Alchemist by the Sea

Earworms....Spirit Messaging

Giving a class on the Ovilus the other night at Dancing Moon...what fun...except I could not understand why certain  messages kept repeating...."worm, music, singing, award, bicycle, records, tree, drag".

You would think that as the teacher I should begin to expect a message in class! But I kept denying anything would be for me...even as I started off class with a meditation I smelled cigarette smoke and felt like I was choking...I even coughed, a lot. I knew I had a smoker in class working with me, but who the heck was it?

One of my students shared these messages; a small man in a plaid shirt, a smoker, riding a bicycle, gave the name of Debby, in a hurry, wants things to work out, bounce in his walk. And finally, a clue that really meant a lot, dirty blonde hair and the name Loraine.

Spirit is always amazing to me...imagine, going all out to ensure that I would get the message.

The Spirit messenger kept repeating these words through the Ovilus..."worm, bicycle, singing, award, music". 

And I kept "thinking" (the key to all mediumship is to not think, just receive the message)...what is this about. And who is worm? 

I turned off the Ovilus and restarted it.

The clues came through again...worm, music, tree, singing, awards. And those clues were framed around other clues that students in the class recognized as the words from their own relatives. But the beat continued, on and on those words repeated.

Then it dawned on me, finally...the smoker was Freddie Mercury.  Here he is in a photo, in a plaid shirt  and he is smoking.

And the worm was a reference to an Earworm...you know, that song you can't get out of your head. My Earworm has been "Another One Bites the Dust".

For a medium, the humor is a bit eccentric but then I am working with old dead knights and their ladies. And they all maintain a silly sense of humor.

To me, Freddie Mercury was an English knight from the early 14th century. He identified himself years ago as Sir William Bagot of Staffordshire, a friend of Prince Edward in 1305. I saw him clearly one night...he had long blond mustache and dirty blond hair. I saw him primping, rolling his fingers around the long lengths of his mustache  as posed, watching himself in a medieval mirror. 

So when the student told me the Spirit had blond hair, I surmised that the identity of the smoker in Spirit was Freddie. The name Loraine was likely Lovaine. Another hit for me as Sir William Bagot married Eleanora of Lovaine in 1305. I laughed all the way home. There were other clues in the messages of course, but those were all about Freddie: music, award, bicycle, singing, and drag.

Tree was another message and I believe it referenced the tree-like obelisk that includes a memorial inscription from Mary Austin. Here is a photo that has been floating about online. The message during class involved documents, found items and of course, the word tree.  As recently as last February this pillar was discovered at Kensal Green Cemetary with an inscription.

I recited those words from the Ovilus to my husband that night, those clues that were repeated over and over,  And he said..."Oh, that's Queen. So Freddie was there tonight."  He knew right away...I starting laughing at myself. Duh, I am still the deer in the headlights when it comes to messages. 

And as I sit here, the Ear Worm plays on, "and another one's gone...". By the way, I have come to believe that Earworms may indeed be messages from Spirit.

Rules for those in Spirit?

Sitters are always asking about rules that apply to those in Spirit. They are confused by so called authoritative sources on Spirit. In working with those behind the veil over the last fourteen years I have learned one thing...if you can think about the possibilities, it can be accomplished with Spirit.

Early in my training as a Medium I was surprised to learn that a newly arrived soul could contact me to give a message to his family. I had been trained that we should wait to communicate; let the dead get to do their work before we contact them.

All of that changed during my evening meditation when a man presented himself in Spirit with a number of messages.

I had learned that my friend's dad had passed to Spirit about an hour before I sat for meditation. But I did not know his name; in fact, I had never met the man. My Guide in Spirit presented me with a man during my private meditation 'with some words to say'. The Spirit gave me his name, told me various things in Spirit shorthand through a series of quick words and phrases: William and Alice; crimson and blue; and so forth. I always recorded message in my journal right after meditation and that evening was no exception.

