Alchemist by the Sea

Testing Paranormal Devices Using Mediumship

We have been holding a small home circle in Raleigh for the last several months. It is always fun for me as I love to see others develop their trust in Spirit and learn to communicate. And soon, I will opening the class to additional students.

Today we expanded our skills using  some interesting applications. One was the Ovilus which is a speech synthesis device. While Mediums won't be replaced using this method of communication today, the messages we received during class were very much to the point and eyeopening.

We had been exchanging information on a  current event where we had some communications from some old warrior souls. The Ovilus gave us additional information to their more recent passing as well as verifying the communicators as "Gold Team" while they supplied other, pertinent information.

I was first introduced to this device by a medium  named AJ during a class on Mediumship in the Bahamas. I believe that there is something to the information derived through using the app. During one class, I received names of individuals and place names that made a lot of sense to the person sitting next to me. The more this result repeats, the more I will become convinced it is not just a coincidence. More investigation is certainly required here but I like what I see so far.  I plan to offer a class in the fall or early winter using the Ovilus to test the process with a larger audience.

Staying with these paranormal devices, here is a photo from another app for iPhones called Ghost Detector Pro. My friend Karen first told me about it and I have been having fun using the application ever since. The device claims to monitor changes in frequency, tracking EVP's or electronic voice phenomena. Then the app takes a photograph of the "event". Here you can see some orbs that I believe are those in Spirit working with us during the class.

Being a clairvoyant, I was able to verify these images and orbs that are photographed as they mirror what I have already detected through mediumship.

Images from Spirit

As I traveled through Scotland I received many messages from Spirit through  pictures. Some photos had full length images of a person in Spirit while others were just symbols such as the recurring "head and shoulder" image or the "diamond shape" that appeared in the pictures I took of places important to a specific medieval incarnation as a Douglas.

When I visited Lesmahagow Priory I saw a priest "in Spirit" who appeared to be kneeling in prayer. He later identified himself as Prior Brice of Lesmahagow. I recognized his image recorded here in this photo (left), appearing the lower right corner in a hue of blue.  Brice came in to me (communicated with me) that day and showed me around the priory where the Douglas family kept their charters until 1289. Later Brice became the Bishop of Moray. He was an important figure in the Douglas family.

A second photo taken that day at the same priory included a head and shoulder shape that became a signature image for me at several medieval religious houses in Scotland. During a sitting in 2003 with Robert Brown , the Medium looked at the photograph and provided evidence that validated other messages for me about a prior medieval lifetime. "I see a woman wearing a white Saxon veil like Maid Marion," he said, adding that her name was Eleanor. The name of person in that 13th century incarnation in Scotland was Eleanora Lovaine Douglas and the white veil was a symbol of mourning.  The photographs were taken in 2002.

Because I received so many different messages, symbols and images, in my photographs I decided to carry at least three different cameras on each trip. I would take pictures with each camera at every site to rule out the possibility of these Spirit images being attributed to "lens flares".

Messages from Spirit come in many shapes and forms. Photographic images, capturing Spirit energy on film, was one of my favorite types of communication.

Spirit Orbs and Shapes from iPhone App

A friend introduced me to this interesting app on iPhones....Ghost Detect Pro...there are other ones out there with similar names but this particular app seems to be the best I have seen so far. The camera shots initiated by the app with my camera are coming up with some very unique photos. The app also provides some words in sound to accompany images.

During lunch I ran the app in my office.

The orb locations are similar to the way I see things in meditation with certain Spirits in 'their normal places'.

But one image caught my eye....this wall space was in natural light, no flash (how about those lens flares?!!!).

I wonder how this works...?

Reiki helps us learn to work with the Universal Life Force...the energy I call Spirit

Not long after I completed my own training in Reiki Second Degree I visited Scotland for the first time, in this lifetime. I decided to do Reiki healing at the ruins of the 13th century castle of my ancestors in the village of Douglas, Lanarkshire.

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For those of you thinking of taking the Reiki First Degree or Reiki Second Degree classes at Dancing Moon, thought you might like to know how it works with Spirit Communication. Actually, it is all about communicating with those behind the veil.

Animals and Spirit Communication

Teaching Spirit Communication is rewarding for me. Each class reminds me of the earlier times in my own development when I was unsure about the source of my information. I was almost fearful to share the words form Spirit as I thought I might have gotten the message wrong. But now as I share the stories of my early training I realize that such timidity was actually a struggle with ego.

Communication is a partnership with our guides in Spirit. Those souls behind the veil have to learn how to communicate with us just like we have to find a way to receive their messages accurately. Meditation on a daily basis helps to speed up the learning process.

I have found that our animals are natural communicators. My new Deerhound pups have provided me with wonderful messages from their animal counterparts in Spirit. For the last eight weeks since Arrow and Ace passed, the newcomers, Mercury and Archer, have been on high alert.

Without audible prompts, one of my eight month old hounds started to stare at a corner of the room that was once the territory supervised by my beautiful Celtic Arrow. Mercury escalated his response to a full-bark alert. As a medium I was able to see Arrow still standing her ground. (Celtic Arrow pictured left, a month before she passed)

On another day Garnet Ace, my wise old soul in Spirit, showed up in my bedroom. I saw him out of the corner of my eye as he sauntered through. From a deep sleep, the newer pup, Archer, jumped up on the bed, standing at full attention. Loud barking ensued until the Ace Man left the room. (Garnet Ace pictured right with his happy smile)

I was very grateful to see my old warrior hounds in Spirit. Their presence is wonderfully reassuring, even with my decade of experience in mediumship. Just knowing that they are around is very comforting to me. And for those that do not 'see' as a clairvoyant be assured that our animal friends never really leave us. With meditation we can learn to see these loved ones on a daily basis, many becoming our totems as we 'travel' behind the veil through our meditations.

