Alchemist by the Sea

Messengers From Spirit Come in All Sizes

My father was in the Naval ROTC program in 1942 at Georgia Tech where he was studying to be an engineer. His best friend's brother was killed at Pearl and the two decided to leave the ROTC program and join the Marines. Dad was in Okinawa on the day of the first surge with a field promotion to LT. The Marine led his platoon into the firefight. He and thirteen others defied the odds and made it out of Okinawa that day to a hospital on Guam.

As with most old warrior souls there are reasons we incarnate to serve in conflicts again. Dad's service left him with issues and he began to address them as he worked with other Veterans, most of whom were from my age group, Vietnam Veterans. His success was in helping these soldiers, sailors and Marines wean themselves off psychotropic drugs that the VA found to be an easy answer for PTSD. This complicated issue is one we as Healers are beginning to address; the use of Past Life Regressions is one process that I found to be helpful. But my father's approach with vets was to talk;  speaking the same language of those who were in combat, warriors who physically survived the battlefield. His work provided the first step in the Healing process. I believe he saved many Marines and soldiers and sailors from the horrible drug therapies that the VA found to be an easy fix.

Living six hundred miles from the New Hampshire facility where my father ended up months ago after his wife passed I was able to visit only twice in person; mostly I was visiting by phone. In fact I was on the phone with him the day before he crossed over and being a Medium I could understand his words though he was in and out of consciousness and unable to articulate his speech very well to others.

As he was slipping from this world to the next his mother's, my Gram's birthday approached. On her birthday I woke to several very clear visions of Spirit celebrations: hundreds of Spirit Orbs bouncing around like balloons of ectoplasm gathered in front of the many people I know personally in Spirit including Dad's brother, mother, father and step father, an old soldier from WWI, a Captain who served Patton in the Battle of the Ardennes, were all standing there, toasting and celebrating. I thought today's the day. But the stubborn Marine was having none of it. I even spoke to him the next day and told him that it was OK to 'leave'. Then I reflected on the date; in ten days he would be 99. I challenged him to stay till then knowing what he would do: leave on his schedule!

On New Year's Eve day I was sitting at my computer as I am now, writing marketing posts and there in front of my window, sitting in my Mimosa tree in the garden was a large bird. He was a red shouldered hawk! I had seen him as a juvenile two years ago but now he was a mighty bird. He expanded his wonderful wings and flew to my  left; I could hear his fully extended wings move slowly through the yard. Then a few minutes later he returned and sat in the same tree and even looked right at me. I took some pictures and sat back at the glory of it all. We had twenty bird feeders in that garden and the birds had been scurrying about all week. Did our hawk just return to his feeding ground? If that was so the birds would not be seen for weeks. The next day, the birds returned and there were waiting lines at the feeder!

And about an hour after our red shouldered hawk left I got the call from my cousin Clint to let me know that Dad's ordeal was over, he was in Spirit. The hawk was a Messenger from Spirit; he did not come of his own volition but Spirit used energy to guide the bird here to let me know an important message was coming. 

I encourage all my clients to wait for such Messengers from Spirit. We all get them. But we don't always recognize what we see, hear or feel. When we are in mourning, perhaps afraid to admit that our loved ones have crossed over, unable to deal with their passing, these messages can be lost. On the day of my mother-in-law's funeral, my husband Ed was standing in the garden and a beautiful Monarch butterfly came and sat on his shoulder. The butterfly did not leave right away and people were saying that it was Ardelle, his mom. But in truth it was a Messenger from Spirit, letting us all know that our loved one had arrived safely in Spirit. Below is a recent picture; my Carolina wrens and other small winter birds returned the next day after dad passed; the hawk had moved on to other feeding grounds. 

 

 

Why We Know...Everything Happens For a Reason

Back in 1971 I was still living at home as I began commuting to college. My father and I had been house hunting in the Concord, NH area and came upon a house in Warner, NH that I immediately felt drawn to; it became my mission to have my parents purchase the 1803 home on Main Street. Little did I know but this was the beginning of my discoveries about the history of my family and Spiritualism.

The house in Warner was an intriguing structure; basic 1803 with wood stoves and blocked up fire places and many 12 over 12windows. Next door was a very close building that was also used as a Main Street residence; I mean, just a couple of feet from our house! The building once held a physician's office and an old apothecary; the current dining room was paneled walls of tiny drawers marked with 19th century medical descriptions of powders and antidotes for various ailments. 

I began researching our family history in the area as I was opting to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, third generation of daughters, and I was encouraged by local selectmen to seek the help of Mr. Watermeyer. Only his name was really Walter Miner; the New Hampshire accent had been lost on me for my years bouncing around the country, more recently in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

I had "stumbled" upon a book in the local library: The History of Sutton. My great grandmother had a hand in writing it I "discovered". And what a giant door opened to me. I was to discover that my great, great grandmother Elizabeth Cordis Foster was a Spiritualist. And her cousin Horace Greeley was a sponsor of the Fox Sisters, considered to be the cornerstone to American Spiritualism.

