Tranquil Spirit, Northwich, Cheshire, UK - Spirit Communications: Trance Mediumship

Spirit Communications through Trance Mediumship/Channeling:

Trance Mediumship

Using Trance Mediumship to Contact "Unsavoury" Spirits

As background information for our overseas friends we need to explain that there is a regular TV programme shown in the UK called "Most Haunted". This involves a team of people spending nights at some of the most haunted places in the UK. An experienced and respected medium who often provides very evidential information, accompanies the film crew on these nights and connects with the energies and spirits. Quite often he goes into trance and spirits talk through him. One of our group had seen a recent episode in which an unpleasant spirit (this is putting it mildly) had come through the medium in the trance state and he had found himself physically thrown backwards. This event took place after a previous contact with the spirit when the nature of its character had already become clear. Someone in the group said that she thought what he does could frighten people off from trance mediumship.

Hai: Well you must be careful when you are opening yourself, exposing yourself to influence, to territory of the evil spirits who do not have your best interests at heart. So you must be careful if you expose yourself to them. For they can only harm you if you make yourself vulnerable to them. Therefore, if you go seeking them out, if you go making yourself available to them, if you put down the drawbridge of your castle for them to walk through, to walk along, then you are heading for difficulties, you are asking for trouble. For you are the guardian of your temple. You are the guardian of your castle. If you throw the doors open and say: "Look! Welcome to all of you. Welcome to everyone. Walk in, come in freely friends", then you may get some unwelcome visitors as well.

It is truly as if a great city throws open its doors knowing there are thieves in the woods round about, yet do nothing to monitor the thieves entering the city. They do nothing to stop them, prevent them from entering the city. Therefore it is unwise to expose yourself, to make yourself vulnerable, especially if you do not know what you are dealing with; if you do not know the measure of the entity of whom you are encouraging to link with you. Therefore you cannot then complain that this is a "nasty one", this is an "unsavoury one", this is an "evil one", for you have thrown open your gates, you have thrown open your doors and invited them in. Therefore you have responsibility to monitor those who connect, who enter the gate.

Q: How would you know if someone undesirable was around you?

Hai: We speak of situation where this person knows there are disturbed souls, disturbed spirits and he go looking for them yes? Now it may be possible to connect with these spirits in varying degrees, in different ways, different formats. But we say that if you loose control, if you do not exercise control over the manner of this connection, then you are laying yourself open to difficulty. But we do not speak of you here who are opening yourself to spirit, because you seek the best and the good. So because you seek the best and the good you are protected by this vow, this undertaking, this seeking, this intent. So we are not going from this place, wandering the streets and the graveyards, wandering the haunted places saying: "Ah, who would like to talk to us, we not too particular ha." No we are not saying this. We are starting from this point where we sit and we reach out for the greater good and the benevolent.

Hai then went on to comment on the Guest Speakers whom the Spirit Group encourage to come through to communicate.

You know we encourage various people to come to you, various people who are on various stages of development. So everyone who comes to your circle is not an enlightened soul; is not an all good soul. But they are souls who are on the road, who seek the light, who seek the good and even when we invite souls who are only on the first rungs of the ladder, they are on the first rungs of the ladder and are pointed in the right direction. We do not go dragging unwilling souls to you who are climbing down the ladder, who are on backward rungs of the ladder. We seek out souls for you who are climbing upward. And even if they are on early rungs of the ladder they may have something of benefit to share with you; their experiences on this earthly plane or indeed from their experiences in the spirit realms. So we seek out spirits for this reason. But they are not all of the same level, not all of the same degree of evolvement, of understanding, but nevertheless can contribute in a worthwhile way to your endeavours.

Q: I was just concerned about the image that the medium was putting out to the general public.

Hai: Yes this true what you say and it creates an impression and because it is a dramatic impression it is all the stronger for that. So therefore it may cause some difficulty in perception, some difficulty in understanding and it may affect things in a negative way.

Q: If any of us were visiting an historic building and sense a presence and be tempted to pry a little bit more. Is that a good idea or not?

Hai: Well you know you can exercise some control over this for you can become sensitive to an energy without entering into trance state. When you enter trance state you loose more control over the connection. Not totally but you loose some control. Therefore it is best to try to connect mentally with this energy in this place like you speak of. In connecting mentally you get some appreciation, some understanding, some awareness of the level of these souls with whom you are dealing. Therefore in having some understanding, some awareness of the level of these souls with whom you are dealing, you are safeguarded, you are forewarned, you are prepared. So it is best that you treat it in this way.

Possibility of Spirit Guides Speaking in their Original Language and English

Wendy from Gillingham, Kent, in the UK, asked: Is it possible for a native guide to channel his own native words and then to speak them in English?

Hai: Well yes it is possible. You have heard it for yourselves. You have heard a spirit guide come through with his other tongue, Aztec tongue, but then communicate with you in your own language. So there is no problem with this. 

Wendy in New Zealand asked about Trance Mediums speaking in different languages while in trance:

Q: Referring to Trance Mediumship Demonstration 2 Question 1 : How can you speak English if you are a (Chinese) Buddhist? The answer given of connecting with the mind prompted my thoughts on how wonderful the mind is in physical and spirit form. I guess my question is: When a medium is in trance and spirit is speaking through that person are the thoughts coming from a separate spirit or are they from the mind of the medium from another incarnation. The reason I ask the question is because I know there are mediums who speak foreign languages when in trance that they have no knowledge of when in their "normal" state.

Paul: I am going to have a go at answering your question Wendy pulling together a number of responses we have had from Hai and other spirits over many months.

They have indicated that it is possible for a spirit to communicate through a medium using a language which is unknown to the medium. We have had apparent instances of this in our own Home Circle. Spirits have come through a number of times over the years and spoken on some occasions in what appeared to be some form of chinese and on other occasions we have had spirits speak in what appeared to be some form of early South American language such as Inca. On a couple of occasions two spirits were apparently having a conversation with each other in the latter language, one of them speaking through another member of the Home Circle who goes into trance. Of course we had no way to validate the authenticity of the languages at the time. It is something we may attempt in the future. There does not therefore seem to be any need to postulate that the medium has lived a life in a previous incarnation where they have acquired the "foreign" language.

In reality the situation, as ever, is not so straight forward. We have all had many past lives so perhaps there is some residual memory/vibration which at least assists the spirits in trying to speak a foreign language through us. Hai has informed me for instance that I spent a past life in a Buddhist monastery with him.

The whole subject of spirits communicating through mediums whether in trance or otherwise is a lot more complicated than many people often suggest. Hai and others repeatedly tell us that it is achieved through a blending of energies and consciousness. As such the medium's mind is both an aid and a hindrance at one and the same time. An aid because Hai has said that they are able to use the reservoir of language and accumulated concepts which sometimes facilitates the nature of the message being communicated. A hindrance because the medium's own beliefs, blocks and limitations can influence the message in the transaction of energies between spirit and medium.

I am aware of the majority of what is being said through me in the trance state. They have told me that they are working towards "knocking me out totally". I used to think that this would result in a purer communication. But Hai has said that as far as this is concerned it is more important for the medium to have an open and unbiased mind than for she/he to be unconscious, as even in the unconscious state the contents of the medium's mind can influence the message.