Learning to meditate or relax assists your mind to learn the craft of ‘stillness’. This allows you to actively close off the chatty-ness of your mind to become open to receive inspiration and clear reception from the afterlife. For others, stillness can be quietly working away at a craft or a hobby—something they love. I have clients who say, ‘When I paint I just get lost in the moment.’ Some say they feel the presence of their loved one with them. They can’t see anything, they just have a feeling. The stillness has allowed their senses to fine-tune their receptor channels.
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Getting in touch Getting in touch
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
The world of Spirit communication is open to everybody. It’s a matter of trial and error until you find the tool that works best for you. Ezra was a frustrated writer, successful as a sub-editor in the magazine industry, yet she longed to write a novel about her grandfather’s time as a missionary. Sitting at home in front of her computer screen only ever resulted in several pages of work—writer’s block was impeding the flow of creativity.
‘What am I doing wrong, Georgina?’ she asked. ‘I remember in one of your workshops you mentioned a technique called automatic writing. Do you reckon it would work while using a computer, rather than just handwriting?’ Relearning the technique, within several weeks Ezra had made huge progress with the manuscript, all logged on her computer.
Looking back, she was blown away with the fine detail she seemed to channel from another source—the source I called ‘divine wisdom’. By opening herself to Spirit communication and wisdom, Ezra let go of tension, and divine energy and wisdom was channelled through her fingertips. We both knew Spirit had come to her rescue.
Automatic writing
A wonderful way to train your inspirational communication is with a pen and writing pad or your computer and keyboard. Many of my students love this technique, as it’s straightforward and easy to master. As you practise the technique, the channels of communication will become more open. People often associate automatic writing with séances and spirit possession. For some intuitives, this has became an accurate way of accessing Spirit communication, but what I’m teaching here is more practical and easier to achieve results.
Before commencing the exercise, consider what you’re seeking from Spirit. Like the dream exercise, you’ll need to formulate one question. It may be a message from your dearly departed, for example: ‘Am I doing the right thing about the headstone?’ or, ‘Dad—I need to know if you’re happy.’ Once you’ve decided upon a question, you’ll need to have on hand a large note pad with several pens or be sitting at the ready in front of your computer. Have you used a psychic protection routine today? If not, most definitely apply one now.
Find yourself a quiet spot, perhaps a special corner in your house where you can’t be disturbed. Switch off all phones. For some, the garden, sitting in the car by the beach or overlooking a beautiful mountain landscape will provide a source of bliss—as long as you’re comfortable. Think calm, relaxation, peacefulness. For those who are using pen and paper, have several pens on standby— you won’t want to run out. Now, take a deep breath in . . . and out . . . repeat this process about nine times. Don’t get stressed if you lose count and do eleven, or seven; this is just about learning to set the scene, the foundation for your inspirational thought.
Next, write your question at the top of the page. Under your question, write these words: ‘What is it that I need to know?’
Immediately start writing whatever comes to your mind in thoughts or feelings. Maybe you get a waft of breeze or a fragrance from a flower bed. Write that down. Don’t read, question or pull apart what you’ve written. Just keep writing. Don’t analyse or rationalise what you’re writing down. Just keep writing. If you get writer’s block, write down your question again and repeat the entire process. Do this again and again. The things you’ve written may seem like nonsense and you may be frustrated, but remember—we’re dealing with the Language of Spirit. There are no translators here to assist you, so you have to learn to deal with the chattiness before you can receive clear reception.
For some, the first attempt can bring significant results. As they start to pore over the information, key words and phrases jump out; colours have significance and scenes start to formulate. For others, it seems a waste of time. Consider what your incentive was to get your car licence. Was it mobility, or freedom to access places you normally couldn’t? This exercise will transport your thoughts to receive information that may have been previously unavailable.
By reading over the pages, you may find you’ve been given a totally different concept or message than you expected.
Keep all your notes, as you may find over time that there is a theme, a prophecy or a message on issues that may arise in the future. When you feel that you’ve done enough, you may wish to say a silent thank you and goodbye to Spirit until your next appointment. It’s essential that you start to learn to activate and close each session. This work can be exhilarating, but also draining. Your guides need to know when to switch on and when to switch off.
It doesn’t mean you’re stopping them from contacting you, but you do have earthly responsibilities to attend to and you need to become grounded again.
In summary, you need to find a quiet place, adopt a psychic protection ritual, commence the session with slow, deep breaths, then ask your question, waiting for the answer to flow. Always end a session with a closure technique.
Messages out of thin air
The wonderful world of Spirit is very imaginative, and will always find a way to catch your attention to deliver a message. They can manipulate air and energy, delivering objects that seem to appear out of thin air. They are usually small items such as flowers, gems or stones, or even ancient coins and jewellery, and are believed to come from what we call the ‘fourth dimension’. These items are referred to as ‘apports’.