As the story of the Fosters and the former owner of our home, Dr. Lyman were revealed I found myself enthusiastically sharing my discoveries with Walter Miner. "I did not know Warner people had bought that house," he said with a big, welcoming smile. I had arrived. The house next to my parent's house was the former site of Dr. Lyman's surgery/office and apothecary. My great, great, great grandfather Jesse Foster apprenticed with Dr. Lyman after obtaining his medical training at what is now Dartmouth. Imagine my astonishment that my ancestors had actually been in that home, my several great grandfather had completed his medical training in these same rooms and next door at the surgery.

But Spirit had more surprises in store. It was around 1834 that Jesse embarked upon Warner. He later took his growing family out west to Illinois. A letter from some local businessmen including a lawyer named Lincoln offered him land in a place that was a bit north of Chicago, an unincorporated village of Libertyville became the new home of the Foster family. Visions of covered wagons and log cabins became their directives. Eventually the physician, surgeon and Libertyville Post Master built himself a nice home in the center of town.

Dr. Foster (shown in a photo circa 1871 to the right) became a well known and respected businessman, physician in Libertyville. He took up an interest in politics and first supported the Wide Awake party and later he joined with the Republicans and his benefactor, Abraham Lincoln. When the war came Dr. Foster was called upon to bring his skills to Washington, D. C. He brought along his daughter Elizabeth as his wife was too ill to travel. And so began the next part of the story.

But first, I need to digress. When my father was moving to his new home in Peterborough, NH in the 1990's he took me aside and presented me with a beautiful garnet brooch and matching earrings. "Your grandmother was very proud of these," he said, "they belonged to her grandmother, Elizabeth Foster.

Elizabeth Foster had lost someone very dear to her, who had gone to Spirit. In  letters from back home in NH, Elizabeth heard news of the Fox Sisters and the 1854 phenomena witnessed by family members: Spirit Communication. It was 1863, a hot summer in Washington, D.C. but Mrs. Lincoln's grief was so great that she wanted to have a seance to explore communication from the so called dead. Elizabeth was intrigued. She and he father arrived at the White House and I was shown images in Spirit: she was wearing a family brooch and Abraham Lincoln opened the door himself. The visions I was given detailed the inside of the White House, specifically the entrance area where they showed me more pillars. Elizabeth was shown to the Red Room; I could not see where her father went but I would say he retired to the "smoking" room where the men were discussing the war.

I never would have put all these events together without the initial information from the History of Sutton and the documents I found in Libertyville.  The visions were step by step but only after I uncovered the connection with Dr. Foster and his daughter Elizabeth to Lincoln and Spiritualism did I understand the significance. The beautiful garnet brooch and earrings, still in my possession, provided the lynch pin to validate the vision of Elizabeth at the White House seance in 1863. The Foster connection to Spiritualism was hidden by my great grandmother Seymour; I suspect because it was "fringe". But now I had evidence to the contrary.

Here is a photo of me wearing the elegant 1860's garnet brooch and matching earrings that Elizabeth wore that summer of 1863 in Washington, D.C.

And Spirit always has fun...one of my favorite shows on British television is Miss Marple. She always carried this odd leather bag that is seen throughout many of the episodes. And then there is a photo of my grandfather Jesse's surgery bag that he used in Washington during the Civil War (the War of Northern Aggression as my grandfathers from Virginia would say). Had the surgery kit been less mundane it certainly would not have survived the first pickings of other relatives from my grandmother's estate. But there it was for me:  Miss Marple's bag. Spirit works in mysterious ways.

Miss Marple's bag above and here, on the side to the left, Dr. Jesse Haven Foster's Surgery Bag circa 1862 or earlier.

2020: Year of Nothing is as it Appears

Our economy was roaring in January and February. My own business, especially through Holistic Expos was setting revenue records. Then I began seeing strange visions in meditation: the UN building in NYC, a factory blowing up, drawings of biological blobs. Suddenly we were in the middle of a pandemic that spread from a factory in Wuhan to NYC and fear permeated the airways.

During the lock down I was meditating daily and was shown a crowded assembly of well dressed men and women, looked like the US House of Representatives during the State of the Union. Suddenly President Trump appeared, walking through, shaking hands and giving a thumbs up. He walked up to the dais where two men were sitting in chairs behind the podium. The two men stood tall, and had thick, light or white colored hair. The President turned to them and appeared to smile as they applauded. They looked a lot like Vice President Pence and Kevin McCarthy; McCarthy was in the chair usually reserved for the Speaker of the House.

A few weeks later I was shown another vision, like a black and white video of a large room with huge portraits and elegant furniture. The "movers" were there, rolling up carpets (even the carpeting that was installed), taking down the gold leaf large framed portraits and moving furniture. I was then backed up,finding myself looking towards a doorway where I saw a large pillar that looked made of polished granite; it was sitting on what appeared to be a square post or pedestal to the right of  an archway leading to a reception area.

