This is the age of enlightenment. Growing numbers of people are seeing more and sensing more. It is time of wonderment, uncertainty, twisted dogma and rampant fear. How we evolve and how we cope depends on sorting the wheat from the chaff; in short, being able to discern what is real and what is not. At a time when you can hear almost anything if you listen long enough, GETTING REAL covers all aspects of the paranormal and metaphysical. The focus is on spirituality and personal psychic development, rather than the sensational and the misleading. It puts both the tried-and-true and the fringe elements in perspective, but it doesn't pull punches when it comes to fraudulence and self-beguilement, something that virtually all books in this genre avoid. GETTING REAL is a single reference source that cuts through the hype and the heavies, with the emphasis on what is real and what we can do about it. In practical use, GETTING REAL will serve as a comprehensive guide for anyone who takes the subject seriously.