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Posts: 1705 · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:05 am

Thanking you sincerely for getting back to me so quickly about this. You are absolutely spot on when you mentioned the need for consistency and creating a symbol which would be recognised by both your guide and yourself as representing your intention to open up to Spirit.

Unfortunately my chronic breathing problems have increasingly prevented me from being able to go into trance as I once did many years ago when I worked in a closed development circle under the supervision of an experienced physical medium, and even regular meditation is becoming a huge challenge. When you cannot easily draw a breath it does make it difficult to as fully relax and let yourself go as you would like to, but I try to do what I am able when I can. I have even tried the special breathing exercises which are claimed to increase your lung capacity over time, but not surprisingly there is a problem there as well when you already cannot breathe freely.

I have also in the past had variable success with directed lucid dreaming and attempting to stay on the fringes on consciousness for as long as possible, but once again my laboured breathing frequently prematurely pulls me out of this highly relaxed state before I can really get any benefit from it with regards to developing my still largely latent abilities as a medium.

Perhaps as part of the support being provided within your course for developing mediumship, interested students could discuss with you ways in which people with disabilities of various types have overcome the types of problems to which I am referring. Does having physical disabilities thereby prevent someone from becoming a relatively effective medium, as many mediums in the literature have suffered from serious and even life threatening illnesses before discovering that they possessed significant psychic and mediumistic skills? There is some suggestion that long term illness weakens the bond between the spirit and physical bodies, making it easier for the medium to move more freely between the different levels of reality as part of his or her mediumship.

As you can plainly see I still have quite a few questions to ask you over the coming months, but I will turn over the discussion to others for now, and I thank you once again for offering me the opportunity to be able to share with you what is difficult to impossible to talk about with the people around me. In Western Australia especially, but to a lesser degree in other states of Australia mediumship is not only frowned upon, but is regarded as a criminal offence. It seems like the Fraudulent Medium's Act of 1951 is still being applied here to every person claiming to be a medium, whether they are fraudulent, or whether they are in fact genuine.

http://www.psychics.co.uk/bca/fraudulentmediumsact1951.htm

EOT

Posts: 3014 · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:36 pm

Does having physical disabilities thereby prevent someone from becoming a relatively effective medium, as many mediums in the literature have suffered from serious and even life threatening illnesses before discovering that they possessed significant psychic and mediumistic skills? There is some suggestion that long term illness weakens the bond between the spirit and physical bodies, making it easier for the medium to move more freely between the different levels of reality as part of his or her mediumship.

On the contrary, everything I have read indicates that those with a physical disability are strengthened in their spirit attunements. Some of the best recorded mediums opened during a time of confinement for physical disabilities.

I have personally experienced how close we can draw to spirit when we are willing to let go of the physical body. The attunement is on the spirit and it is whole and well, even when the physical does not indicate that state of being.

It may be fears that is holding you back. And who would not be fearful if the breath is taken away? What I would suggest, is to continue to make spirit attunement and to suggest in your instructions to spirit to please relieve the fears of the breathing as you struggle to maintain and strengthen the spirit attunement.

In Arthur Ford's book, it was suggested that his guide, Fletcher, was keeping him alive during a heart attack. He was strongly suggesting to those in the room to get a doctor before he released his attunement. This indicates, to me, a means of attunement that is spirit rather than the physical body.

Posts: 1705 · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:45 am

Thanks J,

I am actually familiar with the work of Arthur Ford, but I was not aware up until you mentioned it of his heart problems.

I feel that you are right on in believing that me not being able to breathe freely is causing me to withdraw out of fear, and I thank you sincerely for your advice and support in this matter.

I also wanted to apologise to you that many of my questions have not fitted well so far into the framework which you established for your course. Unfortunately my questions are so many and they frequently involve several overlapping areas of knowledge at the same time.

Thank you for dealing with this relative confusion in such a professional and sensitive manner. I have been looking for assistance from someone such as yourself in developing my mediumship for some considerable time now, so I can be a little impatient and seem pushy at times in my enthusiasm to make the most of your generous offer of this course while I feel that I can. Your efforts on my behalf are always greatly appreciated.

Cheers my friend,

eye_of_tiger

Posts: 3014 · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:59 pm

The questions fit perfectly into what is being offered. Without the feedback how would we know what people need? And sometimes just the right question helps others as well. Never hesitate to ask.

Posts: 20 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:22 pm

I'm a little confused, lol I'm just begining this journey. I know when I feel things or know things, my heart races, which scares and I know it is my #1 fear.

So here's my question, do I just go with it? I know I can slow my heart done in a few second ( i worked on that)

my other question is dose depression or anixety play a part , and if you take medication for it

what about head injuries

sorry if this is in the wrong place, I keep posting in the wrong section

im just excited with all this information and feel normal here

thanks more than you know