Huwebes, Hunyo 8, 2017

What Constitutes Real Evidential Mediumship

Real Evidential Mediumship

Mediumship has enjoyed remarkable growth in the past few years, and more individuals are beginning to recognize the value of real evidential mediumship and what it can do to help those suffering to begin the healing process. However, with all of the interest comes bad standards and people purporting to be evidential mediums when in fact they are not in any way communicating with spirit and this is found in relation to the evidence that is given to a sitter or group. More now than ever, there is now a real need to understand the process of mediumship and what constitutes good supporting evidence. The lack of real evidence is just cannon fodder to our skeptical brethren, and who could blame them, I mean if we are to stand any chance of being accepted as a legitimate practice, science or dare I say religion, then at least there has to be a certain standard of evidence that is easily accepted.

There are many psychic mediums out there that do not understand the values of evidence or what constitutes evidence, and who unknowingly are often reading the auric energy, talking generally about life issues and personalities rather than giving real valuable evidence. I am not suggesting this is fraud as clearly the individual may be well-meaning and slightly ignorant of the mechanics of mediumship. Consequently, those experiencing the reading remain untrained and do not understand what constitutes real evidence from a communicating spirit. So the sitter is more likely to accept certain validations as fact when in reality they are rather general, including descriptions and personalities, unless it was something unusual. Think of these two particular points and identify what you perceive to be the best type of validation.

Medium: “I have a father figure here, and he is coming around you with a great deal of love, he passed with a heart or chest condition. He is saying that you were very special to him and that you found it difficult when he passed. He is about 5 ft10 and a bit rotund, wears glasses and smokes and has a great personality. He says sorry for what you went through and identifies that you stepped up to help the family. You could always wrap him round your finger and that he would give you anything he could. He is strong in stature and looks like a powerful man. Do you understand?”

This message to many is perceived as good and the sitter feels validated because certain pieces of information have been covered – especially if they are grieving badly and reaching for anything. Due to the sitters’ need to hear the information, she or he accepts it and begins to open up more – offering leading answers that feed the medium such as, “yes he had a heart attack and I was the one dealing with everything”. The medium confirms that is what he or she was getting and feels good because he or she thinks she has a hit. The reality is that it offers no real evidence and is not in the slightest any type of evidential message for the individual who is grieving.

Now the second medium: I have a male figure coming through with the name Micheal and what sounds like Thompson or Johnson. He says thank you for talking with him when you were walking through the park yesterday and you thought about him when you stood by the bed of flowers with the statue in the middle. He also says that you were in a store like Macy’s and you nearly bought a new pair of shoes but changed your mind, placing them back. He often comes around you and notes that he was with you when you were mending the chair that you recently broke in the kitchen. He was trying to tell you how to do it and laughs at your attempt. He mentions the name Mateo or sounds like this and also I have to give you Anaheim road or place. Can you understand this? He also tells me that you have an anniversary in July and another on the 5th May. He want’s to send love to his wife and the name I am given is mary. He also shows me that you have his watch with you now. Can you accept that?

Now if this information is validated by the sitter in entirety or at least 80%, this would be considered as stronger evidence and even better if more evidence is given the sitter can’t validate until much later by another party. This would suggest the sitter had no knowledge and the information would have to be validated by a third party at another time, thus suggesting the information could only have been derived from a communicating entity whom knew the information previously. Obviously how one delivers this type of message has some bearing on how the evidence is offered, but generally there should be no questions or assumptions. The medium should be able to give the name or sounds like as close as possible, it is not good practice to throw out a random letter unless the evidence that supports that is overwhelming.

Mediums Work Too Early

Many individuals that claim to be spiritual mediums demonstrate long before they are ready, and this is true in all forms of mediumship. This means the person can become unbalanced very quickly and having never received professional training in delivering messages or etiquette on how to act and work as a professional medium, failure looms and skeptics wait like hyenas waiting for food. It is a great responsibility to do the work of a professional medium, therefore you should be prepared and trained to operate within the highest standards possible and know what is good evidence. There are many organizations that exist to test, validate, and investigate mediumship. Organizations, such as the Windbridge institute, ASSMPI and the Forever Family Foundation exist to raise and continue to work to promote the reality of professional mediumship.

Unfortunately there are many individuals who remain deluded and do not understand real mediumship nor the mechanics such as knowing what is spirit contact and when they drop into reading psychic energy. They self-promote themselves as mediums with no prior history and training and have no idea of real mediumship, often giving misleading or false information. They may well have a good heart and want to help, but just do not have the ability to communicate the way they should. From time to time, even professional mediums will not be able to communicate in the same way all the time and this is due to them, the conditions, and the need of the sitter. However, it is important to recognize real mediumship.

