We all tend to by fascinated by questions about the afterlife – what happens to people after they die, for example, or what we will experience after we transition. Connected to these questions is the issue of ghosts and apparitions. What do these phenomena say about the afterlife and our universe?

I have pondered these questions myself over the years, in addition to having some direct experiences that have given me information, and would like to offer some insight that may shed more light on these topics and give more than the usual explanations.

The Afterlife

I’ve been privileged to tap into the Other Side over and over again in my intuitive work with clients over the years and have somewhat of an outsider’s glimpse into it as a result. (As I write “outsider,” I have one of those “not quite true” gut feelings that denies what one has stated – probably because since birth I’ve felt more comfortable There than here on Earth.) At any rate, I’ve been able to get a glimmer of the Other Side over and over again.

Most of us have witnessed mediums communicating with departed loved ones, one of the ways that many people have gotten a sense of the afterlife. What has struck me about mediumship is that every medium I have thus far seen appears to be communicating with the personality of the person who died. But that’s not what I get when I tap into the transitioned loved ones of my clients – and frankly this has puzzled me.

When I tune into someone who has died, I often have to do two things: first, tune into the person in life (when he/she was still alive) to verify that I’ve got the right person, and, secondly, to then tune into the person at the present time. However, when I tune into the present, I don’t usually get the personality of that last lifetime. Instead, I get the higher soul awareness, rather than the Sue or Tom that my client would recognize or know.

What I’ve come to learn is that we have a different persona (or personality) from one lifetime to another. Just as we will change gender, race, nationality (planet), etc. in different lifetimes, so too will we have different personalities.

At some point after we transition, we drop the persona of that lifetime and get into our higher soul awareness, the awareness that transcends and incorporates all the personas we’ve adopted from lifetime to lifetime. Whereas in life we may have been American, for example, our higher soul awareness is that of a child of the universe, not identified with any one country or culture. (Yet we can always remember who we were in any lifetime.) I’ve seen some people who were able to get into their higher soul awareness almost immediately upon transitioning (perhaps because they had a deeper or more conscious spirituality during their previous life), and I’ve seen others who took much longer to do so (and were actually struggling to acclimate to where they were for any of a variety of reasons). The length of time it takes to acclimate will vary from person to person (bearing in mind, of course, that time as it may exist on the Other Side, has no direct correlation to our experience of time here). Yes, it does get complicated!

Insofar as what people are doing on the Other Side is concerned, I’ve gotten quite diverse things – things that have given me an even better sense of the afterlife. (Because I’ve covered that in my book Invisible Blueprints, I won’t detail it here.) What I would like to say here, though, is that our loved ones don’t forget those they left behind on Earth. Even though they get into their higher soul awareness at some point and have dropped the personality of their last lifetime, they remember their loved ones, are aware of what they are experiencing, and are fully able to project their personality to their loved ones whenever they choose to. This may be what mediums are communicating with: the projection of the personality. And the reason for this may be that loved ones left behind would not take as much comfort from a communication from the higher soul awareness, devoid of the personality they knew in life. Passed-on loved ones are aware of this fact, choosing to project what would be both recognizable and comforting to those on Earth.

Ghosts and Apparitions

No discussion of departed souls would be complete without a discussion of ghosts and apparitions. I recently attended the Mensa Annual Gathering at which there were two presentations on ghosts, in addition to mine on intuition. (And, yes, Mensans were genuinely interested in these topics.) Neither presenter on ghosts covered the source of the “hauntings” in much depth – i.e., what caused them. Yet the question fascinates me.

I have read a great deal about the subject of ghosts in the last forty years, and I even lived in a house that was haunted back in the mid-70s outside of Chapel Hill. From what I’ve read and experienced, I feel that different hauntings can come from a range of causes.

