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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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Mediumship in the spotlight

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Is it ethical for a medium to hold a session to contact a world-famous mega-star on the Earth plane who is now in the spirit world?  That’s very recently deceased?  On TV?

It’s something to think about.  According to Paranormal Review, it appears that Derek Acorah, a television medium, is going to be doing exactly that, in November, regarding Micheal Jackson.  Two shows, Michael Jackson: The Live Séance and Michael Jackson: The Search For His Spirit.

I think that courting the millions of fans around the world who want to hear from Michael Jackson this way, particularly since he is so recently deceased, brings a lot of pressure that no one should want to deal with.  Pressure from a lot of different sides.  Pressure from TV people to ensure it’s successful.  Pressure from fans, particularly if it fails.  Pressure from skeptics and the cynics, whether it succeeds or fails.  And we haven’t talked about pressure on the medium to establish contact.  In the world of mediumship, very few if any mediums can simply “get anybody they want” in the spirit world.  It just doesn’t work that way.

Trying to contact Micheal Jackson at this point, especially in a very public way, does not cast a good light on the subject of mediumship.  If you want to see mediumship in a better light, read yesterday’s post .

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Mediumship within mediumship

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

It’s pretty common for me to have dreams where I go places in the spirit worlds.  The clarity is high enough that it’s often like waking experience.  Tonight, I went to bed much earlier than usual.  When I do this, I often wake up super early, but I was hoping that I’d sleep through it, as I sometimes do.  No such luck.

I had a dream where I was in a sitting room.  If you’ve been to the Lily Dale hotel, there’s a sitting room with a number of art works and tapestries in it.  This room was similar to it, and had some of that old-fashioned, 1800’s-early 1900’s feel to it.  I was standing in the room, and to my left, there were a number of people, most of which were seated.  My Earth plane teachers Peggy and Paul Spencer, who are now in the spirit world, were amongst them.  The room was busy with mediumistic activity, a combination of various things such as meditation, table tipping, seance with the lights on, etc.  I got the word “Spiritualist” to go along with this.  As I was standing there, I said that I could feel the presence of a lot of other spirits, and I mean LOTS.  I could feel the energy from their presences very close around me, and I was telling the group to my left about it, almost like I was doing message work. Then I woke up.

I think you could say that being in the sitting room was a mediumistic thing, and then perceiving the spirits in the room was also a mediumistic thing.  You might call it mediumship inside mediumship.  Interesting concept.

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