mediumship and Seth discussions

[bluebird]

Hi Baob,
Question 1: Mikey tells me they both are experiences / life journeys that are with him . Not past , but with him now. (I cannot wrap my head around this no time thing, fyi! Carol)
Question 2: Mikey tells me they are part of him and his knowledge base. They are not going on now as they are from a time based dimension (here on earth) which he is no longer in. But what was learned and experienced is a part of him , and Mikey is in an afterlife dimension where there is no rules of time.
Question 3: Mikey tells me when we are on earth, we are under the rules and influences of time. So, our lives here are not occurring simultaneously. There is an order here. When we return to the afterlife, the rules no longer apply. It is a timeless dimension. The knowledge gained becomes a part of us according to Mikey. Past and present from this dimension is irrelevant.
Carol and Mikey "in Spirit"

These explanations make a lot of sense to me. While experiencing those lives, Mikey lived them one by one, in a linear fashion, since that is how time works in this life / dimension. Once back in the afterlife, all of those lives are with him, are part of him, and the experiences and knowledge gained in those lives are accessible to him.

It's much like memory. While actually living an experience and creating it in memory, one is centered within that experience -- the experience being had might call to mind other related experiences/memories, but for the most part one is in the currently occurring experience. Later, the next week, or next month, or next year, or ten years later, or at the end of one's life, many/all memories can be accessed more or less equally (or at least those which are important to the individual). They all occurred at different times, and in a linear fashion, but that no longer makes a difference.

 

[baob]

Hi Baob,
Question 1: Mikey tells me they both are experiences / life journeys that are with him . Not past , but with him now. (I cannot wrap my head around this no time thing, fyi! Carol)
Question 2: Mikey tells me they are part of him and his knowledge base. They are not going on now as they are from a time based dimension (here on earth) which he is no longer in. But what was learned and experienced is a part of him , and Mikey is in an afterlife dimension where there is no rules of time.
Question 3: Mikey tells me when we are on earth, we are under the rules and influences of time. So, our lives here are not occurring simultaneously. There is an order here. When we return to the afterlife, the rules no longer apply. It is a timeless dimension. The knowledge gained becomes a part of us according to Mikey. Past and present from this dimension is irrelevant.
Carol and Mikey "in Spirit"

Thank you so much, Carol and Mikey!
The answer to the 1st question is the same as Seth's speaking. And the answers to other questions make so much sense.

 

[baob]

Hi Carol and Mikey,

I have questions after reading Seth’s books. He said he’s acted as a guide to others before and changed his appearance depending on the person’s beliefs. Sometimes when the person passed over, he presented himself as Christ to the Christian or as the person’s loved ones to meet them in the afterlife because the loved one was busy with other things.

1) So I wonder if the loved ones I talked to through the medium were really my loved ones or if it was just my spiritual guide/higher-self pretending to be them?
2) Every medium’s receptive ability is different so how can they tell they were truly talking to my loved ones?

Thanks!

 

[mac]

Hi Carol and Mikey,

I have questions after reading Seth’s books. He said he’s acted as a guide to others before and changed his appearance depending on the person’s beliefs. Sometimes when the person passed over, he presented himself as Christ to the Christian or as the person’s loved ones to meet them in the afterlife because the loved one was busy with other things.

1) So I wonder if the loved ones I talked to through the medium were really my loved ones or if it was just my spiritual guide/higher-self pretending to be them?
2) Every medium’s receptive ability is different so how can they tell they were truly talking to my loved ones?

Thanks!

I acknowledge this is Mikey's thread and I will later remove my remarks. But I want to offer my observations concerning mediums and mediumship, something I've always had a special interest in and something I've been more involved with in recent months. Only a few minutes ago I was discussing the situation with a friend who's a medium and who I watched working yesterday evening.

Concerning your first question I have never before heard the notion that a spirit guide would pretend to be the loved one of a recipient. If it were true I would find that idea deceitful and unacceptable. In reality I find it literally unbelievable. That's not what spirit guides do. The higher self notion is equally unbelievable and untenable.

On your second point please consider the following. A medium is a go-between for communication (of whatever kind) between this and the next world. The medium doesn't need to tell if (s)he is in contact with the loved one of the recipient but does need to obtain details for the recipient to tell that. A competent, evidential medium will strive to get the details needed, details that are evidence of the spirit communicator's identity.

Think on, if you would, that a medium's "receptive ability" is not the only factor involved. Every spirit communicator has a personal level of effectiveness in working with a medium. Just as in this world, some individuals communicate more effectively than others, some mediums may receive more readily. Both are involved and both affect the effectiveness of the communication.

 

[baob]

Thanks for your comment, mac!
On the second point what I mean is that because my guide and my higher self know me very well. So they can provide the evidence through the medium. Not sure if the medium can tell where the information comes from.
Regarding the first question, when I read on that point, I felt uneasy and surprised. But Seth explains that he did this in order to help the person transit smoothly.

 

[mareke]

Testing Mikey by using information revealed by someone like Seth is subject to distortion and not something I'd do lightly. Seth for instance revealed that Christ was never crucified and that someone who was drugged agreed to take Christ's place to fulfill the bible prophecies in relation to a messiah coming. I wouldn't put Mikey in a position of having to acknowledge or deny something like that because it would be unfair.