When I went online I saw this pillar from  photos of the Speaker of the House's office. It was the same one of my vision. I was being shown that we were getting a new Speaker, validating the earlier vision of what looked like the next State of the Union address for 2021.

I have often "heard" from Spirit about future situations. but when I receive such messages "said" in words I have found that the communication is generally only 80% accurate. In 2008 I "heard" that 'John McCain is the next commander in chief'.  To this day I do not understand that message. But now, when I see a vision, it has proven to be 100% accurate...so far.

One year I saw Ray Bourke holding up the Stanley Cup but not wearing a Bruins uniform. That year he was traded to Colorado and won the cup the second season he was on the Avalanche team.

In 2000 I saw the name "C H E N E Y" spelled out; well before Bush named him as his Vice President. And not long after that I saw the future  Vice President Cheney grab his chest as if having a heart attack, collapsing  to the floor; it was  years before the public knew of his need for heart surgery.

In 2016 I was shown then candidate Trump on board a Carrier. He was wearing a gray leather-like Eisenhower jacket and a black non-MAGA hat, saluting the sailors and Marines on the ship. Then in 2017, a little more than a year later there was President Trump on the Ford wearing that same gray leather-looking jacket with the round seal and a black hat, saluting the men and women on the ship.

I have come to believe that Spirit always has a hand in every outcome and at least some results are known well in advance. In January 2000 I was shown small aircraft circling the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. I thought it was a futuristic scene of a new flying vehicle and wrote it down in my meditation notebook. 9-11 was a rude awakening to what messages I might receive from Spirit; some may be horrific so I decided to just record what I saw, knowing that I would know what to do with it later. That is the message I give all my students: just record what you get in meditation and you will eventually understand the message, no matter how long it takes!

Spirit Messages in Visions - Current Events, the Wuhan Virus

A great many stories are being reported on the Wuhan virus. These 'new facts' conflict with the original CCP explanation of the Wuhan Virus and how it was spread.

Spirit was providing this Medium with a lot of confusing information and only now it is beginning to make sense.

In February I was shown a vision of a large plant complex and an explosion in the compound. Two days later there was a story that some type of plant in Wuhan was blown up. A story leaked that it was the Uyghurs who caused the explosion. This religious group in China has been relegated to internment camps and whenever there is an activity like cleaning up a bio disaster, they are dispatched from their internment camps; in this case we were told that they went to clean up a lab in Wuhan. The scenes reported from Wuhan were identical to what Spirit showed me a couple days earlier. Now those stories have disappeared from Google search engines; no YouTube reference is available except to much earlier explosions in Wuhan.

Spirit told me that the initial release of the virus was by accident and that bats and the wet market were not the cause. Numerous studies have followed and it has now been revealed that the specific bat is not from that province and is not part of the wet market; the story was a ruse. The New England Journal of Medicine and other sources have documented the discrepancy. Many news sources are now questioning the entire origination of the Wuhan Virus. Breaking news on major networks has debunked the wet market explanation.

Spirit showed me a vision of the UN building in Manhattan. NYC has become the epicenter for the virus outbreak in the US. "Everything is not as it seems," I was told, especially with what was happening in NYC. I felt somehow that the virus was 'sent' here or there was deliberate intent to spread it. I was shown a vision demonstrating a virus or bug of some kind with "teeth" I was told, and that it was carried to NYC through the UN employees, diplomats, staff, etc.

Last week the strain of the virus was identified as one coming from Europe. When the CCP shut down travel within China it did not shut down travel to those leaving China. Many people from Wuhan went to Italy and that country was overrun with the pandemic; the European strain was made.

Spirit told me in February, just after the president closed the US to travel from China, that we would be getting back to work by May. I have shared these messages with many of my clients and the truth is starting to mirror the words of the February visions from Spirit.

These messages have been shared freely with my clients. Eventually we will determine what originally happened with the virus; how it escaped, how it was transmitted and why. Conspiracy theories abound but are seldom accurate. What Spirit has told me in essence was that the result of the pandemic is what will be the most important; from bad comes good.  Finding methods to treat the victims, reacting more quickly in a crisis, changing our supply chains long term, especially for medicines and medical equipment and supplies; and restoring our reserves for any future pandemic or disaster.

Taiwan and Hong Kong warned us early on about a possible pandemic and the WHO would not address their claims. There are many lessons we can take from the outbreak, the response in the US and the reaction from our citizens and businesses to ramp up supplies of ventilators that were denied to us by the CCP has been amazing. Production lines were restructured in fast order producing much needed equipment. And the stunning development is that in a few weeks we actually have a ventilator surplus; our supply chains are improving and we are all more aware of the world as a whole today.

