This week the April issue number 4 of the Chat It’s Fate magazine is on your newsagent’s shelves. I am proud to say that on page 42 there is a feature about me and my mediumship.
It is in fact an article about my flower reading. It explains how I read flowers and gives a couple of examples of flower readings with me and my sitters.
I will of course be interested in your comments.
One of my favourite TV programmes is Medium.
Alison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) , attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.
Allison works in the Phoenix District Attorney’s office. She uses her psychic abilities to help crack criminal cases. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people, and by touching someone she often gets to see beneath the facade into the person’s spirit.
Alison is a wife, and mother of three children, including a daughter who seems to be developing psychic powers.
My only reservation about this programme is that Patricia Arquette mumbles a lot, and therefore I miss some of the dialogue. It does not stop me watching, though I wish she would work on her diction.
Apparently this programme is based on a real life medium, who still works for the police. As in most TV programmes there is some poetic licence but it is mostly believable. I am sure you will soon get hooked on it. There have been some really gripping episodes.
There are a few books on Amazon about remote viewing. The first one I ever read was Psychic Warrior. It is a true story of the CIA’s Paranormal Espionage Programme. Very gripping and exciting.
Remote viewing has been used by countries in the past, to see what the competition is up to, so to speak.
If you have read anything about astral travel, you may have an understanding of remote viewing. The subjects are given map coordinates, before going into a trance like state, and taking themselves to the intended destination.
At first they travel to nearby locations and eventually they learn to travel across countries and continents. They are debriefed after their travel to find out what they have experienced.
Learning to travel remotely is possible even if you are not a government agent. You just have to set your sights a little lower. Get a good book which explains the nitty gritty of the mechanics.
Start small by moving into the next room and then the next building. Maybe then it can be the next street and the next town. Who knows how far you may travel without leaving your chair! There are sometimes groups who like to share their experiences. You may find like minded people on line.
On Friday last, my friends and I went along to a Spiritualist church, to watch a medium demonstrate her gifts. I promised to write about it today.
We went along to Bold Street SNU (Spiritualists National Union) church, which is in Sheffield, England. There was very nearly a full house, she is obviously a popular medium.
The medium was Linda Shepherd. A long time ago an old friend, Pat, asked me to promise I would go and watch Linda demonstrate, if I got the opportunity. My friend Pat is now on the higher side of life, but I am sure she would be watching too.
The evening was billed as a special, so that meant Linda would have to demonstrate her mediumship for at least one hour. During the time, which turned out to be nearer one and a half hours, Linda gave messages to many of the congregation. Most of whom gave a lot of yeses, and not many nos. The messages seemed mostly to be understood by the recipients. Evidence is best judged by the receiver of the message.
The medium eventually came to our row and spoke to my friend John. She gave him a lot of evidence, including his own name John. She linked him with someone named ’Barbara’, which he found very amusing, as she said he must listen to me. He was amazed at the things she told him.
She then came to me and gave me the name of Sue, who happened to be sat at the other side of me. People then told her she had named all three of us. The message she gave me was evidential, and I know she had my grandmother with her.
There was only one ‘I don’t know’, from me. This was something about a person close to me, having trouble at the moment with wisdom teeth. I could not place this at all, but she left it with me to think about. So, my message was good. There was evidence of life after death for me.
Even better, when I got home later and rang my mother, she told me my sister was going to the hospital about her wisdom teeth, as they were causing a lot of pain.
So you see, sometimes you do not know everything a medium gives you, and it is worth remembering that, if you go for a reading. Keep an open mind always. It is for your own benefit, as well as the spirit loved ones who contact you. They know what is going on even if you don’t!
The evening was a success for the medium and for us, the congregation. I will go and see Linda work again, when she is back in my area. My friends and I also enjoyed being in the church and meeting up with old friends who greeted us very warmly.
That’s what spiritualism is all about!
From Yahoo 20th January 2010 - Yahoo! users have voted for the worst TV programme of 2009 – and the winning show featured that man.
Ahead of the National TV Awards, we asked users about their least favourite shows of the past year and the Sky1 offering came out on top with a massive 33% of the votes.
