"Paying" back a Favor

Sometimes - most times, as happened last night, spirits will give us something in return for communicating with living loved ones. They can do a multitude of things, let me share with you some of my experiences.

Last night, which is what spurred me to do this post, a friend's Great-Grandfather (not Theo's), asked me to do a reading for his Great Granddaughter (my friend, who we will call Miranda for anonymity sake), lent me energy. He could see that I was ill and tired, more than usual, and so he touched my chest (around the solar plexus) after the reading, and then left my home. Today I was able to shop AND do a workout that burned a good 450 calories! Now my chronic illness doesn't usually let me do more than a 130 calorie workout, if that - so it was wonderful to be able to do it right after shopping with my family. It was a good deal of energy, and it was enough to also pull me out of my emotional slump, which was also caused by fatigue and pain.

Donating energy is one way to pay the medium back, but there are more ways.

Spirits will feel like they have to "pay" you back, and so sometimes they'll wait until there's a crisis to help you. When going through a very rough and rather dramatic breakup a few years ago, many spirits that I had previously helped seemed to "cuddle" around me. They counseled me about my problems, as they were concerned I was heading down a dark path. They would speak to me when I was alone, and make sure I wasn't alone at any time, and even played harmless tricks on my ex (or so I heard). I used to be a very big fan of revenge, but now I understand that it's not justice, it's a cycle that creates too much bad Karma - locking us into a downward emotional spiral. When I was more into the revenge business (as a teen, those days are gone), the spirits would do much more violent serious things, especially when the trespassers had hurt me physically. Spirits can be very vengeful to whomever hurts their link to the living world; and also, as spiritual communication shares a very intimate link - they get to see you inside and out, and usually this creates a mutually powerful bond. Like knowing someone for a few years, but slightly different. Hard to explain.

Spirits can also enhance readings for the medium. After I do a communication for the loved ones of that spirit, they will often show me a glimpse of insight into my life, my future, and sometimes even let me contact a spirit that is less able to communicate - like combining forces. Some spirits are VERY hard to communicate, and joining forces is the only way to hear them. But that's another post.

To recap: They can give you energy/force/a lift, they can offer a helping hand in your external world, they can keep you company, give you counsel, they can give you more psychic energy to see more in readings, and they can combine forces with you in harder communications with other - less easily contacted spirits.

Oh, one last thing - some spirits will haunt you until you do what they want, and after the reading, as payback, they'll leave you alone. Just like Theo's Great-Grandfather (see previous post about the Powerful Great-Grandfather). This is dirty play, but when they leave you alone after months or years of haunting, you don't complain - otherwise they might just continue!!

Don't expect ALL spirits to balance the scale.. some will get what they want from you - and then leave you hanging. Others, when I get paid for my services, will tell me that the payment is enough, that they don't need to give me anything - and I agree. Always be polite to spirits, otherwise they'll bug you until you say uncle.

Speedy Communication

The trouble with communicating with spirits, many a time, is that they don't communicate at the same speed as the living. Most spirits communicate with pure thought, as they don't have bodies - they exist on a different plane of existance than we do. They exist as energy, as spirit. They don't need to take big breaths of air to scream!

Spirits need to consciously slow themselves down in order to be heard easily, but usually they don't -as usually they're excited that someone living can hear them, and they want to say everything a.s.a.p.! This can cause problems for normal people, and psychics/mediums, as they experience the communication as a blitz of words and images.

Many times I have been confronted with this, and this is a source of great frustration on both sides of the conversation. Seeing Mediums, sometimes they'll blurt out words of what they see in sequence: it's not because they're bad Mediums (well not always) but usually it's the spirit that's making the discourse very difficult.

So what can we do about this? Here are three suggestions.

1. Well it's good to let the images come and try to drown out any exterior distractions. To pay close attention, and just let the flow overtake you. After a while you'll learn to just let the thoughts and sensations wash over you and leave you with a general impression. That general impression can be worked upon by delving individually into the images. This is harder to do in a live person-to-person reading, as you will spend a lot of time starting off into space and looking sleepy... hehe

2. Tell the spirits to slow down, you may get lucky and find a spirit who will actually oblige you!

3. Blurt out all the things that come to you, and have someone write it down - or record it if you don't have anyone there to write it down. Then, like a dream you want to remember, go through each detail you recall and things will start unlocking themselves. Blurt out ANYTHING you see, as they may have significance to the person you're doing the communication for.

I hope that's helpful!

Ghosts that find it Hard to Communicate: And the Importance of Heeding the Warnings of These Spirits

Recently, I was asked to contact the spirits of a lovely woman's father and sister. This process took a couple of months at least- each time I tried to contact the spirits, I would see them, but they wouldn't talk, they tried, but it was as if they spoke behind soundproof glass.

Just this week I was able to get their very effortful communication, and this is (ommiting some details and changing names for the family) what they said:
"Don't car" - a picture of a blue Mazda - "no" - guard rails, - light purple lilacs, and a painting of a saint. (The woman told me it's her daughter, with the name of the saint, with light purple lilacs in her back yard, who was going to buy a Mazda).
They tried so hard! But there is a problem - the woman's daughter still wants to buy the Mazda! She's been car-hunting for a long time and has found the perfect car, but this has come up - her Grandfather telling her not to!
The daughter contacted me, and I was able to contact the Grandfather (who seemed to be expecting this behavior), and gave her some specific instructions, but still didn't want her to do it - the aunt said nothing.

What if something similar was to happen to you?

We must consider a few things.

1. If the spirits had a hard time communicating, their messages must be important
2. The spirits did not give a specific time the accident would happen
3. Were the people, in life, overly concerned with saftey?
4. Is there something you'd do differently for the saftey of this car, after you heard the message?

Personally, I err on the side of caution, but I can understand this woman's persistance - as it can be hard to find a good bargain on a car.. it's good that she mailed me and asked for assistance. At the moment I am not charging for spirit communication, as I want to develop more relationships with spirits, as well as more experience; so it cost her nothing. A wise choice!

I truly hope that she makes the right decision, but I also know that her guardian spirits will help her either way.

Peripherals

(Sorry it's been so long since my last post, my health is still pretty bad and I need to take it easy!)

Most of us have seen these spirits: Peripherals are my (maybe someone else has come up with this too..?) way of calling those ghosts you see at the corner of your vision (peripheral vision). They skit by, shadows or true forms of people, things, colours.
Peripherals - from what I gather through experience and deduction- are spirits that have enough energy to manifest themselves into your subconscious, but not enough to manifest directly into your conscious (those can manifest directly into your frontal field of vision).

How can you get a clearer view of Peripherals?
Usually when I do readings, Peripherals are many in number! If you catch me looking blankly forwards, I'm most likely trying to see what the spirits are doing. By getting into a slower and more meditative state of mind, one is able to get more in touch with one's subconscious - and these peripherals can then becoming clearer, more visible, and understandable.. that is, if you are trained enough - you can actually hear them. These are usually the spirits that I hear during normal Tarot readings, or on an everyday basis.