At some point in life, most of us have had a “Dark Night of the Soul.” This is a period when life seemed to have insurmountable odds. We didn’t know how we would get through it. However, if you are reading this blog, you remain here, which means you survived your darkest time.  

In a recent channeling, Spirit discussed the benefits of making it through a depressing period. The message explained that the “depths of despair” is a transitional step which cleanses our attachment to the dictates of society. As we stand there emotionally naked and in pain, we are willing to let everything go. As we release the struggle, we can sit in silence. All of the confusion, all of the energy which confronted us in everyday life, subsides. We experience peace.

The dark night of the soul is a rite of passage into a different level of spiritual connection. In surviving, we take a step and find peace. Then, even as we face new challenges, we can bring back that feeling of serenity.

Survival enhances our ability sit in silence and go into the profoundness of who we are. There, the woes of the world dissipate. When we meditate, our experience takes on a golden glow and brings us more information because we are aware of where we are going, striving to get there, and letting go of what we no longer need.

As we step into this wonderment that we have survived a spiritual crisis, we realize that we have been initiated into a different realm.

Spirit went to say that if you have not had that spiritual experience in this lifetime, you have probably had it in another lifetime which is related to this one. From that previous lifetime, you could have (in this life) an element of understanding, an element of letting go, and an element of peacefulness, so that even as you see the troubles of this world, you can get to a place of peace and calm.

Nice to know.

This information is based on Susan Sampson’s channeling in May. Thank you, Susan, for sharing your communication gift with us.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

At a channeling session in May 2021, one participant asked: When will COVID go away? Out of the atmosphere?

Spirit answered:

“It is intrinsic to the Earth. It will be gone in a year and a half, totally, from countries that are now in crisis.

“It is forcing people to confront their belief systems in order to get rid of it from their country. That confrontation of ‘It isn’t real,’ or ‘I am not going to get it,’ or whatever they happen to believe, will be faced with the reality of COVID. That will change their mind. They are kicking and screaming to not change their mind, so it will take a while.”

“I bless you all in this new spring and I bless you all in this new summer and the freedom that is coming to you. The freedom to go out with your inoculations and embrace the world like you haven’t done even before COVID, because COVID has taught you the preciousness of what you have lost.”

            Information channeled by Susan Sampson, mothergoodness@yahoo.com

Last month, Jane asked this question on the blog:

“If a person dies and in the Afterlife merges with their soul and discovers all their other lives, so they are now a ‘we’ rather than an ‘I,’ how can a channel or medium talk to that person as they are now their soul not the person who died? Can they be a soul and also one individual out of all their lives?”

This was my answer:

“I like to think of it like a hand. The person you knew is like one of the fingers. They retain their individuality, but they are connected to the hand (their Higher Self). The hand has access to information from all of the soul's lives. You can talk to one of the ‘fingers’ until the finger decides it no longer cares to retain its independence and merges more closely into the hand.

“However, ‘the hand’ can always answer your questions.”

I don’t understand all of the complexities to the system, but I’ve heard psychics talk about Higher Selves. Each person has a Higher Self which oversees all of the individual lifetimes being experienced by a soul.

It seems that even after physical death, the soul remains intact. It can commingle with its Higher Self and see how all of its lifetimes are connected. Yet, it can continue to have new experiences traveling from galaxy to galaxy in a non-physical form, or reincarnating into a physical body.

Tuesday’s “Quote from a Psychic” was from Maryushka. She talked about a “doubling of the soul.” A piece of the soul comes to Earth, while a piece remains on The Other Side.

I suggest that people who are planning to have a session with a Medium do their part to make the communication successful. Prior to the session, they should talk aloud to their loved with whom they want to communicate, and ask that person to come through during the reading. Souls may be off having adventures in other parts of the galaxy, may be enmeshed in research projects, may be vacationing, or may be acting as Spirit Guides for other people. Their attention is on whatever they are doing. A quick shout out to them will give them a moment to regroup and think about the message they want to send to the Medium to be relayed to the client.

I don’t pretend to know all the answers, but this makes sense to me. If you want to know more about how a Medium connects with a soul, ask the Medium. They might have an answer, or they might tell you that while they don’t know how it works, they know it works.

If you have a better answer for this blog reader, let me know. You can post your thoughts in the Comments Section, or send an e-mail to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com.

Gail

I asked, “What do you think happens when people die? at the moment of death? after death?”

Maryushka answered:

“At the moment of death, their energy leaves the living plane that we are on. It goes to the next level of energy. From there, most people hook right up with the people who love them. They see the white light, they go down the tunnel. There, they are with their people.

