How do you know if it works?

After days, weeks, and months of meditation, practice, and experimentation, how will you know if your psychic abilities have improved? "Through experience," says Russell Stewart. "Keep the episodes in your memory. All the things you know have happened, all the things you could tell others about yourself—each new episode will be proof."

Even better, start keeping a journal of your own experiences. Record the results of online tests and exercises. Physically recording all this on paper will help strengthen the connection between your conscious and unconscious minds.

But how will you know if your "luck" isn't still just a coincidence? Your increasing success rate in this field will determine that. "At a certain point, chance and coincidence are no longer mathematical factors," says Steward. "You search your feelings, you start to trust yourself. The secrets of the universe lie before you, no longer as puzzles, but as a vast, unread book."