Psychic Illumination

Sixty-eight years ago today, George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars was born. He grew up in California’s central valley town of Modesto. He had such a passion for cars on racing that he wanted to be a race car driver when he was young. But a near-fatal car accident at the end of his senior year in high school convinced him otherwise.

He was accepted into Modesto Junior College where he studied Anthropology. He later graduated from the University of Southern California of Cinematic Arts. Lucas had numerous successful films before his phenomenal success with the Star Wars franchise.

Star Wars quickly became the highest-grossing film of all-time. During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up-front fee as director and negotiated to own the licensing rights (for novelizations, T-shirts, toys, etc.) —rights which the studio thought were nearly worthless. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys, and collectibles created for the franchise. This accumulated capital enabled him to finance the sequel himself.

Lucas was hugely influenced by Joseph John Campbell, an American mythologist best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Star Wars features elements such as knights, witches, and princesses that are related to archetypes of the fantasy genre. The Star Wars world, unlike fantasy and science-fiction films that featured sleek and futuristic settings, was portrayed as dirty and grimy.

The first Star Wars film was released thirty-five years ago, on May 25th, 1977 (much to my squealing ten year old joy). This is when we were first introduced to such archetypical characters Luke Skywalker (the uninitiated hero), Princess Leia (the princess), Obi-Wan Kenobi (the wise wizard), Han Solo (the self-obsessed mercenary), and Chewbacca (the loyal sidekick), Darth Vader (the evil wizard), C-3P0 and R2-D2 (the fools).

We join Luke on his journey from yearning farm boy to competent hero and the destruction of the evil empires ultimate weapon, The Death Star.

All of the elements of Star Wars have since become iconic in American society. And our world will never be the same.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lucas. And thank you!

May the Force be with you!

1. I cannot be on the phone with you when you call him or talk to him. I cannot help you adjust any subtle changes in communication.
2. I cannot help you to be resourceful under volatile circumstances. I can only give you moral support before or after.
   
3. I cannot make you take my advice, be loving and nice to the man of your heart. Only you can do that.
4. I can't advise your man, I don't have him on the phone with me. I only have you, the customer, to work with.
5. While I can answer your questions about why your man doesn't want to talk to you, none of it would be polite or appropriate for me to write or say over the phone. I think it's far more constructive to focus on what you can do to improve communication, even though that may be outside your comfort zone.
   
6.  I cannot guarantee anything will work out; especially if you refuse to follow my advice. I'm not a witch, warlock or purveyor of magic spells. All I can do is give you the best information, giving you the best possible chance of making a connection and getting the love you need.

In defense of the customer who left me the negative feedback, my heart really does go out to her. Like many of my customers, she is in a tough situation. Genuine heartbreak is very difficult to deal with. I know, I have been there; unable to eat, racing thoughts, etc.

However, I still think it is far better to focus on what we can do, then on what we cannot do. 

An optimum mate is not a perfect or ideal mate, but the best person for you.   Is the relationship the easiest?  Almost never!  Is it the most beneficial?  Absolutely!  Is an optimum mate a 'soul mate'?  Truthfully I don't know; I've never read an adequate explanation of a 'soul mate.' 

What I do know is that I can intuitively sense and / or Remote View an optimum mate; and there is only one.  Soul mates seem to be numerous.

Optimum Mates are a part of your optimum path or trajectory in life.  To understand why a man or woman would be married to the wrong person is pretty simple.   They ignored their heart and / or their intuition.  This frequently happens in our society, which frowns up intuition as 'irrational.'  As we all know however, there are some things that make no rational sense but must simply be felt.

Clemens was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley's Comet.

Hi father, John, died of pneumonia was he was 11.  The next year, he became a printer's apprentice.  In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion.

When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.  He  educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school.  He returned to Missouri when he was 22.

On a voyage to New Orleans down the Mississippi, steamboat pilot Horace E. Bixby inspired Twain to become a pilot himself.   A steamboat pilot needed to know the ever-changing river to be able to stop at the hundreds of ports and wood-lots.  Twain studied 2,000 miles of the Mississippi for more than two years before he received his steamboat pilot license in 1859.

