Psychic Development for Beginners Book – Initial Review

Written by Paul Piotrowski - Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

I recently purchased a few books on psychic development and have been reading through them. One of those books is called “Psychic Development for Beginners” by William W. Hewitt.

I haven’t finished reading the book yet, but I wanted to do an initial review of the book for anyone interested in developing their psychic abilities.

I’m just about halfway through the book and so far I really like it.

The book covers the following topics in 26 chapters:

Introduction
Altered States of Consciousness
Sharpening Your First Five Senses
Achieving Your Basic Psychic Level
Psychic Shield
Becoming a Psychic
Visualization
Psychic Healing
Creating Your Psychic Goal Bowl
Clairvoyance
Telepathy
Psychometry
Astral Travel
The Beach of Time
Communicating with People
Communicating with Entities
Communicating with Animals
Solving Problems
Your Warning System
Psychic Traffic Control
Psychic Wake-up Call
Finding a Parking Space
No Dozing Control
Skill Improvement
Reading / Studying
Summary and a Look Forward

The book also contains 44 step-by-step mental exercises you can do to develop your psychic abilities, and 28 short case studies dispersed amongst the chapters which detail the authors personal experience with each topic he covers.

So far I’m finding the book really easy to read and the exercises are very easy to follow.

I’m actually just reading through it first without spending too much time on the exercises as I plan on going back and utilizing the ones that resonate with me later on.

I’m also finding the case studies in the book very useful as they demonstrate the types of situations one may encounter while developing their psychic abilities and the more examples I read of this type of thing the more it feels like some subconscious fears are being released beneath the surface for me. Meaning, when the author shares his personal experiences and what he did in each situation, it arms you with a better understanding of what to do if a similar situation arises in your life.

Once I finish reading the book I’ll do a final review, but so far I’m pretty impressed.

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Rachael says:

December 30, 2009 at 3:55 am

I’m so excited – I want my copy now (est delivery 5 Jan!!). I am glad there are lots of exercises to do and agree with not spending too much time on them until you knows which ones feel best for you. Looking forward to the rest of your review!

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Paul says:

January 2, 2010 at 12:16 am

I’m more than half way through the book now, and it’s getting even better. Definitely a good book so far.

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Rachael says:

January 2, 2010 at 5:14 am

I have just finished it!! Arrived 30th Dec and have not been able to put it down. Like you said, I find that all the exercises and case studies really help. I tried the basic colour visualisations (balloons & balls) and can do that perfectly, I also tried a few more:
1)the alarm clock (page169) this morning and that did not work
2)the cark park space (page172) for when I went to ASDA… did not work either
3)I went to the Beach of Time (page137) and tried to meet my spirit guide and guardian angel (page144). I think I met my guardian angel it was a young-ish man with light brown shoulder-length hair and was all in white. He did have wings but I think I created them so I knew he was my angel? My spirit guide on the other hand was just a grey fog, I couldn’t make any details out not even an outline.

I think I might be expecting too much to start with, I don’t even know if that was my angel or whether I was making it all up. What do you suggest? Should I trust and believe most things I see when I go to my deeper level? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Nathan says:

February 16, 2010 at 12:39 am

Wherever I go I keep saying – spending dollars on this book is nothing more than waste of money. I’m sorry but there are NO useful information there. All the exercises Hewitt described can be found in the internet, his experiences gives us nothing, and his advices are useless, why? Maybe he was a psychic, but he surely didn’t understand his abilities at all, and to say more, he had no idea how to explain and teach them. He had the gift and he had no idea what the frag is going on. If you know something is happening but you don’t understand how and why, there’s simple no way to teach others how and why this thing is happening. This is the case with Hewitt, and this is the only possible review of this book.
.-= Nathan´s last blog ..Premonitions, precognition – would you like to know the future? =-.

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Paul says:

January 2, 2010 at 11:58 am

@Rachael: I wouldn’t get caught up in the trap of trying to judge “real” from “made up” at this time. I think judging things like this is the domain of the Ego and it will just slow you down.

I would just accept the image you got as a representation that’s “real” to you at this time and be OK with it and grateful for it. That doesn’t mean that you can’t ask for more clarity each time you do the exercise. Meaning, maybe the physical appearance you saw is only 5% accurate right now, such as for example that your guardian angel is a man with light-brown hair, and the rest is “made up”. It doesn’t really matter. It’s just a representation to you at this time. You could ask for more clarity each time and maybe next time you see more accurately.

You could kind of say to yourself “I see you as you are now in my imagination/mind, but I’m open to seeing more of what you really look like each time I come to see you.”

When I first started meditating on meeting my guides all I had was fuzziness, but I got a few distinct names. Then, one of my guides I got a feeling of how big he was… almost like he was 7 feet tall and had a warrior-like build. Then over time I got more features, but even still I can’t see his face. I think the best thing to do is not worry too much about being “right” or “wrong” at this point. The experience was real to YOU and that’s all that really matters. Over time I think you’ll get “validation” on certain things that will make it more real for you.

One thing that may help a lot is to journal your experiences. Real or not, just journal what you see. It may shock you to find out later which things you were right about.

For example, the other day I was thinking about a mentoring student I have and the website I’m helping her create. I got an image of me helping her with a totally different site instead, which I thought was weird because I was hired to help her get the first website up and running. Yesterday I spoke to her and asked her if there was any reason she might be wanting to develop a different website instead of the one we’re currently working on, or perhaps develop them simultaneously. It made no real logical sense to me but I figured I’d ask anyways. Then she told me that she was thinking exactly that! She wanted to develop a second website on a totally different topic, so now when we do mentoring I’m going to be working on two websites with her simultaneously.

I think that the more we dive into this “intuitive development” stuff, the more we’re going to have to learn to trust things even if they aren’t “logically” provable. Over time we’ll learn how to discern “intuition” from “making things up”.

My advice would be (1) keep going and (2) have patience. Which, by the way is the exact advice I need for myself too as it’s so easy to get frustrated with learning all this stuff. It’s such a new thing for me it feels like I’m a baby learning how to walk.

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