Spirit Speaks: A Step-by-Step & Evidence-Based Approach to Genuine Spirit Communication
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Spirit Speaks: A Step-by-Step & Evidence-Based Approach to Genuine Spirit Communication
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Overview
Discover How and Why Evidential Mediumship Works
Join world-renowned medium Michael Mayo on a step-by-step journey through the mechanics of spirit communication, where you will learn to sense the subtle energy around you and promote healing in yourself and others. With Michael's practical approach to evidence-based mediumship, you can build a reliable connection to the spirit world and develop the authentic abilities that have always been within you.
Covering everything you need to cultivate effective mediumship skills, Spirit Speaks features lessons in developing a relationship with spirit guides, recognizing spirit people by their essence, finding quality evidence during a reading, and troubleshooting problems that may arise. You will also explore the history of mediumship, ponder ethical considerations, dispel common myths, and gain a deeper understanding of grief. This book helps you connect with who you truly are and live more meaningfully.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780738773438 |
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| Publisher: | Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD. |
| Publication date: | 12/08/2022 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Sales rank: | 740,137 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Michael Mayo is a world-renowned and respected medium and spiritual teacher. He brings a practical, grounded, and evidential style to his spiritual work. With his passion for teaching and helping others discover their own unique spiritual connection, he has taught and worked globally. Throughout his 16+ years of working with the Spirit World, he has demonstrated his ability to connect with departed loved ones in both public demonstrations and private sittings. He created his own online school, The Oakbridge Institute, where he teaches progressive mediumship development courses, weekly development circles, and workshops. He also has been featured on The Shift Network and countless podcasts. By bringing messages of love and hope from the Spirit world, his mission is to show that we, like love, are eternal.
Table of Contents
Letter to the Developing Medium xix
Introduction 1
How This Book Is Set Up and How It Can Help You 3
My Journey 4
Why I Wrote This Book 11
Part 1 Clarifying Genuine Mediumship
1 Dispelling Common Myths and Fears 15
What a Medium Is … and Isn't 16
Cultural-Based Myths 16
Religious-Based Myths 21
Media-Based Myths 24
An Alternate Perspective on Negative Spiritual Experiences 31
Evil and Negative Spirits 31
Possession and Exorcism 36
Spiritual or Psychological? 37
Curses and Attachments 40
Myths About the Afterlife 44
Being Stuck or Lost 46
Rescue Circles 47
Suicide 48
2 Understanding the Authentic Medium's Experience 51
What to Expect on Your Mediumship Journey 51
Working with the Power 55
The Clairs 57
Clairvoyance 57
Clairaudience 58
Clairsentience 58
Claircognizance 59
Psychism vs. Mediumship 59
Remaining Grounded for Genuine Spiritual Connection 62
Misleading Behaviors 62
Addressing Toxic Positivity 63
Empaths 64
Avoiding Cold Reading, Hot Reading, and Mentalism 67
Cold Reading 67
Hot Reading 68
Mentalism 68
Part 2 Historical Mediums and Forms of Mediumship
3 The Many Ways in Which Mediumship Can Show Itself 73
Mental Mediumship 74
Physical Mediumship 74
Trance Mediumship 76
Trance Philosophy 77
Trance Clairvoyance 77
Trance Communication 77
Trance Art 77
Automatic Writing 78
Healing Mediumship 78
Energy Healing 78
Trance Healing 79
4 Exceptional Mediums of the Past 81
Examples of Mental Mediums 81
Helen Hughes 82
Albert Best 83
Examples of Physical Mediums 83
Jack Webber 83
Alec Harris 84
Leslie Flint 84
Examples of Trance Mediums 85
Maurice Barbanell 85
Gladys Osborne Leonard 85
Helen Hughes 86
José Medrado 87
Leonora Piper 88
Examples of Healing Mediums 88
George Chapman 88
Harry Edwards 89
Part 3 Before You Begin
5 Ethics of Mediumship and Psychic Work 93
Boundaries 95
Understand Your Limits 97
Fear-Based Readings 97
Unethical Information: Predicting Death, Disease, Divorce, or Disaster 98
Ethics of Development 99
6 Understand Potential Sources of Tension So You Can Surrender 101
Desire 102
Distraction 104
Expectation 108
7 Become Familiar with Grief 111
Remain Compassionate and Nonjudgmental 113
The Five Stages of Grief 114
Denial 115
Anger 115
Bargaining 115
Depression 115
Acceptance 116
Allow Grief to Be Processed 116
Mediums Experience Grief, Too 118
Grief Can Make It Difficult to Connect 118
Part 4 A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing Mediumship
8 Begin by Working with the Power 123
How Working with the Power Feels 123
Why It's Important 124
The Power of the Spirit vs. Your Personal Power 125
Sitting In the Power 127
How It Differs from Meditation 130
Exercise: Sitting In the Power 131
9 Making Sense of the Sensations You Experience 137
Attunement 137
Exercise: Attunement Process 138
Narration 139
Exercise: Practicing Narration 140
Take Time for Reflection 141
10 Connecting with Your Spirit Guides 143
What Is a Spirit Guide? 144
My Experience of Meeting My Guide 145
What Guides Do vs. What They Don't Do 149
Exercise: Learning to Sense and Feel Your Guide 151
11 Connecting with Spirit Communicators 155
Structure of a Reading 155
Opening Prayer 156
Attunement 157
Opening Spiel 157
Moving Into the Power 160
Making a Link 161
The Triangle of Communication 161
Reading Tips 164
Take It Moment to Moment 164
Put Aside Desire, Distraction, and Expectation 164
Intend It, Don't Will It 164
Describe, Don't Interpret 165
Follow the Yeses 166
Exercise: Experience Connecting with a Spirit Communicator 167
12 Learning to Recognize Spirit People by Their Essence 169
Exercise: Sensing Physical Essence 170
People Are Complex 171
Exercise: Discovering Where and How You Feel the Essence 173
Checking In with Your Feeling Space 175
13 Discerning and Delivering Quality Evidence 177
Types of Evidential Information 178
List Information 178
Personal Evidence 180
What Quality Evidence Is Not 181
Information That Can't Be Validated 181
Psychic Information 182
Fear-Based, Predictive, or Interfering Information 183
Information That's Lacking Context 184
How to Get Quality Evidence 185
Feeling Essence First 185
Describing the Changes as They Happen 186
Exploring Layers of the Communication 188
Exercise: Making a Clear and Evidential Link with a Spirit Communicator 193
14 Sharing the Message from Loved Ones in Spirit 197
What Constitutes a Message 198
What Is Not a Message 198
Things That Might Be Included 200
Examples of Quality Messages 201
Exercise: Message-Focused Reading 204
Take Time for Reflection 205
15 Troubleshooting Readings 207
Issues Stemming from the Medium 207
How to Handle "No" 208
Losing the Link 210
Switching-Is This More Than One Spirit? 212
When You Get Nothing 215
Sensitive Issues 217
Issues Stemming from the Sitter 219
Difficult Sitters 220
Skeptical Sitters 220
Sitters Who Want Something Specific 222
Issues Stemming from the Spirit Communicator 224
Conclusion 227
Recommended Resources 231