he details how the DNA evidence was botched, and how an innocent man was sent to jail. 

I've read the book, and after reading it, it became quite clear to me who the real killer was.

And I can tell you it wasn't Andrew.

I urge anyone to read this book and come away feeling good about sending someone to jail on DNA evidence alone.

It's a fascinating story of a botched murder conviction and sending the wrong person away to jail on DNA evidence alone.

Well at least the police could never say that they caught the palm reader red (read) handed;-)

Don't worry, I think Andrew would laugh at that joke, knowing him.

I just can't imagine how hard it would be going to jail for a crime that he in all probability, did not commit.

My Lao-Tse (or tiny sage) charm in my palm.

 Life can be full of unnecessary suffering, but I for one, believe Andrew is innocent, and that justice was far from served here.

Wouldn't Read About It... Would You?

My Nancy Pearl Action Figure. Signed by Nancy Pearl ... Shhh!

I bought this 'Librarian Action Figure' around 2006, after thinking about buying it for months, from a mail order store in Sydney.
I thought it would make a good addition to my bookcase, since I'm a bit of an amateur librarian myself;-) 

 Little did I know that she was actually a real life librarian  
(Nancy Pearl), and that she was going to do a free talk, at the opening of a new public library building, in my hometown of Brisbane, the same week that I received the doll in the mail.

So, I booked two seats (you still had to book, even though it was a free event) and took my wife along.
Nancy was selling some dolls after her talk, along with her books.
But she didn't have any of the above pictured, 'deluxe' models.
She was quite impressed when she saw mine, and started showing some of the other ladies around her what the deluxe model looked like.

And then Nancy signed it for me.

I also bought her book Book Lust, but still haven't read it yet.

Sorry Nancy ... I promise to read it soon.
Lucky for me, it's not a library book;-)

Here's a link to the Nancy Pearl Doll site in case anybody reading this would like one as well;

http://www.mcphee.com/laf/

... and here's a link to the deluxe version, and where you can buy them, and check out some of the other dolls at the bottom of the page, like the "Crazy Cat Lady","Waitress Action Figure",

"Deluxe Miracle Jesus"and "Avenging Narwhal".
Plus, check out the video clip of the incredible shushing action of the Nancy Pearl Librarian Doll.

http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Deluxe-Librarian-Action-Figure.html

You can visit Nancy's main website here;

http://www.nancypearl.com/

Nancy Pearl Deluxe Model Doll

Get a grip on yourself, Nancy!-)