KS&L 350 Parenting Psychic Children Part 1

“My daughter sees ghosts, talks to plants and animals and discusses her past lives. I know she is ‘gifted’ but how do you parent a child like this? She freaks people out.”

“My son can see inside people’s bodies and tell them with pinpoint accuracy what their illness is and he just blurts it out. He can also see ghosts that haunt people. I have no idea how to guide him.”

“My little girl can close her eyes and project some type of energy to another location and hear what people are saying. Is this real? Can someone really do this?”

“My son sees ‘colors’ around people and becomes afraid when he sees certain hues. He also has nightmares and sees these ‘beings’ and comes running into my room terrified at night. What can I do to help him”?

Many children have varying levels of psychic ability. Fortunate are the children whose parents actually believe them and do not punish them for that they are ‘seeing.’ Many parents deny their children’s ability and accuse them of lying about these skills. Some religious extremist parents actually consider these abilities the work of the devil and do tortuous things to ‘drive the demon out’ of the child.

At the other end of the spectrum, are the parents who smugly claim that their child is ‘gifted’ or is an Indigo, Crystal, or Star Seed child. Some psychics will tell a parent that these types of children are Earth Angels, which by the way is not true. Humans can never be Angels. Many of these well-meaning parents have utterly no idea what to do with this supposed ‘gift’ or the child. Just how do you guide or parent a child who can routinely see through walls and doors, predict the future, talk to ghosts, or heal animals and humans? How do you parent someone with abilities you aren’t sure you believe in much less understand? The answer is: you parent them very, very carefully.

Psychic ability is not a gift. It is a responsibility for whoever discovers that they have this exceptional level of spiritual skill. It is a huge responsibility for the parents of such a child because it is critical that each parent respect their child and guide this child with hopefully, enlightened spiritual wisdom.

If you had a child who could sing, you would find a voice coach or a piano teacher if you had a music prodigy. Finding a teacher for a psychic child is fraught with challenges. However, there are some guidelines that can be used which will enable any parent to be able to tell if a teacher is the right one for their child and their family, because this teacher will be affecting an entire family.

• The spiritual teacher should offer to teach the parents, not the child, thereby maintaining the sanctity of the parent’s role in the child’s eyes. It is a sad situation for a parent to feel almost incompetent in the face of a child’s huge psychic ability. Educate the parent and the entire family will know how to work and live with this unique family member. It is strongly suggested that no spiritual teacher ever work alone with a child under the age of 18. The primary influence in a child’s life must always be the enlightened parent.

• The parent has the right to an explanation for every single thing that the spiritual teacher is doing, as well as the consequences for various psychic actions that the child might take. In other words, the parent must make sure that he or she understands what the teacher is saying. An example of this is the medical intuitive child who blurts out what they see when he or she meets someone. The teacher has to explain to the parents some of the spiritual laws of healing and why the budding psychic child must respect the sanctity of someone else’s body and not just blurt out what they can ‘see’.

• Parents should educate themselves in as many aspects of psychic phenomena a possible and how psychic ability can be used or abused. There are many books that will help parents with these children but avoid those ego-feeding books about Indigo Children coming to save the world. Without discipline, training and a balanced ego, that child will be the pawn of a very dark intelligence and create serious harm to more people than they actually help. Psychic children’s missions are not yet known and they still have to function in a very ordinary, mundane world. Never feed a child’s ego or allow him or her to behave in a way that hurts someone else. The first spiritual law is to do no harm and sometimes that is an exquisitely fine line of discernment.

• The parents who do allow a spiritual teacher to work with their teenager, would be wise to always be in the room with the teacher so that they can understand exactly what is happening.

• Each Mom or Dad must believe in him or herself and in their own instinct and intuition. At the end of the day, it is this Mom or Dad who is morally and legally responsible for what this child does or says. This means that if the parent hears the spiritual teacher say or do anything that does not ring true, then the parent needs to find another teacher. An example would be the spiritual teacher who told a Mom that her child would have a dread disease if she, the spiritual teacher didn’t continue to work with the Mom, that only she [meaning the spiritual teacher] could help her. This is simply untrue and is blatant manipulation. Do not put up with this.

• Each parent must listen to his or her own Higher Self, must remember that good judgment and common sense always apply and that if what he or she is hearing does not ring true, leave! The spiritual teacher must always be able to show the science behind the words and tools used. Do not accept anything less.

• Psychic children seldom benefit from staunch religious beliefs that cannot embrace someone with these often, unfathomable abilities. If the faith that the parents embrace does not embrace psychic ability, then the parents may have to reevaluate what they believe, especially if they do believe in their own child.

