Learning to Work with Intuitive Guidance Including The Intuitive Heart™ Discovery Method Training Henry Reed, Ph.D., Mentor Contents Statement of Purpose Texts and Study Materials Telephone Conferences with Your Mentor Preparing for and Receiving Readings from Psychics Lesson Plans Lesson 1: Getting Oriented Lesson 2: Seeking Guidance from Professional Psychics Lesson 3: Using Dreams and Self-Hypnosis to Obtain Intuitive Guidance Lesson 4: Comparing Sources of Guidance Lesson 5: The Intuitive Heart™: Caring and Empathy as an Intuitive Bridge Lesson 6: Intimate ESP Lesson 7: Inspirational Writing and Intuition from your Higher Self Statement of Purpose   The purpose of this home study version of the "Intimate ESP" track of the Edgar Cayce Legacy Conference is to give you the equivalent experience of the conference as it has been held annually in Virginia Beach since 1989. It is not possible to duplicate the exciting atmosphere of the conference, with the energy and interaction of the large number of enthusiastic attendees, the loving attention of the A.R.E. staff, and the inspiring grounds of the headquarters facilities. It is possible, however, to help you experience for yourself the exercises practiced at the conference. It is the practice of these exercises which is the vital essence of the conference training. The cassettes make it possible for you to experience the lectures that provide a perspective on these exercises. In addition, they give you an experience of Henry Reed as he stimulates your vision of the true spiritual nature of your psychic ability. The home study version of the conference has other advantages as well. One obvious advantage is the personal, one-on-one contact you will have with your mentor. To be able to discuss with Henry Reed your personal experiences with the exercises is an advantage that few conference participants have. You will be able to discuss your exercise results and ask questions, as well as revise, if necessary, any part of the training, to make it more suitable to your situation. As part of the learning, reading material is incorporated, an important dimension that often is not a part of the conference participant s experience. The "hard copy," tangible nature of this home study version also allows you to repeat the course, to study, to go at your own pace, to review, and to develop expertise. For this reason, this home study version is also a valuable asset to the person who attends the training at A.R.E. headquarters. The purpose then of this home study version is to document, organize, specify and facilitate the learning experiences and background understanding that constitute the "Edgar Cayce Legacy," especially as expressed in the spirituality of Cayce s philosophy as Henry Reed has interpreted it as "Intimate ESP." This course "syllabus" contains information and instructions to guide you through the experience. To stay organized and on track in your studies and practice use the "Lesson Plans" section as your guide. Follow the instructions in that section as you proceed through the course.   Texts and Study Materials The following are a selection of materials that may be provided as needed Book: Discover Your Intuitive Heart. Booklets: 1) Check it Out! Evaluating Intuitive Guidance and Psychic Readings 2) Dream Incubation: The Mystery, the Method 3) Explorations in Self-Hypnosis: Following Edgar Cayce and the Quest for Inspiration 4) Dream Solutions Overnight! An Edgar Cayce Inspired Technique to Receive Intuitive Guidance from Your Dreams. 5) Getting to Know You: The Secret Intimacy of ESP 6) Channel Your Higher Self with Inspirational Writing Audio: 1) Psychic Training for the Coming World Shift in Consciousness 2) Intimate ESP: What is a Personal Boundary when ESP Unites Minds? 3) The Quest for Inspiration: Two Guided Journeys 4) Awakening Your Psychic Powers   Telephone Conferences with Your Mentor An important feature of the home study course is your telephone conferences with your mentor. You will have Henry Reed for your personal mentor for this training. You will make these phone calls at specified points in the course. For each phone conference, there will be specific goals and expectations. In addition to these planned agenda items, you may also ask any questions you wish. To get the most from these phone conferences, you should review your assignments, have the appropriate materials at hand, and be prepared to deal with the agenda items noted for that conference. Also have your questions written down so you won t forget. For each conference call, make an appointment with your mentor. At the end of this section contact information is provided as well as directions for contacting the mentor to arrange for a specific date and time for the actual phone conference. The points in the course when you should schedule these phone conferences are noted in the Lesson Plans section of the syllabus. They are also summarized below: First telephone conference: When you receive the material, schedule a call to overview the course, assure that you understand instructions for obtaining psychic readings, and get answers to questions about the