—– ——’s show made the headlines back in November last year due to its questionable taste – and credibility – as the psychic’ attempted to chat to pop superstar Michael Jackson from beyond the grave, live on TV. “
My own view:
Well, I did voice my concerns before the event on this blog. You work with questionable people you get questionable material. And you cannot get more questionable than expecting this person to contact MJ! What is questionable is if he is really a psychic.
No one can truthfully say they can call up a particular spirit. They cannot! He is still trying to make a name for himself but he is missing the vital ingredient, INTEGRITY! Mediums have to prove all things. The onus is on them not their sitters.
You all wanted to know more about the soon to be, supernatural movie, that Eastwood and Damon are involved in. Thanks to Movieline, here it is.
Hereafter by Peter Morgan
“It was announced late last night that Clint Eastwood’s next project will be the Peter Morgan-scripted Hereafter, which is set to star Matt Damon. What’s it about? “For Eastwood, the project’s a move into supernatural territory,” says Variety. “Warner Bros. is keeping the logline under wraps beyond describing the project as a thriller in the vein of The Sixth Sense.”
Not again with the secret logline! It didn’t take us long to crack Gus Van Sant’s Restless, and Hereafter was even easier: We’ve got a copy of the script, dated to last spring. So what’s this movie really about? As always, we won’t spoil anything major, but we can at least tell you as much as you’ll learn when they make a trailer for it:
Both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter are calling Hereafter a “thriller,” and that’s not quite the case (unless it’s undergone significant changes since being bought by DreamWorks last year). After two tense set pieces that leave its main characters changed forever, the film becomes a quiet drama about three people trying to figure out what, if anything, exists after death.
Damon’s character is the most overly supernatural figure in the script: GEORGE, a “handsome, shy, soft-spoken” factory worker with a psychic gift of, well, seeing dead people. We don’t see his hallucinations, though — in fact, George is doing his damnedest not to see them himself.
Meanwhile, across the world, two different plotlines play out that are touched by tragedy. Beautiful French journalist MARIE (think Marion Cotillard or Audrey Tautou) recovers from a near-death experience in the 2004 tsunami, then becomes increasingly gripped with questions about what she saw before she was revived. At the same time in London, 12-year-old MARCUS loses his twin brother and shuts down emotionally while searching for any way to contact his lost family member in the afterlife.
What ensues are not thrills or supernatural chills but rather three lonely people, cut off from the ones they love, searching for answers about what lies beyond life. Naturally, they do a whole lot of Googling.”
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.
One of the exercises and experimental things we did on our mediums seminar, was to do with orbs, or globes.
Each of us took it in turns to sit at the front and go into an altered state of consciousness. Depending on the experience each person had, some went deeper into it than others.
Later we all took turns to sit in a cabinet. This is like an open fronted box in which you sit to help harness the energy which builds up.
At the next workshop we used the computer equipment. Cameras were connected to a screen and a projector. There was a hard drive connected too, and a laptop.
This time when we sat in the cabinet, we were filmed and the energy which built up showed on the screens. We were treated to a display of orbs, flying around the room and hovering around the sitter. Sometimes it resembled a snow storm, there were that many. The orbs were all different sizes and did not all move in unison.
There were some orbs which floated around on their own, again all different sizes. Also you would get the odd pink, green, or yellow one. Although most of them were white. One big one floated up around the mediums head and hovered before leaving the cabinet and floating around the room.
We all found this experiment very interesting and I cannot wait to tell my friend John, as he is an avid researcher into orbs and their purpose!
More on our mediums seminar tomorrow.
Well, I enjoyed the seminar immensely. It was all I expected and so much more. We had a wonderfully spiritual four days and evenings.
There was a smallish group of 22 people, all of whom were mediumistic in some way and to some extent. Some were more developed than others. There were mediums, and healers.
We split into 2 groups and one group practiced their platform mediumship and the other group experienced altered states of consciousness. The latter was the group I chose to be in.
Some of the weekend we had exercises where the whole 22 of us combined our skills and worked together, and we also had very useful and interesting lectures.
In my group we took it in turns to go into altered states and we also did experiments where orbs were created or appeared and we got them on film and live on screen.
The lecturers were very kind, caring ladies, who enjoyed passing on their expertise and experiences. They taught us with patience and understanding.
Tomorrow I will go into the details of the event, telling you about the altered state experiments.