Adults typically think of themselves as more advanced than kids, but when it comes to mediumship, kids are often equal to, or even ahead of adults. Here is an article from Scotland that showcases a few children who are mediums.
While they may need some guidance here and there because they’re young, I’ve always had a healthy respect for child mediums. A friend’s daughter is only a few years old and she comes out with some interesting stuff on a fairly regular basis. Her parents are interested in mediumship, so they won’t suppress it, which is even better. I can’t wait to see what she’s like at 10 or 12, assuming she continues on the same path.
If you didn’t get a chance to write your magnum opus while you were on this side of life, you could write it from the other side, through mediumship. Here is an article about a book that was written this way, by W. T. Stead, called The Blue Island. Stead was on the Titanic, and in the book, he talks about the transition with the others who were also on the ship. It also has an an introductory letter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The article has a google books link, which allows you to read through the various parts of the book, but the book itself is not free. I read portions of the google info, and I thought it was interesting enough for a full read. If you’d like to pick up a copy, you can get it here
The Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as the Mormons, have decided to start an ad campaign. According to a local news article, the Rochester, New York area has been selected as one of nine cities to test their ad campaign. The commercials primarily feature people who state their interests and hobbies and mention that they’re a Mormon as well.
I’m not sure if it’s important to their campaign or not, but Rochester is near Palmyra, New York. Palmyra is essentially where the Mormon faith started. Joseph Smith had a farm there, and that’s where he discovered the plates. He translated the language on the plates, which became the book of Mormon. At a later time, he moved to Utah, which is the seat of their faith.
If you are in the area, it’s interesting to learn about it, whether you’re Mormon or not. You can take a tour that goes through his house and the rest, and you learn a good bit in the process about what Joseph Smith was like and the struggles he had surrounding the plates. You can also walk in the Sacred Grove, which is a beautiful forest.
Not that I’m a Mormon or am going to be, but I rather like some of the story around their faith, and have had good experiences. Years ago, I spent some time in Utah on business and made a good friend there who gave me a copy of the Book of Mormon, and we had some interesting conversations about Spiritualism and the Mormon faith. Now that I live in Rochester, I’ve been on the tour of the farm, and it was interesting.
My perspective is that it was all about/through mediumship. The angel Moroni’s visits, whether they were actual-physical or not, were perceived through mediumship. I’d say the same for the translation of the plates. This doesn’t invalidate or cheapen the Mormon faith in any way, actually, it rather validates it. For those of us who are not Mormons, think of it this way – there is another religion besides Spiritualism which was founded in the United States, and this one has mediumship right at it’s core too. Kinda cool.
As far as the commercials go, considering they’re for a religion, they are pretty decent, they really are. But I’m already starting to feel like I’m under mortar fire in Afghanistan. Turn on the radio, and within minutes, you’ve got incoming! Turn on the tv, you’ve got more incoming, almost as fast! If they start emailing, facebooking, and tweeting me too, I’m gonna have to do something about it. What, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just hide under my desk in my home office, eat MRE’s, sneak drinking water from the nearby bathroom sink when I don’t think they’re looking, and wait it out until they go away for a long while….
Has anyone seen the No One Dies in Lily Dale show on HBO? The reviews seem a bit bland about the whole thing. Bland or not, Lily Dale is a very peaceful, wonderful place. I’ve had many good experiences there. If you have the wherewithal to get into the Western New York area, you ought to go and spend a day there. Good for the spirit!
The Ouija board has been around long enough to have its own museum. Like most things these days, it only exists in cyberspace, but no matter. Here is the link, along with another that I happened across.
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/
http://www.witchboards.net/index.html
By default, everyone thinks of the Ouija board in the classic configuration of letters and numbers that Parker Brothers sells as a game. But spend some time on these links, and you’ll get a new appreciation for the number of variations in both board and planchette. And like any museum, you’ll get a bit of history as well.
Ants are interesting creatures in their own right. They are found in deserts and rain forests, mountains and valleys, from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. Their lifespan is about 45-60 days. They are quite social, and live in groups or colonies.
What do ants know about this blog, which you are reading right now? What do they know about the Internet?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It’s so far removed from their daily lives that they can’t possibly imagine that it exists. They have no concepts in their world to address such things.
How would you tell them that it exists? The task is absolutely enormous. There’s so much technology involved, where would you start? Would you have to make it so simple that it sounds like a fairy tale? And even if you explained it like a fairy tale, how would you get them to listen to you long enough without them dismissing you as far-fetched, crazy, or merely an entertaining storyteller?
