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How does paranormal mediumship differ from stage mediumship? What special skills and experience would someone need if they want to get into paranormal investigations? Allow me to share with you some of my experience of working in the field as a paranormal medium.
1.
Get someone else to pick a spot on a map for
you. Preferably not a well known location but not in the middle of a desert or
a jungle either. Somewhere where there are recognisable structures or landscape
that can be verified. Can even use a different state or country. Meditate on
the location and take note of any features (sights, sounds, smells etc) that
you experience. Visit the location after this exercise if you can and take your
notes along to compare. Take photos if you can, bearing in mind any privacy
issues with private property and individuals. If you are not able to visit the
place, just hop on Google Maps and check it out. This exercise will help with
your remote viewing skills.
2.
While at investigations, can be indoors or
outdoors, spend some time absorbing the location. Here is a little exercise you
may find useful. Pick a place where you can connect with the location by yourself.
Make sure you are safe, of course. Centre
and ground before you continue. Use some music from your mp3 player if you
like. Imagine that you project hundreds of little strands of energy tentacles
from your body. They stroke the floor, the walls, the objects around you. Let
them feed any information back to you. You can do this with just one room or a
whole building or only with individual objects where touching is them is not
possible for whatever reason. This exercise will help with your extra-sensory
perception.
3.
Some locations, by their purpose built nature
will give away their nature. Popular places for paranormal investigators are
asylums, hospitals, prisons etc. There are very obvious types of information
that can be derived just by knowing the purpose of the building that do not
require any special psychic or mediumistic skills. While we do pick up on these
types of information, we, as field investigators cannot stop at just that. You
don't have to be psychic to feel a criminal personality while investigating
dank cells of prison blocks. It would be easy to just stop at that level.
However as field mediums you want to strive for a lot more. Locations have many
levels of activity, let's not limit yourself to describing and only connecting
with the purpose of a structure. There are many many human stories to be
derived and told. To help achieve that, you should write down your physical observations
before you start your spirit connection, just to get that out of the way. It will also help deciphering later on
what was actual psychic/spirit information and what was obvious observation. This will help with
strengthening your ability to be critical of your own work and make a
distinction between intellectually received information and psychic information
4.
Get someone to film you (cheap handycams are
easily accessible nowadays) or if that's not possible, take a voice recorder
with you and record your findings. Talk about what you experience, not just
psychically but physically as well. Look back on the recording after your
investigation as you may find information you received that didn't seem relevant
beforehand but gained importance and relevance after and in light of the
investigation. This will help you to see where your strengths are as well as
allow you to make observation on your accuracy. Who doesn't want to give
themselves little brownie points for good information produced psychically?
5.
There is no need to have your medium hat on for
hours on end during an investigation or even if you are out and about alone,
doing field work. Make sure you give yourself a break and ground every once in
a while. Mix with the team of people you're with, have something to eat, listen
to some music, participate in other experiments and activities that don't
require your psychic skills. This will give you an opportunity to learn more
about team work and how investigations work from a non-psychic point of view.
Being a more integral part of a team and learning other skills means that, just
like other participants, you can utilise multiple skills and learn how to
better incorporate your mediumship with other areas of research.
These are only some basic tips but will highlight the
differences between stage mediumship and field mediumship. If your passion is
to work as a paranormal medium and want to know how to make the switch, the
above is a good way to start. Enjoy and grow! Oh and always have latex gloves
and hand sanitiser handy in your kit! Trust me on that one.
