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Patterns of Prophecy – Alan Vaughan

The process of giving a psychic reading is somewhat like making up a story. As one talks, images begin to appear in the mind's eye.

Verbal thoughts may come also (so-called clairaudience).

Names or initials may identify people whom one sees in his mind's eye.

The images are often fragmentary or symbolic and have to be interpreted by the conscious mind as one gets them.

The impressions, once started, begin to flow as the conscious mind yields up its control.

Sometimes the images are accompanied by a feeling of whether they pertain to the past, present, or future; at other times this distinction is jumbled and inaccurate.

The solar plexus area often seems to be intimately involved in this process. One feels impressions there, or gets a gut feeling that something one sees is correct.

The flow of impressions tends to come in spurts of a few  Minutes, then dries up, then returns as something else of interest flashes into the mind.................

It would seem that a flow of symbols can be established only when there is a certain amount of psychic compatibility. A lack of this compatibility can prove embarrassing, as when a sitter brings a stenographer with him for a sitting but the medium can get impressions only about the stenographer.