Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567183603
ISBN-13: 978-1567183603
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (178 customer reviews)
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This is one of my favorite metaphysical books. It contains 44 practical exercises that you can use to help develop your psychic abilities, including creating a psychic shield for protection, sensing psychic information just by touching an object, and creating a psychic goal bowl. It can be used by beginners and non-beginners alike. I find that every time I return to it, I learn something new. There are many metaphysical truths lying buried in William Hewitt's words. Very highly recommended.
I readed this book in one sitting . As I read it I try out some of the things he offers. I have been working with the psychic world for a few months on a serious level. I always knew I could do it . I just hide it away. Like so many people do. So when I started I try to find a book that was plain and to the point on the how too.I had read books by John Edwards and Sylvia Brown for years.And I have gotten some good ideas from John Edwards. But I think this book is more to the point for all who are really interested it trying all they can . They all give examples . But this book is more the hands on do it your self type that a person needs who knows they need to take one more step . But what is that step. I borrow this book from a library to see if it was what I thought I wanted . After reading it I am now buying it today . In the book he mentions that you need only one good book in a time frame of say one year to get you started and I would say this is the one good book. I have read MANY books on the subject and so far this by far the easiest to understand and work with.
I simply could not allow myself to go buy other books without commenting on William H. Hewitt's book, Psychic Development for Beginners. It is an excellent book with simple, practical excercises that make meditation and awakening the awareness of one's inner self as easy as following a proven recipe in a cookbook, and it works! The simple undeniable assurance that all ages, genders, nationalities, vocations, etc have psychic abilities is wonderfully refreshing, and releases doubt one may have in the matter. Afterwards practical information creates a sensible understanding of why we have such abilities, and how they can be best used. William H. Hewitt is a humanitarian, and an excellent author. The excercises are reasonable with out any need for special equipment, except your mind. The steps lead to wonderful daily tools, greater abilities and safeguards to help you protect them and yourself from mismanagement. Mr. Hewitt encourages practical daily applications without fear of wearing something or someone's welcome out. The "More practice the better" is encouraged with a lighthearted "be creative and have fun with it" attitude. I have found wonderful tools in my psychic abilities. Thank you Mr. Hewitt for helping me to see that I could programm my subcounscious for an alarmclock which means that now I don't have to worry about power outages, it just works so well! :D And thank you for the Beach of Time, my favorite place now to do a great many things. All the excercises can develop and gradually become more advanced without discouragement, many of my internet friends have read my tiny excerpts and have bought their own copies just for some tidbit of common sense here or there they missed in other books. The excercises and references are easy to relocate.Chakras and chakra cleaning are not mentioned much in this book, but healing, by the hands, is. This is the best book on the metaphysical that I currently have, it helped me to have a few wonderful experiences that are quite profound for me. I enjoy going back to it for review and encouragement. I am not through with this book by a long shot! :) I highly recommend this book for all beginners and searchers of psychic awareness and awakening.
William Hewitt is a hypnotherapist who trained himself to be psychic. The premise behind his book, Psychic Development for Beginners, is that anyone can train themselves to be psychic. From this empowering and very accessible stance, Hewitt builds a book that includes 44 exercises and nearly thirty "case histories" -- brief, anecdotal tales derived from Hewitt's own life experiences.Hewitt has a considerable amount of experience that he brings to bear in Psychic Development. Born in 1929, he has been a practicing psychic for nearly forty years. In addition to working as a hypnotherapist, Hewitt is also a lecturer who leads workshops on both hypnotherapy and psychic development. His main experience in communicating his ideas comes from these workshops, and it is very clear from the arrangement of "Psychic Development for Beginners" that the book grew out of Hewitt's classes.* Hewitt's writing style is heavily influenced by his background in leading workshops. He is clearly a speaker first and a writer second. While this gives Psychic Development a very easy-to-read style, there are times where it feels unfinished and even skeletal.* Hewitt's teaching style is heavily influenced by his profession as a hypnotherapist, to the extent that many of the exercises default to what amounts to self-hypnosis. The biggest problem with this is that Hewitt uses the self-affirmations in place of actual theory that might allow his readers to understand the mechanics well enough to develop techniques of their own.* Hewitt's "Psychic Development" falls into the same trap that most "for beginners" books fall into, presenting the material in such simplistic terms that only people with absolutely basic knowledge will be able to find anything relevant in the text.* Although Hewitt's book bills itself as a text on psychic development, it jumbles a number of unrelated techniques together, including exercises which might more properly be called magick or neural linguistic programming. There is often no connection from one chapter to the next and there is certainly no overall theory presented in the work that indicates just how all these various tricks and talents work together as a whole.In spite of these shortcomings, "Psychic Development for Beginners" remains one of the best books on this subject that I have read. There are obvious reasons why this book is in its eleventh printing, and I expect it will continue to appeal to readers in the coming years.--Michelle Belanger
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