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How to Follow Your Intuition—Without First Needing Proof

By Happy Ali
Happy Ali

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Is that a gut feeling—or just your imagination? Learn how to spot the difference, trust your inner voice, and harness the power of your intuition to navigate life’s uncertainties.

Wisdom by Any Other Name... Connect Now

By Happy Ali
Happy Ali

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There is wisdom beyond what our five senses perceive. By tapping into our subconscious and higher consciousness, we unlock a vast well of guidance, intelligence, and understanding. This article explores how to connect with your inner knowing, embrace the oneness of existence, and move beyond a limited perspective to gain clarity, transformation, and deep insight into the true nature of reality. Also presents The Tree Analogy, an amazing way of seeing the connectedness of all life.

Heart Transplants: When Memories of the Donor Live On

By Alan Sanderson
Alan Sanderson

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Explore the profound emotional and psychological impacts on heart transplant recipients in "Heart Transplants: Memories of the Dead Live On." This article uncovers cases where recipients experienced changes in preferences and memories, suggesting a deep emotional connection carried by the heart. Learn about the scientific and anecdotal evidence supporting these experiences and the implications for our understanding of memory and identity.

My Intuitive Life Journey With a Huskie

By Ren Hurst
Ren Hurst

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Dive into the story of a profound intuitive connection with a Huskie, exploring the challenges and revelations of understanding canine behavior. This personal journey highlights the unique bond formed through intuition and the insights gained into the nature of dogs, offering lessons on relationship building and mutual understanding.

Top 10 Blocks to Connecting with Your Spiritual Guides

By Liliane Fortna
Liliane Fortna

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Discover the top 10 ways that block you from connecting with your spiritual guides and how to overcome those blocks. Open your heart to signs and synchronicities, and receive the messages you need to navigate your life path successfully.

Signs from the Universe: What They Mean for You

By Kim Chestney
Kim Chestney

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Guiding forces and signs from the universe shape our life's journey. Discover how to recognize and interpret these cosmic signals, leading to a more meaningful and enlightened existence. Your intuition and the quantum field provide the guidance needed to navigate your path.

Getting to Know Your Psychic Senses

By Scott Guerin and Nichole Bigley
Scott Guerin and Nichole Bigley

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We are all psychic. Whether you believe it or not, we are all born with intuitive senses, and they are as innate within us as our other physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual senses.

How to See Signs, Interpret Them, and Take Action

By Liliane Fortna
Liliane Fortna

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Throughout my life, I've developed several helpful ways to enhance my ability to see Signs, interpret them, and take action. I've found these to be quite helpful to open, reopen, or keep open, my senses, so I can receive the Signs around me.

The Cosmic Memory Bank: A Universe of Memories and Insights

By Kim Chestney
Kim Chestney

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The existence of a personally accessible, collective cosmic memory bank has been proposed not just by scientists and mystics but also by philosophers, biologists, and psychologists around the world.

Egyptian Goddess Nut: Her Symbolic Representation in the Night Sky

By Or Graur, University of Portsmouth
Or Graur, University of Portsmouth

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The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky and how I used modern astronomy to explore her link with the Milky Way.

A Part of You Knows Everything

By Kim Chestney
Kim Chestney

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Imagine that you are one of the many seekers and free-spirited adventurers playing your part in the greatest investigation of all time: the quest to understand what we are all doing here in this world.

Protect Yourself from Emotional Burnout with The Empath’s “Bill of Rights”

By Judith Orloff, M.D.
Judith Orloff, M.D.

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One of the biggest blocks to empathy is a fear of being vulnerable and then overwhelmed. It either seems too painful or unsafe to lovingly explore your own emotions or that you risk getting burned out by other people’s problems, dramas, and needs.

Healing Our Minds and Our Broken Hearts

By Trevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths

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Imagination may, of course, add great beauty, hope, and inspiration to cultures. But, a mental mode of living, which distorts or oppresses the core values of the social brain, may sadly corrupt and undermine society.

Finding Balance and Joy with the Wisdom of the Five Elements

By Nicole Goott
Nicole Goott

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The five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are easily recognizable as forces existing around us all the time. The five elements exist not only around us in the Natural world but also within us, in both physical and metaphysical terms.

Letting Ourselves Happen: Guided by Our Body's Intelligence

By Cheryl Pallant, PhD
Cheryl Pallant, PhD

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With direct experience, we set aside concepts, beliefs, habits, and cultural conditioning. We set aside the known in favor of sensing. We feel into What Is. Attention redirects to any of the five senses and to the inner senses.

Seeing Things Differently: Stepping Away from Boxed-In Thinking

By Mark Ireland
Mark Ireland

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Boxed-in thinking is rooted in a materialistic worldview known as “scientism” which dominates much of our society’s vision of reality and progress.

Your Natural Psychic Abilities

By Lisa Campion
Lisa Campion

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Psychic ability conjures up a lot of different images in people’s minds. Chances are good that we have seen portrayals of psychics on TV and in movies that stick in our minds as truth, but they might actually be more of the Hollywood variety.

The Gifts of Cognitive, Emotional, or Compassionate Empathy

By Suzanne Worthley
Suzanne Worthley

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We all are feeling beings who have the gift of empathy to be able to connect with other sentient life. Empathy is the ability to share, understand, or feel another’s emotion and what they may be feeling or experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference.

What Is Déjà Vu? Psychologists Are Exploring This Other-Worldly Feeling

By Anne Cleary, Colorado State University
Anne Cleary, Colorado State University

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Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already happened.

Listening to Your Partner's Premonitions: Another VW Van Misadventure

By Barry Vissell
Barry Vissell

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I have gradually learned to listen to Joyce's intuitive feelings. Sometimes I don't like them, because they go against my desires.

How to Work With and Increase Your Connection to Your Guides

By Lisa Campion
Lisa Campion

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In all the readings that I have done over the years, I have never met anyone that didn’t have a whole team of guides with them.

Learn to Trust Your Psychic Ability by Working with a Pendulum

By Lisa Campion
Lisa Campion

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One way to learn how to trust our psychic hits is by using a pendulum. Pendulums are great tools for confirming or denying a psychic hit.

Slowing Down the Need for Immediate Gratification

By Brian Smith
Brian Smith

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We are bombarded with a need to immediately react or complete tasks—sometimes consciously but more often sub­consciously.

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