Mediumship and Beyond

This  title may remind you of my feelings on the difference between spirits coming close, and that of 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.

You will hear people say things like:  ‘it walks through that wall every night on midnight’!  Or ‘ it rides on a horse across that road at 10pm each night’!  And so forth. These are sightings of ghosts. They are images trapped in time. Not spirits trying to haunt.

When it is spirits, they  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.

For communication with spirits you usually need a medium. The medium will sit and wait for a spirit to ‘come through’. They cannot call one up.

Communication with a spirit is just that. A communication. You cannot have communication with a ghost. As I have said, it is just an image trapped in time.  Haunted houses should not really scare you or anyone.

Think logically about this subject and you will soon see the difference.

It amazes me that people who have been in Spiritualism a long time still don’t understand some of the phenomena that is produced. Ignorance is rife, even in the Spiritualist movement.

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.

I am often amazed at the amount of guides some budding mediums appear to get. Or believe they get.  Maybe believe is the operative word here.

We all have a doorkeeper. That is one doorkeeper. Not two or three of four.  We only need the one guide to protect us and this is the doorkeeper. This guide brings us here from the spirit world on the day we are conceived. This same guide stays with us throughout our Earthly life. On the day of our passing, this same doorkeeper takes us back home to the spirit world.

Whilst we are developing our mediumship, our doorkeeper looks after us. It is this guide who decides who to let through and who to bar. This guide may sometimes step back and allow another guide, inspirer or helper, to come through and help us with a particular project.

We may be learning a new aspect of mediumship and need another’s input. It may be for healing or another new aspect. The doorkeeper does not stay back though, its just for a short period of time during development. The doorkeeper will never leave you.

The guide, your doorkeeper, is real.  They may not be solid, but they are real.  They are not aliens, not mythical creatures and not magicians. They are very knowledgeable souls who have been in spirit for a long long time. They have been specially chosen for you.

We cannot allow mythical creatures to become part of our development. They were never real. They cannot help us develop our spiritual gifts, because they NEVER EXISTED.  They have NO KNOWLEDGE.  They are useless to you and to spiritualism and have no place in it.

The same with aliens.  There is no proof that aliens, ie creatures who come here to Earth in space ships., exist. Even if they did, and I am open minded here, they cannot help us develop mediumship. They are not from the spirit world.

There are names from our childhood that we remember and maybe thought were real, at the time, such as Father Christmas and Santa.  But once grown up we realise such names were only pretence or myths. There was no King Arthur, Camelot and Merlin the magician. They are all myths. So they cannot possibly come back as spirit guides.

Please consider this subject using your common sense. If something insults your own intelligence then please reject it. As I will reject it from my circles.

At Spiritualist churches, during the divine Sunday service, there is always a section given to philosophy.  It is usually done by the evenings speaker, the medium.

Philosophy should be just that.  The Spiritualists philosophy. Not a story about the medium and their life. Unless of course this contains some philosophy.

Too often mediums/speakers use this time to talk about them self.  They often ramble on giving little to the service or the congregation.

The whole point of the philosophy section is to talk about Spiritualism and what it is all about. What it it means to the speaker and what it means to the world as a whole.

We should not miss out on the opportunity to be able to spread the word about our work and our beliefs.  After all, some of the congregation will be just there for the message and may not understand Spiritualism. This is our chance to change things.

Lets not waste it!

If you thought that table phenomena was dead then you are wrong. It is definitely alive and floating as I write.  In fact, at the psychic fair at Attercliffe Spiritulaist Church in Sheffield,last weekend there was a display of it.

Whilst mediums and psychics were giving readings in the main hall, visitors were invited into the room at the back, where the table phenomena was displayed.

In the past I spent many an evening with the mediums there, working at the table. Getting messages and being given a wonderful display of what the table could do.

The visitors this week enjoyed the spectacle. I had feedback from some of them who had not witnessed it  before. They were thrilled.

Of course, it has to be remembered, that unless there is a ‘physical medium’ in control of the table, it is only working on the sitter’s psychic energy. Not Spirit.

Psychic energy is surprisingly strong and comes from us all. Together in a confined space it can be utilised to move the table.

