When Two Worlds Collide

June 30, 2013

Lots of people think I am mad. Others are fascinated by the way I live my life. I don't exactly do "everything by spook" but they have a definite place in my daily life.  I rarely meditate, for which Arty tells me off, but as I see and hear the way I do there is always someone around me, or some people, during a normal day. Here's a bit of a squizz through my looking glass.

P who has been off doing some family stuff recently came back as we went to King Kong The Musical last night. Thankfully she was unable to tango on the stage and to be honest the only reason I knew she was there was when Sean asked me if she had disrupted the night!! She said she loved it, particularly the part with the showgirls. she likes costumes like that, the sparkles, the feathers and the fans!  Can you  imagine getting ready to go out and asking someone who is not of the human world, but who has way more fashion sense than me, "Does this look ok P?" to which she replied, "It looks lovely darling but you don't have time to do your nails."  P also stands for perfect cos she is when it comes to the way she looks!

Recently a friend of mine asked me to ghost write a book for her, nothing spooky, I won't spoil the surprise but I asked Arty about it and he said "You must my dear" which kind of surprised me and he laughed his head off that I thought he would disapprove of the subject matter. You will see why when it is released.

I have two spook Matty's with me. Matty (PH) who I only see on and off but who came on the weekend for a quick hello because I was hanging out with a friend of his . Nothing too profound, he just popped up and made a few comments! My other Matty (HB) has been in and out this weekend but apparently "helping out at home" most of the weekend so it must be busy at his place! His idea of helping out by the way is to lie on the couch and keep his feet up so you can vacuum underneath them!!! For a reason known only to him he decided to wear a pirate bandanna today! Nice blue one that looks  bit like a doona cover have ...must check to see if there are any holes cut in it! 

So then in the human world I went to the Melbourne Aquarium, the theatre, had a great dinner at a France-Soir on Toorak Road, went shopping with my boy-buddy (nightmare... if ever there was a time that I needed a spook to pass the time with it  was waiting outside the changing rooms as he tried on pair of jeans number 46!!) Then Sean and I had a long chat about the philosophy of nothing and I decided to catch up on my emails. Opened my computer and Matty (HB) said, "Don't forget we have a reading tomorrow," as I began sorting out my schedule for Monday! Arty has been kicking my butt to get on with things, well he is encouraging me anyway.

I have some wonderful wonderful friends in the human world and equally so in the spook world. I am a lucky lucky girl because I do, indeed, have the best of both worlds all of the time!

Doing an EVP experiment tonight so stay tuned for some spook speak! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend as much as I enjoyed mine!

Einsteins Theory of Intuition

Thursday June 27, 2013

Intuition people! Even Einstein knew about it! Actually did you know that most of the most infamous and famous scientists, Pasteur, Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Edison, Da Vinci and so many more all had a passion for research into the afterlife as well as being known in their own right for their discoveries. Research into life after death had to be conducted almost in secret then lest they be decried as loonies or cast out by the church. 

So what about intuition and why do we want to talk about it today?  Well intuition is all about backing yourself and believing in yourself, your inner self. Someone told me today they didn't like the feel of one of the spooks around me, my intuition told me he was good for me so I wasn't swayed by their opinion although it came from someone who's opinion always means a lot to me and that I never dismiss easily. I backed myself and then went and had a but of a lark around with him and he is sitting on the couch looking at me as I write this.  Arty told me to be true to myself and the rest would fall into place. P told me to hold my head up high and her and I are about to open a mega can of worms over the coming months too! More later!

So what do we do when our intuition tells us that someone is not being truthful or loyal to us as a friend or a family member? Today just that happened to me. My radar went up and started blipping twice, on two separate occasions. the human me was deflated the spiritual me kicked in. Of course I can't prove it and if someone has lied or betrayed you they aren't then going to admit it! It's like accusing someone of stealing. Unless you catch them red handed you are taking a big risk and being mightily arrogant by asserting you are in the right even if that "knowing" is there,  and yet Einstein thought it was more important than logic and reason!! Well it depends how you deal with it,  don't ignore it, no no no no....but deal with it in a dignified manner not in a foot stompy way. Jeepers if we used our intuition more most readers would have no business because we would trust in us. I used to be accused of having a bullshit radar by my ex husband because I always knew when he was twisting things for his own gain! My son was caught in that beam too, lots of times when he was a teenager!

The trick to intuition is don't analyse or over think it because the minute you do that it's not intuition it's an argument between your logical self and your spiritual self and no one wins, except confusion. If Einstein thought it was the way to go, how about you give it a go too!

