The psychic challenge

You're previous post was off (no medical conditions and the only Ryan I knew was someone I worked with almost 7 years ago). But the quote above is more or less true.

 

That's actually comforting to hear, believe it or not. I've always gotten the impression that my spirit guides (if I indeed have them) may not have my best interests in mind. At one point, I had the insight (I forget how I got this insight) that the spirits who were, up to that point, guiding me were just a bunch of immature teenage types who, although not really wanting to hurt me, were more interested in having fun with me than guiding me in a responsible manner. Around this time, their parents had intervened and took over the job of overseeing my spiritual development. But it wasn't long after that that I lost faith either in their ability to guide me or that they weren't just figments of my imagination. I haven't talked to spirits in a long time although I still feel they're around watching me.



So I guess they're more "human" than we give them credit for.



Zengizmo, I want to thank you for taking such an interest in this thread (as silly as the game seems). Serious responses like yours are what keep me interested in this sort of thing and it keeps the door a bit open between my world and the world of those fully emersed in this spiritual/psychic stuff.



I think I'll be sitting on my fence for a while yet. If there are spirits guiding me, I don't think they're trying to persuade me to one side of the fence or the other anyway. My realm of faith is something completely different from this (though not closed off from it).

 

Or better yet, I could buy the audio recording.

 

Copely Drive, again silly but I'll give it a shot

 

Nope.

 

I think they're "human" when we need them to be...and I'll leave it at that. Oh, I'll just remind you again that Emily IS human--one time I was talking to her out loud, face to face, and with the hint of an ironic smile on her face she told me, "I'm just an ordinary human being." And I won't pretend to know what your spirits, if they were spirits, were up to--but it's possible sometimes that the spirits may be trying to get us to lighten up, as mine have at times with me.

My fascination is to try to see beyond the surface to the root of people's spiritual issues. Your issue was belief/faith which turns out to be a marvelously complex one. LOL

One more comment before I drop off: Whatever we believe has tremendous power, and can become reality for us. As Jesus said, "If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Be raised up and cast into the sea,' and it would come to pass as you have said." I used to think this statement was an intentional exaggeration--nowadays I'm not so sure. I have seen and heard of astonishing results of firm, steady belief--some results that I wouldn't have believed possible if not for my own experiences. The Bible says that God created us in his own image--this to me says that we have God's creative power, and are co-creators of the universe with God.

And now the Right Reverend zengizmo bids you peace and blessings. Oh wait a minute--somebody pass around the damned offering plate, before they get away...

 

for some reason im gonna go with something like... Furlane or Furlin

 

Thank you, come again.

 

Hi, just for a bit of fun when i started reading your post the name Ken/kenny/Kenneth came to mind.

 

Ah, can't always be right. Hhhhmmm.... it may not be Ryan. It may be Brian, or something similar. And perhaps the medical condition has to do with this person who could be on the other side... my mediumship skills are very primitive, but they do come through once in awhile.

 

gib. do you work in the building trade? long term girl friend? May be a blonde?

 

sorry I may be just guessing but something drew me to your post. Has someone close to you past away recently? A male? Or a male that is ill that maybe close to passing?

 

Sorry, no Brian... except for a *very* distant step-relative (who divorced my aunt when I was about 4 and never heard from him since). I have no idea how his health is or if he's even alive.

So how does one develop their mediumship skills? I heard it's all a matter of "educated guessing" - where "educated" means something a little different from analyzing (like intuiting?)

 

Let's see... the most recent male death in the family would be my grandpa. That was about three years ago. Everyone else is healthy AFAIK.

10 extra bonus points if you can guess how he died.

Your guess about working in the buildings trade is somewhat impressive. I work for an architectural development firm.

20 extra bonus points if you can guess my title.

