Mediumship and Beyond

People are very interested in colour and ribbon reading.  I am getting lots of queries about the subject.  Here is a little more for you.

I have done many private ribbon readings and also many ribbon services in spiritualist churches.  The church cannot allow ribbon readings on Sunday when it is divine service, as ribbon and colours are considered to be experimental, as are flower readings.  Tarot is not normally allowed in church at all as it is not considered spiritual, but is really a form of fortune telling.

Fortune telling is frowned upon by the church and understandably so.  Tarot cannot prove life after death and spiritualism is all about proving it.  Tarot is often used for trivial reasons and is often considered to be a ‘bit of fun’.  People who want to know about events such as new jobs, new partners and new shoes, usually go for the tarot.

At a church ribbon service I will wait for spirit to draw me to a person,  and then I will ask the person to come to the front of the church and choose several ribbons from the bunch.  When the person is back in their seat, I will begin to read the colours and pass on the information to them, whilst the rest of the congregation look on.

At some point in the reading, I will begin to get information from my guides to pass on to the seeker.  This information will come from the seeker’s loved ones and will be aimed to prove that the loved ones are still around.  This, along with the meanings of the colours, will help the seeker decide for themselves if there really is life after this life.

When the reading is finished and I no longer have a link with spirit, I will move on to the next person who spirit draws me to, repeating the same process until the service has to draw to a close.

In a private reading I am not restricted by either time or by church rules.  I let my sitter choose the colours and whilst I read them the spirits will come around and give lots of evidence of life after life.  They will bring reassurance about the subjects that are worrying my sitter.  They will advise them what needs to be done.  Again, the sitter is the one who decides what to accept.

Usually at the end of the reading my sitter will often fill in the blanks for me and tell my which bits of the message gave them the most proof.  There is always spirit love in the air and spirit also makes us feel comforted and uplifted.  I always feel elated, if a little tired, at the end of a good session with spirit loved ones.

If you are keen on this subject and would like me to read a couple of ribbons for you, then please choose 2 colours and shades, and let me know which they are.  Please explain if it is dark blue or light blue, pale pink or bright pink etc.  I will send the meanings back to you via email as soon as possilbe depending on the amount of interest created.  All I ask is for a little feedback from you later.

I will answer your questions on this subject too if there is anything in particular that you would like to know.  In the meantime, you could buy your self a bunch of ribbons and have a go yourself.  it will not turn you into a medium but it will help with the development of your psychic gifts.  Good luck!

Having been on the ghost hunt last week, I have been asked if I will be doing others.  My answer is that I am unsure if I want to.  I find it hard to believe that anyone on these hunts can actually see a ghost.  As I have always said, I believe a ghost is just an image trapped in time and therefore not something you can really hunt for.  Though I know some people make a lot of money from these events.

 (Our event was certainly not done for money at all.)

The very best you could expect, is to go to a certain place at the exact time that the image has been seen by others, and on the right day.  Only then are you likely to see the replay of these ghostly happenings.  Spirits though, do not hang around to haunt places and are best contacted via a  mediums seance or circle.

I sometimes get asked to go to the homes of people who feel that either themselves or their house is haunted.  I go in good faith and with an open mind, but not to ghost hunt.  I just try my best to communicate with spirit and and solve the problem.

I will say a prayer and hold a seance in the person’s home and see what I ‘pick up’ mediumistically.  Sometimes I will need to go round the home asking for the troubled spirit to leave and I have developed my own methods of doing this.

Often, it appears to be one of the residents of the house who is troubled by spirits or even just troubled.  Again, I have my own way of dealing with this too.  By the time I leave the home, it is usually all calm and normal.

Often the home is normal anyway, and it turns out that it is just a lack of knowledge and understanding of spirit activity.  Imparting knowledge from my 25years plus experience of being a working medium, helps in these circumstances.  Sending out love to spirit helps too.

I love working with spirit and helping those who do not know the subject, to understand it all.  In some cases the troubled person turns out to be a psychic who has not learned to close down after working.  They pick up energies and go around living their life with their psychic centres open.  This is a BIG mistake.  Those who remain open pick up everything, from bad moods to bad tempers, and other people’s aches and pains.  It is not a nice way to live I can assure you.

You must learn to open up and close down properly if you wnat to work psychically or mediumistically.  Say prayers, keep grounded and stay safe.  Not all spirits are good, just as not all humans are good, but if you learn to protect yourself properly you will be fine.  Communicating with spirits is neither a game nor for amusement.