Every Sunday at 9PM Eastern time zone a Reiki Healing gathering throughout the US is happening, led by the Reiki Healing Connection in Wilton, NH. Reiki Healers are sending healing to the world, to the people who contracted the virus, their families, the first responders, in many different front line vocations, as well as to those who perpetrated the spread of the virus by hiding it from the world. It  is all about healing. Just as Usui provided great healing after the Kanto earthquake of 1923, Reiki Healing can work around the world today;   sending love and light as we step aside and allow Spirit to get us back to wholeness. Stay safe; May is coming soon.

Messages from Spirit from Rick Rescorla- Why Mediums Sit for Spirit on a Daily

As a Spiritual Medium I always emphasize the importance of daily meditation to my students. I have come to believe that we need to communicate with our guides to keep that connection open and strong. And as I did my research and wrote my books the daily meditations became invaluable.

And now when I am not looking for specific information in meditations I still do them. And there are rewards; great rewards!

The other day I opened to do my morning meditation and saw a vision of my guides bringing forward a large man and seeing him being  given an award of some kind; a medal that was dangled from a thick ribbon, that was being draped on his chest. I drew what I saw and forgot about it. Then the 9-11 anniversary rolled around and on the White House site they announced an award given posthumously to Richard Rescorla. And I started to hear the song, "Men of Harlech". What a great way to start the day!

Rick Rescorla was a true warrior soul. When he first introduced himself to me a decade or so ago in my meditations, Rescorla said that Mel Gibson had made a movie on his war experience. I researched the story of "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" and found out that his character was in the original filming but did not survive the final edits, ending up on the cutting room floor. This great warrior soul also told me that he was named Richard and was an officer in a financial corporation, explaining that  he died in Tower II on 9-11. I wrote about him, his medieval lifetime in Scotland  in my award winning book, "RIGHT OF PASSAGE, What the Dead say about Reincarnation." He had 'second sight' in that lifetime as he did in this century. He was best known as the man who predicted both the 1993 World Trade Center attack , the exploding truck in the basement and the 9-11 attack by airplanes that destroyed the twin towers. A very interesting soul, Richard always made me laugh and as a great communicator he was able to articulate specific information about himself that I could easily verify.

I was truly grateful that Spirit provided that vision of the White House ceremony, reminding me that Rick was always around my soul group. I was thrilled when the President honored him for his heroic leadership on 9-11. Godspeed Rick Rescorla...keep singing that song...and thanks again for your service.

Men of Harlech

Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming,

                                    Can't you see their spear points gleaming?

                                     See their warriors' pennants streaming to this battlefield?

                                     Men of Cornwall stand ye steady,

                                It cannot be ever said,for the battle were not ready;

                                    Stand and never yield!"

 

 

Understanding Personal Messages from Our Guides

About seventeen years ago I found myself in a Trance Development Class with then ISF President Marjory Kite. I was selected to be one of the mediums for a demonstration. Once in Trance Marjory asked my Control (Guide) about John of God. She had seen pictures of some of his work and spoken with people witnessing his healing first hand.

Marjory asked my Control Ana, my Healing Guide, about John of God, specifically how he managed to heal as he did, even pulling organs out of the body of the client who was being treated. I could hear my Control in conversation  with Marjory and was I ever surprised! Ana told Marjory that John of God did his healing with mirrors; she insisted that he was not who he said he was. Marjory argued; protested that she had evidence. Ana responded again that it was 'magic' and not 'real'. She further explained that it was all a hoax.

I was proud of myself that I did not pull out of the Trance; after all, Marjory was a recognized Medium and President of the ISF, the same organization that boasted Arthur Conan Doyle as its President until his death in 1930. At the end of class a discussion ensued about how we can believe what our Guides are relaying during Trance.

I walked away feeling that my Guides were accurate but at that time I was not able to validate the information. The image at the left of John of God was taken from his website.

But one thing in twenty years that I have learned working with Spirit, messages make more sense years later. That is why I insist on having journals handy on my bedside table, in my meditation room and even in my suitcase when I travel. A few months ago the stories of 600 accusers coming forward to charge that John of God was not a Healer but a Molester.  With those accusations came a flood of information about the alleged healer being less than authentic, using his inflated  reputation to move in a non spiritual direction as he took advantage of 'naive believers'. It was very sad.

I have come to believe that Spirit is accurate in their words even if the messages appear to be questionable at the time they were given. In the case of my Trance demonstration, the validation of the message came nearly sixteen years later. Taking good notes is imperative. And it proved true in another, more personal situation.

After the death of one of our Deerhounds Angus I wondered how much longer I was going to have his brothers Mercury and Archer and our other Deerhound Wind Chimes. Spirit loudly proclaimed: they will go out as they came in; but I made an error in determining the meaning of that assertion.

Maybe my error was on a subconscious level because losing Mercury, my first hound of the four, our pack leader would be too painful to contemplate. Archer was then diagnosed with Osteosarcoma; his months were numbered.

