Mediumship and Beyond

Sometimes when a client has lost a loved one they prefer me to go to their own home to give them a reading. They need some proof that their loved one is still ‘alive’ in the spirit world and that they are looking over them.

They feel I will get closer to them if I visit their home. Sometimes I do get closer.  I sit in the loved ones chair and tune in to their spirit.  It is usually not long before they come through offering up memories to prove their existence.

I remember one lady’s spirit bound husband came through and told me that no one else was allowed to sit in his chair.  Not me and not then and certainly not now.  He insisted that he still sat there.  And, his wife insisted it too. She often felt aware of his presence.

She never let anyone sit there when he was alive and now he was gone to the higher side of life, she still felt it was his chair.  So did he.  I felt his presence strongly and also his fragrance. I described it to the lady and she knew just what I meant.

Her hubby gave me lots of memories to share with her and also gave her some reassurances about difficulties she was having in the present time.  The lady felt very comforted and settled after his visit.  His name was unusual or at least uncommon, Oswald.  He made fun of his name too.

It takes all sorts and different ways of tuning in sometimes.  As long as I tune into the spirit world it all goes well.  That’s what mediums are all about!  Empty chairs can be a joy to ‘read’!

As the development circle progresses, you will find people are moving on at differing rates.  Some will move swiftly on and some very slowly.  Others will move along at a steady pace and it is these who will benefit most from the continuing circle.

Each session you will open up and work within the circle. You will be doing a variety of excercises, depending on the teachers preference and experience.

You will find you excel at some exercises and not at others. Very few of us are good at them all.  Aura work should be included, as it is the aura where psychics get the information from.   Some of you will remain psychic,  whilst others will become mediums if they are so gifted.  It is only much later that those of you who are gifted will be able to start working with spirits.

After the exercises, you may do workshop tasks like sand and stone reading to stretch you.  You may even use cards.  These may be angel cards.  Each circle should finish with a closing down exercise and final prayer.

Later on in the course things will become less ordered and more instinctual.  Enjoy it all and do not expect it ever to be over. Development is a life times affair.

The second session of your development circle should see a little bit more action.  You will have learned about opening and closing down your psychic centres and will be chomping at the bit to get working and using your psychic gifts.

You will open up and begin to ‘give off” the things, messages, you pick up whilst tuned in.  The group leader will encourage you all to work by asking you what you have got, or what you are sensing.

The idea is to give what you get, as soon as possible after getting it, so that you may get more.  It is very difficult for the novice to learn how to hold on to messages sensed in this manner.  You will soon get the hang of it though with lots of practice.

You may find that you link into the other sitters quite easily.  You may not always know who the information is for.  This is where your teacher will help and guide you.

At the end of each session of tuning in, the medium will encourage you to give anything you have left, before closing down the session.  Don’t take messages home with you when spirit may have brought you something  to give to another sitter.

Each medium, teacher, will have their own specialities and they will use them in their classes.  For instance, in my classes I deal with colour a lot.  Other teachers may not, but will have their own thing.

As usual if you need help or guidance, or just want to ask a question, please email me via this blog.  More on this subject tomorrow………………….

Orbs are those round balls of varying sizes, which seem to appear willy nilly on our photographs.  They do not seem to be visible to the naked eye, but appear on photos unexpectedly.

Obviously you need to keep an open mind when looking for orbs.  No one seems to have a definite answer as to what they are.  Sometimes it appears to be rain or light which causes them.  Sometimes it is dust on the lens of you camera.  It can also be dust floating around the air or the room in which you take your photos.

Sometimes, however you try to give it a logical reason, there is none.   There is a suspicion however, that they are caused by psychic or spiritual energy.  This may be an answer, but maybe not the only answer.

Lots of psychic groups seem to be taking an interest in orbs and doing their own experiments to try to find an answer.  The seminar where I went before Christmas, held its own experiments. We found that building up our own psychic energy seemed to create lots and lots of orbs.