course format and instructions. Don t delay this phone call. You will find that talking to your mentor will help you personalize the course materials, give you an important orientation, and help you get started. This phone call will help you organize your work and prepare for and process your two psychic readings. Second telephone conference: After you have received your psychic readings and compared these insights with the insights you received from your self-hypnosis and dream work, contact your mentor. The phone call will help you further analyze the results of the "comparative" approach. Third telephone conference: After reading the appropriate materials that orient you to the "Intuitive Heart" approach to applying Edgar Cayce s "Oneness" concept in psychic development and practicing several exercises from the book, you and your mentor will review your work and exchange Intuitive Heart readings. Fourth telephone conference: After reading the appropriate materials and listening to the cassette from the Legacy conference, you will practice intuitive listening with your mentor. Fifth telephone conference: After reading the appropriate materials and practicing the inspirational writing exercises, you will go over the results with your mentor. This call will also help you summarize what you have learned, what you should focus on for further growth and development. Your mentor can also help you outline a course of study at the Edgar Cayce Institute of Intuitive Studies to help you further develop in your abilities through practical application. To contact your mentor, Henry Reed, for appointment: Call or 276-579-2883, suggesting alternative dates and times. Your mentor will phone you back collect to confirm one of those alternatives. OR, You may also e-mail Henry at STARBUCK@LS.NET and provide alternative dates and times. Your mentor will e-mail you back to confirm one of those alternatives. At the agreed upon date and time, phone your mentor.   Preparing for Psychic Readings (This material to be used in conjunction with Lesson 2 of your Lesson Plans) The tuition for this home study version of the Edgar Cayce Legacy training includes getting two psychic readings that will address a set of questions that you prepare. What follows is information, instructions, and guidance for the preparation of your questions, in keeping with the advice given by Edgar Cayce concerning seeking guidance. Once you have completed these questions, prepare duplicate sets in sealed envelopes and mail them to: Henry Reed, Ph.D. 3777 Fox Creek Road Mouth of Wilson, VA 24363 Voice Mail & Fax: 540-570-2883 E-mail: starbuck@ls.net website: www.creativespirit.net The purpose of having psychic readings: 1) To provide an opportunity for you to have some personal questions answered by a reputable psychic. We hope that you will find the information useful. 2) To help activate your intuition. When you listen to your readings, you will notice that your own inner self will respond to the information. You will recognize your own truth as you hear it reflected in the information provided. Thoughts that had existed within you at a subliminal level will become more conscious to you. This experience will help reinforce your own intuitive insights, and hopefully to make them more readily identifiable to you later. 3) To give you experience with a role model of someone who trusts their intuitive ability, to "watch a professional intuitive at work." 4) To help you prepare questions and evaluate the information using the method advocated by Edgar Cayce. Preparing the questions for the readings, exploring some basic psychic training exercises with regard to some of your questions, and then evaluating your readings, are combined into a comprehensive training exercise, as described here and in the lesson plan. Before working on the Preparation of Questions section below, read the booklet, Check it Out! and then return here to resume the process of preparing your questions for the readings. Preparation of Questions Following the design of this course, you will prepare your questions and mail them to the psychics before you begin with the other psychic training exercises, because the first set of psychic training exercises work with these same questions (See Lesson 2 in the Lesson Plans section.) A reasonable number of questions is five. You may ask more questions by asking one psychic one set of questions and the other psychic another set. However, you will need to include at least one question that you submit to both psychics in order to complete some of your psychic training exercises. You might benefit more if you develop one set of questions that you present to both psychics, getting two answers for each. However this degree of overlap is not required. Nevertheless, to follow the lesson plan, you must choose one question which you will present to both psychics, and on which you will also do a self-hypnosis session and a dream incubation. You will then compare all four sources of information. Edgar Cayce always encouraged us to seek answers from more than one source of information and then correlate the information. In other words, if