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By Ann Savino

I was recently reading an excellent book called, The Gift of Fear - Survival Signals by Gavin DeBecker. Mr. DeBecker is a three-time presidential appointee who has arranged the security for presidents, stars, corporations, and he has helped many law enforcement agencies predict the behavior and mindset of the violent. His success in this field has been built upon his use of intuition which is the point of this book that he has written. I personally found the book validating as a trained psychic because Mr. DeBecker's premise is that we are all aware. We already know what a violent person is going to do, but we simply do not listen to our own information. It has been my experience in my life that most people who come to receive psychic readings always say something along the lines of, "I knew that already" or "They didn't tell me anything I didn't know" or "That's what I thought was going on but didn't trust my information."

Mr. DeBecker's mixture of life experience, street smarts and being grounded in his own information is a refreshing thing to come across because he has shown how clairvoyance can benefit millions of people in a very practical way.

This book delves into all kinds of violent behavior that we, as ordinary people, could possibly encounter. Everything from rape, muggings, murder and murder attempts, domestic violence, stalking and even how we are "interviewed" by criminals to see if we are going to be their next victim, is talked about. His security firm has interviewed thousands of victims of crime and in the interviews, each and every victim is brought through the crime step by step and shown that the clues to what was going to happen were there all along but they simply did not trust their information.

The way in which the victims recounted their experiences reveals that their intuition was working perfectly but was short-circuited by rational and reasonable explanations that have been programmed into our conscious minds. As psychics, we would call that having energy between ourselves as spirit and our bodies. Usually this energy causes us to make bad decisions and can cause us to be in the wrong job, wrong marriage and wrong mindset because it does not prosper us in any way. In the circumstances in this book, this same energy has cost people their lives.

The book also talks about that uneasy feeling you have about certain people, whether it is your babysitter, co-worker or date, and how you can ask the right kind of questions that will get to the bottom of that fear to see if those feelings are warranted. A major message presented here is that we must take action on our intuition and that victims are created when we remain passive. That is true for any area of our lives. The book is addressed mainly to women, not that men aren't victims of crimes or have nothing to gain from the book, but that women especially have been taught to give up their power and to doubt their information.

The book is full of examples and stories of real-life experiences. That's what makes it a most compelling book to read. One story that illustrates so much of the wisdom of this book, which is really about the wisdom within us, is a story of a woman who had gotten raped. She was carrying groceries and noticed that there was a man who was inside the locked gate to her apartment building. She thought that was odd but he immediately offered to help her because he was going to visit some neighbors of hers. In her own words,

He said, "Let me give you a hand."

"No, no. Thanks. I've got it."

"You don't look like you've got it. What floor are you going to?"

She paused before answering him. "The fourth, but I'm okay, really." He wouldn't hear a word of it, and by this point he had a collection of cans balanced between his chest and one arm. "I'm going to the fourth floor too," he said, "and I'm late, not my fault, broken watch, so let's not just stand here. And give me that." He reached out and tugged on one of the heavier bags she was holding. She repeated, "No, really. Thanks but no. I've got it." Still holding onto the grocery bag, he said, "There's such a thing as being too proud, you know."

For a moment Kelly didn't let go of the bag, but then she did and this seemingly insignificant exchange between the cordial stranger and the recipient of his courtesy was the signal, to him and to her, that she was willing to trust him. As the bag passed from her control to his, so did she. "We better hurry," he said as he walked up the stairs ahead of Kelly. "We've got a hungry cat up there."

Even though he seemed to want nothing more at that moment than to be helpful, she was apprehensive about him, and for no good reason. He was friendly and gentlemanly, and she felt guilty about her suspicion. She didn't want to be the kind of person who distrusts everybody. As they approached the door to her apartment she said, '"I'll take it from here," hoping he would hand her the groceries and be on his way. Instead he said, "Oh no, I didn't come this far to let you have another cat food spill."

When she hesitated to let him in her door, he laughed understandingly, "Hey, we can leave the door open like ladies do in old movies. I'll just put this stuff down and go. I promise." She did let him in but he did not keep his promise.

