JACQUELINE'S NEWS & VIEWS

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I will be updating this section of the site from time to time with stories of my experiences with spirit world over the years, current happenings and other items of spiritual interest.

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Physical Phenomenon 2 - The Story of the Butterfly

When people book in for readings, I never know what the spirit world has in store (for both the sitter and myself). After many years of working with the spirit, we mediums can be less liable to surprises and forget the wonder of the work we undertake on a daily basis. Because of this, spirit will regularly shake us out of our complacency and remind us of the amazing fact that we do live on. They have many ways of proving this to us. The following is a short account of an unusual occurrence which happened during a reading conducted about a year ago.

As the lady arrived for her appointment, we sat down in the room I have which is used only for readings and spiritual work. Things started out as usual and I explained to the lady what would happen during the reading. As I was talking, I became aware of a young spirit woman of about 30 years old. She told me she had died of cancer and that she was the lady's daughter. It's always so sad to hear that someone has passed so young, and her mother was quite emotional about hearing from her daughter as you can imagine. Her daughter however, was full of life and naturally wanted her mum to know she was ok and still visited her from time to time. She also talked about her little son (five at the time), and about other facts to do with herself and the family.

The table I sit at with my clients faces a window with floor to ceiling net curtains. For some reason, the lady and I looked up to just above head height at the same time, and there in front of our eyes on the curtain appeared a big bright blue butterfly with a wingspan of at about 3" (7cm). The blue colour was the colour of the sky on a sunny day. When I say the butterfly 'appeared' before our eyes, I mean just that. It did not fly in, (there were no windows open in the room, nor indeed, throughout the house. This reading was the first of the week, so no one had opened the door of my room since before the weekend). It did not crawl out from behind the curtain. No, it just manifested before us in all its glory. It literally materialised in front of two people. We looked at one another to make sure neither of us were imangining things. We could both see this objectively. The curtain, only about a foot in front of us, gave us a perfect view of this lovely 'manifestation'. The butterfly stayed there for a couple of minutes while we talked excitedly about what had happened. It then disappeared. We looked behind the curtains, on the floor, in fact everywhere. We could find no sign of it.  On further investigation, I have found out that a blue butterfly exists in the UK, but as far as I am aware, not with the wingspan of the one we saw that day.

The butterfly is often used as an analogy to explain our passing from this world into the next. Our spirit exists within the 'chrysalis' of our physical body. When we pass from the physical plane of existence the other side, our spirit transforms from being encased within the body to the freedom of living in the spirit world, expressing and understanding the true beauty of our own soul and the reason for it's journey through time. We literally change from one form of existence to another, just like the butterfly. 

Apart from the fact that this was an amazing thing to happen, you may wonder what relevance the butterfly had in the reading. The lady told me that whilst driving her young grandson in the car just recently before the reading, a butterfly landed on the tip of her grandson's finger through the open window. He said "That's my mummy!" Once again, spirit have provided proof of survival, and a mother was able to connect with her son in this unusual way.

Love & Light until next time.

Spirit Speak - Recent Experiences of Physical Phenomena

Back in January when my home circle was due to reconvene as usual following the Christmas break, I was setting things up as normal waiting for the group to arrive. Suddenly, spirit world made me strongly aware that I was to start what is known as a ‘Physical Circle’ that very evening. No warning – just like that!

I have to confess that physical phenomena has never been at the top of my list of activities over the years, but this prompt from ‘upstairs’ felt so strong, I had to follow it. I tuned into my spirit helpers and was advised on how I was to set up the room, who was to sit where and so on. We were to work in what is considered nowadays to be quite and old fashioned way i.e., no light, a ‘trumpet’ or cone with luminous tape top and bottom on a table in the middle of my (very small) circle room, plus all activities were to be recorded on a digital voice recorder.

I followed instructions as given, but to be frank, I was not convinced this was the right way forward. I have worked a little in the distant past on physical phenomena experiments, but always in some form of light (daylight, electric etc.), so I was baffled about this new departure by my spirit team. Anyway “Onwards and upwards” I thought.

On the group’s arrival, we went into the circle room with the light still on. As mentioned before, it’s a very small room indeed, so eight of us are virtually ‘shoulder to shoulder’. Anyone moves and you can feel it. We sifted cornflour onto the top of table so that when the trumpet is placed, any other movement (be it spirit or earthly), can be seen on the imprint into the substance. The recorder was switched on, the lights extinguished and proceedings commenced. We chatted normally and with short periods of silence here and there to allow for any voices on the DVR to be heard.

After a few minutes, we all saw the ‘trumpet’ start to elongate and become almost liquefied at the top. It’s top half twirled and undulated around. The luminous tape at the top spun so much that it looked like a lighthouse; when I could see it, the luminosity was obliterated for the person opposite. This went on around the circle as it spun. This was not a subjective experience, but an objective experience, i.e., we could all see the effect of spirit’s energy on a physical object. We also all saw lights and heard noises in different areas of the room. However, the object of these experiments was to actually see and hear spirit phenomena, not just to subjectively ‘perceive’ it. We wanted proof!