you are going to get a psychic reading, get two and compare the answers. It is not merely a matter of getting a "second opinion," but it is a matter of eliciting your own intuition. When you perform a comparison between two answers, your own intuition must come into play in order to see resemblances. And, as you will read in the booklet, "Check it Out!" it is really impossible to avoid using your own intuition when responding to a psychic reading and deciding how to apply the information. Nominate Some Possible Questions Begin the process of developing a set of questions now. Jot down a list of tentative questions. Here is a list of possible questions, simply examples to get your own thinking going: What would be a good next step for me to take to improve my health? What would be a good next step for me to take in my spiritual development? What would be a good next step for me to take in the development of my work or career? What aspects of my mission in life have I achieved most satisfactorily and what aspects have I most neglected? In what areas am I particularly creative but do not realize it? How could I begin to manifest that creativity? What activities in life of which I am currently unaware would give me great personal pleasure if I were to become involved with them? What area of my personal relationships do I need to give more attention to, and in what manner should I change my attitude or response to these relationships? Where does my intuition and psychic ability naturally manifest in my life now? In what areas might I excel in psychic ability were I to focus my attention in that direction? What areas of my life that I am neglecting need my attention? What would be a good first step to build a better relationship with that area of life? Refine Questions with Your Own Knowledge Examine your list of tentative questions, and see which ones you have the most interest in. Follow the instructions below to refine the question by discovering what you already know by way of an answer to that question. Then revise the question so you are asking for information that takes you beyond your current knowledge. 1) Write out your proposed question in a simple format. 2) Take out the cassette labeled The Quest for Inspiration, and play the side titled, "A channel of inspiration: A meditation on the breath" to help you get into a frame of mind harmonious with your own intuition. 3) While in this inspirational state of mind from the breath meditation, mentally ask yourself the proposed question and discover what you already know by way of an answer, partial answer, or maybe a better, more important question. 4) Revise your question accordingly to reflect what it is you really wish to know. Repeat this process with your other tentative questions until you come up with five revised questions that you can mail to your psychics. It is preferred that you mail the same set of questions (revised) to both psychics. If you wish to ask more than five questions by dividing them between the two psychics, please use this process to refine all the questions you do submit. Remember: Choose at least one question which you ask of both psychics. This question will become the focus of some of your psychic training exercises. This should be a question that doesn't lend itself to one single right answer but a question that calls for insight, perspective, creativity. Example: Will ATT stock have a split this year? Conceivably, there is only one right answer to this question. Example: How can I best help my son with his illness? No one right answer, but rather there are approaches, perspectives, and the question calls for insights, creativity. For your one "Question" that you will ask both psychics and then work with yourself, choose a question more like the second example and less like the first example.   Lesson Plans This section provides you with step by step information to guide you through your home study materials. Following the suggestions given here outlining the designated order of events and telling you when to have your conference calls with your mentor, will maximize the enjoyment and benefit you will receive from this course. Getting Oriented Overview: Make an appointment for your orientation call with your mentor. Review the materials and order your text materials from the ARE Bookstore if you haven t already received them. Have your orientation phone call conference with your mentor to plan your course of study. Make a good beginning to this course by contacting your mentor for an orientation phone call. Set up the appointment, and then prepare for the conversation. See the earlier section, "Telephone Conferences with Your Mentor" for further information and details on how to set up a telephone meeting. To prepare for this telephone meeting, examine the materials you have received. Note the section on "Texts and Study Materials." Order the necessary books and cassettes from the ARE Bookstore. It s best to order all the materials at once, but if you wish to order them individually, then study the lesson plans carefully to see what you need first. If you will do so, you will see that the first materials