Body, Mind & Spirits

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In response to my last blog post, "Scary Places," a visitor asked an important question that addresses one of the biggest misconceptions about my industry. Even though it's a response to one of my blog posts, I've decided to post it as a separate blog entry because I want to make sure that it's seen. I think it's a great question and it's one that I'd like to bring attention to.

Follow up:

As those of you who have followed my blogs know, one of my professional goals is to help dispel some of the myths surrounding my field of work both so that the general population can understand it a little better and make positive use of our services and also to help those interested in making use of their own abilities to understand what it means to be "psychic." In addition, while most of the people I have met within my industry are people with integrity, unfortunately that isn't true of everyone. Shedding some light on how psychic work is really done will lift the veil of secrecy and mystery that has allowed unscrupulous people to take advantage of people in need. Understanding "how things work" will empower the general population and allow them to tell the difference between those with integrity and those without. To read the original blog post, click here: http://www.mediumreadings.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/05/16/scary-places#feedbacks

Scroll down to read the question and response:

QUESTION:

Comment from: Marlo [Visitor]
Hi Savina! As a medium, in that kind of situation are you compelled at all to ask for more info or just get the heck out? It sounds like you want to get out fast. I guess that kind of surprised me. I assumed (please note it is an assumption) with your skill, training and experience that you are able to "download" the info about her since you seem to have a few run ins. Is it a thing where your guides/intuition tell you not to engage? This fascinates me. Tell me more : )

MY RESPONSE:

Hi Marlo,

Great question! - And one worth going into detail about since a part of my work is to help dispel some very common misconceptions about my field. In addition to leaving this here as a response to your question, I'm also going to post both your question and this response as an individual blog post so that others can see it...

It's actually a common misconception about mediumship and psychic work in general that, because we're more attuned, we're able to know everything about a situation at a glance... I wish it was so easy! If that were the case, I'd be able to "download" every piece of information about every person, place and thing in the universe and know everything - I would be God-like - and nothing is further from the truth...I am very much a human who just happens to be highly attuned to EVERYTHING around us, not just what we can see with our physical eyes. I think I may have told the class about the time I went to the dentist and the dental assistant asked me, "Doesn't it give you a headache?" Having absolutely no idea what she was referring to, I said, "What?" to which she replied, "Knowing everything." The fact is that only God knows everything - I just have more information available to me than the average person.

In actuality, there's no "download" of information - In any given situation, I'm only able to know whatever information I pick up either through residual energy of whatever happened (and in this case, the energy of the entity herself is so dense and menacing that it overpowers whatever residual energy may have been left there) OR whatever information that the spirit gives me which, in this case, was nothing other than that she was trying to "herd" me into the back of the bathroom.

To use the physical senses as an illustration of this, if you were to walk into a room, you wouldn't know more about the people in the room or about the rest of the house than your eyes & ears told you - you wouldn't walk into that room and suddenly be able to see and hear everything that had ever happened there just because you have 20/20 vision. It's the same for the spiritual senses - they pick up the information available in spirit, but only the information that's AVAILABLE in spirit - if I'm trying to talk with a spirit who doesn't want to talk to me, it's the same as trying to talk with someone in physical form who doesn't want to talk...Or, if for whatever reason I'm not able to pick up any residual energy left from a traumatic event (I may be tired, shut down for the night or distracted, or, as in this rare case, the spirit's energy may be overpowering any other energy there OR there may just not be much of the residual energy left).

My guides do give me pertinent information and are constantly giving me tidbits of information about people and situations I'm in, but they don't give me entire histories...Think of it as being just the same as having a relationship with you - you may tell me a ton of information about your life on the first day that we became friends, but you couldn't tell me EVERY experience in your life - it would come up as it became relevant.

Also, this is a rare situation - normally, I wouldn't have a problem going to the back of the bathroom if that's where the spirit needed to lead me to give me information, but that isn't the case here. Just as I picked up that her making the sound of someone clearing her throat to get me to feel more comfortable staying in the bathroom longer was a trick, so is the "herding" - she's a very strong, very heavy energy and not someone who I'm going to be able to help (or who even wants my help). As you integrate your abilities into your life, you become aware of the situations where you can make a difference and the ones that are just lessons or just day to day experiences.

After having had so many experiences with spirits, it's pretty rare that I'm frightened - it takes a lot and, to be honest, I can't remember the last time it happened - but this spirit definitely makes me feel uncomfortable. If I had stayed in the room long enough I probably could have connected to the energy line of the spirit or worked my way through her energy to get to the residual of what had happened, but in a very few cases, there's not really much you can do. My guides are always with me and in this case I was advised that, while I wasn't in any physical danger, no real good could come from engaging such a negative energy, so I left as quickly as anyone else would (as quickly as if I were in a room alone with a menacing man who I didn't know or trust).

You asked if, in such a situation, I felt compelled to get more information. In a case like this, with a clearly negative entity, there's absolutely no compulsion to get more information - I was getting all of the information I needed, which was that her intentions in getting me into the back of the room were not for any positive purpose. In this blog post I do make light of it, since these types of experiences are just part & parcel of my life, but in all seriousness, there are some situations that are really best just left. This place is one of them.