For more on development and safety, see earlier posts on this blog site, or email me and I will answer your questions and help all I can.  Do not take chances with your mind.  I have known those who remained open, preferring not to close down and it affected their life big style.  Use your intelligence to guide you.

There is no short answer to this question, but I will tell you about the event and what we did become aware of.  You can make up your own mind too.

We first had the guided tour led by Peter, who works for the Sheffield Markets.  Peter is very knowledgeable about the market and its origins.  Along with Peter we had a local historian, Dave.  Between them they were a font of knowledge and could answer most of our questions.

There were health and safety issues which had to be obeyed, so we were limited in where we wandered.  For instance, there are tunnels underneath the markets (and also under a lot of the buildings in central Sheffield) but the public are forbidden entry via the manholes because of these health and safety issues.

We had an agreement with Peter not to divulge any information which would get in the way of our experiments.  Once you have all of the information in your mind it tends to block off the inspiration from spirit.  Peter agreed not to tell us about any market events unless we ‘picked them up’ first.  Then he would fill in the details for us.

We first went to the ruins of the early castle wall.  This was remarkable and made me feel a great sense of history.  Whilst John, the healer, picked up a lot of shivers, his hair standing on end and other things, I picked up nothing, but I was over awed by the sense of history.  John is clairsentient and does pick up feelings etc, whereas I am more clairvoyant and tend to tune into spirit.

We next went on a tour of the market itself.  Two of the mediums, Kevin and Andrew, used dowsing rods and the rods did start to quiver and cross whenever we were in an area where Peter later told us that there had been a death.  Again, John picked up the ‘feelings’, which were on these same spots.  Sue and Gill also felt the energy in these areas, as did Keith.

We all seemed to pick up things in the same areas and it was good that Peter could fill in the details for us later.  It reassured us that we were not imagining it all.  Plus, as they were items of recent history it is possible to check on some of them.

Sue, picked up information clairvoyantly and made notes. Kevin and Andrew were working clairvoyantly as well as using the dowsing rods.  We would all state aloud what we were feeling and picking up as we went along and ask if others were aware of the same thing.  If the energy was strong we would all stop and try to tune in.

There were three areas in particular where we all picked up feelings and information which was linked.  It was at these three places that we decided to use the table tappings to try to get more information.  Three sat at the table whilst the rest looked on.

Although the table did rock and tap and spell out letters, bringing information for us, it was of recent history rather than Elizabethan history.  We noted the information and Peter agreed to look into it for us.  This was information previously unknown to Peter.

There was one spot in particular where we all picked up things.  I recall telling Peter that I was clairvoyantly picking up on someone who was panicking and gasping for air.  He later told us that a lady had had a heart attck at that same spot.  She panicked because she could not get air.  Sadly, she later died.

Most of us used recorders and cameras as well as note books.  Power of suggestion can be overwhelming, so we kept some things to ourselves until later.  It was quite interesting that often some of the notes were the same.

Whilst the evening was interesting and exciting, it was also very tiring ,but that did not stop us from having one last visit to the castle walls in darkness.  Again, it was awesome but we saw no ghosts.  John picked up the energies again.

I have search my camera images looking for anomalies or maybe some orbs, but I found nothing.  Although John picked up orbs on his camera but not on his camcorder.  Both John and myself left recorders in one area in the hope of picking up ghostly noises but to no avail.

My personal verdict is no ghosts but lots of spirit energy.  The energies seemed to come from the spirits of those who had died during the market’s history.  I will keep you informed of any feedback we get and as usual look forward to your comments and questions.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!  A big thankyou to the market management and to Peter and Dave. And a very big thankyou to Linda, a market cafe owner,  who kept us fed and watered throughout.

In 1184 the first mention of Castellum de Sedfield was noted in history documents and in 1266 the original wooden Sheffield Castle was destroyed. The wooden castle was replaced by the stone castle in 1270.

In 1570, the castle’s most famous ‘guest’ was Mary Queen of Scots.  Mary was imprisoned for 15 years, mainly in the Turret House in the grounds of Sheffield Manor Castle, but she also spent time in the Sheffield Castle, Chatsworth Hall  and  Hardwick Hall.

In 1927, ruins of Sheffield Castle were discovered during building excavations, which were being carried out prior to building on the site of the now Castle Market.

Most of what was found, was unfortunately lost when building of the ‘modern’ market took place.  A lot of the excavations undertaken by archaeologists unearthed remains, but they disappeared into archives somewhere in Sheffield, never to see the light of day again.

