Mediumship and Beyond

Psychic films are very popular, whatever the story, it is the subject which has everyone wanting to know more.  I read that they are filming in England and then in Hawaii. Mmmmmmm  I have been to Hawaii and it is great, to say the least.

According to the papers, Matt Damon plays the psychic in the new film.  Must have a great plot to stir up the interest of the likes of Eastwood and Damon.

I hope it is treated sympathetically as a subject.  It is not always treated with respect.  The Sixth Sense was wonderful and if this new one is nearly as good it will be great.  Bruce Willis played the lead in that film, and the young boy who played the part of the medium, Haley Joel Osment, was brilliant.  Great stuff.

There have been some not so serious ones such as Beetlejuice.  That was really funny and still made its psychic point.  Others have not done so well.

I look forward to this new one with great anticipation and eagerness for the topic.  I will write more about it as I find out more details.  I am sure you will be interested too.

The general belief about Halloween is that ghosts and naughty spirits come out of the woodwork rattling their chains and scaring people.

It is supposed to be the best time to catch sight of ghosts and maybe to hear them as well.  They think cemeteries and Halloween ghosts go together.

Halloween is no different to any other night as far as spiritualists and psychics are concerned.  It is not a scary night either. 

It is really no different holding a seance on any evening, or night, than it is on Halloween.

You can hold a seance or have private readings anytime to suit your own needs.  You just have to find the right genuine medium for your event.

You can hold a psychic party at your home or go to the medium for individual private readings. It is a good way to find the truth about life after death.

It is also very comforting to get a message from a departed loved, assuring you that they are still watching over you.  It is not ‘calling up the dead’, as some ignorant people say.  It is letting yourself be available for spirit to come close and prove they are there.

It has become really popular and really good mediums usually have a busy diary.  You may have to be patient.  As always, don’t spend more than you can afford!

This Halloween, why nor have a change.  Instead of watching horror films on the TV, why not have your very own seance.

Find a good local medium.  One who is recommended to you.  Book them for the evening and invite your friends around for a seriously spiritual evening.

You can all sit in a circle and have a communal sitting or you can each have your own private reading in a separate room.

You can have food and drink and make a night of it after the medium has gone home.

My advice is to arrange a price with your medium.  When you have a figure you can tell your friends how much their contribution will be.  Sharing the price as well as the evening is a good thing.

The medium will tell you haow he/she prefers to work and you can come to a mutual agreement. 

Have fun, but as I always say, don’t spend more than you can afford!

I have had a lot of email and comment about the so called seances on TV where it is inferred that famous ‘dead’ celebrities will appear.  Even more so just now with Halloween  programmes advertising famous ghosts.

Die hard spiritualists and people with knowledge on the psychic subject know without doubt that it is impossible to summon up the ‘dead’.  Without a doubt, you will not see a famous person or hear a real famous persons voice. Though, there may be attempts to let you believe you do.

As I keep telling you, and other respectable mediums tell you too,  you cannot call up any spirit, let alone famous ones.  Spirits only come when they have a need to show a loved one that they still care.  You cannot make them come.  Therefore, you cannot make a date for them to come either.

When a medium holds a seance (another name for a psychic circle), they ask for any spirit who wants to come through, to make themselves known.  They do this by using the medium to pass communication to their loved one within the circle.

It is just the same as when you have a private sitting. There is nothing spooky about it.  It is a natural process.  There are no lurking ghosts or evil spirits who can make a psychic talk in a funny voice or act strangely. Spirits, who are NOT PHYSICAL, cannot make a person’s body behave in any way different to their normal state.

It is not an old time music hall act!  Or shouldn’t be!

The only way to stop such tomfoolery and ham acting, it to stop watching the idiots who try to fool intelligent people in the name of entertainment.

A weird kind of entertainment too.  But, definitely not proof of life after death.

There are a lot of misconceptions about seances.  The general public have an image of mediums sat around in the dark holding hands and making ghosts appear. Not to mention floating chocolate wrappers and levitating people!

Unfortunately, the public have also got the impression that at any seance, any spirit, can be summoned up.  Whoever they were when on the material plane seems not a problem.

Make no mistake about it, you cannot summon up any spirit at all!  Not Elvis, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana or Mother Theresa!

Firstly,  a seance is a group of two or more people, at least one of which needs to be a medium.  Their purpose is to communicate with spirit.  Not to summon up spirits.

Spirits can come when invited, but no one can pick and choose which ones come.  You get what you get basically. 

There is little point in asking for a famous celebrity spirit to come along.  Or even a particular friend or loved one.  Spirit has to contact the seance through the medium.  Not the other way around.

A seance therefore, is a spiritualist’s circle, during which spirits may communicate through the medium to the other sitters present.  There are sometimes lots of spirits communicating.  sometimes there is nothing at all.  It all depends on the circumstances.

A spirit will communicate when they feel a loved one needs them.  This could be because of illness or bereavement, or just because the spirit thinks the loved one needs guidance.  A spirit will not use up the necessary energy just to say hi.

The best thing to do if invited to a seance or circle, is to throw out your love to spirit and not to ask for a particular spirit, as it may offend another spirit waiting to communicate with you.

Always be practical about it and use your own intelligence to reason things out.  Above all, enjoy your sitting with whoever comes through to you.  Remember, they have gone to a lot of trouble to be here.

We all know about our physical senses.  We have touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight.  That is five, but we do have a sixth sense.