So I thought Wind Chimes was next and followed her every pant or other sign of possible illness, wondering if she would pass soon. Suddenly on May 6 Mercury suffered a seizure and came out of it for a brief second to acknowledge me and then went back in seizure that overwhelmed his heart, taking his life. He died in my arms and I was in a fog for weeks.(Mercury-Sitting on the couch at right)

Six days later I was told by Spirit it was time to let Archer go to avoid fracture of the then 12" in diameter tumor. Mercury was our first brother; Arrow passed unexpectedly and we got Archer (seen to the left here with his ladybug toy). Then Wind Chimes came ten months later. "They will go out as they came in" now made sense. And it was ever so painful to accept.

Many mediums when they receive personal messages that precipitate an emotional response such as the passing of my Scottish Deerhounds meant to me, seek the assistance of other Mediums to confirm the messages. I tried but was not able to validate the meaning until after the events. Even Mediums block Spirit's Messages. Reading my notes in my journals, I realize how accurate the original message was and perhaps I knew all along and it was just necessary to let myself down easily. Acceptance is what is getting me through the day; belief in the 'Other Side' of Ancient Celts...and oh yes, seeing the boys with Arrow, Ace and Larry in Meditation, priceless!

Why Choose Healing?

Why Choose Healing?

How You Can Benefit from Classes Working with Guides in Spirit

By Deborah Richmond Foulkes, CM, FSAScot, D.Div

Working with our Guides in Spirit helps us to heal ourselves. But how do we learn to communicate with those in Spirit? The answer is simple, we already are communicating. As a Soul in a physical form we are connected by energy cords, sometimes referred to as the ‘Silver Cords’. We came from Spirit and we shall one day return there. Why shouldn’t we be able to communicate?

Spiritualists began their work with Spirit Communication in 1848, at Fox Cottage in a small village outside Rochester, NY working with a deceased peddler named Charles Rosna. The Fox sisters heard a rapping sound and were able to develop a code with the peddler in Spirit. Ten years later they were championed by publisher Horace Greeley from NH, later of NY fame. They married their husbands at his NY home and became famous. These ladies took their show on the road and New Spiritualism was born, in the United States. By 1891 Spiritualism the religion was established under the constitution of the United States with its protections as a religion. The basis of Spiritualism was the phenomena called Mediumship which proved that the personality of the soul does not change when it returns to Spirit.

Decades later as a Spiritualist, a Minister and a Certified Medium in the Spiritualist church working with my Guides, we at Skybear.com bring our expertise in communication to share with the local community. We offer Classes as well as Development Circles at very reasonable costs to promote the art of communication.

In our two decades of existence we have published six books written with Spirit. We have been able to take the Spiritualist findings and expand on their work, discovering through Mediumship and Academic Research to verify the information that the personality of the Soul remains the same, lifetime over lifetime. Knowing as we do now that death is not an end but another beginning we have mitigated many fears in living the life we have been given.

As Robert Brown wrote, appearing in one of my books, “When the fear of death is removed, it changes things.” But how do we get to that place where we can enjoy our lives and work to heal from past lives? We begin by turning to our Guides in Spirit that we have chosen to help us achieve our goals in this incarnation.

How does one begin you might ask. Listen, watch, seek; walk through stores that feature crystals, books on healing, essential oils. Feel the energy, experience the excitement as you begin to pay attention to you. A book falls off the shelf, a crystal sparkles in a remarkable way, or a fragrance from an essential oil smells oddly familiar. This is how your Guides remind you of your intentions, overcoming the cell memories of prior incarnations to heal in this life.

Reiki is an excellent start. Reiki First Degree is all about healing yourself and others. Second degree allows you to share your talents working with your Guides and the Universal Life Force. At Skybear we always recommend that our students begin their communication with Spirit through Reiki. Traveling to Japan, following in the footsteps of Usui on Mount Kurama is the basis of the courses we offer to our students semiannually through Skybear.com.

From Reiki we offer an understanding of how Spirit Communication works and how everyone can improve their own abilities, augment their talents. When you can communicate more easily with your Guides you can accelerate the healing, keeping on your path as you ease yourself through those more difficult times when we are resolving cell memories from prior lives.

So why heal ourselves in this lifetime? Simple answer, why not? Cell memory is baggage from other lifetimes. We often plan to rid ourselves of those memories of physical or emotion battles of the past, asking our Guides to assist us. Armed with the support of Spirit, learning to communicate ourselves for healing is the simple path of recovery and healing. Allow yourself to heal, seek the remedies that Spirit is sharing with us and remember the Spiritualist motto, “Let it begin with me”.

Messages from Spirit - How Our Guides Get Through to Us

A little over a year ago I was in Salt Lake City doing an Expo for my work with Spirit. I set up my booth Friday and later met a client for dinner. Linda was all excited to tell me that she had information for me regarding my work with Spirit. It was not that she thought she giving me a message but that she 'knew' something was important to do, a special task that she would help facilitate.