• Good parents want to learn how to parent a challenging child and should never, ever be awed by what their child can do. Parents must hold on to their personal power by educating themselves constantly. Good parents can respect ability but understand that without education, diligence, discipline and a pure heart, any psychic ability is just so much grey magic at the least and black magic if abused. Just because your child can read minds does not mean that this is something that can be allowed.

Parents must pray for guidance for this child and for themselves. Parents who make a sincere request to God to place a competent and wise teacher in their path may be delightfully surprised with the result. These same parents must always show gratitude for the astounding opportunity to parent an intuitive human being who just might make a wonderful difference in the world.

KS&L 348 The Challenges of Edgar Cayce Part 2

One of the cruelest tests of Edgar’s veracity was the time several supposed physicians sought to expose Mr. Cayce as a fraud while he was giving a reading. They physically assaulted him by sticking large needles into his arms, hands and feet. Edgar did not respond [because he was in trance]. Then one doctor cruelly stuck a needle all the way through Edgar’s cheeks. Finally one of them took a penknife and ran the blade under Edgar’s left forefinger. Slowly the nail was lifted away from the flesh. Needless to say, Mr. Cayce awoke in agony.

The twentieth century was supposed to be the age of reason and science. However, it appeared that science had separated itself from God and anything that was not science was suspect. The cruel irony was that many organizations had entire funds set up to study and record authentic examples of psychic phenomena, the ones science truly could not explain. Harvard University was one such institution. This school sent representatives and they did seem to believe in his authenticity, but neither Harvard nor any other school ever made any of the grant money available to Mr. Cayce to further study what he was doing for the people he helped.

Some people wanted Edgar to dress up in costume, hide behind curtains and appear mysterious. They even volunteered to pay him $1,000 a day to do this. Edgar refused. He would have nothing to do with any action that made his ability appear to be fraudulent. Edgar Cayce was not only honest to a fault with the skill God had given him he was also true to himself.

Medical authorities always remained skeptical of Cayce, discounting his readings because he had no formal medical training. Yet, despite this, Cayce’s treatment recommendations worked when the recommendations of allopathic doctors failed.

Consider how humiliating this would have been for these doctors: a man with a 9^th grade education is able to correctly diagnosis, prescribe and heal people at a distance by going to sleep! The irony was that the physicians, who truly cared deeply about healing their patients, followed what Edgar said. The other doctors, who refused to believe his readings, would not.

Sometimes it was difficult for Edgar Cayce to understand within himself what this ability could do. Yet, Cayce was a man so pure of heart, that even though he often questioned himself, he continued to pray every day for Divine guidance. Sometimes he wondered if he should be doing this medical psychic work at all. Yet his patients were devoted to him. Cayce’s readings were successfully used to help his son with horrific photographic powder flash burns to his face and eyes. Edgar helped his wife, Gertrude with a life threatening illness. His readings helped his other son as well.

Cayce struggled with finances all of his life. Money was a chronic problem, primarily because he did not charge and was spending so much time helping people that he had difficulty developing his photographic career into a financially viable business. Edgar inherently knew to his very core, that to use his ability to charge large sums of money, or to help only those who could pay, would engender an absolute loss of that ability.

At one point in the readings, Mr. Cayce was advised to open a hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia, which he did in November of 1928. There the hospital could charge people a nominal fee to defray the expenses of the hospital. Once the hospital was opened it was routinely booked three months in advance. The entire load of identifying treatments fell to Mr. Cayce and instead of doing the four readings a day that the readings advised, he raised them to six a day. From June 1943 to June 1944, Cayce gave 1385 readings. He did not want to say no to anyone in need. Finally, in one of the readings, he was told to rest or he would die. While he did rest for several months, he passed away in Jan of 1945 at the age of 68.

One might wonder why doing these readings was so exhausting for him; wasn’t the energy coming from God? After all, wasn’t he asleep and resting during the readings? Doing the readings was utterly exhausting because when any mortal soul acts as a medium, or conduit for the energy of the Divine, they literally are using their own body as a type of step-down transformer, making the energy of the Divine, the information of healing available on a level that the patient and the family would readily use. Mr. Cayce may have appeared to be resting, but he was in fact working most diligently. Even in the resting/sleeping state, it takes great concentration, discipline and skill to host such powerful energy, day after day, week after week, and year after year – for your entire life.

And what a life! Upon his death, Edgar Cayce left behind a life’s work of some 30,000 readings! This legacy of invaluable information, remedies, procedures and devices are still in use to this day. Perhaps we will never fully appreciate the degree of Edgar Cayce’s sacrifice. However, we can at least now have a greater respect for the depth of his pure love for humanity and the dynamic example of his tremendous service to all mankind.