Brigette always left her car keys in a glass bowl that sat at the entrance to the front door, it was an automatic function and she’d done it for years. Soon after her father died, she started to discover the keys in different places throughout her home. Sometimes they’d be at the front door, other times next to her shoes. It was during her reading that her beloved dad declared he’d been up to mischief and hoped she could see the funny side of his actions.
She was relieved—she wasn’t going mad, it was just her dad letting her know he was around. Signs from the other side are sometimes very difficult to comprehend, but nevertheless they are gifts to let us know we’re not alone.
Another type of physical contact Spirit can manifest can be through electrical activity. In a Dearly Departed reading, one of my clients wanted to reach his mum. She showed me a scene in her kitchen, most definitely her domain before she died, and I could see lightbulbs blowing out.
Her son told me that when she died he had replaced three light globes in the kitchen, one after the other had blown. She knew exactly how to grab his attention. His mother kept showing me the number ‘66’. But the message didn’t make sense until several nights later when he heard a message being left on his mobile phone. Picking up the phone from his bedside table, a cold shiver went down his spine as he saw it showed a full screen of number sixes.
I’ve had clients whose televisions or radios suddenly turn on by themselves. In fact, I’ve replaced two digital clock radios in my bedroom recently—different brands from different shops. They kept going too fast, sometimes hours ahead! I discussed this with one of my very gifted students, Louise, who is a scientist, and she hypothesised that due to my intense prophetic dreams, I could literally be moving forward in time, and somehow altering the magnetic fields of the clocks.
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena believes it has thousands of cases where voices can be heard on magnetic tapes such as cassettes and answerin
g machines. Louise has had great success on her many travels both local and internationally when taking random photographs of interesting scenes, tourist sites and spiritual places to discover when scanning her holiday snaps she had captured superimposed faces. One in particular she showed me was taken near a sacred Hindu site in India, and the image captured was that of an ancient Hindu goddess.
Sometimes you may see balls of light called ‘orbs’ in your photos, indicating Spirit’s presence. Perhaps there’s something to be said of the speed of light and the way the camera can capture what the naked eye finds difficult to see.
A former colleague of mine came to work much shaken one morning. The telephone had rung at about 4 a.m. at her brother’s home, and fearing it may have been bad news about his aged mother, he jumped up to answer it. When he got to the phone, no-one was there. Concerned the ringing may have woken their young baby, he went into the baby’s room to see if he was disturbed, only to discover he’d stopped breathing. The father frantically tried to revive the child, with no success. The diagnosis was sudden infant death syndrome.
So why did the telephone ring? Was it a call to heaven; the parting of the baby’s soul bidding a fond farewell to his parents and alerting heaven that he was on his way? I know the phone call made the father realise that the child’s fate was out of his hands, even though he had tried his hardest to save him. We may never know the real reason the call came, but I would like to think it was a call to heaven.
I’ve known others to receive a telephone call or listen to their answering machine only to pick up a very faint voice with background static. Spirit has been known to knock on doors or walls and create clapping noises to grab people’s attention.
When my dear friend Simon passed away at 44, it was a great loss. He had opened many doors in the entertainment field for me, and in the dark days had given me a ray of sunshine and hope. I recall dreaming of Simon one night, and in the dream I had an intense rushing noise in my ear, as though I had a huge wave of ocean rushing into my ear canal. I awoke suddenly to a clapping noise in the corner, wondering whether I had a burglar in my bedroom.
Then I heard it again. I pushed the covers back and switched on my bedside light, my heart pounding as I peered into the corner of my bedroom. That whole wall is wardrobes, but inside one is the switchboard that operates the electrical circuit for the apartment.
Then I saw my cat, Miracle, who sleeps on the end of my bed.
She was standing up, and facing in the same direction where I heard the clapping—her back was arched and her fur standing on end.
Interestingly, Simon was afraid of cats, and Miracle always sensed this and would respond to him in a nervous way. I have no doubt that my dream was the manifestation of Simon’s presence. My dream heralded his arrival, and the power box was his power source.
Have you woken to find your house keys were not where you left them, only to find them somewhere else? Or lost a ring and have it turn up several months later in the same spot? How can this happen? We’re all matter and have electromagnetic energy fields. I suspect Spirit have the natural ability to manipulate these energy fields to their advantage.
Many people have seen a ghost, sometimes referred to as an ‘apparition’, and some are very fearful of having an encounter with a ghost. I saw my father walk through the side door, dressed in his naval uniform, and next to him stood his brother and father, also dressed in wartime uniforms. They were positioning themselves behind a coffin in a funeral home. The strange thing was that the person inside the coffin was my father. Maybe this was a sign of respect for my mother. Mum never saw what I saw. I was very privileged that day. It’s thought that an apparition is a recently departed spirit who hasn’t completely made the transition to the afterlife due to concern for those they’ve left behind.
