Woo Woo

By Pauline Evanosky

Nobody can tell whether I’m making this stuff up or if it is honest. It’s just me you’re looking at.

All I can do is be the psychic channel I turned out to be. In fact, being dishonest is one of the steps you take when you’re learning how to do it. It’s called pretend.

Now, who would ever equate dishonesty with pretending? When a kid pretends, they are not being dishonest. They are pretending they have an invisible friend who does the dishes. Likely, that was a man-child. Be careful when you get married, ladies, that your intended never had fantasies that their invisible friend did all the work, did all the shopping, did all the dishes, and all he liked to do as a kid was lie around and make a mess. Believe me, there are men like that out there. Just bear that in mind before you say, “I do.”

Anyway, back to the dishonest part. Or rather, the pretend part of learning how to be a psychic channel.

First, you must truly believe that it is possible. This, when it finally happens to you, will ensure that you know how to really, really believe something. Like everybody believes the sun will come up with the new day and the stars will come out with the night. There could be extenuating circumstances like rain or clouds, but basically, that’s the belief we have.

So, even though you don’t feel like you’ve got a single psychic bone in your body, you have to really convince yourself that you are psychic. I wouldn’t go around advertising it until you begin to feel it happening and even then, you might wait a year or so before you announce to your brother-in-law that you can read his mind. Cautionary note: Don’t ever tell anybody you can read their mind. I know this is what is depicted in literature, but just don’t do it. You might get hunches about a person’s intent, but unless you ask them plainly about it you won’t know for sure. Personally? I’ve talked with people and suddenly, out of the blue, I’m talking about a Martha. They are shocked and asked me how I knew about their friend Martha. I say I don’t know. And I don’t. What I believe? It’s the magic of being a channel and talking to the dead.

So, once you’ve done that, although the belief hasn’t yet been tested, you’re going to put your feelers out to “prove” this belief to yourself.

How do you do that, exactly? Listen to other psychics. Not every one of them is going to have the same advice. This does not make one more right than another. But this will be the truth for them.

The thing is, there are many different kinds of psychics. You can have those who get “feelings” about you. Sometimes that works for me. Like I might say to someone, “Do you like to write?” Or I meet somebody, and I get the willies. This happens with narcissists. Or maybe they are serial killers. I never stayed around long enough to find out. I just put a whole lot of distance between me and whoever they are. If I get a bad feeling? I’m out of there.

You can find a psychic who is into numbers. I would tend to say this might be an important person to hang around with, just because you might have better luck playing the lottery. That’s just a theory on my part because I’ve never really had the luck to run into anybody like that. Also, my Spirit Guides have told me they’ll give me lots of numbers to play. It’s just that none of them ever won. Unless, perhaps in another country I don’t know about. Being psychic does not get you a tick for an easier life. It does, though, mean you’ll have an adventurous time of it.

I’ve never really figured out what sort of psychic I am. Stuff shows up all the time that is “different”. Like I’ll be thinking about a friend I haven’t heard from in years, and the next day they call me. That happens occasionally to me. Or I will call my husband on the telephone, and he tells me he had just picked up his phone to call me. That happens a lot to us.

I visit with dead folk and people in Spirit in my dreams.

Before I learned how to channel, my dreams were always me and whoever was chasing me. I’d get mired in the mud and not be able to move with a monster or a bad guy behind me closing in quickly. Once I learned how to channel, my dreams became me and lots of people. As I’ve gotten older and more people around me have died, they too show up in my dreams. It’s just another way of saying hello. If you are lucid when you dream, that’s super fun because then you can have a real visit with your loved ones.

An interesting thing happened involving normal everyday things when I began channeling. I trust my Spirit guide, Seth, and others to help out at the grocery store. I’ll reach for a piece of produce and hear, “No, not that one. Choose this one.” And, for goodness’ sake, doesn’t my hand reach for the other onion. Spirit is not going to do that one without permission. All you have to do is ask. I don’t go to the grocery store much these days. Ever since Covid, I learned that I liked being housebound.

I’m a writer. I sit in a chair and write. My husband does the shopping, or we order from Amazon. By the way, I’ve even ordered ice cream from Amazon, and it comes frozen. But, back in the day, I’d have gotten all my shopping done, and I’d pause at the end of an aisle and ask Seth, “Is there anything else?” That’s when I start getting directions: “Keep going. Keep going. Turn now!” If nothing comes to me in that particular aisle, I’ll stop and take a deep breath and refocus on what is for sale. Then, I’ll see it, whatever it is that I haven’t had in a long time.

A good exercise to help you begin to communicate with your inner self that came about from Julia Cameron’s "The Artist’s Way" is for writers or artists who are having a hard time getting going with their stuff. You assume, you pretend that first of all, you have an inner self. This is the part of you that is probably your soul. It’s the higher part of yourself. It’s the part of you that is not afraid. This is the self you want to be talking to. Draw a line down a piece of paper. Right in the middle. The left side of the paper belongs to you. The right side of the paper belongs to your higher self or your unconscious self.

When I first did this, I wrote on the left side, “I am a writer.” My higher self wrote, “You couldn’t write your way out of a paper bag.” An argument of sorts ensued. I’d never done such a thing in my life. It was amazing. I didn’t know how to channel in those days. But that’s what Julia Cameron taught me: how to get in touch with my higher self.

The idea was that your higher self was also your unconscious self, who held all these deep-seated misgivings that somehow prevented you from attaining your dreams. You realize that these fears and truths were not real. In some cases, they were downright silly. Breaking through as a writer was necessary for me to really believe that I was psychic.

Everybody is psychic. I really believe that now. Psychic is just another sense. Wanting to be psychic means that you are waking up that sense, honing it. Like if you were going to be a perfume expert or a wine connoisseur, you would need your sense of smell and taste, in the case of the wine, to be so refined that you could know there was a hint of citrus or of clover. Becoming more psychic is just waking up those senses, and in order to do that, you’ve just got to pretend.

Imagine, and it is so.

Now, would that work if you wanted to be a brain surgeon? Sure. Though we all know that you will need to go to school for a gazillion years to do it. The same thing happened to me when I wanted to be a psychic. It took me at least five years of concentrated study before anything “real” happened. I just took the steps as they came to me. I didn’t go to school.

I went to a lot of psychics to see what it was like. Later, I studied them to learn which techniques I liked and which I did not trust. For instance, if a psychic says to you, “For more money, I can lift the curse that is on you.” Right. Say thank you and leave. I don’t believe in curses, though some people do. I also don’t believe that to withhold help in lieu of more money is just shameful.

Oh, another important step you might consciously take is to make a promise to yourself and to the universe that you try your hardest to remain calm and in touch with your mental self. This can first be accomplished by you keeping a journal and recording the interesting things that are happening and how you are feeling. Sometimes when a person begins to investigate what makes them tick, they stumble upon areas of their life where having a psychotherapist is a good thing. It happens. It happened to me. In order to know others, you will first need to learn about yourself. Sometimes that can be upsetting. So, just make the promise and if and when the time comes, you’ll be open to some help for yourself.

The steps that you take might be different than the steps I took. One of the steps is to trust that whatever is going to help you achieve your goal will be there for you when you need it. So, going to an Ivy League school is not going to ensure success. There are tons of ways to get where you are going in life, no matter what you want to do. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the universe.

Bon chance.
Pauline Evanosky