required are (in order of use): Cassette:Quest for Inspiration Cassette: Awakening Your Psychic Powers Booklet: Check it Out! Booklet: Explorations in Self-Hypnosis Booklet: Dream Solutions Overnight! Discover how the section "Preparing for Psychic Readings" is to be used in conjunction with Lesson 2 in the Lesson Plans. Discover how the steps in Lesson 3 of the Lesson Plans are focused on your own attempts to answer one of the questions you sent to the psychics. Survey the remainder of the Lesson Plans to discover the types of training exercises offered. See if you have any general questions about these exercises. Write down these questions to ask your mentor. You ll have another chance to question your mentor more specifically about Lessons 3-7 in future phone calls. Have your orientation telephone meeting with your mentor. Seeking Guidance from Professional Psychics Overview: After you have had your orientation phone call with your mentor, you will review Edgar Cayce s perspective on psychic development and then assemble some personal questions to submit to two professional psychics. Then use Lesson 3 to obtain your own answers to one of the questions you submitted to both of the psychics. We ll call this one question, your "Question." Before you begin working on your questions, listen to the cassette, Awakening Your Psychic Powers. It will give you an overview of Edgar Cayce s perspective on intuition development and methods of psychic training. It may stimulate your memories about experiences you have had, and raise questions for you about methods of intuition development most suited to you. Follow the instructions given in the section of the syllabus, "Preparing for and Receiving Readings from Psychics." It would be a good idea to have one of the questions you direct to the psychics be about the subject of how you can best develop your intuitive abilities. Submit the questions to the psychics as instructed in that section. Using Dreams and Self-Hypnosis to Obtain Intuitive Guidance Overview: By the end of this lesson, you ll have developed some kind of answer to your "Question" through dreams and by getting into a hypnotic state similar to that used by Edgar Cayce. First, practice getting into an inspirational frame of mind to formulate your ideals. Read about dream incubation and the use of self-hypnosis for gaining guidance. Prepare yourself to have a dream giving you guidance about your Question. Practice using a self-hypnosis cassette to help you answer your Question. Use self-hypnosis to develop a way to apply or test your answer. Take out the cassette labeled The Quest for Inspiration, and play the side titled, "A channel of inspiration: A meditation on the breath" to help you get into a frame of mind harmonious with your own intuition. Once you are able to allow the breath to flow on its own, allow yourself to feel grateful for the gift of breath. Let the experience remind you of your highest value. What is your ideal? Afterwards, write down some thoughts about your ideal. Read the booklets, Dream Incubation: The Mystery, the Method, and Explorations in Self-Hypnosis: Following Edgar Cayce and the Quest for Inspiration, including the self-hypnosis script given at the end of that booklet. Notice where in the script there is an opportunity to ask a question of the spiritual benefactor. Notice the similarity between the dream incubation ritual and the self-hypnosis script, i.e., both include the idea of going to a "sacred place" and getting guidance from a "spiritual benefactor." Symbolically this means, entering a special state of consciousness (in accord with your ideals), and receiving information from your higher self. This process, understood most generally through this symbolism, is the basic form of psychic guidance which Edgar Cayce advocated. Methods vary, but the principle is the same. You will use dreams and self-hypnosis, guided by this symbolic structure, to see what kind of guidance you can receive from within yourself concerning your "Question." Use the booklet Dream Solutions Overnight! to prepare yourself to have a dream about your "Question." The first part of the exercise, given on pages 4-13 of the booklet, helps you further clarify your "Question" and some of its underlying dynamics. On pages 8-9 of the booklet, if you have no previous dream that might relate to your "Question," just skip those pages. Use the instructions on page 13 of the booklet to help you focus your attention as you fall asleep. Tell yourself that you will remember a dream, and assume that the dream that you have is in response to your work. If you don t remember a dream the next morning, repeat the instructions on page 13 each night until you have a dream. Then finish the steps in the booklet. While you are waiting for a dream, you can move on to Step 4 below. You can be working on these two steps simultaneously. Now you'll try to use self-hypnosis to obtain guidance on your "Question." On the opposite side of the The Quest for Inspiration cassette you have been using, is a recording of the script that was printed in the booklet Explorations in Self-Hypnosis. Use this side of the