The next morning I was taking my dogs for a walk on the beach and wondered how I could ever find a way to give my friend his father's messages. I asked Spirit for help. And as I was leaving my yard, my friend pulls into the driveway. David (not his real name) was just stopping by on his way to the funeral home he told me. I expressed my condolences and then asked if I might give him some messages. David shrugged and said sure. He knew that I spoke to Spirit so he did not doubt my words but he certainly was confused by them.

David drove off then quickly turned around, returning to my driveway. "Hey, look here. Mom had me pickup Dad's blue jacket and his crimson tie for the funeral." We both shared a knowing look. He assured me that he would check on the rest of the messages. Later that day one of his sisters came up with the match for 'William and Alice'. That couple lived next door to the family for over thirty-five years and were now in Spirit. I Guess Dave's dad had met up with them on the Otherside!

I was always taught in Mediumship Development Classes that sitters should wait to contact loved ones as the souls would be 'busy' on their arrival to the higher plane. David's father needed to contact his family quickly and his motive was out of love. I trusted in my Guides that they would not lead me astray. If his dad was contacting me to pass along messages, then the words must OK to pass along. And when Spirit presented me with the opportunity to give David that priceless gift from Spirit, verification that his father survived the change called death, I realized it was to be all along.

The photo to the left is of Emma Hardinge Britten, the well known Spiritualist who lectured in the mid 19th century in the United States from Boston to North Carolina where I live now. Our first interaction came at Stansted in 2002 when she left me an apport to tell me that I would become a writer for the promotion of Spiritualism. Emma appears in my books and  brings in messages during classes here in Raleigh. I value her guidance in my Spirit Circle.

Back to my first statements....if you can think of an action, than Spirit can do it. I don't hold for rigid rules dealing with the higher plane. I believe that we all came from Spirit and we are going back there. I also hold as my truth, that since I have not been on the higher side in a very long time that I can't begin to imagine what transpires there. I would be remiss in conveying absolutes for the world of Spirit.

Go with your heart, trust in your guides. Receiving messages from those behind the veil within seconds is not unusual. And any trained Medium can' bring through' a willing Spirit within moments of the transition. In fact even if a person is in the process of crossing over, they can communicate too. More on that later...

 

 

More Fantastic Messages From Spirit in Latest Class

Had a great time at the last class. We had a number of first time students and once again, the teacher received some fantastic messages from those in Spirit.  Some of the information were in validations that I heard for the first time. What wonderful gifts from Spirit. I spent the entire class entranced as Spirit worked their magic and verified obscure facts that only I knew.

One specific message was about "a picture of a face in the leaves". This was actually a photo I had from 2002, a digital image taken at Woodham Ferrers, in Essex, England, taken in the rain. This is the first time I have shared the photo publicly. It was a clear message that only I would know about, only "Deb and Spirit" would understand.

There were other ideas communicated to me by the students in our class yesterday. One of my guides was specifically talking about his deference to fine, if not fancy attire. I was able to discern the Spirit who was giving the evidence but I could not recognize the lifetime, as he has share several of his incarnations with me. What was the big deal about fancy clothing I wondered?

I did not have to wait long to comprehend the message. Later that evening I was working on the revision of my book, IN THE SHADOW OF MY TRUTH, and I finally understood the words from Spirit. There written on the pages of my book were the stories of James Douglas, the communicator from our class, expressing his desire to have a fur hat like his father. And as I went further in the chapter, James was regaling the reader with his fondness for velvet and ermine. That was James, a 'dandy' in his way, a little known fact about the life of that determined knight and Edward's  bitter enemy during the Scottish Wars for National Independence.

The third most memorable Spirit communication from class yesterday referenced the photos that I took in the first years of my research. As I traveled throughout England and Scotland, every time I was photographing a specific Douglas site, some of the images contained white diamond shapes . Photography experts reviewed my images told me that the white diamonds were likely lens flares.

