Medium of the month
Christian Adams
In Memory of - Battling Bertha
Attend to the foundations of your development Christine Morgan
Behind the Mask - of Spirituality
‘Intuitive Business’
Unlock that creative genius within ‘Dardirri’ Deep Listening What we can learn from the aboriginal culture
Spotlight on a Tutor
Michael Wheeler
Letter from the Editor Well welcome to the second edition of ‘The Professional Medium’ magazine. Still it is a steep learning curve but being one to never shy away from a new challenge, here we are! What is it that makes some people so ready to jump into the next great idea, and others sit back and really think about it? Well in this household we have one of each! Me who talks about a new idea within days it appears! And my lovely Grant who weighs up all the options, potential hazards and risks. The Uluru event was concieved in the back seat of a car while driving Tony Stockwell to the airport. Is it a personality type? or is it a total trust in everything being ok? Whatever it is it makes for an interesting partnership. In fact all i have to say is “I have an idea” and everyone runs for this hills here. In fact I dont even have a solid memory of the AAS being formed. Nichole was in the office one day and I mentioned it to her, and by the time she came back to the office the following week. The website was up and created and everyone notified. Sometimes i think being my PA is like trying to run in quick sand. really hard work and that feeling like nothing is ever under control. Just when you have caught up I have launched something new.
In this issue we focus on another very creative person in this field being Christian Adams! Christian had a vision for a new and different type of expo and no sooner had he thought about it then the CPC Psychic Expos were launched. Christian and his partner Nell jumped in and have produced an amazing event. In ths mag there is an article about ‘Intuitive Business’ and unlocking that creative genius within. If you are looking for some tips to really letting go and creating some amazing features for your own business have a read. There are no limits to what you can create, except those you place on yourself. I know you are going to tell me that finances are a limit to entering your own business but let me tell you i started mine with $180 enough to register the name and went from there. There are tough times of course but do what you love and love what you do and you will always get through the tough times. “Be Brave, & Be Kind” Debbie B-Mewes
Debbie B-Mewes and Lisa Williams Lisa will be one of our exciting Tutors at the 2017 Uluru Mediumship Symposium
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Medium of the Month - Christian Adams ‘Dardirri’ Deep Listening - What we can learn from the Aboriginal culture Intuitive Business - Unlock the creative genius within Spotlight on a Tutor - Michael Wheeler TRUTH Campagn by Psychic News In Memory of - Bertha Harris ‘Battling Bertha’ Attend to the Foundations of Your Development - Christine Morgan Behind The Mask - of Spirituality Rev Katherine Harris - The Address The Unfoldment of Mediumship - Nicola Neal ‘The Professional Medium’ is now available on subscription for those that like to hold their magazine and collect the editions. You can order yours at http://australianacademyofspirit.com/ the-professional-medium-magazine/ or email us and we will send you the link academyofspirit@optusnet.com.au
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Medium of the Month!
Each month the Australian Academy of Spirit select a member who is acknowledged for their ethics, committment to Spirit and quality of work. This month we acknowledge...........
Christian Adams Christian is an Honorary Member of the AAS www.australianacademyofspirit.com
Christian is a highly respected, psychic, medium and healer who is a regular on Psychic TV. With years of experience delivering his services, Christian can help provide guidance on your life journey or connect you with loved ones who have crossed over. Christian also works in the capacity of a trance healer. His healing journey has given him vast experience in energy healing modalities. Christian is a Reiki Master Teacher in Usui, Seichim and Karuna Reiki and has years of experience as a trance medium. Traveling the country, Christian performs mediumship stage shows, teaches workshops in a number of metaphysical disciplines and also conducts face to face readings. Christian conducts readings and healings in person in Deakin in the ACT or over the phone, and shows and demonstrations all over Australia. An exceptional platform medium with an amazing stage prescence and a calming and genuine persona. Christian is also a heart based business man creating the CPC Expos with his partner Nell Archer also a gifted medium. If you would like to contact Christian, www.christianadams.com.au or contact Christian at the Canberra Psychic Centre 0438301042 or 0481338011
‘Dardirri’ Deep Listening The aboriginal culture has ‘Dardirri’ we call it ‘Sitting in the Power’
Debbie B-Mewes Even as I write about Dardirri a quietness and calm washes over me. The birds outside become louder and the rustle of the trees is audible, everything seems to slow down and come alive.