Reading & Righting

Wednesday June 26, 2013

Yesterday Kim and I were having our usual daily rant. Although she is one funny woman, I am funnier and that's pretty much all there is to it!  Having said that we often digress from the frivolities to get serious about things we are passionate about. One thing we have in common is a need for change in the "Metaphysical Industry" and yesterdays subject wasn't dissected with any less passion. A good quote that came from the conversation is "Good intent does not equal good practice' and this is something we both know. I have a bee in my straw bonnet about people who don't understand the basics of human nature reading for people and Kim gets on her high horse (well it's a unicorn actually because she is a Princess) about readers making it about THEM when they read. "Look at me, I'm great I know what colour socks you wore yesterday..."  Sometimes great harm is done by insensitive or egotistical reading.

A medium talks with dead people, a psychic reads you. So there is the definition out of my very own nutshell, A medium should give what they get and respect spook, a psychic should be diplomatic and sensitive in their delivery because the interpretation is theirs rather than just passing on a direct message from someone that we have no right to mess it. As I write this I have to have an ego moment as my beloved Arty says "Well said my dear!" I love him he's always around when I need support and encouragement.

Intent is how we are judged, so good intent does matter but sometimes it gets overridden by human emotions and actions that shouldn't be in the mix at all. If you go for a reading remember, if it's a good practitioner you are going to get the truth but get them to define whether they are a psychic or a medium and if they are a medium who they are talking to in spirit. They aren't a medium if they can't tell you something about the look, the feel or even the name of the person they are talking to! 

As we folk should always "be careful what we wish for" mediums and psychics should truly "be careful who we read for."

And finally some spook for you! As most people know I have had Hat Boy around me recently, but his time in my up close and personal spook space is coming to an end, although we will still be in touch - the idiot says "I will send you a postcard and ring every day!!" as I write this such is his silly sense of humour. I will miss him not jumping out on me when he thinks he is being funny and worry that my readings will be terrible without him! He loves reading for women!!  He will go on and then come back as for now his place is with his family. His Mother wants desperately to be able to contact him herself and although he does mess around a lot in the house and give her plenty of evidence he is there she wants to see him! Neither of us have any choice in whether he stays or goes.

When we lose someone we love dearly they will hover in and out but they will rarely connect closely with close loved ones until the grieving process is over. This is because our grief energy acts like a magnet that keeps drawing them back and they can't continue their spiritual evolution (go on) as it should be. Remember every thought is a communication with spook so if you are thinking about them all day you are pulling them back probably without realising it. Once they can go on and 'go through the process" if you like they can come back and be with us but it is a different energy. Hat Boy is currently "human energy" so pretty much who is he but without his body and very close to the human plane. Hence the fact he can wreak so much havoc at 3am looking for someone to talk to because "everyone at my house is asleep!" Or worse sneaking up on me when I am having a midnight snack to yell at me and tell me what I am eating (blue brie) is "disgusting"! He also tells me to tell Mum not to forget to tell you know who to zip it! 

So if you have  reading and who you wanted isn't there - remember you aint the boss of spook and neither are they!

Off to Church

Monday June 24, 2013

Anyone who has read my book or knows me personally will know that I believe in God. I am not exactly sure who or how he came about but I know of his energy. I am not, having said that. what I would call "devoutly religious.' I just have faith, in spook, in God and that life goes on and that one day we will understand it more clearly.

Yesterday I went to the oldest formal spiritual church in Australia, in Melbourne. I don't know what I was expecting but I wanted to see what "spiritualists" "preach" if you like.  I got a little more than I bargained for so I am going to split today's Daily Spook into two parts; sort of a mini series to keep you on the edge of your seat if you like!

Today we will have the funny part! I noticed on Kim's Facebook page that she was selling an imaginary friend. We had a discussion about possibly taking him to the dog pound, putting him on eBay or on Buy Swap and Sell in her local newspaper.She was actually talking about one of her spiritual helpers who had given her a message that she thought was rude!! Laughing about it together, I wondered how many others out there have spooks in their life that are such a "normal" part of their life! Back to church now, for this IS going somewhere!

I decided to sit near the back and in the middle of the row for the service. This was so if anyone sat either side of me I could make new friends. The room was about 80% full and whaddya know...no one sat next to me! People passed my row and smiled at me as if they were going to sit down and then noticed someone was already sitting there! Did they I wonder?  I did shower before I left home I promise! As we went through the meditations I began to relax and look around me...here goes;

At the end of my row sat Hat-Boy, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees and his hands together looking across at me and grinning. He had done a good thing the night before and was clearly feeling a bit pleased with himself!  "Old people" he quipped at me! I felt a Homer Simpson moment coming on, you know grabbing him round the neck "Why you little.." he giggled and said, "they will be fascinated with you!" I thoughted him back, "Aren't they all...I'm hot!" grinning and he came back quick as a flash with "No, you're old too!" So it seems that anyone over 30 to Hat Boy needs to take a shovel everywhere with them in case they die of old age and need to dig a hole and bury themselves!  He was right about the comment he made too but more later and the details tomorrow.