Take these notes on board when looking for a medium;

1    Always try to identify with a professional medium who has the relevant history.
2    Check the testimonials from others and if you have been recommended by someone – even better.
3    If the medium asks too many questions before the appointment, leave well alone.
4    Do not feed the medium.
5    Check if the medium is involved with professional organizations or has served in spiritualist churches.
6    Ask if you are not sure, if you can approach any of the testimonials and if this is possible, the medium should put you in touch with a couple of people who will validate them.
7    A professional medium should never tell you negative things and if you are faced with someone who tells you that they can sort your life, bring your lover back or clear a curse – run and run far. Remember there is really no such thing as “Best Psychic Mediums,” there is great evidential mediums to be found.

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Jock Brocas

Jock Brocas is a professional medium, Researcher, and Author. He is also the president of the ASSMPI and editor in chief of The Otherside Press. Jock works closely with his colleagues to share knowledge with three lessons in mind, Love, forgiveness, and compassion.



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Linggo, Hunyo 4, 2017

The Secret Way We Learn Fear

Recently, I found a copy of a note I’d written some years ago in an attempt to console a friend in his frustration of arguments with people over the idea of life after death. I’d been privy to some of those conversations and sympathized with him. I wrote:

“Sometimes I feel like chucking it, too, Jack, but the very people who make you so frustrated are the people who are most drowning in fear.

“It’s like they’re in a pool that is only waist deep, but they’ve been tossed in and are floundering and thrashing about in terror.

“They haven’t tried to touch the bottom with their feet, and in their terror, they will reach at you and bring you down under the water, too, and you’ll both be in danger. So, what do you do? Leave the pool? Let them drown? I enjoy the pool very much, but the screaming thrashers make it difficult to enjoy…”

Enough time had passed since the incident that I had trouble remembering what inspired my answer. Reading the note, now months or years later, made me wonder what made me use the drowning person analogy?

Sure, I knew a little about the danger of trying to pull a drowning person to safety. One of the first things they taught me in lifeguard training was how dangerous it was to have a victim spotting you in the water with them – they invariably, instinctively grab you and try to climb to safety, pushing you under to drown.

So, to be a lifeguard, I had to learn how to approach a drowning swimmer. The trick is come up from below and grab them from behind in such a way that their flailing arms and legs don’t endanger you as you pull them to safety…

So this is a reply to a conversation I felt compelled to answer. As I remember the conversation being only vaguely related to my ‘answer’, I began to wonder why I felt compelled to write it down and make it available for me to find again years later.

First, I had to wonder where my answer came from, and I immediately thought of my first experience with a swimming pool.

It was the summer I was three, almost FOUR! years old. I made my Mother miserable for weeks  – by badgering her for swimming lessons. Eventually, she gave in and made the arrangements.

She signed me up for lessons at the local pool, paying for it out of the little grocery allowance she got each week. She even bought me a little rubber swimming cap to keep my hair beautiful! I had my lovely little bathing suit and even picked out my favorite towel to take to the pool. I was ready!

But it turned out that neither of us was prepared.

As I got to the edge of the pool, I was gripped with a horrific fear and refused to go in the water.

My fear was total, all-consuming, and I had no idea where it came from.

It made no sense to me at all.

Even when Mother got in the water first and stood there with her hands out to me, I couldn’t do it, and the closer people came to me to try to help get me in the water, the more I balked – until I was screaming and in tears, terrified that everyone was trying to kill me.

Mother came out of the water, scooped me up and took me home. She was very upset, and I assumed for years that it was because I’d embarrassed her and that she was angry with me.

But, once away from the danger, I calmed down and begged her to take me back and let me try again. To my surprise, she did, and as promised, I went in the water without fear and became the little dolphin we both just knew I’d be.

If I thought about the incident at all, I wondered for years what happened – and assumed she did, too.

I didn’t have a clue until the summer before I went off to college.

Mother treated me to a trip, just her and me, to visit my chosen school several hundred miles away. The trip gave us a chance to become reacquainted as friends, instead of the combatants we’d been since I reached my hormonal adolescent teen years.

On the way back, we passed a sign directing us to a lake not far from the road we were on. Mother recognized the name on the sign and asked me to detour to the lake and find a spot to park so we could talk.