cassette to guide you through this self-hypnosis experience. At the appropriate time, ask your "Question" and note your benefactor s response. Afterwards, write down the answer and other information received. Repeat this process at least one more time. Sometimes people lose awareness during the self-hypnosis experience, returning to awareness just as the cassette instructs them to wake up. This is normal. If it happens to you, just continue practicing the process until you are able to be present to ask your benefactor the "Question" and note the results. Have at least two experiences of getting a response to your Question, so that you can compare the results. You will find it very stimulating and insightful to alternate the two methods. By day, try the self-hypnosis method. By night, try the dream incubation method. Working with one will seed the other. When you have information obtained from both approaches, then attempt to combine the information. Write out a brief version of the insights you are getting on your Question, based upon the interpretation of your dream(s) and the responses of your spiritual benefactor from self-hypnosis. Use the self-hypnosis script one more time--this time focusing on what little step you can take to apply and test out the insight to your Question. Ask your benefactor how you can apply the insights that you have received. Write out the ideas you received. Which will you actually try out? Begin to do so. Edgar Cayce explained that the greater the need to know, the better the answer to a question. The more the seeker is making effort on one s own, the better the insights the psychic can provide. Let your efforts be your prayer. When you have finished with Lesson 3, you have two choices. If you have received both of your psychic readings, you may go on to Lesson 4. If both of your readings have not yet arrived, then hold off on Lesson 4, and go on to Lesson 5. This lesson does not depend upon your completing of Lessons 2-4, but takes you on a fresh start on a new track of learning. Then, when your readings arrive, you can work on Lesson 4, which is concluded by a telephone session with your mentor. Comparing Sources of Guidance Overview: When you have received both psychic readings, listen to them in a special way to get systematic information from them. Write out information from each relative to your questions. What can you apply? Compare your own answers, obtained by dreams and hypnosis, with what you got from the two psychics. Set up a second phone call session with your mentor to discuss the psychic readings and your evaluation. Organize the two psychic readings into pieces of information that falls into these categories: 1) Answers to questions that you asked only that one psychic. 2) Answers to questions that you asked of both psychics. 3) Answers to questions that you asked of both psychics and which you tried to answer for yourself with dreams and hypnosis. 4) Information from each psychic that you know is accurate, that shows the psychic is able to connect with your life. 5) Information from each psychic that you know is not accurate, that shows where the psychic can be wrong. 6) Comments from the psychic that were inspiring to you, that made you want to bring out your best in your life, that gave you hope and good feelings about your abilities. 7) Comments from the psychic that made you feel as if the psychic was very empathic for you, for how you experience things, for how you feel. Correlate the information you received from the two psychics and from what you received from your own dreams and hypnosis (answers in category 3 above). What is the general theme in this information? What did the psychics add to what you obtained yourself? Is there any conflicting information? What will you do to clarify the conflicts or to apply the common themes in this information? Is one psychic providing a better caliber of information than the other, or are they both about the same? Look at categories 4-7 above to see which psychic seems to be more accurate, more inspiring, more empathic, with more factually correct information and less factually correct information. Is the conflicting information mentioned in Step 2 above coming from the psychic who is doing less well on your evaluation? For each of your questions compare the information between the two psychics (see step 1, category 2). When there is a conflict between the answers, check to see which piece of information is coming from the psychic you evaluated as less accurate and inspiring. For each question, see how you can adapt the information received into some plan of action that would allow you to test out or apply the information received. Contact your mentor to make a phone appointment for discussing the results of your psychic readings. The emphasis in this consultation will be upon Step 2 of this lesson, so have your materials ready when you have your consultation. Another important subject for discussion will be to inventory where you are with regard to each of your questions as a result of your psychic readings. Also: What did you learn about using your intuition from getting these readings? The