At the end of the row on the other side sat Gav, with his legs sort of crossed, looking forwards. He flashed that gorgeous huge smile at me as he unfolded his arms. "I'm glad you are here," he said and I wondered what he meant if anything, because I was glad HE was here!

To the left of me and between Gav and I, I heard the faintest sssshhhh and looked up and there was P. I don't see her that often these days as apparently there is stuff going on with Jimmy, she knows I miss her but she does come in and help me read. She sat there very prim and proper (she's not always so but she is  respectful, elegant and beautiful!) looking ahead as she nodded towards the stage at the front to let me know something.

There on the far corner chair, there were four high backed chairs like druids thrones, was Arty! Smoking his pipe and looking on! Interestingly enough when the Fox Sisters and Arthur Best were mentioned during some of the speaking he took his pipe from his mouth and nodded in approval.  Twice during reading time he pointed his pipe stem at me and twice the mediums came to me as I shrank back in my chair. Hat Boy was right, they did seem to be fascinated with me!! Although through reading time he kept giggling and saying "Pick me! pick me!" and P had to keep shushing him!   Interesting that one of the mediums who came to me said "It's like Paddington Station around you (she was English of course!) and made a comment about bringing all my friends with me." Busted Hat-Boy ...by one of the "old people" too!

I didn't go there to be read for, I have my own spooks and when all else fails I can whine at Kim for that, I went to see what went on and the one thing that struck me when I left was that they are NOT wrapped up in predictions and showing off what they can do. They ARE wrapped up in proving we are still here after we think we are not....I have no doubt of that and that the Spiritualist Church well the Melbourne one it seems, has managed not to turn it into a party trick. *Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

A Warning

Sunday June 23, 2013

As many already know I am a keen road bicycle rider and as many of you may not know, I'm given to sporadic smoking. Particularly when faced with deadlines.  This morning having woken up way too early after finishing another chapter of a book I am ghostwriting, I made myself a coffee and decided to come back to bed.

Reviewing last nights chapter and making some minor changes I decided it was all too hard and I should just doze a little more, so I sat back on the pillows and shut my eyes. As I drifted I found myself sitting in a chair in front of a man who looked a lot like my friend Sean.What the relevance of him being there I don't know. We were talking about my son and he said "He will do whatever he likes you know," which is quite true but not in a bad way, he's just independent. Again the relevance escaped me.

I was talking to Sean as if he was my doctor or counsellor and then all of a sudden I started slurring my words and getting confused. My head felt like it was on fire and I fell to the floor. Sean stood over me calling for an ambulance and said "I knew this would happen."  Returning from my vision I sat quietly as a voice said "last warning."

I think I was just taken through the steps of a stroke by spook. No more ciggies for me people.  

Don't Blame God...Or Me!

Thursday June 20, 2013

One of the discussions I have most enjoyed with my spooks is God. I mean is he a murdering bastard or our eternal saviour because I think we have to make up our mind one way or the other soon or it might start a war...oh wait, or it might start ANOTHER war! 

If God isn’t responsible for famine, death, tidal waves and forest fires, by blaming him and saying it is his "will" we are we not overtly declaring we have no faith in him whatsoever? If he is capable and willing to take part in such wanton destruction, why do we bother with him at all?? He's obviously a pig who keeps making bad stuff happen just for the hell of it!

Surely on Sunday our local Reverend is not going to stand up in the pulpit and preach ‘God is love’, except for the times he is wrecking things and killing people? Maybe our need to use logic and reason in response to trauma and loss is to seek out a higher justification. We tell ourselves it is what God wanted, to dilute the inequity I think and quite simply because we can't think of a better reason. 

The notion that God traipses the earth pointing a magic wand at people saying, “You can have cancer, you can have a car accident, you can have a heart attack, oh but you can stay until you are really old,” is laughable to spirit and to me. Even if this were the case, if God really was really able to line up and preselect candidates for unexpected, painful or violent deaths, wouldn’t he choose murderers and rapists rather than ordinary decent folk?  Physical death happens in four ways; Old age, illness or disease, accident or because we made the choice to live or die, and until that moment God has little or nothing to do with our exit strategy, and those on the other side and who know him personally remain firm on that. 

God made me write that...or did he????

The Gift

Wednesday June 19, 2013

Yesterday I read something on Kim's facebook wall and it got me started! She's like that! I think if we had gone to school together she would have been the one getting me in trouble all the time! She wrote something about mediumship being referred to as a gift. I countered with something equally as loud about referring to it as a gift, whether from God or free with a packet of soap powder such a statement is arrogance at it's best.