On occasion there were so many orbs created that it looked like a snow storm.  The orbs were visible to us via a live video feed adjacent to a monitor.  With some people there were only one or two orbs but with others there were lots of them.

I have seen orbs on photos taken at a memorial service.  They appeared close to the flowers which were laid by the head stone.  There was a very bright light directly over the stone, on the photos too.  On the photos it looked as though the whole centre piece was illuminated.

If you have done any experiments or know about orbs, please email me so that we can share our knowledge.

We were asked to go to a factory where workers were concerned about a possible haunting.  The factory was a group a several buildings where a different part of the process happened in each one.

One particular building was well known amongst the work force for being a cold and eerie place.  They were convinced it was haunted.  We are talking big strong men here, not school girls!

There were tales of men seeing shapes appear in cold spots around the workshop.  One man had seen a figure appear in mist, but he could see right through the figure.  He could actually see what was at the other side of the figure, right through it.

Word got around and it became a workshop where men were reluctant to go.  Once someone was brave enough to talk about it others then admitted seeing and feeling things of an eerie nature.

I went along with  2 other mediumistic  friends.  We went around the empty workshop and felt the cold spots.  It was at one of these cold spots that we sat for a short time to tune into the spirit world.  We soon began to pick up information from spirits.

The main communicator was a man who brought with him a sandwich box containing banana sandwiches.  He proceeded to sit on an upturned box and eat his sandwiches.  He gave his name and said his son worked in the factory.  He also gave us lots of other information including dates and descriptions.

When the communication was ovr we went back to the bosses office.  A workman was just entering the office at the same time.  As we began to relate the information the the manager the workman stood with his mouth open.  Shocked to say the least.

His was one of the names the spirit communicator had given and the spirit turned out to be his dad.  It seemed the spirit used to work in the same workshop and would bring banana sandwiches every day for his lunch. He always sat on the same upturned box in the same area we had seen him.

It was the spirits need to contact his son and give him some advice about a current problem, that had led to the so called haunting.  Once the spirit had served his intended purpose, he was happy to move on and leave the factory in peace.

There was a man who lived over, and worked in, a bookshop in Lincolnshire.  He contacted me because he was having a problem in his store.

He explained that his cat, which once belonged to his now deceased mother,  seemed to be having some sort of fit but it seemed to always coincide with lots of books flying off the bookshelves.  He was freaked out by it and obviously, so was his cat.  He felt he was haunted by a bad spirit!

Having a browse around his bookstore convinced me that there was nothing sinister going on there.  Whatever was happening was of a kindly nature.  There was such a calm and peaceful atmosphere.

A prayer and a seance later and it was obvious what was going on!  The man’s mother, now on the higher side of life, communicated with us.  She said she was concerned that her son was being duped by a would be investor and wanted to warn him. 

She didn’t know how to get his attention and she knew he would not go to see a medium.  So, she took things into her own hands.  She would attract the attention of her beloved cat and this would make the cat go wild.  The cat knew she was there but could not see her. 

As the cat began to go wild, the mother would make books fly from the shelves, although she admitted that she didn’t realise at first that she could do this.  It amused her, but the main aim was to contact her son.

Now she  had managed to get her son in the same room as a medium and she could tell him what and whom to beware of.

Her mission over, the mother left our presence, leaving her love and affection.  We closed our seance and prayed to thank the spirit world for their help.

More stories next time…..

One of the first ‘hauntings’  I went to was some years ago. I went along, with a couple of other mediums, to a converted building, which was very old and had a lot of history. It was in the countryside.

The family who lived there were having a lot of problems with ’spirits’ and wanted our help to find out why.

The man would go to bed at night and would place his clothes on his bedside chair.  When he awoke his clothes would often be on the floor in a pool of water.  No one had touched them and they began to feel the house was haunted. 