Let’s take that haunted house I lived in. The house had been built in the early 20th Century and lived in by the same family for about fifty years, but had been vacant for almost twenty years when I moved in. The first night I spent there, I saw a ball of light go through the room after the light had been turned off. This was my first such experience – and it really jolted me. (It’s one thing to read about such things and quite another to experience it for the first time.) I also heard noises, like a party going on, from a room across the hall, a room that was physically empty at the time. Over the next couple of years, there were noises upstairs that sounded like children running through the room (even though the room was full of boxes and furniture and had no clear path for anyone to run through) and drawers being opened and closed. Footsteps were heard coming down the stairs a few nights, articles were moved on occasion, and the dogs would sometimes yelp and jump off the front porch. A figure fitting the description of the father of the family would sometimes be seen outside at dusk.

The noises were quite real. If I had had a tape recorder, I’m sure they could have been recorded. However, those noises felt to me that they were simply an accumulation of daily noises from the past – a residue still in the house — auditory manifestations devoid of any volition or intent. In other words, the children weren’t trying to haunt and I didn’t feel that a presence was trying to create them. The daily activities and noises of the family from over the decades were simply imprinted in some way on the house and its atmosphere.

The articles being moved, on the other hand, did seem to have volition behind them, as if someone had willfully and deliberately – if not mischievously – moved them.

What this means is that not all apparitions or manifestations are caused intentionally or that there is an intentional haunting.

There are often hauntings and apparitions in locations where there was tragedy, massive death, or great pain and suffering or stress. Take the battlefield at Gettysburg, for example, which has been reported to be haunted, or a house where there’s been a sudden, violent, or tragic death. I feel that a place that has seen intense or consistent suffering is imprinted with the emotional intensity – the emotional residue – of those involved, without any volition or intent to haunt. After all, emotions are energy, and intense emotions are intensified energy which can imprint on a physical location.

A friend recently visited an old battleship and felt the presence of the spirits of the men who had served on the ship still there. She questioned the haunting nature of this experience. Yet it may not be a true haunting in the sense of someone departed trying to haunt a place. The ship certainly saw a lot of emotional intensity during its service – fear, intense focus during battles, painful death – and that emotionality very well may have been imprinted on the ship. And, additionally, some spirits may still be there, haunting it.

A few years ago, I visited a courthouse in a small town in Arkansas widely reputed to be haunted. I was told by the guide that people who attempted to spend the night in the courtroom were usually spooked (pun intended) by what they saw, sensed, and heard – and often flee from the building. In the courtroom myself, I could feel a sense of all the people who had been in there over the years and I could sense their anxiety as they waited for their cases to be heard. Whether that was a residue or there were presences still there, I failed to try to determine. In one of the stairwells, the guide asked if I could feel anything and I replied that I had the sense of someone’s death, perhaps a rope. It turned out that someone had been lynched and hung there. The intensity of that fear and pain, I feel, was imprinted on the place, even though it didn’t feel that the victim was truly haunting the spot intentionally.

That said, there can also be intentional haunting, by those who have died and haven’t acclimated to where they are and haven’t moved on. In this case, I would say that they haven’t dropped their personalities from the lifetime and are clinging to aspects of that life and unresolved issues. It is this type of case in which people – ghost whisperers, if you will – will attempt to assist them by getting them to “go to the light” or helping them to resolve their unresolved issues. For all I know, in situations like these it’s also possible that the person did indeed get into his/her higher soul awareness after transitioning and the haunting may be an imprinted residue due to the intensity of the situation or a projection from the higher soul awareness, due to something being unresolved. (It gets even more complicated!)

Here’s yet another cause of an apparition: one presenter at the Mensa Gathering mentioned a Tibetan priest who had intentionally physically “resurrected” someone who had passed on – conjured him/her up physically. We could call this type of instance a ghost, but one has to wonder where its consciousness is – and this situation would be devoid of volition on the part of the ghost.

