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Departed help medium organise their funerals Spirit messages guide Tracie Long in her work as a spiritual celebrant
The reason the Chelmsford medium and content. astrologer’s services are so appropriate is “I was very interested and made a note that she receives valuable input from the of it. So when someone I knew needed spirits who have just passed on. In fact, a civil celebrant to conduct a service at she often hears from the newly-departed Enfield Crematorium I recommended spirits before their families make contact. Tracie. It went extremely well and the It seems the deceased have listened in person who sought my advice was very on their relatives’ discussions about the grateful.” type of service and are aware that Tracie Then, in July last year, on the death will soon be approached. So they get in first of her 24-year-old daughter Emma, who with their own recommendations. suffered with severe cerebral palsy, Carol Carol Long, asked her who runs the Facebook Beacon of Light friend to Spiritualist conduct the Church, in the service. north London “She was borough of absolutely Enfield, had amazing,” become friends Carol Long with Tracie on told Psychic Facebook a News. “She few years ago. came to my Subsequently house to meet Beacon of Light Spiritualist Church, Enfield she had seen the family and from Tracie’s quite clearly posts that she had trained to become a she’d already had connections with my civil celebrant, able to perform weddings daughter because the service had virtually or funeral services without a religious been put together before she spoke to us.
“It was amazing. I can’t sing her praises highly enough, and since then she’s done two more funerals at the Beacon of Light Spiritualist Church. The families have been really happy with what she provided.” Often, Tracie says, she has an impulse to pick up her mobile phone and the time displayed – 14:44, for example – will alert her to an imminent spirit communication. “They usually want to contact me and give me some suggestions before I meet their family members. I don’t particularly want them walking around my bedroom at night, knocking on the wall and doing other things to get my attention. But that’s how it is! “They always attend their own funerals. I’ve not done one yet where they’re not present. Sometimes they are also at the committal. They generally hang around a bit. And as soon as I receive a call from a family and start organising the service I start getting all this information coming through, such as songs or poems. “For Carol’s daughter Emma, I’d completed the whole service before I got to her home! I said, ‘Emma’s been in touch and this is what she would like’, and they were delighted, accepting the whole thing.” Tracie’s unusual story was featured in recent weeks on an Essex Live podcast which was then picked up by the Mirror newspaper. n
Emma Long, daughter of the Beacon of Light’s president, gave valuable input to her own funeral
Medium and civil celebrant Tracie Long (Photo: Facebook)
SPIRITUALIST church president Carol Long is among those who are thankful to Tracie Long (no relation) for her sensitive conducting of their loved one’s funerals.
PSYCHIC NEWS | MARCH 2018
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