One night the man decided to leave his clothes on the landing.  When he awoke, all the linens out of the airing cupboard were on the floor in a pool of water.  This really convinced them they were haunted.

One day the man had to work away from home and he stayed in a hotel.  He undressed at night and put his clothes on the bedside chair.  When he awoke his clothes were in  a pile soaked with water.  He realised then that it was he who was haunted and not the house.

The couple came to the teaching circle I was helping to run and asked for our help.  We went along as a group and held a seance to communicate with the spirit world aand ask for their help.

The first communicator from the spirit world was the man’s mother.  She talked of the youngest child and the illness the child suffered.  She wanted to help.  She made it clear that it was her who had been trying to communicate with the man. 

The man was building up psychic energy and because he wasn’t using it  the energy was runnig amok ,and that is why the water appeared.

We discovered the child had a really bad form of cancer in one area and now another area was affected.  The childs grandmother urged the man to use his psychic energy as healing for his son.  She insisted it would help very much.

We, as a group, showed the man how to give healing to his son.  He practiced the helaing regualrly, every night.  Soon his water events ceased to be.

The most wonderful thing of all was that the child recovered from cancer and became well and happy.

Psychic energy, if ignored, can become a problem.  If you are developing, make sure you use up any surplus energy for healing, as that is a good positive action.  Just ask spirit to take the energy and use it to help those in need.

More on this subject tomorrow.

If you are a medium you will be familiar with experiments which are intended to test the theories of spirit communication.

I am always, along with friends, looking for new experiments to conduct.  We have just started a new experiment.  New to us that is.  We are siting to meditate and tune in to each other, but in our own homes at the same time.

To explain further: At a set time, I sit at home, alone.  My friend John, sits at home alone.  We tune in to each other by visualisation.  We go as deep into altered states as is possible for us at the time.

We ask our guides for communication for each other and wait to see what happens.

Directly after our allotted time, we each write down what we have received, felt, heard and seen.  We talk on the phone and read out our list to each other.

Some of the items on the lists are immediately understood but we will  have to wait for others to make sense.

This is not the same as remote viewing, although we do intend to give that a try too.  We will do this for a number of weeks and then analyse the information as a whole.  At times of need, as in the case for healing, if we are unwell, we will call each other to arrange a mutual sitting.

I will share the results of our experiments with you.  If you try the experiments yourself, will you let me know the results please by emailing me here.

Overall the seminar was excellent.  We had four days and evenings of psychic work and fun.  Not to mention the food!

Whilst we, in our group, continued to practice altered states, the other group worked on their mediumship.  They took turns in demonstrating their gifts and improving on their messages with the help and direction of the tutor.

One session where we were all together, we used a small table and encouraged it to move around the room.  This is table tilting. 

The tutor made a link with a spirit and asked for the phenomena to occur.  Some of the group had trouble keeping up with the table as it seemingly danced around the room.

The best part of the weekend was that we, as a group, all shared the same interest and were all mediumistic.  This is why we had such good results.

The tutors also made the event special with their knowledge and willingness to share it.

Thank you to everyone who took part in making it a weekend to remember!

Trance was one of the subjects explored during our seminar, and everyone in the altered states group was given the opportunity to try it.

There were of course, some who were used to sitting for trance communication, but about half of the group had not sat before.  This was the ideal place for novices to work.

A few went into trance and their spirit guides came through and spoke to us.  It was philosophy which came through.

When the novices had a try it was to go into an altered state much deeper than they had been before.  The tutor was very experienced and knew how far to let each person go.  She gave lots of encouragement and helped with the technique of letting go.

For those of you who have not tried altered states, letting go is the hardest part of it.  That and letting go of oneself.  It is difficult, just the same as it is when working mediumistically, to keep your own mind out of the equation.

After the workshop, we were treated to a great trance demonstration by one of our tutors.  Some spirits came through and I personally received a message via the guide.  I really enjoyed it and found the message evidential.

More on Monday.  Have a nice weekend.