She had a story to tell me about something that happened to me when I was a baby — at this very lake.

When I was a toddler, some family friends took us out on their boat for a ride.

Mother told me how she’d worried that day. I was not quite two years old, but she knew I was unafraid of anything. With no life jacket small enough to protect me, the only thing she knew to do was have Daddy hold me in his lap, wrapped in his strong arms.

She thought that was the safest solution. He would be safe in a life jacket, and she knew would never let me go. But still, she worried –  because she knew that he had a terrible fear of the water and had never learned to swim.

She said she’d never seen him so terrified, quietly clinging to me in the relative safety of the boat.

She said she didn’t think of it at the time, but when she saw my reaction at the edge of the pool for my first swimming lesson, she knew that his fear had been conveyed to me in that boat on the lake.

She’d never told me that story before – out of guilt for not understanding Daddy’s fear. She didn’t think he could possibly be afraid of a little lake and pushed him to go with their friends out on the boat. The only other time she’d seen him on the water was on a boat on the ocean – and believed his fear was of the immense size of the body of water. She rethought that when she saw my reaction to the swimming pool.

If that is true, that he was able to pass that fear to me as a baby, then what have I done to my children, when I held them close when they were sick, wracked with fear …? I shudder to think.

And now, with that disturbing thought, my mind wanders to the questions I see many people bring to the table when discussing the ‘evidence’ of the afterlife in the form of communication from loved ones received through mediums.

The questions usually amount to this:

Why, if the afterlife (or heaven) is so wonderful, as we’ve been led to believe, WHY would our loved ones – or strangers or famous people – WHY WHY WHY would they take time out of enjoying the wonders of their new situation to communicate with us?

Over and over, we’re told the answer is LOVE.

I think I understand that better, now.

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Sabado, Hunyo 3, 2017

The Very First Public Seance of Physical Medium, Colin Fry

A few months before he passed to Spirit himself, Sandra and I enjoyed an excellent lunch with our good friend Colin Fry at a restaurant in Mazarron – close to our home in Spain. We shared some lovely memories of the early days – when Colin was just starting to develop what became a superb (and eventually quite famous) physical and – later – clairvoyant mediumship.
 
What made the memories even more precious at our final meeting was the fact that we had been there in the very beginning – I had myself been a member of his development circle (the ‘Swift’ Circle) at Hove for some time, and was privileged to witness some of the Colin’s first physical phenomena.
 
Shortly after my formation of the Noah’s Ark Society, we planned our first residential Seminar for members to be held at the Park International Hotel in Leicester (in the UK) during May, 1991. By then, Colin’s own physical mediumship was sufficiently developed for us to consider the possibility of inviting him to undertake the responsibility of being the very first physical medium to demonstrate Physical Mediumship for the NAS at that seminar.
 
It was important for us that Colin (as a new and unknown physical medium at that time) first put the suggestion to his personal and circle guides for their approval before he agreed to do the demonstration. We were delighted to soon learn that Colin’s spirit team were happy for him to agree, so the arrangements for the experimental séance went ahead, with the actual event planned for Saturday May 11th.
 
It was felt in the Noah’s Ark Society that we should protect the identity of any of our demonstrating physical mediums (once news of their mediumship was out) to prevent them being inundated with requests from the public for private sittings before they were ready to do general public work, and I therefore came up with the pseudonym of ‘Lincoln’ for Colin, which was as near as possible an anagram of his Christian name. So our demonstrating medium at that time simply became ‘Lincoln’.
 
The room we used at the Leicester Hotel was a very large conference room with 20 foot high ceilings. We prepared the room very carefully for the séance, which was attended by 96 people including the medium – with an inner circle of 16 people; a middle circle of 32 and an outer circle of 47 people.
 
Although every effort was made to darken the room, some very dim light still got in, due to the very large size of the conference hall, and the many windows in it. Two light metal ‘trumpets’, painted with fluorescent bands; a tambourine; pen, pencils, and paper – plus vitamins and water were placed at the center of the circle before the sitting began.
 
What particularly struck the President of the Noah’s Ark Society – Alan Crossley – when he first met Colin Fry was his striking resemblance to famous physical medium Jack Webber who – like Colin – also worked in an ectoplasmic-based way. Alan Crossley was a veteran medium and researcher who was an expert in Physical Mediumship and its phenomena and had often organized séances for Helen Duncan (the well-known materialization medium).
 
