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How to sit with a medium

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HOW TO SIT WITH A MEDIUM

Preparation:

The spirit world needs to be given notice of your intended visit to a medium. Write an announcement in large letters of the date, time and place of the séance or private sitting. Pin this notice up prominently in your home as spirit people often visit when you are unaware of them. Put any photographs of loved ones by the notice together with some flowers, if available. Shortly before visiting the medium meditate and pray, asking your loved ones to come through and communicate with you. A strong emotional need will often get results, although there is no guarantee of this.

Avoid taking alcohol or drugs (except medication) before sitting. Also avoid eating a heavy meal. If you are in physical pain it is advisable to postpone attending the séance until you are feeling better. Try to keep your energy level high on the day of the sitting.

Arrive promptly at the appointed time as each attempt to communicate is a collaborative effort, dependent upon the presence of spirit people who may only be able to stay within the earthly vibration for a limited period of time.

During the séance:

Sit with arms and legs uncrossed to avoid shutting off the flow of your natural bio-electrical energy. Some spirit communicators need to draw upon this bio-electrical emanation (the human aura) in order to materialize aspects of their consciousness within a frequency range that is perceptible by the medium.

Try to keep a bright and positive frame of mind. Anger, hostility or extreme skepticism may deter spirit friends from attempting to communicate. They are always highly aware of our level of receptivity and will often refuse to waste time on a person who attempts to “block” them.

Do not try to steer the séance in the way you want it to go. With genuine communication there is always a strong element of the unexpected. Be open-minded about whatever comes through. What you consider to be important may not be important to the people in the spirit world. They will frequently mention details that you had totally forgotten.

Some of the best evidence for genuine communication is that which has to be confirmed by an outsider after the séance has concluded. Such confirmation by a friend or family member demonstrates that the medium was not merely reading the mind of the sitter. Occasionally the medium may refer to events that have not yet happened. Many mediums are not aware at the time that they are predicting. Time, and your own experience, is the crucial test of the relative success or failure of any particular séance.

Do not get up and walk about during the séance as you will immediately ‘ripple’ the energy fields that are being built up by the spirit friends for their communications, and you may make it more difficult for the medium to work.

Avoid volunteering information to the medium, but do give encouragement if you understand what is being mentioned. Your response to the medium will also encourage the spirit friends to continue.

Do not bombard the medium with questions for the spirit. That communicator may already be having problems staying in tune with the earthly level of consciousness. The spirit may also have rehearsed beforehand what he or she is going to say. To suddenly be confronted with a whole new set of ideas may cause extreme confusion to a soul who is inexperienced in the art of communication. Good communication is something that has to be learned. (Isn’t that true of people on earth also?) The fact that you have ‘died’ does not automatically make you a good communicator. If your parents, for example, were rather shy, withdrawn people, death does not change their personalities and they may lack the essential force and motivation to communicate well at a séance. A strong, dogmatic religious belief system may also hinder some spirit communicators if they had little knowledge of this subject while on earth and disapproved of it.

If you are unsuccessful in communicating with a desired individual they may have moved into a higher sphere from which it is more difficult to descend into the earthly frequencies of vibration. Rarely will they have reincarnated, although that is also a possibility in certain cases. Some years ago a well-known therapist consulted me about her dead brother who had been shot down over Germany during the Second World War. She had also sadly lost a beloved son. During the sitting her son made very good contact and informed his mother about her coming visit to Germany where she was due to conduct some workshops in child psychology. “You will meet your brother again. He has reincarnated in the body of a young German. He will recognize you instantly,” I heard the deceased son tell me. Obviously the therapist was extremely skeptical about this message she had received from her dead son. It seemed to her to be quite impossible as she had no belief in reincarnation.

This sitting had an incredible follow up: The therapist did visit Germany and conducted her advanced seminars with various German students. One young man sat close to her at every session. He suddenly came out with: “I can’t understand this but I seem to recognize you. Your face looks very familiar to me. I feel I know you from somewhere else.” The therapist later told me that she had a peculiar tingling sensation throughout her whole body. She casually asked when the young man was born. It was February 1945, just a few days after her dear brother had been shot down in his aircraft. She said nothing to the young student at the time about her séance message, but on a subsequent visit to Germany she finally plucked up courage and told him about her extraordinary message from her dead son. To her great relief he seemed to have no difficulty in accepting the possibility that he was the reincarnation of her dead brother! The rapport between them was very obvious and V_____ told me that they had subsequently become good friends.