The sixth sense is more about psychic and spiritual sensing rather than physical.  We all have this sixth sense, but if we want to use it properly, we have to develop the gift and train ourselves to use it.

You can do this alone by getting yourself a very good development book, or you can join one of the many development circles which are around.  You can also go to development workshops which usually concentrate on one particular aspect of it.

By attending lots of different workshops, run by different qualified mediums, you will get a wide range of help and learn lots of good techniques along the way.

Mediums find their own methods and style of teaching and most are good.  You will soon find out about those who are not good, as they will be the ones who cannot answer simple questions.  They are usually the ones with very little knowledge.

There are lots of good mediums out there who do not teach.  They prefer to keep their gift to them selves and use it giving readings or taking church services. Nothing wrong with that. We are not all meant to be teaches.

I find teaching extremely rewarding.  Not in the financial sense, but the spiritual sense.  I have always enjoyed sharing my gift and helping others to develop their sixth sense.

If you would like any guidance on this subject, please email me and I will do my best to help you.

First, the Oxford English Dictionary’s meaning of the actual word.

Psychometry – the supposed ability to discover facts about an event or person from inanimate objects associated with them. Oxford English Dictionary.  

Psychometry is used by many psychics to help them tune in to their sitter.  As all objects hold vibrations, and psychic can read vibrations, it is a simple but sure way of giving a psychic message.

Psychics do not tune into the spirits like mediums do.  So, it is ok for them to work in this way.  A medium may use psychometry to help them whilst they tune in to spirits.  Moving to a higher level of consciousness, in order to communicate with spirit, takes a little longer.

You may find psychometry offered at fairs and church fun days.  It is also used by psychics giving private readings.  It is not though used by mediums during spiritualist church Devine services, as it is considered experimental, as opposed to the spiritual work which platforms mediums aspire to.

The best use of psychocmetry comes in development groups and development work.  Articles can be used as focal points to allow the novice medium to become aware of what is coming psychically and what is coming spiritually.

The aim is always spiritual, as opposed to psychic, but mediums have to begin with developing their psychic gifts in order to progress to higher work.

Once the novice is good enough for platform work, it means they CAN prove life after death with their spiritual communication.  This is the ultimate for a medium.  It is also the main requisit of a spiritualist church platform medium!  If they cannot prove they should not be on church platforms!

In a word, NO!  Graphology is a scientific skill which has to be studied and learned.  It is the art of analysing handwriting.  Not something you can learn over night.

Unlike psychic gifts, which are spiritual, graphology is very scientific and must be studied with care and dedication.  I know you need care and dedication to develop mediumship, but handwriting study is very factual.

Our handwriting is a little like body language.  The way it leans and the twists and turns of it, all tell you something about the writer.

The style, pressure, and the spacings all have help create an overall picture of the person.  There is nothing you can hide in your writing.

Health, temperament, nature, sexuality, are all on display.  Sloping this way or that, and going up and down, every little movement of the pen puts your very essence on display.

If you don’t want anyone to know anything about you, better not let anyone see your writing.

Graphology is used by businesses, criminologists, recruitment agencies, to name but a few.  It has been used to show if a fraud has been committed, by checking signatures to see if they have been copied or if they are genuine.

There are lots of professional graphologists out there, but you can still learn a lot about the subject from books or evening classes to satisfy an interest.  You don’t have to earn your living by it.  But what an interesting profession it makes.

More on this subject in later days.

If you have decided you would like to visit a medium for a private consultation, there are certain things to consider. Here are a few.

Fist and foremost, what is the main reason for your interest in having a reading.  Do you want proof your loved ones are still around, as in life after death proof. 

If it is fortune telling you want, then a medium will not give it.  It is a mediums job to prove life after death, not prove the future.  Any one thing you do can change your whole future, so there is really no point in anyone telling you what think is to come into your life. It cannot be proven.

Tarot cards are the only things that are presumed to give an insight into your future, but just an insight.  So, maybe if that’s what you are after, the cards are for you.

If you want life after death proof of existence, a medium is needed.  A medium can give a straight reading.  By straight, I mean without using any focal point or without holding anything.  Just acting as go between.  Go between you and spirit loved ones.

It is though, a little more interesting, when a medium uses other techniques.  These include flower reading, psychometry, stones and, my favourite, ribbon readings.  Although ribbons are really colour readings.  You can also read coloured flowers, sticks feathers,  or anything really.

Some, like myself, will offer you a range and ask you to pick your favourite.  Always go with your instincts.  Suffice it to say that spirit will make sure they impress upon you, the best reading for you at the time. 

Enjoy as always, and never pay more than you can afford.

I thought it wouldn’t take long before some unscrupulous person decided it was a great money making opportunity to ‘bring back Michael’!!!  His ghost I mean!

Of course, if this were to be a genuine seance, with genuine members of his family, then maybe we might find it special.  And maybe it might work.

As it is, the good old ‘Old Time Musical Hall ’ bandwagon is rolling again.  And I am sure you don’t have to spend too long guessing which p… poor psychic act is going to be preten……I mean, playing the role. 

This may sound like some Halloween stunt.  Maybe it actually is.  Don’t waste either time or money on it or the programme, its presenters or its phonies!  Go out and find your own proof.  Michael is gone to the spirit world and won’t waste his spiritual energy on the likes of ………………..  or his cronies.

I await the proof with baited breadth.