Intuitive Heart™: Caring and Empathy as an Intuitive Bridge Overview: Listen to a conference lecture about how intuition and psychic ability is going to change the landscape of our social reality. It will help you better appreciate how "heart awareness," will help you more easily make the transition to psychic reality. Read about how research into telepathic dreaming, inspired by the suggestions of Edgar Cayce, led to an important discovery about the role of caring and helping in the elicitation of intuitive ability. Learn how to get into the Intuitive Heart state of mind. Learn to evoke memories as intuitive metaphors for guidance. Make an appointment with your mentor to review your work and to exchange Intuitive Heart™ readings with your mentor. Listen to the cassette, "Psychic Training for the Coming World Shift in Consciousness." As you listen to this lecture, think about how your own life will be affected by the development of your intuition and psychic abilities. Read Chapters One through Three in the book, "Discover Your Intuitive Heart™." As you read it, use these questions to guide your understanding of the material presented: 1) How did the "Dream Helper Ceremony" express the philosophy of Edgar Cayce more than did typical experiments in dream telepathy? Can you extend this idea to your own experience with intuition? (Note: The Dream Helper Ceremony is a regular event at the headquarters version of the Edgar Cayce Legacy conference. It is the only learning experience of that conference that is not included in this home-study version. If you would like to experience the dream helper ceremony, mention it to your mentor, who will help you set up this experience in your own home.) 2) What did the "Dream Helper Ceremony" and research with psychics show about the individuality of intuitive insights? What might this mean for your own intuition or the evocation of intuition? 3) What does it mean to say "my heart reached out" to another person? 4) What is the value of using memories as intuitive guides? What might be the limitation? 5) How does telling people of your own experience, rather than giving advice, follow the suggestion of Edgar Cayce with regard to sharing guidance? What advantages does this approach have? Practice entering the Intuitive Heart™ frame of mind (Steps One and Two in Chapter Three, fully explained in Chapters Four and Five). You can use the breath meditation side of the cassette "Quest for Inspiration" to begin the process. You can review these steps in the textbook: 1) Observe your breathing, and by allowing it to transpire on its own, enter into the flow state. 2) Be grateful for the gift of breath. 3) Focus the gratitude in your heart. 4) Note what images and insights come to you that express the qualities of this frame of mind. What message does your heart have for you? Practice this state of mind until you can enter it easily. Make notes in your journal about the insights and imagery that you get in that state of mind. Practice "Learning from Memories." You can work in either direction, with other people first (as suggested in the book), and then yourself, or beginning with yourself. Here s an example of a sequence of practices that begin with yourself (keep a journal of your experiences so you will be better prepared for a meaningful conference with your mentor): a) Ask for a long-forgotten memory that will have something to teach you now. Clap your hands. Allow the memory to come and make up a teaching story from it. What can you learn? As part of your practice, read "What s the first thing that pops into your head?" from Chapter Six and "Exploring what stories have to teach us" from Chapter Seven in Discover Your Intuitive Heart™. b) Pick a book of wisdom you especially like to learn from. Put a book mark randomly inside the book and, before you read the first paragraph from that page, ask for a memory to come that will help you better understand that passage. Create a teaching story from that memory, and then examine the book passage. As part of your practice, read "Match wisdom with the experts," from Chapter Seven in Discover Your Intuitive Heart. c) Over the course of a week, write out a dozen or more questions for which you would like intuitive guidance. Write each one on identical pieces of paper, and fold them the same way. Put them in a bowl. A few days after you have written all the questions, pull one out of the bowl. Before you open it, make a heart connection with the hidden question, and invite a memory that you will use to create a teaching story for that question. Then open the paper and make the discovery of your intuitive wisdom. As part of your practice, read "Practice Intuition with Hidden Targets" from Chapter Nine in Discover Your Intuitive Heart. d) Try the "The morning forecast method," described in Chapter Nine in Discover Your Intuitive Heart™. e) Here is a healing method that many people have explored with interesting results: While lying in bed at night, get into the grateful heart space using your free flowing breath. Ask for a long forgotten memory that needs healing to come to the surface. Embrace the memory with love