Overview

This book emerged from Katz’s work as a professional psychic and founder of the Sedona Psychic Training Center, where she adapted the year-long Berkeley Psychic Institute curriculum into intensive month-long programs for Sedona’s transient population.^[1] Clients repeatedly asked for techniques to protect themselves, break agreements with ex-lovers, overcome blocks to manifestation, communicate with spirit guides, and develop their own clairvoyance — questions that could not be adequately addressed in ten minutes at the end of a reading session.^[1] The book provides the comprehensive manual that Katz could not find to recommend, making clairvoyant training accessible to readers who would never enroll in a year-long program but already possessed significant intuitive development.^[1]

Central argument

The book’s core claim is that clairvoyance is not a rare gift but a natural human ability that can be systematically developed through specific techniques.^[1] Katz argues that most people remain unaware of their clairvoyant abilities because mainstream society has actively suppressed psychic expression in children through ridicule, punishment, and religious prohibition dating back to the Inquisition.^[1] The ability to visualize anything — even something as simple as a circle — demonstrates clairvoyant capacity, since clairvoyance uses the same brain mechanics active during dreaming and imagination.^[1]

The book supports this claim by presenting techniques that produced immediate results in Katz’s training programs. Beginning students accessed their clairvoyance within minutes of their first attempts, performing accurate readings that revealed intimate details about subjects they had never met.^[1] The method involves relaxing the logical mind and allowing information to appear in the form of images, which are then interpreted through a structured reading process.^[1]

Katz distinguishes clairvoyant reading from conventional psychotherapy by arguing that clairvoyants can immediately identify core issues, uncover unconscious motivations, witness and validate past and present experiences, and bypass defense mechanisms within a single session.^[1] The crucial difference is that clairvoyants work with the spirit — the essential self that conventional therapy ignores — and thus can address dimensions of human experience inaccessible to doctors, psychotherapists, or social workers.^[1]

Key concepts

• Clairvoyance — The ability to access and decipher visual information through extrasensory means in the form of images or pictures, using the same brain mechanics active during dreaming and visualization rather than physical sight.^[1]
• Clairvoyant reading — A structured process of accessing information about a person by relaxing the logical mind and allowing images to appear, then interpreting those images to reveal details about past, present, or future circumstances.^[1]
• Clairvoyant healing — The manipulation of energy through visualization to release pent-up emotions, remove foreign energies, or alter a person’s energetic state, often producing physical sensations that the client can feel during the process.^[1]
• The naming problem — The consistent difficulty in visual telepathy and clairvoyance experiments where receivers can describe visual features but struggle to name specific objects or symbols, suggesting that psi-encoded information lacks the higher-level cognitive organization needed for object recognition.^[2]
• Spirit as distinct from body and mind — The essential self that exists beyond physical and psychological functioning, which must be recognized and nurtured for a person to thrive and which clairvoyants can directly perceive and work with.^[1]

Evidence marshaled

The book draws primarily on Katz’s direct experience performing thousands of readings and training hundreds of students over seventeen years.^[1] She presents detailed case examples from her practice, including readings for a Filipino businesswoman where she accurately described the woman’s past products (deodorant, girdles) and current employees without any prior knowledge, and a reading for a plastic surgeon’s assistant where she clairvoyantly perceived the surgeon’s unprofessional behavior toward female clients.^[1]

The techniques presented derive from Lewis Bostwick’s Berkeley Psychic Institute, founded after Bostwick studied Catholicism, Scientology, the Rosicrucian Order, and Philippine faith healing.^[1] Katz trained at BPI in 1994, completing a thirteen-month program where she and her classmates performed accurate readings within one week of beginning training.^[1] She later studied at the Aesclepion Healing Center in Marin County, California, founded by John Fulton, one of Bostwick’s students.^[1]

Katz also spent nine months in the Philippines studying with faith healers and psychic surgeons, traveling to remote villages with her partner Manuel to provide healing and clairvoyant readings to indigenous people without access to medical care or counseling.^[1] She produced and hosted a television program in Sedona called The Psychic Explorer: Adventures of the Spirit, which aired continuously on local channels and generated widespread community interest in clairvoyant development.^[1]

Significance

The book represents one of the first comprehensive manuals on clairvoyant training techniques to reach a general audience, making methods previously available only through year-long residential programs accessible to independent learners.^[1] Katz notes that Lewis Bostwick believed in an oral teaching tradition and never published a comprehensive manuscript on clairvoyant training, leaving students without written materials to reference.^[1]

The work contributes to a broader literature on unorthodox concepts of force and psychic phenomena, joining historical discussions of vital, magnetic, or psychic forces emanating from the human body that can carry information and produce healing effects. It also addresses the naming problem identified in remote viewing and clairvoyance research, where receivers struggle to identify specific objects despite accurately perceiving visual features.^[2]

Katz went on to establish the International School of Clairvoyance and became affiliated with the International Remote Viewing Association, co-founding the IRVA Research Unit in 2020 with Dale Graff. Her later research includes systematic review and meta-analysis of remote viewing studies from 1974 to 2022 with Patrizio Tressoldi, and ethnographic assessment of associative remote viewing for financial forecasting.