And now consider this instance: there was a fascinating and widely related account of two English women, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, both academics from Oxford, who went to Paris on holiday in 1901 and toured Versailles while there. Finding their surroundings strange and encountering oddly-dressed people (in old-fashioned clothes), the two women felt that things were not quite “right” and subsequently did some research after their return to England. They discovered that the Versailles they had visited was the Versailles of the 18th Century without the architectural details and changes that had been made since that time. One woman they had seen in Versailles they later realized was Marie Antoinette. They subsequently wrote an account of their experience in An Adventure. (A good account may be found at http://members.aol.com/timeslip8888/versailles.html.) Basically these two women upon arriving in Paris had suddenly stepped into a former century.

How do we explain this type of apparition – more of a time warp than a haunting? It would appear to be the intersection of two time periods – two dimensions that inexplicably intersected, with one supplanting the other. In instances such as these, we have to wonder if the people populating these other time periods can see us and our present time period.

And now, consider this case: a friend of mine related to me an out-of-body experience he had in the sleep state. In this out-of-the-body experience, he traveled to the place where his grandfather had lived – as well as to the time period that his grandfather was alive there. During this experience, he met, talked with, and interacted with someone there. He told me that he knew during the experience that he had gone to this previous time period and even told the person he was speaking with that he didn’t live there. He related to me the person’s total shock as my friend dematerialized before his eyes as he was preparing to return to his body. So this represents yet another potential cause of apparitions: someone time-traveling during an out-of-body experience.

As you can see, there are neither consistent nor simplistic explanations for these phenomena. We may want simple explanations and we may want to understand the afterlife in our normal or our customary cultural terms, but this is not the case. My sense is that the afterlife has many surprises for us. Passed-on loved ones are not restricted to their former personalities. And hauntings, ghost, and apparitions are not necessarily caused by the same factor – or by people always trying to haunt. What this speaks to, I feel, is that our world truly reveals a greater deal of complexity than we may either realize or give it credit for. Wonderfully intricate world fully deserving of our respect and awe, isn’t it?

This article was first published in the October/November 2007 issue of “Innerchange Magazine.”

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Who are the best psychic mediums? Unlike more strictly ordered and regulated professions, the measurements for a set of these sorts of statistics are bound to be unpredictable and vary between regions, countries, and continents. But success remains a strong measure in any case, and results count for a lot in the psychic realm.
But let’s narrow things down first: do the terms “psychic” and “medium” refer to the same sort of practitioner? Not necessarily. Usually a psychic will deliver information based on contact with the client, whereas a medium serves as a direct conduit to figures in the next world or dimension, most often spirits previously known to the client on the earthly plane. The two can come together in one session, but the client should know the exact purpose of the meeting and discuss it with the practitioner beforehand.
For example, a reading restricted to psychic determination may include a question and answer session and a Tarot reading in which the client plays a direct role. If the psychic is properly skilled, information in the form of divination will begin to take place, followed by a relay of the information to the client and corroborative questioning. If, in the midst of this process, the psychic begins to receive information directly from a departed spirit, the session immediately assumes a different role; the psychic must duly acknowledge this and inquire permission of the client to take on the role of a conduit between the client and the entity attempting to make contact. This is a necessary precaution because clients will often opt out of such a session for personal or systemic beliefs, choosing instead to seek divination on the two most popular reasons people go to see psychics: money and love.
However, if it is understood in advance that the client fully intends to make contact while also experiencing a psychic reading, the session begins with all channels open and all possibilities allowed.
A big question asked by people interested in their first psychic session is a very important question that should always be asked: how do we spot frauds? If you want to immediately sharpen your ability to separate the psychic wheat from the chaff, always ask yourself the following: would a real medium need props? Well, the answer, as you likely expected, is a big no. Cast your eyes around the office, or nook, or storefront. The more opulent the setup, the more suspicious you have a right to be about the practitioner.
Moreover, even after you’ve made your decision to sit down and suspend disbelief, your medium may suddenly ask for an article of your clothing or something you carry around – keys perhaps, a handkerchief, a pocket lighter, a watch – while explaining that they need it to get “right beside” your aura. If this occurs, just remember that you’re not paying to see a clairsentient, you’re there for a psychic medium reading. So keep your eyes – and your heart – wide open.

