Like the various apps and websites that serve to bring us on-line information and connection, there are a wide variety of sources for accessing Psi information. This is especially important when it comes to connecting with Spirit. As practitioners, it is our responsibility to understand as well as to discern between these various sources.

In my early developmental days I discovered the hard way that being a medium does not always mean that someone is “telling” me the information. I look back now and realize how naive I was to believe that all psi information came directly from spirit.

Think of it this way. What’s the difference between reading about someone in a book versus talking to them in person? In a book, someone can share their thoughts and feelings and tell us all about their life experiences, but this does not mean they are alive or directly speaking to us.

When it comes to mediumship, not only do we need to be clear when we are actually speaking to spirit, but we also need to be clear about the various types of communicators. For example, are we speaking to loved ones, guides, teachers, angels, or perhaps even lower level spirits? Those who have not fully crossed-over tend to have a different feel than those who have transitioned. Are we able to tell the difference?

In addition, I have also had the experience of loved ones coming through and sometimes communicating from a soul level as opposed to a personality level. The soul perspective tends to offer information that comes from the Higher Self rather than simply from the personality as it was when alive, and the feel of these two sources are actually quite distinct. (For an interesting example of this you can read the following post: A Unique Mediumship Connection Between Hope & Her Living Sister’s Soul!)

And speaking of the Higher Self, we too can connect with our own Soul. When we do, sometimes this may feel like a mediumship connection where someone is talking to us, while at other times it might feel more like a gentle Intuitive knowing.

There is also a wide range of sources for psi information that is not related to spirit communication. For example, are we connecting with the Sitter, with an object, or perhaps even a location? Are we connecting with history/time or other various benign but information packed fields? 

So, you might ask. Why is it important that we know these differences? Let me give you a prime example of why.

In my early developmental days (although we are always developing and growing), I did free readings in order to get practice. On one of these occasions I went to the home of a middle-aged single woman who wanted to know about her love-life. I began to get a laundry-list of information that I shared with her. I picked up on a male she did not yet know and described his various characteristics and interests. The sitter was elated and thrilled with what I shared and mirrored that he was exactly the type of man she was looking for. At the time, her comment should have been a clue for me that I was actually getting psychic information from her and her own personal intentions – not her future.

In this scenario, I was not purposely misleading the sitter. It was simply my inexperience that caused a lack of discernment and allowed me to assume that the information I was getting was future-based rather than intention-based. The sitter of course took this information as some positive future-based event that would eventually take place, when in fact, I was merely mirroring her desire for such a partner.

I did not come to this awareness until some year or so later. By that time, the sitter had actually passed on having never met that partner.

The key lesson from this post is not only the fact that psi  information is as diverse as the internet, but that we practitioners have an ethical responsibility to understand and discern between these different sources. While we may not be intentionally misleading with our information, we still owe it to ourselves and to our sitters to understand what source we are accessing during our work.

I believe that we also owe it to the intuitive, spiritual, & even scientific communities. If we want to normalize psi-functioning, then we owe it to each other to ensure that we are doing our best possible work. Granted, we all have to learn and grow and we will all make mistakes, but by understanding the sources and being on the lookout for them in our work, we can set ourselves up for quicker discernment than those practitioners who are not aware of these sources or their differences.

Cheers & Wellness,

Carol

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