So you have a gift right...God chose you right? You are such a supreme being that God pointed his wand and at said, "Yep, you, you can be gifted. Let's face it you are doing *bleep* all else!"  So in the metaphoric sense yeah maybe but don't go around preaching peace love and mung beans and love all with the tag line, "But I'm more special than you!" You're not!

Gifted used as a adjective, yeah sure gifted artists, gifted singers but this means a totally different thing. We all have something we love doing and things we excel at and things we just don't get anywhere with. Mine is cooking! Not the excel but the "I'm no good at that bit". I'm not sure what I excel at...little bit of this little bit of that. 

Mediumship is something that is within us all, I would defy anyone to say they have never had an experience they can't quite understand or work out. Whether it's instinctive, a dream or a premonition and like it or not readers....everyone has it!  As some people can play music and chose to pursue it and hone their skills, the same happens with our sixth sense and ability to communicate. Sorry gang, but God doesn't single people out for special treatment - he's not judgemental remember!! Get off your high horses and stop pretending that you don't work with ego! 

Finally, as you all get ready to throw rocks through my window; During my book writing period one of the stories I got from spook was this, this is the short version anyway you'll have to read the title chapter to get the full version. Jesus was the first medium, in those times it was seen as a way of him having power and control over people  and made the ruling gentry quite nervous. Rather than  be viewed as something that could instill peace into the world it scared the sandals off them! JC was very much before his time and misunderstood, the very first tall poppy if you like. It was seen as much more fun to take power over the people by war and bloodshed than trying to understand the workings of the universe. So they made up crap about him and killed him.  Then the womenfolk started developing their mediumship skills (note no use of the word gift!)  because it became apparent because of the female position in society they would not be crucified or harangued for their readings or teachings. They were non threatening in a male dominated society because they were not eligible for any position of power or status. They could not become leaders of men no matter what. This meant they could go about their business a little more unfettered than JC had previously and in doing so, continue to spread the word of truth. It's a process of evolution and the social progress of modern man that now the men are coming back into the picture.  No one is gifted. We are all the same.

The Ramblings of A Maniac?

June 16, 2013

If I have been slack on the Daily Spook, Arty P and I must apologise, we are busy unpacking as my "stuff" finally arrived from Perth. P has had a lot on with her own (mortal) family at the moment and she's a bit worn out. I've been a bit distracted what with that and planning a weekend at the end of the month which after moving back to Melbourne and all the associated stress.  Expect absolutely nothing from me 27th - 30th June! I'm going to see King Kong the musical in Melbourne over that weekend which is supposedly epic. It pays to have something to look forward to. If your life is crap at the moment, look forward to it not being so and stop being such a moaning minnie I say! We all have something to look forward to, never forget that. We just don't always know what it is! 

So as I get caught up in all the realities of life, what is spook up to? Well aside from telling me to get off my ass and organise my speaking tour, they also keep a look out for me personally as well as looking out for themselves just a little bit. We must remember spooks are human too, they just don't have a body. Hat-Boy has sent me on a mission I didn't expect and he is so much a part of my daily life now I will miss him when he has to go the next step of spiritual evolution around September. Apparently he will be back for Christmas and I know him well enough these days to know he isn't one to miss a party or free food! Arty has got me writing again and is always there with wise words. They have also revealed a path I didn't see coming...and don't forget as my family says "I can see through walls" so I should have known!

I want to foreshadow something and talk a little bit about how spook can influence our lives but not make choices for us. Enter my well loved mate Sean. I'm not going to talk about him personally except for here is a man who lives like I do. Remember the part in my book where a medium told me "You have the ability to go from this side to the other'. I have finally found my male counterpart! I want you to watch out for him, because here and now I stick my neck out, he is a wise man of the future and I believe, and so the spooks tell me, you will all listen to him! Go Sean, you deserve it mate...can't wait. 

So why am I telling you this? Well I met this guy, Sean, and as with many people who I meet in the human they bring a few imaginary friends! Sean came with a formidable but warm and loving woman (in spook) who kept coming back to me telling me, "Teach him well for he is you." Thanks Alice for telling me I look like a dude...I think! I listened to Alice's advice and made the choice to go along with it. Not go along with her wishes, but to go along with her guidance and love as if she were a friend who was advising me and I could choose to accept or reject. I chose acceptance because I know spook knows a shipload more than I do and because I believe in him! Mark my words, you will too one day! Spook is here to interfere, to help and to pick us up and dust us off when we need it not to run our lives though so I have to attend to the practicalities and not sit on our copious derrieres expecting it to land in my lap!

I hope with the speaking tour (and some demo's which include spook!) you will all enjoy sharing what I have learned, taking from it what you need to find your way and making sense of it a lot quicker than I did! In a totally non arrogant way I am like the spooks PR person, as Father Bob is to God I am to all the rest of them! They aren't my words, they are theirs, so we would appreciate it if when then time comes, you would sit up and pay attention!