Sheffield Castle was one of the four largest in the country, in its time.  What a waste of our heritage!  All that can now be viewed is part of a very thick castle wall.  Still very much worth seeing. The market gives guided tours to anyone interested. 

On our visit, we were shown around by a gentleman named Peter, who was very protective of the history under his care.  He expressed his regret at the lost chances to save our heritage and turn it into a visitor centre.  He has lots of ideas about how to rescue and promote what remains of Sheffield Castle.  They get visitors from overseas as well as local folk.

Under ground are lots of tunnels which lead to other areas in the city.  Areas which were of importance in the castle’s heyday.  These tunnels are no longer usable due to health and safety issues, but  nevertheless, they are still there.  The tunnels apparently go under Castle House and other large buildings.

The Time Team would have a field day working on Sheffield Castle!  They could help save our heritage. Most cities would have utilised such heritage and attracted many visitors, who in turn would help finance a tourist industry.  It is not too late.

The present market is due to be demolished in about three years time.  The city could use this last chance to rescue and restore some of the best parts of the walls and tunnels, and whatever else is unearthed during modern day excavations.

Just being in the same space as the castle wall ruins was a treat.  Our group toured the market as well as the ruins and I will tell you more about our findings in my next post.  In the meantime, here are some links to information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Castle

http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/SouthYorkshire.htm

http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/SouthYorkshire.htm

http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/3040.html

Good Hunting!

My title should remind you of my feelings on the difference between spirits coming close, and the images of a traumatic event trapped in time.  Those of you who read this blog regularly will know how I feel very strongly that these are indeed two different events.  The ghost replaying the same trauma over and again, draws the attention of the public, who seem to become aware of it at the same time of day or night on each occasion.

The spirits however, draw close to prove that there really is a continuation of the human consciousness and therefore, life after death.  The spirit will not only bring comfort but will bring advice and give a brief history of their earthly existence.  Some more than others of course.

Yesterday we experienced more of the latter, spirits rather than ghostly hauntings.

I am not dismayed or unhappy, as it is what I personally expected.  Others of our group were hoping to see ghosts and therefore they are probably a little miffed.  For me, being a spiritualist, I enjoyed the contact of spirit and would have enjoyed holding a spiritualist type seance there, as I am sure we would have received greater proof of their existence, if we had.

Overall, it was a very interesting experience, during which we used table tilting and dowsing rods along with tape recorders, cameras and camcorders.  We often all picked up similar things along the way around the modern part of the building.  But for me, the best part was when we toured the very historical part of the building.

Apart from my spiritual and mediumistic interests, the history of the place really got to me, and I urge you to take a tour of the place yourselves.  Especially as the whole historic place may soon disappear, thanks to those concrete monsters which local buiders put in their stead. 

Please, don’t let this happen.  If enough people take an interest, the city council may decide to have a visitor centre and make the most of our heritage.  Meanwhile, a more in depth write up will be posted here tomorrow along with links to websites that have more information about this and other local sites.

On Tuesday I am joining a ghost hunting group at a secret location.  I am going with an open mind and lots of curiosity.  My next post will be about the event and our findings.  There are other mediums and psychics and also my favourite healer who will be there.

It is just a small group, as we need to know we are surrounded by those who we can trust.  It is no good going to an event like this with people who make things up or exaggerate.  It is not a TV programme.  We have no one to prove anything to except oursleves.  We are seeking only the truth.

We are taking along cameras and recorders etc in the hope there is something to capture on tape and film. As usual, I will write with honesty and you will get a true picture of the event.  Until then……………

In a previous post I talked about the ghosts and hauntings.  As I have said,  ghosts seem to be images trapped in time.  Usually this is because of a violent death or unexpected death.  There is trauma and shock and it somehow causes the image to stay there.

The ghost’s image seems to take on a recurrent theme.  It usually repeats the same movements, at the same time of day or night, each time the haunting occurs.  This often means it appears to walk through walls and may be missing it’s head or other body part.

You have to take into account how long ago their death took place.  There may well have been a lot or alterations to buildings in the area since then.  Sometimes walls are bricked up or blocked off in some way.  There may have been major building alterations.  In some case whole communities have been demolished and new homes built in their place.

If someone died a tragic death at the time of there being a castle on site, the ghost may still appear to be in the same castle and may disregard the fact that it is now perhaps a cottage or whole new estate.  The image will still seem to walk the same distance, repeating the same actions as ever before but, because the building is now changed, it appears to walk through the new wall.

