Experiments in Spook

Friday October 25, 2013

Well - this was an interesting one and a lesson maybe in believing what you want to believe. Joe, the "occupant" of the cottage has this thing about moving paper; photographs, notes anything he can lay his hands on. A few times he has taken photographs down off the wall and placed them in odd places around the cottage. This all started when one night, being frustrated that I could hear and feel Joe but not see him in the physical, I left a piece of paper out by the side of my bed and asked him to move it. The next morning it was on the other side of the room! I don't sleep in a barn or with the windows open and so there was no gust of wind that could have done this.

Such was his interest in the metaphysical Arty, my mentor in spook and an absolutely necessity in my life, often did experiments when he was alive. Maybe that is why he is with me now because we share that same curiosity. So I decided to start some experiments of my own. I started with writing the names of those I knew were with me in spook on pieces of paper and placing them squarely within a tile on the floor. The "other" refers to someone I don't know - just in case!

I left these pieces of paper out and asked if those present would move theirs and as you can see Arty, Matt and Joe moved theirs. The interesting thing was when we got out of bed to review our experiment I was a little upset that Matt's paper had a questionmark as to whether it was moved or not as it didn't seem to be that remarkable.  I was disappointed as I had actually seen him the night before. Then, I did all the morning things, bathroom coffee etc and came back to find Matt's paper had been moved much more significantly! True to my playmate in spook, he made his point!!

But was it those three spirit people who moved the paper or just some naughty spook who wanted to mess with me? I always caution people about doing experiments because once you have opened the door to spirit you can cause all sorts of terrible problems because you can't pick and chose who comes through when the door is wide open. This is why we have gatekeepers and must exercise protection, open and close and ground ourselves otherwise we can end up with all sorts of antics that once they have started are hard to control. So when I say "Don't try this at home" I mean it! Seriously unless you are an accomplished medium who can clearly identify those that are around you and eject the undesirables, this is not for you.

So were we tricked because I need to know my beloved spook friends are around or were they really there? Well luckily for me, I can connect with those three in particular rather easily so was happy to hear Arty say "Indeed my dear, here we are!" Matt said he is here for the weekend and will be around more (oh no there goes the vodka!) and Joe is always here because this is where he lived.

Had Arty said to me, "It wasn't us" then I would have shut down the experiment and gone into my spook space to eject whoever it was that was being cheeky with us. I admit we do have a "naughty here". Not malevolent, just frisky and enjoys the attention. Now and again he gets a bit dark and gloomy, so we show him the door. tricks are fine, mean is not and he knows the rules.

One of the things I like doing in my stage show "Hands Up If You Are Dead" is proving the presence of spirit. But if you want to know how we do that, you'll have to come to one!

A decision and a lesson

Friday October 18, 2013

Recently I decided to stop reading. Well actually I didn’t Arty and Matt suggested I give it a break for a while and concentrate on more human, but none the less spook-connected pursuits.  One of the things that has always disturbed me a little about readings and I am guilty of this too, is people wanting to know what others are thinking and the outcome of situations that I believe should be about making choices for ourselves.  I am terrible for calling Chilly and saying “If I do this is it a good thing or a bad thing.” I am as guilty as everyone else. Even if you have a reading you can still make choices for yourself because all you get from a reading is; this is how things stand now and the possible consequences of other options. It was strange because once I had made the choice to stop “general readings” but not published it my next few readings cancelled as if to validate the suggestion by spooks.  Of course I like reading and proving that spook is with us and a part of our life, but there has to be a better use. 

As if by magic, spook magic you understand, a couple of days later a friend called with a spooky issue. He didn’t want to know about his domestic life, job choices or anything like that, it was about the strong presence of a spook around him and why it was happening. THIS is the work I prefer to do! I read for someone once, the most beautiful person who had health concerns and the spooks attached to her wanted to reassure her that although the problems were real the fears about her future were groundless and all would be well in the end.  That to me was “best use of spook” and the work they want to do too! So let me tell you a story that makes my point; Friend calls Ally and says, “What’s the deal with this spook, I can see feel and hear her but don’t know what she wants.” We validate that we are both seeing the same person and a few other things and then we go onto the warning the spook so desperately wanted to deliver.  Then as I am saying to my lovely friend, “I will ask them to look after you in the meantime,” as a ‘whilst this plays out or we avoid’ type of it contingency plan Matthew says to me “Finally a real job!” Off he went to be with my friend, suss it out and report back. So even he was feeling it and feeling a little useless although he has been a great help and a great laugh in readings, he too wants to add more meaning to the fact he and I can connect the two dimensions.

