CONVERSATIONS WITH MEDIUMS - EBOOK MINI: JOHN EDWARD

 

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AN INTRODUCTION

COMMUNICATE, APPRECIATE, VALIDATE

… A mini ebook from the full length physical version of

Conversations With Mediums

By SCOTT PODMORE

Buy the full book with all 12 chapters from www.conversationswithmediums.com

or http://adyar.com.au

Published by October Grey Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN INTRODUCTION...

“Let’s imagine that just as we did not know until relatively recently that invisible fields of energy could carry extraordinarily complex patterns of parallel information, making it possible for billions of us to be globally interconnected by cell phones and even be located by GPS devices, that these same invisible fields of energy also carry complex patterns of information associated with a larger spiritual reality. Let’s imagine that it is only a matter of time before we discover the physics and invent the technology to evolve from the cell phone to the ‘soul phone’an advanced technology that will enable us to communicate accurately with this larger spiritual reality.”from The Sacred Promise, a book by Dr Gary E. Schwartz PH.D

AS a child, John Edward was surrounded by wolves. In his bedroom. Down the street. Everywhere. The problem was, no one else saw them. ‘‘It wasn’t like I was The Sixth Sense kid,’’ Edward says of his childhood in Queens, New York. ‘‘I wasn’t seeing dead people walking around back then. The only thing I can say in retrospect was that I had very, very vivid dreams and I was plagued by night terrors as a child. And I always used to see a wolf as a kid. I would see wolves everywhere.’’ Edward, settling back into his seat opposite, is engaging and obviously comfortable talking about his abilities, to which he has dedicated much of the past 25 years. He seems down to earth. Psychic phenomena and mediums polarise the masses. But despite people’s views, Edward has an enormous global following. Whether you think those people are vulnerable, gullible or on to something most others aren’t, they take him seriously.
The 43-year-old says a lot of what he experienced during childhood didn’t make sense until much later, as he explains in more detail throughout this chapter.

‘‘As a child I started to recognise I wasn’t as normal as I thought I was. I always had these experiences, but I just didn’t call them anything,’’ he says. ‘‘I remember very specifically saying to my mother, ‘Why didn’t you tell me that I was different?’ And she said, ‘I told you all the time you were special . . . you used to do things, know things, say things, and I just didn’t want to make a big deal about it’.’’

So, what was it that the wolves represented when he was a boy? It turns out to be quite the epiphany. In 1998, Edward’s first book One Last Time was released and he was doing the promotional rounds in the mid-west of the United States when an American Indian shaman approached him.

‘‘He walked over to me at the book signing,’’ he says. ‘‘He looked down next to me, and then at me, and said, ‘Oh, I see in this life you walk with the wolf ’. And I looked at him and I was like, ‘What?’ And he said: ‘The wolf, it’s your animal guide, your totem. Haven’t you ever seen the wolf?’ That guy had no idea what a statement that was for me. It was a huge validation and nobody believed me as a kid that I could see it.’’

As a psychic medium, author and lecturer for more than two decades, many believe Edward has helped thousands with his claims of communicating with those who have crossed over and offering guidance. But for every believer, there’s a non-believer. Edward says the skeptics are vital in these days when there’s a charlatan around every corner. He also believes there is a ‘‘planetary shift’’ taking place, resulting in a more spiritually aware society. But he says we should be focusing on developing our ‘‘abilities’’ for the purposes of making informed and empowered choices in our own lives—as not all of us can be mediums. With respect to the other mediums, Edward was the most important—for me personally—to be featured in this book project. And it wasn’t easy to get him to agree to it. Understandably, he prefers to do things his own way and is cautious about being included in projects with others. He flies solo for his own peace of mind and integrity and that I respect.
Reluctant at first, it took a lot of pestering after our initial excellent interview for a feature that appeared in Australia’s biggest newspaper, the Herald Sun, before he gave me the green light to include this chapter on him—including a long conversation over coffee in a cafe where we managed to solve the world’s problems! And also find a little time to talk about family life and our children, of similar ages, among other things.

