How does it work? I don’t honestly know, all I know is that it does work. I can only guess at the mysteries that surround us, not least of which are the ways we communicate verbally and non-verbally.
How do we know what Love is? We feel it. How do we know we are angry or threatened or in fear, we feel it. Same with connecting to animals who have passed out of their physical bodies and now remain in their metaphysical body.
The material ego is constantly making sure we stay alive and its’ job is for us to remain in our physical body and to make sure that it isn’t threatened. The concept of not just having a physical body but also being an energy body is not understood by our egoic mid-brain.
Egos have an important job and it is contingent on us remaining physically alive. Any variation from the material form is often experienced as a threat to the mind and not accepted as real.
We all have this egoic brain (the mid-brain focused on survival) and we all have a frontal lobe (deeper reasoning and connection to higher realms). The frontal lobe feels and accepts Divine grace, truth and beauty yet cannot see it, poetry is moving not just from the direct words but the feelings invoked from reading between the lines.
The frontal lobe is perhaps the part of our brain that can explore psychic awareness. We used psychic abilities when we were hunter gathers. Talking to plants, warned by some and told how to eat them, cure them etc. Some psychics able to do this can hear from plants what to eat to relieve stomach pains or ailments. As we don’t need their help like we did this has been lost to most of us.
We can bring it back to life. When we are quiet and pure enough we can listen. When we are listening eventually we can hear then we can learn how to respond and conversation is possible again with plants, animals, inanimate objects and animals who are in energetic ‘form’.
You can know psychic awareness by experiencing it. Once someone experiences their psychic gift they know it is true and from this place it can be expanded, nurtured and matured.