Please know that your departed loved ones do want to make their presence known and felt to you. Don’t be too hard on yourself if you haven’t picked up on their subtle clues to date—why not try some of my suggestions?
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When pets die When pets die
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and completed, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
Henry Beston, The Outermost House
Remember the catchy tune ‘Talk to the Animals’ from the movie Dr Dolittle? The amazing doctor seemed to exhibit paranormal abilities that enabled him to communicate with animals. Stop for a moment and consider how you communicate with your pet. Can you recall an instance when your pet seemed to be reading your mind? Perhaps your dog picked up its lead when you were only thinking of going for a walk, or maybe you noticed they were sitting at the front door ten minutes before your partner walked through the door earlier than anticipated—they knew. But how?
Why did the elephants and dogs in Phuket, Thailand, move to higher ground prior to the tsunami’s devastating arrival to the mainland? Some zoos in earthquake areas have noted significant behavioural changes in their animals prior to an earthquake.
Michelle, a client, used to live and work in Japan, and she told me that many of the Japanese households especially keep carp or goldfish in their homes as earthquake ‘detectors’. Originally the fish were intended to bring good fortune to the households, but over many years it had been noted by their owners that prior to an earthquake the behaviour of the fish became erratic—they would rush backwards and forwards in their tank or pool. This would happen 24 hours to a week before an earthquake hit, giving their owners warning and time to implement safety procedures.
My dear friend Peter, proud of his Greek heritage, tells a story which has been passed down in his family for many years, of the Ancient Greeks’ belief that there lies a connection between unusual animal behaviour and earthquakes. They believed it was form of ‘secret knowledge’. Is this secret knowledge to do with the fact that all animals are psychic? They all have a well-honed sixth sense—a survival mechanism built in from conception that allows them to intuitively sense danger and changes in the environment for survival.
You were born with the same ability; however, through conditioning of family, religion or society, you were continually told ‘don’t be stupid’, ‘don’t say things like that’, and you learnt to shut down your natural intuitive abilities. Pet owners know the joy of being loved by their special pet. No matter how grumpy, sad or happy we are, they respond with enthusiasm and love. They love us unconditionally—warts and all.
I was transfixed when I heard the story of an old gentleman who had collapsed in his home. Lying on the floor, he was unable to move or call for help and he had resigned himself to his fate.
Yet his faithful dog intuitively understood what his master needed to live. He found a towel and dipped it repeatedly into the toilet bowl, then dropped the wet towel on his owner’s face so he was able to suck the moisture out and sustain himself until the pair were discovered and saved.
My children’s dachshund, Rocky, intuitively warned me of impending danger when a new male staff member called around to my house. When I opened the door to let him in, Rocky flew under my bed, shaking and barking. He was a gregarious pet, and this behaviour was out of character. Even the visitor commented, ‘No animal has done that to me before.’ Rocky’s actions alerted to me to be on guard. Something wasn’t right. Later, through extensive research, I discovered that the man was a suspected paedophile who had slipped through the usual channels in the interview process and was working with disadvantaged youth. Through my dog’s actions, a potential threat to the safety of youth and perhaps my own children had been avoided. His employment ceased immediately.
Animals connect with our soul; they are part of our soul’s connection and the soul’s journey. With their passing, their soul will go through the same stages as a human’s—they stil
l wish to comfort and support their master, say a final farewell, let their loved ones know they’re okay and that they’ve made the transition to the other side and linked up with family members or other animals they knew or loved.
The final farewell
Teagan was an apricot long-hair Persian cat my son Andrew owned. She had one male kitten that we gave to my parents who lived a six-hour drive away from our home. They called him Winston. While my children and I were holidaying in another state, my neighbour was overseeing the care of our animals. One day my mother was in her kitchen when she turned and saw Teagan. This was impossible— Teagan was hundreds of kilometres away. But to Mum it seemed as real as though she was actually in her home. Then she disappeared as quickly as she had appeared.
On returning from our holiday, our neighbour told us Teagan had died. When Mum heard the story, she knew the cat had come to say goodbye to her kitten. It was reassuring and a lesson for the whole family, especially the children, to understand that animals too can visit from the other side and make a lasting impression on their owners.
Not everyone is gifted with clairvoyance, or clear seeing, as was my mum’s experience. So how do you know your pet is connecting with you or sending you a message? There are many gifted psychics who feel comfortable working with pet communication. Again seek a referral to know you are experiencing a genuine encounter. Pets will indicate pictures and smells to a psychic, and convey a ‘knowing’ of what message they want to tell you—it is their form of telepathic communication. When they looked you right in the eyes and you read their thoughts, ‘I’m hungry, feed me,’ or ‘I want to go outside, take me’, through their eyes and actions, so too this is how they will communicate in Spirit to the psychic medium or to you.
Be observant, and trust they will make the bridge for the connection to occur.
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