“I believe in the doubling of the soul so that all of your people, your relatives, are there waiting for you when you go. There is no ‘Never Never Land’ where you are stuck. I know that there are ghosts who are stuck, who can’t move on. I don’t know why. I know you can help them let go of this plane and move on to the next plane. Most people have people waiting to greet them and help them. The thousands of reports of near-death experiences all tell the same basic story of the white light, the tunnel, and the relatives. There’s Jesus, there’s Mary. It depends on who you are looking for. They are there to get you to the place you are supposed to be. You stay there.

“When you are ready to reincarnate, a piece of you stays there and a piece of you comes down to do more Earthly learning because there are situations which you can’t learn there. Plus, you need to test your free will. There, it’s not necessary. You are all-empowered. Your learning is different. I can’t tell you how it is different because I am not there. I don’t remember the other side.”

Maryushka

Over the years, many of you have read channeled messages from Susan Sampson on this blog. Susan also reads past lives. I interviewed Susan a few months ago. While her full interview isn’t yet ready for publication, I wanted to share the story about her first past-life reading.

I have discovered that a psychic’s first reading sometimes takes them by surprise. They don’t realize that it was a reading until afterwards. They wonder, “Where did that come from?”

Other times, a psychic may have asked for a specific ability, and it has shown up. In Susan’s case, her first reading also involved a UFO sighting. Was that related to the arrival of her psychic abilities? I don’t know.

I asked Susan, “How did the past-life readings begin?”

Susan answered:

“One evening, my sister and I and a friend went to the Lake Superior lake shore. It was cool. It was dusk. We were laying on the beach and we saw a light shining straight down, like a helicopter light, but there were no helicopters there. This thing flew over and when it got to the edge of the tree line, instead of shining down, the light shown out the back. In the back, were tiny, little ships. There was a huge ship in the front and tiny ships following it. I thought, ‘I’m not a psychic. I know spirituality. I am going to ask what they want.’ I asked why they were here and they said, ‘We’re just curious.’ I said, ‘So are we.’

“Afterwards, I drove my sister home. I also had to drive our friend home. I asked if she was in a hurry and she was not. I told her that I thought I had a past life coming up within me. I had an energy in my body. It had been three months since I had asked to be able to do past-life readings. The energy was coming up, but I didn’t know if it was going to arrive.

“We went back to the lake shore where we had seen the UFO, and I told her about a life in western China. I started seeing a movie in my head. It took a long time to share the information because I didn’t believe the images I was seeing in my head. I didn’t believe the movie, but the movie wouldn’t move until I told her what I saw.

“When I was done, I looked at this woman. The first time you do a reading, you don’t know if you are really doing it or not. She was sitting there with her mouth open, like she was star struck. It was like a cartoon. She said, ‘I’ve been married twice and I never told my husbands, or anyone on the face of the Earth, that I read everything I can find on western China because it feels so good.’

“She had asked really good questions during the reading. She had asked what she was wearing on her feet and I had told her how her sandal-type shoes had been constructed. I could see them. It’s hard to get people to ask good questions when you do a past-life reading.”

If you have questions and are interested in having a past-life reading with Susan, you can e-mail her at mothergoodness@yahoo.com .

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

When I interviewed John Hunter, he told me about the first time he did a reading for someone. He had not done this reading intentionally. Afterwards, he questioned everything. A few psychic readers had similar reactions to their first readings. They felt that they had unleashed something, but they didn’t know what it was.

This is John’s story:


“As a teenager I realized that I perceived things differently.

“I had to admit it to myself when I gave a reading as a teenager to another teenager. We were in college, probably 18 or 19 years old. I did it nonchalantly. We were just talking. She was dating another guy and didn’t want to go out with me. I was feeling a little jealous. I said, ‘This is what you have to look forward to in your life.’ It was a feeling which became real and deep. The person knew that when I said these things, they felt real. They were going to happen.

“I told her what her life would be like with that person. It was a feeling. It was very natural. I told her, ‘This will probably happen if you don’t go out with me.’ I told her about the next 20 years of her life. I could map it out because it was the most-likely probability of her life. I was picking up that energy, that vibration, putting it into words, and telling her about it.

“Her life would have changed if she had dated me. It would have been a different path. But, I couldn’t tell her what would happen if she went out with me because that wasn’t in the cards. I couldn’t just make something up.

“Her reaction stuck with me. She was taken aback by the reading. It was too much. We both had a reaction. I felt badly after this reading. That’s when I had to decide if what I had done was wrong. Was it appropriate? What kind of guidelines applied to this kind of communication? I had no clue. I didn’t know anything about this, about the appropriate way to deliver information. I had to learn from that. I processed that for many years. I didn’t want to do that again until I knew how to do it properly.

