Conclusion
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
please feel free to visit the school website)
Shakti Gawain says in her book Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance For Daily Life (2000), "Like any other art or discipline, it requires a certain commitment. It is an ongoing process in which we are always challenged to move to a deeper level of self trust… It’s natural for it to take some time and it may be a little difficult and confusing at certain moments… As you learn to live from your intuition you may find that the process of making decisions changes. Rather than just trying to figure things out in your head, you follow your intuitive feeling for a while and let things unfold. In the process, the right decisions usually get made. Learning to follow your intuition can sometimes feel a bit like living on the edge. In a sense, it’s learning to live without the false sense of security that comes from trying to control everything that happens to us. It’s recognizing that as we follow our inner guidance, wonderful things are going to unfold for us, things that we may not yet even imagine."
Developing your psychic skills will be a wonderful part of your spiritual journey. It is not the end goal of your spiritual journey, for spiritual powers are not a measurement of your level of enlightenment. Your ability to be in the moment with an open heart is the true measure of enlightenment. However, developing your psychic skills will assist you in your spiritual endeavors to help humanity. You will help others on their spiritual path, and you will be able to facilitate healing in a way that only a metaphysician can. In the process you will help yourself to become familiar with how the workings of the universal mind operate, and you will help yourself to grow even more in your spiritual understandings. Developing your psychic abilities will be a lifelong endeavor, and will bring you great joy and adventure in your journeys through life.