John Edward is a “good bloke”, if you will please excuse my Aussie parlance. I take this opportunity to thank him wholeheartedly. Edward gives Conversations With Mediums not only an enormous boost thanks to his high profile, but most importantly for the thoroughly engaging and insightful content within this chapter that takes the book to a whole new level. I appreciate his guidance on what I should expect in the aftermath of producing such a book like this.

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CHAPTER 1: THE INTERVIEW

SP: Thanks very much for giving me this opportunity to speak with you.

JE: No problem, it’s a pleasure.

Tell me, how do you discern what is an energy or spirit connection and not your own imagination?

If I don’t have any connection with the person I’m sitting with, I actually have a clean slate with which I can simply watch what gets put up on it, whether it be a thoughtful word, a symbol or a feeling. Through meditation and prayer I can clear my mind, I have no connection to the person I’m reading for and whatever comes through, I react to it.

So meditation is the process with which you have to initiate the connection or can it, in fact, be a random process, like you’re in any situation and they’re trying to come through?

I think anyone who does this work can constantly be bombarded from energy trying to get through and then that acts as the stimulus to get you to pay attention and from that stimulus various things can take place. That’s why its very important through meditation to practice so that you can navigate the real world without having to be bombarded by the energies of the living/their dead relatives who might be trying to get your attention if they’re around them.

In the early days when you noticed you had this ability, did you question it and your sanity?

In my experience I had a reading in which a medium told me I could do this. I wasn’t a believer in the subject matter and I think my exploration into it was—I really feel like the word ‘explore’ comes into play for me—because I was going into unchartered territory that I didn’t really believe in and now all of a sudden I was looking at it. Then I started doing research and I was reading books that were written way before I was even thought about and I started thinking, ‘Wow, 50 or 60 years before I was born they were writing about the same subject matter’ in very casual language, in that it was very complex and it was OK. And I was thinking, ‘well isn’t that normal? Doesn’t everyone have this experience?’ And I can remember the day I was sitting in the public library—I was embarrassed to check the books out, and was going to sit on the library floor and read them there—and there were two shelves of books back then under the title of ‘occult’. It wasn’t New Age or Metaphysical, it was ‘the occult’. And I remember being in high school and was talking to a friend of mine and asking him specifically after seventh period, ‘Do you ever remember having this experience, you know, do you find this is normal?’ And he looked at me and went, ‘No, not so much’. I went, ‘Never?’ And he was like, ‘No, why have you?’ And I said, ‘No, not at all’ (laughing).

Did you realise there was something a bit different going on?

“I started to recognise I wasn’t as normal as I thought I was. I always had these experiences but I just didn’t call them anything. I remember very specifically saying to my mother, ‘Why didn’t you tell me that I was different?’ And she said, ‘I told you all the time you were special’. And I was like, ‘But you’re my mother, you have to tell me I’m special’. She said, ‘You were special—you used to do things, know things, say things and I just didn’t want to make a big deal about it’. Which I think is the proper way to do it with kids—not to make a big deal about it.

I was going to ask you about children, because we both have children the same age.

Mine are 11 and 7. Yours?

Mine are 12 and 9, so pretty close. So do you think for a person who believes their children are having experiences, or connections with spirit, they should not make a fuss over it?

I think it’s very, very normal for us to have these experiences from a young age.

What about you personally as a child?

I had these experiences from a young age but I didn’t call them anything. You know, when people say to me, ‘Did you know you were psychic?’, I’ll say, ‘No, I didn’t know’, or if they say, ‘Did you have any inclination about it?’ and I say the only thing I can tell you if there was a character for a TV show that had special abilities or powers, I was obsessed with it, whether it be I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, the Six Million Dollar Man, Super Man, Bat Man, Spider Man . . . anybody who had some sort of extraordinary ability, whether it be strength or knowledge or mental powers, time travel, then I couldn’t get enough of it. That’s it. It wasn’t like I was the ‘Sixth Sense kid’. I wasn’t seeing dead people walking around. The only thing I can say in retrospect was that I had very, very vivid dreams and was plagued by night terrors as a child, I mean plaaaagued by night terrors. And I always used to see a wolf as a kid. I would see wolves everywhere. While I was sleeping, they’d be in my room, in the street . . . I would see wolves.

And in hindsight did those wolves represent anything?