Cable ties were used to secure the medium’s wrists to his chair, and his feet were also tied to the chair legs. (Once fastened, these cable ties cannot be undone. They have steel teeth in them and are normally used in engineering work. Consequently, at the end of the séance, the medium has to be cut loose. I explained to the delegates that – whilst hoped for – results could not be guaranteed, as this was an experimental séance, but it was important that the test conditions were strictly adhered to. We tried to reproduce as faithfully as possible the conditions the medium sat in during his own home circle.
 
There was a short period after the séance started where we were quiet, to allow the medium to enter his usual deep trance state but, as soon as everybody began to sing – the phenomena started to happen. One of the trumpets moved off the floor and started to tap the tambourine – quite clearly in time to the music. It then rose high up in the air as if conducting the song whilst tapping out the beat. At the end of the singing, the trumpet ‘dipped’ as if it was taking a bow!
 
Because of the small amount of light that was entering the room, it was possible for us to see the outline of the top of the medium’s head during the proceedings. We also witnessed the two trumpets up in the air simultaneously (although many feet apart), and the levitated tambourine being shaken in time to the music. One member of the medium’s circle asked that the tambourine be levitated high into the air, whereupon it shot up to a height of 15 to 18 feet, and was waved over the heads of the sitters – some distance away from the medium. It then moved rapidly in an arc before landing with a bang under a seat at the back of the second row.
 
The first ‘voice’ communication received was from a teaching guide known as ‘The Mandarin’, who spoke through the levitated trumpet. He recommended that all physical circles placed some crushed or powdered vitamins and minerals in their circle. Vitamins C; D; Riboflavin (vitamin B2); iron; magnesium, calcium and salt were all recommended. ‘The Mandarin’ also stated that a new baby – who was a potential physical medium – had been born that very day in Leicester.
 
The second communicator was a young ‘Cockney’ named ‘Charlie’, who was a regular speaker in the home circle. He suddenly announced that he was NOT going to use the trumpet, which was then thrown into the middle of the circle before he then started to speak in the ‘Independent Voice’, using the ectoplasmic ‘voicebox’, which he said was built about two feet away from the medium. Because of the unusual conditions and the unintended influx of light, he explained that Spirit were unable to move the ‘voicebox’ about as they did in their home circle.
 
Whilst ‘Charlie’ was answering questions from the floor, we could hear paper being torn off the pad, and one piece of this actually landed on the lap of one of the ladies who was present. Jokingly, he said that he could not find the pencil – so he would have to write the messages elsewhere, and then ‘apport’ them into the circle. These would be found at the end of the séance, and would be evidential to the recipients!
 
As predicted, when the séance was over, two screwed-up pieces of tissue paper were found. No tissue paper of any kind had been brought into the circle by anybody present, so, indeed these must have been apported into the room. When one of these messages was opened, it was intended for a lady who was present, and was from her deceased 10-year-old son. It read: “Mummy xxxx Richard”. This was indeed very evidential to the lady sitter. The second message read: “Annie, I still love you”. This, too, was extremely evidential to the lady who received it. The words were printed in the form of little dots – very much like braille – or the print from a dot matrix printer.
 
The third communicator ‘Daphne’ was also a regular visitor to the ‘Swift’ home circle. She explained that her role was to convey personal messages during sittings but – in the Spirit World – her main function was to help children who passed over at an early age. Even though the lighting conditions were less than adequate – nevertheless – the Independent Voices were loud and clear.
 
During the séance, those of us close to the cabinet were able to confirm that at no point had the medium moved from his chair, as we were able to see the top of his head at all times. When the sitting was over, the medium remained firmly bound by cable ties, and had to be cut free. We also noticed that the bowl containing the vitamins and minerals showed signs of its contents having been used.
 
Special thanks went to ‘Lincoln’ and his circle members for taking part in this historic experimental séance, particularly in view of the fact that Colin Fry had only been sitting for development of just over ONE year!! Needless to say, this public demonstration by physical medium Colin created headlines in the ‘Psychic News’ in its May 25th issue 1991.
 
Colin Fry continued to demonstrate for us (members of the Noah’s Ark Society) on many occasions – both at our home in Scole and during subsequent residential seminars. In fact it was this first demonstration in Leicester that prompted deep trance and physical medium Stewart Alexander (who was present) to speak of his own mediumship, and to volunteer – like Colin – to demonstrate physical phenomena for members of the Noah’s Ark Society.

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Robin Foy is best known for his work with the Scole Experiment and is considered one of the original pioneers in physical mediumship using new energy based methodology. He is the author of several books on physical mediumship and is a true expert.



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