This morning Matthew reports in and Arty is in his chair and I am told “the blow has been softened, and thank you” and “most” of the crisis averted. The actual incident won’t be averted but the harm will be because the spooks worked their ethereal butts off to get the message through. Sure there is still some hinky news to come and a “situation” but at least we know now that the worst will not happen.

Now the spook who originally came with the message was not a family member or a friend of the person who called me. She was someone who cares deeply about this person because she cared deeply for someone she is associated with and recognised a true bond of friendship. She wanted to look after her close friends friend because in her eyes he is special too. As anyone would do if they were alive or on the other side of the firewall! 

What do we see here? Well we see a “non family or loved one” spirit working to get into someone else’s space to do a good thing, a kind thing.  This also demonstrates something equally important to the expansion of our understanding of spook. They are NOT confined and they have free will too. Spiritual energy is like light or microwaves (to simplify) and can travel, but like light or microwaves you need a stronger signal for a greater distance. Think of it as moving your computer further away from the modem or router and the signal weakens until some kind of booster or repeater is attached to it to make it stronger again. The picture you see on this page is my reading chair. It’s outside and I prefer to read at night when the human energy around me is more still. It’s a better connection.

The spirit, whom we shall call Leanne, made a conscious decision to help out but needed more than she had energetically to get through so then I became the signal booster and essentially made it stronger for my friend so we could get to the bottom of it. I also found her signal, Leanne’s, to be very strong because there was a “need” there and not just a curiosity.

I have always found my best and clearest readings are where there is genuine purpose and not just “where is my life heading.” We control where our life is heading by the choices we make.  So to clarify for now; if you need us; me, Matt, Arty and P we are there for you. I will read for you and we will do everything we can. If you just want to know if your boyfriend is cheating, or your kids will be successful when they are barely old enough to make choices for themselves then I don’t think I am the person for you. Let your kids make choices, support them and love them and spook will too and they will learn the lessons they need to learn. We must get out of the thinking that spook is a tool so we can avoid the lessons in life. We need them to evolve and grow both in the human and the spiritual world and they can't do that if they are told every step of the way what's coming.

I will always warn someone I am connected to if I feel there is danger. Spirit has saved me in the past and I know where they can that is something they will do, but sometimes they just can’t. Treat them with respect…you will get more out of them I promise. So do they.

Hands Up If You're Dead

Monday October 7, 2013

Well? Are you? Are you sure you aren't dead? Well I have news for you, in a nutshell you are "half dead!"  The human self comprises two parts if you like; our biological self and our spiritual self. Think of it this way. We operate on the human with our biological bits, our tongue and larynx speak, our eyes see and our ears hear. The other part of us which is the spiritual side that is also at work all day every day are the inner senses; when we dream we don't see the images with our eyes we see them with our mind. When we imagine, we don't create with our voice but with our mind. Although a real simplification that is the part of us that communicates with spirit and would you believe it the strongest part of us. It really is possible to get "mind over matter" or how do you think Joe could move the paper, or Matt could annoy me by realigning all the paintings in my house or P slam doors and scream at me to "pay attention!" We don't use ANY of our biological bits for spiritual interaction it is just the bit we call our mind and the more refined senses that go with them. When we die, we don't take any of our squishy bits with us, just our mind and so when we communicate after we have passed over it is that energy that we use. The SAME energy we have now in the mortal to think, dream and imagine! So...now how many have your hands up...yeah well should be all of you!

Nothing to report.....oh really?

Sunday September 29, 2013

Well I have to confess there has been no daily spook because there have been no daily spooks.  All has been quite quiet on the western front other than my chats with Arty P and Matt.  Matt has been off doing other stuff for a while so it’s been quiet without him (in a good way I assure you!) and Arty and I are getting back into our groove after the move and all the kerfuffle that goes with relocating.

After a few initial visits to the cottage by Joe I haven’t seen him or Maria

 for a few days either although last night whilst watching TV there was a cool air that kept wafting across from end to end of the couch and I believe that was him passing by to stand in his normal spot at the bottom of the stairs. Yes Maria is the “sit down” lady! I assumed she was a school teacher who once worked at the cottage because it used to be a school and all that, BUT she is actually Joseph McCarthy’s wife and given that they had ten children I can probably forgive her for yelling “sit down” every now and again!  That is probably why in the photograph of the cottage front they are standing side by side as husband and wife would.