And yes I have a long term girlfriend... in fact, she's a wife! But no, she's not blond... I've never had blond and probably never will :nopity:

 

Mediumship skills have proven a bit tricky for me. I have an unintentional tendency to block it most times. Usually, I get the most information from my tarot decks.
But mediumship is basically about being open and receptive to signs/emotions/words/thoughts, etc. from the other side. Um, it requires that you be well aware of what certain things mean to me, as the person who is receiving the signs.

For example, I was reading for a friend (at the persistance of his passed-over friend) and I kept seeing my mother's mediport and how she had to have chemo. So, I went with the normal things: "Did your friend have cancer? Did he have to have chemo?" The answers were no and no. So, I even went out on a limb: "Did he have diabetes? Did he have to take shots?" (Another thing that was prominent was the word "needle".) Again, no. I continued to prod, and finally I told him I saw an image of me mother with her mediport hooked up to the IV getting chemo, and I keep hearing "needle". His friend, it turns out, had a pickline, similar to a mediport, and had been given many drugs intraveinously because he had AIDS.

So, as you see, it takes a lot of work to reach the connection sometimes. Another time, I connected with another friend's friend, and I had gone to take a shower after connecting with him, and I saw these two red hand prints on my chest... it looked like someone had slapped me, but nobody had. I knew this had to do with the man who'd crossed over. So, I asked my friend if he had something wrong with his chest, lungs, heart area. And she told me he'd died from congestive heart failure.

 

You know, there was a time I saw symbolism in almost anything. I felt that I had stumbled onto a "hidden" language - like the way God sends signs to certain people is by making what would otherwise be considered ordinary everyday events metaphorically significant, like they have a deeper meaning. It could be that spirits communicate like this too.

Can't say these symbols ever came through as paranormal phenomena (like hand prints on my chest) and so, as usual, there was always the more "rational" way of explaining it (that I was letting my imagination run away with me). I turned away from all that quite a few years ago on the assumption that it was all my imagination (which the drugs contributed to big time, I'm sure).

Is there a special way of telling whether these signs are from "the other side"? I mean, as opposed to plain old "worldly" signs?

 

I want to say that he died suddenly but at the same time that he had a long running illness. With your work I can see alot of metal tubes like scaffolding but I guess thats obvious really and I think its inside a church or a very old building of such.As for your title im not sure on that one Im rubbish with things like that lol.
Do you have a little girl that has blonde hair? I can see someone with long blonde hair but only from the back, im sure she is a relative of some sort to you or very close to you that you might think of as a sister or daughter to you.

 

sounds to me like you don't believe in the sacredness of your imagination...its your imagination that holds the key to EVERYTHING--including the god experience.

 

Well, sometimes, it can be hard to tell the difference, but the fact is, when there is an entity in the room, I know it. I have "internal indicators"... lol. Basically, I feel them before there's any other kind of communication at all in most cases. I get sick to my stomach, get dizzy, get cold, and usually smell smoke. I don't know why I smell smoke, but that is a certain indicator for me. At that point, I will usually open my mind, speak aloud, and try to make a connection.

Well, now, I believe any sign worth seeing or paying attention to- any spiritual signs- come from another place all together anyway. But, I know when it's from my spirit guides because I've grown accustomed to how they communicate... to their vibrations, I suppose.

I prefer not to "explain things away" because I believe there is a rhyme and reason to everything. And there are no coincidences. An example, one of my best friends, a man I've grown to love very much, ended up in a relationship with a woman, which hurt me. But I knew that we would make amends, so I did not close that door. I left things hanging when I went my own way so that he could feel invited back into my life. I was told by several people that I would be wrong, that things wouldn't work like that, that it was wishful thinking. But it wasn't. He did get in touch at the first of this month and he needed a friend. I was glad to be there, and so glad I knew I was supposed to be. Is that psychic? I think it's intuitive. I think it means something, especially when I knew so many other things while they were going on in their relationship that he later confirmed for me as having happened during the time I thought they did.

 

He did die suddenly, but I don't think he was overtly ill (but what do I know - he lived half way across the world).

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Very good - I have a younger sister who's blond.