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    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship: How to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship: How to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship: How to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
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    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship: How to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over

    By Larry Dreller

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    For centuries, people have been fascinated by the power and secrets of mediums. And today, many are interested in making contact with the spirit world themselves--either to communicate with loved ones, heal the sick, or discover knowledge-- but don't know how. Yet, as Larry Dreller writes, "At birth we all are given the gift of seeing beyond this humble Earth plane into other dimensions, but as we grow older we cast this natural ability aside. Mediums did not lose this ability and are people who act as intermediaries between this world and the 'other side'."

    Both an introduction to this phenomenon as well as a workbook that guides the reader through exercises to reawaken their abilities, the Beginner's Guide to Mediumship shows how to develop spiritual powers, conduct seances, harness the power of prophecy, comfort and heal others, see auras, and more.

    Drawing on his own experience, Dreller focuses on pure and practical day-to-day applications of mediumship and how they can enrich readers lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateApr 15, 2002
    ISBN9781609254667
    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship: How to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
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    Larry Dreller

    Larry Dreller has been involved in seance mediumship since he was a teenager. He has lead seance study groups and conducts private seance sessions.

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      Beginner's Guide to MediumshipHow to Contact Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Overby Larry Dreller I loved this 127 page charmer, because it had everything I needed to learn more about developing my skills as a Medium. The format was easy to follow, there was detailed step by step instructions on how to do many things including how to conduct a safe and meaningful seance. It really helped me a lot cause I grew up believing that having seances and communing with the dead was an evil and dangerous thing, so I was amazed to learn that the whole experience can be a very safe, gentle and satisfying one. Another thing that sold me on this enlightened read were the the many heart felt prayers I found in the book to help with protection and staying in the light. The author knows his stuff and wasn't afraid to share it with us. I also got a lot of useful info about reincarnation, the spirit world, and even how to see my own aura. I found the lists and charts helpful as well. I would recommend this well presented teacher to anyone wanting a clear and simple path to Mediumship. This little winner has handily made it's way to my spiritual toolbox. Thanks Larry, I will get a lot of mileage out of this one. Love & Light Riki Frahmann
    • 4/5
      This is an excellent resource for spiritualists interested in mediumship, crossing over, and the idea of contacting loved ones and/or other spirits in other worlds, or in this world. It's a well written, small book filled with a font of knowledge, and includes many anecdotes to help give a flavour to what is being described. While it doesn't really serve my needs anymore, it's still a good book, and it was a good read.

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    Beginner's Guide to Mediumship - Larry Dreller

    CHAPTER 1

    WHY BE A MEDIUM?

    Death is an entrance to experience rather than an exit from it.

    —Charles Lindbergh

    WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT to make contact with the spirit world in the first place? What possible benefit could come from communication with the deceased? These two simple questions are at the heart of mediumship. Frequently, a biblical admonishment against spirit contact is quoted:

    For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing…. their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun…. [T]here is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave (Ecclesiastes, 9:5,6,10).¹

    But the grave is not the end! Some faiths believe that at death the soul is released. Forget the traditional notion of a withered shell waiting the moment of resurrection. The soul—our very essence—departs the body at death.

    Now comes the first test in your quest for THE answer. Where does that energy, that certain, unique life force, go? Ask the hundreds of thousands of people across our planet who have had a near-death experience. The medical community's cold, simplistic solution is that a secretion of brain chemicals floods the brain with delusions as the brain is denied oxygen, saying that the people who were pronounced clinically dead, then later revived, were never really dead in the first place, their stories being merely remnants of dreams.

    Again, why would we want to communicate with those who have passed on to the other side—if there is such a place? The medium's self-assured answers would be:

    To comfort the bereaved; to lessen pain and guilt;

    To pray for, and assist, the departed soul in its transition;

    Knowledge;

    To negate fear of death and establish peace of mind for the living;

    To open communication and dialogue with the spirit world;

    To reveal to the living that there are possible paybacks or rewards for mortal actions;

    The development of prophesy;

    For healing.

    And then you might ask why the departed would want to enter into communication with the living.

    I'm okay messages to loved ones;

    Relax, you're going to be all right when it's your time to join us;

    To give help and assistance;

    Interest and curiosity in the living;

    To settle unfinished business left behind.

    Most people at one time or another think about their personal mortality, and then, out of fear, indifference, or ignorance, push the greatest of all adventures to the side. The medium does not. It's not a morbid preoccupation with death that drives the medium, it is a never-ending thirst for knowledge and a profound willingness to help others. True mediumship can be a discipline that can be as exciting and new as an explorer's first discovery. This incredible psychic gift is not satanic, sinful, or a waste of time or energy, but, instead, is an enlightened, progressive path that leads one to find the answers that have bewildered and frightened human beings since they were first able to reason. Why shiver in the darkness of night when you could be warming yourself in glorious sunshine?

