Communicating With The Departed 2

COMMUNICATING 2

Communicating With the Departed Soul
The Seance... a very popular form of communicating with the
dead. After reading several manners in which they are held they
all appear to have the same attributes.

A seance is a form of mediumship in which one or more people
communicate with entities on another frequency. We generally refer to
them as spirits who will bring there messages in many interesting way.
in this way, today many mediums, such as myself, and my friend, John
Edward, are proving beyond a doubt that communication is possible -
though not necessarily seated around a table as is the case with the
traditional seance.
The word Seance comes from French séance, 'seat', 'session', from
Old French seoir, 'to sit.' In French as in English the word came to be
used specifically for a meeting of people to receive spiritualistic
messages (a sense first recorded in English in 1845), but earlier in
French and English the word had been used for meetings more
generally.

Spiritualism - talking to spirits - often gets a bad 'Rap'. As a medium I
can tell you that spirits can be kind and loving and help heal issues of
separation and lost loves. In the polarity of our reality - you have the
good and the bad - the positive and the negative - the functional and
the dysfunctional - even with spirits.

Part of our human conditioning tells us that we are part of something
more than third dimension. We envision gods, angels, guides,and
others on the other side who sometimes interact in this realm. As we
expand our conscious awareness - we seek to hear their messages
and make a connection that is far more powerful than that in 3D. It is
how we are programmed. Humans have alway sought to connect with
their creators - who exist above this realm.

The history of seance communication can be traced back to the third
century. Often a seance was connect to occult practicesbrining fear to
those who attended or heard about them. To many people - the
concepts of spirits on the other side who wished to communicate
seemed impossible often linked to Black Ceremonial Rituals and Magic
and of course the Trickster. This comes from Fear of the Unknown.
Fear is part of human experiment; it's polarity is love. As a soul group
we are often ruled by our issues and fears.

It was during the 1800's that the seance became popular mainly due to
the stardom of the Fox sisters who began a spiritualist movement.
Spiritualism is about Life After Death - the Spirit Realms.

The Spiritualism movement began with what Allen Kardec termed
typtology. Typtology is a mode of spirit communication in which spirits
lift and tilt a table during a seance to produce rapping sounds. In
organized seances, a number of people would sit around a table, hold
hands, concentrate, and ask questions of the spirits.

The spirits would then answer their questions through a series of raps,
or knocks, similar to someone knocking on a door. In order to question
the spirits, sometimes a simple yes or no would be indicated by a
prescribed number of knocks. In another method, called alphabetical
typtology, letters of the alphabet were recited and when the letter that
the spirit wanted to draw attention to was called, a rap could be heard;
thus spelling out words, sentences, and so on. Using this method, it
was possible to hold lengthy, detailed conversations with the
mysterious entities responsible for spirit-rapping.

The first recorded spirit-rapping began in America in 1848 with the
playful efforts of Margaretta and Kate Fox to communicate with the
spirits of the dead. Much to their astonishment, they succeeded in
establishing a ghostly dialogue with the spirit of Charles Haynes. Using
rapping noises as its means of communication, Hayne's spirit
conveyed the message that he had been killed and buried in the
basement of their home. When bones were found in their basement,
what had begun as innocent fun became a sensation.

From these humble beginnings, what came to be known as the
Spiritualism movement took root and grew to international proportions.
As a result of their spiritualistic activities, the Fox sisters were
condemned and lived in constant danger. They were attacked by
religious fanatics in their community, and besieged by angry mobs
several times. They were also exploited, and eventually betrayed by
their own sister, Leah, who was said to have been the beneficiary of
most of the donations collected from those who came to the Fox sisters
for spiritual counseling.

As the spiritualism movement got underway in America and Europe,
the strange but well-documented manifestations of spirit
communication such as spirit-rapping and seance channeling were
regarded as weird and unexplainable events.

The great majority of Americans and Europeans viewed it as nothing
more than a bizarre form of entertainment. For those who took the
spirit communications seriously, however, it quickly became apparent
that something more was happening. Many of the messages received
from the spirits were discovered to be quite accurate. In addition to the
messages, other phenomena were being witnessed and verified by
many of the most credible individuals in American and European
society.

By 1854, spirit-directed paranormal phenomenon had reached the
level of an inter dimensional invasion. Leading spiritualists in the
United States decided that it was time to undertake an official
investigation. The erudite and well-respected spiritualists petitioned
Congress to appoint a scientific commission to investigate the
perplexing paranormal phenomenon that had been witnessed by so
many people.

