As a medium, you get used to certain things happening around you that are spiritual in nature. This morning, I had the following “dream”:
There was this man who lived next door to a family, in a very country setting. I was with him while he went to their house (which was a country/farm house) and he was fixing things in it, trying to make things right. His presence in the house had an Earth-bound feel to it, like he was coming back from the Spirit world in a way that Earth plane would be able to see him. We were near the front door, and they had a doorbell that had two wires exposed but unconnected. I said that he needed a switch to connect them together to make the door ring whenever you pushed the button, but he grabbed them with one hand and put them together, and I could hear the doorbell ring, which was the classic, rich-sounding ding-dong sound. The people in the house were nearby, and I could feel them there and hear them to some extent, but nothing further. They were towards the back of the house, and we were in front. There was a dog in the house as well, who had pointer-like hair, was white with big brown spots, and was as big as a St. Bernard. As the man and I were standing near the front door, the dog got up on his hind legs and put his paws on the man’s shoulders, from behind, like he were hugging the man or welcoming him. At that point, the man’s grief was so heavy it weighed like stone on me, and I woke up gasping for breath.
As I tried to understand this experience, I got a number of other details around it. The man died from an accident, like a random shot fired in the air. I saw a woman standing in a field, heard the shot, and then I saw the shot come down and slice some skin off the right side of her face. Picture a big raindrop falling down someone’s face but tearing skin off, and you get the idea. From the family’s point of view, the man was like somebody’s uncle who lived next door. The vibration was very close, like family, and everyone got along well, but the man had somehow been bad/mean in his life, hence his grief. The girl had black hair that was parted in the center but fluffy/curly and thick around the ears and shoulders, with blue eyes, with a rounded full face – quite attractive. The image of her in the field was black and white. The first date I got was 1901-1902. Then I got 1892, which indicated that the girl was ten years old. Something happened to her at that age which was part of his grief. The first place I got was California, but I also got Santa Fe. His last name was Whitman. While he was on the Earth plane, he knew a Hopi indian who tried to help him with his problems, but he never listened to him. The indian seemed to know that underneath the problems/issues, he wasn’t entirely a bad man. After he went to the Spirit world, the indian still tried to help him, but he still didn’t listen.
I call these dream experiences. I’ve had them before. My role in this one was just to be the medium, a bystander, although in others, I’ve been in the role of one of the participants. My impression is that in our current time, this person is ringing someone’s doorbell (in the physcal) and the occupants of the house are puzzled because no one is at the door. They probably recognize this as some type of phenomena, but aren’t sure what to do with it. I’m not clear about the connection between this man and the inhabitants of the house – it may be through the family, the location of the house, or both.
When it comes to message work, I’m a stickler about knowing where the message goes. I don’t like giving messages and having someone from the audience step up and claim it as theirs, as it’s not good form. Be that as it may, I was asked to put this out there. I’m not sure that the purpose is to give a message to a specific person, but if it resonates with you, or you know who it belongs to, please email me.
Yesterday, we were in Toronto Canada yesterday with Saundra’s family. We were googling some stuff from the hotel room and I ran into this article about Stephanie Conover, a pageant judge who was thrown out for being a tarot card reader and doing Reiki. They sent her a letter stating that “tarot card reading is witchcraft and is used by witches, spiritists and mediums to consult the dark world.”
Tell me, what does tarot and Reiki have to do with the skills needed to be a pageant judge? Not a damn thing. Is tarot inherently dark? Of course not. You might think that this was from the 1960’s or something, but believe it or not, it’s from 2008. Hel-lo! What’s with you people? Wake up! You’re so two thousand and late! Get with it. Narrowmindedness is out. Diversity is in.
Now, my daughter is in a pageant tonight, and I think she’ll win. In any event, I hope that none of the pinheads who kicked Stephanie Conover out are attending. I don’t know any of them. I wouldn’t recognize them if they walked by me. But I don’t even want to be in the same room with that bunch of idiots!
Here’s an article written by one of the skeptic folks, Joe Nickell, about medium John Edward. If you set aside the attacks on John Edward (who I believe is a good and legit medium), and some of the other junk in it, it’s a good article about cold reading and other techniques that fraudulent people use.
How does this help? File it under “things to avoid during mediumship”. Also file it under “things you don’t want to look like you’re doing during mediumship” and “why good form is important to your mediumship”.
Are the skeptics really the “enemy”? To the extent that they are interested in weeding out fakery and promoting genuine mediumship, they are our buddies. I’ll tell you, I hate fakery as much as they do, perhaps more. And weeding out fakery was Houdini’s primary motivation, so he can be our hero as much as he is their hero. The sticking point is that our definitions of legitimacy and fakery are somewhat different. On top of that, I think some of them are more cynical than skeptical, which I find annoying. And their fondness for the point-counterpoint, journalistc-integrity style articles about the existance of mediumship bores me.
But be that as it may, reading a little skeptical material from time to time can be good for you. It’s a reminder to practice good form, not something to “keep you honest”. A good medium has no need to be “kept honest”, because he or she is honest in the first place. A good medium is fully aware of the impact of the Law of Cause and Effect would have on him or her, were they to stray from the path of goodness and try to deceive, cheat, or otherwise harm people. Not only are they aware of it, but they abide by it.
The Ouija has a long and rather interesting history. Here are a couple of accounts to check out:
The History of the Ouija Board
The Infamous evil Ouija Board
Apparently, all the bad press about the Ouija came out when the movie “The Exorcist” was released, back in the 1970’s. It also sounds like that’s when the Christian fundamentalists jumped on the bandwagon.
At least I now know where to put the blame, as if that would help….. 
I’ve been aware of Spiritism for a long time, and had some vague ideas about the differences between it, Spiritualism, and Spiritualists. Tonia Wind’s article about the differences makes it clear.
I’m not sure I like the term, as it sounds so scientific, but according to Allen Kardec’s definition, I’m a Spiritist. One good thing about it is that it gets you out of the mess that the term “Spiritualist” is in. “Spiritualist” seems to have too many meanings that differ from each other in significant ways. For example, in some places, a Spiritualist is anyone who has contact with spirits of any kind, and in other places, it’s a term for those who belong to classic organizations like the National Association of Spiritualist Churches (NSAC) or the Spiritualist National Union (SNU) in the UK. “Spiritist” seems to neatly avoid all this.
If you’d like to learn more about Spiritism, and Allen Kardec, it’s famous founder, see Tonia’s Examiner page.