At this point in the story, Kelly tells about the rape and the whole three-hour ordeal she suffered. She now knows that he killed one of his other victims, stabbed her to death. Kelly is about to learn that listening to one small survival signal saved her life, just as failing to follow so many others had put her at risk in the first place. She wants me to tell her what her intuition saw that saved her life. But she will tell me. "It was after he'd already held the gun to my head, after he raped me. It was after that. He got up from the bed, got dressed, then closed the window. He glanced at his watch, and then started acting like he was in a hurry."

"I gotta be somewhere. Hey don't look so scared. I promise I'm not going to hurt you."

Kelly absolutely knew he was lying. She knew he planned to kill her, and though it may be hard to imagine, it was the first time since the incident began that she felt profound fear. He motioned to her with the gun and said, "Don't move or do anything. I'm going to the kitchen to get something to drink, and then I'll leave. I promise. But you stay right where you are."

He had little reason to be concerned that Kelly might disobey his instructions because she had been, from the moment she let go of that bag until this moment, completely under his control.

"You know I won't move," she assured him. But the instant he stepped from the room, Kelly stood up and walked right after him, pulling the sheet off the bed with her. "I was literally right behind him, like a ghost, and he didn't know I was there.

"We walked down the hall together. At one point he stopped and so did I. He was looking at my stereo which was playing and he made it louder. When he moved on toward the kitchen, I turned and walked through the door." Kelly could hear the drawers being opened as she walked out the front door. She walked directly into the apartment across the hall (which she somehow knew would be unlocked). Holding a finger up to signal her surprised neighbors to be quiet, she locked their door behind her. "I knew if I had stayed in my room, he was going to come back from the kitchen and kill me, but I don't know how I was so certain."

"Yes, you do," I tell her. She sighs and goes over it again. "He got up and got dressed and closed the window, looked at his watch. He promised me he wouldn't hurt me, and that promise came out of nowhere. Then he went into the kitchen to get a drink, supposedly, but I heard him opening drawers in there, looking for a knife. I guess he wanted a knife because using the gun would be too noisy."

"What makes you think he was concerned about the noise?"

"I don't know. No, I do know. I get it. Noise was the thing, that's why he closed the window. That's how I knew." Since he was dressed and supposedly leaving, he had no other reason to close the window. It was that subtle signal that warned her, but it was fear that gave her the courage to get up without hesitation and follow close behind the man who intended to kill her. She later described a fear so complete that it replaced every feeling in her body. Like an animal hiding inside of her, it opened to its full size and stood up, using the muscles in her legs. "I had nothing to do with it, I was like a passenger moving down that hallway."

What she experienced was real fear, not like when we are startled, not like the fear of public speaking. This fear is the powerful ally that says, "Do what I tell you to do." Sometimes it tells a person to run or scream or fight, but to Kelly it said, "Just be quiet and don't doubt me and I'll get you out of here." Kelly told me she felt new confidence in herself, knowing she had acted on that signal. She said she was actually less afraid of walking around now than she was before because of this new information.

You too are an expert at predicting violent behavior. You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. I've learned some lessons about safety through years of asking people who have suffered violence, "Could you have seen this coming?" Most often they say, "No, it just came out of nowhere." But if I am quiet and just wait a moment, here comes the information. "I felt uneasy when I first met that guy..." or "Now that I think of it, I was suspicious when he approached me." Of course, if they realize it now, they knew it then. We all see the signals because there is a universal code of violence."

What I love about this book is not only that it is totally interesting to read, but that it validates clairvoyance at every turn. For me, I was applying many of its lessons to all areas of my life, not just in the realm of being a potential victim. The point of the book is that we have all the information we need about every situation in our life, we simply need to be able to read it through all the other signals that go through our space and cause doubt. That's what we offer at the Academy for Psychic Studies, the tools to cleanse our psychic space of energies that cause us to doubt ourselves so we can read our own information easily.

What is also interesting to me is the healing these people who were victims received after seeing that they had the information all along. They were able to read themselves more clearly, trust in their own information and be more on track with themselves. It is interesting how fear can teach us to overcome our fears. I realize in my own life, every time I face my fears, I am experiencing the same thing these people in the book are; being less afraid, feeling more confident, unfolding new skills that were hidden within me the whole time. I also realize that fear drives me towards facing my fears because I don't like feeling like there is something that I cannot do or to throw in my towel and quit. Maybe all our fears are false fear that we pick up as we grow up and that the fear that drives us to take action is really love in disguise.