Hi all, sorry for the length. I have sort of come full circle. Having been brought up in a largely atheist environment but had numerous unexplainable things happen as a child, I started attending spiritualist churches as a young teen until my 21st year. I then had life events happen which dimmed my belief and I went away from it all. In 2016 I started attending a very liberal, non conformist URC church in my home town and was baptised in 2018. Over the last year, totally out of the blue, I've found myself having weird dreams, lots of coincidences happening in my daily life and also a few very clear paranormal encounters.
I felt a knowingness within me that something was calling me back, and I kept having dreams with the message of "the time is right" being given, which I intuitively understood as being about spiritualism. I told the spirit world that if it is meant to be, then to bring along an opportunity for me without me having to go and look for it, and if that happens I would oblige and see where it goes. No more than a few days later, I loaded Facebook up on my phone as I do every day, and the first thing that popped up on my feed was a very well known local medium whose post was inviting people to apply for her home circle. It was so obviously the opportunity that I could not deny it, so I messaged her. We meet on Tuesday evenings and this week was my second sitting. In that time I have experienced energy in the sensation of my hands heating up, feeling an almost magnetic force between my hands and the hands of others, caught a glimpse of an aura (a neon purple colour), and at the corner of my eye in my peripheral vision kept seeing a male figure stood in her kitchen behind us. Any time I would try and bring my focus onto him he would vanish.
I asked her about him and described how he looked and she knew who it was straight away and said she has him stay in her kitchen to work with groups in group activities. In just this two weeks, we've practiced giving a very small short reading from tarot cards for those of us who are new, and the more experienced group practiced mediumship. We are focusing on the incarnate and they on the discarnate. She tells us by Christmas we will all be giving mediumship readings.
So my question/curiosity is, how does working with energy/spirit feel to others? For me, I quite physically feel the energy, it's very subtle, but the more I focus on it the more in tune I feel with it, and feel it more with ease. Sometimes I have to take a break as it gets so hot. In terms of reading cards through energy, it honestly feels like I'm just making up what comes to me, there is no sorcery involved or any amazing paranormal experiences, simply just little old me seeing how I feel and then translating that into words for the recipient. I spoke to a couple of the mediums in the circle and they informed me that spirit communication is much the same, and rarely do they ever see or physically hear anything.
So I would be interested to hear how everyone else experiences energy, incarnate working and working with the discarnate? Are you like me who has to rely on faith and avoid doubting my evidence as being made up by myself, or is it undoubtably a communication with an external source, as clear as if you were talking to the person next to you?
Thanks for taking the time to read this and responding in advance.
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