In 1998, I think it was about the time my first book came out and I’d been doing this for about 14 or 15 years, I was in the mid-west in the States and there was an Indian shaman who walked over to me at the book signing. He looked down next to me and then at me, and said, ‘Oh, I see in this life you walk with the wolf’. And I looked at him (wide-eyed) and I was like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘The wolf, it’s your animal guide, your totem. Haven’t you ever seen the wolf?’ That guy had no idea what a statement that was for me. It was a huge validation and nobody believed me as a kid that I could see it. They’d attribute it to nursery rhymes, like the big bad wolf was going to come and get you. And I was like, ‘No, I wasn’t seeing that wolf ’. I was seeing a wolf and I used to describe it to my uncle who had two Alaskan malamute huskies, Igloo and Snowball, and I’d say this wolf looked like a big grey Igloo. But he would say, ‘But nobody has a wolf and you live in Queens, New York, and there are no wolves in Queens’. So I guess that’s all I can say in retrospect, that it was a very freaked out thing for me.

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“He said, ‘The wolf, it’s your animal guide, your totem. Haven’t you ever seen the wolf?’ That guy had no idea what a statement that was for me. It was a huge validation and nobody believed me as a kid that I could see it.”

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CHAPTER 2: LEARNING THE SYMBOLIC WAY . . .

John, how does the actual communication process work for you after you initiate contact through mediation or prayer. Is there a particular language you’ve forged or created with spirit to enable an understanding between both parties?

Yes, you learn your own symbolic way of them speaking and communicating with you. I think one of my pet peeves in the 25 years I’ve been doing this is watching people who do this work who don’t convey to the audience, and the person who they’re reading, how their process works and when they make it seem bigger and better than it actually is. And they don’t make it infallible or don’t take the responsibility for not being able to get something and they put it on the person who has passed. It’s important to know a lot of people who are psychically gifted can’t do mediumship and that’s OK, but they don’t say it. So, for me, it’s important to understand your own process and who you are and what your abilities are and where your strengths lie, but also your weaknesses. There are things I know I don’t have as a strength in my ability to be able to convey. For example, if I start talking to you about sports information we’ve got a problem, or things that are mechanical in a way, again, we’ve got a problem. I can’t come at those as John the person with knowledge and understanding. Ask me about health care stuff? That’s different, my background’s in healthcare. So I can back that up a lot stronger because I understand it. So I think the interpretational element of the information coming through has to be kept in perspective with the sitter, the person you’re doing the reading for. Because they’re coming to you with such a level of need and I think every single person has to be treated with a level of understanding that they’re very delicate in what they’re about to hear. And too many people in this field allow their ego to get in the way. And it’s about, ‘Look, look what I did—that’s what it’s about’. And I like to explain the process, like when you say the ‘connection happens’ about what doesn’t make sense.

In what way?

For example, I’m doing stuff for television and I’ll highlight the things that don’t make sense, whereas a lot of cynics will say the psychic will want you to forget the misses and remember the hits. And I’m like, no, no, no, I want you to remember the misses. Because sometimes those misses hit hard because they either haven’t happened yet or I’m screwing the message up, or the person I’m reading for isn’t remembering it. But the whole process has to be used as part of the reading.

On that subject, how do you handle the skeptics who try to use that to debunk you?

Put it this way, if you asked me that question 10 years ago my answer is very different to what it would be today. Ten years ago I would’ve have said they’re narrow-minded, they come from a place of ignorance, they don’t understand it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So it was more a case back then that you’d take it personally?

