The word ‘clairvoyant’  puzzles people most. So I want to discuss this today and other terms.

The word clairvoyance means clear seeing. Clairaudience, clear hearing and clairsentience clear sensing.  And no, this is not a good definition either.

Mediums see, hear and feel using different senses to the average human being.  It is not really clear seeing, but more a ‘different seeing’. We mediums get our stuff from the etheric, not the physical. Mediums connect with the spirit world and the spirits give the medium all the information for them to impart to the sitter.

Psychics work in yet a different way. They get all their ‘stuff’ from the sitter’s aura or from items that belong to the sitter.  They do not connect with spirits as they do not have the gift.

The word clairvoyant seems to conjure up fortune telling or future predicting to people.  And therefore, some of the sitters who go to clairvoyants expect to have their future told. NO ONE CAN TELL YOU THE FUTURE! Your future isn’t made yet. You make your future yourself in the way you live your life. Every little thing you do can change your path, so no one knows where it is all going until it does!

Mediums bring your loved ones,  along with their memories of the past. They talk about what is happening in your life right now and about things they feel you should take care of. They like to prove they are really watching over you. They do this by talking about what they have seen and heard around you.

Where the difficulty arises, is when a person goes to a clairvoyant medium. They still expect this to be a fortune teller.  But it only means that this particular medium uses their third eye and ‘sees’ all the information. Whereas a clairaudient medium ‘hears’ the information. A clairsentient medium feels and senses spirits and their feelings and emotions.

Maybe it is better to say you are a spiritual medium, that may prevent the confusion. Or maybe it will always be confusing to those who do not have the gift.

There was quite a crowd in, which is always nice.  They were very receptive to my mediumship.

I enjoyed the event and enjoyed talking to some of the congregation later.

I am there again in September for a Special Evening of Colour.  I will post a reminder nearer the time.

Although I am sure you are very keen to start, before you go any further, it may be useful to familiarise yourself with some of the terms used by mediums, psychics, and Spiritualists.

Aura:An aura is something we all have, and this is backed up by scientific evidence. It once was questionable, as Auras are usually invisible to the naked eye, but with the invention of Kirlian photography, which catches the aura on film, it is now proven. The aura is fact not fiction. The aura is made up of colours and surrounds the body, the etheric body,  in a sort of egg shape.

The average person does not see it, but a psychic can learn how to see it with practise. The colours shimmer, pulsate and change according to how the body and mind is reacting to outside influences. Some mediums can also read auras. They can tell you a lot about what is going on in and around your life, by studying your aura and its colours. Objects too have auras.

Circle or Psychic Circle:A circle is made when a group of people get together to practise their psychic and mediumistic skills. A group often work best when sitting in a circle, as each person can be seen by all, making communication between each other much easier. Anyone can attend an open circle at a Spiritualist church; it is a good place to learn more about psychics and mediumship and improve ones abilities.

Clairaudience (clear hearing): Some mediums have the gift of hearing voices or words within the head, that cannot be heard by the psychically undeveloped person. Again, it can be used by the medium when developed to a high degree, in order to pass information on to a sitter, from the spirit entities and loved ones on the higher side of life. It can be a bit like being a switchboard operator.

Clairsentience (clear sensing): This is another psychic gift used by mediums. It allows the medium to sense or feel things, including pain and emotion, which are communicated from loved ones in the spirit world.

Clairvoyance (clear seeing): The ability to see images, pictures, and even spirits with the third eye: a place in the centre of the brow that is invisible to the naked eye. When the third eye is well developed the medium can utilise it to help give proof of life after death.

Development Circle: In a development circle one learns how to develop psychic awareness. Such circles are usually held at a Spiritualist church, but can be held at a private home by an experienced medium. It is not advisable to attend another development circle whilst you are learning to develop from this book.

Spiritual tutors have defined their own ways of developing and sometimes they are incompatible with others, and this would only cause confusion. That said, it is okay to attend Spiritualist open circles and practise your skills, as there is no teaching happening when the circle is open to all. So, as long as you learn the rules of opening and closing, as explained later, the open circle can be a good experience.

Life After Death: When we human beings die, our body is no longer needed, hence the need for burial or cremation, but our spirit or soul moves on to the spirit world to carry on its intended existence. This process is often referred to as Transition, but in fact it is our life after this life. Once transition has taken place, the spirit carries on with its progression  and evolvement to a higher spiritual plane.

Medium:A medium, is someone who has developed their own psychic ability to such a degree that they have become aware of an ability to communicate with spirit entities and loved ones who have passed over to the sprit world. Mediumship is not an inherent gift, though it is possible to develop dormant skills. This book will teach you how.

Private Sitting: If a person wishes to receive a one-to-one message from a medium, they can book a private sitting. This can of course be free of charge, but most often there is a fee. We all have to live and finance our homes and offices, and mediums are no exception, so most have to charge. Not many people will or are able, to work for nothing.

