I still have issues considering myself a medium. I am skeptical of other mediums, I don’t always see things in my mind, and I don’t always hear things either. What does happen the strongest — and sometimes it can be harsh — is I pick up on the emotions of a spirit. I think I have been doing this most of my life, and it is only fairly recently that I have identified what it is, or more accurately, what it isn’t — my imagination.
For example, on an investigation, original member Crystal identified a spirit that had suffered from post-partum depression. When Crystal and I entered this room, before either of us picked up on any information, I started feeling pain in the area where you might associate with a pregnancy (below the stomach). I had never felt that feeling before in that location, and it was only after this that Crystal and I learned about this spirit and her baby.
At another location, we were investigating an apartment — I can’t explain precisely how, but I could tell where the energy was and where it wasn’t, which seems to be pretty common for me. As we sat down and listened, I could feel my own energy start to drain more and more, as the spirits in the room appeared to be using it.
In this apartment, we were talking to one spirit, when all of a sudden I felt a sharp pain to the knee. Mind you, I have never had a problem with my knees, and it went away as quickly as it appeared. This spirit then relayed a message to Crystal about seeing someone fall in a nearby driveway. We later confirmed that it was the tenant, and she had in fact fallen on the driveway and hurt her knee. And at another recent investigation, we were in a basement, and I found myself needing to blink my eyes repeatedly, as if the room was filled with smoke. We later found out the house had burned to the ground many years previous.
So how does it come to me? Nowadays, it is flashes of words that I can hear, which is the best way I can describe it. It’s not like hearing actual voices in my head — it is more like what would sound like an inner dialog, only it doesn’t come from me. I have noticed that the more investigations I do, the clearer it seems to get, and it is becoming much easier to distinguish these words as coming from someone else. When it comes to picking up on emotions or other physical manifestations, as long as I am open, I can feel pain, sadness, joy and other emotions. I just simply start to feel them, and they are often accompanied by those flashes of words. It can also affect me in other ways, such as the feeling in the knee or the smoke in the eyes.
As you’ll read from Crystal in Part 2, it is comparable to tuning to a particular station. But for me it is more like turning on the TV. I usually don’t get information or feelings unless I have opened myself up to it. And believe me, at times I have thought I was nuts. But what changed my mind — and has convinced me that it is real — is the confirmation, both physical and non-physical in nature. But even if I am nuts — at least I can help people and have fun at the same time.
You read Mike? xD I never knew 😛 lmao
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I remember sitting across the table from you at The Keg looking into your left eye and…. seeing the truth of your soul. Weird, I know, Laugh 😛 But it’s something I do and that’s the way of it. In that instance I knew Mike for all that was Mike. I was surprised when you reacted to that, and seemed to have an inkling of the contact. That was unusual, you are the only person to date that picked up on that. (was that the night Sherri took me home?) At any rate, my advice to you is to get some decent training. The 1st Spiritualist Church in Wilimantic (sp?) has courses. I took mine there, I think you might benefit from that. Especially if you are getting bad spirit emotional vibes.
Of course, you ARE nuts, we both know that 😛 Doesn’t depreciate your abilities, just impedes your assessment of them ;D
Email me if you want to talk about it.