Anyway onto something else entirely but that I thought was worth talking about. I got a curious email recently from a young woman who is aware she is spiritual, in so far as she is connected and can randomly see and hear spook but she is having a bit of a tough time and so decided to take it out on spook by blaming them for not being there and letting her down when she was having hard time. Wow! It seemed to me, as fond of her as I am that she and maybe others just don’t understand the principal of spook yet and it can be a little frustrating to say the least.

First up the exchange of energies relies totally on the interactive frequencies of human and spook to be right and if you are mad as heck it aint going to happen in a positive way! Arty tells me it is your underlying energy “type” that makes it possible although I am not sure what that really means. I do know it is not as voluntary as you think on their part either unless they are malevolent, stuck or just a pest!  Second the spooks that can and do come through don’t always have a choice. Many times I read for someone and we will find a parent or sibling and then we will get Great Uncle Harold whom they never knew and then the client is quite indignant that they didn’t know uncle Harold and didn’t really want him there because they would rather have had Mum or Dad!  Arrogance people, pure arrogance. You are not the boss of spook ok!

To make my point; I haven’t seen Matt for a few days for real although I have heard him, I have hung out with Arty and when P has been in she has been all energy and bounce. I didn’t chose that, it’s clear that Matt has stuff to do, P has finished the stuff she was doing and Arty, my well-loved and adored Arty is always there when I need him even if I do wear him out sometimes! Where they are and when they are though,  is not of my choosing, it is the choice of the universe and yet another part of the machinations of the ether that we don’t understand.

Sure we can try and “call them in” but most of the time when we do that we are actually seeing them where they are and not yanking them into real time and space. Other times when we try and manipulate the presence of spook we get a little more than we bargain for as in using ouija boards and the like.The main thing to understand is that when our brain is calm we can see hear and interact better. Such as the early morning messages, when we are really tired or meditating.   It is such a less frenetic flow of energy that it is easier to connect. I for one prefer to read at night and always outside because the energy is much less artificial and it just feels easier to connect and see.  Sometimes there is no connection to be had and that is just the way it is. Just because you want to read someone or talk with spook doesn’t mean they want to talk with you!

Like my lovely friend, it is no use having a tantrum in the middle of the lounge-room floor and demanding their presence and even worse, their help because you think you deserve it! There is a whole dimension out there that we essentially know nothing about, but it seems it is becoming more and more our opinion that it is ours to control.  Sad. And wrong.

Seeing AND believeing....

Sunday September 22, 2013

Over the last few weeks for some strange reason a lot of people have asked me 'how I see things?" 'Things" of course being dead people.  Well first of all I say...read the book people it's all in there and then I get off my high horse and explain myself here!

People, as in human people, all have different perceptions of reality and what it really is. This is how I explain it; If I like chocolate (which I do I do I do I do!) and you don't then I can't fully comprehend what it is about chocolate that you don't like because it tastes so good to ME! That is a minor illustration of realities. The chocolate we like and dislike tastes exactly the same but our personal tastes and realities are different. 

So when we see spooks I am not actually sure if everyone sees the same as me but within their own reality or we all see exactly the same. Here is my reality;

In the physical (it's in the book peoples it really is!) that means I see them around me the same size and shape as when they were human people but perhaps sometimes a little grainy and other times quite real. This is THEIR choice to show themselves like that because they no longer have the body they project. They interact with our minds which is the "connective energy" between us and spook to allow us to see it.

Speech between us when they are in the physical is like talking with a friend. No signs or symbols they just talk and I listen and join in. Sometimes conversation is fluid and sometimes it is words here and there, like using a mobile phone that is cutting in and out.

In my head - It's like imagination being forced upon me.  I see a picture of someone in my head, it's clear for the most part and when it is like that unless it is Arty, Matt or P who don't seem to have limits of presence, I can "hold it" longer. The 'conversation' is like a conversation in my head - I "hear" it going backwards and forwards but it is like I am not actually a part of this and 'another me' is talking and the I am listening to it.

When it is just speech it is generally outside of my head and if I don't feel them coming in - it generally startles me!

