subject: Open-Eyed Clairvoyance - The Most Sought After Psychic Skill Unveiled [print this page] Open-Eyed Clairvoyance - The Most Sought After Psychic Skill Unveiled
Healers, light workers and other curious people have spent a lifetime taking course after course in the attempt to develop and master the skills that rival those taught at Hogwarts. For those interested, it is a deep cry to access abilities that we just know we once had and should have again. While there are many psychic skills available, open-eyed clairvoyant ability is often times considered the blue ribbon.
I didn't start seeing in this way until I was in college. I can thank all the pot smoking, art making and unsupervised shamanic work for leaving gaping holes in my aura, attracting God knows what. I went to an art college in Providence, Rhode Island, a charming New England town full of old buildings, history and teaming with wayward spirits. At first I thought I was imagining what I was experiencing, but my trusty cats, Chica and Jesus (pronounced Hay-soos - they were Hispanic cats), always confirmed my visions and experiences with their behavior.
There were two experiences that stood out. One night, I was reading on my bed with my cats napping at my feet. Without warning, the bed started to shake. I froze. I had no roommates and I was completely still. There were no electronic, vibrating devices attached to my bed- at least at that moment. When something happens like that, it's easy to go into doubt or denial as a protective mechanism. I thought to myself, "This bed is not shaking." But I looked over to Jesus and Chica, and they had both awoken, their heads perched up, alert, eyes in a wide open stare. They looked at me and clearly said, "The bed is shaking." They didn't seem too upset about it. "Crap," I thought, "I guess the bed is shaking. I've must have a ghost." By then I was more irritated than scared. There was a lot of pressure at school and I did not have time to deal with this. I was not yet trained in sending waywards home, so I just went about my business as if it were normal. As long as I didn't have to see anything, I was fine. This shaking went on and off for the next week and then it stopped. Perhaps my ghost was bored with my apathy.
My second experience felt like an accumulation of stress, pressure and, lets face it, 4 yrs of only operating on the right, artistic and intuitive side of your brain can make reality bend. This night, I was hanging at my favorite skater-boy's downtown loft. As usual, the evening had started off fun, and then it somehow progressed into a video game marathon for the guys, and frustration for the girls. By some miracle, they tired of their marathon and we all crashed out at 3 AM. There were about 15 of us. I was having a hard time sleeping, The more sleepy I got, the more awake I was, until I was in some weird in between state where I could see through walls-with all my senses. To my shock, through one of the walls I saw, experienced and felt a friend of mine hooking up with my favorite skater boy! My shock only emphasized my delirium. At this point I stood up and the room filled with beings, maybe 5 beings per skater-boy, and the walls started to disappear. All of the zombie like beings were coming towards me, trying to talk to me. I felt them in my body and panicked. My adrenaline kicked in and took over. I bolted from the apartment, frantically running through the streets of Providence at 4:30 in the morning.
When the sun rose, I thought perhaps it was just a dream, I had imagined it. But when I ran into my friend, she immediately began to brag about smoochin' it up with my favorite skater boy, confirming my fears. Not only could I see zombies through walls, but I had been out-smooched by my friend! I didn't know what to do. I was not at some Egyptian mystery school with knowledgeable elders to help me. I was the only one I knew that was into this stuff. While this experience was the most dramatic, I often saw beings at night and I was always petrified. I wanted contact, I wanted the ability, but it scared me so much. I thought I must be near insanity. I wished I wasn't so frightened, that I could handle it. Overwhelmed, I told no one of what I saw and patiently waited for graduation.
12 years later, I still grapple with this issue from time to time. I have discussed this with many healers. We look at being able to see these beings and energy realms as if it would take us home, prove our legitimacy, as if it would give us the answers, the illusion will drop, and we will be with God again. It's a force as strong as looking for your soul mate, finding your mission, or dying; we just can't wait for "that" whatever "that" is. We are willing to face every fear we have to experience a bit of the divine pleasure that comes with this kind of contact. I have seen many a healer torture themselves because they cannot see in the way they think they should. It's a soul longing, a soul crying to be home and recognized.
