Chapter Four – Mediums and Psychics

“When we open ourselves to the experience of the spiritual realm we become aware we are cosmic beings in a physical body”

Everything is a decision, we decide to open to energy, and we decide to close off to the process.

I have found this to be a very interesting aspect of energy manipulation and spiritual contact, although it has taken me many years, I find it is a daily process of gaining balance and learning through life’s lessons to achieve a result.

How exciting it is to be able to contact people who have passed over. I am a skeptic, and it took continual contact with the physically deceased for me to be convinced the whole process is real and we do exist after we leave our physical bodies.

The difference between trying to contact your guide and trying to contact someone who has passed over is fairly significant.

Anyone who can raise or lower their vibrational levels at will has attained a fairly significant tool to work with; we all have the ability to communicate with spirit. Even if you think you do not have the ability, you do, why is this?

 Because you are a spiritual being living in the physical realm, so of course you can “call home.”

As the spiritual realm vibrates at a higher frequency, if you wish to contact a person who has passed over, you will also have to raise your vibrational state.

 

Mental Mediumship:

Images are sent to us via telepathic communication from spirit and guides; we may see the images via our imagination or as a vision. There are also other ways to have contact with spirit, smells, sounds, and emotions all come into play when receiving information from spirit. We can see images, symbols, direct information, and colors or just sense the energy emotionally.

How do we know that what we are seeing or hearing is from spirit and not our imagination? It all takes practice and I strongly suggest joining a spiritualist church or a beginners circle.

Let me give you an example. You sense spirit and start seeing images in your mind, now, you see a tennis court. Does that mean the spirit played tennis, or the spirit is saying something like “the ball is in your court” or are they showing validation to the fact that they may have played tennis while they were alive. As you can see you have to join the dots. Everything takes practice!

For me validation is critically important, when receiving information from the spirit realm, would you prefer someone who is giving you the information to be vague or start throwing names around until they hit the spot?

Both ways of reading are inappropriate. I feel this way of reading spirit has many pitfalls. It’s better to validate any information you get and with someone who will know all of the facts. In the end this will make you a better medium and trust of your own abilities will not be an issue.

What are some validation points?

Let’s run through a scenario:

We have the Medium called John.

And the sitter (the person who is alive) called Olive

Olive comes to John wanting to contact her dead brother (John doesn’t know her brother’s name.)

Now after an initial discussion where no facts are passed from Olive to John in regards to the deceased, John senses spirit and tunes in to that energy.

John starts sensing images and hearing sounds. John tries to get some information for a few reasons, one is to build the energy between him and spirit and the other is so that he can start to validate the information with Olive.

Imagine saying, I see someone and here is a message, how would that make you feel? Would you as a seeker of evidence of survival prefer to have a validated spirit or just mindless information? It’s your choice.

John is a good medium and is feeling or sensing the name but isn’t quiet hearing it properly, so he gets a “P” letter and asks Olive if she knows anyone who has passed with a name like that.

She nods, but is non-committal as to what the spirits real name is. (If John was a beginner he may struggle with lots of areas, and so his mind starts throwing lots of letters and names into his imagination, totally confusing the issue.)

John is given a name of a male who was married to a woman who is still living and is called Gloria. Olive verifies this. Olive asks John for some shared memories of when the spirit was alive and the times he shared with Olive. John is given shared memories like the time him and Olive went to the fair and he fell in the mud, and the fact they had a dog called “Rusty.”

This type of information can’t be guessed. This goes towards validation of spirit and the evidence that there is proof of survival of our loved ones.

The Dodgy reader:

Same scenario, but imagine John is a fraud!

John talks to Olive and tries to get information from her before the read starts, during the read he throws lots of names, letters and dates at Olive, until she is saying yes to the information she is given, poor Olive feels like she is in information over load and leaves feeling confused and dazed.

How to do it - Tuning in to Spirit

So you have decided to try to tune into spirit. We all have the ability and are basically radios, just waiting to be tuned into the correct station, as spirit vibrate at their own frequency, we must “tune in” to them.

It must be said here that you don’t have to do anything to actually speak to spirit or guides, it’s like a normal person, you just start speaking. They can hear us when we speak, and they come into our area when we think of them.