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What is a Medium? A medium communicates with a personality that endures beyond death. Can anyone become a Medium? All of us are part of the same spirit therefore we all have within the divine potential for service of communication with souls that cross over to the other side.   Yet from knowledge mediums have a certain make-up in order for the gifts to be unfolded & developed to the point where the spirit world can utilize them to there greatest potential.  We all have this ability yet may not have chosen in this life-time to work in this form, so therefore this is where you would have heard the term, ‘mediums are born & not created’. What are Evidential Medium-ship sittings? Evidential sittings are where the medium will communicate with a past loved one who will bring forth evidence of the existence of the after life.   Mental Medium-shipWhat are Psychic Clairvoyant Medium-ship Sittings?Psychic Clairvoyant Mediumship Sittings are where a medium will use all the below abilities to help bring guidance from the world of spirit.Clairsentience (feeling)

Clairsentience is a form of extra sensory perception where a medium acquires knowledge by means of feeling.  It is an ability that can be obtained at advanced meditation levels. Clairsentience, empath & sensitive is a reference to a person who can feel the vibration of other people or the people in the spirit world. There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases through sensing of others or the person we are communicating with in the world of spirit. To thoughts or emotions of other people again also relating to the souls that have passed over.  Slightly different from Clairvoyance but you get a very vivid feeling that can form into an image or picture.  Psychometry can also be related to clairsentience, which is a form of picking up psychic energy through feelings of a past event.

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning “clear” and voyance meaning ” vision”) is used for the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses Visions may also be in the future, future and some times in the past.   a form of extra sensorty persception. A Medium will the ability is know to have the ability of clear seeing.   The process of clairvoyance involves attuning to the waves or vibrations of the universe & becoming part of it.  When a medium attunes themselves into this light trance of the waves of energy vibration, they see the visions and senses the situations humans do when they tune into a radio or TV station. A medium will then read and interpret them with the help of there clairsentience & clairaudiance.

Clairaudience (hearing)

Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience). Clairaudient people have psi-mediated hearing. Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the “inner mental ear” similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions this is a form of telepathy. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment.

Also known as Clairescence. Clairalience clairalienc is clear smelling which is a form of extra sensory perception wherein a person acquires knowledge by means of smelling.

Claircognizance is a clear knowing & is a form of extra sensory perception of intrinsic knowledge without physical explaination why you know it.

What is an aura reading?

An aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation that surrounds a person or object    Each color of the aura has a precise meaning, indicating the emotional state & mental state of a person. A complete description of the Aura and its colors can be provided with the form of objective clairvoyance.

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Dear Reader,

Esotericism is a several billion dollars industry. Not surprising so many people one day find themselves waking up with extraordinary psychic abilities. So my first advice is beware. Fake psychics are numerous.

Here’s a complete guide on what you should do before you give out a single cent to an online psychic. Oh, by the way, I’ve been consulting psychics for the past 20 years.I. What type of psychic sessions ?. Email

Although it’s perfectly possible for a “true” valuable psychic to answer questions using emails, this type of consultation is not recommended. Here’s why. Email consultations ask you for (at the least) your first name and email. Sometimes other questions are asked like “do you have a pet”(!), “what’s your job” and so on. Without being aware of it, you’re, in fact, filling a survey ! Your personal informations are used to send you other emails with all sorts of proposals. It’s a wellknown marketing method. My advice is you should avoid using email when hiring a psychic online.. Phone

Hiring a psychic live by phone is a good idea. Because you know quickly if he’s worth your money. Sometimes, a psychic can have great visions, but you just “don’t feel your relation”. It may happen. You don’t know why but there’s a little something you don’t appreciate. In this case, if you don’t like his voice for example, or don’t feel good, quit your consultation. (After saying goodbye of course…) I’ll tell you a bit later what you should first when consulting a live psychic. So the phone is a useful tool when it comes hiring a psychic but what about great foreign psychics who don’t speak english that well but can write it ? Well, Online Chat solves the problem.. The Chat