While training, Samuel convinced his younger brother Henry to work with him.  Soon afterward Twain had a vivid dream while staying at his sister's house.  In it saw his brother's body lying in a metal casket.  It rested on two chairs in his sister's sitting room and had a white bouquet with a single red rose sitting on Henry's chest.  Twain awoke.  So intense was his excitement that he hustled out the door and walked a full block from this sister's house before he could reason with himself that it was just a dream.  He returned to his sister's house.

"What's the trouble?" his sister asked him.  "Where were you going?"

"To see if Henry was dead." he replied.  "I had a vision last night.  It was so unlike any I have experienced before.  I thought it must be so."

"Sit down, tell me about it," his sister said.

He recounted the dream to her.

A few weeks later, on June 21, 1858, Twain and Henry were returning from New Orleans on separate riverboats.  The steamboat Pennsylvania, which Henry was aboard, had a boiler explosion.  Henry was brought to Memphis where he died a few days later.   Whereas most of the dead were placed in wooden coffins, the women of Memphis raised enough money to place Henry's body in a metal coffin.

When Twain went to his sister's house, he found his brother lying just the way he had foreseen in his dream, except there were no flowers.  As he stood there, a woman walked up beside him and placed a bouquet of white flowers on Henry's chest.  In its center was a single red rose.

Twain was guilt-stricken for the rest of his life.  He held himself responsible for his brother's death.  He must have felt there was someway he could have prevented it.

This experience inspired his interest in parapsychology and he later joined the Society for Psychical Research.

He later failed as a gold miner, in Nevada, and turned to journalism next.  While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which became very popular and brought nationwide attention.  His travelogues were also well-received.   Twain had found his calling.

Between 1896 and 1909 he lost his two of his three daughters, Susy and Jean, his beloved wife, Olivia, and his good friend Henry Rogers.  He entered a period of deep depression.

In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying:

^"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835.  It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.  It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.  The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."

His prediction was accurate.  He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

Some psychics discover their gifts early on, some later.  For the ones who discover it early, it can be a painful process.  Being able to see, hear and feel what your peers cannot is not always understood or appreciated.  Many young psychics push the gift away at this point.

For those who understand the value of psychic perception, we go through a growth process of understanding just how our unconscious mind delivers up pertinent psychic information, how to interpret symbols and/or kinesthetic sensations.  Some of us go through formal training, most go through trial and error to determine this.

Once we have figured this out, we must decide whether to offer these services to others.  But there is an inherent problem here: our psychic information is not always emotionally appealing.  As a matter of fact, it is often exactly what our friend/relative/customer does not want to hear.

Every psychic crosses this threshold and must decide for themselves, if they will stay true to the intuitive information, or tailor it to the emotional appetite of the other person.

Most natural psychics never make it past this threshold successfully and move into the realm of charlatan.  They begin using their psychic skills to tune into what the other person wants to hear, rather than the truth.  For those who do successfully make this transition, they must learn the fine art of giving customers unappealing information in a positive, constructive and compassionate way.  As you can imagine, this is quite difficult.

Psychics must also learn how to deal with their own emotional reactions to the psychic data.  Many are detached from the content of the data and then become emotionally entangled with their customers, with strong desires for certain out comes.  This is why some psychics serve customers well for a while and then all their information becomes clouded and inaccurate later. 

In order to maintain accuracy, no matter how much a psychic likes or dislikes the customer, they must remain completely objective when psychically tapping in.

There is one other major area where emotions must be properly handled and interpreted for accurate information: that is the emotions within the context of the person being tapped into.  Now, psychic perception can certainly be used for more then just gleaning how your guy or girl feels, but that is a topic for another blog.  What must be interpreted by the psychics are what I will call here 'emotional lines of force' or emotional connections.

Emotions can be embedded in the environment as well, as in the cause of residual hauntings, but we will stick with the emotions of the customer's object of affection.

Almost every psychic can walk into a room and instantly tell you how every person in the room is feeling.  Feelings are not always an appropriate or accurate measure of the people, but they are a strong indicator.    So let's walk into our hypothetical party room, shall we?