One final thing, totally off topic, one of the greatest but craziest teachers I ever had has decided to take spook-sabbatical and isn't reading or dealing in spooktown for a while. She is a lucky lucky gal because she has an equally crazy and loving family around her..and Me! To Candy-Kim enjoy the rest mate, you earned it. Me and the spooks we love you lots!

Protection. If It's Not On...It's Not On!

Thursday June 13, 2013

Anyone who knows me knows I don't believe in all that fluffy stuff about wings and cherubs and hearts and stuff. Maybe I am just too pragmatic, but most of what I have learned I have learned direct from my beloved Arty, so in my world it's where it's at. I do believe in the God energy which I also believe manifests itself as a man because we as a race are not advanced enough to interpret it any other way at the moment. So here is the law according to Arty and P about protection.

The human mental is the real connection with spirit - you think something and if there is someone in spirit around you they will hear you, therefore if you visualise it in the mental you are putting it into your spiritual space as real. Remember whilst we are on earth we are only part human but we are all spirit.So here are there recommendations to be done morning and night and will only take ten minutes;

 Practice a little deep breathing first, just three or four good long breaths in and out to slow things down a little and calm you. Sit on the edge of the bed or anywhere you like that you are comfortable and there is minimal noise or chance of interruption. Visualise your veins, your cells and your entire body with a white light going through it - you should see yourself as like a biological diagram with white veins instead of red. Ask your guides to fill your body with the protection of the God energy. Then when you can hold this picture visualise a kind of bubble around you of the same white energy. Make sure your bubble is totally closed in, no holes no gaps.Ask that your highest guides and mentors surround you with the protection of the God energy and the white light of Jesus Christ. Ask them to protect you from negativity and all that is not from the purest of universal energy. Hold it for a few minutes and then get on with your day.

One of the main contributors to protection is our gatekeeper. My gatekeeper introduced himself as John Trumble  I have searched the net to find him but as yet nothing all I know is he passed away in the early 1900's. You can ask to meet your gatekeeper, it is important you connect with whomever your gatekeeper is so that you can be aware of each other.  Usually the first time you meet your gatekeeper if you aren't a practising medium or psychic it will be dream state or early in the morning as you are waking up from sleep. It may take a while and it may not even happen, it is their choice whether they chose to reveal themselves.

This is the first and most important step before you start dabbling in anything in Spookland...believe me I learned the hard way. Spiritual protection is so important so remember, if it's not on...it's not on with the spooks anyway!

Suicide....Can YOU Make a Difference?

Tuesday June 11, 2013

Been thinking about this one for a while, then today my friend in spook who I call "Hat Boy" dropped by as we were talking about his Mum; one of his favourite subjects next to his sister and anything with petrol in it, except lawn mowers of course! The thing about him is he was a young suicide or as he puts it "an accidental suicide.". When I was much younger I had a very close friend who took his own life and for some reason suicides seem to be able to communicate with me easily, I can sense them.  Is it a blessing or a curse...? If I can stop them..a blessing. If I can't I often agonise "why warn me in the first place if I can't do anything." 

I have heard a lot of religious and spiritual tripe about suicide, dark places, God never forgiving you and all that and to be honest in my spiritual experience it's all a load of crap. You don't get punished by the universe for being frightened, vulnerable and afraid to go on! People who preach that sort of hype are too judgmental for their own good. Sure if you take your own life there are spiritual lessons, but I assure you they don't involve being ejected onto the slippery dip of fire any more than they get a welcome party to honour a foolhardy decision.

Something Hat Boy and my beloved Greg (name changed) both agree on is many suicides are accidents or impulsive decisions that we can't take back. Hat Boy also wishes me to clarify that drink driving is also a form of suicide, which is confirmed by another of my young friends who died at the wheel of a car after refusing to let his mates drive him home. He and Hat Boy actually have the same given name and were the same age so I won't confuse things!

Whether the moment in time such a choice is made is through illness, mental or otherwise, peer pressure, chemical influence or whatever, at that time, the exact moment, that split second, it is seen as the only solution. I have NEVER 'met a suicide' in spirit who actually says they don't regret that decision. I often thought how could you show someone that suicide is not the answer without actually demonstrating that. This is what the three of us came up with;

• Hat Boy - Lock them in a room with no windows, no doors and no phone for a week. Then when they come out ask them if they would like to talk to or see anyone. Most will realise they are loved and there are people to support them through this, because whilst in 'the den' as he calls it they missed someone and someone missed them. 
• Greg - Ask them to about tell you the happiest time in their life and then ask them how they could do it again in the current time.  If they can find something that they can say would make them happy, then life is worth living because that possibility is still out there.
• Me - Never be ashamed to say you aren't doing so well. If a total stranger can come up to me at a tram stop and ask "are you alright lovely," then there is someone out there who cares for everyone and we in turn all have someone we can care for.