When I experience Dadirri, I am made whole again. I can sit on the riverbank or walk through the trees; even if someone close to me has passed away, I can find my peace in this silent awareness. There is no need of words. A In aboriginal culture Dadirri, is deep listening, its in- big part of Dadirri is listening.” ner quiet, stillness, awareness and waiting. Aboriginal people practice deep listening Dadirri, it is an “In our Aboriginal way, we learnt to listen almost spiritual skill based on respect. Respect for from our earliest days. We could not live good themselves and the inner spring within and respect and useful lives unless we listened. This was for the land and the connection to everything, and the normal way for us to learn - not by asking respect to the great creator. questions. We learnt by watching and listening, waiting and then acting.” Aboriginal people passed on stories orally as they knew no writing. Listening to the story teller was “My people are not threatened by silence. vital to reproduce the story accurately to the next They are completely at home in it. They have generation of story-tellers. lived for thousands of years with Nature’s quietness. My people today, recognise and expeAboriginal writer Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baurience in this quietness, the great Life-Giving mann describes deep listening as follows [1]. Spirit, the Father of us all.” “Dadirri is inner, deep listening and quiet, still Another part of Dadirri is “the quiet stillness awareness. Dadirri recognises the deep spring that is and the waiting,” says Ungunmerr-Baumann. inside us. We call on it and it calls to us. This is the gift that Australia is thirsting for. It is something like what you call contemplation.”
“Our Aboriginal culture has taught us to be still and to wait. We do not try to hurry things up. We let them follow their natural course - like the seasons.” Dadirri is also used as a prayer, a prayer in the sense of you just feel the presence of the Great Creator. Dardirri to the Aboriginal culture is like ‘sitting in the Power’ in the spiritualist culture. Not to sit for fast advancement of abilities with an expectation of gaining anything. Not to sit because you feel that it is required of you, but to sit ‘Dardirri’ with a sense of deep listening, firstly to the earth sounds around you the gradually to your spirit within you then ultimately to the great creator in everything. Often when teaching mediumship, students get the concept of sitting in the power with the understanding of guided mediation, or a mechanical process, it is not this. Sometimes they want particulars on how long should they sit, what type of music is best to enhance their abilities faster. Does a bineal beat get better and faster results etc. My answer would be as long as you are asking you are not listening! As long as you are expecting you are not surrendering!