and see what new idea, insight or perspective comes up for you. Go to sleep, expecting your dreams to continue the process. f) Now you are ready to create healing, teaching stories of guidance for others. Find some people and ask them, "May I practice my intuitive story telling skills with you? Then please think of something in your life for which you d like a creative new perspective, and I ll tell you a story based upon my own experience." As part of your practice, review Chapter Eight in Discover Your Intuitive Heart™ to better appreciate the value of feedback. Contact your mentor for your phone appointment. To prepare for the phone conference, gather your notes from your practice of the Intuitive Heart™ exercises. The focus of the phone call will be to exchange Intuitive Heart™ "readings," to discuss the results of your experiences, and to answer your questions about this approach. Intimate ESP Overview: Learn how the "oneness" principle so important to Edgar Cayce can be understood as "intimacy" in the interpersonal dimension of life. What will be the implications of psychic oneness for a sense of personal identity? Read about an exercise using intuitive listening which will reveal the underlying intimacy issues implicit in developing psychic ability. Practice developing the skill of intuitive listening with your mentor. Listen to the audio-cassette, Intimate ESP. How are your own feelings about intimacy affected by the idea of everyone having psychic awareness of everyone else s thoughts and feelings? How would the Intuitive Heart™ methodology help a person with these issues? What is a personal boundary when ESP unites minds? If you have an Internet connection, you can read more about this question at www.creativespirit.net/noboundaries/ Read the booklet, Getting to Know You. The first part of this booklet will help reinforce what you learned in listening to the cassette. The second part describes a psychic training exercise used in the Edgar Cayce Legacy conference. See if you can adapt it to your situation by tuning in to the sound of people s voices rather than to the words they are saying. See what impressions you get. Contact your mentor for your phone appointment. To prepare for this conference, review your notes from the cassette and booklet and write down any questions. The focus of this conference will be for your mentor to train you in intuitive listening by using the exercise described in the booklet. Inspirational Writing and Intuition from your Higher Self Overview: In this final lesson you'll review what you've learned, both in terms of your skills and your understanding of intuition and psychic development, and speculate on your next step. You'll learn how to do inspirational writing and practice it using a variety of attunement procedures. You'll use inspirational writing to assess your work and plan for the future. A final conference phone call with your mentor will conclude your work on this course. Review your course work, the exercises, the readings, what you have read, and your notes from your conference phone calls with your mentor. Write down a list of major accomplishments, highlights of your learning. Also make a list of areas where you wish to learn more, where you didn't do as well as you d hoped, and skills or areas of application where you d like to gain improved skills. What new aspects of your relationship with yourself have you obtained? What new ideas, images or feelings about yourself have developed? How do you feel about your intuition and psychic ability? Read the booklet, Channeling Your Higher Self with Inspirational Writing. Read the examples of inspirational writing that are at the end of the booklet. Edgar Cayce recommended inspirational writing as a good way to develop intuitive guidance, and a method that had no limit in terms of what it could bring forth. Since the essay in this booklet was written, the book series, Conversations with God has been published. The series was written through inspirational writing. We ll use inspirational writing here as a means of evaluating your development through this course and guiding you as you plan your next steps. First you need to become comfortable with the process, and then you can use it to your benefit.   There are three components to successful inspirational writing. 1) Making the attunement to get into an ideal frame of mind. This implies achieving a state of consciousness that has been groomed to be in an inspired state--in touch with your higher self, in touch with the feelings of your ideal, and in in touch with the God within. There are many methods for making this attunement (as shown in Steps 4-6 below). 2) Allowing the writing to flow naturally and spontaneously. This means trusting the words that want to flow from the pen, being willing to write whatever comes out, ignoring editorial control, and allowing the writing to occur without impedance. There really is only one way to do this: write! 