Hi Carol and thanks for your thoughts.
I do appreciate why you've written about your own experiences publicly to try to help those searching and grieving for lost loved ones. My thoughts, here, are more for you than intended as questions to be asked of Mikey. I will later move this posting into the 'general' thread, as with other side-conversations, to avoid disrupting the C&M Q&A thread focus.
The field of signs and symbols IS a difficult one and although we need to encourage individuals to be open and positive I'm aware of how it is for those who 'get' nothing because I have never been aware of a sign or message for me. That's not to say I haven't had confirmation of all this 'spooks stuff' but only that it's not come in ways I've recognised near the time things happened.
As I wrote earlier I've linked stuff well after the events came to pass and I don't struggle with the notion of survival anyway. I feel for those who aren't yet persuaded, aren't aware of signs despite asking, yet 'hear' accounts from those privileged to have had such experiences.
And I use the word 'privileged' deliberately; I consider all of us to be privileged when we
know that survival is for real.
Here in the USA I am unable to suggest to seekers they should consider a visit to a Spiritualist church to both witness communication through mediumship and maybe find it for themselves. In my homeland of the UK I can and do refer folk to their nearest local church or center where - despite my general pessimism about the movement of
Spiritualism - many of us Brits can find churches within a short distance of home, often with a choice of a number of locations. Sadly my American friends and contacts usually can't and I feel bad for them because visiting a medium is often the easiest path to getting started. Although courses for 'DIY communication' are available I'm unsure how helpful they truly are. What I've 'heard' of them hasn't been persuasive but I don't have much to go on so I try to avoid jumping to conclusions.
I think it's undoubtedly true that some individuals are more receptive to their loved ones reaching out to them. As you've pointed out we're all different and that's the caution I try to give when individuals are hoping for their own evidence of survival. It sometimes feels awfully unfair that one person gets all manner of confirmation whereas another seemingly gets zilch. I only wish others could enjoy a similar level of reassurance I have but I know I have to accept it ain't gonna happen that way.
Within the movement that shaped my early exposure to all this stuff we still have to accept that not everyone will get a message through a medium no matter how many they visit. That's been my biggest disappointment. Not for myself but for those whose lives are miserable because they remain burdened by doubt and uncertainty. It's one reason I continue to try to do whatever little I can to help.
