For instance, it took time for us to understand the meaning of a ringing telephone. The spirit or psychic consciousness being latent in most of us, mainly due to the nature of our life cycles, can be awakened into greater activity through a development circle designed for such a purpose. At the Gateway Centre our development circles begin with the leader, or one of the circle members, leading everyone into a quiet meditation. This allows everyone to achieve mental relaxation and freedom from the stresses of our everyday life. It's not achieved at once and varies with the individual as touched upon above.
Psychic gifts vary in nature and content with each individual.
All that matters is that each circle member is encouraged and enabled to develop to the fullest extent their own level of spiritual and psychic ability. There is not, nor should there be, the climate of competition. Gradually, along a path of spirit communication special to our own personality and needs, we learn to move into a state of mental relaxation, akin almost to an abandonment of thought - a state of quiet stillness. Our spiritual and psychic progress is heightened and facilitated the more we begin to accept and understand these factors - it helps our guides, or angels enormously as we learn to let go of the physical consciousness and its influence upon us. Progressively, as we learn to let go of the physical consciousness, we start to more and more physically and consciously tune in and become one with the guides.