How you can experience Dadirri Sit regularly in nature if possible. In the morning or evening. Simply sit and look at and listen to the Earth and the environment that surrounds you. If you wish focus on something specific, such as a bird, the cracked earth, a flower or leaf or a cloud in the sky. Or let something find you, be it a leaf, the sound of a bird, the light through the trees. Don’t try just sit and wait and listen ‘Dardirri’ in time you will settle and come to look forward to this practice. In time you will slip into the connection easier. Be still and silent and listen. Following these quiet times you may feel inspired to express your experience of this quiet, deep listening time ‘Dardirri’. You may feel compelled to write, sing, draw or paint allow yourself to become creative and connected without doing it for an expectation of gaining something. If you practice this deep listening ‘Dardirri’ in
time you will be surprised the positive effect it will have on your life and your mediumship. Debbie B-Mewes President of the Australian Academy of Spirit www.australianacademyofspirit.com [1] ‘Dadirri - A Reflection By Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann’, Emmaus Productions
In the early 80’s, Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of the top one hundred CEOs and business leaders in the USA. They were asked to name the one factor above all others that contributed to their success. The results showed that all one hundred contributed their success to the fact that they listened to their gut – their intuition. Interestingly, all one hundred CEOs did not disclose this to their peers. Most successful professionals know what intuition is and have experienced it. They agree it is an invaluable tool for success in the modern world. But few know how it works. Fewer still know there are things you can do to activate and accelerate it to work when you need it. Intuition is a subtle and fleeting insight that can be easily lost under a mountain of unfinished business or swept away in the in the drama of disorder. Is it time to catch up with old matters, finish unfinished business and clear your desk? The more you procrastinate, the greater your loss when it comes to tapping into your intuitive reserves. Your intuition is as much a physical as psychic sense. It depends on your physical body relaying messages. If you are hung-over, stressed, under-exercised, sleep-deprived, over-scheduled or preoccupied, the chances are you will miss the subtle calling cards of your
of your intuition. Your intuition best captures your attention when your mind has quiet moments. To discern something subtle takes time, so slow down and give yourself a break. Some of the greatest inventions and visions were born in a moment of doing nothing. Doing nothing doesn’t mean nothing is being done! On the contrary, giving yourself a little breathing space allows your higher awareness to kick in and offer its input.
Intuitive Business! Unlock the creative genius within
To activate your business intuition, you must calm your other senses as well. Find a place to meditate, or take a walk. Do whatever it takes to eliminate distractions and create a window of intuitive opportunity. Conrad Hilton would sit quietly until intuition kicked in. Benjamin Franklin flew a kite, Isaac Newton meditated under an apple tree. Find your quiet corner for inspiration. Expect intuition to show up, and it will! The dictionary describes intuition as ‘immediate cognition’ and this requires a paying of acute attention. The word literally means ‘inner teacher’. Get into the habit of listening to your ‘inner teacher’ and expecting it to guide you. Your intuition works off the creative part of your brain. Mix your routines up a bit to keep your attention fresh and
to avoid falling into a mental rut. Take a new route to work. Enter through a different door. Wear a colour you don’t normally wear. Cut lunchtime in half and take a walk. This is why ‘Casual Fridays’ are more beneficial to the work place than you may realise. Intuitive people do not dwell on problems. They ponder offbeat solutions and expect to find them. In fact, they consider this a creative sport and love playing it. They work their intuitive muscles to enter a super-conscious state of mind.
Above all, have the courage to trust your business intuition. Every great leader has been willing to play thr fool. Disney was considered a nut. The Wright Brothers were called daft. Edison was eccentric at best. Progressive thinkers have always challenged conventional wisdom as they blaze a trail to the top.
The Seven Secrets to Becoming an Intuitive Entrepreneur 1. A good night’s sleep is the first tip to enhancing your business intuition. If your body isn’t rested its awareness is going to be fatigued. Before you rise in the morning visualise the most exciting business event that can happen for you that day? 2. Be grounded. Get out of your head and invite your spirit into your body. Don’t focus on any worries from yesterday. Begin the day in an energetically calm state. Be centred in your body, committed to your goals and unafraid of the decisions of others. 3. Hydration is essential for awareness. Fifteen minutes of intense concentration will dehydrate you and you can lose up to 50 per cent of your awareness if you are dehydrated. Also, water activates the pineal gland (the third eye) which is important for inspiration to flow through you. 4. Eat protein in the morning and your business intuition will wake up. Your intuition needs good quality protein to function well. 5. Intuition comes when the body moves. Don’t talk on it, walk on it! As you move you pick up energy in the body, and as the energy moves around your body so does your awareness. Take a look at Googles offices. They have slides, games and fun physical activities that keep up a very high level of business intuition. 6. You need oxygen to be intuitive. Sit for a while and focus on your breath. Breathe deep, full breaths. You need inner quiet; you will increase your intuitive business feelings if you don’t make them compete with the external world. 7. When you are grounded, calm, hydrated and rested you are functioning at optimal business intuition. When your vibration is heightened you will be calm and centred. You won’t be flustered, worried or flying off the handle. You will be the inspired thinker with all the amazing ideas! People naturally gravitate to the grounded calm person in the room.
