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The Expanded Intuition Training Tape Series

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From The Yoga Journal

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"A pleasure to recommend! We predict that you will find the Intuition tape series a solid investment of your time and money."
- Inner Quest

"This tape series is an excellent way to recognize and expand on one's intuitive abilities and go beyond the 'normal' perceptions of everyday life. Recommended highly!"
- The New Times

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"Most of us experience intuition as something that comes and goes, bringing useful information or spiritual insights - but in a random, mysterious way. This tape series starts from the premise that everyone has intuitive capacities that can be brought forth and used deliberately. Once you learn to recognize how your intuition communicates, you can then apply it to practical problem solving, understanding relationships, finding spiritual guidance and answering your own questions.

   While this is not a new idea and many writers espouse the value of intuition, this tape series takes an experiential, how-to-do-it tack. And it works: Expanded Intuition Training is a fascinating, practical and intelligent approach to developing intuition. These tapes actually deliver more than they promise.

   Thomas Condon is a well-known teacher of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and also Ericksonian Hypnosis, which is based on the work of Milton H. Erickson. In the tapes, Condon has combined techniques from these two disciplines along with meditative practices and the results of his study of highly intuitive people. He has also added some really magical special effects.

   Condon distinguishes three kinds of intuition that can be cultivated:
   Personal Intuition - knowledge from the personal unconscious that has been taken in, stored and synthesized. This knowledge comes to us intuitively in the form of "gut feelings," creative insights and through our "little voices."
   Interpersonal Intuition - information about other people derived from unconscious observation and their non-verbal behavior. This may take the form of accurate first impressions, and help one in being a good judge of character.
   Transpersonal Intuition - Condon's term for psychic phenomena. This is intuitive information about situations, places and people unknown to the personal unconscious; it typically comes in a way that defies ordinary time and space. This would include things like precognitive dreams, remote viewing, synchronicities, etc.

    The six tapes address these types of intuition in different ways:
    Tape 1, Opening Up To Intuition, uses a process called Multi-Evocation which features two versions of Condon's voice speaking simultaneously through stereo channels. This process is explicitly hypnotic and seeks to balance both hemispheres of the brain and integrate the rational with the intuitive. This is all done indirectly through metaphor; you begin in a forest, walking dwn a path where two streams are flowing side by side. They gradually begin to merge into a larger river as Condon's two voices turn into one voice. The tape is actually quite beautiful. I come away from it on a high and usually feel like parts of my brain have temporarily changed places.

    Tape 2, Practical Intuition, features a series of exercises which help the listener to identify the subjective difference between intuition and conscious thought. The listener then sets up a direct channel of communication with his/her intuition to apply to specific life situations. The exercises are direct and simple, yet evoke surprisingly clear results.

    Tape 3, Blocks To Intuition, deals with blocks and inhibitions to becoming more intuitive that the listener may have. On side B there are movement exercises for discovering the physical difference between a blocked state and one in which intuition flows freely. This uses 3-D sound; Condon actually sounds like he is walking the room with you. The effect at first was startling and subsequently helpful (once I realized that I wasn't going to bump into him.)

    Tapes 4 and 5 are really special. Both feature elaborate 3-D effects in metaphorical environments and both tapes allow the listener to ask direct questions of the intuition and get answers.
    On Tape 4, The Ultimate Library, you begin in a house (modeled on your own psyche, a la Jung) and find a secret passage which leads to an undergroud tram rather like a ride at Disneyland. This takes you to the library where the sum total knowledge of the universe is stored. There is a computer named "Akashic 1" who acts as a go-between and will take questions from you and then search the library for answers.
    Tape 5, Your Intuitive Guide, is more spiritual in tone. In it you will encounter an intuitive guide and develop a telepathic rapport. The guide will also answer your questions, but in a much more personal way.
    Both of these tapes are wonderfully written and performed. They are relaxing, affirming and fun. Akashic 1 is an actual computer programmed for the tape.
Above all, though, the formats work. I have asked questions of the library and guide at least fifty times now and have never failed to get clear, helpful answers and practical solutions.

    Tape 6, Beyond Time and Space, deals directly with psychic phenomena. The introduction is fair, balanced and plain. There are techniques for predicting the future, remote viewing and getting first impressions of people. I've been working with a partner on these exercises and we both get uncannily accurate results.

    The workbook is modest and straightforward, mainly an adjunct to the tapes. My only complaint is that Condon's voice is so hypnotic that I sometimes go into a trance without meaning to. In the introduction, though, he assures me that this is a good thing.

