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Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Christmas Special Part One (of Three): The one-way street.

No tinsel or crackers, I’m afraid. In fact, in the words ahead I’ve chosen an unusual subject for the Christmas and New Year period, but one that is ideal for us to consider and investigate during this ‘quiet’ period when many of us are divorced for a few days from the usual distracting material demands of life. It’s also one that, although you might not think so, gives us many reasons to celebrate.

So, allow me to begin by drawing your attention to the most unlikely – and seemingly unfestive – of Christmas symbols: The one-way street road-sign.

From a spiritual perspective the one-way street sign is the most important and highly significant road-sign on Earth – you’ll find a version of it present in most countries, quietly sitting by the roadside, symbolically reminding every soul on the planet of something many of them prefer not to consider at all…

Because for each of us, whether we’re a new-born baby, whether we’re very young or very old or somewhere in-between, and regardless of our status or perceived success or lack of it in life, we are all heading in one direction.

Life is a one-way street.

From the first second of it there’s no turning back – just a constant movement forwards towards the inevitable.

In conversation with a friend some years ago, and while discussing the high-handed attitude someone had taken with him simply because the other person had a great deal of money and, therefore, regarded themselves as more important and better than him, we reflected on the fact that we were all heading in the same direction.

‘Yes,’ he said, looking at the floor. ‘We all end up in a box.’

Take heart, Dear Reader – it’s only the trappings, the overcoat, the shell that ends up in a box… the true ‘us’ ends up somewhere very different…

But where, exactly?

Well, let’s reach beyond that ‘veil’.

Let’s draw back that final curtain.

And together, in this blog and the two that follow, let’s take a few trips to that distant shore. And please don’t worry – your visa has been stamped, your papers are in perfect order and your safe return is guaranteed. …Unless, of course, Higher Authority knows something we don’t. 😀

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s begin this journey by travelling back in time some sixty-two years and visiting a very strange five-year-old boy with a most unusual take on life –

– Because this peculiar five-year-old is obsessed with death.

I remember lying in my bed on numerous occasions, surrounded by the comfort and security of my beloved books, and becoming more and more depressed as I attempted to make sense of the certainty that everybody has to die.

‘What’s the point of doing anything, achieving anything?’ I’d wonder.

‘Why bother, when at the end of it all there’s only death?’

Then the obsession would fade for a while. I’d comfort myself by telling myself that death was a long, long way away for five-year-old me, and I’d gradually push the concept out of my mind.

But it would always come back.

Little did I consciously realise then that death was destined to become a major defining theme throughout my life, and that it would take centre stage once again and quite soon, relatively speaking, when I found myself ‘sitting’ to develop as a medium.

– Because it was during that time that I began with regularity to see ‘dead people’ – although to call them dead is an insult and a misnomer – they’re actually far more alive, more vital, more energised than we are.

So, as I developed my mediumistic gifts (and as detailed in other blogs here) I began to regularly connect with guiding spirits – members of a dedicated ‘soul group’ team – wonderful, illuminated beings who would, from that time onwards, accompany and advise me on what would prove to be an extraordinary journey. That advice was carefully calculated to steer me along a set of tracks that would inevitably lead to Joseph and to what would become known as ‘the mission’.

And, in order to prove to me that I wasn’t going mad or imagining things, these spirits set up my mediumistic development so that my spiritual teacher Joan was able to see and hear the same guides I was seeing at the same time I was seeing and hearing them. What a great way to give me confidence!

After sitting for mediumistic development with Joan every Sunday afternoon for seven full years, I then began to tune in psychically on behalf of the increasing numbers of people who visited me for spiritual readings, and also on behalf of congregations at spiritualist churches, where I would take services. And whenever I stood up in a church or sat one-to-one with someone, people from ‘the other side’ would instantly be there, eager to talk and to reconnect with their loved ones.

And I persevered with and actively sought to evolve the work because – thank God – those people in the congregations and the private sitters knew exactly who I was talking to. The information I was being given by discarnate communicators was in no way vague. On the contrary, it was very specific. Let’s look at just a handful of examples:

* A man communicating with me from ‘beyond’ during a church service told me he had been in the military during the second world war, that he had been killed during that war, but that he had not been killed in combat. ‘I was blown to pieces’, he said, grinning. ‘I was all over the place.’ A man in the congregation that I had been directed to and who acknowledged the information told me after the service that he had served in the military with the communicator. He knew him. A group of these then young men had been fooling around in the barracks with live hand grenades and one had gone off and killed the spirit communicator who had been talking to me.

* On another occasion a lady who was my PA at a time when I worked for an advertising agency was sitting at her desk opposite me one day when suddenly a spirit – a young man – appeared next to me, told me he had been killed in a motorbike accident, that he’d once dated her and that he was worried about her because she had recently become quite depressed. He was so insistent I tell her he was around that I eventually did so and she immediately went pale – she knew exactly who was talking to her, and confirmed everything he’d said.

* At a funeral service I was conducting, the spirit whose body was being committed – the son of a friend – a boy who had committed suicide by jumping from a bridge – appeared next to me as I officiated and held up a bunch of keys. I could also see that one side of his face was bruised and disfigured. I relayed this information to his father, who said the bunch of keys was the only thing he had on him when he was found, and that his face had been damaged on one side because of the fall from the bridge (He’d lose the damage as soon as he realised he could think it away, BTW).

On numerous occasions I have also been given a sudden and unexpected ‘heads-up’ whenever a family member or a close friend is about to depart this world…

* One morning, for example, while standing at the top of the stairs, I psychically saw my departed cousin walk in through the front door, wheeling his trademark green Raleigh bicycle by his side. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs, propped the bike up in the hallway, looked up at me with a piercing expression, then disappeared. Less than an hour later the phone rang. His father, my uncle, had passed away.

* On another occasion I rushed into the front room of my house because I had heard one of the tall, heavy bookcases topple over and fall to the ground with a tremendous crash. Absolutely nothing was out of place in the room. Nothing had fallen over. The next day I was given the news that my uncle in Italy had died.

* I was sitting watching television with my mother one evening when we both heard the loud and crystal-clear tinkle of an invisible bell in mid-air. We looked at each other in surprise. Early the next morning a friend rang to tell me that a mutual close friend had been killed in a car accident… as it turned out, at the precise time we’d heard the bell.

I was also privileged, as my one-way street of life led me inexorably to a connection with Joseph and his soul group, and in preparation for the Communications that were to come, to be taken on occasion to visit the group soul in its own environment to witness its habitat and workings. I won’t cover those visits here as I’ve detailed those delightful journeys in other blogs on this site.

So… where are these personalities and visions coming from? Why do I on certain occasions see great shining spirits and on others connect with people who appear to be living very much as we do now? What exactly is life after death like? What’s it like ‘over there’ and what, exactly, lies ahead for each of us?

Fortunately, Joseph would be the one to answer all these questions and many more in very great detail in his acclaimed third book Your Life After Death.

It’s a vast subject, of course – and one much too huge to shoehorn into the confines of a trio of blogs – but we do have enough room to touch on some of the key themes from Joseph’s book – aspects of the afterlife you may not have considered before, but which will hopefully expand your view of the next stages of our existence.

So please join me for Part Two (posted December 28th), and Part Three (posted January 4th), in which we’ll shake up and turn around some of the popular and major misconceptions regarding the afterlife.

In the meantime, I wish you all a peaceful, protected, restorative and Happy Christmas.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Thirteen: Keep it simple; take it within.

For the neophyte spiritual seeker hoping to acquire sound higher-consciousness knowledge with the intent of understanding themselves better and the part they play in the scheme of things as a spiritual being; wishing to advance and improve their lives, the lives of others and bring some much-needed peace and Light into this world, the esoteric landscape can prove to be something of a minefield, can’t it?

There’s much in the way of puzzling terminology out there – so many differing practices for the individual to discover and consider along their journey towards spiritual understanding and enlightenment… some seemingly at odds with each other; some using confusing elitist terminology, and others claiming to provide exactly what the seeker is looking for.

As the ‘instrument’ (the discarnate soul group spokesman Joseph’s term for me when placing me a trance state as a means of bringing through his series of addresses collected as the Joseph Communications books) I’m afraid I can make no such claim.

I wouldn’t dare.

Having worked with and on behalf of ‘higher authority’ for forty+ years now, and having done so by pushing the little ego/personality ‘me’ out of the way as much as I possibly can on each occasion to allow as pure a flow of information to come through as possible, I occasionally find myself troubled at what is sometimes put forward as spiritual ‘truth’ by various sources, and have at times witnessed the innocent and unwary being pulled off course, or, worse, disillusioned into abandoning their spiritual quest completely as a result of encountering complexities the mind has initially found alluring but which, ultimately, are revealed to be hollow and empty.

But how on earth do you decide, when presented with the hundreds of choices you can make, whether a particular practice, system, teacher or group is the correct one for you? After all, as a newcomer to spiritual values, one simply has to trust others at some point in order for their knowledge and methods to be passed on to you.

Worry not. Fortunately there are two simple, golden rules to follow when approaching the information expressed through the diverse individuals, groups and literature available to the spiritual seeker.

The first is this: If it’s complex, it isn’t coming from the right place.

Consider this…why would God (substitute ‘the Divine’, ‘Creation’, ‘Source’ or whatever terminology you feel comfortable with to describe the loving force that links us together and flows through everything) hide His/Her/Its plan for humankind and creation in complexity? Why would the Divine teacher, wishing you, a facet of Him/Her/itself to evolve, to become more spiritually capable and confident and knowledgeable, offer you enlightenment in couched terms, presenting you with cryptic clues that then lead to concepts you cannot understand?

Here’s what Joseph has to say on the subject of evaluating his – or any other – communications purporting to have originated in higher realms:

‘Always go within; always test what you are being given and, if it comes up short, if it is too complex, if it does not contribute to a change in global experience for the better – throw it out!’

Which leads rather neatly to the second golden rule: Take it within to see if it feels right for you. Or, as Joseph advises:

‘Do not look outside of yourself for protection in communicating with God and with the spirit realms. Look inside – you are connected to God and God will tell you what is right and what is wrong and will protect you always if you go along that route.’

And just how do you do this? By bypassing that tunnel-visioned fight-or-flight calculator in the head we call the physical mind. Are you aware that you have, in fact, two minds… the second, more powerful one residing within your heart? This is the mind that connects you to the Divine. This is the mind which, if calmly and regularly approached in silence; if listened to and acted upon, will always steer you correctly.

Try this simple heart-mind visualisation… Sit quietly, eyes closed. Relax and imagine you are standing inside a representation of your head-mind, which looks like a circular room crammed with active TV screens and radios – a room full of cacophonous noise. In the centre of the room is a spiral staircase leading down and away from the chaos and noise. You descend this into in a second circular chamber… peaceful, welcoming, full of warm, loving Light – and containing a comfortable armchair. Here you sit in peace and total security, and, in the silence, away from the clamour and demands of the head-mind, you ask your questions of yourself and the Divine, then wait in silent anticipation for answers to come.

And, with practice, come they will. Either as a ‘YES’ or a ‘NO’ – as a voice or a feeling from your chest area that permeates your being – or as a definite sense of what to do next as you ask if the spiritual information/teacher/group under your consideration is correct for you or could mislead you. At the end of this meditation, in your imagination climb the staircase into your head-mind, with its now-silent screens and radios, and, asking the Divine to close your ‘chakras’ – your body’s spiritual energy ‘gateways’ which may have opened during this visualisation – return slowly to your normal every day consciousness.

The above is an abbreviated summary of the much more comprehensive and detailed meditation video from my free Step-by-Step Course in Higher Consciousness Living. I guide you through every step of the process at:

You’ll also find the complete Module from the course, examining and explaining the heart-mind connection in greater detail and focussing on progressive heart-mind exercises, right here:

– Don’t be afraid to ask the Divinity-within daily for protection and guidance, and to be your constant companion, instructor and compass in all your spiritual seeking. Activate and refine your heart-mind connection, take notice of your intuition, and you will know in every circumstance exactly what is right for you, and which steps to take next as your spiritual journey unfolds.

Within you lies a permanent connection to the Divine.

Trust and nurture it and, with practice, you will know without doubt who and what you can trust outside of yourself not only in matters pertaining to your personal spiritual development, but in all of life’s challenges and situations.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Twelve: Return to earth or move on? You choose.

The well-documented phenomena of certain individuals recalling in uncanny detail places, people and circumstances they have never visited, met or experienced during the life they are living at this moment lends much weight to the argument for reincarnation – the rebirth of souls time and again into the earthly arena and a physical life – being fact. I, personally, have access to fragmented yet distinct and detailed memories from two past lives, so the concept of us visiting earth to take multiple trips on the merry-go-round, as it were, is one I acknowledge completely. In contrast, the ‘spiritual logic’ behind the accepted explanations for reincarnation is something I could never quite grasp or come to terms with.

Allow me to share some of the reasons why the traditional scenario of reincarnation made me uneasy…

…With literally a whole universe of opportunity to explore – and that’s just on a physical level of ‘reality’– why on earth (forgive the pun) would we be confined or condemned to a repeating pattern of existence on this single planet? Surely that is counterproductive to growth through spiritual experience when there has to be far more waiting for us to experience in the vastness of ‘out there’, on other worlds and in other scenarios, than there is in this one, small, limited corner of space? Wouldn’t it pretty quickly become a matter of ‘been there, done that’ for us as visiting/revisiting souls, with there rapidly being very little more for us to gain or to learn by constantly coming back to this planet? Also consider this: is there no escape for us? Are we doomed to live time and again on earth until the planet is consumed by its dying sun at some point in a far distant, yet inevitable, future? Then what? Whither the souls of mankind when there is no physical earth and we have no physical bodies to reincarnate into?

Seek, it is said, and you shall find. And, fortunately for me, when Joseph elected to use my mediumship as a means of making the soul group’s urgent message for humanity available, the vexing question of reincarnation was one of many topics at last answered to my satisfaction via his insights, with the whole concept finally making sense to me.

You see, Joseph is insistent that reincarnation is actually a matter of personal choice; that we only ‘come back’ here if we choose to do so, and if we don’t choose to do so, we don’t need to.

Wow! What a revolutionary new way of looking at the subject!

Well, not really, if we logically think things through. In a great many approaches to spiritual truth there exists a universally accepted core constant almost all spiritual seekers can agree upon, and which can be summed up in just two words: free will. Isn’t it generally acknowledged that we have been granted the freedom and right, by whatever definition of Divinity we might believe in, to do whatever we want to here without fear of restriction, learning as we go along by the balancing action of both our mistakes and our triumphs, and thus advancing and evolving as spiritual beings? Using this yardstick surely free will must – must – also then apply to the process of reincarnation? If it doesn’t then the notion of all-encompassing, unconditional free will becomes invalid, and the term would need to be qualified by the caveat certain terms and conditions apply. 

Also consider that, as Joseph advises, this process of reincarnation by choice has always existed. If that is true, you might justifiably raise the question of, why, then, would so many souls elect to return to a planet we have all but decimated environmentally and into appalling conditions that range from poverty to war, debilitating illness to unspeakable physical, mental and spiritual cruelty? Are we absolutely mad? No, explains, Joseph. Not mad… Addicted. – Addicted to the earthly experience and its many and varied seductive enticements… and the collective consciousness, or sentient ‘Field’ of mankind * as he describes it, that we contribute to subconsciously minute by minute via our thoughts and actions, aims to keep it that way.

Is it seriously being suggested that we come back of our own volition, refusing to move onwards into increasing spiritual bliss because we miss, for example, the fifty-inch television, the cup of coffee, the chance to make it bigger in business than we managed to last time around, or to get even with someone, or to pursue the girl/boy next door again?

Yes. It is.

Here’s Joseph, from Your Life After Death, on the subject of trying to advise many souls when they pass over following physical death that the best way forwards is through the spiritual realms and not via another incarnation on earth:

‘…the key question at this point is: do we advise them to go back to the earth? Here we will differ with many books you will read, with many doctrines you will hear of and with many beliefs you will hold, because – no, we do not. Let this be written large in your book:

NO, WE DO NOT!

At this point we pray that they will choose to move on through the spiritual spheres without returning to earth.

Again at this point you have to understand that the soul has free will, and we advise the soul of every consequence of their choices at this point – every consequence (with a bias, of course, towards the soul moving away from physicality) – but the soul has free will. With far too many souls, because of their beliefs whilst they have been on earth that they have not yet got rid of (also, in some cases, belief in reincarnation or belief that they have to come back), they say, I want to choose the rocky path.

How amazing!

Here is a smooth path: it is a gentle slope; it takes you upwards; you can interact with other souls to express love more readily and to eliminate those areas from yourself that are holding you back; it goes through beautiful meadows; it goes up the mountain gently into the sunlight – into the God-Light.

Here you have the heavy path, the rocky path, the path of physical pain, the path of mental anguish.

Which do you choose?

…And so many souls say, I choose the rocky path – not because it is noble but because it is known.’

Joseph also advises that ‘karma’, that glibly quoted action-equals-consequences binding agent that supposedly ties us into endless lives here until we ‘do the right thing’ in each and every aspect of our existence and escape the wheel of birth/death/rebirth, is, in actual fact, not the jailer of our own actions we make it out to be but simply the baggage of past existences we inevitably pick up again from our personal locker when we choose to come back here and live another life.** In other words, karma is a by-product of immersing ourselves voluntarily in a further earthly life, and its existence and working out is not the reason reincarnation takes place. Karma, observes Joseph, can be discarded like a worn out set of suitcases the moment we consciously decide to let it go, walk away from it and distance ourselves from our self-imposed cycle of earthly lives – it really is that simple.

Why, then, has this liberating information not been made available to us before now?

It has.

It has always been available, says Joseph, but it has been masked, edited, distorted or omitted from many spiritual doctrines by society or religion for reasons of politics or control, and by the effects of the Fall, that single calamitous event we were involved in millennia ago which, metaphorically speaking, blinded us to the Light. For countless ages the need for complexity and distraction we exhibit through our physical minds has chosen to filter out the simple spiritual truth behind our reasons for reincarnating; truth which lives on in our heart-minds, waiting for us to bypass that bothersome computer in our heads in moments of meditation, to move down into our heart consciousness, and to access and rediscover it in silence and contemplation.

So – come back or move on? A few final words from Joseph’s book Revelation:

‘Souls have lost their way, and the souls who repeatedly request and, therefore, experience reincarnation on this level think that they have found heaven, but they have only found a jail of their own making. The soul is supposed to pass through this level, not to repeatedly visit it and repeatedly be encased within it. There are beauties beyond, there are opportunities beyond, a ‘breath of fresh air’ beyond that millions of souls don’t want to take. And it is our mission to bring freedom of knowledge to souls on earth so that they live each day of their lives to the full, and also to free some of the souls from the constant cycle of reincarnation they put themselves through, having bought into the illusion to such an extent that they can see nothing else. We weep for them because they believe they are free, yet they are the ones that are cut off from the people who love them on a higher vibration, and there is nothing we can do other than, drip by drip, try to alter their consciousness through information such as the texts I hope to continue to bring to you on a regular basis.’

 – It is vital we live out and cherish every moment of our current lives here, every second of our allotted time on Earth, of course, but concerning a ‘what next?’ I’ve already made my decision.

…How about you?

*For more on the Field, see Joseph’s book Revelation.

** From Joseph’s book the Fall.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Eleven: Afterlife interaction leads to irrefutable proof

Many years ago, while still working full time and concurrently seeking in my personal hours to develop my mediumship, I made a new friend as a result of a mutual love of model-making.

I subsequently met his wife and son, becoming a frequent visitor to their home and eventually deciding to share with them the fact that I was mediumistic.

Initially this seemed to have been a mistake, as in response to my reveal they were shocked, more than a little sceptical, and as much as said ‘prove it to us’. My friend’s wife was particularly interested in me ‘proving it’ by providing her with a reading. I obliged, recording the messages from some very enthusiastic and vocal spirits on cassette tape for her and describing at length and in great detail the family members I was communicating with.

To my dismay the lady stared blankly at me, her scepticism gaining strength as the reading unfolded. At its conclusion she told me she had been unable to recognise any of the personalities wishing to speak to her and that none of the information given by them meant anything to her.

Seven days later, however, her attitude regarding her reading had completely changed. In the interim she had phoned her mother, had played the recording for her and had been shocked when her mum began to sob as she listened to the tape. Tears rolling down her cheeks, she said she knew every family member and friend communicating, and also confirmed all the information that had been given by them (my friend’s wife was unaware of the many of her departed relatives – including one who had emigrated to America and had been amongst the communicators).

As you can imagine, from this point onwards my friends were considerably more open to the possibility of life after death and the reality of communication with departed friends and relatives. A further reinforcement was provided for them a few weeks later when, whilst visiting their home, I received an sudden urgent communication from a guiding influence which I passed on to my friend, emphasising that he needed to ask for protection for his car and his garage that evening, and that if he asked for that protection everything would be all right. I added that I had no idea why I’d been prompted to give him this unusual warning. He looked a little bemused but said he would do as he’d been asked.

When I next saw him he told me that every garage in the row of seven or eight that stood behind his house had been broken into during the night following the message… every garage, that is, with the exception of his. His was the only one that had escaped the criminal intrusions – all the others had suffered from forced entry, theft and damage to cars.

I recall these incidents because I often marvel at the evidence-building way in which the realties of life after death and communication with ‘departed’ spirits are introduced to those not initially open to such spiritual concepts – in this case my friends were seeking ‘proof’ and had been given exactly that in highly unusual ways that left them in no doubt that there are ‘more things in heaven and earth’, opening up their minds and hearts to a bigger picture of existence.

The way a spiritual message reveals its truth in its own time is often as important as the message itself…  Meticulous behind the scenes planning and timing is at work, with the intention of waking souls to higher vibrational realties through the progression of a series of happenings that are known about in advance by ‘those upstairs’.

It’s a great pity, however, that our materially-based perspectives on life make it so difficult for us to accept that we are being contacted by those who have gone on ahead of us. It wasn’t always so, as the following short excerpt from an address given by Joseph soul group member ‘Silver Star’, taken from his communication with Jane and myself titled ‘The thinning of the Veil’ (featured in the Communications book Many Voices; One Mission) reveals:

‘There was a time when it was far easier for men and women to talk to the spirit worlds because there was not such a build-up of a history of physicality as there is now, and our job – your job – is to thin the veil. All the books that you are putting out and all the teachings that we give you are concerned with thinning the veil because, as you convince more people that there are different worlds, you thin the veil because they contribute to the global-consciousness and there will be areas that are thinner as a result.

‘We would like to see centres eventually where people come to pray and to meditate but also to take note of what they see and pick up spiritually. What is wrong with your spiritual circles on Earth is that people do not put aside a room or a time or an attitude of mind that will thin the veil. It is vitally important that you sit at the same time every time you sit in a circle because your mind, independently of you, then builds in that that hour is special …that hour is spiritual …that hour is a thinning of the veil. So, ritual is important but we look forward to centres being established that people can visit to divide this world that they perceive as being ‘real’ from the spiritual world. We look forward to a time when we don’t need the Big Indian’s* Boat or any of the other illusions that are used to transport people from this side of reality to a heightened state of reality.**’

Society’s increasing ‘worship’ of the material and deliberate sidelining of the spiritual has made our earthly journey a poorer, more isolated experience, with the subject of life after physical death seen at best as a topic to be held at bay and reluctantly discussed in hushed tones, and at worst to be dismissed as a naive fantasy.

Despite this, work goes on in higher dimensional realities to here and there provide irrefutable evidence of our continued existence once this particular journey has reached its conclusion.

Delivered by Joseph with the specific intent of demystifying the mystery and explaining precisely what lies ahead for each of us, I cannot recommend his third Communications book Your Life After Death too highly to any and all seeking a highly description of the afterlife coupled with the comfort of knowing as an absolute certainty that physical death is not an end but a new beginning…

… And there is absolutely nothing to fear.

* A further key member and communicator from Joseph’s soul group.

**A whole other fascinating subject which is covered in depth in the books and which I hope to examine in a future blog.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Ten: Giving yourself and others the daily turbo-boost that changes everything

Many of us feel helpless when faced with illness and challenge, and immediately look to outside sources for a solution to our every problem.

Yet we can, with a little determination and a few minutes set aside each day, find solutions to even the most overwhelming of circumstances and make vital contributions to our own wellbeing and also to the state of the world.

Irrespective of religious belief or scientific assumption, at ‘core’ each of us is a creative spiritual being, and, as such, our thoughts have great power in that they become the reality we experience within and around ourselves. You construct your personal world around you second by second as a result of your conscious and subconscious viewpoints, beliefs and choices. You also contribute daily to global trends, influencing the quantum ‘field’ of humanity: the matrix of connected thought-consciousness that manifests as ‘reality’.

Don’t like what is happening to you right now? Then, for the aforementioned few minutes, choose to turn off the chaos around you – those seductive phones and computers – and to become still, quiet, contemplative, redirecting your consciousness from outside of yourself to within yourself for the duration of your ‘turbo-boost’. Once spiritually centred, and having moved your point of awareness down from your head to your heart (Need an explanation of what this means and help in doing it? See Module Three: A Change of Mind – Making the Heart Connection) you then have the power to ‘change your story’ through visualising the life you want during this imaginative, peaceful time and infusing your aims and intentions with waves – with visions – of ‘white Light’.

Similarly, if you don’t like what’s happening globally, you can quietly go ‘within’ and work on ‘changing the global story’ by visualising the peaceful, harmonious life we all crave at heart in your imagination, then infusing that ‘dream’ with the same white Lightand sending it out into the world.

Put simply, if you believe you are at the mercy of a painful, unhappy personal existence you help to consolidate and maintain exactly that state of affairs via the creative, constructive power of your thoughts.

If you believe this to be a violent, corrupt world, and that others have power over you and you have none, you reinforce and maintain that vision via the constructive nature of those beliefs, sent out subconsciously to help perpetuate the negative ‘status quo’ of society.

If you truly desire an end to personal and global pain, hardship and conflict, you – you personally – have to use the Divine gift you have been given to help build a happier, more harmonious individual and societal ‘reality’ via your daily ‘turbo-boosts’ of Light visualisation.

This doesn’t mean you ignore the problems and challenges you, humanity and the planet face. It does mean approaching those problems and challenges in a different way – understanding that they are malleable, able to be changed… and that you have the means to change them by focussing on the Light-within from the viewpoint of what you really are: a spiritual being capable of drawing on, generating, streaming out and directing immense power for good.

Why not decide to have a good – no…a great – day today? Why not decide to dismiss what is so blatantly wrong here and ignore the biased narratives we are being fed and urged to invest in, and instead work to create a happy, wonderful day for yourself and for everyone else …today, tomorrow and every tomorrow from now on?

The moment you investigate and acknowledge your spiritual abilities the road to positive personal, societal and global transformation becomes far less bumpy – and things can and will get better for you and for the world as a result of your power-packed daily turbo-boosts.

Here’s a short excerpt from the second Communications book Illumination, offering just a tiny peek into Joseph’s take on this personal and world-changing subject (which he examines and explains in far greater detail throughout the book):

‘It is no use complaining about society if you are not prepared to switch that switch. It is no use saying, ‘What can I do?’ It is no use saying, ‘I’m not bothered, I’m safe.’ You have to take the view that it is up to you.

‘Each person has to take the view that it is up to them to change things.

I’f you believe it is up to the politicians – you are wrong. If you believe it is up to the clergyman – you are wrong. If you believe it is up to local councils, or police, or solicitors, or judges – you are wrong!

‘Society changes with you.

‘There is an expression: the buck stops here. The buck stops with you! You, as part of God, are all powerful. You, as part of God, are all goodness. You, as part of God, are all Love. It is only because you have forgotten these things that you do not manifest them in your society at the moment.’

…In conclusion, you should by all means seek out the advice, help and wisdom of others on your journey through life, but it is immensely beneficial to also realise that a potent power with which you can heal yourself; a potent power with which you can heal the current trends of society, not only exists but is a constant built into you, able to be accessed and activated at any time.

Bringing that power to bear in your own life and the lives of others is simply a matter of having the discipline to turbo-boost each of your days by spending a few precious minutes each and every day connecting with the real you and bringing out – sharing – the Light you discover within your heart for the benefit of yourself, your loved ones, and every life on Earth. 

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Nine: Safely negotiating the spiritual minefield

Scary, isn’t it? You wish to tread a spiritual path. You’re earnest; eager… you want to discover and understand philosophies and techniques that will enable you to change yourself (and, ideally, this world) for the better and, in reaching out for spiritual help and knowledge, you suddenly find yourself bombarded by a bewildering kaleidoscope of choices and terminology, much of it contradictory and some of it offered by convincing personalities claiming to be able to provide exactly what you are looking for…

Make no mistake – the road to spiritual enlightenment is a dangerous place where many traps have been set in the undergrowth to snare the unwary. Spiritual neophytes are easy prey, entering as they do a nebulous new world – a completely new way of thinking and acting. Naturally and understandably they turn in trust for guidance to those purporting to have a history of involvement in the elevation of consciousness, believing each and every ‘spiritual teacher’ has just got to be coming from the right place…

If only there was some kind of ‘spiritual geiger counter’ that could be employed by those seeking grounded, sensible, and just plain right esoteric knowledge, enabling them to determine at every stage of their journey whether what they are being told and asked to believe is beneficial for them and the world… something that could sort the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Fortunately, there is – and the amazing thing is that this priceless piece of equipment is not ‘for sale’ exclusively via some website, nor is it displayed at any stall at any mind/body/spirit event, but it is yours by right now, today and has been within you since the day you were born. It’s called your ‘heart-mind’, and I’ve relied on its expert guidance for the best part of forty years. I used it to negotiate many of those aforementioned (and at times very convincing) traps that snapped at my heels when first setting out on my spiritual journey, and I consult it daily to determine that the choices I make on behalf of myself and others are sound, kind and harmonious.

The heart-mind is an aspect of our spiritual make-up that Joseph is emphatic we should recognise and use at all times to ‘test the spirit’. The following question, highly relevant to today’s topic, was put to him at one of our trance sessions:

‘Joseph, we all talk to God [substitute ‘the Divine’, ‘Creation’, or whatever concept you are comfortable with when describing the force that links us together and flows through everything] in our own way, but what is the best way to actually tune into God and know that the link is the strongest link possible?’

Here’s Joseph’s answer, incorporating a simple meditation to help you achieve that special heart-mind state: 

‘We have to go back to the principle, to the reality, of you having two minds. You have a mind in your head that is influenced by the Field*. You have a mind in your heart that is influenced by your soul and your connection to God. Therefore, in praying to God and requiring a result – requiring guidance – you need to think not from the head but from the heart.

‘You need to make an agreement with yourself that each day you will spend a few minutes thinking from the heart-mind.

‘How do you do that? You do that by retreating from the head-mind, by switching off the effects of the head-mind. You sit, you become quiet, you ask for protection from God – and your mind will be crowded with a million and one things and sights and sounds and sensations. You then see yourself retreating from those sights and sounds and sensations and taking a path – perhaps through a golden cornfield that leads you gently down to an oasis or a well that is perfectly still. And behind you, as you walk down that field, is your physical mind, getting fainter and fainter – you cannot hear the sounds, you cannot see the sights, you cannot feel the sensations or the demands. You can only see this beautiful, still pool of Light, and, under a perfect blue sky and surrounded by the golden corn, you sit down at the edge of this perfect, vast, deep, still water.

You look into it and you know that you are now contacting God from your heart. And then you ask, ‘Father, am I right?’ and look into the pool and see the reflection of yourself and look into your eyes and the answer will be there: yes or no.

‘Do I need to modify my plan – yes or no?

‘Do I need to work with You today – yes or no?

‘Are the feelings I have while I am not operating from the heart-mind true or false? Are they there or not? Are they illusion or heart-truth?

‘And do not expect instant answers but expect to have to go to that well, to that pond, on a daily basis whenever there is something troubling you, whenever you need an answer, because you will always get an answer once you are used to tuning in. And you will either see that answer in your reflection or you will sit there on the edge of that pond with your eyes closed in your imagination and you will hear your own voice say yes or no, or you will feel yourself say yes or no. You will feel it – not just say it, not just think it – butfeelit!

‘And you will become used to contacting you; to making friends with you; to operating from the centre, from the source. The promptings of the heart-mind apply in all areas of life: in business, in relationships, in healing, in having peace of mind, in knowing how to work spiritually.

‘The heart-mind answers all.

‘Do you feel, do you think that God would leave you here without a connection back to Him?

‘Ah – men and women over the years have said: “This way lies God! I will connect on your behalf. I will connect through the physical mind and through praying for you on your behalf to God.” Avoid those ladies and gentlemen! You will connect with the God-within because you are the God-within,and, therefore, as the God-within, you have access to all knowledge. You know in every situation what to do – it is just that the head-mind masks the promptings of the heart-mind.

‘Having sat by your still, wonderful, deep, peaceful pool for as long as you wish, you can retreat back up through the cornfield and bring out into the physical mind the gold light of that cornfield, the blue of the perfect sky and the peace you have discovered from your heart. And then, because you are operating again from a combination of heart and mind, trust what you have been given. Trust what you have been given! Put it into practice. Try it out. And you will see that time and again you are right because you cannot be wrong. Only your mind can be wrong. The ‘you’that is you can only be right in the circumstances that come to you for you and the good of others.

‘We are coming to a time when people must trust, must consult the heart-mind, because the heart-mind gives access to the greater self, and the greater self can see and hear; the greater self knows what to do on a God-level, knows how to put things right, knows how to comfort, knows how to counsel, knows what to do in every situation, and also how to repair you. When you are depressed, when you are down, when you are ill, the energies from the heart-mind can repair you, will repair you, time and time and time again – a limitless and endless source of comfort.’

There’s not much more I can or would wish to add to Joseph’s insights, except to ask you to consider this when approaching information expressed through the diversity of individuals, groups and literature on offer to you as a spiritual seeker: If it’s complex, it isn’t coming from the right place.

Why would God reveal His/Her/Its plan for you and creation via complexity? Why would the Divine, who wants you, His child, to understand more about Him, about yourself and about the way creation works; wants you to realise your potential, grow, and exhibit more of your spiritual capability, offer teaching and knowledge in terms you cannot understand? Would you, in love, hide things from your children and explain things to them in double-talk? Of course not!

Here’s Joseph on the subject of evaluating his, or any other communication purporting to have originated in higher realms:

‘Always go within; always test what you are being given and, if it comes up short, if it is too complex, if it does not contribute to a change in global experience for the better – throw it out!’

Don’t be afraid to daily ask the Divinity at the heart of you for protection, for guidance, and to be your constant companion and instructor in all spiritual seeking. Recognise, activate and improve your heart-mind connection to God-consciousness, take notice of and act upon your intuition, and you will know in every circumstance exactly what to do – or what not to do – next.

You have a permanent connection within to the Divine. Everything that you encounter outside of yourself on your spiritual journey can and should be taken to that source on a regular basis for examination and evaluation. Trust and nurture that link – rely on it and grow used to the gentle way in which it works to answer your questions and you never, ever need worry about taking a false step as you evolve spiritually.

I’ll conclude with some appropriate observations from Joseph:

‘Can I suggest that you spend time silently with yourself? Can I suggest that at each point you switch off each thought and attempt to move your consciousness – the real you – from here [pointing to the head-centre] to here [pointing to the heart-centre] and to listen in silence – not in complexity. And there you will find your answers.

‘There is nowhere else I can lead you to for answers because nowhere else exists for answers except there. Be still. Be quiet. Listen to yourself. And if what comes to you from the heart-centre throws out everything I have said that is fine, that is wonderful! But listen there. Become reconnected to your Divinity and you will find that the answers are simple – not complex.

‘The mind is complex. The mind throws up smokescreens. The mind will tell you that black is white and white is black.

‘The heart is knowing – the mind is wondering.

‘Get to the point of knowing. Become silent …throw out the books …throw out the concepts …become silent …listen to the real you …ask to connect to God …and see what the heart tells you.

‘That is the starting point.’

* The ‘Field’ of human consciousness we, as spirits on earth, are surrounded by and live within. The Field is actually created and maintained by us, but we have lost sight of this fact. It exhibits, and seeks to perpetuate in us, a negative charge and outlook.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Eight: The importance of being Light-hearted

If I may I’d like to help lift the vibrations today by sharing with you memories of some amusing incidents that happened to me way back in the days when I used to take services at spiritualist churches.

Many of the churches were engaged in a constant struggle to raise funds to maintain their buildings, meaning that their premises and furnishings were often in dire need of refurbishment or renewal. Such was the case at one particular church where I was addressing the congregation from a lectern that had seen better days. Being half Italian I tend to ‘talk’- to emphasise things – with my hands, and, whilst making a philosophical point and waving my arms around, I lightly clipped the bottom surface of the lectern and instantly detached a wobbly length of wood which I somehow managed to catch before it clattered to the floor. Still caught up in my address I delivered further points whilst waving this piece of wood around like a conductor’s baton for a couple of minutes before hiding it discretely on a shelf under the railing I was leaning against. The church owners were most kind and didn’t present me with a bill for demolishing their property.

A second lectern incident occurred at a time when I had begun to lose a great deal of weight over a short time. Jane and I had just got together and she had bought me a couple of pairs of swanky new trousers to accommodate my shrinking waistline. Said waistline continued to shrink, however, and thus it was that, proudly sporting a pair of these smart new pants, I took a service one Sunday afternoon at a church I regularly served. At a point during the proceedings I again made a sweeping gesture with arms raised… which promptly caused said trousers to fall down. Luckily I was standing behind a lectern at the time, which covered my blushes as I hastily arrested the descending and offending trousers at knee level, hoisting them up and re-anchoring them. Amazingly no-one seemed to notice as, red-faced and clutching my waistband very tightly with one hand, I continued my address.

An aside: Amusingly the lady secretary at the above church always said exactly same thing when introducing me or other mediums to the congregation, prepping visitors for the clairvoyant demonstration that would form part of the service:

‘Please don’t nod your head if you receive and understand a message. Clearly say either YES or NO as the spirits can’t see you nodding.’ (This is completely erroneous, of course.)

She would then complete her intro by adding ’…and please don’t feed the medium.’

On the one hand I always found this a little offensive as I have NEVER and would never dream of ‘digging’ for information.

On the other I found it amusing as, true to her instructions, not one person ever offered me a single morsel of food during a service at that church.

…Perhaps if they had done my trousers would have remained in the correct position throughout.

Detour over – back to the subject of this blog:

Mediumship very often addresses grief, trauma and loss head on…people seldom visit a medium when everything is going well in their lives. There is a great satisfaction in being able to reconnect individuals with loved ones who have moved on to higher vibrations, but the work, by its very nature, is demanding.

Occasionally, however, something happens that raises a smile and still causes me to chuckle years later. Such was the case, decades ago, when I was directed during a clairvoyant demonstration to a lady in the congregation who was notorious for her ‘vacant’ approach and would never acknowledge the messages given to her by mediums.

On this particular evening her departed husband appeared next to me (my spiritual teacher knew both parties well and confirmed his identity after the service). The gentleman stood to my right and I described him in great detail to the lady (you’re not always given a name). ‘Do you know who this is?’ I asked.

A vacant ‘No’ was the lady’s reply.

I described him a second time, passing on more details from the man, commenting on how he was dressed, his personality traits, etc.

A second ‘No…’

‘All right,’ I continued calmly. ‘Let’s not concentrate on who he is. Let’s focus instead on what he’s saying, what he wants to tell you about a certain situation in your life…’

I duly delivered a lengthy message from the gentleman.

‘Do you understand?’ I asked.

A pause. Then: ‘No…’

The gentleman sighed and folded his arms. ‘She DOES know! Tell her again,’ he said, obviously becoming a little agitated. I did so…

‘…No…’

By this point the communicator was visibly angry and was glaring at his wife…

‘Tell her AGAIN,’ he demanded, raising his voice. ‘She DOES know what I’m talking about!’

‘No…’

By now her husband was fuming and red-faced.

‘Um… he’s insistent I give you this message,’ I said, attempting to be diplomatic. ‘He says it’s Important.’

‘No…’

Incandescent, the gentleman stood in front of his wife, scowled, then shouted ‘Bl***y Idiot!’ at her before glancing back at me with a look of desperation, turning away and disappearing.

