SeekersCircle.com
January 2000

Interview with Lynn A. Robinson
by Karyn Greenstreet

KG: Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to write the book?

LR: Well, actually, those are two different questions. My background - I have studied this forever. I have just been fascinated by it as long as I can remember. I used to study things about dreams. Back when I was in my teens I started to take a lot of classes, found intuition and psychic abilities, and found that I seemed to be a natural at this. Then I discovered years later that my grandfather was a psychic! My mother went for a long time without knowing her father was a psychic over in England. So, it must be hereditary on some level. It's kind of amazing.

The way the book came about is interesting. I am a firm believer in "create your own reality" I had been doing affirmations and visualizations, and really wanting to write a book. I literally got a call from Macmillan Publishing one day last summer saying, "We are looking for somebody to help us write one of The Complete Idiots Guides books on being psychic." I actually thought it was a joke because I had told a few close friends that I was interested in writing a book.

The funny thing about this book was that the agent for the book had apparently talked to quite a few people and found that a lot of them had come by their psychic abilities through having head injuries! I had never heard that before. I told her we could have made this book really easy by just opening it up and putting a hammer inside <smile>. I guess I was the first psychic she found that hadn't had a massive head injury! That was not how I developed my psychic abilities. Have you heard that as well?

KG: Actually, for a lot of women, it happens in their puberty that they start to become more tuned in. I don't know if it is hormonal or what and then of course, sociologically we get stripped of that, as everyone says, "Don't do that!" It happens to many people when there is a trauma, whether it is a physical trauma or an emotional trauma. Something snaps. A lot of times, it is a head injury. It is the craziest thing. We certainly don't recommend this as the way to go!

So, how long have you been a psychic?

LR: I have been doing it full time for about 15 years. I am 45 now and I started when I was in my teens. I was doing readings for my friends and friends of friends. It was very informal.

KG: Now when you look back, as far back as you can remember, what was your earliest experience that you had an "A Ha!" moment when you realized that you knew things that you couldn't possibly have known. How old where you then?

LR: The "A Ha!" moment probably didn't happen until my early twenties. When I was taking a class and we were asked to tune into a partner. Like most people in my class, I was thinking, "I can't do this. How do you do this? I am just making it up." I was writing down all these things about my partner and feeling like I was making it up, and then I read it to her and it was almost 100% accurate. It really blew me away. There was no way that I would logically have known this information about her. I found that this information came very easily. As you probably know, you often feel like you are making it up. I think because the information comes through the same channel as your imagination.

KG: Right. Very often in class when people are stumbling I say, "Make up a story." This frees them from feeling that they have to be intuitive. Inevitably, the story is very intuitive.

LR: I think that I honestly feel that way, quite often, when I am giving people readings. I feel like I am making it up. I find that there is a way which feels a little bit different from pure imagination and I know I am on the right track. It is pretty phenomenal though. The way I think about it, when I am giving somebody a reading, is that most of the information is out there in the universe and I have to learn to tune my radio frequency to get the right information about the person. I think that is probably the best analogy that I can come up with in terms in how it feels for me. It is like tuning in to the right channel.

KG: That is good. Let's go backwards a little bit. There are so many words to describe intuition, like telepathy, ESP, sixth sense, and psychic skills. Can you define intuition for us? What is the difference between being psychic and being intuitive? Is there a difference? How do all these words fit together?

LR: I define intuition, very simply, as "quick and ready insights." I think intuition is something that we can all use, and that we all have access to to help us make decisions and fulfill our purpose in life. I think "psychic" is maybe more of a highly developed intuitive. When I think of physics, I usually think of somebody who is getting precognitive information about others or future events. I think of it as a more highly developed skill set than pure intuition.

KG: So, intuition is maybe a personal thing whereas psychic is...

LR: Often about someone else - referring to someone else or someone else's life situation.

KG: You said that you felt that this is something that we have. Do you feel that everyone has this? Or is this a special gift? Or both?

LR: I believe we are absolutely all born with intuition. I think that it is an amazing guidance system. To me it is a very spiritual one because it is does help us guide our lives and helps us make good decisions. I think that all of us can develop it. I often liken it to somebody who is born with an athletic ability or a musical ability. Some of us may have it more than others, but all of us can learn to develop it. If it is an interest of yours, then I think you can develop it to the very highest degree. I think the way you learn to develop it is to not only trust it, but also act on it.