Yes, I would take it personally because usually people would make it personal, try and find your motivations for doing what you do—they would attack in a certain way. We had Time magazine do an article on Crossing Over and I had come in one day to do a taping for the show and one of the producers met me outside, all sympathetic and saying, ‘How are you?’ I said, ‘I’m good, how are you doing?’ And she said, ‘No, are you really OK?’ And that’s when I said, ‘What’s going on?’ She said, ‘You know, the article’, and I said, ‘What article?’ Then, with a shocked look on her face, she said, ‘What do you mean what article . . . never mind!’ I discovered Time magazine had run a one-page article written by a reporter who was retired from Time magazine, but he also happened to be part of the Skeptics Society, the former editor in fact, and he decided it was absolutely preposterous that there would be a TV show of ‘such nonsense’. I was supposed to be interviewed by a female journalist from Time magazine and they started scheduling it and then one day this male rang my office wanting to get a comment about an article that was being put to bed that day. It was an absolutely ridiculous article because the man lived in Florida and we taped in New York. He never came to the show and he just wrote something. It was a disheartening experience for me because being in Time magazine was a big deal, you know, but now I don’t believe in it. I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, here’s this person who’s meant to be writing a truthful article’, which ended up being his perspective of the truth, of course, about what’s possible and not possible, and here I was thinking journalists were meant to be objective and let the reader make up their own mind, otherwise that’s a review, a critique. I sat back and thought, ‘Wow’, and I wasn’t going to defend it. And then it became a big deal and Larry King was doing a show about that specific article and other psychics were going to go on and discuss it. And I made it very clear that I wasn’t going on that show because I’m defending what I do. More importantly, I decided I wasn’t going on the show to defend the subject matter—I was going on the show to defend the producers who produce this show. Because long after I’m gone they’re going to have to work in TV and I don’t want them to have that energy that they worked on ‘that fraudulent show’ because that would be a mark on their reputation. So that’s the only reason I went on that show to defend it.

And if I was to ask you about your views on the skeptics today?

Ask me that question today and I believe skeptics provide a very important role. They are getting people to start a healthy dialogue about what to look for and what not to look for because in the last five years alone people who are stepping forward and wanting to do mediumship, who want to be mediums and who are calling themselves mediums, is absolutely out of control and, to me, it’s ridiculous. When I participated in testing at the University of Arizona with a colleague, Suzane Northrop, another medium—I refer to her as ‘Mad Dog’ by the way, she makes me look slow, you know, and I read very fast—but she was sitting with me and three other mediums and the science people and they asked us, ‘Can you teach what you do?’ I said yes and Suzane said no. The two of us looked at each other, and I said, ‘Suzane, you teach workshops on how to evolve your abilities’. And she said, emphatically, ‘Mediums are born, they’re not taught’. And there was no conversation or elaboration, and at the time I thought ‘how could she be so cold and decisive with that?’ And I have to say, I actually agree with her. She has a few years on me in doing this work, but now I have seen first hand the amount of people who have developed an interest in the subject matter and take it as a calling. The way I look at it, why can’t a person develop their ability and not have the need to do it for someone else?

Like, why can’t they develop their ability to make informed and empowered choices in their own life? If you go on a diet and get healthy, you are going to evolve in your own physical fitness. YOU evolve in your physical fitness. You’re watching what you eat and you can’t exercise for somebody else. You can’t diet for somebody else. So when you develop your abilities, you can’t do it for someone else unless this work calls you. And I do agree with that—I think that you are called to do this work. You’re not asked, it’s a case of this is what you’re doing, this is who you are. And I think about five years from now it’s going to be a lot worse. So I think skeptics play a role.

OK, so while there are a lot of people obviously pursuing it for all the wrong reasons, in saying that, do you believe the theory that there is a universal shift taking place in that people are becoming more spiritually aware and ‘raising their vibration’?

There is a huge planetary shift taking place. There are a lot of people who are being called to pay attention to this and there is a need for people to become aware of it. I have written a book about development (Infinite Quest). When people read the book they’re going to be very shocked. I’m very blatant about what I’m saying in the book and what I’m saying to people now, and they’re probably not going to like me, but if people want to do readings, or want a new career or want to become famous, then put the book back and ask for a refund. This is not the book for you. But if you’re looking at developing your abilities and want a more empowered life, want to learn more about who you are and learn about intuition in your everyday life with whatever it is you do whether it be a doctor, writer or an accountant or a mum and keeping you on the journey. There is more to this than just doing a reading. And the important part (and please touch on this in your book) is ego. The ego is so getting in the way of people to do this work because they feel like they have to get it right.

How do you draw that line?

