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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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Let go and …

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

I’m a Facebooker.  A friend of mine posted her Facebook status, and she said that she didn’t know what men want from relationships.  Several of us responded, and it went into a long and rather detailed conversation, which was quite good.  Eventually, the conversation got around to the spirtual aspects of relationships, and I said that at times it’s important to let go and let God. For the most part, we were referring to letting go of things she’s doing that aren’t working.

Mediums can find themselves in the same situation as my friend, but with their spirit folks.  Sometimes we continue to do things that aren’t working, or worse, are working partially.  Sometimes we are afraid to trust them.

This happens more often when you’re first learning mediumship.  You don’t know your spirit folks yet, and aren’t sure that you are receiving, so you’re afraid to speak up.  The first rule of student mediumship is “if you have something to give out, give it out”.  It’s the best way to learn.  In the context of a learning environment, you don’t have to worry about making “mistakes”, it’s ok.  It’s better to speak up and chance a “mistake” than it is to sit there quietly and not say anything.  You can not learn everything by observation alone – you have to participate.  If you want to progress, you have to “give it out”.

It takes a little faith and trust, especially in the beginning.  Relationships with your spirit folks develop over time.  Your thoughts and ideas about mediumship and spirits have considerable impact on the relationship – you are more a part of the process than you think.  Your relationship with the spirit folks is uniquely yours. It will never be exactly the same as any other mediums’ relationships with their spirit folks, nor should it be.

Mediumship involves letting go.  You let go of yourself and open up, so that the spirits can communicate through you, often to bring a message from their world to ours, to the seeker.

“Let go and let Spirit”.

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My experience with turning mediumship on and off

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Some folks from Lily Dale went to the nearby University of Buffalo for a psychic fair.  The Spectrum, the UB newspaper, interviewed Gretchen Clark.  “Psychics, according to Clark, learn to control their intuitions like an ‘on’ or ‘off’ switch. If there is something drastically important, the voices will get her attention.”

“On and off” are important parts of mediumship.  You may have a hard time turning it on, particularly if you’re new to it, or just developing it.  Or it may turn on when you don’t expect it, or not even want it at the moment.  On the other hand, it may be hard to turn it off, and this can happen whether you’re just starting or have been involved with it a long time.

Some mediums have no problem turning it on and off.  Others have to work at it and get better over time.  My experience has been the latter.  In the beginning, I didn’t have much trouble with on and off.  Later on, I did a “deep dive” into mediumship, which improved my mediumship, but I also had all kinds of trouble turning it off.  I felt like a convienence store that’s open 24×7, in a shoddy part of town.  Some good folks would come in from time to time.  But there were also plenty of questionable and unsavory characters stopping by all the time, some of which tried to rip off my store, run an extortion scam on me, push me aside and claim ownership and/or management of the store, or otherwise cause trouble.  There were fights and occasional police.  And no matter what I did, I couldn’t close the store for maintenance to get it cleaned up.  Even while I was in the middle of mopping up, people would walk in and tromp all over my wet floors with their muddy boots.  Not the way to run a store.

I was stuck.  So my convenience store stayed in its shoddy location for a long time, barely making a profit. Eventually, some good people stopped by the store and decided they liked it enough to hang around.  They put up security lights and fencing, and in the process, earned my trust.  Then they put security people in place, which reduced the fighting and extortion and other illegal and illegitimate behavior.

It got better.  More good people would stop by, more often, and the store started making a profit.  Later on, the store expanded considerably.  The surrounding lots were all available, so they were acquired, and the store was rebuilt from the ground up, not as a convenience store, but a JC Penny’s.  The good people came more and more frequently, and liked the merchandise and selection.  Now, the store is definitely making a profit, even through the recession/depression.  And some day, the store just might be a Nieman Marcus.

To be perfectly honest, in the middle of it, I felt like I was completely crazy, the check-yourself-in-somewhere kind of crazy.  If this happens to you, the best bet is to find someone who can teach you or otherwise help you manage the store better.  I did not have that luxury.  While I knew other mediums, some of which were my teachers, I didn’t view them as either having experience in this area or wanting to deal with it.   Everything was always positive-positive-positive, and they never mentioned anything even remotely like it.  I knew of no one on the Earth plane that could help me.

Mediumship can be like that, where you feel crazy for some period of time.  Or you run into unexpected difficulty.  Or perhaps plateau at a point for a long time, thinking you aren’t developing, but you actually are.

Mediumship is a personal adventure, in the most deeply personal of ways.  Your path is uniquely your own, and that’s not just lip service, but a very real experience.  The failure to recognize this is one of the biggest mistakes you can make, whether you’re brand new to mediumship, or are as old as the hills.  It’s true in your own experience, but is even more true when it comes to teaching students.  Everyone’s path is unique, and your teaching should not only reflect it, but take positive advantage of it.

As difficult as my adventure has been at various times, I do not regret one minute of it.  It has taught me many-many things.  And I hope that I someday return the favor by helping someone else who’s having problems managing their store.

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Relationships with spirits

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Not every communication from the spirits is going to be a heavy-duty, highly evidential proof of life on the other side, nor should it be.  As a medium, you can get all kinds of communications, including funny stuff.  Spirits do have a sense of humor.

I think that from the medium’s perspective, having good relationships with your spirit folks is technically not required, but it is so valuable and worthwhile that it ought to be.  I think mediums forget that spirits are people too (in whatever skin they’re in).

Over time, you’ll likely be able to distinguish some individuals from others, as they pop in and out and hang around from time to time.  The ones who seem to hang around more consistently are likely to be part of your spirit group.  If you avoid the extremes of either deifying them or treating them like your servants, they may open up to you, and you may learn about them.  Like anyone else you meet, it’s about relationships.

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