I also feel people-spooks. I can just "feel" someone there and generally get a feeling of their sex, approximate age/generation and a little more information to validate them. When I am reading if I feel someone and they are acknowledged in principal it generally makes the connection stronger and I can see them and get more. If they are rejected out of hand it compromises the connection.

With Arty, P, Matt and now Joe too it is like we all just share a house and we come and go as we please. I interact with them when we are together just like I would a human person and we mill around doing our thing and always say good morning and good night to each other ...little bit like The Waltons!  In terms of the interaction between the four of them, they do interact together as well. I can often feel or see them interacting without my going looking for them or my starting the conversation or interaction in the first place.

That's it people..that's how it happens in my world!

Calling Occupants...

Sunday September 21, 2013

The other night I said to my little Bro as we were sitting outside having a few dusk-time drinks staring out to Moreton Island (seriously people you know you are jealous right??) I "felt" someone approach from the lawn, realising it was Joe McGrath I said "Wow! Joe has just come up to the steps on the veranda." Although I knew it was him I could see him "in my head" but in the physical all I could see was like a white shape. We decided to try a photograph and see below the last disappearing remnants of our housemate and rapidly becoming well loved friend from yesteryear and as it turns out the man responsible for naming the town of Maleny!

So, skipping backwards rather than forwards can you see the two figures in the door panel of Percy's? On the left a taller man (Joe) and on the right a plumper shorter woman (our school teacher) who we have called Mavis because she hasn't really identified herself properly yet, save to just shout "sit down" at the most uncommon intervals! 

For the doubters who say it is the person who took the picture, they were some five steps lower down and thus if they had indeed captured themselves in the picture they would either have to be over seven feet tall or levitating because the people in the door are at cottage floor level.

We had visitors this weekend, which included my adorable Xavier and Taylor two little boys who live life large and make the racket to go with it. We came home, and having already identified that Joe's voice is "gravelly" I walked in and said "Hi Joe, how was your day..." there came a throaty chuckle and a response "Quiet!" obviously so  because we had been out all day having fun elsewhere! So Joe had indeed been around when the boys were here but I understand from him too, he rather likes people in the house as to his way of thinking "the more the merrier!" and he did after all have nine children I believe!!

More from Percy's on Monday. Don't forget to protect your self people and thank your spooks for being around.

An Intruder at Percy's...about last night

Wednesday September 18, 2013

This is what we saw last night! Jeepers! First of all let me tell you who "we" are. Shane is my adopted little brother who is helping me with the move. He also "sees things". He has this amazing ability, which I don't have, to see through other peoples eyes and be in their place. It's kind of a like a "remote viewing in someone else's body" type thing. He was the first person other than me to see Matt around me...notably fooling around I might add!

So last night he came into my room and said "Let me have a look at something" as he stared into the corner of the room rather like someone who should be in an asylum and not building and chopping things at Casa Del Percival! He said there was a hunched figure obscuring the light switch at the top of the stairs, rather like the image to your left but maybe wearing some kind of robe or cloak or something. I wrote it off as him being a bit of a nut case because I couldn't see anything at all, ordered him to get back on the roof and stay there until he had done fiddlin!

Then at 3.03 am I heard someone ask me if I was awake, I looked up and saw this figure in the same place but a little further over so also obscuring part of the window. Shane had seen him and now I have too! It wasn't Joe and for some reason although I usually see people in the dark as slightly grainy, this guy seemed to have a bit of a sheen to him and was wearing all black.  None of us feel any malevolence in the cottage (unless you call a bossy school teacher who yells "Sit down" at the most inopportune moments as a little so!). We have no idea who the figure was and I wonder if it was someone left over from a reading but none of my readings had any kind of spook who would be this downcast or seemingly from another era!

To take slight diversion, Percy the peacock has been unusually active today. He has had his tail feathers out and keeps coming around to the front veranda where I am working (and checking facebook every five minutes...I admit it!) as if to check that I am ok and then he wanders off.

We don't feel any kind of ill will in the house, quite the opposite, my spooks seems to be settling in well except for P who says "Ugh so glad I don't have to live there darling!" Who is this figure? I will be consulting Chilly and reporting in because we are stumped! Usually I can feel the energy even if I can't see but with this figure all I could feel was "You're not Joe." I am hoping it isn't Jack, as told in a chapter of my book. I would be beside myself if he found me!