I knew that the shapes were from Spirit as they told me they were. So I made sure that I took several cameras with me each time I traveled to the British Isles to do my research. I used nine cameras in all. Those white diamond shapes repeated using each and every camera and only appeared on photos taken of Douglas historical sites. When one of my new students in yesterday's class told me that she kept seeing white diamond shapes, I was stunned. No one has provided that validation before.  A great class! Can't wait to do it again in the spring.

Spirit Always Gets The Message Across

For decades I felt a great connection with the assassination of Julius Caesar, the senator Marcus Brutus and his wife Portia Cato. Portia was a woman who was characterized as “having a man’s mind and woman’s might,” a veritable political junkie in today's terms. I resonated with that woman in history.  And I even sport a similar scar on my thigh that resembles the injury Portia created in her defiance, that was recorded in Plutarch's historical recount.

It was no wonder that when I read of an archeological discovery of the location where Julius Caesar was stabbed, that I took notice. Here is the link to those findings: http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=48008  with the photo of the village site, below left.

Antonio Monterroso, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council,  said in the article that, ‘We always knew that Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey on March 15th 44 B.C. because the classical texts pass on so, but so far no material evidence of this fact, so often depicted in historicist painting and cinema, had been recovered." The discovery includes a concrete structure found at the Curia that was 10 x 6.5 feet in size, mirroring the description of the structure Augustus erected on the spot of Caesar's assasination in 44 B.C. in Rome to the man's memory.

When I moved to NC I had to downsize… big time. I had a wonderful library in Winthrop by the Sea with walls upon walls of shelves for my extensive collection of historical reference books. In Raleigh we had to pitch hit with some small bookcases. Overwhelmed with the great job of “unpacking from the move” I relegated the book disbursement to my husband and he did a great job, getting every last volume put away. But I had not idea where any specific books were placed.

I was looking for one volume on ancient Rome, given to me by a friend of mine who knew the details about some of my  research on past lives. The book she gave me had these terrific images of what Roman sites looked like “in the day” developed from a technique of overlays, depicting the ruined sites as a complete picture. I certainly wanted to find that book now to compare notes with the archaeologists.

Spirit to the rescue! I was in my bedroom and for some “stupid” reason elected to move one of those feeble bookcases that we bought at the discount store to hold some of my book collection. It collapsed. I finally got it put back together in about an hour and as I was placing everything back on the shelves there was my book on Rome.

Really William…do you have to go to such extremes?!!! Imagine, he went to such lengths to get me to destroy (OK, move) my bookcase just  so I could find the book on Rome…OMG, what a Spirit Guide. Nothing new here…the personality of the soul never changes. William is sure an adventure for this lass…and he never fails to get his message across, sure aye!

 

 

Visions and Validations from Martha Douglas, a Child Passing to Spirit in 1294

This morning I was shown a vision of my guide during an event from his lifetime as a medieval knight. He was wearing a surcote and other clothing of the 13th century and no armor. William appeared to open a small, hidden doorway that led to a crawl space. He descended into the space which looked like a round rain culvert about five feet in diameter. When he returned he was carrying the lifeless body of a little girl. Today was 6th August, the 708th anniversary of the death of a little girl at the Woodham Ferrers medeival manor in Essex England.

In 1999, medium Lydia Clar first brought through little Martha Douglas in a phone reading. I argued over the identity of the child as I had not idea at that time of a prior life in medieval England. In 2005, Medium Suzane Northrop confirmed the identity of the little girl during a public Demonstration of Spirit Communication at Omega in NY. Martha came through with "the big gray dog", my Irish Wolfhound Larry. And in 2008, Martha Douglas appeared again,  communicating through John Edward at Robert Brown's retreat at Virginia Beach in another public Demonstration of Spirit Communication. "She seems to be running the show," John Edward said in 2008. Martha was accompanied by Lawrence 'Booboobear' just as Suzane saw them in Spirit. My wolfie appeared to John as a cartoon character from the Hanna-Barbera Production, The Yogi Bear Show. Perfect, he was named for Booboobear, Yogi's sidekick. What great validations from Spirit!

