Mediumship and Beyond

There are so many of you needing help with psychic development. I know this from all the emails I get.  This has pushed me into action on your behalf.

The new year is a good time to begin development.  Then, at the end of 2012 you can look back and see how far you have come.

I am taking this opportunity to run you through a psychic development course, gradually, throughout this year.  You don’t even have to leave your home.  I will always be at the other end of your email for help.

Remember, you ARE psychic, we all are. You just have to want to be able to develop your latent gifts. Everyone goes at a different pace and you should take it slowly. You will be able to refer back to earlier posts easily if needed.

There is no cost to follow this blog. Although there is my own CD which you can purchase, if you want to, to help you learn to open up and close down. Email me if you are interested in that.

You can email me to let me know you are following if you like. It can make it a little more personal.  Let me know how you get on.

More tomorrow!

Copyright: Barbara Biggin 2012

As part of my New Year changes

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.

Yes, there is a lot of it about.  Still there are psychics who believe they are mediums and don’t even know the difference. This is beyond belief. They have surely never sat for development with an experienced medium tutor.

Or, an even worse scenario, they have sat but not taken any notice of the teacher, thinking they themselves know better.  And yes, a good teacher can tell which you are using, psychic or mediumship. They know if you are linked to spirit, even when you do not.

I know how it goes. I have seen it all too often. They join a development circle and then decide they are too good for it and already know it all.  The trouble is they then get on the platform and make a mess of it.  They don’t produce the life after death proof which is the medium’s paramount job on the platform.  They cannot, they haven’t got a mediums gift.

Remember, not all those who sit for development are mediumistic. Yes we are all psychic and can develop our psychic ability, but it does not make a medium.  A medium is born with the gift. They may take time to know it, but when they develop it soon shows.

The same goes with trance. Some are convinced they have it, when they do not. They often give themselves away by opening their eyes whilst in a so called trance and having a normal conversation with people. What a crock!  You cannot carry on in trance with your eyes fully open. Once you open your eyes your conscious state alters again. Even if you have been in trance, the act of opening your eyes brings you out of it.

The ones who rely on funny voices and a touch of gurning are the worst, but quite the funniest to watch. (Oh what fools the public think spiritualists are)

I witnessed the great Gordon Higginson in trance on many occasions. Never did he open his eyes whilst in trance. His guides and communicators would change during the sitting but he never opened his eyes. He brought forth many spirit communicators who gave proof of survival. What a true gem to aspire to.

For those of you who feel they are in trance but are still able to function as though you are not, consider this: you may be fooling yourself. Your perception of what trance really is may not be correct.  You may be being overshadowed. This often happens.   You may in fact be deluding yourself.

The problem here is that you will not be deluding others.  They will watch you and see you are not in trance, unless they too know nothing of the subject. And you will be lowered in their esteem. I know of some so called trance mediums who are laughed at behind their backs.  Not nice, but understandable. There is little more amusing to watch, than a bad actor.

Take care,  and research your subject before finding yourself a good tutor.  Only when your tutor is happy with your work will you be ready to show others.

For further information, please email me at the link on this page.

From time to time, it is helpful for developed mediums to sit in a development circle for a couple of weeks.  To take you back to basics.

It is so easy as you progress, to forget a lot of the initial teachings. These teachings are an important part of mediumship.  If you have moved on a lot, you will probably be a bit lacking in s0me areas now.

Remember being told how to  “open up”?   Do you still do that?  More importantly, do you still “close down”?  Do you think you don’t need to anymore?  Maybe you think you know enough and don’t need to bother any more.

But yes, you do need to bother. You need to stay in control. You should also be encouraging novices to open and close properly.  Chances must not be taken. Mediums cannot safely stay open all the time.

Meditation is something people tend to drop once they start to use their mediumship regularly. For some reason it is deemed unnecessary. For me It’s a must forever!  To stop meditation is to stop the unique partnership with your door keeper/guide.

Some of the things you do at the very beginning of the awareness and development circle, may seem like repetition. But I assure you that it is all for your own safety and well being. It is to help you remember.

A medium should always be in control of them self.  This includes whilst being in trance or working on a platform. What better way to practice and keep up to date, than by working in a development or open circle.

For more information on this topic please email me at the link on this page.

I have recently resigned from my church committee.  I still love the church but I need to move on. I feel spirit pulling me in other directions.  It gives me much more time to spread myself a little further.

I will now be able to travel further afield to give my demonstrations of mediumship and to run my popular workshops.  I love to pass on my knowledge and help fledgling mediums to develop. This will never change.

If you run a church and would like to know more about my colour specials and the workshops, please email me at the link on this page.  I do have some spaces in my diary now for 2012.

As always, I am happy to receive emails about any psychic or paranormal subject to share on my blog and website.

Last night was the last circle of the year for the advanced group.

We had another fun night. The students read different things for each other and got some good practice in . They are more than ready for the open circles and one to one readings.

There were cards, ribbons, stones crystal ball and stix. Most of them brought their own, but there were plenty of others for their use. There were some good readings going on with plenty of evidence from spirit as added bonuses.

I like how they have progressed to the point where they are giving spirit a channel to come through.  It is very satisfying for them as students and me as teacher.

The new group will start up early in the year. Date to be given later.  It will be on Fridays.

