Last month, Manoj wrote Stephanie: "...I've been reading a rather
interesting book called 'You are Psychic-- the Free Soul Method" which is
about developing the ability to access
"psychic" (that word has been given a lot of bad press) information by
focussing through different locations on the body. While I haven't had
the time
to experiment extensively, I did try it out once and the result was
surprisingly accurate. Anyway, this fellow, an MIT scientist called Pete
A.
Sanders, Jr., has another book out called Access Your Brain's Joy
Center--you
might want to try it out, it sounds right up your street. It may be a
bundle of
balderdash but I was impressed with his Psychic hypothesis."

I don't recall seeing any further comments from the group on this
subject. So, I just wanted to thank you, Manoj, for leading me to these
two books!

For those of you who want to know more...

The Free Soul homepage is http://freesoul.net/. Sanders' "You Are
Psychic" book talks about how to expand psychic abilities by focussing on
one or more of four "psychic reception areas." These are: psychic
feeling (solar plexus), psychic intuition (crown/top of head), psychic
hearing (temporal lobes), and psychic vision (third eye). If you click
onto "Technique of the Month" from the homepage, the current topic is the
vision psychic reception area. My initial impression was that there
would be nothing new in this book. But like Manoj, I've just started
playing around a bit with Sanders' techniques and find them very
interesting indeed.

There's a short article re Sanders at
http://www.thirdmill.com/html/pete.htm, with links to his books at
Amazon.com, where there are some reviews of the Psychic book and also
"Access Your Brain's Joy Center."

The Joy Center book presents a simple technique called the "Joy Touch"
and then expounds almost ad nauseum on its many uses. Am not far into
the book, but I'm finding the technique quite powerful. (I'm not a
therapist, and so far have tried this only on myself.) The key is
mentally triggering the septum pellucidum area of the brain. Per Sanders
book: "Although it is mainly a fluid-filled sac, the septal nuclei at
the front of this special area has direct connections to the
hypothalamus, the limbic brain's control center. When the septal area is
triggered, it creates a mellow, energized feeling that is best described
as an inner smile. Activating it also clears the repetitive cycles of
worry, hurt, anger, and fear that can be created by the limbic brain."

There's an image of the septum pellucidum (which says it has no special
functional importance itself but septal nuclei are important components
of limbic system) at http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/med532/septum.htm. And
another at a site I often find useful anatomy-wise,
http://www.innerbody.com/image/nerve02.html -- an interactive image of
the brain -- move your cursor to find the structure -- below corpus
callosum, near fornix.
If this link does not work directly, go to http://www.innerbody.com/,
click "Human Anatomy Online," then "Images," then scroll down Image Index
to click on "Brain (Cut and Surface View)."

Best wishes,
Bronwen