Mediumship and Intuition

This blog post isn't just about mediumship, it's important for people to know that they can connect with their own intuition, loved ones and spirit guides through meditation. I think our society should teach, explore and discuss this more. As I said in the My Story blog post, I decided to take an online evidential mediumship class on the Shift Network with Suzanne Giesemann. I took the mediumship class in the pursuit of knowledge and trying to understand how an afterlife could exist scientifically but I found so much more. Suzanne Giesemann is a former navy officer so she was big about evidence which was just up my alley. As part of her class, I began meditating which started me on my own journey.

When I first started meditating, I thought I would start to see spirits like the movie The Sixth Sense. What I quickly realized is that it doesn’t happen like that. Most people will never see spirits. I’ve been meditating for 3 years and the only thing I’ve seen is orbs on my ceiling when I’m almost asleep. For the spirit to communicate with the medium, the medium needs to raise their energetic frequency and the spirit needs to lower their energetic frequency to meet in the middle, hence the word mediumship. Spirits and humans both have energy but different energetic frequencies, they are communicating across dimensions. It’s like being on different channels of a radio. 

A big part of the mediumship class was increasing our energetic frequency or vibration. Since spirits are in bliss and joy on the other side, in order to communicate we need to raise our frequency to be joyful too. This means clearing out negative feelings like fear, guilt, shame, and long term anger and grief. See my blog post on Fear. Mediumship teachers will often talk about the importance of "sitting in the light", clearing energy and chakras, loving oneself, and focusing on gratitude and joy.

Through meditation, we can start to control our left brain. The left brain is responsible for logic, putting things into categories, and survival. The right brain is responsible for oneness and creativity. Take a look at Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk or book, A Stroke of Insight. She was a neuroanatomist that had a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. In her book she explains that when she lost the use of her left brain she experienced universal oneness. I believe that at some point humanity started overusing their left brain which created a society focused on the physical. In my experience, the longer I meditate the more sensitive I'm becoming to energy. See my blog post on Meditation for more information.

Spirit Guides are also a big topic in the world of spirituality and mediumship. These are souls we have known for eons of time and we have usually had incarnations with on Earth and possibly other planets. These guides love us unconditionally and basically follow us around all day to support us. Earth is considered a very tough school to incarnate so we need spirit guides and angels to support us. I don't believe incarnations on other planets always require so much support from the spirit realm. Mediums work with their spirit guides to sometimes translate and help with the mediumship reading. See my blog post called Spirit Guides for more detail on this.

Another topic that comes up in mediumship is protection. Different spiritual teachers have different perspectives on this though. Some believe that negative energy is caused by human created thought forms, basically human fear, and others will say there are spirits that like to cause problems. I deep dived into this to decide what was real for me. My opinion is that the concept of negative spirits is very much sensationalized by TV and movies. I think there are beings that are highly evolved and beings that aren't as evolved across the universe but overall the majority of spirits are in joy. I have not experienced anything except love and good vibes in my meditations.

I do clean my energy field by sitting in the light, specifically I picture myself in a shaft of white light, a ball of white light going up and down my body or I picture a purple flame cleaning my energy. There are also high frequency meditations that help clear and clean energy as well. See my detailed blog post on sound therapy. I do believe that angels and our spirit guides surround us in protection and love especially if we ask them. We have free will so we do need to ask for help when we want it. I also think it's important to set an intention for meditation. Intentions have to do with manifestation which I believe is a real thing. An example of an intention that Suzanne Giesemann uses in her hemi-sync meditation is "Let the greatest good be served by my adventures in consciousness".

I took classes online on the Shift Network with the top mediums and spiritual teachers in the US: Suzanne Giesemann, James Van Praagh, and Marie Manuchehri. I wanted to see if their teachings were consistent. What I found is that yes their teachings are all very consistent. They have different personalities so I think it's just finding the right personality if someone is interested in taking a class.

In regards to spirit communication, what I learned is that spirits are not in the physical state anymore so they aren’t communicating in a way that we are used to as humans. Spirits are communicating energetically and the way they communicate on the other side is telepathically and through energy. Humans have an energy field called an auric field around the body. We also have Chakra Points which are energy points that align with our physical body. This is where the “clairs” come in. Clairvoyance is when we get an image in our head through the 3rd eye chakra, clairaudience is when we hear through the throat chakra, clairsentience is when we get a feeling through the heart chakra, and claircognizance is when we get a knowing through the crown chakra.