KG: Why would someone want to develop his or her intuition? How does that help them?

LR: One of the main ways that I see it helping people is with life decisions. I have a huge number of people coming to me that are in the middle of a transition. What job should I take? Is this the right job for me? Is this a good relationship for me? Should I move? What should I do about this difficult relationship I am in?

I think that intuition can inform you about right decisions in all of those things. I used to say that I wished we were born with an instruction book. Barring that, I wish that God would come forth and say, "Here is your life purpose." The more I worked with intuition, the more I realized it really was that instruction book. It was that guidance system for how to make life decisions, for how to go about learning to forgive people, for learning how to make better choices in life, for learning about how to bring more love into our life. I think that when you are feeling good about something or you are feeling excited about something, those are all ways that your intuition has of saying, "This is a good decision." It is making you feel better and making you feel uplifted and it is making you feel calmer. Conversely, if you are feeling down, sad, and depressed, those are all ways that your intuition is saying, "Don't go there. This is not the right path for you to go on." I think it is an amazing ability that informs us of how to proceed in our lives.

KG: You are talking about the feelings that people have, either physically or emotionally, but what are the different types of intuition receiving modes. How can people know about the different kinds of ways to receive intuitive information and what their strongest skill might be within that realm?

LR: That is a good question, because we all get it differently. I tend to speak more about feelings, because that tends to be the way that it comes in for me. Feelings are only part of the way in which you get that intuitive information. It can come through in words. It can come through in an auditory way. You may hear, "Don't take that job," or "Don't get on that airplane." You might also get things in symbolic pictures.

I had a client the other day who was trying to get information as to whether she should take a certain job or not. She was meditating when she saw herself sitting in the office of this job with a big X in front it. Obviously, her intuition was saying that this was not a good job to take. Then she saw the other issue of trying to decide between two jobs. Then she saw the other job with a big smiley face on it. I know it sounds very simplistic, but clearly her intuitive system was giving her information about the right decision to make.

It can also come through as a body sensation. The most common one is "gut feeling," when you get that awful sense of foreboding, or heaviness in your belly that often says, "This is not a good decision to make." Of course, you can also get a gut feeling that tells you this is a GOOD decision. Often people will get body sensations, like a tingling or something that might make them feel kind of excited on a physical level. That is saying that this is a good decision to make.

KG: When you do a reading, how do you receive information? Like, if I were sitting in front of you and I asked you a question, what are some common ways that you seem to be able to get the information that is needed?

LR: I tend to get it mostly through my feelings. I guess as empathy. I also get it through symbolic pictures. I gave a reading to someone yesterday. I saw her standing on the edge of a high diving board about to take a leap. Now, obviously, literally, she is not doing that. What that meant to me, symbolically, is that this is somebody who is trying to take a leap of faith or risk. Then I also tried to get some feelings about how she was feeling. There was a sense that she hadn't quite made up her mind. There was a feeling of "I am not ready yet" that came over me.

KG: Lynn, in your book, you have a lot of exercises for intuition development. What is your favorite exercise? If someone was new in starting this, what would be the one that always seemed to work and you really to enjoyed participating in the most?

LR: Probably the one where you write out what it is that you are concerned about. For instance, you're concerned about a job offer and you are not sure if you should take it. I would say, write out what you are concerned about. Write out the pros and cons of the job. Then just try to sit in a comfortable position. If you meditate, that is great. Just close your eyes and focus. You can simply ask, "Should I take this job?" Pay attention to the feeling; pay attention to any words that come in, any images, and any body sensations. That is the simplest one. You can kind of do that one on the spur of the moment.

KG: How do you differentiate between your subconscious talking (or your ego), and what I would call "real intuition," a real psychic flash? How do you know when it is just something that is coming up from your past, because of your psychology, versus your real intuition?

LR: That is the question that I get asked in every single class. I always have the hardest time answering it. In a way, the answer is a bit boring. I think part of it is just practice. I will give you an example from my own life: I have been doing readings as I said for about 15 years. That has been very comfortable and I have lots of clients. It is an interesting business, but yet I have been feeling, over the last year or so, that I have been wanting to cut back on that and start doing something new in my life. The book has presented a lot of opportunities for public speaking, more teaching, and more interviews. What I found when I thought about doing those latter things is that I felt nervous. I felt anxious. I felt scared that, "Can I do this?" I wanted to go back to my comfort zone, which was doing readings full time. There was that fear element. Yet when I thought about doing those new things, there was also a sense of excitement. Because I think I am somebody who is fairly in touch with my feelings, I could differentiate the fear and the anxiety more around doing something new. What my intuition was telling me was that this was a good path to go on for myself.

