Material Girl, Mystical World: The Now-Age Guide for Chic Seekers and Modern Mystics. Ruby Warrington

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СКАЧАТЬ noises continue throughout my whole reading, interrupting Betsy over and over with their whiz, pop, bangs, and at one point she pauses to tell me: “That’s all you, you know.”

      The message she delivers is that something in my life is beginning to “bloom” and “take off.” Which of course I relate to the fact that, having been thinking about creating The Numinous for some time now, here I am actually walking the talk and researching a story for my brand-new website. “Whatever it is will be a huge success, bigger than you can imagine right now.”

      By the end of the evening, I’ve got that elated feeling that always comes after facing something you’re afraid is going to (a) challenge all the belief systems you’ve carefully put in place to keep you safe in the world or, worse, (b) make you look like a total idiot. If we’re all made of chemicals that reward us with good feelings when we do things that are good for us and our fellow humans (sex, helping people, not drinking a bottle of wine every night), then following our curiosity (another example of our intuition at work) despite being afraid has got to be one of them, right?

      And as I’m bouncing around feeling all excited about The Fireworks, the girl I got the Silk Cut purple impression for sidles over to me. “You know, I didn’t want to say this in front of the whole group, but this week I decided to stop smoking weed,” she tells me. Wowzer. So my message was kind of spot-on.

      SYNCHRONICITY IS ALSO YOUR PSYCHIC VOICE

      It was Carl Jung who first did any in-depth study into “meaningful coincidences” such as The Fireworks, which he termed “synchronicity.” Jung—also an advocate of astrology as a study of what he saw as the “archetypes” of our “collective unconscious”—was a proponent of the idea that, rather than a series of random events, each and every human life is actually the expression of a deeper cosmic order. He and Wolfgang Pauli, the Swiss-American pioneer of quantum physics, called this the Unus Mundus, from the Latin for “one world”—describing an underlying unified reality, from which everything emerges and to which everything returns (Source, the Universe, oneness consciousness … God, etc.)

      Jung also believed that synchronicity, glimpses of this cosmic order in action, shifted a person’s egocentric conscious thinking (“we are all in this alone”) to that of a greater wholeness (“everything is connected”)—granting temporary access to the “absolute knowledge” that resides within us all. A.k.a. your intuition or “psychic” inner Voice!

      Louise Androlia, a gifted intuitive herself, is also deeply invested in shifting the perception of “psychic” phenomena away from being a tool for “predicting” future events, and rather something that we all have access to, all the time, to be used for the highest good of both our human selves and of the collective. “The sixth sense is for us all,” she once told me. “In fact, we’re all very tuned in as kids. Having had an imaginary friend or pet as a child is a classic example of somebody just being very energetically sensitive. I think whether this carries on into adulthood depends on the rate we forget.” Or that it’s conditioned out of us by a society that decides it’s “weird.”

      Remember what I said about tarot being like “Google for the soul”? It reminds me of a conversation I had with Brooklyn-based intuitive Lisa Rosman, who told me: “It’s our natural birthright to be able to tune in on deep levels to each other as well as what yogis call the ‘divine intelligence’ of the Universe. But the less we have to communicate on that level, the less we do.” Lisa went on to describe how she believes our reliance on modern devices—from computers to clocks—is partly to blame. “Rather than merely using cell phones or the Internet as shortcuts, we’ve been using them as a substitute to true communion with ourselves and each other. And yet in our dreams and disorders our deeper wisdom is still, always, clamoring to be heard.” Not to mention in the serendipitous synchronicities we kind of just know are there to tell us something, but which often get brushed off as “just coincidence.”

      HOW TO LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION

      And so, since that night at Betsy’s, I’ve been actively practicing tuning in to my intuitive Voice, a.k.a going with my gut. After all, Jung’s theory suggests that this is actually how to live the life that has been cosmically designed for us. I also love what astrologer and modern mystic Gahl Sasson said about this when I attended his Become Your Own Psychic workshop, how “you only know it works when you don’t go with your gut and everything goes wrong.” Because how many times have you found yourself trying to wriggle out of a predicament you know in your heart of hearts (yes, your gut) could have been prevented if you’d been brave enough to go against all logic (peer pressure, expectation, EGO) and just trust your instincts instead?

      One huge telltale sign that you’re about to go against your own intuition / the cosmic order is when you have to keep asking other people if they think it’s a good idea or not. An example from my life is when I recently walked away from what seemed like a really prestigious and potentially quite lucrative opportunity. It had taken a good two months to negotiate the terms, during which time I had laid the whole deal out in front of everybody and anybody who came into my path. I told them I wanted their “advice,” when actually I think my inner Voice was trying to find somebody, anybody to back up its pleading argument against me taking the job. Your freedom is way more important to you than a regular salary! And besides, you’ve got your soul project to fulfill!!! it kept insisting. But my ego would always drown it out with stuff like: But this will look awesome on your résumé, and not having a regular salary is REALLY SCARY.

      After months of anguish, not to mention boring everyone to tears with my massive first-world problem, I used one of Betsy’s techniques to really feel into my decision. She calls it Stop, Drop, and Roll, and it goes something like this:

      STOP, DROP, AND ROLL: HOW TO LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION

      • Take one of the two (or more) scenarios you find yourself faced with, and use your imagination (yet another word for intuition, since where else do your “imaginings” come from?) to play out the scenario from start to finish in your mind. Go into as much detail as possible, seeing the colors, hearing the sounds, and mentally interacting with the other people involved.

      • Then, when you have a really clear picture of the outcome in your mind’s eye, STOP the movie, DROP into your gut, and take note of how it feels. Write this down if needed.

      • Now repeat for the other scenario(s). Whichever makes you feel the most content, confident, and excited—the one that feels like home—is the one to go with, regardless of which looks better on paper. That’s the “just ROLL with it” part.

      Of course, it can be hard to distinguish between some gut feelings, like, say, fear (usually of the unknown, and as such no reason not to go for it) and anxiety (usually about a less-than-ideal future outcome your spirit senses is potentially up ahead, suggesting probably not such a wise move). One breed of butterflies in the gut can look a lot like another after all, especially if you’ve been drinking a lot of coffee or you’re really hungover, ’cos there’s a whole other species of stomach-dwelling creepy-crawlies right there. In his workshop, Gahl suggested another fun exercise to help distinguish the difference (see box opposite).

      To simplify things even further for you, having done my own extensive work in the (unified) field, the best analogy I can come up with is this: the “right” decision always feels to me like the truth. Which suggests that every time you go against what your intuition is telling you … it could also be said you’re living a lie.

      INTUITION VERSUS FEAR: HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE

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