3) Setting an intention--having a purpose, a need, a focus that the writing is to address. This is a good guideline to follow. However, there may be exceptions. Sometimes there are other things besides the focus that need to be written. If that begins to happen, let it happen. Sometimes it is not necessary to have a focus beyond the intent that you will write what needs to be written or what you need to become aware of in order to be in better accord with your ideals. In this lesson, you ll experiment with several different forms of attunement, and then use your favorite method for evaluation and guidance. To begin, say a prayer that your heart will be open to the truth, and then write a letter to your higher self (or an equivalent personification of your spiritual self) about how you feel about learning inspirational writing as a means of receiving guidance. If you have any doubts or concerns, have a dialogue with your higher self, as you did in pages 5 and 12 of the Dream Solutions Overnight! booklet. You've already done inspirational writing as you were preparing your questions for the psychics. We just didn't label it that way or have you give much focus to the process. Now you've reached a stage in your development where you can focus on the process and be able to refine and improve your work with this method. Use the breath meditation side of the Quest for Inspiration cassette as a method for attunement for inspirational writing. Put on the cassette, and let yourself get into the flow of your breathing. When the cassette leaves you in silence, pick up your pen/pencil and begin writing. Practice again, and again, until you are able to get into the "inspirational state" without the cassette. You might try this modification of the instructions on the cassette: 1) Observe your breathing, and by allowing it to transpire on its own, enter into the flow state. Think of the affirmation, "I can trust my inspiration." 2) Be grateful for the gift of breath. 3) Focus the gratitude in your heart. 4) Let your pen be an extension of your heart, and write from the heart whatever the heart wishes to express. Try using this approach with a particular question to see what kind of information or guidance you can receive. Use the self-hypnosis side of the Quest for Inspiration cassette as a method for attunement. Try sitting with a pen and tablet handy or sitting at your keyboard, so that when the time comes to experience your spiritual benefactor s response to your questions, you can write or type them out. Have a question in mind to see what kind of answer you might receive from your benefactor s awareness. After you have used the cassette a couple of times, see if you can make your own cassette, modifying the script that is used. Examine the script for this self-hypnosis experience as it is presented in your Explorations in Self-Hypnosis booklet. Eliminate any of the induction that you feel is not necessary. The most important parts of the script, are: 1) relaxing, 2) focusing on a wonderful "place," which gets you into the mood of your ideal (as in the phrase, "what kind of place are you in?", meaning, what is your mood...) and 3) imagining a wonderful benefactor (which helps you personify your inner wisdom). Then, on the bottom of page 25 of the booklet, where it says, "You may experience your benefactor s response as hearing..." change it to read, "As you begin to write, your benefactor s wisdom will flow through your pen and onto the paper," or similar words to indicate that you should begin writing and as you do so, the intelligence will flow. Practice using your own cassette for a few times, then see if you can do inspirational writing without any cassette, simply by recalling your spiritual place and the benefactor s consciousness. Perhaps you can simplify further. Here are some other methods for attunement for you to consider: 1) Going for a walk. Getting your body moving in a flow may release an inspirational consciousness. Upon a return from your walk, begin writing. 2) Moving to music. Edgar Cayce recommended the Strauss waltz, "The Blue Danube" for getting body, mind and spirit into harmony. We have used this method quite successfully at some of the Institute s advanced psychic training intensives. At the end of the music, sit down and write. 3) Singing or chanting. Allowing the voice to express the sounds of your ideal, allowing the spirit to move through your breath easily transfers to the written word. Using a method of attunement of your choice, have a separate session of inspirational writing on each of these questions: 1) What is the most important lesson I've learned by working on this course? 2) In what area of my life can I most constructively apply my intuition and psychic ability? 3) What is my next step in developing my intuition and psychic ability? Contact your mentor to make your final phone appointment. The focus of the conference will be 1) learning to use inspirational writing as an effective tool of guidance, 2) answering any final questions you have, and 3) planning your next step of learning. Congratulations! You've finished this Home Study course with the Edgar Cayce Institute of Intuitive Studies. Your mentor will discuss with you what might be the best plan for your future studies. Your intuition will also have some important guidance for you as well.