A few years ago, I awoke to find my own spirit outside of my body, working on my energy field. For a second there was a split consciousness. I had, for a brief moment, all of the knowledge one has outside of a body while being fully awake. I looked up at my own self with an expression that said, "Busted!" I wasn't scared, it was so exciting, but in an instant I was back in my body. I tried to hold on to that immeasurable knowledge, but it was gone, I was devastated. I sat on my bed for the remainder of the night and it took me several days to recuperate from the loss of that vast understanding, knowledge and contact. And that was the real key: in order to have all that vision, it is imperative to also have all that knowledge in which to support it, and that, as a human being, is part of the developmental process. The multi-leveled, multidimensional world of spirit requires so much maturity and acceptance, especially if one wants to use it to assist others in their path. Recently, when I expressed my frustration to my guide team about my vision still not being open enough, they eloquently said:
What do you want to see? This is a good question to ask. Is your wanting to see a fantasy? Or are you looking for more tools to actualize your mission, your longing? So, correct your intentionality around this issue, you have released much ego around it as the reality of the gift has been revealed. The reality that there is power and with that of course comes the responsibility to use it wisely and to somewhat protect yourself. By this we mean that you would prefer to not to be seeing all the time, and this takes skill, as did your ability to channel. It took time and you developed the skill. We say, the high-level spirit world is not just looking for a good time here; we are looking to make a difference. Align your intention to see as something that can truly make a difference in your particular service here. This is what you did with your channeling, that was always the goal, but within your motivation for seeing was also the goal of proving you could do it-to yourself, to others and to God. So begin to imagine the ways you could use it to help, and look at the ways you would be willing to help with it. What are you really ready for?
I was humbled by their words, because I had never thought about how I could use it to further develop my healing work, I just had this overwhelming drive to do it. I just had to be as skilled as Barbara Brennan or Drunvalo. But, as I am shifting my reasons for learning it, I am opening up. Now, in my healing work I am able to relax my vision to match the frequency of the room as I raise the vibration with energy work. Its that simple. Beautiful images emerge: shimmering golden strands, the Violet Flame cleansing chakras, luminous beings with no real form, colors and lights. I am able to see, feel and know love. This seems like a good start, although I think I still have a ways to go! My third eye mind screen is well developed as an intuitive tool, and I regularly channel for clients and groups. All of these skills are equally important in my work and are linked together through the heart. I never thought my healing practice was lacking in skill, I thought I was lacking in something, that something being proof that I am with God.
As for open-eyed clairvoyance solving all my problems, well it hasn't. They say seeing is believing- I have seen plenty and I still don't believe a lot of the time. I've still got the same old questions everyone else has. Open-eyed clairvoyance is a skill, not an award, or a pass to enlightenment. When the illusion is revealed, another illusion is revealed. Seeing angels, guides and chakras isn't any more proof that God exists, or I exist or that I'm a real healer. It only makes life a bit more trippy.
It had been a long time since I let myself see a being in the middle of the night, but last week, I awoke to find a woman I had been dreaming about sitting on my bed. She was not a guide, but she was made of light and she was just sitting there. My adrenals practically exploded, who invited her? If I was going to have an unexpected late night visitor, it was not going to be a sturdy old woman sitting on my bed. It would be a hotty like Krishna, and he would be very, very busy. It was amazing to me that after all these years, and after so much training, it would still scare me so much. But I realized that it had nothing to do with being afraid of seeing beyond the veil, or being powerless against stronger forces, it had to do with the fact that there was a stranger in my room in the middle of the night, and my trusty reptilian brain used its built in reflex system to alert me. I no longer needed to prove I wasn't scared by somehow rising triumphant in my pajamas, pulling rank over the late-night light-being, I just needed to put up some good old fashioned boundaries, and have her make an appointment during office hours.
CC Treadway is an energy healer, channel and counselor. She maintains a private practice in New York and Sedona, AZ and works long distance. Visit her website for more articles on healing as well as events and workshops. http://www.cctreadway.com/