My work with Spirit began in 1999 when my Wolfhound Larry passed. I knew I had to contact the 'other side' to determine that he was OK so I set up a session with Medium Lydia Clar. Larry did not come through during that session but I acquired her meditation series and began to meditate twice daily with full dedication. In six weeks I was seeing incredible visions, all black and white but very clear. It was not until a sitting with Robert Brown the following fall that Larry did make his presence known. He came 'in' during that sitting with a barking noise that was recorded on tape. Robert wrote about that experience with Direct Voice in his book, We Are Eternal.

Over the next fifteen years I judiciously recorded the messages from Spirit, self financed a $400K research project that took me to Scotland and England over 34 times in 40 months. My journeys continued to France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Japan. In that time period I wrote six books with Spirit, many of which can be found on my research website: www.mytruthliesintheruins.com  as well as the Skybear website. With the publication of my sixth book I assumed I completed my last project. I began teaching classes, giving lectures and doing expos to spread the word of the work I accomplished with Spirit. I took information from my own meditations as well as messages from well known Mediums that validated my work: Robert Brown, Suzane Northrop and John Edward to name a few. The sessions were either recorded or in front of 200 others, in a public demonstration with at least fifty contemporary mediums in Virginia Beach.  I took the information from Spirit and then through Academic Research verified those facts presented by Spirit. I found original documents from the 13th century and forward that validated a past life in medieval Scotland. It was an amazing journey. The books were derived from that information tied to historical records, where only the conversations were 'imagined'; but then again, were they?

In Salt Lake Linda told me she was going to take a class in script writing. She then sent me the notes from that class and a book to help me get started on writing a screen play. I was really hesitant. Then I remembered I had been getting messages all along regarding a movie involving my books. I attended a Trance Course weekend in Virginia with the International Spiritualists. I was a member of that long enduring organization whose claim to fame in my world was their President, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. During a significant meditation exercise I saw a vision and the teacher linked in to validate it: walking down an aisle of a large hall with many guests in attendance and I was heading forward to be on stage accepting some award: it has to do with your books, I was told. It was striking to me; I had given up hope of using my books for a motion picture.

Early on I had given copies of my books to friends, one whose husband was with ICON International; another person was Randall Wallace of Braveheart fame, who was signing books on the Queen Mary across the way from my book table where I was doing the same. It all seemed so long ago. In fact, those books had to be completely rewritten because the language was actually more of a download from Spirit and confusing to some of my readers. Some said the books were as challenging as reading the Canterbury Tales. In 2013 I completed the revisions of book two of my Douglas Trilogy, In the Shadow of My Truth. It is the story of the Black Douglas, Scotland's most beloved knight. The research is impeccable; the location sites are verified historically and depicted in the hundreds of pictures throughout the three book series. Many might try writing this story it but there is only one person who knows the essence of James Douglas to make his story come alive on film. I was there and through visions and messages during onsite research; I remember.

So here I am today realizing that Spirit has finally gotten their message across thanks to the Trance work at the ISF weekend workshops and Linda in Utah who insisted (that is stating it mildly!) that I need to look at writing a script for the books. Well...back to work!

 

 

 

 

Proving Mediumship through Academic Research

Proving Mediumship through Academic Research

Historical Documents Validate Spirit

By Deborah Richmond Foulkes, FSAScot

 

As I was researching the “My Truth Trilogy”, specifically the first two books on the medieval Douglas family I found myself receiving information through Meditation as well as Visions during the early waking hours of three to four in the morning. Fortunately I was also recording the information in journals that now span nearly two decades of Spirit Communication.

I was really fastidious about recording things I saw and heard during my daily meditations. I drew images and recorded printed messages as well as words I heard from Spirit. And my ‘notes’ really paid off when I began to write my books on the 13^th and 14^th century Douglas family in the Lowlands of Scotland. These messages became cornerstones to my books, where corrections from those in Spirit to the generally accepted versions of history evolved into ‘new historical truths’. My task was to validate the assertions of Spirit, determine the validity of their messages.

Archdeacon Barbour is credited with the contemporary chronicles of Robert the Brus and his most trustworthy lieutenant James, Lord Douglas. He actually wrote down his famous poem in old Scots about thirty years after these two great heroes of the Scottish Wars for National Independence had passed. Barbour knew many of the stories from personal memory and others he acquired by interviewing the survivors who were only too eager to recount the tales of valor of their heroes for the churchman to record for posterity.

Barbour recounted a battle on the Irvine Water in Aryshire in 1307 in his poem “The Brus”. His facts were well presented but the information I received from James Douglas in Spirit regarding his role in both the planning and execution of the attack on the English soldiers differed from the Barbour description. How did Spirit correct the misinformation? They began with sending me visions of the actual battle scene.