Tuning in Method:

We are asked by a friend to try to contact a loved one who has passed, so we either focus on the energy that we feel may come from the spirit or try to sense energy that may be with that person.

No one can actually “call a spirit,” there is a time and place for every contact; the spirit may not be ready, or the sitter. If we are practicing our guides may have already created the process whereby a spirit is ready to teach us how to connect.

As we focus, we may start to see images coming to our minds. If they are available and wish to make contact (we all have free will) then we may start to receive information.

As we sense the energy we allow our imaginations and thoughts to lift and link to the information coming through, once you sense, feel, smell, or hear something, you then focus on it and allow the information to start to flow.

Sit quietly – this is an important step, if you have some semblance of a link to a spiritual energy, allow the energy to build by just “being.”  

This allowing of the connection will let it “build,” this stage is for pure connection only and having created the energies required for connection, will help you and them to manifest spirit communication.

Each item of information we give is either accepted or rejected by the person we are reading for. If we are tuned in correctly the accuracy can be quiet high.

Ethically we are obliged to say that giving information that may cause people concern is advised against, if you are told something that may not make a person comfortable, keep it to yourself.

Some times when speaking to a friend, you may sense an energy or have a thought, or a feeling which you feel comes from the intuitive part of yourself, once you have confidence in yourself, the process becomes a little easier. Never give out information to a medium, allow them to gain information from spirit, in the end it will have a greater impact on “proof of afterlife.”

Imagination Method:

From the above scenario we see that a reading with validation is one of the best forms of mediumship. For you to start reading you may not feel comfortable trying the “Tuning” in method of reading spirit, so as a beginner an easier method is needed.

Firstly we need a developing medium (you) and a friend who will be called the “sitter.”

In this method we give the “message” and then after give a description on the spirit. It’s not a method where you would go and start reading for the general public. It is used in a way that allows you to develop your imagination and gain confidence in yourself.

I will give you an example.

You sit with a friend, relax, and focus for a few minutes.

You now close your eyes and wait for a message; the first one that comes to your mind is the one you will give.

After the message is given, you then give a description of the Spirit (remember this is just an exercise).

If you have been connected to spirit, the sitter will be able to take the information you have given them.

There are many problems with this method, but to develop the imagination and allow messages to come to you via spirit will take time. You need to build your confidence slowly.

Transfiguration:

As a medium when over shadowing occurs, if a person has the ability to allow spirit to draw ectoplasm (life form energy) then as an initial encounter the face may become transfigured and form the same shape as the spirit being who is present with the medium. This does not mean that the physical form has changed shape, it means that the ectoplasm is configured to look like the spirit being.

Channeling:

As stated before it is of utmost importance to ground and protect before trying any of these processes.

There are many levels of channeling, none can be really placed into categories as energies are distinguishable by their vibration, but what can be categorized is the physical effect it has on the medium and what evidential proof is given to others via the process.

I can’t stress highly enough that you should be in touch with your guide at this point.  (**And have someone with you)

Let me give you a few examples of types of channeling. (Please remember they are just examples)

·  You are speaking to someone and feel intuitively to tell them something, it naturally flows to them and they accept what you say, this is channeling.

·  You are speaking to someone and then there is a feeling of a person standing next to you, you sense information and pass it on.

·  You are feeling a lot of energy around you, this has happened before, you feel safe, and are receiving information, maybe even hearing a voice.

Now we move to the next step: **

·  We are working via spiritual energies; we are immersed in spiritual energy. We find ourselves speaking or passing information in other forms to people, we are aware on some level that we are consciously allowing this to happen and as we all have choice, we are comfortable with this process.

·  We are in contact with higher energies and we are able to pass on information freely without the conscious mind interfering. Information is filtered through us in a way that there is a multi-dimensional aspect to the answers.

·  We are in a state of deep trance, information is given by your communication process, but you are unaware of this taking place as you are in a deep state of separation.  (At this level often ectoplasm is used for the creation of direct voice, also other energies are used to create direct voice)

These simple illustrations show that there are many areas in between and it’s not possible to include them all.

This is no way intended as a guide on how to induce a channeling state and the reason it has not been entered into this book is because of the inherent problems caused by doing this work. Once again, go with what you feel is correct for you and follow your own guide’s advice (Not what others tell you your guide is saying).