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Q: My mom just died unexpectedly last week. Is it too soon for me to try to make contact with her through you? I vaguely remember someone telling me that they're not "available" right after they pass? Is there a general timeframe? Please let me know. Thank you. A: There is no official wait time before establishing communication with a spirit loved one. I have noticed some spirits are ready to communicate immediately and other spirits take longer. Some mediums suggest a six month time period. I feel this is a good timeframe for many clients because by then they have processed some of their grief and are not in a desperate space. There is a difference between being ready and being needy. It just depends on the client and the spirit. Trust your own soul regarding this. When you are ready, you just know. What a blessing it is that you know you will connect with your mother's spirit in divine right timing and that love never dies. If you have a general question whose answ...

The following is a humorous sharing of recent events. My baby can read. He’s 7 ½ months old and he can read. Or at the very least he is trying to read. Why do I imagine this? He keeps pulling books off my bookshelf. After I replace them in the hopes of preventing damage to my book collection, he crawls over there and yanks them off again. The same books. Consistently. His favorites are located in various spots within his baby arm range on the two bottom shelves. It doesn't seem to matter if I put them back in their usual places or scatter them randomly in a vain attempt to confuse his baby brain. He is making special effort to pick particular books. And they represent a definite change of pace from his baby book collection. Out of all the books on the shelving unit, he chooses the following: Angels A to Z , Communicating with Spirits , and Spiritual Healing . He gazes at the covers intently, tries to chew on them [learning by ingestion?], flips them over to read the back cover, an...

Sometimes it's a challenge to get information and impressions from a person in spirit because I'm having to get to know them in a few minutes. And I'm trying to gain the spirit's trust and information at the same time. So I ask the spirit to tell me about themselves with some basic questions: what did you die from? what did you look like? what is your relationship to my client? what was your personality? what is a good way they will recognize you? is there something you like to do? something you want to say about your life, the client's life? They may answer a few of them. Occasionally, all of them. Essentially, I am trying to encapsulate their life in a nutshell. Not an easy task for some.

The following blogpost is excerpted from my Sunday morning lecture at the Church of the Living Spirit on 5-17-09. See Part 1 & Part 2 . Part Three: Practicing Robert Browning wrote in his poem “Paracelsus” : Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate’er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fullness . . . and, to know, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. After much contemplation over the question --- Do we need to pretend to lose God in order to find God? ---- I believe we are practicing the Presence of God . When we interact with other souls, we are practicing the Presence of God. After struggle, each moment we give ourselves over to unconditional love we know the Presence of God in full and wonderful ways. When we fall in love and stay loving, we feel an amazing unbreakable link with another soul. When we beco...

The following blogpost is excerpted from my Sunday morning lecture at the Church of the Living Spirit on 5-17-09. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Science is catching up with spirituality As Spiritualists, we believe that we are all connected to God, to the Divine, to Infinite Intelligence, the Source, a Unified Field of Energy. Albert Einstein believed in a unified field of energy: that everything, everyone, all matter, and all energy are united, are all one field. Einstein - a deeply religious man - believed this as a matter of faith but could not prove it mathematically. Well, perhaps science is catching up with spirituality. There is a well-respected neurologist in San Diego, Vilayanur S. Ramachandram, who has discovered how the human brain experiences both the human sense of unity and the sense of being separate from God. By using a PET scan, he has noticed changes in the temporal lobes of individuals who experience religious vision. The temporal lobe, when interacting with the limbic s...

The following blogpost is excerpted from my Sunday lecture at the Church of the Living Spirit this morning. Part One: Losing Sight of God As many of you know, I am a new mother and I’m learning as much as I can about the experience. I am learning about Love and Thought and the Divine. My little boy has started to crawl so he is not as much of a lap baby now. He sits up nicely and can play for a little while by himself. And occasionally, he looks up from playing and giggling to find me smiling up at him and other times I’m across the room. When he doesn’t see me right away, he starts looking around frantically. Where is my Mommy? (Mommy in this scenario means: person who birthed me who I expect to carry me constantly with the strength of ten camels, feed me on cue, comfort me immediately, and love me unconditionally.) He has temporarily lost sight of me and he knows this is not good, not okay, not natural. And he cries out and allow me to translate for you “Mommy where are you? I need ...

Many times during readings pieces of evidential information are given to me in a symbolic short hand. Let's say for example . . . the client's father is here. I see the symbol for father. Next, I may feel the sensation of tightening around my heart and pain down my arm, so then I know the father died from a heart attack. Then, I see the number three (numbers are symbols ) and say "I see the number three and I assume your father passed three years ago from a heart attack." "Yes," the client replies. I continue, "He worked with his hands and he is showing me the symbol for farm. Now, I'm seeing big farm machinery and tractors. He also smells strongly of grease and dirt and sweat." "Yes! that's him," she says. "That's my dad." I keep asking the father in spirit for more information, more identifiers. "He shows me a green pickup truck. He's showing me the symbol of ownership and then points to you. You must ha...