And why wouldn't Martha be running things on the 'Other Side'? That lovely little girl was my first validation of a past life in 13th Scotland and England. Through her relentless insistance, I was able to locate the other references to her 'appearances' in Essex as a Spirit.

I have included a link to an Essex paranormal site and an online story about Martha and her father, the medieval knight or chevaliar (using the term in Norman French), that accompanied his daughter when they walked the lands of the Essex manor  once held by Eleanora and William Douglas.

In documents and stories passed down through the generations, there are references to a manor house with a moat that had a secret passage to the nearby priory. The sub manor house at Edwin's Hall has been mentioned as the location of the paranormal sightings. However, that is a Tudor estate with two surviving moats.

The main manor house is actually Woodham Hall with is very close to the Priory, on the other side of the village of Woodham Ferrers.

Bicknacre Priory was originally called Wodeham Priory until 1235. There were no other priories in the vicinity. Therefore, the acutal location of the manor house  with the secret passage would have to be Woodham Hall. Not far from the hall is Bicknacre village where the priory arch still survives today. The ruins are in Priory Fields, adjacent to the original mains of the religious site operated by the Black Friars. Below is the Priory Arch as it appears today.

Girl who Drowned in Moat Location: Woodham Ferrers - Edwin's Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Date / Time: Unknown Further Comments: There are still occasional reports of a young girl seen on the grounds of the hall, believed by some to have drowned in the moat. A ghostly cavalier reportedly patrols the grounds of the hall, though his history is unknown.

Here is the link:http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/essex/esspages/essedata.php?pageNum_paradata=17&totalRows_paradata=449

For several years I was unable to find the location of the main manor house for Woodham Ferrrers of the 13th century. Eleanora Douglas held those lands in her dower rights from her first husband,William de Ferrers. Original 13th century documents verified the existance of the estate.

One afternoon as I was driving through the village towards the priory I asked Spirit to help me find the location of the original estate. I was very frustrated. I drove up and down that medieval cartpath between Bicknacre and Woodham Ferrers villages for nearly an hour. Then I heard William speak out loud. "Use your mediumship Eleanora," he said. William, my guide in Spirit, sounded like Obi-wan Kenobi and I burst out laughing. That comment broke the tension, my energy level changed and 'suddenly' I took notice of what looked like parts of an old mains or  medieval des mains (farm that supplied the manor). As I drove into the hidden drive, there before me was a tiny sign, "Woodham Hall". Eureka! I found the manor house. And there beside the original foundation was the medieval moat where Martha drowned in 1294.  The medieval buiding was partially destroyed by fire and rebuilt on the original foundation dating to Normam times.

All this from a vision this morning...verifying the date of that drowning as 6th August 1294. That's how Spirit works with me, to Prove Reincarnation through Mediumship and Research.

Freedom of Religion-What it means to a Spiritualist

As I often mention on my website, skybear. com,   October 1999 was the date that my wolfie Lawrence Booboobear crossed over. I dedicated my work with Spirit to him as his passing changed my life. Little did I know that about the same time in North Carolina, something was happening that would eventually change the way that state treated Spiritualists and their religion. People in the Old North State were working towards the repeal of a Divination Law, a frightening statute if enforced, that was on the books in various forms dating back to the 1950's.

General Assembly of N.C. General Statute 14-401.5 outlawed the use of clairvoyance, tarot cards and crystal balls and other, related methods of Spirit Communication. It was finally repealed in 2004. And I received a message from Spirit about the significant of that occurrence  in typical Spirit fashion, administered with a great deal of humor and silly, personal references. And repetition to ensure that I would finally get it.