Intuitive Business Cont................. Why do people gravitate towards and trust the most grounded and centred person? This harks back to ancient tribal days when our very existence depended on making correct decisions. The person with the respect and trust of the tribe was the one who could become quiet, tune into their intuition, and calmly access information that would benefit everyone in the tribe.
The Biggest Secret to Unleashing Your Inner Business Intuitive Genius! Play! Dance! Have fun! On his death bed Einstein wished he had played more. When he died they had a look at his brain to see what made him a genius. It was found that Einstein had 46 per cent more glial cells in his brain. How do you create more glial cells? Have fun! Studies have shown that in a playful surrounding over a two week period test subjects grow 20 per cent more glial cells. Those in a sterile environment for the same period of time lose 41 per cent of their glial cells. More Cells = Genius! More Play = Genius! Heightened intuition = Success in your Business! A playful atmosphere at work develops more intuitive awareness, more creativity and more inspiration. Kick start your creative process by finding a way to make your work space sacred, fun and inspiring.
Spotlight on a tutor
Michael Wheeler!
One of my favourite people in the field of mediumship is Michael Wheeler! A gentle and loving man who walks his talk. Michael is an exceptional medium and tutor and someone that knows how to get the best out of you and your mediumship in a loving and kind manner. Although Australian Medium, Author and Spiritual Teacher Michael Wheeler came to prominence when Channel 7 featured Michael in the hit television show THE ONE. Michael was already well established and loved by many in the mediumship field. Michael Wheeler is the Resident Medium for STAR104.5FM and is a Regular Columnist and Resident Pet Psychic for NEW IDEA magazine. Michael Wheeler is also the youngest medium in the world to be officially recommended by pioneering International Medium James Van Praagh. Michael’s astounding accuracy, the respect of his peers and the testimonials Michael regularly receives confirm the unique nature of his gentle gift and the demand for his rare ability, compassion and insight leads him to work with people throughout the world.
Two exciting retreats with Michael Wheeler for 2017
Contact Michael at www.psychicoranges.com or call 0425228781
(From the October issue of Psychic News Magazine. On sale now) TIME FOR ACTION Psychic News’ TRUTH campaign for thermal testing of physical mediums gets major backing from three continents By the Editor, Roy Stemman IN A dramatic move designed to verify the genuineness of physical mediumship and, at the same time, rid Spiritualism of charlatans pretending to produce physical phenomena, Psychic News has joined forces with the Spiritualists’ National Union (SNU) and the Banyan Retreat to change perceptions and challenge the procedures surrounding such séances. This informal coalition follows the exposure of Gary Mannion’s blatant fraud, revealed by covert infrared filming of his “physical mediumship” at Banyan Retreat, Kent [PN July, August and September 2016] earlier this year. His ability to fool many people
His ability to fool many people poses serious questions about the involvement of Spiritualist churches – some of them SNU members – and independent centres in unwittingly exposing their followers to fraudulent activities. It’s difficult to know if Mannion once had some genuine physical mediumship ability, but as his physical séances for three years or more have followed the same pattern as the “séance” caught on video, this is now being questioned. Physical mediums have produced some spectacular results over the years, manifesting remarkable phenomena combined with impressive evidence of life after death. But even the best have been accused of fraud – often unjustifiably, it seems – by sceptics who refuse to believe such things are possible. The major problem with most accounts of materialisations and other ectoplasmic phenomena is
accounts of materialisations is that they usually occur in darkness or in low light conditions, often making eyewitness accounts less than reliable. Psychic News believes it is now time for Spiritualists around the world to unite in stamping out fraud by utilising new technology before the activities of fake physical mediums like Mannion do long-lasting damage to the Movement. As a first step, we are campaigning for every physical medium who demonstrates publicly to be tested using the latest, non-invasive thermal technology. We are also inviting all Spiritualist churches and centres to give their support to this campaign by agreeing to allow only those physical mediums whose abilities have been verified by thermal imaging technology to demonstrate on their premises. Read the full article for FREE at: http://www.psychicnews.org. uk/a…/Psychic-News-TRUTH-