“This gift comes with responsibility. It took a long time to understand what was going on. In the meantime, those types of events would happen, but I would try to limit them, or be aware of what I as doing.

“From that moment, I started a 20 year process. I read. I listened. I asked questions. I prayed about it. I was trying to open myself for that journey. I wanted to understand that event. It led me down the rabbit hole. That one event led me to this point.”

In the southwest, we use a phrase, “The Whole Enchilada.” It means “everything.” So here’s “The Whole Enchilada of Life.” It’s a lot to take in, but every now and then, it’s good to step back and remind our selves of the Big Picture.

Before birth, we work with non-physical entities to create a contract for our life. We develop a plan with all the challenges and opportunities we will need in order to explore whatever it is that we want to investigate during each lifetime. Then, we come to Earth with our life outline and our free will. We use free will to fill in the details of our life, while working on our contract. We have a life purpose to work on, personal lessons to learn, and Karma from previous lifetimes to re-balance. All the while, we are allowing Source to learn vicariously through our experiences.

Our life contract contains the big ideas. We use our free will to express our preferences. For example, our contract may say that we want to explore interpersonal love during this lifetime. Our free will allows us to choose who we love.  

We work on themes. Before birth, we may design a lifetime for working on the theme of love, or the theme of getting through life without love – standing strong and alone. Maybe we want to explore the theme of abundance or its flip side, poverty.

Experiences help us grow. If, mid-way through our life, we realize that we are not enjoying our journey, or think we made a mistake when we set up our contract, we can change the circumstances of our life and change the roles we play. Yet, even as we change our circumstances, we continue to fulfill our contract, work on our project, experience lessons, burn Karma, and allow Source to work through us.

On our journey, we are assisted by Spirit Guides, angels, Master Teachers, deceased loved ones, and our Higher Self. An energy Source infuses us so we can move, think, and be alive.

We are born with a set of Spirit Guides and a set of angels. One particular Spirit Guide is in the forefront, always with us. We also have a specific Guardian Angel who is with us from birth through death. Other Guides, angels, and teachers come forward as needed for special projects.

Between Source and our individual soul, we have a “Higher Self.” Our Higher Self is a point of connection. It’s as if it has to step down the energy from Source so that we can manage to use this energy without burning out. This Higher Self directs our life, along with any other lives our soul is living. One Higher Self. One soul. Multiple, simultaneous lives.

We have a supportive community of deceased friends and relatives who cheer us on from The Other Side. They can send energy to help us along our path. We also have friends who are alive. We circle through incarnations with this group of friends, helping each other achieve our goals.

We have a body to house our soul so that we can experience physical life. We have a brain to help us work through situations, and we have a consciousness which keeps us connected to the non-physical realm.

We are cycling around on a Wheel of Incarnation, learning to love ourselves and to understand who we truly are so that, eventually, we can evolve off of the Wheel and move to different realms and realities.

Knowing that some people, such as psychics, can communicate with invisible entities and bring messages to the rest of us, provides proof for this mystery-laden set-up. When we can hear from deceased loved ones, we know they still exist. When we can receive loud, verbal directions from Spirit Guides, we know they exist. When we hear our own internal voice, we feel our connection to the Universe and know that all is well, as we travel along our path.

The Whole Enchilada comes with beans and rice. Enjoy!

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

Working with psychics and listening to their stories has led me to consider spirituality and spiritualism. Spiritualism isn’t a religion. It’s a way of thinking about life. It is an approach which says that our souls live on after death. It says that we have been here before, and we will be here again. It’s a philosophy supported by anecdotes, synchronicities, channeled messages, and personal experiences. It says that we have a larger personal consciousness which keeps tabs on our lives.

When we pass from this life, we report back to our larger consciousness about all that we have done and experienced. Then, we work with that larger consciousness, and our Spirit Guides, to decide whether or not to reincarnate. If we choose to reincarnate, we can plan the broad outline of our next life. Once we are here, we have free will and can make choices. If we choose not to reincarnate, we can explore other dimensions.

Eventually, when we feel whole and no longer in need of life experiences, we return to our Source, the Source of Everything. And, that Source is not something separate from us. We are always connected to that Source; we are part of it -- like a mother ship which sends out smaller vessels. Our personal consciousness is an extension of a universal consciousness.

There's much to understand if we decide to delve into the way life works.

When I interviewed each psychic, I asked how they figured out they were psychic. The answers fell into four categories:

(1) I was born knowing I was psychic;

(2) I knew I was different from other children, but didn’t know I was psychic. I had to figure out what was going on;

(3) I was a normal child who developed my gift later in life, mostly through study and development; and

(4) I had a near-death experience, or another kind of trauma, which opened my understanding and my abilities.  

