Second Sight: The Personal Story of a Psychiatrist Clairvoyant

by Judith Orloff, MD,

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New York: Warner 1995 361pp 1 p. suggested reading $22.95

Judith Orloff's parents were uncomfortable with her intuitions when she was a child. Unable to find herself, she resorted in her teen years to drugs. Through a series of life's lessons, including a miraculous escape - unscathed from a tumble down a mountainside in a car, with a near-death experience - through working on herself in psychotherapy, and through deliberately developing her psychic gifts, she slowly came to appreciate and accept her gifts. Completing her psychiatric training, she found herself using her telepathic and precognitive abilities in psychotherapy with clients.

This book is an excellent presentation of how intuitive gifts can blossom into instruments for healing. It also extends into the spiritual.

Spirituality is not an abstract concept from a psychic perspective. It's always right before you - manifested through dreams, visions, and intuition - but you must make it come alive. Live it, breathe it, recognize it even in the minutia of your life. As you do, you discover we're not just two dimensional beings bounded by our skin. Indians recognize this in the sweetness of their greeting to each other, saying, "Namaste," "I respect the spirit within you," instead of "Hello." This spirit is in us all,psychically unimistakable and vast. The poet Kabir describes it so well:

There is a Secret One inside us;
the plants and all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.
This is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.

- Trans. by Robert Bly

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