At such a private sitting, you would expect to be given proof of life after death. This would involve being given evidence from a loved one of yours who has passed to the higher side of life. Information not previously known to the medium. This should prove that your loved ones were here on the earth plane and are still watching over you even now.

Psychic: A psychic is someone who uses senses that the average person is unaware of. We all have these psychic senses which are invisible, but which can be develop to a high degree with time and effort. Smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing, are all physical senses of which we are all aware because we see evidence of them all the time, and indeed take them for granted. Unless you are a Spiritualist, or mix with those who use the psychic senses, you are probably unaware of them.

Psychometry: A sitter gives you a personal item to hold in order for you to give information about the past of the object and its owner. All things hold vibrations or data which has been left on them over time. Pure silk is the only item I know of that holds no vibrations, hence the reason Tarot readers keep their cards wrapped in it.

The reader holds the item and lets their psychic centres take in as much information as possible. It is a bit like being a sponge and soaking up the vibrations and then relating them to the sitter.

Psychic Art:A psychic artist is someone who has the gift of being able to see a spirit entity and draw them, usually at the same time as giving clairvoyance. Sometimes, a second medium is in attendance to add to the clairvoyance.

A famous Psychic Artist was the late Coral Polge, who was a well respected Spiritualist. Coral, did drawings which were said to be very accurate and the clairvoyant proof she added made the sitting more than interesting.

Sitter: A sitter is someone who ‘sits’ with a medium or psychic, either in a circle or privately, in order to receive a ‘message’ or reading from them.

Spiritualist Closed Circle: A closed circle is just for those invited along, private. It is usually open only to church members.

Spiritualist Open Circle: An open circle is usually held at a Spiritualist Church. People sit in a circle with others who are hoping to communicate with someone in the spirit world. You may get a message from an experienced person or from a novice. You could also go to such a circle to practise your own newly developed psychic gifts.

Transition: Our ‘death’ is just a transitory phase from this life to the next, it is in fact a continuation of our existence. We have come from the spirit world, it is our home, and at our earthly death we return to the spirit world. Taking our transition is almost like passing through a door into another dimension. Only a thought away.

Vibrations: Are what he psychic or medium ‘reads’ when one has a sitting. Such vibrations can contain information about the sitter, and their life.

I am now available for Private Readings and Consultations on Thursday each week in 2012.

I will also consider one to one development.

As a Reiki Master, I am also available for Reiki Therapy

 Daytime and evening availability.

The venue is in Eckington near Sheffield, Yorkshire.

You can contact me via email for your appointment.

If you prefer, email me and I will give you my phone number.

We start our development at a time in our life when spirit inspires us.  Somehow we are led to the place where there is a teacher who will help us.  This teacher takes us along our pathway until there is nothing further they can teach us.

It is then that spirit inspire us to move on.  I have been inspired to move on a couple of times during my development. Each for the better at the time.  And, as I am still developing, who knows when I will be inspired to move on again!

It seems that spirit make sure we are in the right place at the right time, for what we need. We are not always aware that it is spirit inspiring us, but I am sure it is.  It is so important to the spirit world that we get it right.

We have a responsibility to spirit to make sure that we make the best use of our spiritual gifts. Whether this be healing or clairvoyance, we should always act with dedication and decorum.

Spiritualists are for ever trying to justify themselves and their work. Let the work we do be the proof of the pudding.  Let our sensitive, caring, and loving acts, speak for us.  Hold your heads up high and do spirits work with all your heart. You cannot go wrong.

The main thing they don’t understand is Physical mediumship. What is physical and what is not.  What can be seen and what cannot.  They don’t seem to grasp that physical mediumship phenomena should be seen with  physical eyes.  Everybody’s physical eyes. Not just a select few.

What constitutes physical mediumship?  All the gifts that need ectoplasm to allow spirit to be seen and heard physically.  Transfiguration, Direct Voice, Physical Mediumship, where the medium sits in a cabinet and produces spirit forms.

A medium has to sit for years until they produce the ectoplasm that is essential for physical mediumship. Without it there is no physical mediumship.

Transfiguration, involves spirit moulding a mask with the ectoplasm. This mask is placed over the mediums face whilst the medium sits to accommodate them.  The actual spirit face will appear to the sitters present, for recognition. It is wonderful to behold when done properly.  All the audience will see this. It is physical.

Direct voice, involves spirit manipulating the medium’s voice box, physically, so that they can use it to produce the voice of a spirit loved one.  There is also a way in which spirit use ectoplasm to produce direct voice via a trumpet.  Spirit lift the trumpet with the ectoplasm and carry it to the recipient. Then the actual spirit voice comes through that trumpet.  Again, wonderful to behold.  All the sitters will see and hear this. Not just a few. It is Physical.