Here is an example, or two, from each of these categories:

Born Knowing

Leah Taylor: I was psychic from childhood.  I knew what other people felt and thought and what was going on with them. My Mom said that I was only about a year old when I began showing empathy. I was very precocious as a child and I think it is because I remember a lot of my past lives. Sometimes that is good, but in second grade I started recalling my past life in WWII and I didn’t want to get out of bed. I stayed home for a week, under the covers, reliving the whole experience with all of its details. It was very traumatic.

My Mom introduced me to all of this. Since I was a little girl, we were dousing, using pendulums, and reading Tarot cards. However, I also brought her into some of it because of my interest in it.  

I came in knowing what I had.

Jeff Sonnenburg: When I was nine years old, my mother was having a large bridge party in the living room, with about 20 ladies. I came down to get a drink of water. I was half asleep and as I walked by the party I exclaimed, “Mrs. Murphy is pregnant!”  Mrs. Murphy ran, crying, into the kitchen. She was pregnant, she had not told anyone and it was not her husband’s child. My mother told me never to do that again.

Another critical moment was in college when my fraternity brothers called me “The Witch,” in a positive way. I could get them free drinks by telling the bartender all about herself.

Had to figure it out

Gina Stanfill: As a child, I knew something was going on, but I couldn’t figure it out. I had a lot of déjà vu, but I didn’t know how to deal with it so I shut myself out of the world for most of my life. As a child, I lived in my bedroom because that was where I could deal with the realms and the spirits who came to visit. They were my friends and I hung out with them. At night I astral-traveled and it was fine. I couldn’t share this with information anyone. I went to school and functioned there, and immediately went home and hid in my room.

I thought I was crazy. I grew up thinking I was nuts. I was happy. No one knew what to do with me.

Had a normal childhood

Nancy: I figured it out on my own. The more I learned about anything metaphysical, the more I understood the possibilities. In 1970, I started a study group in Wisconsin to understand metaphysics and I had a very powerful experience during an automatic writing session. We were all sitting in my studio and the teacher explained what automatic writing was.

I had just returned from a trip to Sedona and had found out that the mother of a good friend of mine had passed away while I was gone. The woman who had passed away was named Hannah. In the past, every time I had had lunch with Hannah she had said, “Thank you for being my friend.” In addition, whenever she talked about her son she would say, “Oh, Ron will be Ron.”

Back to the automatic writing session. We did a guided meditation and we each had a pen and paper. The teacher said that if nothing was happening, just to write our names. I started to write my name and my arm started shaking. I opened my eyes in disbelief, and I wrote, “Sad.” I wasn’t crying, but suddenly tears were running out of my eyes. Then I wrote, “Thank you for being my friend,” and I realized it was Hannah. My hand moved down the paper and my hand wrote, “Ron will be . . . ” I put the pen down and I was completely freaked out. It was the first time, I had had that kind of a mind-boggling experience. That was when I realized that there was a lot out there which I didn’t understand and it increased my interest in finding out more.

A trauma opened the gift

Raquel Spencer: I have always been intuitive. As a child, I talked to the Angels at night. I said my prayers, asked questions, and mentally knew the answers. For example, I lost tickets and was told where to find them. I just knew things. It’s not like hearing something, or having someone whisper in my ear; it’s a knowing. However, around six or seven years of age, I started to lose that connection. I didn’t really get it back until after I had a medical issue.

When I was about 20 years old, I slipped into an unconscious state. Five and a half weeks later, I woke up. I was pronounced dead three times and I came back three times. There was no medical reason, no accident, which caused this event. When I woke up, I was fine. I just felt like I had lost time.

Several years later, I started to become spiritually aware. My interests, curiosity, and knowledge started to come on-line. At that point, I started on the path of spiritual exploration. I am very good at following my inner promptings, following Spirit. When I get an intuitive message to go somewhere or to read a book and I follow those instincts, I run into the right people and into the right contacts; new doors and understandings open up.

I was introduced to a woman who was on the cutting edge in the spiritual world. She was a channel of Metatron. I went to see her, not really knowing what a channel was, and she said, “I have been expecting you. Where have you been? You are behind schedule.” I was surprised and I had no idea what she was talking about. She did a reading for me and introduced me to new concepts, such as light body and ascension. I was reeling after that discussion as all of the information tried to settle in.

Three or four months later, I followed Spirit and went to northern CA for a three-day intensive workshop for etheric surgery with a woman named Tachi-Ren. Someone told me about it and I just went. That weekend, she activated me, bringing in my knowledge and wisdom about my work. I started to remember things. It was a “remembering” from the part of me which was not in physical form. I remembered my Higher Consciousness, what I came here to do, and what my work was all about. That is where it all began.