    Several years ago I conducted my own personal straw poll, attempting to ascertain why people became mediums and psychics. I attended workshops and countless lectures, read shelves of books, researched related articles, all the while trying to determine if there was a common thread as to why they decided to take the plunge into the field. Listed below are the responses that came up with the most frequency. Could some of these fit your interests in mediumship?

    Felt they were psychically gifted;

    Have had unexplained experiences;

    Curious;

    Afraid of death, and this was the way of combating this fear;

    Want to believe;

    Search for meaning;

    Want to make contact with the departed;

    Desire to help others;

    Adventurous;

    Belief in the eternal progress of the soul.

    These were the most common responses, however I ran into other motives:

    Excitement;

    Escape from daily, mundane routine;

    Research;

    Exposure and debunking of psychics and mediums;

    Desire to be the center of attention.

    And sorry to say, there were some that simply had a screw loose. It is also interesting to note that the majority of mediums I've met and read about have been women, coming from a traditional Protestant background, with many having a college education, and most holding mainstream employment.

    Personal Notes

    The birth of my interest in mediumship occurred when I was a teenager. When I was 14, I had a series of unusual dreams, now mainly forgotten, but a few so vivid that I can recall detail for detail. In these dreams, I met people I had never known. One dapper gentleman, dressed in a houndstooth suit and white spats, appeared regularly in my dreams, usually delivering lectures on the importance of homework and imparting advice on how to get along with family members. One day really stands out. My maternal grandmother was showing me a very old family picture album I hadn't seen before. In it were faded pictures of some people that I had actually seen in my dreams, but one picture in particular struck me: it was the dapper gentleman who had hounded me about my homework and family relationships. It was my grandfather who had passed over in 1932!

    My grandmother was amazed that I knew so much about our deceased relatives, and in particular her husband, my grandfather. If she had only known that I was also privy to several very delicate family secrets, I'm sure she would have been quite upset, however I was moved to keep them to myself because it would have been very difficult to explain my inside sources. I must also state that I was at no time unnerved by these experiences. I know I should have been but, for some reason, I simply put them aside to be dealt with at a later time.

    As I grew into my late teens I believe the dreams ceased; at least I cannot recall them—or there was nothing startling to recall. My next brush with the paranormal occurred when I had gone to the funeral service of my grandmother ‘s best friend. I had been busily twitching in the pew, hoping the morbid service would quickly end because I had to get home to change for a hot date that Saturday afternoon.

    I then saw her, my grandmother's friend. She was standing to the back of her open coffin, looking down at her physical remains. She was fashionably dressed in a light blue dress with white gloves, white purse, and a white picture hat, all in an early 1950s style. She looked freshly-young with a wide beaming smile spread across her pretty face, and she had the posture of a much younger woman. She was sort of transparent and yet solid.

    I looked around the overflowing room to see if others had seen her, and they apparently had not, and I knew at that exact moment our concept of death was wrong. Halfway through the tedious stream of eulogies, she literally evaporated in a puff of whitish-colored fog.

    For some reason these encounters hadn't jarred me in the least, probably because I was a high school student with a lot of life to live—proms, dates, teen stuff, and the usual hormonal surges that young men go through.

    Then the big jolt happened! A numbing encounter with the spirit world occurred when I was a sailor in the U.S. Navy. Our ship had moored alongside a decommissioned World War II ship in the San Diego docks. This ship, with numerous other warships, had been mothballed (preserved) for years in the eventuality of need for some future war. Our mission was to strip the ship of anything that could be salvaged prior to its being reduced into scrap metal for sale to Japan.

    For three days, particularly when I was on night watch, my hair would almost stand on end. The large dark hulk of the deserted ship next to ours was downright spooky. When it became my unit's turn to open and search the bridge area of the ship, specifically the Quartermaster's storage locker, I hung safely to the back of two shipmates who opened the hatch (door).

    Everything was stored neatly on shelves: sextants, foul weather gear, signal flags, charts, binoculars, flare guns, and other equipment. On the bulkhead (wall) was a perfectly preserved picture of movie actress Rita Hayworth, dressed in a revealing nightgown. My nerve endings now tingled with this violation of the past.

    Later that night, I was on deck watch, assigned to the bridge of the deserted ship. While making my first series of rounds, I heard the faint sounds of music coming from the Quartermaster's storage locker. After forcing myself to open the hatch, I made contact. I can still vividly recall the shock I felt that night so many years ago.

    Two sailors dressed in regulation denim workshirts and pants were laughing while they stood over a third sailor who was kneeling on the deck with playing cards spread out before him. The music coming from the old radio receiver was vintage 40s dance band music, and it filled the locker storeroom.

    I stood, it seemed for years, trying to catch my breath, then screwed up enough courage to demand what they were doing in the storeroom. The three sailors immediately stopped laughing, looked directly into my eyes, I don't remember how long, then faded in micro-seconds. I had enough composure not to panic, and I barely remembered switching off the radio, placing the playing cards back in their box—but not before I stuffed the Queen of Hearts into my chest pocket, which I kept for years as a reminder of that evening. I am still curious

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