Written by medium and spiritual healer Joan M. Downs, Enlightenment 101 is a step-by-step guide to help everyone access the psychic gifts she says we have all been given. For those who may not consider themselves believers, the self-help aspect has been designed to help you "remain calm and productive in any situation" and to teach you "how to go about getting whatever it is" you want in life.

Downs shares the spiritual and metaphysical knowledge she has gathered over fifty years of study to help others begin their own path to enlightenment, guided by her accumulated knowledge. Detailed instructions, meditations, and games are intended to help readers further explore and develop their own abilities, and ultimately, to improve their lives.

Early chapters focus readers on opening themselves to development and to the spiritual guides they might rely on along the way. In later chapters, Downs takes the reader into more in-depth aspects of specific gifts, including mediumship, healing, and divination. Finally, she empowers readers to live an enlightened life, regardless of what they have come to believe and regardless of how connected they may feel to their own spiritual gifts.