All the three of us are saying is, rather than sensationalising the death of someone by their own hand, how about doing your bit to help prevent it. It doesn't hurt to spend an extra five minutes here and there with people you think might not be doing well, or to let someone else know that they might want to keep an eye out. Depression can't be left up to medication alone and not everyone can afford or have access to counsellors. TALK to them and more so....NEVER ever judge someone who needs drug therapy to get through the tough times. Make the effort if you are lucky enough to be going through a good part of your own life, you never know when you might be reaching out for the same reason.

Todays Daily Spook was with much love and help from my three Musketeers who assure me we are going to be doing much more work in this area and I say....bring it on boys and thank you.

What in the World?

Monday June 10, 2013

First up - happy Birthday Maj, Have a great day! I'm not really a royalist but you have to admit she keeps on keeping on!  Can you imagine having the intricate details of your personal life sploshed all over the front page of the paper every time something went awry!I got divorced once...no one from the Sun called me!!! Why do we get do fascinated in the detail of other peoples personal lives? Which brings me seamlessly and shamelessly to today's subject...the world people and predictions.  I have read in a few magazines where psychics have made predictions about famous people's personal lives...how bloody rude and intrusive!!! How would you like it if I decided to do a little impromptu reading for you and then sold it to Woman's Day? 

The fact is though sometimes my spooks do drop by for a chat about the world in general and most times it is very revealing stuff. I guess some of it I can't prove it's right; things like their statement that there will be no planet earth within 1000 years because we would have rendered human life unsustainable and basically used everything the old spinning ball has to give. I can't prove that because I won't be around in 1000 years! 

China will invent a synthetic iron ore or some kind of metal substitute and the mining industry will take a massive hit because of this but the petroleum industry won't be able to keep up with the demand. More problems for Mother Earth as we continue to dig holes in her looking for materials that have taken hundreds of thousand of years to form and then wondering what we do when it's gone or more likely as my spooks tell me - it' not commercially viable to continue to retrieve it.

The population of the city of Perth will begin to deplete and in twenty years it will be back to where it was in terms of population, twenty years ago from now.

Migration laws will be tightened by Australia to a point where there will almost be an all out war over it.

America will regain it's status as a force to be reckoned with in the world and form a strong alliance with Russia as a means of ending a potential conflict. Something good will come out of that alliance although the Russian president after the one that ratifies the new relationship will be thought to be a bit of a looney, but his eccentricity also marks his intelligence. 

A North Korean politician (if you can call them that!) will be assassinated (oh my goodness I will probably be now for saying that!!)

See..... I didn't mention divorce, extra marital sex, sexual orientation or anything seedy at all did I....?  My laundry is clean and neatly folded!  So if you are a reader who gets their head on telly or face in a magazine, do it with a little respect eh?

Truth or Dare?

Saturday June 8, 2013

Kim and I were having a rather animated conversation last night. That's not to say that all of our conversations aren't quite energetic but when got onto the subject of truth in readings..we were both chattering like lady-monkeys!  

When I first decided to try reading I had little or no confidence and Kim walked me through the benefit of her 20 years of experience.  One of the things I was lambasted for in the early days was being too blunt! To me  if you ask a question surely you want a truthful answer and it's not up to me to colour it in after spook has delivered it...is it?

Kim pointed out that in the early ages, mystics and witches were known for their truth. If you wanted a "reading" and the shaman predicted you were going to die, you were going to be told!  Can you imagine it, someone comes to me for a reading and asks about their life and I sit there quite content to spew forth, "Well your husband is sleeping with your neighbour, someone is going to steal you car and oh, by the way you are going to die before you are 40!" Yikes-a-mundo!

Let's try the other way, the reading is positive and we tell our client she is indeed going to marry the handsome guy she is stepping out with. So elated is our client that she goes home full of the joys of spring and tells handsome that some little old lady who can see through walls has told her they are to be married.  Trouble is, handsome is not at that emotional point in the relationship at that time and it freaks him out because now he feels pressure to feel something he doesn't ...yet. So the relationship deteriorates; because handsome thinks he is being manipulated which in the end makes the mediums prediction incorrect because handsome exercised his right to free will and bailed under pressure. Remember a reading is only "as it is now..." and not carved in stone.

So WHAT are we as readers supposed to do? Do we give you the blunt in your face truth which is how I always receive it from spook anyway. Do we colour inside the black and white lines drawn by spook thus extending our "services" to creative prose as well? We are bound by ethics, morality and common decency to deliver readings in truth and in a way our client can handle it. As Kim says, "If you don't want the truth, go somewhere else." I have admired her courage in telling it like it is since the day I met her and I too intend to continue doing the same.

