Spirits Speaking from the Heart at Tranquil Spirit
Channeling Spirit Communication through Trance Mediumship
Development of Channeling and Trance Mediumship
A subject which has naturally been of interest to visitors is the nature of spirit communication and the development of channeling and trance mediumship. Here are a few of the many responses which we have had from Hai and other spirits in the Spirit Group.
Q: Is there something about the makeup of a person who is a trance medium which makes them more suitable for trance?
Hai: You mean have they got some extra bits or something?...Laughter...You have got to be willing to volunteer yourself. You have got to surrender yourself. You have got to be dedicated, to be patient, to be willing to wait a long time. These are the main things.
Q: Would most guides prefer to talk through the medium in this way (ie: trance)
Hai: No, not necessarily. There are many forms of communication as you know and for some people it works better through images or through words in their mind or, in some cases like this, through the voice, or through sight sometimes. We just need to make use of whatever tools, mechanisms, are there. It is a partnership from both sides.
On another occasion WB, (he has never told us his full name), who acts as the "control" for the Spirit Group, gave us some insights into the mechanisms involved in trance. This followed on from a spirit called Johansen visiting our group
Q: You have worked quite hard for us tonight.
WB: Johansen in particular had to work quite hard, as you appreciated, in order to effect the presence.
Q: He didn't have any difficulty once he was through though.
WB: No. It is precisely that my dear. It is the early stages of manifesting voice, manifesting personality, that is difficult. Once this is achieved it becomes more easy with time and on subsequent occasions. But even so there can be blocks from time to time as you have noted. Because there are many factors which affect our ability to present ourselves in this way. We are dependent upon the feelings of the medium at the time, their health, their disposition of mind, at the time, and so forth. All these factors have a bearing upon our success.
Hai has always emphasised that in any kind of communication with the spirit world a blending of energies is involved. There is no possibility of a spirit taking over the mind and voice completely. This creates a dilemna, for in the blending of the energies some of the communication may be influenced by the human mind. In spite of the difficulties Hai has stressed that the enterprise is worthwhile as the alternative is no communication.
Hai: We connect with the aura. We connect with the deeper brain. We can attune to the deeper brain and manipulate its mechanisms in order to produce the effects which you see. We do not possess. We do not take over. We work in harmony with the bodies mechanisms.
Q: In one of his books Harry Edwards suggests that guides never use words that are not in the mediums vocabulary except in very rare situations where other languages come through.
Hai: We may call upon our own memories of the past and our languages of the past. We communicate to a certain extent in these when the conditions are right.
Q: The same book also suggested that the guide does not always need to be with the medium to link with him.
Hai: This is true. Because ,as well, you should not think of distance, here and there, which we have spoken of before. Distance is not significant for us. Therefore if I stand beside Paul's body I am as near as if I were a thousand miles away. Yet in thought I could connect.
Q: So are you here now or are you farther away?
Hai: What do you think? As it happens we are quite close in your relative terms. We are with you in this room. But we are not really that far away if we were not with you in this room. You should not worry about such things too much.
Q: The power of thought must be impressive.
Hai: The power of thought is very, very great.
Q: How many conversations could you actually hold at any one time?
Hai: Not many in this state.
Q: I was wondering about before, when you talked about talking to many people.
Hai: It is possible to connect with any number of people when the conditions are right. But it is a matter of things being right with the persons themselves also. They must link to us. They must reach to us. We must link to them. It is the way. We must be able to achieve this two way communication for it to work.
Q: Sometimes, when I'm doing something, one of you will come into my mind.
Hai: When we come into your mind it is because you reach out to us. It is likely that we are with you, are with your mind. You may of course just imagine in your memory our presence. But there is a fine dividing line here. If you imagine us in your presence you send out a mental thought, an energy wave, which could bring us indeed into your presence. The two are not very separate.
Q: Does the human mind actually generate its own thoughts or does it pick up thoughts with which it is attuned to?
Hai: You are wading into the waves of relativity and duality again and you will be buffeted about by them.
Q: It's an interesting question though. If you had a particular sort of mind would you attract a particular sort of thought?
Hai: Your thought sends out waves of energy which therefore attracts similar energies to it. This is true but you can take all this to far. If you bog yourself down with such conceptions you will constrain your mind within the concepts which you create and you need to be free to fly, to sore like a bird. There is some merit in recognising the concepts that we use. Because in recognising the concepts that we use we can free ourselves of them. It is like a jar containing water. While the jar is rigid, fixed in its form, it holds the water. But it also constrains the water in its movement. Were we to disassemble this jar, cast away the concept, the water will flow freely. And flowing freely it regains its life, its creative force.
Q: In my meditation I was told through imagery that I would have to lose the rigidity of thought if I wanted to develop.
Hai: When the forest is burnt down what do we have? We have barren ground, burnt ground, devestation. But what follows in the wake of the burnt forest? Fresh growth. The green of fresh growth. And so it is with us also.
Q: Modern Buddhism discourages mediumship. Was it like that in your day in Ancient China?
Hai: They do not discourage it so much. It is more that they do not accentuate it. You will find that there are many stories of monks and Abbots communicating with spirits. But it was not something, as you say, that was encouraged. It was a matter of fact.
Q: I just wondered what you felt about that now, given what you do with Paul?
Hai:
I am dead against it!...
Laughter