Diary of a Psychic Healer

In business school we had a class where people would tell you how they saw you, and you'd compare the traits they mentioned vs how you felt or what you were really like. The idea is that we project an image that is often incomplete, and unconscious.  Along the same lines, I often wonder if my online blogging leaned too far into the hippy spiritual thing. Because in real life I am grounded, practical, creative and obviously intuitive.   I didn't think this was reflected on my blog, but I have recently put a few of my blog posts into Gemini (AI)  to see how it reads me. And I don’t share  personal things, or talk about myself, so just looking at my approach to spirituality & energy healing.   It gave me these six words to describe my blog and my interests. What do you think??? I was expecting more goof: “PRAGMATIC:   You constantly test spiritual theories for their real-world functionality rather than demanding blind dogmatic belief. Abstract concepts—lik...

In natal astrology, the placement of the Moon’s Nodes tells us where our greatest discomfort lies but also where we can find joy and miracles if we ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’. The Moon’s Nodes are viewed within the polarity of the South Node, which speaks to behavioral patterns that once gave results, but now push us into a comfort zone that handicaps progress. The North Node falls in the opposite sign, encouraging us to do what feels scary or awkward in order to continue growing. Bringing Your Destiny to Life Jan Spiller published a fantastic book called  Astrology for the Soul  with coping strategies and paradigm shifts for each of the Signs. For example, a person born with their North Node in Aries and their South Node in Libra could focus on developing the positive traits associated with Aries such as leadership and self-sufficiency. They could  leave behind the limiting traits of Libra, such as excessive consensus building, putting...

A few days ago, I came across a Reiki meta-analysis that was published last year. A meta analysis is a very large study that compiles other studies, in this case randomized controlled trials, and aggregates all of their data. As I have mentioned before, one of the challenging things about holistic studies, and clinical studies in general, is making sure that they accurately measure what they intend to measure. Note: I may come back to this in the future to keep refining information and thoughts, and to simplify it.  In the meantime, my first impressions :  Effects of Reiki therapy on quality of life: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.   Syst Rev. 2025 Mar 27;14(1):72.    The participants in these studies were cancer patients, surgical patients and people with chronic issues (including high stress) who were not hospitalized. There weren't enough people in those study groups to generate reliable statistics for cancer vs surgery, but when all of them...

I recently finished a six-month class on Internal Family Systems Psychology , which looks at different parts of you and how they interact. I have two polarized parts - one is intuitive, the other wants to be rational and make sense of things, but more than that, that part of me wants to explain away intuition in logical and scientific ways.  In some way, I started this blog to document my experiences after I came across my former psychic school in 2010. If you check out the Rabbit Hole tab you'll find blog entries for that crazy fun journey.  There have been a few instances that I didn't write about, and that I don't know how to explain but that still boggled my mind. For example, in 2013, I signed up for a Remote Viewing class - where you use intuition to look at a target, and then verify what you saw. Our teacher gave us lots of different exercises.  The Time I Half-Failed Remote Viewing One day she had us sit in pairs, with your partner sitting in front of you with t...

I love astrology, and work with it for the metaphorical and self-actualization side that comes from integrating the Zodiac signs.  But I’ve had  planetary transits that boggle my mind, essentially when a planet’s current movements connect with a point in your natal chart. I have a hypothesis that I would like to test. I might try to organize a study that tests specific theories about natal astrology  💫 Right now, I want to see what makes transits affect us more or less predictably, if at all, and that is what I would like to test.   👉🏻 From a metaphorical, user-interface point of view , I see a ton of value in working with astrology but also think it's OK if it's mystical/myth based. I don't have a mode of action for astrology, but hope to test it anyway. In the meantime I'm going back to some of my math, stats and science friends for advice. If I am honest, thinking about necessary data inputs to make it verifiable and how to filter out confirmat...