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In Memory of
Bertha Harris - Cont
Battling Bertha
My Friends and Me Poem by Kirsty Diamond When I am alone I know that you are near When I feel scared You whisper softly in my ear You are my friends That some don’t see The voices in my ear That others don’t seem to hear You guide me through this life Even in times of chaos and strife For the good times as well as the bad I know you are there to take my hand Picking me up when I am low You are the ones I can turn to Even when I forget you are there Silently you wait and draw so near
So to all of you who read this now I ask you to open your hearts and ears For what I am about to tell you Is not to be feared
The friends that I hold so dear You communicate through a myriad of plays Are wise and wonderful but not really here They are loving, wild and free Always I love your amazing healing ways My fantastic friends are spirits you see There is thought, feelings and knowing Writing, drawing and a platform showing
© Kirsty Diamond 23.09.12
ATTEND TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT.
Christine Morgan
Many times throughout the process of ongoing development, we need to be reflective and review. Sometimes we need to return to the last experience of positive conviction from the Spirit.
The journey of understanding and development will unfold along with the guidance from our friends in the unseen world, even though we may not be aware of it.
Spirit will influence areas of your unfoldment according to how you are responding to them. They can influence areas of your life concerning your mediumship, if necessary, but ultimately it is our responsibility to maintain our relationship with them.
The Spiritual environment of our helpers in the Spirit allows them to plan and direct us into situations that sometimes the physical limitation cannot reveal. So much of what we are able to accomplish mediumistically by-passes physical consciousness, so often the direction from Spirit is experienced silently.
There will be times when things in your life merge, to show potentials and opportunities, but we can delay them because of our mistakes or diversions, but at the correct time it will restart. We need to remember this that everyday life needs to happen and we sometimes cannot do everything we wish within our development. So, it is important not to put a time limit upon your mediumship or Intuitive ability as you will only cause damage in the rush to be something or someone and may never fill your true potential. As humans we are naturally impatient, and life does take us all on many roads.
These insights, contacts are used to strengthen our growing usefulness, and are gently and lovingly supervised by our people in Spirit, they know best how we can be used. Today, too many people are in too much of a hurry in getting somewhere, instead of realising this and enjoying the unfoldment. Sometimes there is too much emphasis on what we want, rather than how the Spirit want to use us. Many times we can feel like we are going around in circles, and feel we are getting nowhere, but do we need to go anywhere? Do you need an outcome?
If we can control and stop the attachment to to our own desires of expectation, then we can understand at a deeper level the Spiritual journey. The positive thoughts to Spirit are all well and good, but we also need to realise this is a life time of service and understanding for some, and within that service is also the service to ourselves.
To return to the foundations of development consistently is important to review and evaluate where you are going, but do not hold a goal that is unrealistic for yourself or the Spirit. Do you need to review your personal preparation, your relationship with the Spirit world, and do you reflect?
We come to deepen our own awareness of how we cooperate with not just the Spirit but life itself. We have to be a willing partner with the Spirit, but when we fail and make mistakes our limited physical understanding creates feelings of doubts which can only be negative in our development process.
Are you driven by your own desires rather than what you can do for them?
As instruments for the Spirit world we must try to be patient and perfect the instrumentality that is us as best we can, no one is perfect and the Spirit realise this too!
This can be done positively and with sincerity, the Spirit know true intentions and will never fail you, they will more than meet you half way to aid your development, but if you do your part and honestly use retrospective analysis to assist yourself they will see that.
