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In my work I have encountered a great many sceptics. I
have found myself defending the job I do to countless
people, some of whom had actually formed cotent and
valid arguments for their position. Sadly there are a
great many sceptics who are only sceptical because they
do not understand the spiritual world. And who can blame
them? There is a lot of 'airy fairy' nonsense attached
to psychic work, and even from a medium's point of view
it is easy to see how people can find the whole thing a
bit far fetched.
The proliferation of television shows, films and
fictional books concerning the paranormal has meant that
the definitions of what a spirit actually is have been
grossly exaggerated to the point of ludicrousness. Over
the years I have encountered some pretty hair-raising
situations but I have never been 'slimed'. Nor have I
ever summoned the Devil. It is only common sense to
recognise that dramatic works of fiction must contain
hyper-realistic situations in order to satisfy and
audience. They are NOT, and nor, would I assume, are
they intended to be, an accurate and honest
representation of the subject matter. On one occasion I
had a lady call me to cancel her appointment because she
had watched 'Scariest Places On Earth' the night before
and was terrified I might unleash a poltergeist in her
bedsit! In reality she would have probably just received
a 'Hello' from Grandma Maude!
Terminology is a source of bafflement too, what exactly
is 'residual energy'? Come to think of it, what exactly
do you mean by 'energy'? Don't even get me started on
Fairies and Angels. Well actually, the terminology is
probably the biggest hurdle. Lets look at that word
'Energy'. For those scientifically minded folk amongst
you, energy is of course a quantifiable force measured
in joules. In scientific fields energy can even exist in
potentia, and of course we all know that E=MC2, right?
When a medium talks about energy, he is referring to the
atmosphere generated by the partcular spirit of the
time. In life, you know when someone is in a mood or
not, you can just feel it. Well that is what we mean by
energy. I use the word energy because it is a better
word than 'vibes'. A building, a walking stick, a
person, an animal, even a football field can all
generate their own atmosphere. If you have ever walked
in to a house and felt ill at ease for no apparent
reason it is most probable that you have picked up on
the energy of the building, you are feeling the emotions
of many many years which is still as potent as it was in
its day. In this sense, the energy therefore is very
much 'residual', i.e. it is a product which remains long
after the solution (in this case, life itself) has
ceased to be, a bit like the white residue left behind
after you have given the bath a good scrub! The term
'Medium' is also losing its definition. A medium, in any
area of life be it science, cookery or writing etc, is a
means of transferring data. A writer uses a pen to
channel his thoughts to the paper, a scientist would use
copper in order to transfer an electric charge from its
source to its destination, and a psychic medium simply
passes on the words of spirit beings to their target. So
think of a medium as a human radio.
Fairies, Gnomes, Angels and all manner of fantastically
named entities exist also. A Fairy is simply a nature
spirit and as soon as you get over the fact that it is
called a Fairy you will be fine. Call them something
else if you like, they are only words after all. We
should be careful not to understand the world simply in
terms of its language, rather we should look beyond the
words to understand more about their subjects. I still
think its odd to call an orange an orange, how on earth
can you eat a colour? Isn't colour an abstract thing,
and not a tangible solid object? Wierd! Gnomes are earth
spirits, they inhabit rocks, earth, piles of leaves, old
trees and many other places. They do not, however, wear
pointy hats and carry fishing rods from toadstool to
toadstool. Nor do Angels sit on a cloud playing the
harp. Likewise, a Salamander, which is a fire spirit,
does not slither about on all fours eating flies. In
addition to Gnomes and Salamanders there are two other
types of nature spirit. There are the Sylphs, which are
air spirits and there are Undines, which are water
spirits. What do they look like? I am of the belief that
they look like whatever your brain can cope with when it
sees one. That is to say, seeing something which we do
not understand or recognise causes our brains to apply a
suitably easy to grasp overlay to the whole thing, and
because of cultural influences you will see Fairies with
wings, gnomes with hats on and Angels with halos. That's
fine though, that's great in fact, Once you can see
these beings you're on the way to a better relationship
with the world you live in.
Another difficult aspect of this, is the understanding
that not all spirits are ghosts. In actual fact, the
majority of spirits I have been in contact with are not
ghosts. A ghost, otherwise known as a discarnate, is the
spirit of a deceased being which is unable, or unwilling
to move on to the next plain (don't worry, we'll cover
planes in a moment). In this case a spirit gets
'trapped' as it were and remains on this physical plane.
You can look at them like squatters if you like. You
never invited them but somehow they end up living in
your house, and with every right! Ghosts can be moved on
of course, squatters are more difficult. At this point I
must point out that not all ghosts are bad spirits. To
have a ghost is not necessarily to be haunted to the
grave. When a medium contacts a relative for someone
during a reading, that relative is not on this plane
wandering about with their slippers on.That is why we
need a medium and as I have said a medium is simply a
means of transferring information from source to target.
Okay, so what is a plane? A plane is, in its simplest
sense, another layer of existence. In mathematics, if
you look at a cube and note that it has eight sides you
will begin to see what this entails. Look at the side
facing you, it is perpendicular. If you were to extend
the sides beyond their framework to fill the space you
would have created a plane, and it is on this plane
which the front side of the cube exists. Now, without
moving the cube, if you were to do the same with all the
sides, you would have created multiple planes, which
intersect at various points. Each side exists on its own
plane and each plane intersects with its neighbours. If
you apply this idea to life, and imagine that a physical
life is one plane, and the spirit world is the plane on
the opposite side of the cube you can see that there is
a reason that it is known as 'the other side' and in
fact the spirit world is not up in the clouds but is
just around the corner.
Graham Lee
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