This week I got in the Daily Express, where I shared the story of my journey from scientist and engineer (who barely trusted magnetism on the grounds that you can’t see it) to a psychic who channels guides, can “see” people’s energy bodies and knows what illnesses and emotional problems they have.

It’s the story of how I went from Sceptic to Psychic.

Much of what I do as a psychic and spiritual teacher still seems quite bonkers to the scientist in me. But it was the scientist in me who dared to ask questions rather than simply reject what I was experiencing. It’s this that took me on a journey to investigate psychic abilities and the spiritual world.

As a scientist a lot of what is portrayed is, quite frankly, rubbish. It’s bad pseudo science at best, and ego driven manipulation that misleads and can disempower people at worst. It’s fluffy, flaky and useless.

But not all of it.

My experience was that following a near death or out of body experience that I began to notice things that were just inexplicable to my scientific mind at the time:

• Burning hands when around someone ill or in pain
• I knew things that I had no way of knowing, like the decor in a house I’d never visited
• Seeing colours round people’s heads, and lines of “light” through their body.
• I could “feel” which wire or sensor of the hundreds to check was faulty on a test rig
• I “knew” where to search for a data anomaly in a test that might have otherwise taken hours of signal processing and graph scouring.
  Most disconcertingly, I knew that something was very wrong with a man who 3 months later died of cancer, at the time even he didn’t know
• I could sense presences when I was supposedly alone.

Quite frankly when I added it all up, there was something going on that warranted further investigation. Which is exactly what I did.

I became an open minded sceptic.

When I broached this with many of my colleagues I was usually met with ridicule. They refused to even consider the evidence. As much of it was based on personal and anecdotal experiences I could understand their scepticism , but what upset me at the time was their cynicism.

There’s a big difference between a sceptic and a cynic.

A sceptic is someone who doesn’t blindly reject or believe, but is open minded and asks questions to reach an understanding.

A cynic is someone who believes that others are only motivated for their own ends, that nothing will work or is possible. They typically don’t believe anything other than what they already know to be true, which closes them off to new experiences or learning.

During my investigations I discovered many ways that psychic abilities or intuition can happen, how they work, and how to train others and myself to enhance their intuitive and psychic thinking, and to open to a more spiritual way of living. The results are that these people tend to be happier, more content, and more resourceful in times of crisis, and they become better at problem solving than they previously were.

Which can only be a good thing.

However, on my journey, I also noticed that there was a lot of blind faith. People so desperate to believe anything or something that they wouldn’t question, they would simply accept whatever their teacher said.

Much of the explanations simply didn’t hold water or stand up to scrutiny, yet they were the common beliefs of most spiritual schools.

I became quite concerned for many of the students of these schools, because, rather than becoming stronger and more resourceful, they seemed to have the opposite result, they became more reliant o their guru for the answers.

Blindly rejecting or blindly accepting is equally dangerous in their own ways. One will lead you do cynicism and being closed minded and rigid. This will stop you seeing opportunities and getting inspiration that might solve problems.
Blindly accepting without question is to be a sheep, to be gullible and to allow you to be disempowered by others.

However if we do dare to ask the questions like: “What’s going on here?” “How can this be happening?” it can lead to a much greater understanding of yourself and the world you live in. Just don’t reject science completely, because very often that is where the answer lies.

I guess that’s why I’m known as the psychic scientist. I’m psychic, and I’m a scientist.

My invitation to others is to cultivate the healthy sceptic. Question what you don’t understand or can’t comprehend. Don’t blindly reject what doesn’t fit with your current worldview, nor blindly accept what you are told.

And you can read what the Express said about me here.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/178786/Near-death-experience-changed-me-forever