The first couple we encounter is a young, married couple.  Both look great and are in wonderful shape.  But despite their smiles, we psychics can see that there isn't much of an emotional connection between these two.  Their cloths are trendy and expensive.  They mingle with others well.  But despite this we can perceive a barrier from the husband toward his wife; he clearly keeps things from her.  For me this usually looks like a dark blotch in the aura.

We probe him for more emotional connections and this leads us to another man who is genetically related; his brother.  We perceive business terms like 'corporate' and 'spreadsheet' and 'analysis'.  We conclude that this young man is in business with his brother and his brother is far more important to him then his pretty, young wife.

When we turn our attention toward the wife we perceive a shallowness that takes us back.  This woman doesn't have much emotional depth and certainly cares nothing for her husband.  We sense all this despite the laughs and smiles that emanate from them. 

When we probe her further we only come up with terms like 'money, travel' and 'horses.'  We see a quick flash in our mind's eye of her riding a horse in uniform.  She is probably into Equestrianism.

We probe them both together again.  There is no deep connection and we conclude that this is a marriage of convenience.  And it doesn't take precognition to predict that it probably won't last.

We next approach an aged man in a suit that is about 20 years out of fashion.  Despite this faux pas, he has a magnificent tie, cuffs and shoes.  We can tell this man has money.  He holds a wine glass and looks a little lost.  As we tune into him we get a strong indicator of an older woman, with emotional connections so strong, it must be his wife.

He greets us with detached, yet amiable dignity.  However there is worry all over his aura.  As we follow this emotion, we can sense it is attached to his wife.  In our mind's eye flashes an image of this woman in a hospital bed, with tubes, wires and machines hooked to her.

Being outspoken psychics, we briefly consider telling him that his wife will recover from her heart attack.  But as we probe him further perceive that he would not take that positive information well at all; not for religious or dogmatic reasons, but because he is a very private man.  He would be unnerved to realize that someone can see his beloved wife's plight through him.

We wisely hold our tongue and greet him with a superficial joke about falling stocks instead.

The next couple we approach are middle aged and their fine cloths look a little worn.  We can immediately sense the deep love and commitment between these two.  We can also sense the affection with their four children and a little anxiety with a son leaving for college soon.  The man and woman are very gracious towards each other and only tell the most playful of jokes about each other.  We can sense money problems pertaining to a severe illness the man suffered about six months ago.

As we probe them we perceive a young woman emotionally attached to the man who is not one of his two daughters.  We 'see' her blond hair falling around the shoulders of her medical attire.  We sense she was an in  home nurse, caring for this man while he was ill.  The emotional connection is almost as strong between these two as between the man and his wife and we know they are having an affair.

If the young nurse were our customer, we'd tell her break things off, because we can perceive this massive emotional bond between this man and his wife.  He is not going anywhere, he will not leave his wife for her, despite his numerous promises to do so.

I hope these three, brief examples give you an idea of how the psychic perception process works.  Things are not always what they seem.  The object of your affection may be rejecting you, yet be hopelessly in love with you.  They may smile to your face and yet despise you or just be using you.  And yet again, things may be exactly what they seem.  There is no way to tell at first glance because appearances can be deceiving.

Good, professional psychics will tell you exactly what they perceive with very little, if any, distortion.  But be prepared, you may hear what you don't want to hear.  You may need to go reassess your life and circumstances.  You may need to take up more spiritual habits or improve yourself.

Heck, some customers of mine have simply needed to attend 'charm school.'  ;-)

I need to attend to my children, but will be available most of tomorrow (Wednesday) and most evenings through the rest of the week and weekend.  Talk to you soon.

I am often asked by customers, why they are suffering.  There are many answers for this.  Sometimes we suffer because of our own choices.  Sometimes we suffer because of the choices of others.  Sometimes we suffer because we live in a fallen world.  As Buddha said in the First of the Four Noble Truths: all life is suffering.  

However, this would be far better translated from the original Sanskrit word Dukkha to English as, all life is uneasiness or maybe disjointedness.  There are many other words that could also suitable take the place of the word 'suffering' in the First Noble Truth.  These include:  pain, discontent, unsatisfactoriness, unhappiness, sorrow, affliction, social alienation, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, or frustration.

