Cultivating harmlessness and integrity are key signposts on the spiritual journey. This week’s guest, Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest, has extensive expertise across many spiritual modalities and traditions, making her the perfect person to write the book, “The Ethical Psychic: A Beginner's Guide to Healing with Integrity, Avoiding Unethical Encounters, and Using Your Gifts for Good.” Dr. Vest’s wisdom is a much needed guide, not just for psychics, but for all spiritual seekers.

Highlights:

* The need in these times for spiritual maturity and discipline in our practices.

* How Spirit guided the writing, timing and publishing of “The Ethical Psychic”

* Dr. Vest is developing the school, Metatron’s Academy of Spirit & Science, to bring together Psychic Information with Science.

* How do we create standards and guidelines for intuitive work?

* The misguided notion that ‘if you’re born with spiritual gifts, you don’t need to hone them’ can create a lot of harm in the world.

* Dr. Vest’s early spiritual experiences of remembering her birth, going to ‘Spirit School,’ meeting spirit teachers and being singled out by her great grandmother as the one who had the same gifts.

* Her varied and extensive training (often unplanned from the personality perspective) from native elders in indigenous traditions.

* You have to be able to deliver your gifts on demand and be accurate, which requires lots of practice and feedback.

* Training to use your gifts requires both the technical aspects and also character development.

* Becoming an ethical psychic or healer is not just about what gifts you have, it includes being a good person and contributing to society.

* “You don’t get to be a psychic on Monday and then be a jerk on Tuesday.”

* “You have to life a high vibration life in order to consistently bring through high vibration information.”

* What is a TwoSpirit?

* What are the traits of an ethical psychic?

* What are the risks of psychic work?

JENNIFER LISA VEST is a scientist-philosopher-intuitive. She holds a PhD in Indigenous Philosophy from UC Berkeley, an MA in history from Howard, and BA in Physics from Hampshire College. Her first career was as a philosophy professor at Seattle University and the University of Central Florida. Spiritually, Vest is a medical intuitive, an Akashic Records reader, is certified as a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique practitioner and a Master Reiki practitioner, and has been trained in the traditions of African American Hoodoo, Native American Sweatlodge, Jamaican Revivalism, Trinidadian Shango, and Spiritualism from community elders. Dr. Vest writes books on healing, philosophy, and poetry.

Check out Dr. Vest’s website, drvestmedicalintuitive.com and podcast, Journal of a Medical Intuitive. IG @SpiritTeacher The book “The Ethical Psychic” can be found anywhere you buy books, but you can support independent booksellers by purchasing it here on Bookshop.

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