The beginners group will have their last circle this Friday. They will all join the other group in the new year.  They are ready for it too. There is some good progress being made.

I am really proud to tell you that this is the 700th article I have posted.  It’s right when people say time flies. It doesn’t seem that long since I started this blog.

I began writing when I realised that most ordinary people, (me included)  want the facts about mediumship, in plain and simple words.  Too often,  those who are gifted, make mediumship and psychic ability sound like theatrics.  They use long winded explanations and make a big deal out of what I find to be very natural.  Mediums should not become showmen.

I have found it very therapeutic to share my knowledge.  I have always thought it most important to share experiences of the spiritual, paranormal and psychic.

I have had many comments to this page,(all of them nice)  as well as  emails directly to me.  These have included those with psychic based problems and those who just want to ask questions and learn. Especially about development.

I am grateful for them all.  The ones I hold most dear, are the ones where I am thanked for sharing my knowledge freely. I have had many of those.  Canada, USA, Hawaii, Australia, Spain, France, Ireland and England, are the far flung places people have contacted me from. I am very privileged.

Some of the posts have led to new members for my development circles too.  May this continue for a long time to come. My thirty years experience as a spiritual medium has come in useful to you, my readers.  The philosophy, often in verse form, has been well received too.

I am always keen to have suggestions about new topics. As always, your emails are very welcome. I always respond to them.

Love, peace and light

Barbara

Our church recently played host to a medium with a very big ego.  Typical of a medium with a big ego, he offended many people in our church.

I was not in church on this occasion.  However, as I was the person who booked him (I am the booking secretary) I do feel a certain responsibility.  What follows is what I was told by the committee, who were in attendance at the service in question.

Apparently he seemed a tad agitated when he arrived. He told them he was very popular and that this was his living.  He didn’t like the fact that the congregation was small, on this occasion.

He objected to the organist, who at 94 does her very best and is an old treasure. He was quite rude about her.

He was also very rude about other mediums, whose names I will not publish here.  He kept saying they were just psychics and not mediums like himself.  We know this to be untrue, as we know some of them very well.

He did not want to do philosophy, even though it was pointed out to him that it was a divine service.  All mediums are expected to give philosophy during the Sunday divine service.

He kept on telling the chair person that he wanted to hurry it all up and get off.  The chair person told me that if any other medium was available to take over, she would have asked him to leave.

He got on with the service, but, according to congregation members, he was very abrupt in his delivery of messages.

What a pity that this medium missed the opportunity to spread love, peace and spirituality.

It is so important for a medium to be humble.  Mediums should always remember not to let their ego get the better of them.  So I urge you, if you are developing mediumship, don’t develop your ego at the same time.

My advanced development circle are meeting up with my beginners circle this week.  On Tuesday they are having a fun night.

A fun night with me consists of all different methods of reading for each other.  Colours, angel cards and tarot, stones and ribbons, will all be used.  As the new and the old have not yet met, it means they will be reading for ‘new’ people for a change. This is a big step on the way of development for them all.

This should encourage them to venture forth into the open circles and see exactly what they can do. I am looking forward to that.

I know there are some of the advanced group who wish to develop in other areas too.  This will be exciting for all the group.

Next spring there will be just the one circle for all developers.  There will not be a new one for complete beginners until September 2012.

For more information on my development and awareness circles, please email me at the link on this page.

There are different kinds of gifts which can be developed by mediums.  Some develop the one gift and if they persue it and work hard with it, it can be more than enough.  Some are very gifted and find they can develop more than one psychic sense.  They are very lucky as using combinations of mediumistic gifts can be extremely rewarding.

Clairsentience is the gift which lots of novices do not understand, and yet it is one of the simplest and easiest to use.

Clairsentience is often the very first sign that your sixth sense is developing.  Sensing! It is the gift of thinking, smelling, and feeling emotions.  Sometimes it can even be the sense of the pain which a spirit felt during their earthly life and often the pain they felt when they were passing over to the higher side of life..

Clairsentience is the sense of smell which does not come through the physical nose. It is an acute awareness of a smell, that those without the gift seem to be unaware of.  It may be the scent or perfume that a spirit used when on the earth plane and therefore, a good piece of proof for a seeker.  If the medium told the sitter that they were aware of a lady smelling of ‘Evening in Paris’, for example, this may be how the sitter remembers this spirit. This may be the evidence he or she is looking for to prove there is life after death.

Emotions experienced by the spirit, especially just prior to their physical passing, can sometimes be relayed by a medium who uses this gift to the fullest. There may be laughter and joy, as well as sadness. Feeling and sensing what the spirit wants to relay is a medium’s job.

Clairsentience is a good gift to have when giving private readings.  It makes the sitter really feel they have conected with their loved one.  When a medium uses this gift it brings so much more to a message.  A combination of clairaudience, clairsentience, and clairvoyance is what the developer of the sixth sense should aspire to.  What a wonderful combination of gifts for a medium to have.

Sometimes, as a student, you may find that the thoughts, feelings and smells you are getting in your head, are actually not your own.  Once you realise this,  it is easier to develop the gift.  A word of caution here: not everything that pops into your head is from the spirits.  Perhaps the hardest part of development, especially for a medium, not so much for the psychic,  is to define the difference between your own mind and that of the spirits communications.