However, if we are willing to reflect and stay focused on the learning we are being given from the Spirit our abilities are strengthened by a positivity, which gives confidence in the fact that you are not left behind. Perhaps life has just got in the way for a while, and we need to recognise that is ok and Spirit is not there to fix everything for us we have to learn through life experiences. Why does this seem important? It is of utmost important because mediumship responds to mental application and positive direction. However, that cannot be done if we are trying too hard to get somewhere too quickly.
Do you ask yourself • How much do I know about my development? • What do I know of the Spirit World? • Am I learning about the philosophy of what I am doing? • What do I understand and know of Spiritualism? if this is relevant to you. • What do I know of the aspects of mediumship, the development processes? Spiritual progression etc. • Do I know my history, of not just Spiritualism but maybe other areas of life where Spirit is accepted?
Very important to constantly remind ourselves of where we are within the inter-connection of us and our Spiritual unfoldment.
Never be afraid to step back to review or look at something again and maybe then the second time you may understand it better than the first. Realisations are natural for mediums and Intuitives, no matter what area they work in. Remember that anything that cannot be faced, cannot be changed, but anything that can be faced can be changed... Reflect and realise and let’s keep the enjoyment and upliftment in the development process so it may be a positive attribute in your life and reflects within you as a human being, not just in the work you do for the Spirit world.
There is an intelligent design behind all work of the Spirit, and they do not influence us to deter us from physical life, but rather to enhance it. Christine can be contacted via: www.christinemorgan.com.au
Behind the mask
Of Spirituality The Mask of Spirituality! Often we expect everyone in the ‘spiritual field’ to be our version of spiritual. The more you endeavour to walk your walk in this field the more you understand that is an unrealistic expectation. Within this area, some hide behind the mask of spirituality and some have a very different opinion on what spirituality is.
Recently, as many in this field are aware, fraudulent activity is being spotlighted and thrust out into the open. I for one have felt a range of emotions with this, anger, disappointment, sadness. At times even feeling like this field is not really for me or that it is not what I had thought it was years ago. I am sure the field has not changed but I have stepped deeper into it and perhaps I have changed as result.
In the spiritual field we are still dealing with people, their insecurities, their desires, their version Whatever you are experiencing within this field, know this! Humans are fallible, and it’s a lifelong of truth and untruth. You can set yourself up to fall if you place too much expectation on yourself process to develop your own spirituality. or others in the field. I am in no way condoning the behaviours I have experienced, and those that I have heard others For everyone their own version of spirituality is experiencing at the hands of ‘Spiritual People’. different! Often a good friend and I would have the age old discussion about ‘if you are spiritual, In fact, constantly I am consulted and in consulthen you don’t eat meat, drink alcohol, coffee’ etc. tation with others about the goings on of those considered fraudulent. Often I am looked at to Once on a visit to the Arthur Findley College as she regularly visits for a specific tutor. She asked provide some information or help when others wonder or experience something of that nature. her favourite mentor his position on this often touted spiritual law. His reply was “I am not sure I will always fight to uphold the honesty and integrity of our field. about you love, but after this course I am off to the pub for a pint and a steak”
In others!
Do not idolise to the point that you are blind to the fact that they are human, and even though you admire what they can or once did, don’t put others on a pedestal so high that when they fall they crush you on the way down. Always endeavour to look behind the mask to the person and allow them to be human.
For yourself!
Don’t become so harsh on yourself for your human failings that you become scared to try. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself or your work that it cripples you and your own ability to develop is haltered. Don’t let people idolise you so much that you feel the necessity to uphold to their opinions of you. The pressure to always be as others think you are can sometimes be the one thing that becomes your undoing. As we have seen with Physical Mediumship. The pressure to ensure night after night amazing events can be their own undoing.
