Psychic Literacy Quotes

“Our problem is that we think we are isolated and immune from the interlinked ebbs and flows, when in fact our lives are the stuff of these currents and eddies. Our”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“that the composition of human blood varies with cosmic influences; and that chemical tests showed that planetary influences and cycles affect the water content of human cells.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“shorten the story here, in 1972, Burr published an absolutely fascinating book entitled Blueprint for Immortality: The Electric Patterns of Life[30] in which he described in detail the clinical evidence supporting”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“From something like this came the axiom: “as above, so below.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Apperception,” as it is presently conceived, means “introspective self-consciousness,” “the mind’s perception of itself as a conscious agent,” “a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions,” “perception of the sum of things,” and “the recognition of truths” [emphasis added].”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“same-sex marriage”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“to identify two types of coincidences — meaningful and unmeaningful. But beyond that no one has gotten very far — except for astrologers.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Dr. Harold Saxton Burr was a member of the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Diana, Princess of Wales (and future Queen of England), although having several threatening aspects in her horoscope yet has her Sun at the best of all possible places, the ninth degree of Cancer.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Now, I happen to be an Ayn Rand enthusiast, the philosopher-author whose caustic but penetrating eye espied some factors in society normally overlooked by a lot of people. In her philosophical tracts and in her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged,”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“experienced a sort of “change-of-mind-space,” or sort of a “benevolent breath” — and knew that one day I would do something “big” in parapsychology.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“First, the future event must already exist in some way we do not understand. Second, if it exists, then it is part of some kind of hidden psychic agenda. The third factor requires that some function of human consciousness be able to link into this plan to perceive it. If we try to be psychic, and at the same time believe that a future planned agenda does not already exist in some form, then, of course, we are going to shoot ourselves in our psychic feet.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Dodona,”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Fate hovers into sight and becomes obvious; and then it is sometimes much too late to do anything about it. Often someone’s direct-sensing systems”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Let’s decode Fate first. It derives from the Latin fatum, meaning very precisely what has been spoken, decreed, or already directed. Clearly this refers to an outcome — most specifically, one that is fatal. Our term “fatality” is derived from this Latin word. But look at Destiny. It derives from the Latin de + stinar which means to stand or set aside for a special purpose. Clearly this refers to an outcome, too, but “purpose” implies something that is to be attained.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Yet we can look at other people and, more or less, see the inadequacy of our ideological individuality. We often point out that someone “was born a bad seed and was going to turn out rotten no matter what,” or someone “was destined to triumph and succeed.” In fact, “it’s in the stars” is still used, even though in modern intellectual circles the concepts of Fate and Destiny are”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“psychic aptitudes were powers not of the mind, but powers in themselves, and powers that at times actually transcended “mind,” or cut across it, or, even, were capable of operating when what we call “mind” was asleep or unconscious — or, even, when clinically dead. Indeed,”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Psychologically speaking, they tend also to be filled with grim, but devoted, researchers whose accumulated disappointment in not making big breakthroughs is quite tangible — even if they do manage to smile at subjects.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“is far easier to agree with the eminent researchers Penfield and Eccles and hypothesize that there exists a greater “organ” possessing enormous powers — which, although completely invisible to our present materialistic knowledge, certainly must exist. And it was this “organ” that John Traynor and Mason somehow activated — although, of course, quite inadvertently.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Further, Old published a series of newsstand pamphlets entitled The Green Book for Prophecies that came out intermittently for several years, and in which he updated his predictions.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Your intellect will not remember unless you can refresh it with notes.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Some astrologers are, as we shall say from now on, psychically aligned, and can even “get” images of those factors. I don’t have Cathy’s natal chart, so I can’t say for sure if her”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“we accept the obvious. In addition to our intellectual capabilities, we possess psychic attributes whose major apparent functions extend our self-preserving capabilities overall. Yet (and here is my complaint again), our culture has elected to trust only in intellect and its admittedly”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“We can also express this as: when certain factors come together, a certain result actualizes. We may possess abilities to recognize these factors and thus even foresee how they will turn out, but the factors themselves are significantly independent of our psychic abilities.”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“Now, altogether this was an incredible Event. Normally, the theories of mere coincidences or chance happenings are used to explain away something like this. But how, or more importantly, why should so many “chance happenings” group themselves together to produce such a meaningful result? Admittedly, a seemingly unimportant”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“present-time Events are somehow being formed by the future, and the future is somehow looping back into present”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance

“to note that our educational systems actually teach us to confuse our intellects and our direct-sensing operative abilities as to their priority. Both are important, of course. But we tend to place our intellectual processes above our direct-sensory capabilities, so much so in some instances that many people have lost real touch with their direct-sensory operative functions. The result of”
― Ingo Swann, Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance