Reddit mentions of The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides

For me it was just something I was born doing apparently. Most of the time I had no idea that it was a spirit. They look like normal people to me 99% of the time. What did come hard for me was hearing and understanding them. It was like watching a silent movie that way. It's only been in the past 10 years maybe that they talk much to me. It's a muscle albeit one of the mind. You have to have one to be able to use it but if you do you keep using it the better you get at it.

I caution you though. This is not all fun and games. When you are beginning at this work there are a lot of things out there that love psychics who are not experienced. They will try to fool you and use you. There a lot of books out there about basic psychic self-defense. Some of the techniques in them are worth trying. Centering, shielding, it's really important when you are developing a medium's skill. Channeling is dangerous at any skill level I think, can be. You knock on doors you can't always know who's on the other end or always close them by yourself. Be careful.

One thing I've learned is to trust my gut more than my eyes. Not everything is as it appears. Some things appear fine but they set off a radar inside so I look with a bit more caution and I realize that what I am talking to isn't who it presented itself as. To me spirits are almost always solid, and whole. Some of the other things I've seen, not so much. They may look solid at first glance but they're missing something if you look close enough and that will trigger that internal warning. You challenge it and their facade will eventually crumble and they may even get nasty on you. Which is why I don't suggest people mess with being a medium until they've learned to ground and protect themselves.

Honestly some people who are very open should never do this kind of work. It really depends upon how well the individual can learn to keep things they don't want out while letting only the good things in. Being a medium is not just about seeing spirits etc. Some of what you will encounter will want more than that. Some people have the ability to be a channel but they don't have the ability to discern at will and that can get you into big trouble. Some spirits lie about who they are to get you to pay attention to them. They want to experience life through you and some of them can be very persistent about trying to reel you in. If you meet a dead person or a spirit guide and it starts telling you how uniquely special you are? Starts romancing you mentally? Run.

The late Joe Fisher wrote a very vivid cautionary tale about his experiences with channels, mediums, spirit guides, and the like. What the book doesn't tell you is that the man's end may well have come from his explorations in this field. There are some very questionable things about his death. His book made a lot of people nervous at the time. It's a heck of a read though and I always suggest it as required reading to anyone intent upon messing with this end of things...

https://www.amazon.com/Siren-Call-Hungry-Ghosts-Investigation/dp/1931044023

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