For physical mediumship to work, it is best for the medium to sit in a cabinet. When the ectoplasm is produced by the medium, the cabinet helps to contain it, so that spirit can use it at its best. Spirit mould the ectoplasm, so that it shows the spirit as he or she was when on the Earth plane. Again, physical. Everyone can see it. Not just a few.

I am always surprised when a medium tells me that they saw transfiguration and that each person saw something different. This is impossible. If it is physical then everyone should see exactly the same thing.  If the transfiguration medium is portraying Elvis, everyone should see Elvis, not half Elvis and half Michael Jackson! It is not possible.

It is even more amazing when mediums believe that only those with clairvoyance can see it!  What utter rubbish. I am really concerned that there is not the proper teaching in the development circle. The sort of teaching there was when Gordon Higginson was around.

It is all down to ignorance and also the laziness of committees, members of which don’t bother to find good teachers for their novices.  Send them all on specialist courses. Make them learn all about it. We have to start somewhere!

As always, I value your feedback and your views. Please email me at the link on this page.

So, if you are a fan of Carl’s, or if you have never yet had the pleasure, why not get yourself a ticket and go along. You will not be disappointed.

Carl has been a friend for many years. His unique style has gained him a good reputation and a following of fans who have all grown fond of him. Carl now works all over Europe and beyond.

I look forward to your reviews.

You sit in your chair hoping that the medium speaking today will come to you and pass on a message from your loved ones in the spirit world.  One to make you believe that they are still watching over you.  You really want to believe there is life after death and a message would help you to make up your mind.

You expect the subject to be taken seriously, if not by the general public, then at least by the spiritualists.  Most spiritualists do take proving life after death very seriously.  That does not mean that they cannot be happy, or laugh and smile whilst they give proof.  There are some who can give proof whilst still being entertaining and amusing, without acting.

What you do not expect, is for the person on ‘stage’ to behave in an unseemly manner and appearing to put on some sort of act.  This though is sadly sometimes what you get.

Sometimes, though not all times by any means, the medium on the platform will affect a stance that is not their usual.  This may take the form of implying that spirit are making them behave oddly.  Some will affect a limp or hold their hand and arm at a funny angle and say that their guide has a disability.  Their guide may well have had a disability whilst on the earth plain but certainly not in the spirit world.  They have no physical body once they have passed over.

Use your own intelligence here.  If it seems to you that a spirit would not make a medium look foolish by ‘making’ them hold their body in an odd way, then do not accept it.

You have to understand that spirits do not have physical bodies.  Therefore, they cannot possibly make any able bodied physical person do anything with their body.  It is purely showmanship.

Shockingly for me, I have witnessed the leader of an open circle behaving as if drunk.  She was falling around, swaying and flinging her arms about, whilst saying that the spirit who was coming through was forcing drink down her.  She insisted that the spirit was drunk and now she was drunk too because the spirit was giving her whiskey.  What a load of codswallop!  Whiskey in the spirit world!

You must always use your own intelligence to help you realise when you are being had.  Some do this on purpose and it is obvious as it is a regular occurrence.  Others are deluded into thinking they have to affect these positions.  What utter nonsense!

Spirit would never, ever make a medium look foolish.  The only person who can do that is the supposed ‘psychic’.  Please be discerning.  You should be able to spot when showmanship is happening if you just use common sense.

When you hear the crowds coming out of church or the theatre, saying things like ‘Oh what a laugh, wasn’t it good’.  Ask yourself was it music hall type good or was there really good evidence of survival of the spirit.  Remember, laughter can, and often does, go hand in hand with spirit work.  This is acceptable.  Showmanship is not.

Saturday 27th August is a Special Evening of Clairvoyance with Sue Cunningham – 7.30 – £3 on the door

Sunday 28th August is a Divine Service with myself, Barbara Biggin – 6.30 – free will collection

Saturday 17th September is a Special Evening with Carl Parker – 7.30 – £3 on the door

More to come………..keeping watching this space or email me for further details.

Others of us can learn how to ‘see’ auras, but not as well as the natural viewer.  It is more like a sense of seeing. Some see the aura colours by means of clairvoyance.  Others, like myself, ask my guide to show me what colours are prominent in a particular person’s aura.

It is possible to give a person a reading by viewing their aura.  Also, there are those who draw aura-graphs and give psychic readings from them. You often find these at psychic fairs. This is usually done with the use of an aura camera. Watch out for them an try it for yourself.  Although, the reading will only be as good as the medium or psychic is, of course.

Aura reading comes into its own when used for healing. The healer can view the aura and sometimes tell by the situation of the colour, where healing is needed.  They may see a particular colour, which tells them of an health problem, around a particular area of the body.  The healing can then be directed to that place.

If I ask my guide to show me where a person is suffering pain, they will show me a particular colour around the correct spot.  I can then direct the healing energies directly to it.

It would be very good if more people would learn to do this as it is so helpful both in giving readings and in giving healing.  I will be writing more on this subject and look forward to your comments.