Communication with Spirit is something we all can do. Sometimes it is just a matter of being receptive, open to the message just like my Deerhound pups were when they were visited by Arrow and Ace. Animals teach us a lot about communicating with Spirit as they are always open to it, taking it in stride as part of their reality.

Were Barbara Olson's Calls on 9-11 from Spirit?

Barbara Olson was an author, attorney and political commentator who died on Flight 77 when it hit the Pentagon on 9-11. I was living in Boston at the time  and knew her only through her books and appearances on television. But that afternoon she started talking to me from Spirit.

Over the course of several days she presented evidence of her survival in Spirit. And she provided details in  visions of her last minutes on board the aircraft before it crashed. I wrote everything down in my journals and was surprised when she insisted more than once that I knew her.

It was ten years later that I understood.

Helen Foster (left image) appeared briefly in my latest book, RIGHT OF PASSAGE, What the Dead say about Reincarnation. She was a great, great, great aunt to me as well as a  relative from Staffordshire, England in medieval times.  In  her marriages she wed  conservative political leaders, including Ansel B. Cook of Illinois.

A week before the tenth anniversary of 9-11 Helen in Spirit  revealed that she had helped me write my latest book and that she was also Barbara Olson.

She provided evidence of survival, including these facts: her husband remarried and that she had contacted him from Spirit with three phone calls. Ted Olson first told CNN that his wife called him twice on a cell phone. I recalled the visions  I had on 9-11 of the lady wearing wire rim glasses, crouched on the floor behind a seat on a plane making a call from a small phone. The only problem with Ted Olson's evidence at the 9-11 investigation was that the FBI contradicted his story.

The FBI gathered all cell phone information for 9-11. Only one call was attributed to Barbara Olson and it was not completed, lasting zero seconds. Ted Olson said he spoke with his wife twice. Barbara told me that three calls were made. Ted said she identified the hijackers as Muslims and described their weapons and activities that matched other evidence collected that day. The calls between  Barbara and her husband surely took place, but how?

Later Ted Olson modified his story, saying that his wife may have called collect on a passenger-seat phone. American Airlines refuted that claim as their Boeing 757 did not have seat phones. The cell phones capable of operating at high altitudes were not developed until 2004, so how did Barbara make those calls?

I believe it was as Barbara told me; she called from Spirit.

Our loved ones will get through to tell us they survive the change called death. The messages come in love and on 9-11, Barbara Olson's call was not the only one using Spirit Energy for the connection.

Spirit Energy Captured on Film

A friend in Scotland sent me two photos he took of his Scottish Deerhound the other morning on the roof of a ruined wing of his 13th century castle. Look at the first image and see the orbs and then compare that image to his photograph taken less than a second later. That's how  I determine if I am actually photographing orbs or just something other than Spirit energy.

The second photo, taken just a second later is quite different; the orbs are no longer visible.

As a medium, when I receive a message about something that is very important I always ask for a sign as verification that what I heard was accurate. When my Scottish Deerhound Garnet Ace was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma I was told that there would be a miracle...I felt that it meant that his suffering would lead to a cure. On his birthday I received a Spiritual visit. That was great validation for me! The research team has made a significant breakthrough...hooray...and they are now working on the next phase of the research. For now Ace and Arrow stage mini coursing events in our back yard. Yes, three legged races for Ace...just don't tell him he only has three legs!

Ask Spirit...and Get an Answer

Many times I hear sitters say that they want to hear from Spirit on their own. Aside from the normal teaching that "everything begins with meditation," I try to remind them that in general, they already communicate with Spirit on some level. It is all about awareness...

A few weeks ago I asked Spirit to guide me, to help me find some relief from recurring shoulder pain. Each night before I fell asleep I asked for an answer. As someone who sits most of the day in front of a laptop I find that no mater what I do I have chronic shoulder pain. I wanted some exercises to relieve that discomfort. In about three days I had my answer. As a medium, you would say that Spirit just told me in meditation but that is not the case...they nudged me.

I was looking to replace a button on a new outfit. I knew that I had inherited a huge velvet bag of buttons in my grandmother's large, wooden sewing stand. As I rummaged through the sewing box I found, buried at the bottom of course, an article from 1968 interviewing Madame Alexander, the lady who designed all those beautiful dolls in the 1950's. 'Here's How to Age Gracefully" was the title and in it was a series of short exercises to do each morning. I started the regimen that day and have kept faithful to it now for two weeks. My shoulder pain is subsiding and I have more flexibility.

Simple answers from  Spirit...awareness is the key.

 

Reiki helps us learn to work with the Universal Life Force...the energy I call Spirit

Not long after I completed my own training in Reiki Second Degree I visited Scotland for the first time, in this lifetime. I decided to do Reiki healing at the ruins of the 13th century castle of my ancestors in the village of Douglas, Lanarkshire.

Setting the video camera to record I went about my healing ceremony.

Imagine my surprise when I viewed this figure directly opposite me, higher on the right of the image, standing in the tower ruins wearing a medieval bishop's hat and robes. The image is slightly blurred as it was a still created from a VCR movie.

The Spirit later identified himself as William from a different incarnation. This was the first time I experienced Spirit working with me while  I did Reiki healing. Other friends who are not mediums but have taken Reiki, have discovered that their ability to communicate with those on the 'otherside' has been improved since they began practicing the healing modality on others.

It is all about working with the Universal Life Force...that energy is Spirit to me.