Now, I am not a big fan of simply saying that life stinks and we must suck it up.  ;-)  But a certain degree of suffering, because we live on a relatively spiritual undeveloped planet, is to be expected.  As Benjamin Franklin advised about tranquility: “Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”

We are here on Earth to unfold, grow, and evolve our Soul.  This is not easy.  But obviously, the Soul needs contact with crude matter to reach it's potential.  And in this understanding, we can find some personal peace.  Let us take a better look at the lotus flower.  It is one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols and one of the most poignant representations of Buddhist teaching.

The roots of a lotus are in the mud, the stem grows up through the water, and the heavily scented flower lies pristinely above the water, basking in the sunlight. This pattern of growth signifies the progress of the soul from the primeval mud of materialism, through the waters of experience, and into the bright sunshine of enlightenment.

Though there are other water plants that bloom above the water, it is only the lotus which, owing to the strength of its stem, regularly rises eight to twelve inches above the surface.  According to the Lalitavistara Sutra, "the spirit of the best of men is spotless, like the lotus in the muddy water which does not adhere to it."

There are many things we can do to solve our problems or at least be at peace with the challenges that we cannot overcome.  If you need some insight into any areas of life, be it love, family, career or business, I can help.  Keen is also running a special over the Thanksgiving weekend you might want to take a look into.

Peace profound,

James

I host a spiritual internet radio show on Blog Talk.  I strive to have a female co-host so that the male and female perspectives are both represented.  So as you can imagine, I am keenly aware of when other psychic shows with a male / female team come along.

Recently such a show premiered.  The woman was a friend on Facebook and the guy was someone I did not know.  But they were both attractive, wholesome, intelligent looking people, so I intended to listen.  I am a good, entertaining host, but I can always learn more.

I was completely appalled when they announced the topic for their premiere show: "Should you have sex on the first date?"  Now I realize we live in the age of instant gratification with no personal accountability.  But I could not believe that the woman, a supposed psychic, would even consider the topic!

I have been in the psychic business for 15 years.  And granted, there are some people in the industry who try rationalize one-night stands and random hookups.  But most psychics are well aware of the overwhelming heartache and pain that infidelity and promiscuity cause.   We live in an age, unfortunately, where many woman attempt to imitate the absolute worst behaviors of men.  Some people are even warped enough to call this 'liberation!" 

Since when did we allow the fashion gurus and supposed cool people to redefine 'liberation' to mean desensitizing your body and deadening your heart?  What about love, tenderness, loyalty and companionship? 

I realize we stopped crafting real men in America a long time ago.  But shouldn't we be encouraging men to be better men; faithful, loving and devoted, instead of killing their incentives for this by having random hookups and sex on the first date?

The question doesn't even need to be asked because the answer should be a resounding, "Hell no!"

Now, I understand that some of you may be thinking I'm a little archaic and old fashioned.  However almost every survey I have ever seen states that most women still want marriage and commitment.  Most of the exceptions I have come across have been discouraged women who simply no longer believe that such a relationship is possible anymore. While I sympathize with them, I cannot agree with them.  There are good men out there.  

Spiritual development, real spiritual development,  is about growth and personal responsibility.  Women, for centuries, were the sacred caretakers of all that is holy.  They helped shape good men, first at the knee, and then as their companions with their love and devotion.  Good women have always softened the harsher aspects of men. 

When did purity, the sacred ideal, become so unpopular?  We hear lip service being given to spirituality all the time, especially in the new age / self-improvement culture.  But since when did we cut off the roots of it?  Buddhism is a typical religious philosophy that is popular among new agers.  However few people are aware of just how rigorous Buddha's teaching are.  You are probably aware that one of the Four Noble Truths taught by Buddha was, "All suffering is caused by craving."  Did you know that 'craving' can also be translated as lust?  

Now I am not suggesting that we all become priests and nuns.  But our desire for love, companionship and our procreative powers need to be handled with care.  If we are reckless we will bring unnecessary suffering on our own heads.

Your body is a temple for your Soul and needs to be treated as such.  And this holds true whether you believe your Soul is the literal spirit offspring of or a divine spark of God.  Real self-love begins with respecting your temple.

Let us shake off modern, 'sophisticated' cynicism and re-embrace an old truth: Purity.  Purity of heart, mind, body and Soul! 

Resolutely yours,

James