KG: When you are doing a reading, or you have a dream, or you have an intuitive insight about a future situation, is that something that is set in stone for the person? Is that something that is just simply a marker to tell them where things might go?

LR: That is a great question. That is probably one of the ways that I differ from a traditional psychic. I am not such a firm believer of predicting the future for people. I don't believe that the future really is etched in stone. I think that we come into this earth plane with a lot of free will. Often what I see as a psychic is more "probability" about possible options for people, possible paths that they can take. That always sounds like a copout when I try to tell this to somebody, but I really do believe that.

KG: Would you say then that when someone goes to a psychic, the fact that the psychic empowers them to move into several different directions, depending on what they want to do, that that is a good sign for choosing a psychic?

LR: I would say that that is a very good sign. Unfortunately, I hear a lot of stories that are the reverse of that. In fact, I got interviewed yesterday by a reporter for a local paper. She was telling me that she had gone to a psychic in the last year and she said, "I felt doomed after I saw him." I hear a lot of that. I don't know quite why there seems to be a prevalence of negative or bad information you get when you go to a psychic, but I find that a lot of times. What I try to do, as a psychic, is to really empower people to say your choices do make a difference. I try to help them figure out what it is that they truly want.

KG: Let's switch gears for a moment. Let's talk a little bit about psychic healing. Can you share your thoughts on that? What is it? How does it work?

LR: I believe that prayer is a form of spiritual or psychic healing. There has been a lot of research done on this. Larry Dossey is the person who has written a lot of books and articles about what is called distance healing or prayer. In fact, modern physics is getting into psychic healing here, in that they have something called "non-locality."

A non-local mind is where you are actually able to project your thoughts and your feelings to somebody at a distance. What they are finding is that when people are prayed for or they are sent direct light or sent good intentions, there is an effect on the person. They have seen this on a cellular level. There have been a lot of tests on this and they can tell by scientific methods that people have actually gotten better. I totally believe in this. It is hard to prove it when you are just doing it on an individual level. The research is just phenomenal.

KG: Can you please explain the term "non-local mind?"

LR: It is a modern physics notion that a thing or a thought is not located in a specific region and space and time, but it exists everywhere. It is not like your mind exists just in your head, between your ears. You can project your thoughts and adjust your mind to other places. I think that is the best I can do!

KG: Is it appropriate to pray or send psychic healing energy to someone who has not asked for it or who has not given permission?

LR: I know that there are a lot of schools of thought on that. What I tend to do when I pray for somebody or send them energy, is that I do it more "generically." I guess that is the best word. I send a person energy or life or healing for them to use in whatever way they, or their own higher self, or God, sees fit. I have a bit of a problem praying for someone to get that specific job or to bring her husband back or something as specific as that. I think in fact, we don't know what the highest good for all concerned is. I may send someone energy or prayers to surround them with love to imagine that they are feeling calm in their difficulties. I try to make it more general and hope that the person's own spirit can use that energy in whatever way is appropriate. Like we talked about before, I think we can never know what the best outcome is.

KG: We are starting to run out of time, but let me ask a question about you. Why do you do this? What does it fulfil for you to do readings for others and to teach and to write books? Why is that connection there?

LR: I guess I am a teacher and a counselor by nature. I love doing both of those things. I am fascinated by what makes us happy, what brings us joy. I also think that we are born into this life to learn how to love each other and we are here to learn how to forgive each other. I think that using our intuition really helps to inform us to make those good decisions that will bring us healing in ourselves.

KG: How can people get in touch with you if they want to learn more or to find out more about you and about the work that you do?

LR: I have an 800 number where you can contact me. It is 800-925-4002. I also have a web site, www.lynnrobinson.com and I have a series of audio tapes on helping you develop your intuition and finding your inner guide and creating prosperity. I also have a free intuition newsletter that is available at my web site.

KG: Great...If they want to reach you via email, can they do that through the web site?

LR: Yes, my email address is lynn@lynnrobinson.com. It is easy to remember.

KG: Where are you physically located?

LR: I am just outside of Boston. Thanks for everything. This was great!

KG: Well, thank you so much!

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