Stavish Mark. How To Develop Your Psychic Abilities. A Special Report from The Institute for Hermetic Studies

The Institute for Hermetic Studies, 2004.Report Overview
What is psychic development?
Psychic development through prayer, meditation, and ritual
Practical methods for inc reasing your psychic powerDeveloping your psychic abilities is less a matter of innate talent than a matter of perseverance and dedication. Anyone can increase his or her natural psychic talents simply through regular practice for 10 to 20 minutes, once or twice a day. In short, the more effort you put into developing your psychic abilities, the more psychic you will become.
There are three major “Practices” in Western Esotericism: Mystical, Magical, and Occult, or Gnostic. The Mystical Path emphasizes the development and use of the emotions through devotion to an ideal. The Magical Path emphasizes the development and application of the will, or focused energy and power, through ritual or alchemical practices ii. The Occultiii, or Gnostic Path emphasizes the apprehension of knowledge, and can be either through intellectual study of arcane and hidden (‘occult’) subjects, or through practices designed to give direct knowledge, or ‘gnosis’ of trans-corporeal realities. These are called “Practices” because there are definite things associated with them that are done in order to progress.