I've read many of the Seth books and I don't remember Seth saying he pretended to be a loved one to someone while still on earth. Members of one's soul family including guides can apparently take on different appearances designed to help or teach a soul who has returned to the spirit world. Michael Newton had one person he hypnotized say that on returning to the spirit world he was met by a horned creature resembling the devil. It was done briefly in jest because the returning spirit had spent his last life on earth as a pastor preaching hellfire and damnation to his flock. When the horned creature who resembled the devil morphed back into the guide the soul acknowledged that he'd spent his life on earth misleading people by preaching the way he did. The returning soul didn't think badly of his guide for briefly appearing as the devil. He acknowledged that he deserved it after spending a life preaching things that caused many of his congregation to live in fear of going to hell for the slightest transgressions.

As for mediums I don't know why anyone would see one when there have been so many frauds both past and present. Why are people constantly trying to contact the other side through mediums when they have lives to live here to learn and grow from?

In recent times prominent mediums Warren Caylor, Kai Muegge, David Thompson, Gary Mannion have all been frauds. The most successful fraudulent medium was Leslie Flint. Flint never gave evidential readings. The only time any sitter asked him for evidence to prove the spirit (Marilyn Monroe) was who the spirit claimed to be, the 'spirit' disappeared.

Flint did give readings to grieving parents. One example is when David Browning the deceased son of parents who came to Flint came through. The 'reunion' lasted exactly 1 minute and 38 seconds. Flint would have had an opportunity to learn the son's accent by speaking to the parents beforehand. Listening to the supposed voice of the son it sounded like Flint speaking in the same accent as the parents. The son revealed nothing at all to verify it was him. The whole thing lasted a minute and 38 seconds so the parents had no chance of working out it was Flint pretending to be their son. It was a masterful exhibition of rat cunning by a fraud who got away with his fraudulent garbage his entire life.

Flint had a cockiness about him that started to disappear in photos of him taken towards the end of his life when he knew there could be hell to pay for deceiving people the way he did. When you are a fraud you have to have nerves of steel and be on guard all the time to minimise the chances of being exposed. Fint's nerve started to fail him as he aged and he couldn’t go ahead with some séances and gave people their money back. Emily French is an example of a genuine medium who performed séances right into old age because being genuine she was a conduit for spirits coming through. Another example is Lucy Hale who gave séances into extreme old age with various male and female voices coming through. She was able to do that because she was genuine.

In Australia I know of a prominent medium who offers, Visa, MasterCard etc as payment methods. Pay in advance and then wait for the reading after the money comes through and the medium has had time to research you on the internet to see what you've revealed about yourself. It’s beyond me why anyone would pay for such a thing.

 

[bluebird]

It's true that there are too many fraudulent mediums, but there may be some legitimate ones as well. The medium I saw is Janet Nohavec, and at the very least I believe that she believes in what she's doing (I don't believe she's a scammer). One of my reasons for that is that is related to one of the points mareke made -- when you make an appointment, Janet (or her appointment-maker) makes it a point to tell you to only give your first name. So they don't have your last name at all, either when you make the appointment or later at the actual reading. This means that there's no way for them to look anyone up ahead of time, to google someone coming for a reading, or look them up online on any other websites, social media, etc.

 

[mac]

Thanks for your comment, mac!
On the second point what I mean is that because my guide and my higher self know me very well. So they can provide the evidence through the medium. Not sure if the medium can tell where the information comes from.
Regarding the first question, when I read on that point, I felt uneasy and surprised. But Seth explains that he did this in order to help the person transit smoothly.

Your guide will not become involved in mediumistic communication - that's not a guide's role.

Your so-called higher self is not a discrete entity hence is not a source of information..

The medium doesn't need to know where information originates other than to be sure it's not from you - not from psychic reading of yourself - and to be sure it's from a spirit contact who has a connection to you. A psychic doesn't and that's why I'm forever banging on about the differences between mediums and psychics.

An evidential medium will be contacted by a spirit individual and will use her/his attributes as a medium to ask for information that will provide evidence of the spirit's link to you. That information should be relayed by the medium to you, the intended recipient. Then it's over to you to confirm or reject the information and the communicator's relationship. When you're satisfied the information is from someone in your family or from a friend then you have had a clear indication the individual has survived death and wants to let you know it. That's the basis of evidential mediumship.

I can not comment on the piece you've mentioned by Seth as I have not read it.

 

[mac]

As I've remarked in the C&M thread this discussion about mediumship has moved away from its Q&A format and should be carried on here.

 

[mac]

Testing Mikey by using information revealed by someone like Seth is subject to distortion and not something I'd do lightly.

Trying to test Mikey is highly disrespectful and I will not allow it.

Seth for instance revealed that Christ was never crucified and that someone who was drugged agreed to take Christ's place to fulfill the bible prophecies in relation to a messiah coming.

As there can be no corroboration for such a claim it must remain that - a claim.

I wouldn't put Mikey in a position of having to acknowledge or deny something like that because it would be unfair.

You would not be allowed to try.

I've read many of the Seth books and I don't remember Seth saying he pretended to be a loved one to someone while still on earth. Members of one's soul family including guides can apparently take on different appearances designed to help or teach a soul who has returned to the spirit world. Michael Newton had one person he hypnotized say that on returning to the spirit world he was met by a horned creature resembling the devil. It was done briefly in jest because the returning spirit had spent his last life on earth as a pastor preaching hellfire and damnation to his flock. When the horned creature who resembled the devil morphed back into the guide the soul acknowledged that he'd spent his life on earth misleading people by preaching the way he did. The returning soul didn't think badly of his guide for briefly appearing as the devil. He acknowledged that he deserved it after spending a life preaching things that caused many of his congregation to live in fear of going to hell for the slightest transgressions.

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As for mediums I don't know why anyone would see one when there have been so many frauds both past and present. Why are people constantly trying to contact the other side through mediums when they have lives to live here to learn and grow from?

If I thought you were interested I would explain why people seek out mediums.