For spirit to work the table there has to be a medium who has developed physical mediumship to a good extent. Then the medium will produce ectoplasm which spirit can use to control the table. That way the messages you get from it will be from spirit.

If you get the chance to witness it, have a go and enjoy.

The great thing about going on psychic seminars and workshops, is that you learn new exercises to do within the circle and awareness group.

We all use exercises to help us find new ways to contact spirit and to help us improve our psychic and mediumistic skills.  There is always a new way.  Going away from our group base is often all that is needed to refresh you and your ideas.

This weekend was all about exercises to help make your mediumship more lively and energetic.

Not all the exercises worked for us though, in this instance.  There was the odd one that just didn’t work for any of us.  Asking the spirit for even more and more intricate information is not always fruitful. I personally believe that spirit choose what information they wish to impart.  Not us!  They do seem to like the fact that seekers have to do some of the work too.

As always, I personally do what I recommend you do. Take from any workshop or seminar, that which you find sits well with you and your work. Consider it all but leave what does not gel with you and your guides.

After 30  years developing my gift you might be forgiven for thinking that I had done enough.  Or that I was developed enough.  Or maybe, that I was by now satisfied, with my mediumship.

Not in the slightest. I will carry on developing and improving my mediumship until my time here is done. Then I will carry on my development in the spirit world.

I love developing my gifts. I also love passing on my knowledge to others so that they may develop to their very best.  It is quite hard work sometimes but worth every moment.

Once again I have been with my sister and a friend, to a weekend medium’s seminar. We had a wonderful time with 40 other like minded people. All of whom were at differing levels of their development.

Our tutors were excellent mediums, who gave us new food for thought and put us through the paces of exercises, which were aimed at making our mediumship more lively.  What fun we had.

Being with a large group, all of whom are very spiritual people, can be very emotional. And it was at times.  At other times it was hard work and yet others amusing.  We travelled the whole gamut.

It was more interesting because we were not all at the same level. Some of the group were absolute beginners. They enjoyed it as much as the rest. I cannot recommend going on such courses, enough. Please do try it.  But make sure you know the experience and integrity of your tutors. It is so important. A bad experience with a clueless tutor can put you off forever.

If you would like any recommendations, please email me.  More on this subject tomorrow.

Some of you may be forgiven for thinking that the psychic on the platform at your local spiritualist church, or hall, is an actor or actress.  Sadly this comes with the territory.  Some are just that, or at least use a bit of that.

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.

There are many times when I am feeling low or unhappy, that I find it comforting to feel the presence of a spirit loved one.

It may be just a brush against my cheek or a tickling of my hair, but it is enough to bring a smile to my face and a warmth in my heart.  I feel at peace, and I know which loved ones they are by the way they make themselves felt.

A particular loved one strokes my cheek and another caresses my brow.  It is not the same sensation as a human touch, more of a sense of it.  It is enough though, when you have learned to tune in to your sixth sense.

Too often we get bogged down with day to day trivia and become depressed by life’s problems.  We are not always aware that spirit have moved in close to comfort us.  The feelings we have often swamp us and make it impossible for others to get close. When you are truly sad, that is when they come the closest, but it can also be the time when we use our senses the least.

Persevere and you will be rewarded. When you feel most alone, that is when you are most guarded and guided. You can be confident that your Guardian Angel will be there to comfort and guide you.

When you feel a presence, ask who it is (in your head). You may not get an answer there and then, but you will find out who it is if you are patient. You can try a system of elimination, this often works well.

I am happy to give advice and I will keep coming back to this topic to help move you forward.

There is going to be a Neo Astrology Workshop at Whitham Road Church in Sheffield.  The workshop is run by Neo Astrologer Drew Biggin. The event is on Saturday the 24th of September.

So all of you who are keen to learn more about astrology, why not come along and learn all about it.  It is planned to be a very interesting experience. You will learn why sun signs in the daily paper don’t work at all.   You will also look at the horoscopes of well known celebrities. You will also have the opportunity to have a go yourself.

The workshop starts at 11 am and ends at 4pm.  The tickets are £10 each. Refreshments will be available but you need to bring a packed lunch.   If you would like to order a ticket you can contact me and I will make sure you get one. Or you may find  information on the church website.

If you have any enquiries which I cannot answer, I will pass them onto Drew and he will respond.