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Beginner’s Luck

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

2010: The Year We Make Contact

2010 is a science fiction movie that’s a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.  My suggestion would be to read 2001, see the 2001 movie, then see 2010.  You could skip the 2001 movie, as it’s not that great, but don’t skip the book, or you won’t get the most out of it.

2010 is an interesting movie in it’s own right, but on top of that, there is an interesting example of mediumship in it.  If you haven’t seen it, HAL 9000 is the computer that runs the spaceship Discovery.  HAL is also the medium, who is giving Dr. Heywood Floyd a message from someone who is transformed beyond our physical limitations.

Dr. Floyd’s responses are rather typical of people with no interest and no experience with mediumship, either as a medium or as the recipient of a message (the seeker).  It’s easy for someone at this level of experience to get hung up about identity, and then disbelieve anyway.  In Dr. Floyd’s case, his disbelief could cost him his life.  Thankfully, most mediumshiop does not end up being so drastic, and much/most of it is positive, as opposed to avoiding a negative as Dr. Floyd is being encouraged to do.   In addition, Dr. Floyd is receiving an extremely clear message that affects the present moment.  Most of the time, messages aren’t so clear, and may or may not affect the present.  Sometimes, the effects come years later.  I suppose you could call Dr. Floyd lucky to receive such a message.

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I was David Bowman

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

2001: A Space Odyssey

I grew up on science fiction books like 2001: A Space Odyssey , Childhood’s End , and Rendezvous with Rama, amongst others.  They were great stories.  Looking back, I can see how they filled my interest in other-worldly things.  They also had a significant impact on my ability to think creatively.  Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the author of these wonderful works, said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  It is the third of Clarke’s Three Laws of Prediction.

Let’s think creatively.  What if you turn this idea on its head, and apply it to spirituality?  What if you said that any sufficiently advanced spirituality is indistinguishable from God?

What if you turn it on its head one more time, and say that by default, there is no God in the classic singular, all-powerful sense, but there are entities and the like that are so advanced when compared to your current level that you apply the label God?

Childhood's End by Arthur C. ClarkeWhat if you say that it doesn’t much matter whether classic singular God exists because you’re too far removed from it, but in the meantime, there is/are plenty of God(s) to go around, because there are always entities and spirituality near enough for you to label them, and aspire to?

And what if you are undaunted by the idea that God is too far removed from you, yet you aspire to be the best you can be anyway, on all levels – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual? What if you keep striving because you know that reaching the next rung up on the ladder still means you’re going up, you know that the ladder is endless but it doesn’t matter, because that’s the way it works – up is up, and you continue going up-and-up-and-up indefinitely, because existence is a process, never an endpoint?

What if you say that there is an absolute God that is not personified in any way, but is more like the totality of all there is, and yet you leave room for singular entities and the like of the level that you can still label them Gods, without contradiction?

Rendezvous with RamaWhat if you throw away the idea that God involves worship in the traditional “I am not worthy to receive you” manner? What if God is something that affects you such that you want to be in its presence, to learn from it, to experience it, completely devoid of the “I am not worthy”, “I can never be like you” and similar trappings that go along with the ego-self?

What if pure goodness and positive spirituality means everything, and titles, whether it’s  “God” or “Angel” or any other, are completely wiped away like they never existed, because they have no real meaning anyway?

What if moving up the ladder of progression involves transformation that is so complete and total that we are no longer the person that we were, yet somehow we are, without contradiction?

What if mediumship is the only means to communicate with God-by-any-definition?

These things are close to my ideas about God.  What are yours?

2010: The Year We Make Contact

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No speeding

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Here is an article about a medium in Australia, but what I found most interesting in it was some things medium James Van Praagh said about communication.  Sometimes when you’re doing message work, you’d like to get more information faster, or better information.  For the most part, it doesn’t work that way. What comes, comes, at the rate that it comes.  You can ask questions to some extent, and it sometimes helps, but that’s about it.

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Update on who’s believing what

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

An article came out in USA Today about a study done on what religions people are subscribing to, how often they’re going, and the like.  It seems that people are becoming more eclectic in their beliefs, and combining various beliefs and religions.

It’s interesting that a leading voice for orthodox Baptists says that people are just rampantly confused, and adopting a belief-du-jour system.  This reminds me of the record companies who are staunchly holding onto their traditional business models while the world is changing before their very eyes. Or any one of the multitude of companies who are hanging onto old market approaches and ignoring the brand new Internet-based world of marketing and selling.

But, be that as it may, there are some interesting findings in the article, such as devotion to one clear faith is fading, and “Of the 72% of Americans who attend religious services at least once a year (excluding holidays, weddings and funerals), 35% say they attend in multiple places, often hop-scotching across denominations.”

You may want to read Ellen Ratner’s response article as well.  She says this type of thing has been going on a lot longer than people think, and brings up some of the religious happenings back in the late 1800’s.

I feel like that time period was not only the birth of Modern Spiritualism, but something of a golden age.  Reading about it leaves me wistfully thinking about what it was like to have so much public interest at the time.  Must have been nice.  Too bad we don’t have it now.

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Seeking the spiritual golden snitch

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

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.