When I arrived in Scotland days later and drove to Hurlford in Aryshire which was a location near the Irvine Water I was led by audible directions from my Guide in Spirit to the true location of the battle. As I crossed the rickety bridge to the other side of the Irvine there before me was the ford on the river, the one I saw in visions, where in 1307 James Douglas led his band of Scots to attack Mowbray and his retinue. In that vision I actually saw Douglas ride his hobini through the ford. I also heard the clip-clop of the horse’s hooves in the water, on the smooth rocks of the ford. And there behind the ford were the drumlins or glacial spoil where Douglas rode his horse to leap up so he could see the progress of the battle. Everything was as I had been shown in visions days before.

So now I had the validation to begin my academic research; proving the location and timing of the battle through original documents. I went to the translated rolls of the pipe and was able to discern that the confusion in the location of the site likely occurred in the combination of two such battles that took place with the same English knight leading a group of on horse and on foot in the pursuit of James Douglas. The documents listed two different dates with separate locations, all in Ayrshire where English knights claimed reimbursement for their personal loss of weapons and horses. Those separate, unique entries provided the reasons behind the discrepancies from the Barbour chronicles and what Spirit had related to me as the ‘facts’ of the battle. I now had my documented proof.

A second example of how the words of Spirit provided one version where the accepted ‘truth’ in the historical compilations exhibited another related to Royal Prison that I eventually verified as being in Yorkshire. In 1290 William Lord Douglas was taken prisoner in Fawdon Northumbria for marrying his wife Eleanora of Lovaine without license of the English king. He was taken to a Royal Prison which had been recorded in Rolls of the Pipe as “de castri de Leeds”. The renowned 19^th century British historians Bain and Stevenson both translated the 13^th century Latin to read: Leeds Castle. I took it as fact. I tried three times to submit my manuscript to the publisher with ‘Leeds Castle’ listed 37 times, pointing to the fortress in Kent as the prison location in 1290. But my Guide William Douglas, the person who was incarcerated in the Royal Prison insisted that the location was incorrect. In fact, he blocked publication of the book until the location was resolved; more on that later.

I return now to the importance of taking good notes from meditation. Early in 2002 I was shown a castle fortress with stone circles or carvings with heart shapes approximately two feet in diameter. I kept drawing the images and never made a connection to any of the dozens of towers and ruins I discovered during the several years of my onsite research in England and Scotland. Spirit then began drawing my attention to the words, ‘de castri de Leeds’. There were two meanings to the description I discovered; one being the translation that Bain and Stevenson used as ‘a castle in Leeds’. The other obscure definition was ‘a half day’s ride from’. So I began by taking a protractor to a map around Leeds Yorkshire. And there it was, ten miles away or a half day’s ride from Leeds Yorkshire: Knaresborough. In 1287 Edward of England had begun his renovation of Royal Castles by adding a Royal Prison and Royal Court to the Knaresborough castle.

When I visited the castle years later in  2005 those early messages from Sprit made sense at last; there before me were the great stone rosettes, carved shapes on the circles’ surface just as I had seen them early in my mediations, long before I published my first book that included the stories of Knaresborough castle. So with the help of Spirit, rejecting my three submissions to the publisher (corrupt CD, missing files, corrupt files) I was able to update the book’s galley with the corrected Knaresborough information. And with Spirit I was able to make an incredible academic discovery, revealing an error that both Bain and Stevenson had made regarding their Medieval Latin translations of an original thirteenth century document: de castri de Leeds meant a castle that was half day’s ride from Leeds, Yorkshire not a smaller Royal Castle in Kent.

Working with Spirit has always been exciting. As an historian I found their insistence and practical insights to guide me toward the truth refreshing. The journey to writing these books, revealing the history from the perspective of Spirit, those who actually lived through the events was nothing short of exhilarating. More on the stories and the research behind the books can be found on my website: www.mytruthliesintheruins.com and www.skybear.com . Working with Spirit is an honor I hold dear.

Edryford in Ayrshire

Working With Spirit...Incredible Experiences That Change Our Daily Lives

As a Medium we find ourselves in life altering circumstances where if we are lucky, we have time to change an outcome with the help of our Spirit Guides. On the day before Christmas Eve 2017 we had such a day.

Mercury of Balnagown was our healing hound. He came to us at Christmas 2011 when our Deerhounds Ace and Arrow were getting older, and Ace was preparing for his crossing as he had osteosarcoma with a second tumor spreading the cancer. What we did not know was that our beloved Arrow had heart disease; symptoms that began to be expressed around the time Mercury came to live with us. She suddenly passed on Little Christmas in 2012 and we decided it was then time to let go of AceMan six days later.