As a medium, my specialty is spirit contact. In fact, the main reason clients book a reading with me is for communication with their loved ones in Spirit. With that purpose in mind, I focus on bringing the essence of a spirit loved one through (ie. physical characteristics, personality traits, messages). This may include a few of the following things: what they were like when they were here (personality traits) how they interacted with people, especially the client what physical conditions they had before they passed how they passed what they looked like (physical appearance) what it was like to be them and 'walk in their shoes' some of the things they thought or did what they think about the client's people and situations (their opinion/message) Sometimes the confirmation of identity happens immediately - there is something the spirit does or says that lets the client know without a doubt that this is their Aunt Margaret or their father. Sometimes the clues are subtle, an...

It is with special regard I now contemplate my first Mother's Day as a mother. When my husband and I decided to have a baby, it was with conscious thought and spiritual intention. We knew we would be creating and bringing into life our Love. With that intention [and affirmation], we conceived our son within a few days of our agreement to create Life. Then, he was born and I became a mother in a fuller sense of the word. I protect and nurture, cuddle and hold, nourish and nurse. I get to be the person who calms his cries, sees his joyful smile in the morning, and gets hugged regularly by his little arms. His face is like a cup full of wonder and his body and soul seem to be constantly stretching to bring more of the world to him. I am a Mother. And as a newly appointed member of the "mommy club", I thought I would research Mother's Day. Turns out, our modern day observance is mostly based on a daughter honoring her mother who died [something that as a Medium I underst...

. . . continued from Positive Affirmations 3 . . . Writing a Positive Affirmation Now that you have decided what you truly desire, it’s time to write your affirmation. This is a statement of YOUR truth. Affirmations are always phrased in the first person and usually in a present tense ("I am") rather than a future tense ("I will") in order to increase the realization of the statement for the affirmee. It is also important to not limit your affirmation too much. For example, "I am making more room in my life for success every day" is a much wiser affirmation choice than "I will win the lottery today!" And you can take a negative (-) thought statement and turn it into a positive (+)thought statement. Here are some examples: - My life is a mess. + I am willing to release the pattern in me that created these conditions. - I should lose weight. +I have a happy, slender body. - Nobody loves me. + I am in the process of positive changes. - I want to mo...

...continued from Positive Affirmations 2 ... Important Questions before creating a Positive Affirmation It is important to know at all times that we are here for one fundamental purpose - as channels of experience of Source and thereby to evolve and therefore to Spiritually grow through experience. Anything not consistent with that most Divine mission will not arouse the necessary passion. So if you desire something that you do not already have, ask yourself these questions: 1. Why do I wish to have this thing or situation? 2. What will it really, genuinely add to my experience and growth? 3. Am I really, sincerely passionate about wanting it? These are absolutely fundamental questions that must be answered before setting out to consciously make use of The Law of Attraction . Plain and simple - if you are not passionate about something then you will not be able to easily achieve vibrational harmony with it, and you should think again about why you desire it in the first place. Genuin...

Many people want to use The Law of Attraction to attract whatever they desire in life - which of course is very understandable. However, when I ask these people what they actually do desire in life they very often do not know. This alone is enough to prevent them from attracting very much. Before we can attract anything we must be passionate about wanting whatever it is we desire. It is not enough to vaguely "want a better lifestyle" for example. One of the fundamental aspects of success with The Law of Attraction is to vibrate in harmony with the object of desire in order to enable it to manifest into the vibration of the physical world where it can be experienced. Simply "wanting more money" or "wanting a better lifestyle" is, in and of itself, not enough to invoke the necessary level or nature of vibration required for it to manifest into experiential reality. It is a powerful fact that many people who have succeeded greatly with The Law of Attraction w...

Continued from Positive Affirmations 1 . . . In spirituality and personal development, an affirmation is a statement of a desirable intention or condition that is deliberately meditated on and/or repeated in order to implant it in the mind. You may also use affirmations in conjunction with a visualization of a desired outcome. Perhaps the most often used and well-known affirmation is the word "Amen," which can be translated simply as "so be it" or "and so it is," affirming the truth of whatever was written or said immediately prior. While often used to conclude prayer, the word itself is neutral as to its context and exemplifies a logical affirmation more than a spiritual one. Here is an example of the process of affirmations from the Bible: "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." -- Mark 11:24 Basically, in order to manifest what you desire, you use your ima...

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mohandas Gandhi Positive affirmations and positive thinking techniques can help develop a powerful and positive attitude to life --- an essential element in life success and good health. With this power you can turn failure around into success and take success and drive it to a whole new level. Essentially, your positive attitude is the fuel for your success. And your positive affirmations and actions dictate outcomes in your life. In this blogpost, we will be exploring how to use affirmations effectively. What is an affirmation? An affirmation (from Latin affirmare, to assert) is the declaration that something is true. Affirmations are a very powerful means of reprogramming the unconscious mind. They appear to be most effective when repeated in a quiet and restful state of mind and body, and when the desired outcome is vividly experienced in one's mind and resulting emotions are felt. And whatever we send out ment...