TAKING INSTRUCTION FROM A PASSED MENTOR
|| This summary written on 19th November 2023
With whatever I do in my mediumship, I always seek the evidence. My character is not one that wants to live in a world of fantasy - an imaginary world created by my mind. So the evidence has to be present for me to be convinced. In my world, that is healthy mediumship.
As every medium should already know, evidence from mediums doesn’t always transfer to others. In other words, I might judge what a medium tells me as evidential, because it is personal to me. Others won’t always accept that as straight evidence. Instead, they might consider it as “Evidence Once Removed”.
Again, simplifying my point, if you have faith and belief in my words, then you might choose to believe the personal evidence I receive as being true. That would therefore be evidence once removed.
Today’s session is a perfect example for you to consider. In it, I am transcribing the words from a lady in the spirit world who claims early in that she knew me when she was living this side. Within seconds of my continuing to transcribe her words, I became aware of who it was. I felt all the same sensations as I would during a normal reading. I knew without the tiniest of doubts who this lady was.
The speaker was one of my favourite mentors from way back in the early years of my development. Joan was a true spiritualist that was certified through the Spiritualist National Union education system. She was hugely respected in her home town of Christchurch, Dorset and had taken her mediumship teaching as far away as Canada.
Joan was what is termed, ‘old school’ in her teaching and her high standards of true spiritualism. She taught me, and no doubt many others, on solid foundations of mediumship. The outcome of my personal mediumship journey is largely due to her personal attention in the training she passed on to me and other students.
I recognised that I must have been a favourite student of Joan’s. She spent extra time working with me, often outside of the official circle meetings. I was honoured once, when Joan invited me to her house to give her a personal reading.
In those days, I had endless enthusiasm to learn everything I could from Joan. She would often give me books to read, such as a hard back book of Harry Edwards called “A guide to the understanding and practice of Spiritual healing”. When I returned the book after I’d read it, she told me I could keep it. It remains with me today as one of those treasured books in my collection.
One book she advised me to buy was called, “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch. Joan had met Neale and was a strong ambassador for his work. So, I had to buy the book! When I read it, I was hugely impressed with it, and learnt so much from the author.
Perhaps, in hindsight, it would be easy to consider that book as the start of my own journey into spirit-inspired writing some eighteen years ago.
In the session with Joan today, she suggests I should read the book again. So, I’ve taken it from my book collection and it will come with me on my forthcoming trip to Lanzarote, where I will do as Joan suggests, read it again.
Earlier, I mentioned to you that, for me, I was certain I knew who the speaker was. After you’ve read the session notes, ask yourself if it qualifies for you as ‘evidence once removed’. I look forward to reading your comments.
Additional Thoughts
When I learned that Joan had passed across to spirit in 2019 I was deeply upset. I had hoped that one day I might see her again. I had no thoughts of her connecting with me through my mediumship.
As I prepare these notes, there is something in my mind that believes I might have already spoken of Joan in a previous article I’ve written. If I have, and some of today’s notes are a repeat, I apologise.