‘Um… I’m afraid he’s gone now,’ I said hastily. ‘… As we can’t make a connection, I’ll have to move on.’

I hope I’ve raised a few smiles for you in sharing the above anecdotes …As Joseph explains in his books and addresses, the vibrations that surround us and impact on us at the moment on Earth, due to the collective thoughts of humanity, are heavy, dense and, unfortunately, mostly negative. Whenever we lighten our approach to life through laughter and joy we also raise our personal vibrations and push back the chaos around us, dismissing it as nonsense that has no hold or power over us.

In making light of life we lighten our load and our outlook, placing ourselves in a frame of mind that makes us more receptive to the inspirations, guidance and healing available from within – those higher states of consciousness and wellbeing that originate from our spiritual core – from our heart-centre.

In short, It’s not only acceptable to laugh, it’s absolutely essential for our wellbeing and the maintenance of strong spiritual connections that we do so – regularly.

Wishing you a happy – and, therefore, an inspired – day.

Key themes from the Communications books illustrated by examples from 40+ years of mediumship.

Part Seven: Heart-voices, signs and portents

Many years ago, I was waiting in a queue outside a bank when a loud voice from ‘nowhere’ suddenly instructed me to ‘Go to Joan’s. Now’.

‘What?’ I asked aloud, looking around to see if anyone had noticed I was talking to ‘myself’…

‘Don’t ask questions,’ said the voice, which at that point I recognised as belonging to one of Joseph’s soul group members. ‘Go.  To.  Joan’s.  NOW’.

I immediately abandoned the queue and drove the couple of miles to Joan’s – my spiritual teacher’s – house, discovering on arrival that Jack, her husband, who had been terribly ill for four years, had died some five minutes earlier. I was able to stay with Joan for most of the morning to – hopefully – offer some support and comfort.

On another occasion following our weekly spiritual development session I was leaving Joan’s with the intention of attending the evening service at our local spiritualist church. On the doorstep we looked at each other and somehow knew it was vitally important that I call on some mutual friends first – both of us sensing there was an urgency to this unplanned visit that should not be ignored. On arrival at my friends’ house all seemed well at first, but then my friend Hugh suddenly became ill, weak and disorientated. He grew steadily worse, and his wife, Ethel, phoned for an ambulance. I stayed with him until it came, praying and giving him healing, which allowed Ethel to go outside, keep an eye open for the paramedics and direct them to their house. Hugh had had a massive heart attack. …He slowly recovered, but that evening both Joan and I knew there was some urgent reason I had to visit.

…Years ago, I sat each week in a ‘closed development circle’ with my medium friend Bruce, Joan and four other regulars, one of whom was ‘Beryl’ – a spinster in her early fifties who lived alone in a neighbouring town. ‘I had an extraordinary dream about you last night, and for some reason I have to tell you about it,’ Joan announced to Beryl at the conclusion of one particular session. She then related how she had dreamt that Beryl had been visited by a wealthy gentleman – some years her senior – who drove a very expensive car (she stated the make) and lived on the coast. In her dream the two had met, become friends, and that friendship had then developed into something deeper, with the gentleman in due course asking Beryl to marry him. Subsequently, she had left for the coast and a happy life with her new husband.

…Two weeks later the gentleman came unbidden into Beryl’s life and the story played out precisely as it had in Joan’s dream.

…Just three small examples of the inner voice and its spiritual clarity at work, providing insights and direction and, in the first two cases, urging an immediate course of action.

Occurrences like these are not the exclusive province of mediums and the psychically gifted – they are available to each of us.’ Signs and portents’ welling up from our ‘greater self’ – our true being – impact on our everyday consciousness all the time, but in order for us to recognise and act upon them we have to train our physical mind to receive them – and that means switching off the clamour of this world for a time each and every day in order to tune in, via our heart-centres, to our greater world. Repeated visits to that higher state of consciousness sharpen our spiritual senses and instincts, allowing them to play a more active role in our lives.

Our inner voice – our ‘heart-voice’ – can be relied on in all of life’s challenges to see beyond the illusions, deceptions and distractions of the material world and allow us access to the wisdom and advice of our spirit. As Joseph stresses in his books, our inner world is ignored or rejected by many, yet connecting with it regularly provides answers, insights and guidance, and brings into sharp focus the fact that physical ‘reality’ is simply a backdrop – a stage set – onto which we project ‘reality’ in order to experience the circumstances that allow us to grow as the spirit people we really are.

We are not adrift in the material world as many of us suppose ourselves to be… the ‘spirit you’ knows when to act and when not to act; knows exactly what to do in any situation in your life; has a greater view of your path ahead than your physical eyes can ever provide.

Here’s a Joseph excerpt on this subject (taken from ‘Trance Mission’):

‘Ask anything of the heart-centre with regard to how your life is going – ‘Am I certain I want this job?’ The mind will say ‘yes’ …but then ‘no’ …but then ‘yes’ …but then ‘no’ – round, and round, and round. And you will be exhausted and will probably go to someone else and say, ‘Should I have this job?’ And one person will say ‘yes’ and one person will say ‘no’ and you are no further along the road.

‘The heart knows!

‘’Your heart connects you to God. Your heart-chakra, your heart-centre, knows the answer to every aspect of your life – from the job, to the relationship, to the religion, to the health. Do I want this job? Go into the heart-centre; what does the heart- centre say to you? How are you speaking to yourself? Go to the heart-centre and say: ‘I am God. We are both here, God – You and the ‘I AM’ that I am – what do we know about this? What is the answer to this?’ Then listen for the still, small voice or the physical sensation that brings you either a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ or brings you insight in visions.’

Signs and portents?… Accessing these to enrich your journey through life and the lives of every soul on earth is simply a matter of quieting the cacophonic chorus of the material world and taking time out to listen to the one, true voice:  

 The voice in your heart.