You have to have enough ego to do what you have to do, but anything more than that—that gives you the confidence to say that you do it— then you fail. My greatest gift that I was ever given doing this work was by a woman called Sandy Anastasi, my teacher, and she said to me early on, ‘You’re allowed to be wrong’. That was such a freeing thing, being given that opportunity early on to be told I’m allowed to be wrong gave me the parameters to not knock down the walls, and just get it and give it as it is. And then just sitting in an audience listening to Dr Wayne Dyer and he was very profound. A friend got me the tickets to go along with him who was a huge fan of his, and I never felt the need to go see him or go and see anybody because you sort of get the subject matter so I went along for him but I think I got more out of it than he did. And Dr Wayne Dyer said, ‘I’m going to do the best job I possibly can today while you guys are here because this way I can go home and only have to answer to one person, and that’s me and when I look in the mirror I can say, How do you think you did? And if I think I did the best job I could then that’s all that matters. Otherwise I’ve gotta call 500 people and say, how did you think I did?’ And I cracked up laughing. He’s talking about how you walk out and surrender your ego and serve. I’ll never forget that. That’s how I feel every time I do a reading, I have to surrender my ego and serve. When I started doing the show Crossing Over I was bombarded by stuff. Dana the director was telling me, ‘You can’t stand over there, you have to stand over here, if you stand over there you’re out of the light’, and I finally said, ‘You know what? Here’s the deal. This is not a TV show. This is an event and you guys are going to try to capture it with cameras’.

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WHO IS WAYNE DYER?


Wayne Dyer is world-renowned self-development

author and speaker who has written more than 30 books, created many audio and video programs, and appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows and documentaries.

Dyer, who lives in Maui, has a Doctorate in Educational Counselling from Wayne State University and was an associate professor at St John’s University in New York. At his website it states he is affectionately called the “father of motivation” by his devoted fans and despite a childhood spent in orphanages and foster homes, he has “overcome many obstacles to make his dreams come true”.

It’s his life mission to show others how to do the same. To find out more visit www.drwaynedyer.com

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So it was a case of ‘you guys have to work around me’?

That’s it, right. The day that I made that decision I had three different camera guys come to me and say, ‘I don’t know what you’re doing differently, but keep doing it! What we’re seeing through the lens is television gold’. Authenticity. I went to that place where I thought I don’t give a shit about TV any more, I want to get to the people. I think that’s the important thing, a lot of people, when they come into this, they mistake the validation of the information as, ‘Look at me! Look what I got! See? They’re here!’ As opposed to going, ‘I don’t care if you like me but I want you to pay attention to what’s coming through, because I’m their shot at getting the message across. And it might not be from the person you want to hear from and it might mean you have to go home and talk to your husband about his first wife because her mother is coming through and this is the reality that sometimes takes place’.

What about the theory we’re all here on earth for ‘lessons’. I guess that means they can’t give too much away, then, can they?

No, they can give a lot away. But then we don’t actually learn. I use an example for that question alone. I remember being a kid, seven or eight years old, going into the kitchen while my mum was making chicken and asking her a question about my homework. And she said to me, ‘Why don’t you ask Daddy’. And I was like, ‘(sigh) I don’t want to ask Dad’, but she said ‘Go and ask Dad, he’s in the next room’. So I went and asked him the question and I knew what was going to happen. And I just sat there and he didn’t give me the answer—he sat there and helped me find the answer, or make me aware of the answer. And I just wanted to know the answer and I knew she would give it to me and he wouldn’t. So I didn’t go to him, I went to her. But I learned more from it because of what he did. So if a parent helps us learn whatever it is we need to learn, that, to me, is what they’re (spirits) there to do also. They’re going to recognise, for example, you have kids, an eight-year-old and a five-year-old, both of them at school, right? So you know when they’re at school between the hours of 9pm and 3pm you know where they are, but you leave them alone because they’re in school and they’re learning what they need to learn in school for their life for when they’re out of school. So, this (living on earth) is school. They leave us alone while we’re in school, but they know where we are, they know when to drop us off, they know when to pick us up. They do what they have to do to participate in our lives but with the respect for human realm lessons.

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CHAPTER 3: HAT MOMENT WHEN WE DIE . . .

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CHAPTER 4: PETS--A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE . . .

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CHAPTER 5: WHEN CULTURES & RELIGIONS DON'T COLLIDE . . .

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