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Medium’s Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

From a mediumship perspective, here are some things I’m thankful for on Thanksgiving:

1. The presence of God in my life.  That presence that lets me know that life is a forward and uplifting progression towards goodness and spirituality, even when it does not feel that way in a particular moment.

2. The Very Important People (VIPs) in my life.  My wife, children, parents, family, friends.  Strictly speaking, they are largely unrelated to mediumship, but nonetheless, they are very important.  Experiences with them through time have taught me valuable lessons about life, love, and spirituality, which are important ingredients in mediumship.

3.  Assistance from my spirit folks.  They have provided guidance, assurance, and the butt-kicking (when necessary) to help me progress in life.

4. Communication with my spirit folks.  We work together to communicate better and better through mediumship.  I am thankful that they listen to what I have to say, and are willing to work with me.

5. The trust that I’ve developed with my spirit folks.  Building trust involves a lot of work, patience, and desire.  It requires a lot of investment from their side.  And it’s a choice on their part, not a given.  I am grateful that were willing, and appreciate the positive effects of it that show up in my mediumship and in my life.

6. The good works that I’ve been involved with via mediumship.  Healing.  Message work.  Readings.  Writing.  Channeling.  Spirit removal (Ghostbusting).  Guiding and teaching others.  All of these are rooted in goodness, are satisfying to be involved in, and are tightly integrated with the spirits – both my folks and others.

7. My dreamwork.  My dreams are very vivid, and the spirits often use my dream time to take me places, show me things, and teach me things.

8. That I live in a country where mediumship is no longer persecuted.  I am thankful that I do not live in fear of being burned at the stake.

9. That I am a medium.  While one can certainly get along in life without mediumship, I wouldn’t want to.  Mediumship has a mystery and beauty all its own, and I am thankful that it has a presence and a large role in my life.

10. For the people I have met and worked with along the way.  I have learned so many things from my peers in classes.  As time passes, some of them go different ways, and I probably won’t see them again while I’m still here on the Earth plane, but they will always have their special places in my heart.

11. For the future.  Despite what people say about psychics and mediums predicting the future, the future is, by and large, unwritten.  I rather like it that way.  Even without knowing what will happen next, I am sure that the future will involve goodness, spirituality, and mediumship, and for this, I am thankful.

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John Edward in South Africa

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I 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 .

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Mediumship, credits, and debits

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

I previously blogged about  the UK’s television medium Derek Acorah, who was going to hold a televised séance to try to reach Michael Jackson. It aired on November 9th.  The feedback I found around and about the Internet was less than positive, and here’s a short segment of the show on youtube.  Acorah responded to his critics, saying he conducted the séance “in the most honest, truthful way.”

My view is that I have little to say about it.  I know I wouldn’t have done the séance, at least not on television.  And I won’t judge Acorah’s authenticity or lack thereof.

But I will say that nothing outrages a medium more than a faker.  I absolutely hate it.  Fakery brings down the legitimacy of what everyone else in the mediumship community is doing.  It’s vile and unethical.  It’s playing dangerous mind games with people.  It’s an open opportunity for the cynics to rip mediumship apart, and do so legitimately.  It’s many things, all of which are bad.

But no matter.  The Law of Cause and Effect is a good bookkeeper.  If you acquire credits on your books through unethical means, you will receive a corresponding debit to your account.  It may happen sooner, or maybe later, but either way, the books will be balanced.

I hope that Acorah is legitmate, for his sake, and the sake of anyone else he has affected through his mediumship.

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Challenges and prostitution

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Here’s an article about someone who is offering $50,000 as a prize for proof of communication with the spirit world — proof that the spirits are, in fact, those who have passed on.

The amazing Randi has had a standing challenge for years, offering $1,000,000 for essentially the same thing.  No one has taken up either challenge.

Why would that be?  I think there are two perspectives.  If you’re a legitimate medium, you might have the spirits clam up and not say anything, just to teach you a lesson.  Kinda like the old looney tunes cartoon One Froggy Evening, where the frog really sings, but as soon as anybody other than its owner is around, only croaks.   The other perspective is that if you’re a fake medium, you don’t want to be exposed.  The problem is that the challenge doesn’t help ferret out one from the other, because nobody takes it up.

My personal opinion is that some things are above money.  Mediumship is one of them.  It’s ok to charge reasonable rates for readings and services and the like, but to prove that it exists for a sum of money is a form of prostitution I’d rather not participate in.  And on top of it, were I to have the brass ones to want to prove it and collect the prize money, I’d get a serious lesson.  Either right up front, when the spirits clam up instead of talking, like the frog, or even worse, after I “prove it” and all sorts of problems start cropping up as a result of it.

Oh no, I’m not about to go there. I want nothing to do with any of it.  My view is that if you can’t let your own experience be your proof, and you can’t be aware enough that there are some phoneys out there amongst the legitimates, then you have a problem that no one else but you can solve. And money won’t help you.

I have been very fortunate to have experienced enough to show me that mediumship exists.  But I’m not out to convince you or anybody else that it exists.  That’s for the spirits to do, if they so choose.  And they don’t do tricks for prize money.

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Halloween Treat

Friday, October 30th, 2009

These days, Earth plane people seem to always want to contact their favorite celebrities or other famous people in the spirit world.  Of course, we never think of it from the celebrities’ point of view.  Here is a funny article about what it might be like on the other side, on Halloween.

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