We were all very impressed with what we had seen, but now we had to find out if any spirit voices were recorded. We were not disappointed. We could hear voices clearly, both in some of the silent segments and also spirit speaking over the top of our own voices. (There is so much to tell here, but it would be a very long piece if I went into every detail).  Towards the end of the 45 minute recording, my voice could be heard saying “I wonder if we are supposed to continue with this physical circle”. When we listened to the recording, a calm spirit voice answered “In this room, in this room” very clearly and with no ambiguity! What an amazing evening with spirit we had, and there have been lots more since.

Sceptical? I have always liked verification of any information I receive from spirit and now, I want to work on verification for the physical phenomena experiments. I know the spirit world want this too.  Later this year as an offshoot to a project I am involved with, a film crew has agreed to use special technical equipment to film one of my physical circles so that any phenomena can be analysed.

In the meantime, we will keep going with our endeavours and I will keep you posted on how it goes.

Love and Light until next time.

‘Write’ Spirit

As a working medium giving readings daily (a job I am so grateful to be able to do), it is sometimes hard to keep in mind after seeing so many thousands of people over the years, that each message from the spirit world is a miracle. Recently however, I had the most amazing and wonderful affirmation of life after death.

Towards the end of last year on an ordinary day, I was waiting as usual for the first of my client’s to arrive for a reading. About twenty minutes before she knocked on the door, I felt ‘inspired’ to start writing about the spirit person who wanted to speak to her. (I had never met nor did I know the lady). I wrote the time at the top of the page and waited.

As soon as the pen touched the paper, I started to write and my hand just ‘ran away’ with words, faster and faster. It was the lady’s father communicating with me via the written word. He told me he was from Northern Ireland and that he belonged to the Orange Order (well known over there). He said he was a very big, burley man with a massively strong personality – definitely in charge of the family. He also told me about his son in spirit, who had worked for the British Army as a spy! The son was also in spirit and had died as a result of illness a little after the troubles ceased. There were many, many more details (some of which I cannot go into here). He was certainly a man who liked to talk though. He also gave me particulars about his daughter who had yet to knock on the door, as well as information on other people on the earth and in spirit.

When she arrived, we sat down and I discovered this was her very first contact with anything like mediumship or readings. I repeated the information I had been given earlier by her dad, plus additional facts which were coming through spontaneously whilst I talked. She told me she was “Absolutely astonished” at the details that were being given and she was a little shaken. To help her further, I brought in the sheets of writing from earlier, all of which she corroborated as correct in every way. She knew then, that this had to be coming from ‘out there’ as all the particulars were written prior to us meeting. We were both overcome with emotion at what had just taken place. Me with my 21 years in this movement, her as a first timer, both transported by the miracle of spirit communication.

Why am I telling you about this experience? Because I know that anything that can give spirit a voice has to be related to the wider world. Proof of survival usually happens one person at a time, receiving their own proof in a quiet room with nobody else to hear. (Good job technology allows me to record onto CD nowadays). As I said before, it is truly a miraculous thing that it ever happens at all as there are many, many obstacles to spirit communication.

What about ‘Write’ Spirit? Well, inspirational writing can take on many forms, and for me, this was one of the best. My first ever message was reinforced by this experience as spirit once again ‘Told them about the joy’.

Love & Light till next time xx

'Spirit are always right, we just don't know it yet!'

Here is a little story of some evidence I received in the early days of my journey as a medium.

Many years ago, I went to a Spiritualist church called 'The Beacon of Light' in Enfield, London. I will always remember seeing one of the old school Spiritualist mediums on the rostrum that night, Masie Causier. The church was packed without a seat left in the place, and as Masie worked, you could feel the absolute love of spirit coming through her that evening. We were agog listening to every word of her address and evidence of survival, which was spellbinding. I was bursting to receive a message (as we all are), but the message I received that evening did not come from the medium on the platform.

I was a learner medium at the time and during the service, the voice of my spirit guide (Running Bear), spoke to me. I had only recently become aware of him, and our spiritual friendship and working relationship had only just begun for me. (Of course, he knew me before I knew him)!! He said to me "You will stand where the medium stands now and you will see me walk towards you down the aisle of this church." I thought I had imagined that voice in my mind, and quite honestly, did not really believe it. As is the case with many fledgling mediums, my confidence was a bit shaky about my spiritual abilities. Not very long after this, I moved away to Peterborough, so did not go again to the 'Beacon'.

My life and work continued on over the years. I did not give much thought to Running Bear's words as I was busy rushing here, there and everywhere giving readings, demonstrations and teaching mediumship.

Recently, I was invited to give a service at the Beacon of Light. I accepted with great pleasure, but strangely, did not remember the 'prediction' Running Bear had made all those years ago. As I stood on the rostrum and delivered my address, I looked to the back of the church and walking towards me was my dear spirit friend. It was only then that I remembered what he had said to me all those years before. I won't even attempt to describe the feeling of wonder this gave me as his words came back to me. This was a wonderful affirmation for me that spirit do exist and that we do survive our physical death.

Spirit never cease to amaze me. Even after all the up's and down's that mediums experience within their work, spirit (of course) have the ability to bring us back to what it's really all about - proof.  A 'Beacon of Light' shone on me that evening, and it has given me a renewed sense of my personal connection with the spirit world.

What about the title of this little piece? Well, I always say to my students when they are doubting their ability, 'Spirit are always right, we just don't know it yet". I'm sure they think I just say it to butter them up, but as you can see now, this little example of spirit's dogged determination to show us what's what is a great example of one of my favourite sayings. Take note you students out there. LOL!!