The petition entitled 'A Memorial' described the phenomenon produced
by the spirits in great detail. The object of the investigation was
described in the petition as:

an occult force, exhibited in sliding, raising, arresting, holding,
suspending, and otherwise disturbing, numerous ponderable bodies,
apparently in direct opposition to the acknowledged laws of matter,
and altogether transcending the accredited powers of the human mind;

lights of various forms and colors, and of different degrees of intensity,
which appear in dark rooms, where no substances exist, which are
liable to develop a chemical action or phosphorescent illumination, and
in the absence of all the means and instruments whereby electricity is
generated or combustion produced

sounds which are extremely frequent in their occurrence, widely
diversified in their character, and more or less significant in their import

how the functions of the human body and mind are often and strangely
influenced in what appear to be certain abnormal states of the system,
and by causes which are neither adequately defined nor understood.
This document was delivered by the former governor of Wisconsin,
Nathaniel Tallmadge, to Senator James Shields to be presented before
Congress. Much to the consternation of the petitioners, Shields
scorned the spiritualists by saying,

The prevalence of this delusion at this age of the world, among any
considerable portion of our citizens, must originate, in my opinion, in a
defective system of education, or in a partial derangement of the
mental faculties, produced by a diseased condition of the physical
organization. I cannot, therefore, believe that it prevails to the extent
indicated in this petition.
Responding to Shield's criticism, Eliab Capron, a chronicler of the
spiritualism movement, wrote, "It is not probable that any of the
Memorialists expected more favorable treatment than they received.
The carpenters and fishermen of this world are the ones to investigate
new truths, and make senates and crowns believe and respect them. It
is in vain to look for the reception or respect of new truths by men in
high places." The widely documented and verified invasion of the
spirits described above never received a plausible explanation and is
still regarded as a mystery.

In the fifty years that elapsed between the publication of Kardec's
books and the incorporation of the Union, the spiritualism movement
declined in the United States and Europe. Numerous scandals
undermined the credibility of some of its foremost proponents.

By 1888, both of the Fox sisters confessed that they were cheats. In
fact, both sisters had developed serious drinking problems over the
years. At the behest of her sister Leah, Kate Fox's children were taken
from her by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and
placed in foster care. This act led to a great deal of bitterness and
anger against Leah by both Margaretta and Kate. Feeling exploited
and betrayed by their sister Leah, who had collected and spent the
great majority of the money paid to them...Margaretta and Kate
appeared publicly at the New York Academy of Music.

Margaretta confessed that she had made all the rapping noises that
fostered the movement by means of a double-jointed big toe. Kate
remained silent and would neither confirm nor deny the confession of
her sister. It was later learned that a reporter had offered $1,500 to
them if they would confess and give him an exclusive on the story.
Desperate for money and liquor, the sisters apparently agreed, and
then proceeded to drink their earnings away. Margaretta recanted her
confession in writing shortly before she died in 1895. Kate never
recanted, and died shortly afterwards. Both sisters were buried in
pauper's graves.

There has been a lot of investigation concerning Spiritualism, but not
about Spiritualism in general. The early and later researchers were all
concerned about how to prove or disprove Spiritualistic mediums, the
Spiritual world, the eventually afterlife or to explain strange
phenomena's that occur during seances, or PK and telekinesis, among
other related phenomena which all are claimed to rest upon spiritual or
(occult) mental power.

The seances in the 19th century tended to be filled with theatrics.
These seances usually took place in darkened parlors with a round
table that sometimes moved.

A seance generally involves communication between the physical
realms and one or more entities in other dimensions. It is also called
Mediumship. A Medium is the person who contacts 'the other side.'

We live in an age when many people are connecting with those on the
other side through a psychic medium - on their own - or in dream time.
The seance does not have to be negative, scary or spooky.

I have acted as a 'medium' for many seances. I have personally never
had a negative experience.

As a Medium I speak with deceased entities in many of my daily
readings. I do not consider these experiences - seances as there is
none of the fan-fare involved with what we associate with that word.

You really don't have to do 'spooky stuff' to communicate with spirits.
They are around us all the time and are generally ready to
communicate if someone in third dimension is able to tap into their
frequency.

A group of people mentally calling to spirits will create a stronger
energy field than one person. That is why people often feel that group
energy is needed - a seance.

When planning a seance there are many factors to consider -
especially with teenagers are around as their energies sometimes
attract souls that are dysfunctional.

An experienced medium should be part of the group to understand the
symbols and messages given by Spirits. If a medium is not present -
one person should lead the group.

Spirits do not necessarily leave after the seance. Many stay around.
They can stay and return in your dream time or in your home with
additional messages - experienced as Ghosts.

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