Truth is often stranger than fiction!

Heaven Can Help

The Autobiography of a Medium

Parapsychology & Autobiography / General

Trade Paperback

Publication Date: Aug-2007

Size: 6 x 9

Author: Brian Edward Hurst

ISBN: 0-595-45526-3 (paperback) $18.95 U.S.

ISBN: 0-595-69519-5 (hardcover) $28.95 U.S.

240 Pages

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Available from Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, and from iUniverse, Inc.

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"Where does one begin? The whole of life is a great mystery. Where do we originate and what is our eventual destination? . To be snuffed out like a candle at the end of a busy life seems totally unreasonable and pointless. That is why I had to record the amazing things I witnessed during my journey here, so that others may have hope and strength to continue in their search for truth."

So begins HEAVEN CAN HELP, the true story of a sensitive Englishman who discovers he can speak with the dead. Through his conversations with departed loved ones and the sittings he has given to thousands of people over fifty years, Brian Edward Hurst has learned that life after death is for everyone and that no religious group holds the monopoly of Heaven.

As a small child, Hurst was inquisitive and curious, and seventy years of living has not changed that. From his travels in India to his work with the Parents of Murdered Children, he describes his attendance at rare physical phenomena sances, his investigation of psychic surgery, and his hosting of the famous Scole Experimental Group from England. Hurst describes the astonishing phenomena that took place in the darkened garage of his Reseda home, where over 160 people attending eight sances interacted with materialized forms and spirit lights that proved the reality of life beyond the grave.

An essential guide filled with real-life stories, 35 photos from Hurst's private collection, and a list of suggested readings, HEAVEN CAN HELP will educate, excite, amuse, and comfort those who seek deeper meaning and purpose to their earthly journey.

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See the author's detailed web site at www.brianhurst.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian Edward Hurst was born in Huntingdon, England in March, 1938. He attended Huntingdon Grammar School in Cambridgeshire. He won a scholarship to study at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he took part in various theatrical productions and worked as a film extra. Later, drawn to the Spiritualist Movement, Brian sat in a regular home circle for development of his own gifts. He soon began serving churches in the London area and met many famous mediums and psychics. He was invited to sit in a number of rare physical phenomena seances where he witnessed close up the production of ectoplasm and spoke to various dead family members.

In 1974 he left England to teach in India for two years, beginning a new phase of his life and development. He lectured on English writers at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and was written up in the Indian Sunday Standard for his work as a trance medium and spiritual teacher. Returning to England in 1976, he was put in charge of a Language Workshop for learning handicapped children at St. Neots, in Cambridgeshire. There he developed his own phonic system and taught many children to read.

In 1977 and 1978 Brian was able to witness amazing bare hand surgeries performed on several hundred people at the Huntingdon Spiritualist Church in Cambridgeshire. There he photographed David and Helen Elizalde from Australia removing cancerous tumors by separating the flesh of the patient and healing numerous ailments without the aid of any surgical equipment. Brian closely observed these "operations" and defended the Elizaldes on the front page of London's Psychic News after the healers had been cruelly attacked by ignorant members of the media.

Brian left the UK in 1980, graduated from California State College, San Bernardino and has worked as a bereavement counselor and medium in California for the past twenty-six years. He was the discoverer and early mentor of famous American medium James Van Praagh. Now in his seventieth year, Brian Edward Hurst continues to work with bereavement groups at his home in the San Fernando Valley. He has been the subject of a number of newspaper and magazine articles and has been documented in several books on psychic research. Brian Hurst is one of Margaret Wendt's favorite mediums.

His two publications are:
HEAVEN CAN HELP - The Autobiography of a Medium
1st Edition published by Authorhouse, 2001- ISBN: 0 75965 374 7
2nd fully revised edition with additional chapters republished by
iUniverse 2007 ISBN: 978-0-595-45526-3 paperback $18.95 U.S.

ISBN: 978-0-595-69519-5 hardcover $28.95 U.S.

SOME GO HAUNTING - An English Mystery Thriller
Published by Airleaf, 2004 - ISBN: 1 59453 306 7 $14.95 U.S.
His Website is at www.brianhurst.com

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