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Don’t buy into yours or others, ideas of you being incredible, amazing etc. Remain humble and allow yourself to be fallible and in doing this you are forever expanding your soul’s awareness and growing. It is when you feel you have to keep up a certain standard that you become rigid and Attracting Abunandce stunted, rather than allowing what will be to be. Eliminates & clears self sabotaging thought patterns. Keep in your mind your version of spirituality and adhere to that. In the words of the incredible Maya Angalou “Do the best you can, until you know better. Then when you know better, do better” ‘Be brave and be kind’ to all you encounter but most of all to yourself as you walk this pathway through the spiritual forest. Never forget to take time out to relax, rest and rejuvinate for you have a lifetime of spirituality ahead of you so there is no rush, and no end destination!
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Address Emma developed her own Mediumistic abilities and sat for the Society for The Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge of New York.
Emma’s best case experience of spirit return was when she held a séance with a group of sitters around the table. A message was spelt out revealing that a friend aboard the ship ‘Pacific’ had returned in the spirit world to inform her that the ship had sunk as this was not common knowledge when this information was released outside of the séance it seeming looked like to the dis-believers that Emma may have been a part of a conspiracy. the other side to that story is this also gave her a lot of publicity and she became a very well-known and respected Medium.
Dear Readers, Welcome back. I wanted to expand our story on Emma Hardinge Brittan’s life as she was such a powerful source of spiritual influence and fortitude to the Seven Principles, we all live by. Emma was a very talented musician, speaker and singer. At the age of 11 she was earning a living as a music teacher. in 1856 at the age of 33 she travelled to America under the contract with a theatrical company. It was in America and through the Mediumship of Ada Hoyt that Emma converted to Spiritual Philosophy.
Emma’s passion was inspirational speaking of Spiritual topics. She would enter into a light Trance and was unaware of what had transpired until she returned to her fully conscious state. Emma travelled America giving lectures and inspirational addresses on Modern Spiritualism.
The Fatherhood of God
in1871 at the age of 48, the concepts and original wording of the Seven Principles came through Emma’s Mediumship when communicating with the spirit of Robert Owens to summarise the philosophy of Spiritualism in Principles that all spiritualist would agree to. The first Principle being
In our MODERN DAY spiritualism, we consider balance and equality. We respect and acknowledge the androgynous.
The Fatherhood of God. In the days of old the Father was known as the figure head. In the 1900’s and the early 20th Century the majority of bread winners were the fathers. Males were the dominant leaders and were the fore fathers of the churches. They were seen as the protectors. There is one supreme Source, a higher intelligence, an all knowing ever present consciousness. We acknowledge this fource brought our universe into existence and the many life forms that walk and grow upon it . This divine source is not tarnished with judgement, limitations and structured & controlling beliefs systems, it interacts consistently and creatively with all of creation.
is the Infinite Power, the Infinite Love, Wisdom and Acceptance of all. God is the source and is imbrued in all things. God has many names in our universe amongst many different cultures.
We acknowledge in our churches and prayers Mother /Father God, Protector of all that is one. Although these original principles have not been revised, we of the spiritual churches consider the importance in acknowledging the
FEMININE AND MASCULINE ASPECTS OF ALL. Rev Katherine Harris
katherineharis1046@yahoo.com.au 0414772054
The Unfoldment of Mediumship Everything in its own time … allow the unfoldment naturally. Once our souls are ready to unfold to the magnificence of mediumship, many things happen in preparation of this; every petal that opens will open in its own time and just like a flower, cannot be rushed into blooming before maturity. To place a medium into sittings, teaching or platform before they are ready will not only stunt their mediumship but can also cause the faculty hindrance by depriving the medium of the solid foundations that are needed to be built upon. Like a house, the foundations take the longest to lay as they have to be sound in order to support the structure that is destined to be built upon them. The house is built by having patience, obtaining good tuition and development, regular attendance to a development circle/sitting regularly on your own and commitment. Some mediums are born into families that already celebrate the knowledge of life after life and therefore their mediumship faculty