People are found in deserts and rain forests, mountains and valleys, from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. People have a lifespan of about 60-100 years. People are quite social, and live in groups (families), or colonies (cities).
How like ants we are.
Our understanding of the existence of alien peoples is similar to the ants’ understanding of the Internet. Our resistance is similar as well. We think we’re one up on the ants because we can imagine it, and we try to observe them, but it doesn’t matter much. For example, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been busy monitoring stars and found 706 potential alien planets. Do you think it will it change many minds? Probably not. We have stories of alien contacts and even abductions. Do people believe them? About as often as they believe fairy tales.
To quote City of Angels
In the Victorian era, people put special coverings over chair legs because the shape of the chair legs suggested sexuality. In today’s world, most of us find this idea funny, silly, and ridiculous. And it is. Today’s response to this type of thing is “yewww got issues”.
When it comes to alien peoples, “we’ve got issues”. We need to see that our ideas about them are just as funny, silly, and ridiculous as putting coverings over chair legs.
I think we don’t hear from alien people because we’re too much work – we’re so backward, repressed, and we’re too busy putting coverings on chair legs. Basically, we’re just too much of a pain in the ass for them to bother with us.
We need to grow up.
Medium John Edward wound up on a talk show on a talk show with host John Faine. Here’s a snippet from the interview. Watch the video, it tells the whole story.
I hate guys like John Faine. They’re pinheads. They think it’s so important that we convince them, and when we don’t do that, they walk away thinking they’ve won and we’ve lost, and conclude that we’re a bunch of cheap tricksters. Edward has the right idea when he says “poof, you’d be gone”. My view is a little more visceral. Flush the toilet and close the lid. Nobody wants a turd.
In recent years, there have been more tv shows about mediumship and spiritual phenomena. I think it’s good to make it more mainstream, reach those who otherwise wouldn’t seek it on their own, and tv has the ability to do that for us. It’s becoming it’s own genre, almost like the ever-present murder mysteries that have dominated popular viewing for decades. Unfortunately, a well-known show, Ghost Whisperer, is being canceled.
Real mediums almost never look like beautiful Hollywood actors. I’ve never seen a medium as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt, and trust me, if I did, I would remember! 
Some criticize the show for exactly that, but hey, that’s Hollywood for you. My view is that Jennifer is not a medium herself or had much experience with it, and despite that, did her best to portray one. Not what I would consider an easy thing to do, particularly with a subject as mysterious and nebulous as mediumship. I say give her credit for being beautiful and doing a tough job pretty well.
One of the good things about today’s culture and the Internet is that reruns are forever available, but I hope more shows come out. Even if they don’t go the five years that Ghost Whisperer did, they will continue to establish the genre.
Hopefully, these shows are opening people’s minds.
When you go to any of the historical places or encounter similar things that have a past to them, there are usually people (like tour guides) who tell you all about the place or thing. It’s great because they’re always so knowledgeable about their subject, and you can feel their energy and excitement as they tell their stories. I’ve always had the perspective that some of these folks had a past life that corresponded with the place or thing.
Phil Collins is the lead singer from Genesis, a great drummer, and solo artist. Many years ago, I saw him in Buffalo a few times. There’s nothing better than when the artist or band interacts with the audience, it adds so much to the experience, and I remember him doing that. For a long time, he was my favorite artist.
Apparently, Phil has an interest in Davy Crockett and the Alamo. Here’s an article about it, including a tidbit from a Spiritualist about it.
I went to what I thought was going to be a mediumship class last night. I knew it was called a seance, but the term is often used loosely, so on the way there, I was thinking it would like the classes I’ve been to over the years, and that was about it. Once we started, I realized that we were going to be doing message work for the whole evening, and I was one of four mediums doing the message work. Being one of the mediums was fine, but I was a little concerned at first, as I wasn’t getting a whole lot, and what I was getting was different than what I typically get. And it was a whole different way of working too, kind of like being right handed and suddenly doing things with your left. I went with it anyway, because that’s what you do.
I have done message work here and there, but not for an hour and a half. Had I known exactly what we were going to do ahead of time, I would have been a bit nervous about whether the spirits would come through or not, whether I would be in the way and obstructing the process, things like that. By the way, I never doubt that the spirits can come through, I only question whether they’re going to, as it is up to them, not me. I am just the messenger, not the originator of the message, nor the message itself. And if there’s no message, there’s no work. But I didn’t have time to have such thoughts, and overall, the seance worked out well. Sometimes, the unexpected provides unexpected help.
