FROM THE
HORSE'S MOUTH
an animal’s thoughts.
Years ago, my cousin owned a gelding who she entered in equestrian events until something went wrong with her horse’s gait. The veterinarian insisted on treating the animal’s ankle, but he wasn’t getting better so Nancy called an animal communicator. The
communicator homed in on my cousin’s horse and began to give voice to what the animal was thinking. “He says that his foot is hurting him -- a lot.”
“So, it’s his foot, not his ankle,” my cousin replied.
“He also wants you to know that as far as daytime shows go, he can take them or leave them, but he loved the time that the two of you went to that big, indoor place at night.”
“Oh wow, that was the old Madison Square Garden Horse Show,” my cousin chimed in. “That was big. There were 20,000 people watching.”
"Well,” the communicator continued, “he says that he loved hearing his name called out and performing for such a big crowd. He wants to know when he can do it again.”
Animal communicators are pretty amazing.
© Medium Gail, MediumGail.com
THE DEAD
DON'T CHANGE
her philandering husband, who was still alive. I could only feel coldness toward him, continuing in the afterlife.
I once had a friend who was an outrageous curmudgeon. For his 40th birthday he warned, loud and clear, that no one was to dare bring a single tribute. “I’m in MOURNING!” he thundered.
Sadly one new acquaintance failed to take him seriously and proudly presented my friend with a beautifully decorated birthday cake. At the sight of her well-intentioned offering, he screamed, grabbed the cake, ran to the front window, and hurled it down three stories onto the sidewalk below. We just rolled our eyes.
How did my friend the curmudgeon act in death? Like a curmudgeon. One evening he came through in a medium-to-medium practice session. Wouldn’t you know it?
He was able to remain civil for one whole minute with the medium blurting out, after no time, “Oh dear, your friend’s getting impatient. Now he’s saying, this is so SLOW. This is boring. I can’t STAND it.’ Oh, my goodness. He’s walking away.” That would be him.
So, if you expect your questionably behaved acquaintances to become overpowered with peace and love when they get to the other side -- don’t.
© Medium Gail, MediumGail.com
DEMATERIALIZING
THE MATERIAL
spiritually with a powerful master teacher named Babaji Mahavatar for a few months. He tried his best to divest me of my attachment to jewelry, and all that sparkles, to teach me to let go of my attachment to physical objects. He was the type of spiritual teacher who could materialize and dematerialize objects on the earth, which was both mesmerizing and disconcerting at the same time."
"Babaji’s first detachment lesson was to dematerialize one of my gold hoop earrings. After I discovered I had “lost” it, he guided me to look at my torso,
right where he had put a red ring on my skin the same size as the earring he took from me, declaring he had taken the earring. I’m sure he knew that was one of my favorite pair of earrings."
"Babaji’s lessons in letting go continued in a similar fashion for several more times, until one day I found myself in the aftermath of holiday sledding on a snowy slope with my family. After having fun in the snow, I removed my gloves and found that my Tiffany heart bracelet, that usually lived on my right wrist, was nowhere to be found. That lovely jingle it had made and the comforting weight of it was gone! This was a bracelet I’d worn for many years and had been a birthday present to myself. I was very attached
to it. My family and I conducted a grid search all around the area we had been sledding. The bracelet had seemingly disappeared into thin air. I started to talk to Babaji about this. He made it clear that he had taken my bracelet. I tried to wrestle with my emotional reaction to the loss of the bracelet and Babaji’s lesson to let go of it."
"I was starting to make good headway in emotionally letting go of it when Babaji told me to look down at my feet. There, right between my snow boots was my Tiffany bracelet lazily gleaming up at me from the snow. He had materialized it right between my feet!"
© Diana Muenz Chen
CAN YOU BE
MY VOICE?
“How do I know what I am hearing is what I am hearing? And if it is, how do I know what I heard was what I honestly thought it was in the first place? Who am I hearing? Am I talking to myself? Communication with the spirit world is a bit difficult enough to explain as it is. But throwing in a deeper level of communication, difficult is not the word.”
