Mediumship and Beyond

Lots of people believe in ghosts but what they actually think ghosts are differs from person to person.

There are many so called ‘Ghost Busting’ or ‘Haunting Nights’ being held across the country and even on the TV.  Ask the potential ghost buster just what he or she expects to see at the event and it differs greatly.

Some say that they fully expect to see a ghost as that is what they believe the event is for.  Others think that they will see things moving of their own accord, such as tables floating and smaller items floating in mid air.

Ask what they think ghosts are and this varies too. Lots seem to believe that every spirit who has left their material body, is able to haunt places and appear at will. Others think it is only the ‘troubled’ souls who stay around to haunt and scare people.

The simplest explanation to me is that a ghost is an image trapped in time. When people say they have seen the ‘white lady’ or the ‘small child crying’, the event is usually relayed in the same way, with the same description, by all those who say they witnessed it, every time. There is usually no variation in the event.

It came through the wall and floated over to the other wall before disappearing into it….

The room went cold and there was a bad feeling or bad smell in the air when the ghost appeared and did her usual thing, whilst carrying an object….

It appears at the side of the road sometimes at 2am and floats across as though the road was not there, doing the same thing each time….

My belief is that the reason the image is trapped in time, is because of a violent and unexpected passing, the shock of which somehow causes the effect to make an imprint upon this earthly plane. Spirits who pass over to the Spirit World in the usual manner do not seem to go in for haunting.

My experiences are usually of  the spirits of loved ones, who are wanting to let us know they are watching over us, and to give us reassurance at difficult times in our lives. They can communicate to us via a medium and bring messages of love, not scaring us or haunting our homes as this would achieve little.

I believe we can all learn to tune into the spirits of our loved ones, if we would just take the time and make the effort.

I know a lot of you like to read and hear about ghosts and hauntings.  something about the subject seems to excite people.  Is it the unknown aspect or the fact it could be a dead person wandering around, that excites? 

There is a perfectly good explanation for ghosts.  Images trapped in time, after an untimely or violent death, is the valid one.  The world is not full of dead people haunting those who they are angry with.  The Spirit World is the home of  ’dead’  people when they move on from this existence.  They do not linger around to frighten and upset.

We all come here form our home in the Spirit World to learn lessons and evolve into a higher existence.  We go back home when our allotted time is up.  Why would we want to hang around haunting people.  Our only ties are with our loved ones and we do not want to alarm them. 

When spirits do come back to communicate, it is to uplift  and comfort those loved ones left behind, not to scare them.  Communicating with our loved ones helps to prove that there is life after death, and reassures those we have left behind, so that they know we all meet again.

Yes, sometimes spirits do make a noise in your home.  Sometimes they do move small things around.  Sometimes they stroke our hair or our face and let you smell their favourite sent.  This is comforting, not haunting.

It is though, a very interesting subject and we are all learning new things everyday.  who knows what we may find out in the future!

I do like to hear your stories. Please share by emailing them to my website.

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.

From time to time I get requests from people to help them with their haunting!

It may be that they feel their home is haunted, or even that a member of the family is haunted.  Sometimes they think they have a poltergeist.  They may think they have a ghost. 

It is then that they ask for help.  They may have put up with the situation for a long time , before plucking up the courage to do something about it.

These people often have had no dealings with mediums before and are often unaware of the psychic or spiritualists  world.  On other occasions there maybe someone in the home who  is developing psychic gifts.  It varies so much and I have to keep an open mind.

I usually make an appointment with them  and go along to the home to see what I can find out.  Figuring out what is actually taking place is as important as what I do about it.  It is not always straight forward.

There are often troubled people involved, and a caring and sympathetic attitude is really important.  It is important to find out what each member of the household feels about the situation and how it is affecting them personally. 

Once I have come to an understanding of the problem I will set about sorting it out, in order to leave the family in peace. 

This week I will write about  some of my experiences.

It is a drama about three people trying to figure out what, if anything, exists after death.

Damon’s character is the supernatural figure in the script: GEORGE, a “handsome, shy, soft-spoken” factory worker with a psychic gift which allows him to see dead people. We won’t see his dead communicators though and George will be doing his hardest not to see them himself.

Meanwhile, across the world, two different plot lines will play out that are touched by tragedy.

Gorgeous French journalist MARIE recovers from a near-death experience in the 2004 tsunami and is full of questions about what she saw before being revived.

Whilst in London, 12-year-old boy, MARCUS, loses his twin brother. He shuts down emotionally whilst searching for a way to contact his lost brother in the afterlife.

What follows is that three lonely people, who are cut off from the ones they love, search for answers about what lies beyond this earthly life.

Sounds good. I look forward to seeing it when it comes out. And I hope they make it look real as in The Sixth Sense.

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!

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 so many different names that different people put to psychic events, talents, gifts and services.  What do we call them?

Most people view psychics as not natural.  I view being psychic as very natural.  It is just that I am aware of my capabilities and gifts, and lots of others are not aware of theirs.

Paranormal, is another word to describe psychic gifts.  Paranormal, being not normal or more than normal!  Again, I don’t think it describes it right, but lots of others do see us as being paranormal, and involved in paranormal things such as ghosts, or other spirit events and happenings.

Mediumistic, is another word.  Well, medium is a word for the style of communication.  A medium is a sort of go-between, and that is what I do, go between the spirit and the seeker, and pass on the communication.

Psychic, is what most people call using the special awareness we have.  They are right, but we all have these psychic gifts, they ARE natural.  Some say intuition or insight and these are right too.  Instinct is another one.

A medium has to be aware of their psychic gifts and know how to use them so that they can act as a medium. A medium who is a go-between!  Passing over the spiritual message.  And, giving psychic information too.

To me, occult and paranormal are a bit superfluous.  I am a natural person who has learned to use my psychic gifts in order to act as a medium for the spirit and seeker.

When it comes to physical mediumship gifts, it is a tad different and we will discuss this more another time.