Seeking Recommendation Best book on "Psychic Development"?

[Wintruz]

The teenage daughter of a dear friend recently asked me to get her a trustworthy book on psychic development. That is, she wants something that isn't laden down with talks about chakras, karma, New Age dogmas and so on. She wants a clear, focused guide to (she didn't put it this way but it's what she meant) increasing receptivity and developing ESP and telepathy techniques.

It's been so long since I engaged with any general introductions on this subject that I honestly wasn't sure what to recommend. I told her to leave it with me. She's an intelligent girl so I'm not worried about something being "too advanced" but I do think a clear, clean, systematic programme would be best for her.

Does anyone have a recommendation?

 

[HoldAll]

Matt Auryn's "Psychic Witch" often gets recommended in this connection.

 

[Wintruz]

Matt Auryn's "Psychic Witch" often gets recommended in this connection.

I'll take a look but I suspect from the reference to witchcraft that this is the kind of thing she wants me to avoid.

She really wants something without a framework or aesthetic attached. I may take a look at some of the old New Thought books. They sometimes touched on this terrain. It's surprisingly difficult to find something that just says "Do this and keep doing it until you improve". I know Ramsey Dukes' Seeing Fairies book covers some of this terrain too. I may re-read that before handing it to her though.

Mmm... I'll keep digging and remain open to suggestions!

 

[Vandheer]

Perhaps this is more her alley?

Book – PDF - Ars Vercanus: Advanced Magickal Techniques by Vasilios Wennergren & Lynn Wennergren

For as long as humanity has existed, there have been those skilled in the occult arts. Such individuals are capable of transforming the self, perceiving the subtle aspect of existence, and affecting reality via nonphysical means. In every culture, across every era, shamans, magi, mystics, and...

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[Morell]

Energy work develops non physical senses, that should include receptivity.

Book – PDF - Energy Work: 101, 201, 301, 401 and 501

It's just 5 pages copied from Reddit but it may well be the only instruction you'll ever need: https://mega.nz/file/WFdmxYSZ#lX9LcWp0K1O9Zq1pOrgOOBtRqtsauYkzMOQ3LDBztoE 1729067803 Re-up (see original post)

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[HoldAll]

Dean Radin's "Real Magic" has a chapter on remote viewing and approaches magic more from a parapsychology angle if you want to avoid most of the woo-woo stuff. If you leave out the woo-woo stuff completely, however, you'll be very likely left with pseudo-scientific manuals ("Everybody's Psychic!!") from the early 1970ies (remember Uri Geller?) desperately trying to 'prove' ESP is real by warping popular psychology and misunderstood quantum physics until the pip squeaks.

Love the title (although it doesn't seem to be a how-to book):

Book – PDF - Carole Lynne - Are You Psychic or Making It Up?

A road map for people who think they may be psychic--and their loved ones Are You Psychic or Making It Up? is a musthave book for anyone who is having psychic or mediumistic experiences (and possibly thinks they're going crazy) and their friends and families. Carole Lynne begins with some badly...

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[Taudefindi]

She wants a clear, focused guide to (she didn't put it this way but it's what she meant) increasing receptivity and developing ESP and telepathy techniques.

I suggest reading the books of Sean McNamara like:

and

Both have focus on practical techniques to help with ESP(first one helps develop the sensibilities that can help develop ESP and second one, while more focused on telekinesis, can also help with the goals she has).


Then we have books that while not 100% what you want, I do think they would benefit her in what she seeks.

For example:

This one is a bit wordy, but while it may speak of chakras and such sometimes, it seems to mostly do it both to center the reader and speak of the history of psychic energy(which did, in fact, originally came from New Age and these esoteric movements), but the author seems to also go a more neutral path or "more Hermetic" as is mentioned sometimes.
It's worth a read at least.

This is mostly a philosophical(and maybe historical?) view on psychic abilities, not exactly a "how to" manual with practical exercises as far as I've seen, but it can have interesting talks that may help the one you want to give a hand to.
Again, this one is wordy too and the pdf of it isn't the best with the layout, but it's readable.

 

[HoldAll]

I suggest reading the books of Sean McNamara like:

Cool! Any number of copies of the first two books available on annas-archive.org. This one looks promising as well (also available on archive.org):

Signal and Noise: Advanced Psychic Training for Remote Viewing, Clairvoyance, and ESP​

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[Taudefindi]

Cool! Any number of copies of the first two books available on annas-archive.org. This one looks promising as well (also available on archive.org):

Signal and Noise: Advanced Psychic Training for Remote Viewing, Clairvoyance, and ESP​

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I have both(McNamara books) with me too, I can put them on the library if they're not already there.I don't have this "Leader's edition" though, nice to knownit exists.

I think his books are some of the best when it comes to actual practice.