Psychic Development: Beyond Beginners is an instructional manual. Not quite what I expected. This is the first book I have read from this author and I enjoyed her writing.

Great book for anyone looking for advanced practice. I look forward to spending more time with this book!

ARC from netgalley
I was looking forward to reading this but it became unreadable because there were too many errors in the text, it became distracting. This was in the Kindle version, so hopefully those mistakes were fixed before publication.

The author is a qualified professional, and she walks you step-by-step through each exercise meant to develop your psychic abilities. The first step is to realize which ability you have. The next step is identifying where it comes from. She discusses exercises meant to develop your psychic abilities. The book then talks about chakras, and why they're important. It's an interesting book, and I'm going to have to try some of the exercises. If you're at all curious about psychics, then you'll enjoy this book.

I am always interested in books like Psychic Development Beyond Beginners by Melanie Barnum. I like self-help books, books about spiritual topics, and anything to help really understand intuition and honing the sixth sense.

Improve Your Innate Gifts and Your Confidence with this Next-Step Book for Your Psychic Journey

Now is the perfect time to go beyond your beginnings and unleash your full intuitive power. This practical, intermediate book on psychic development features illuminating stories from author Melanie Barnum’s client sessions, engaging exercises to deepen your connection to your metaphysical self, and detailed interpretations for the psychic signs and symbols you encounter.

Providing many enlightening examples and techniques, this accessible guide gives you a fresh perspective on psychic development and allows you to explore the vast possibilities of being intuitive—from mediumship to past life experiences to astral travel. You’ll learn to release the hold your physical mind has put on your spiritual self, allowing your gifts to truly blossom.

This was a quick read and highlighted some helpful information. I think its best for those who are pretty new to learning about psychic gifts and tools.

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This book is largely about developing natural intuition, with the author alternating between introducing particular skills and then providing practical techniques to develop them. It wasn't as airy-fairy as I'd expected, which I liked, as I prefer a more analytical approach, and the author managed to be both down to earth and direct. I enjoyed this book and will refer back to it again.

I found this book helpful and informative in providing an introduction to next level psychic skills and practical exercises to develop them. I really like the author's warm and approachable writing voice and ability to describe metaphysical topics in a down-to-earth way. I recommend this book for those who are keen to gain more confidence in and expand their psychic abilities.
Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy. The opinions expressed are my own.

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Every topic – and there's a multitude of them, which is wonderful – is handled very briefly and not very thoroughly. I didn't quite "grasp" any of the techniques and topics handled.

In summary, the book was basically, "this technique exists, I did N with client X and they reacted in Y way, and here's an exercise that may or may not help you grasp the technique". All in all, the techniques weren't really all that well presented, and the reasonings behind the exercises weren't very well explained.

Two out of five stars. I don't even know how to further elaborate on my opinion.

There is certainly a dearth of advanced material in occult publications today. When I initially heard about Psychic Development Beyond Beginners by Melanie Barnum, I had high hopes that this book might be the further guide many of us have been seeking. Unfortunately, upon reading it, I found Ms. Barnum’s book a bit piecemeal and lacking in nuance.

The book does address advanced topics regarding psychic development, such as mediumship, channeling, and extended work with guides. In Psychic Development Beyond Beginners, though, almost every chapter focuses on a different topic, all in a sort of inch-deep mile-wide sort of way.

Arguably, any one of those subjects (mediumship, for example) could fill its own book, either for advanced practitioners or beginners. The attempt here to summarize them in such small spaces does a disservice to their complexity, in my opinion.

If the book were branded as an introductory guide to psychic concepts, perhaps it would be better. It doesn’t work well as a guide for advanced students, however, since it barely scratches the surface of so many things.

It’s true that many of the practices discussed in the book are more suited to advanced practitioners than beginners, but the author doesn’t give the reader enough context to allow them to make that crucial jump.

Chapters (like those on mediumship, group work, and professional practices) only give the bare minimum. It is as if the book is simply saying, “these practices exist” without providing the vast amount of resources that would be necessary for a person to truly work them and advance beyond a beginner level.

This is troublesome to me, not least of all because many of these techniques require a great deal of effort, context, and practice to work at all, let alone work safely. I guess if you want to know what these practices entail in the barest sense, the book covers that, but more detail is required to make anything resembling workable practice.

Perhaps the strangest part of the book would be the discussion of “ego.” Ms. Barnum apparently believes that any “negativity,” “anxiousness” or “anger” stems from an out-of-control ego and cannot be the work of the intuition. This is profoundly silly, particularly in a supposedly-advanced book.

It’s of utmost importance in any sort of psychic work to acknowledge both our own shadow self (which may contain anxiety or anger) as well as negative impressions we might get from other people, places, and things. It isn’t all just the ego - psychic experiences run the gamut of human emotions.

Overall I guess I need to give this book two out of five stars. It just did not strike me as very good or useful, either for beginners or advanced students of the psychic arts.

(Sorry for possible mistakes in English)
This interesting book will open you a door to advanced supernatural reality in one very lucid way! Techniques are very simple and they are working! Author will give you simple hints how to
"go beyond beginner level" in your practice. My favourite parts were about chakras and about "Assumption of the Godform" in seanses! We saw that many, many times on TV and now we have it in theory and practice! Weaker parts for me are section where you are doing exercises with some other persons. Advice to author: always, always give kinda alternative version of exercise for solo practitioner, or at least few hints if not possible complete method. Thanks Llewellyn and NetGalley also!