The only problem I see concerning live writing psychics is the time it takes to write the messages. And the more time the more money. You want straight direct quick answers to your job, love or financial problems and issues but, sometimes, your questions require more details or the psychic sees images (flash visions) he needs to write about. Exchanging with a psychic, if you feel confident, is important. Let him write what he sees. I like chating. It’s one of my favorite.. In Person

Although this article relates to online psychics you may see, one day, a next door reader advertising online. So, of course, an in person consultation is not as quick as live online reading sessions. You have to move to get your reading. But if you have the opportunity, take it. In person sessions with a good psychic are always impressive. Moreover, human relations are important.II. A description of psychics categories. Pure psychics

This is the most rare type of psychics. They don’t use accessories to describe what is going to happen. No tarots, no crystal ball, nothing. They are extremely impressive mostly of course when you do in person sessions.Readers

This is the most common type of psychics. They use tarots, oracle decks, crystal balls, stones and so on to make predictions. I saw worldwide known psychics use cards. So don’t think that, because they use tarots, they’re not as good as the ones in the previous category. Whatever they use, it serves as a support for their visions.Astrologers

Astrology is, in my opinion, not related to psychic abilities. If you need help for self improvement go for it but astrologers do not predict the future.God Related

ok this one is a bit special. First of all, psychics are not gifted by God. Anyone can work on developping it’s own psychic abilities. But like Mozart, anyone can play music, but genious people have more talents. So be extremely careful when you hire someone saying “I was gifted by God”. I think that God has much more important things to do than gifting a fake psychic.III. The Price

Advertising which says the reading is Free should require all your attention. Because if there’s only one thing you must do, it’s run away ! Mainly because these offers are email sessions and that you have to fill some kind of survey. In other words it’s a scam.An Exception though : Phone and Chat sessions you may get the first minutes Free which allows you to make a short testing. In these cases go for it. I’ll give you the adress of a major psychic website below which does that.

Note that Psychic fairs are commonly indicated per minute. IV. How to Chose the Best ?

Most of the time you have at your disposal three indicators :1. The Rating

You can see other clients ratings and read their comments, if any. So what’s the difference between a 5/5 stars psychic and a 4/5 stars psychic ? Absolutely none. So don’t focus on the 5 stars only. The ratings are also easy to manipulate. If you have 10 friends they can rate you everyday. So don’t take the ratings as absolute truth. 2. The Price

I’m horrified when I see some psychics asking for $14 a minute. That’s $840 an hour. I know personally worldwide famous psychics who, at the most, take $350 an hour a half. Don’t give these online “psychics” your money. They may have the psychic abilities but the way they use them astonishes me. Now, of course, it’s up to you if you want to throw your money away. Don’t spend over $9 a minute. There are many live psychics who work very well for 99 cents a minute. Take the time to finding them.3. Your Intuition

Well, yes, that may sound weird but give why not your spirit some freedom. Look at the psychic’s picture, read what he offers and just let go.

Concerning the psychic’s portrait, don’t focus too much on it since 50% are not their true portrait. V. How Should you Start Your Consultation ?Important. Always start like this : ask the psychic to tell you something you’re the only one to know about. And it should be FREE. If he refuses, change. Be extremely careful. If he accepts, make this last 1 minute. Not more. A single FREE minute will not kill the psychic. Hear or read what he has to say. It may not be extremely detailed but it’s the only way for you to know what the psychic is worth. or at least give you a first impression.Where to Find a Serious Psychic ?

There is one main website where I’m going to send you : Keen Live Personal Advisors

First 3 minutes are Free. It’s enough for the first impression I talked about above.Conclusion

Psychics can be of a great help if carefully chosen. Take your time. Don’t get yourself abused by nonsense advertising and astronomical prices.

Remember : taking a psychic reading can change your life.

Psychically Yours !

Christophe Tissier

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