Somewhat like the seeker in Harry Potter’s game of Quidditch, a seeker is any person who is looking for something from the spirits, most commonly in the form of a message or reading. Here is a nice little article about how you as a seeker should approach a reading. It refers to readings by phone, but it essentially applies to any type of reading. Some of it applies to messages as well.
Archive for the ‘Medium’ Category
John Edward in South Africa
Saturday, November 21st, 2009I would say that this article is more about what John Edward is up to in South Africa, rather than whether he’s real or not. But anyhow, you will get a slice of his experience as a public figure medium, and what it is like to deal with TV producers .
Going public as a medium
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009One of the issues you face as a medium is whether to go public or not. I remember when I first started becoming involved in mediumship and spiritual development. I was somewhat reluctant to let people know that I was involved, because I didn’t know if they would accept it. Mediumship is one of those things that everyone reacts to differently – that is, you don’t know how someone is going to take it until you’ve already told them. I’ve had an experience or two where it wasn’t received well, which only goes to illustrate the point.
Over time, I became more comfortable with it. Telling people still gives me a twinge of anxiety becuase of the misunderstandings people carry around in their heads about it, but that’s just part of how it goes for me. My feelings about it at this point are that I don’t go out of my way to promote it, but on the other hand do not deny it. So if you were to put “going public” on a scale from closed to moderate to wide open, I’m in the moderate camp.
I think one of my issues with going public is that I don’t feel like hearing cynicism from acquaintences and others I know. It’s like getting criticism from unexpected places when you didn’t ask for it to begin with. It’s that rule of irony that once enough people know about it, you’ll get someone in your face who has an agenda to shoot down your perspective. And it’s not that I can’t “fight back” in a shooting match. Actually, I have learned a good bit about it and can discuss it, which is a point of personal pride for me. I’m more prepared than the average Spiritualist for such a discussion, and have helped other Spiritualists who get caught in shooting matches. It’s more that I would like to avoid it.
I think the lesson for me to learn is to just say “So what, deal with it. Let the chips fall where they may.” This is hard for me because I don’t like the idea that (some of them) will run about with a distorted perception of me, based on their lack of understanding. More accurately, these folks already have the distorted understanding and aren’t likely to want to correct it, and I don’t want to be an example of it in their head.
But Helen Thomas from down under says it rather well - “I have let go of the fear of what people might think of me. I know that there are people who won’t get it and I know that there are people who will always be skeptics.”
I should look it at is being no different than letting the world know you’re a musician or artist, and besides, the famous mediums have all done it and survived…
It’s something to work on…..
Doctor, heal thyself
Thursday, March 12th, 2009You might wonder, do mediums go for readings? Why would they, especially when they talk to the spirits all the time?
Generally speaking, it’s rare for us to go for reading, but we do. Remember that mediums are seekers too. We can benefit from the services of another medium, even though we already talk to the spirits more often than most people. Sometimes “hearing it from someone else” is good.
People think mediums (or psychics) know everything, or should know everything. When people sneer at us for not knowing everything, including the winning lotto numbers, it makes me laugh a little inside. While they’re in the middle of sneering and looking down at us, what they’re actually doing is proving is that we’re human beings, (prettymuch) like everyone else.
Don’t they think that if mediums could consistently turn up the winning lotto numbers, that every one of us would be rich? Sure we would, so why do they look at us like we’re foolish? It’s not a failing of ours, it’s an unrealistic expectation of theirs, a failing of theirs to think we can do such things! Usually, the most we say is that “it doesn’t work that way”, which is true, but doesn’t improve their understanding much at all.
Ok, time to climb down off the soap box. Anyhow, truth be told, we don’t want to do lotto numbers. If we could, all kinds of bad things might happen. We would be hunted down and held at gunpoint to provide numbers. If we made a mistake, we’d be killed. There would be State, Federal, and police investigations to determine if we somehow got insider information and/or “fixed” the proceedings. And if we did it consistently, there would be no more lottos, as people would scream that it’s cheating. I think they’d scream louder than they are about Mr. Madoff’s $68 billion Ponzi scheme, as this type of swindling, as unethical and illegal as it is, is more commonplace.
Good thing that “it doesn’t work that way”, but if it ever did, I would hope that we would spend our mega-millions on making the world better, in some positive and spiritual way. Too bad we don’t have the Madoff billions to do exactly that.
Spirit paintings from Augustin Lesage
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Augustin Lesage was a French miner who knew nothing about painting, but painted many pictures with direction from the spirits. Paranormal Review has a short article about his work being on display back in June 2008, and the article includes one of his pictures. Kieron Rhys Johnson’s site shows more of his work, and includes a wikipedia link that’s been translated from French.
Beg your pardon
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Helen Duncan was a medium in the UK during World War II who was put in jail for her mediumship, based on the UK’s Witchcraft Act. During a seance, she said that a ship had sunk before it was public information. Since then, the family has asked for a pardon in 2006 but it hasn’t been granted as of 2008.
Interesting reading, if you want to learn about the bad old days of mediumship. The BBC article above mentions that people were burned alive in the street, most of which were women. Bad old days indeed.
The sad thing is that it could happen again today. If you were to learn some type of government secret through mediumship and then opened your mouth about it, you’d be in big trouble. While burning people alive is mostly out of vogue these days, you would get jail time and/or be killed as a spy or traitor anyway, depending on the country you’re in and the prevailing mood. So if you ever get such information, you would be smart to keep it quiet and wait till it’s no longer sensitive before revealing it, which could be 100 years…