Thinking Out Loud

Friday June 7, 2013

This morning I was lying in bed, loving it because it was after 8am and I was still there...I was thinking to myself about yesterday, Esther and other people who have passed over thinking they didn't make the grade and how I wish I could do something for people like that in spirit. I have always said that my job is to help spook and not the humans! It got me thinking again about one of my favourite subjects; why we use spook for general stuff and not for more serious stuff. I mean what about missing people, and family trees and even advances in modern medicine? A voice outside of my head, which means someone who is in close and strong, said "Because you aint smart enough yet that's why!" How rude Mr or Ms Spook!

I was about to get all huffy about being called 'un-smart' when I realised this was another of those times when I was thinking  something and spook heard me! Yikes I wondered how many times that has happened and I haven't realised it!! Certainly in part of my book Arty, Nikola, Louis and I had lots of conversations about communication and I have to say the "send and receive" of messages from here to there continues to fascinate me in terms of how does it really happen.

There is somewhat of a potted explanation in my book, essentially 'because you aint smart enough' actually includes you too! Heck yes!  The general consensus of opinion is that we lack the brain power, intellect or whatever we want to call it to comprehend it yet and until then I guess we will continue to communicate and learn more by finding our what to have for tea tomorrow and if our Linda's boyfriend really is a bastard! It's like mopping the floors in a $3000 Prada dress...such a waste! 

I do do what is called 'domestic readings' though but I limit them to one a day and carefully decide with Arty and P who I should and shouldn't read for. If it brings some comfort or happiness to someone else, or even better like yesterday where a human and a spook both got something out of a reading. If spook speaks then I guess the decision is ultimately not mine...even if I AM entitled to my opinion! I'm here to help I guess, the rest is up to them! As I go to sign off a familiar voice says "teach them well.." so maybe we will find out more about the world of spooks that we didn't know before in the blogging days to come!

101 Uses of a Dead Person

Thursday June 6, 2013

Time for some truth...I think sometimes we abuse the ability of others to read and the cooperation of spook in our lives. Is my boyfriend really a bastard? Will I win the lotto? What is my partner thinking about my new hair do? I am as guilty as everyone else out there of doing this. But today I had yet another peek into the usefulness of spook when they aren't being asked for trite and meaningless (in the context of this story) information that we should be working out for ourselves or asking a live person the question at least.  

Enter Esther, a young woman who had a very troubled life. She came through via a reading for a lady who is doing the family tree thing. True to particularly the early Victorian era, records can be sketchy and even a little creative especially if there is the slightest whiff of scandal! One swipe of the pen and that little indiscretion is covered up or gone entirely! Esther came through and sat on a box in my room crying so we went through her story; some bits her living relative and the sitter for the reading filled in, some Esther offered and were validated and some we can only hope my connection was strong and true and the information is correct. 

I want to tell her story in the very short version so she knows she has a relative these days who cares and there are at least two people who understand. Esther was to be married to a man 30 years older than her, only he was unable to wait until she was 18 years old and in her own words, "availed himself of a 13 year old child, something which in your time would see him receive a worse sentence than that which I received for stealing. She was married to this 'gentleman' within weeks of her 18th birthday. Yes she still refers to him as that despite the fact he wasn't. By the time she was 19 years old she had lost two pregnancies and run away from her husband the intention being that she find some way of making enough money to leave. I assume by leave she meant the country in which she was born, being England. Esther got caught stealing in concert with a young male friend who was also 19 years old. Unfortunately Esther was caught with the goods and in the usual way she ended up coming to Australia. Esther had rather a lot of partners and rather a lot of children by these partners. At least one of her marriage certificates was fake and two of her children died in childbirth (both girls). Her last partner in life in her words "owned her." Which I take to mean she worked and he took the money. I am not going to degrade her by spelling it out. from humble beginnings a Jewish father and a non Jewish mother, her Father tried to arrange it so she would marry into a better life, into money. He accidentally married her into misery.

Why am I telling this tiny part of her story? Well firstly because I think it is important we start thinking more about the way we use spirit but we can talk about that more later.  Secondly Esther did what she had to do to survive in the day.  At the end of her life she "wished she had been loved" (quote).  I just want her to know her struggles weren't in vain...and she was, she is. I truly enjoyed using part of what I do to highlight Esthers life and put a few more pieces in the family jigsaw.

The Price of Fame

Wednesday June 5, 2013

I think we all get that spooks are just people without bodies. The process of higher evolution is something we are yet to understand, but essentially that is my belief.  One of the great things about being aware of spook is that you meet some very interesting people, and I dedicated a whole chapter in my book about some of the impromptu visits by famous people. I say impromptu because I never go looking for them! I have had the pleasure of being visited by Anna Nicole Smith (Vicky as she calls herself to me) Elizabeth Taylor (don't call her Liz for goodness sake) and of course the one that every medium wants to meet, the gorgeous Elvis Aaron Presley, to name but a few!