is stimulated from a very early age. For those who are destined to work with Great Spirit later on, a stimulation can occur by varying ‘traumatic’ events that are designed to grow and mature the Soul so it becomes ready to unfold; it is of course the mediums choice as to whether they accept the path, however if one has this blessed gift, they are duty bound to use it. Transformation then occurs in the mediums life; people fall away, changes in the diet may start to happen, sensitivities to environments and chemicals may manifest that weren’t present before, questions start to be asked and there may be an unquenchable thirst for answers that other sources cannot satisfy. Just like the Fox Sisters in 1848, the first recognised encounter and communication will be strong, leaving no doubt what so ever that contact with loved ones in Spirit is what happened. And as time progresses and as the medium grows and the bond of strength trust and friendship between the mediums team and the medium grows stronger , the communications will become more subtle. This is because the medium no longer needs to question what they are experiencing. The natural strengths in the physical world will naturally be the strongest mediumistic faculty. With the medium who is naturally visual, their clairvoyance will be the first to develop. Exercises that stimulate the other faculties in the physical will automatically stimulate those faculties in the mediumistic, although these may well take longer to develop. This is due to energetic changes in the non-physical taking longer to achieve due to your team adjusting and changing how they work so that you all continue to work together. To strengthen the connection with your team and the development of the other gifts means to sit in the Power that resides within. Again, this development takes time and patience; you must know thyself and how you work with the Divine in order to notice shifts and changes happening within your mediumship. Plateauing is the natural way of integration after growth occurs and frustration is to be avoided. Use this time to keep working and know thyself deeper; a photo takes a long time to reveal all of its picture, it is exactly the same with our Spiritual gifts.
Nicola Neal – Spiritualist Medium – www.nicolaneal.com.au
Hear My Words - the teachings of brother john
by Brenda Arber
This is an exceptionally written book by a dedicated writer who has had the wonderful privilege of channeling an amazing evolved soul such as Brother John. One can listen to his words of inspiration and guidance that expands the eons of time. His words can be heard to apply to one now but as the years pass so they grow and expand as ones knowledge grows and expands. Brother John’s words can be seen as words of great encouragement, although he is also able to chide when needs be but with even greater love if that is possible. Brenda as his medium is a very skilled trance medium and her honest and integrity is of the highest. She is a person who has experienced so much trauma in her life but always had the strength of her friend and teacher to guide her and be a strength when the going was incredibly rough. Her love of bringing the truth of spiritual teaching shines through all of it and one can see not only is she amazing trance medium but a woman filled with courage and spiritual strength. This book will bring out many emotions, but expect that with the highest teachings brought forward by the humble but highly evolved spirit personality of Brother John. Order here http://www.amazon.com/dp/1497479487
Brenda Arber, medium, trance medium, spirit artist & tutor .
Its not Halloween!
In Australia Now I love a party as much as the next person and we have been known to have some crazy Halloween parties out here. Truth be known we are actually celebrating the wrong festival. In fact we are blindly following our northern hemisphere big brothers. For us its not Samhain, the spooky start of the cold weather, when the viels are the thinnest between the worlds. When we prepare for the cold, lanterns, pumpkins and fond thoughts of those that have crossed into the other world. For us here in the Southern Hemisphere it is actually Beltane! its HOT and getting hotter. The old Pagan festivals for Beltane involved – Fertility, if it feels right do it, seasonally…less clothes, brighter weather, new beginnings sprouting all over the place. Maidens in flowing gowns dancing around, the maypole (or November Pole) or any other sutibly phallic symbol.
Some Beltane rituals you can do and still enjoy a good Halloween party with friends and the kids are: • • • • • • •
Clean house (spring clean) Get fresh flowers Plant something highly scented Get some new Lingerie Smudge/space clear Make some optomistic vows Get drunk and of course celebrate the fertility rituals
Design your own ritual dedicated to one of the Beltane Gods or Goddess’s Venus, Ishtar, Freya, Priapus, Pan, Dionysus, Flora and any nature god/goddess. And go get that spooky costume on and have some fun with the kids!
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