I’ll give a couple examples of when I practiced with other mediums 

1. I did a practice mediumship session with a group of 3 or 4 women in my class. We all take a minute to meditate and say an intention for the session. I heard right away the words “Kate’s husband”. I would say it was almost like someone talking in the wind, I couldn’t tell if it was outside of my ears or in my head. I just “heard” those words. Then I saw an image of an old fashioned car sitting in a front driveway. This was my first practice session so I just wrote these things down in my notebook and stayed quiet letting the other women go first. Then a woman in the group spoke up first and said, “Kate, do you have a husband in spirit?” Kate said yes. The woman then said, “he showed me a car”. Kate said that her husband had passed and one of his favorite things was his car he used to park in the front of the driveway so that everyone that walked by saw it. I was shocked.

2. I did a practice session with another woman from my mediumship class. I heard the word “husband”. She confirmed that her husband had crossed the veil. I saw an image in my head of the woman and her child sitting on a couch under a blanket watching tv or a movie. In that image I also saw her husband sitting in a chair in that room watching them. I described this and also the way her condominium looked. I told her “I see the couch and TV, I see him sitting in a chair adjacent to the couch, kitchen behind you, and what looks like two bedrooms on the side so it looks like a condominium”. Then I said that I had an image of her walking on the beach and her husband walking with her. She said she lived in a condo close to the beach and confirmed this was all correct. I believe that her husband wanted her to know that he was with her all the time, watching over her and her child. I also described their relationship. He showed me a picture in my head of them driving in their car together like a road trip laughing, having a great time. She confirmed this was all correct. Afterward I kept thinking that I couldn't have made that up.

3. I did a practice session with a woman from a mediumship practice app. I closed my eyes and saw two cats sitting on a kitchen floor. I kept seeing them in my mind. I said, "did you have two cats that passed away?" The woman said "Yes!" She started laughing and couldn't believe I was seeing her cats.   

In the above examples, you can see how subtle the communication is. It’s easy to accidentally use the left brain and say something that is not true. This is why mediums need to practice with other mediums, and start to build confidence. There is an app called VerySoul which allows mediums to practice with each other. It is a very cool and innovative addition to the world of spirituality. If someone isn't a born medium, I can see how it would take a lot of meditation and work to increase their vibration to be good. This is also why some mediums are better than others. The job of a medium is like any other job, there are good ones and not so good ones. Believe me, I ran into the same thing when I worked in the IT consulting industry, there were good consultants and not so good ones. 

There are organizations like Helping Parents Heal, the Forever Family Foundation and scientific research organizations that test mediums and have certification processes. Here is a list of the evidential mediums that are certified with Helping Parents Heal (https://www.helpingparentsheal.org/providers/) and Forever Family Foundation (https://www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org/pages/certified-mediums). Dr Gary Schwartz is a well known professor at the University of Arizona that has been studying consciousness. He has written multiple books on the scientific testing of mediums and that the mediums were able to prove the existence of an afterlife. If interested in talking to a medium, I would recommend one that has been certified or a medium that has been referred by a friend. 

There are also different types of mediums or intuitives. There are many mediums that focus on connecting people with their loved ones in spirit. These are the traditional mediums most people go to and what I'm describing in the paragraphs above. Mediums will also offer the service of a psychic reading. Psychic readings are focused on reading a living person's energy. Below are a few other different types of intuitives or services that intuitives will focus on. I use the term medium when describing a traditional medium that connects with loved ones. I use the word intuitive as a more general term for those that use intuition to connect to the higher realms. I don't think it matters though. I think the term medium still holds the woo woo reputation so younger people that are coming into this field want to use the term intuitive to be seen as more serious and professional.

There are intuitives that focus on reading akashic records. The akashic record is an ethereal database or some say library (it is also called the akashic library, hall of records, or book of life) located in a higher dimension. This library contains information on every soul from their creation to current day and even future plans. The akashic reader can only access this information with your approval and then they use channeling and intuition to retrieve it. I had an akashic reading from a very smart, detail oriented woman that took her job seriously. She told me that my soul was 4 million years old and that I'm a starseed. She explained to me that the first planet I incarnated on was a water planet in the Corvus constellation. I was an aquatic being on this planet. She also went through a handful of past lives that included ancient Egypt and Lemuria. Interesting...I know. I cover this reading in my blog post on starseeds here: Interplanetary/Starseed Souls.

There are intuitives that focus on channeling higher dimensional or more evolved beings for example the higher self, spirit guides, and galactic beings. See my detailed blog post on channeling here: Channeling Wisdom from the Higher Realms

I've also met with intuitives that focus more on working with starseeds. They help to explain to starseeds the planets and dimensions they are from, who their spirit guides are, and answer any questions they have. See my detailed blog post on starseeds called Interplanetary/Starseed Souls.

There are energy healers that use their intuitive abilities to help clear any issues with a person's chakras or auric field. See my detailed blog post on Energy Healing and Sound Therapy for more on this.

So this is a bit more detail on mediumship and intuitive work. I hope you enjoyed reading and find it interesting as well!