    This series is a must for any explorer of new and inward realms as well as those who want practical guidance in daily living. It is designed for and will doubtless reach a large audience; it is also compatible with more spiritual orientations. Condon also makes hypnosis tapes, some of which feature Milton Erickson's daughter. - reviewed by Bob McGuffin

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From Medical Self-Care Magazine

    "Intuition can be a powerful tool. It is an essential component of the creative process, and also can play a significant role in the workaday world. Problem-solving, decision-making, and developing new insights are all enhanced by intuitive skill. This remarkable series uses state-of-the-art recording techniques and a sophisticated hypnosis procedure to help tap these intuitive powers.

    The first tape presents an overview of the nature of intuition and ways of opening up to it. The second explores the process of developing an intuitive "voice," identified by individual mental images or physical sensations. The third offers mental and physical exercises to help bypass any existing blocks to intuition. A most unusual feature on the first half of the program is the use of a multiple voice and sound collage based on an Ericksonian-hypnosis technique known as "multiple-evocation." It is intended as a relaxing, brain-balancing introduction to the rest of the series.

    Tapes 4 and 5 employ what the creators call "three-dimensional" sound effects. These guide the user with almost eerie verisimilitude through hypnotic visits with a wise and whimsical computer/librarian-guardian of the brain's "ultimate library" memory bank - and with a personal Intuitive Guide. The final tape helps to set up a series of individual symbols. This allows intuition to bypass the intellect when necessary, and serves to access gut-reaction experiences for future reference. It also suggests ways in which intuitive recognitions can integrate comfortably into "real life."

    I began by listening to this series as a reviewer. I ended up with a whole new appreciation for - and relationship to - my intuitive faculties. And I've got a hunch that others will have a similar experience."
                                -Amie Hill-Medical Self-Care Magazine

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From The Yoga Journal

    "We've all experienced those brief moments when a flash of insight lets us know intuitively how to respond to a given situation. Yet we often consider this "sixth sense" a phenomenon over which we have no control. This series of tapes teaches us how to recognize and communicate with our intuitive self. Each tape focuses on a particular aspect of intuitional development, from learning your intuitive language (tape 2) to meeting your intuitive guide (tape 5).

    To help you gain better access to your intuition, Condon uses a variety of techniques. Initially he introduces you to your intuitive self by means of a guided exercise that employs "Multi-Evocation" (multiple voice hypnosis). This exercise encourages the intuitive self to emerge and integrate with the conscious self. Through a series of questions and movement exercises designed to help distinguish the intuitive from the rational thinking process, I found that I was better able to see the blocks preventing me from relying more on my intuition.

    I was impressed with Condon's imaginative guided visualizations. For example, he asks you to imagine yourself walking down a secret passageway in a house that is familiar to you, to a library (the "akashic records") that stores all the knowledge in the universe. There, you find a cheerful and wise computer named "Akashic 1," who is available to help you research the library and answer any questions you have. I found this approach useful and was surprised at the abundance of information to which I have access if I let myself.

    The final tape is designed to help you develop your psychic understanding - what Condon terms Transpersonal Intuition. This tape exercises your capacity to perceive intuitively, using such techniques as remote viewing, getting first impressions of people, and predicting the future. As Condon says, "the development of this capacity is fascinating, useful and gives many people the feeling and perspective of functioning somehow in harmony with their deepest nature." The tape features special effects, including Multi-Evocation and three-dimensional sound effects that make it sound as though Condon is in the room with you.

    I recommend this tape series to those who want to explore and heighten their intuitive capacity. It provides a vehicle for developing understanding and confidence, clarifying perception, and becoming more attuned with a deeper decision-making process."

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From Body, Mind & Spirit

    "Expanded Intuition Training is a set of six tapes plus workbook designed to help you learn your own intuitive language - whether it be in words, feelings or imagery - and which signals to trust when using your intuition.
    The tapes are of high quality and incorporate Ericksonian hypnosis in the form of "multiple voice" hypnosis. This technique features at least two voices speaking simultaneously during various meditations and serves to disengage the conscious mind. Also incorporated are exceptional 3-D sound effects which further heighten the hypnotic experience.

    Each tape concentrates on a particular aspect of intuition training. Tape One, Opening Up To Intuition, helps you separate your way of thinking from your way of intuiting so that you can become more aware of each process. Tape 2, Practical Intuition, helps remove blocks to using intuition and uses an intriguing walking exercise as a continuation to Tape One. This exercise has you first walk in a manner that reflects your conscious way of thinking, then in a manner that reflects your intuition, and finally in a synthesis of both. Other tapes help you to develop question and answer techniques, access universal knowledge and use your intuitive abilities for receiving impressions, remote viewing, etc.

    Great care has been put into the tapes' scripts. You'll pick up on puns, cross references and "inside" phrases as the tapes are used and reused; this helps keep the listening experience from becoming stale.

    The sound quality of the tapes and the narrative voice are excellent. A comforting, spacious and protective atmosphere is created that is highly desirable for the kind of inner work the series is designed to accomplish."