The NC law on Divination was overturned in the General Assembly on the Celtic Festival of Samhain in 2004. The ancient celebration of fire marked the end of summer. As a Bill of Rights issue, the final decision came after a series of lawsuits  that called for the end of those statutes on the basis that they were restricting religion. As a Spiritualist, I could not agree more. The phenomena of Spiritualism is Mediumship and Clairvoyance is one aspect of that Spirit Communication. In 1891 Spiritualism became a religion that was fully recognized by the government of the United States of America. Spirit Communication was therefore a protected right under the United States Constitution in the First Amendment which is part of the Bill of Right. 

How did Spirit draw my attention to the year of 2004 and that significant legal action take in the NC General Assembly?  On July 23-24, at around 4-5 in the morning I woke to hear the song GLORIA that Laura Branigan made famous in 1982. And in my mind's eye I saw her dancing and singing with none other than Freddie Mercury.  That verse "all the voices in your head" kept playing over and over.

 

Here is the link to her 1982 hit on YouTube, with the disco ball sparkling through the intro  .

And of course, thirty years to the day, July 23 1982, Freddie was in Boston playing the Garden. Here is a cut from that 1982 Queen tour 

Both performers had significant recognition in that year of 1982 for their work. Branigan's single Gloria was eventually certified as platinum. Mercury also hit platinum with his album in 1982. Freddie crossed over in 1991. Branigan crossed over in August, 2004 with a cerebral aneurysm.  "2004" kept showing up...the year was significant.

And now I know why...2004 is a very important year for this Spiritualist, now living in North Carolina. It meant the repeal of the NC Divination Law in the General Assembly...what a round about way to get me to pay attention to a significant message. But as we have come to know, Spirit always finds a way to get their message across. Freddie and Laura dancing to the 1982 disco tune and Italian love song, Gloria, got my attention, sure aye!

 

 

 

Surprise Guest from Spirit in Raleigh Class

 Last night I was giving a class at Dancing Moon in Raleigh, NC. I got there early so I could meditate before everyone arrived. The topic of the evening was "Spirit Guides”. As I looked around the room I suddenly saw five ladies in Spirit sitting on the front row, some of them were my 'guides and helpers'. They included Elizabeth (Ana), her sister Helen, and a 13^th century lass named Muriel Douglas. The 'guys', including my main guide William, were standing on the other side of the room. From this Medium's perspective, the room was noisy and filled with a lot of Spirit chatter.

Towards the end of class, one of my students asked me if my sister looked like me. I assumed she was 'seeing' the lady in spirit that I 'felt' standing next to me, thinking that the woman was my dead relative. She was correct, but not of this lifetime.

I knew that Spirit to be Muriel Douglas, a woman who passed in childbirth in 1303 at a medieval manor known as Stebbinge Park in Essex, England. The student described what she saw. She said that the woman's nose was similar to mine, and that we looked to  be sisters in appearence. OK, I have a distinctive nose...so that remark drew my attention. Then the student described the Spirit as ‘overshadowing me’, with fingers like mine that were being used to play the piano.

 

For the last several weeks Muriel Douglas has been telling me that she incarnated in the 19^th century as the well known Spiritualist, Emma Hardinge Britten. She reminded me of my first week at Stansted in 2002, attending the Arthur Findlay College for training in Trance Mediumship. One night I received an apport, a materialized gift from Spirit in the form of a photograph of Ms. Britten with the seven principles listed on the back of the card. Other mediums told me the next day that the apport meant that I would be a writer.

I have written five books with Spirit so far but now I realize that message had an even deeper meaning. Muriel Douglas was my daughter in the 13^th century. And she reincarnated as Emma Hardinge Britten. She was a pianist. The message from one of my students was spot on and I didn’t even know it. Emma certainly had a prominent nose and she was well known for teaching music and playing the piano. Often she selected pieces to perform from what she 'heard from her audience', thoughts they held in their minds that were related to the medium by Spirit. Emma was a playful medium.

You never know what you will learn in class. Thanks to my students for their trust in doing the work with Spirit. Last night it paid off for the teacher.  Working for Spirit is always the definitive adventure, sure aye!

 

 

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...?