Can Paranormal Investigators & Psychic Mediums Work Together?

The relationship between a paranormal team and a sensitive (a.k.a. psychic or medium) is often difficult, and sometimes dangerous if not handled well. Some teams won't even consider using sensitives, while those who opt to use them may place too much weight on their contributions or else none at all. But is there perhaps an ideal option where the two parties work hand in hand to serve the greater good?

I believe the answer to this is yes, and I would like to use my personal experience to shed a little light on this potential.

Ghost Society For Paranormal Investigators

In 2010, I was invited to join the Washington State Ghost Society, a rather active group consisting of local individuals interested in exploring the paranormal. I was a newly emerging psychic medium and wanted to join a group to help expand my skills. Although my initial role was to serve in an investigative capacity, after a bit of experience I quickly expanded into the role of a team sensitive. What I quickly realized, however, was just how much further I needed to hone my abilities.

You see, mediums and psychicsYou see, psychics and mediums usually work with sitters - people who reach out for private sessions to connect with departed loved ones or to get personal guidance. But what happens when you thrust a sensitive into a situation where they now must assess situations, locations, buildings, land, spirits (if present), residual energies/imprints, time bands, as well as the energies and issues of the living?

Historical Places

For example, until I had access to historical places, I had no opportunity or need to learn how to use the energy in these spaces differently. Two particular locations had 100-year-old histories that left different imprints from different time bands. Patrons of one of these locations often heard music playing while dining. This particular imprint occurred during a specific time in the location's past, while other experiences occurred as a result of different time frames.

According to parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, these types of residual energies are also referred to as place memory, psychic imprints, residual haunts, or hauntings. This occurs when the location ‘records’ the activity of the events, memories, emotions, and people who once or currently occupy them. For those who are sensitive, these recordings can be discerned via psi. However, place memory or hauntings do NOT involve consciousness, even though they can be perceived by consciousness. See the following PDN article for more on why Your Reality Is In Fact A Conscious Universe.

Paranormal Investigators and Residual Energy Discernment

While understanding these various imprints may offer an investigative team little more than small details to assist in location research, the team may not be able to find what they are looking for if a sensitive is not careful to properly discern these variations. Paranormal Investigators must understand these variables and also provide opportunities to help promote sensitive development with these variations.

The impact of sensitive discernment becomes even more crucial when dealing with residential cases: Those that involve real people having real issues.

One example is when our group was called in by a family we had previously assisted. They had recently moved into a new home and were concerned that activity had followed them to the new location. While I was not involved in the first investigation, I was the sensitive in the second investigation with other paranormal investigators.

Upon walking into the home and working with the energy of the space, it became clear that one room was full of unique energy patterns. I worked my way through the home, but I kept being pulled back to one particular space. Taking my time, I sat in the room working my way through what I was feeling until I realized that it was coming from the person who occupied it. To understand what was then creating the energy, I sat with it further until I could begin to discern the cause.

Supporting Evidential Data

With a possible cause and source in hand, we sat down with the family and I started to provide evidence to support my research. I first described the person who occupied the room and then described the emotional and physical concerns that I felt this person might be having. Finding that these assessments were correct, I began to suggest that the living child who occupied the space caused the energy in the space. There were clear medical and emotional concerns about the child. Because of this, we explained that the potential events may be based on the child's personality rather than the actual spirit.

Rarely are psychics and mediums given access to these types of scenarios. Certainly, some well-trained energy workers may have quickly been able to discern this issue. Then again, many energy workers are also not mediums. How do we know what will be encountered when working on these types of more intimate cases? It can be a real mixed bag.

As you can see, all of these variables, along with others, can cause an investigative team to simply avoid working with sensitives altogether. Sometimes it just seems easier, but by doing so, we are missing out on what may be going on in many of these cases: psi-based events.

Psi Events

If psi is the foundation for much of what is explored in an investigation, then at the very least, shouldn’t we use psi detectors? Sadly, this will not come in the form of technology. No device we currently have will detect spirits, consciousness, or subtle human energy patterns related to consciousness. This leaves only those tools that do – sensitives!

For those teams that want to use these human detectors, then a set of good standards must be set up, and a process should be followed to make sure the system works well. But this alone may not be enough. Sensitives also need exposure to various environments and scenarios in order to hone their skills. Simply working with sitters in the traditional way just doesn’t compare to the environment surrounding investigations. I am not saying that a well-trained psychic or medium will not be of value, but the more a sensitive is exposed to these things, the more they can learn from them.

Encouragement

I highly encourage psychics and mediums to work with the right investigative team. Doing so was one of the biggest skill-developing experiences of my life. However, be selective about the group and ask questions. They should have standards for how you will work and yet still be open to your needs. They should not discount everything you say, but neither should they worship the ground upon which you walk. Their role is to be objective, not to take your word as gospel.

Sensitives also need to be willing to admit that these scenarios may be new and foreign. Be open to learning and remain humble. The investigation is a collaborative effort for the good of the clients and the advancement of knowledge. It’s not a showcase. Know your limitations, work to discern more, learn some basic parapsychology, and be dedicated to the task for the right reasons.

Paranormal teams and field investigators who are willing to work with psychics and mediums may want to consider a sensitive who meets the right requirements. While this may not be the team's main goal, what can be achieved through this partnership can offer long-term benefits to everyone involved. It can offer opportunity and expansion for the sensitive. It can offer better insights and awareness to the investigators as well as clients. It can also continue to shed light and understanding of the use and applications of psi. After all, we’re all searching for answers. So wouldn’t it make sense to start working together to create better results and opportunities for everyone?