You often hear people say things like ‘The girl walks through the wall as if crossing a landing, and then disappears.  It is always at about 11pm.’  The girl obviously died a traumatic death about 11pm and there was obviously a landing for her to walk across at the time of her death.  The landing was where the walls now are, therefore, she appears to walk through the walls.  She is not there anymore.  Only the image is retained. 

When loved ones come from the spirit world to give you assurances that they are still watching over you and there is life after death, it is quite different.  They come to communicate for a very short time and as soon as they have imparted their message they say goodbye and are gone.  They do not come to haunt at all.

Spirits usually come via a spiritualist clairvoyant medium.  They also sometimes can make their loved ones on the earth plane become aware of their presence.  This may take practice on the spirits part and also on the human relative.  Ultimately it is all worthwhile and does bring a lot of comfort.  Unlike a haunting which is very interesting but not what I would call comforting.

I will be talking more about this subject next week.  Take care until then.

Most of the queries I get are about ribbon and colour readings.  It is a very interesting subject and I can quite understand why there is so much interest in it.

I am well known for my ribbon readings.  Unlike most ribbon readers that I know about, I read the colours and do not use the ribbons for psychometry.  This is far more interesting as you can psychometerise almost anything and there does not have to be an emphasis on colour either.

I always begin my private readings by handing my sitter the bunch of coloured ribbons, which I keep solely for this purpose.  I aks them to chose a number of the ribbons whilst concentrating on the colours.  When they have chosen the set amount of ribbons, I ask them to hand them back to me.

One by one I go through the chosen ribbons and read each colour.  It takes a while to do this, and whilst I am concentrating on the ribbons and talking to my client, spirit get the opportunity to get through to me.

Whilst I concentrate on something, in this case the ribbons and colours, it stops my mind wandering and helps me to focus on what spirit are telling me and showing me.  So, the ribbons become a focal point.  Just like the crystal ball can be a focal point.

We cannot empty our minds, so using something as a focul point is the next best thing.  Having said this, my colours all have their own meanings and I can tell a lot about a person through the colours they choose for a reading.

Handwriting is another good tool for understanding what makes a person tick and I enjoy handwriting asnalysis.  This is known as Graphology and I am a graphologist.  In a future post I will be discussing the subject and explaining some of its uses.

When a loved one has passed over to the spirit world, I know all you want to do is feel them, and hold them, and talk to them just as before.  It is no longer possible to feel their physical presence or see their physical body but it is still possible to communicate with them albeit through another person.

You may be able to learn to do this yourself with practice, or you may find out that you can do it already.  If not, then you can still get communication from them via a good medium.  You can do this by going to see one privately, on the recommendation of a trusted friend or relative.  Otherwise, you could go along to a meeting at a spiritualist church or hall where a medium is demonstrating clairvoyance.

If you plump for the private consultation, then you are more likely to get a longer reading.  This reading may or may not include a message from your recently ‘lost’ loved one.  Sometimes when loved ones first pass over they are unable to communicate.  It may take them a while to adjust to their new circumstances before they are ready to get in touch.

If it is not possible for the recently passed over loved to communicate themselves, they may pass communication to you via another spirit personality.  It all depends how much evolved the spirit was before it’s earthly existence.  Some already know how to communicate and therefore they get in touch pretty quickly.  If they had no experience, they will have to learn, much the same as we have to learn here.  Therefore, you may have to wait a while.

When you go for a consult, it is no good asking for just the one person to come through, as you cannot call up any spirit.  You have to ask for communication and then wait and see who comes through.  In my experience, it is best not to get into any conversation with the medium before your reading.  Wait until afterwards to ask any questions and before divulging any information.

Any medium worth their salt would not ask you any questions.  It would get in the way.  A medium has to keep a clear head and so anything you talk about is a hindrance.  Just say yes, no, or, I do not know what you mean, in answer to anything the medium says.  It is best for all three of you, you, the medium, and the spirit entity in the long run.

If you choose not to go for the private reading then you could go along to a meeting and the medium may come to you and pass on the communication from spirit.  Again, do not feed the medium, just keep your responses short and to the point as I have suggested above.

I am not suggesting that you live in the past, tor hat you replace the living with the dead, Neither do I suggest that you don’t move on with your life.  What I am suggesting, is that you come to a realisation that we are all spirit and that as spirit we can all communicate with each other, albeit in a different way than on the earth plain.

We all are SPIRIT and came here to this earthly life, from our home in the Spirit World, to learn the lessons that only human life could teach us, in order to facilitate our eternal evolution.  When our lessons are learned and our time is up, we go back home. However long or however short the earthly time.  We have no say in that.

Remember, there is no beginning and no end to communication, or to life.  Life is everlasting.