A Spirit guide

Why do you need to meet your Spirit guides?

When I teach people about setting and maintaining boundaries with Spirit, someone usually asks this question: How do you deal with a pushy Spirit? My answer: Have your gatekeeper deal with them. I call my gatekeeper my bouncer guide. When I picture him, he doesn’t look anything like a stereotypical nightclub bouncer, but that’s part…

psychic energy

What’s the difference between psychic, intuitive and mediumship information?

Ever wonder what the difference actually is between psychic abilities, intuition and mediumship? Have you read books or studied religions where one is held higher than the others and considered the “better” ability or the only legitimate one? In my background, Spiritualism, mediumship is lauded as the best thing of all. Psychic abilities (and psychic…

getting a good psychic reading

How can you prepare for a great reading?

So you’ve decided to schedule an intuitive mediumship session. You’re excited/nervous/terrified/overjoyed (pick one) to be about to connect with loved ones in Spirit and guidance for your highest good. You want it to go well. You want it to be worth your time, money and energy. Is there anything you can do to help that…

how to develop your claircognizance abilities

Develop your claircognizance

Claircognizance – or clear knowing – is direct knowledge from Spirit. Claircognizant information comes in clearly and without emotion. All of a sudden, it’s just there. Claircognizant information often comes when you’re doing something unrelated to the idea or thought you receive. You might be showering, vacuuming, folding laundry, pulling weeds in the garden or…

how to learn psychometry

Clairsentience part 2: understanding pyschometry

Psychometry – feeling the energy of objects and places – is the second aspect of clairsentience. Clairsentience is the sensing of energy (in the form of emotions and physical feelings) from people, places and objects. Psychometry is sometimes call “soul sensing.” Which makes sense, as it is like you are sensing the soul of an…

Developing your clairsentience

Clairsentience – which means clear sensing or clear feeling – is intuitive or psychic feeling and is closely connected to what we usually think of as intuition. In many ways, it’s a heightened or tuned in form of empathy. Its basis is the ability to tune into the energetic vibrations of people, objects and places…

psychic smelling

Developing your clairalience

Clairalience is intuitive or psychic smelling and means clear smelling. It’s also known as clairolfaction and clairessence (because the word clairalience isn’t strange enough to start with). Clairallience (also sometimes spelled with two ‘l’s)  is an ignored intuitive sense, which is a shame, as it can be very clear and powerful. It’s closely related to…

Developing your psychic tastebuds

Developing your clairgustance

Clairgustance or clairgustience is also known as clear tasting. It’s your intuitive sense of taste. Tastes from Spirit? Really? In short, yes. Information from Spirit, or our own intuition, can come to us through our psychic senses of taste and smell (clairalience), as well as through our inner vision (clairvoyance), hearing (clairaudience), knowing (claircognizance) and…

Giving a reading — from the medium’s perspective

When I do readings for people, I often wonder what they’re thinking. Do they wonder if it’s for real? Do they think I research them before the reading? Are the words I’m saying to them making any sense at all? Can they feel the love their loved ones in spirit feel for them? At the…

Tips for a successful mediumship reading

I was in Lily Dale, NY, recently — home to a Spiritualist community of mediums — to take care of some mediumship business, catch up with old friends and relax. If you don’t know about Lily Dale, basically, during the season from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the town opens up to anyone seeking connection…