For more on working with psychics and mediums, you can read Loyd Auerbach’s book Ghost Hunting, How To Investigate The Paranormal. You can also take Parapsychological classes with Loyd and other qualified instructors through the Rhine Research Center.

The Importance of Proper Tutoring for Mediumship Development

With the sad decline in mediumship development and overall standards of mediumship, the most important aspect is the proficiency of a development teacher. This all important aspect cannot be emphasized enough. Not all great mediums make good teachers. Not all good teachers are great mediums. It is not good enough to study aspects of mediumship, throw that together with a few years experience and decide that you are able to teach to a sufficient level. Having knowledge and being able to pass it on are not necessarily the same thing.

Mediumship Development Business

Training has become big business. From spirit's point of view it was never meant to be that way. The lyceum was originally a school that taught normal subjects but was highly spiritually orientated. It was a spiritualist school. The best teachers, of course, have many years experience but perform the same work involved in demonstrating to audiences, or private readings.

The teacher should have a direct link with the student and also be linked with their own guides, the students guides, and those who are communicating with the students to give evidence. A good tutor will also be able to see how the information is given by the communicator and received by the student, and how the student interprets it.

Everyone's mind works differently and in consequence, we have foibles, quirks and ways of weaving information together that is very personal. We have personal experiences and prejudices that color how we may put together this information. We can be trained to accept certain kinds of information; for example, some people may be good with names. This can be utilized by the guides and communicators. In this way of working, a student will have the tendency to remember and convey names accurately. We all have the “five senses” and the additional “sixth sense”. When we work all of these together, they are greatly enhanced.

A good tutor will have strong recognition of these senses and the intricate web of communication, not only within themselves but also of the student. Commonly in a development circle of ten people, I would communicate in the way described above and this would entail not just the physicality of the people, but their guides and their communicators. In total, there would be twenty to thirty people that would need to be watched and worked with.

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Why A Development Circle Always Needs Protection

Guides also have to learn to be guides. Very often in circles, there are many in spirit who have a direct or indirect interest in the proceedings. Spirit time and space is quite different to ours. As an example, in a ten by ten room there can be more than twenty-thousand spirits collectively. It is the job of the tutor to scan and be aware of what is going on. This is a sore subject for many, but there are those in spirit who are negative and also trying to learn, but with a different agenda.

Within a circle, it is or should, be always protected. That does not stop negative entities outside the protected area from taking an interest. Protection is of the greatest importance. Some tutors and institutions that teach mediumship seem to have no belief in negative or injurious spirits. To me, it is beyond belief and against all common sense. Just look around at the different kinds of people in the world today. As a species we are all different, and some of course, are extremely violent. Why would those who transition to spirit suddenly become completely changed, dare I say it into an angel? What would be the Earth lessons if our experiences and bad intentions were transformed into nothingness; irrelevant? There would be no point at all in our experiences here. It would all amount to nothing.

We may understand that we have (close to) eight billion people here on Earth. There are so many uncountable in spirit. New souls are being created all the time. We have to understand that not everyone in spirit who makes contact has the best intentions and a good tutor will have knowledge and some experience in dealing with this kind of thing. To have experience is to have power, not the egotistical side of this but the understanding to bring light, to ask for protection, to bring out the best in all, whatever their gifts.

The Decline In Accurate Mediumship

However many may sit in a circle, it should always be an individual experience. Tutoring, and learning are not a “one cap fits all” situation. Sadly, some institutions do not adhere to this, which has given rise to the decline in good, accurate mediums. All is known in spirit; there is no time as we know it. In spirit, there is only a point when something is correct, will happen. A consequence of this is that that everything is known whether it is past, present or future.

Predictions In Mediumship

This brings up an interesting question. Predictions are somehow the domain of 'psychics'. Predictions are common and indeed asked for with certain types of readings; for example, Tarot. Why is this not acceptable, apparently, from mediums? The difference between psychics and mediums is that the information comes from different sources. With psychics (all mediums are psychic, not all psychics are mediums) it is an awareness and reading of the energies around and within a person, object, etc. With mediums information is given from spirit directly. It is actually quite different and because of the expanse of knowledge on every single subject and experience ever known, there is a lot of information that can be tapped into depending on personal interest and a combination of gift, and experience.

Consequently, I believe in prediction. Not just because it is a routine thing in all readings and demonstrations but because skeptics/cynics all believe that we 'cold read'. That of course is incorrect, but, can you ever cold read a future event? It is something that skeptics cannot ignore.

Progressing On Our Spiritual Path

There are far too many techniques to go through here, but it can all be taught. Many who begin to develop get predictions, sometimes not so nice. It is spirit's way of giving us personal proof and underlining the fact that anything is possible. To progress the world on a quiet, more positive and spiritual path we need knowledge of what can be achieved and understood. Once we begin to understand our true potential, we can make great changes.

Many people of a spiritual or religious nature believe in the other side of life. In fact, of the eight billion, there may be a billion who are atheist in some way and only a few million who are skeptic…a mere fraction. The proper tutoring of developing people will create a whole new world of awareness that so many have already experienced. It is much more common now to hear of genuine near death experiences, etc. People no longer hide for fear of ridicule. Billions are open to it, many have experienced it and the sense that this is all real, permeates. Full connection to spirit is our birthright;as is proper understanding and respect to gain a fuller understanding of it.

I have been privileged to be aware of spirit since the age of two. I am close now to sixty-two years of age and I am blessed to have close to sixty years of experience. I want to leave you with an interesting set of photos. I am with my sister in one of them. I was almost nine years old at the time. I was born in nineteen fifty-seven. I leave the rest up to you to figure out.

Myself and sister