“When asked to write about my experiences communicating with spirits who are still with us, I thought it would be easy. How do I explain to anyone my ability to communicate with loved ones with Alzheimer’s or dementia? Simple enough, I guess. Until I tried to explain it and put it into words. That is when I realized it is not so easy to do. But nonetheless I forged forward and was determined to try and help everyone understand how this happens.”
“Many years ago, I was told by an exceptionally gifted medium that this was a special gift I had and whatever I am doing, keep doing it. The problem was, I did not know what I was doing, or how I was doing it. But after many years of hard work, endless hours of talking to my mentors, and untold days of meditation, I still had no clue. If there were a physiological, neurological, or straight up psychological explanation, that would be easy to find and explain. But this is about tapping into something we clearly do not understand."
"My first experience communicating with someone who was still with us physically and did not have the ability to communicate on their own took me by surprise. I thought this was another normal reading until the client told me that the person I named was still alive. So, at that point I did what I usually do when I needed answers, I asked the spirit if she was still with us, and she said YES. Of course, it goes without saying I was a bit taken aback. I had to ask myself, how could I be connecting to someone still with us physically on this earth? But over the years I have learned not to question the unusual because what I do is so unusual."
“As the reading progressed, I focused on the messages the spirit was giving me without letting on that it was her childhood nanny who was still with us. Discretion is particularly important in reading. Sometimes things cannot be shared but will become known sometime after the reading for the client. The spirit mentioned the client’s mother as well as another family member but was not too specific with who messages were for. To explain, the messages were general in nature. I had several validations, but the reading felt almost generic, or plain.
Then, the spirit made it clear why I had this connection. Although my client had not seen her childhood nanny in many years, she still talked to her often. When the nanny became ill, the nanny moved in with my client’s mother and stayed with her until she passed. The spirit knew her time was coming and needed to talk to my client before she passed on. The spirit would repeat phrases such as “call your mother,” “call your nanny,” and “time is so short.”
"Then suddenly, I had to stop. I began to feel a tremendous amount of sadness. It felt as though I was beginning to grieve. So much so it affected me physically. I felt as though my heart had been broken. The emotion coming through me was immense, and I had difficulty composing myself. I had never felt so sad and felt it in such a physical way as I did at that moment."
"My client asked me what I was feeling because she said she saw a sudden physical change in me. This time I had to tell her what I was getting. She asked
what it was from, and why I was feeling it so strongly. I did not know how to answer this and told her I did not know. I had to use discretion about what to share with her."
"I continued the reading with a heavy heart. Then I realized what was happening. I knew I had to ask the question but was reluctant because I knew what the answer would be. But I asked anyway. Are you still with us? She said NO. In this single, so powerful and defining moment, how do you tell someone that a loved one just passed during a reading? What could I say that would not cause confusion, panic, anxiety, or disbelief? I kept the reading as it was, general in nature. The spirit repeated the same phrases to me again, “call your mother” and “call your nanny.” This is how the reading ended.
For several days afterwards, I could not stop thinking about it. Then I received an email. My client sent me and email telling me that her Nanny passed away during her reading."
"Since this reading I have had several more experiences of connecting with spirits still with us. I cannot explain how or why this happens to me. Neither can others that I have asked why and how. I have learned that when someone has Alzheimer’s or dementia, communication is difficult. Although to us it seems their ability to reason or think clearly is gone, it is just the physical part that is affected."
"As you may guess, hospitals are not my favorite places to be. I experience so much while in a hospital that there have been times I’ve had to leave. And when I say leave, I have left and driven far away. Although it may seem to be something very difficult to deal with and experience, there are times when I don’t have the energy to make the connections I need to."
"I am devoted to helping others connect to loved ones who have crossed over. And knowing that whilst spirits come from everywhere, helping those who cannot speak for themselves while still on this earth brings me such joy."
"Explaining how and why this happens just cannot be done. As a medium, I do what I do and do not question. Trying to figure it out and understand why things happen just brings the ego back into it and it makes what I do more difficult. Setting my intentions before a reading brings me closer to connecting with someone specific. But I have no control over it. When a connection such as this happens, it is incredibly special and for a very specific reason. And from my experience with these types of connections, it is about the spirit letting loved ones know they are not going anywhere. It is just as simple as helping family understand, the time has come."