Since writing the book I have had a few more visitors that I have shared on Facebook; Linda McCartney is one. I woke up in the morning and there was this lovely lady standing in my room. Her energy is so beautiful, I assume she was a really kind and compassionate person in her life - I can see why Paul loved her so much! All she said was "Stella" and that is her daughter. Now I have to say here that I will NEVER dish dirt or sensationalise things that spook says to me. I wouldn't write the gory details fo a friends personal life in my book or a blog and neither will I do that to someone I don't know based on one of these visits. 

The second in the same week was Robin Gibb. Now there is an interesting guy who had some profound beliefs of his own both socially and spiritually. He said "It's not what I expected," but as I am not sure what he expected I don't know what that meant. Whereas Linda only stayed a matter of hours Robin was with me for three days. He did want to talk about Barry's (Gibb his brother) hair which for some reason he found it a highly amusing subject. I also wonder if he was a bit of a conservationist too as we had a conversation about the planet and of all things, organic food and crystals!! Given that Barry has the mane of a lion and Robin was balding I can see how the brothers may have ribbed each other!

When I asked Arty, when I was writing my book, why do these people come to me, he made a few observations; people are more likely to take notice if something comes from "a famous person" and I don't have any family that I can really connect with. I found it interesting though that both of those visitors who were in the same week were in some way connected to music? Was that the message? Something to do with music or were they just dropping in because they can! 

The only other "famous dead person" I have met recently is the lovely Doris Stokes We haven't chatted much yet, and she calls me "lovey" but I am waiting to see what she has. Do I think she wants me to be the next Doris Stokes? No I don't that's not my path that I do know, but I am sure she will come through with a better connection any day now!

The Little Visitor and a Good Question!

Tuesday June 4, 2013

Why the chimney sweep you ask! Since I have been living here, not even two weeks I have to say, but it's an older red brick building that I am determined to research on at some point, I have seen a young Victorian boy scooting around the place.  He doesn't hang around or say anything in fact it is like when I catch his eye, or indeed he catches mine, he runs away with a cheeky grin. I am not sure if he is with me or with the building but I will pin him down at some point and find out and report it right here. He isn't dressed like a chimney sweep, I just liked this picture!

Someone asked me this morning, "How do you see things?" good question because it's hard to describe. Arty taught me that the gift of seeing in the spiritual has nothing to do with our eyes as physical organs so I am not really sure I can explain it without getting my knickers in a knot! If you are sitting in a room with friends, naturally you can see them. When I sit in a room with friends sometimes I can see them and others, as plainly as I can see the human people but the others tend to "come and go" sometimes. Having breakfast at a local cafe this morning and chatting over delicious smoked salmon and eggs there was a young man standing behind my breakfast guest who said, "I'm back, are you going to tell her I'm here?"  As this was a sort of business meeting I decided not to get into it and he was pretty annoyed about it. The point I am making here is I wasn't reading, I wasn't looking for a stray spook to chat with he was just there because he could be and I could see him because I could too. To answer the 'how' question in truth, I don't know I just do!

The Human Touch!

Monday June 3, 2013

Today I was wondering what to write about, not that I don't have anything to say, noooooo! There is just so much, so I decided to start with something the lovely Abigail and I were talking about today; "people spooks." We often laugh about the meaningless antics of some spooks and then are decried as mad women or disrespectful when we talk to others for not respecting something (spirituality and all things that go with it) that is bigger than Ben Hur and without a doubt connected to "God." I use inverted comma's so you can insert the name of your God there!

In my blog I talk about what I have learned, what I believe and sometimes what I know; so here goes; when we pass over we don't become a whitewashed angelic figure who wants nothing more than to spread the love, eternal light and help old ladies across the road.  We are who we are when we die, we just don't have a body! Evolution into the higher beings comes much later and after a lot more 'life experience.'  As I write this my 'temporary helper' guy starts clowning around singing an old song "I aint got nobody," he puts on this gravelly voice and says "no body" instead of "nobody." He thinks he is funny and the worst thing is, he is! But like with most good airlines, even the ones that fly the route to heaven, there is a serious side to this flight and I would like to tell you about it by using a recent example;

Carly came to me because she and her husband were splitting up. The writing was on the wall, no two ways about it, Splitsville was where it was all headed.The only thing puzzly Carly was that she kept dreaming of members of her soon to be ex-husbands family telling her not to leave.  Ex-husband also confessed that he had one similar dream where his long gone Grandfather told him to 'go with her.' Confusing? I'll say!  So was Grandad et al predicting or were they just being bodyless human beings trying to keep this young couple together? Carly eventually left, so there was no prediction in the dreams, it was just family-spook trying to make things right. They are after all, only human!  :)