First know in self in what thou hast believed, and then set that as the ideal. . . And when the darker days come, and when the shadows come that would make thee afraid, turn within and have a good time at scaring the bogies away from those that would fear, that would doubt.
Daily Application of Selected Cayce Readings
October 23
Psychic Powers and Daily Life
The psychic lies latent within yourself. First find deep within that purpose, that ideal to which you would attain.
Based on Edgar Cayce reading 2533-1
People often asked Jim how they could develop psychic powers. In some cases Jim liked to ask in return, "Why do you want to be psychic?" He wasn't trying to lay a guilt trip on people or make them feel as if they were being selfish by desiring this, but he was asking people to clarify their motives.
Jim knew that motives and ideals gave people clues as to where to look in their lives for their psychic powers to awaken. If their motive was a desire to help children, for example, then they should examine those relationships for their own emerging intuition and inner promptings.
If the desire was to make better business decisions, they should look in that part of their lives. As they prepared themselves to make a decision, they should put the rational mind aside for few moments and listen to what the inner voice was trying to tell them. Then they could use their rational mind to reflect on the answer which came from within.
Over and over Jim would say that if people knew the motive for developing psychic abilities, they would know where to look in their lives for such experiences to begin to occur.
APPLICATION: Name an area of your life where you want to increase your psychic abilities. Become aware of the intuitions that come to you in those areas of your life.