Mercury and Archer were brothers. We called Karen their breeder and arranged to pickup Archer and bring him home to NC. Here is Mercury to the left, celebrating his fifth birthday in 2016. He grew into the roll of pack leader and he took the job seriously. He had some issues with cracking nails, gumballs in his toes; typical Deerhound foot challenges. I had always been told by Spirit that he would be the last of our remaining three hart hounds to cross over; 'they would leave as they arrived, 1,2, 3". But on 23 December 2017 I nearly lost our big boy.

Mercury stumbled into my bedroom from his post outside the door that morning. I awoke from a sound sleep to hear his struggling sounds and to hear him fall over. I first thought he was having a seizure. I have always conversed with my main Guide in Spirit regularly from time to time and on a few occasions I have I literally screamed for help.  I cried out, "William, help me! Mercury is dying."  I could see he was not breathing and his eyes were rolling up and back. I felt myself push on his abdomen then massage his throat area, then repeat those actions. Suddenly Mercury started to breathe again. I was exhausted, and extremely grateful. Both Mercury and I were feeling like limp dishrags, but he was alive!

I contacted Deerhound friends; asked about seizures. Then I found myself researching the Heimlich maneuver online for canines. There in a video were the familiar maneuvers on a large dog who was laying on the ground, the ones I had been doing. The motions, the push on his diaphragm and clearing of the throat airways were exactly the ones I did! I had been led by Spirit to do a Heimlich on Mercury and it saved his life. I posted the video online to help others. I had always been trained to do the Heimlich, clear the airways of people and hounds. In fact I had to clear the airways of Mercury's brother Archer once, but he was standing upright. Mercury's collapsed position provided different challenges. Thank God my Guide in Spirit, William was there to direct me to physically interact with my Deerhound and save his life. My Christmas Miracle.

Our Archer was not to be outdone (shown right). A few weeks ago we decided to do some exploratory surgery on Archie to ensure that the tissue swelling and other symptoms around his tail area were not the result of cancer. The first surgery revealed a bilateral hernia. We were referred to a doctor David Lee. I had asked Spirit for a sign; David Lee was the first one. In my fifth book, RIGHT OF PASSAGE, What the Dead say about Reincarnation, the Spirit known to us as Archibald, Regent of Scotland in 1333 came through with a message that he was also a USMC who died in Viet Nam in 1968. He told me that his name was 'David Lee'. Later I was to learn his full name but that clue was so critical to me in 2008; it was the main piece of evidence of another incarnation of the soul I first knew as Archibald.

We made the appointment for surgery. Archie was prepped and then the doctors had a scary occurrence; a flutter, higher blood pressure; it was an arrhythmia. The doctor wondered if we should stop immediately and schedule a cardio workup for the following week. I was calling out to William again; pleading with him on what to say in response. I knew that the surgery was critical, Archer was in a vulnerable spot with a bilateral hernia. As I am discussing the situation with my Guide William I am asking the doctor for more information. I then heard the answer from Spirit that I needed; "His heart will not fail." I approved the procedure; the surgeon said the anesthesiologist would take several extra precautions. We were a go. I then headed to my meditation room. I was going to do Reiki Absent Healing. I am very fortunate to have known the late Fran Brown, a high school classmate of my dad. She passed years ago and has appeared several times as a Spirit in my Reiki classes. She often brings in her book she wrote on Mrs. Takata, the woman who introduced Reiki to the United States. Fran was Mrs. Takata's 7th Master. We did Reiki for several minutes when my other Guides-Helpers gathered; there was Ana, Dr. Doyle, Dr. Foster and Archie with William and Larry my wolfie, of course. Full house. This was important.

Six hours later the surgery was complete and Archer was conscious and in recovery. The surgeon told me that it was a long, exhausting surgery for many reasons and then added this comment. "We were very concerned about the fluttering and then as soon as I began, making the first incision the fluttering stopped and never returned." Aha! Reiki works!  And then this morning at 3:52 AM I received the confirmation. In a vision I clearly saw Fran Brown and she said out loud, "Hi Deb" and "Reiki works," as she held her book on Mrs. Takata. I knew at once that I had to share this story. Dr. Usui had a written manual. Mrs. Takata did not use written directions and instead she used Reiki stories to share the impact of Reiki. To Mrs. Takata stories could be handed down to generations. What a brilliant testimony to Reiki and work of Spirit.

As I finish this post today I hasten to add one more validation from Spirit. I had decided to fill my time waiting for the results of Archer's surgery by cleaning out the area under my master bath sink cabinet. I am embarrassed to say that I hastily stashed things in there on the days I was moving in four years ago. Never went back to clear out the mess. As I am pulling things out I found the most curious things; three single earrings wrapped together in a plastic bag. I recognized them as being three that I had lost while living in Boston ten years ago. How on earth? Then I smiled, I now have proof that the messages from Spirit were real; these three single earrings were apports, positive evidence that Spirit was in charge of the outcome all the time. My part was to trust, to do Reiki, to share the stories of Reiki and to carry the Magic Stick, never too sad nor too elated, simply under control for the highest and the best.

I love working with Spirit.