| Letter to the Developing Medium |
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| Introduction |
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How This Book Is Set Up and How It Can Help You |
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4 | (7) |
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Part 1 Clarifying Genuine Mediumship |
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1 Dispelling Common Myths and Fears |
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What a Medium Is ... and Isn't |
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21 | (3) |
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An Alternate Perspective on Negative Spiritual Experiences |
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Evil and Negative Spirits |
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Spiritual or Psychological? |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (4) |
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Myths About the Afterlife |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (3) |
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2 Understanding the Authentic Medium's Experience |
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What to Expect on Your Mediumship Journey |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (1) |
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Remaining Grounded for Genuine Spiritual Connection |
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Addressing Toxic Positivity |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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Avoiding Cold Reading, Hot Reading, and Mentalism |
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Part 2 Historical Mediums and Forms of Mediumship |
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3 The Many Ways in Which Mediumship Can Show Itself |
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4 Exceptional Mediums of the Past |
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Examples of Mental Mediums |
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Examples of Physical Mediums |
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Examples of Trance Mediums |
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Examples of Healing Mediums |
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5 Ethics of Mediumship and Psychic Work |
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Unethical Information: Predicting Death, Disease, Divorce, or Disaster |
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6 Understand Potential Sources of Tension So You Can Surrender |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (4) |
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108 | (3) |
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7 Become Familiar with Grief |
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Remain Compassionate and Nonjudgmental |
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113 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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Allow Grief to Be Processed |
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Mediums Experience Grief, Too |
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118 | (1) |
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Grief Can Make It Difficult to Connect |
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Part 4 A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing Mediumship |
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8 Begin by Working with the Power |
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How Working with the Power Feels |
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The Power of the Spirit vs. Your Personal Power |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (3) |
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How It Differs from Meditation |
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Exercise: Sitting In the Power |
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9 Making Sense of the Sensations You Experience |
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137 | (6) |
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Exercise: Attunement Process |
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Exercise: Practicing Narration |
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10 Connecting with Your Spirit Guides |
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143 | (12) |
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144 | (1) |
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My Experience of Meeting My Guide |
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145 | (4) |
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What Guides Do vs. What They Don't Do |
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149 | (2) |
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Exercise: Learning to Sense and Feel Your Guide |
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151 | (4) |
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11 Connecting with Spirit Communicators |
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155 | (14) |
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155 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (3) |
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161 | (1) |
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The Triangle of Communication |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (1) |
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Put Aside Desire, Distraction, and Expectation |
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164 | (1) |
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Describe, Don't Interpret |
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165 | (1) |
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Exercise: Experience Connecting with a Spirit Communicator |
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167 | (2) |
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12 Learning to Recognize Spirit People by Their Essence |
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Exercise: Sensing Physical Essence |
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170 | (1) |
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Exercise: Discovering Where and How You Feel the Essence |
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173 | (2) |
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Checking In with Your Feeling Space |
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175 | (2) |
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13 Discerning and Delivering Quality Evidence |
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Types of Evidential Information |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (1) |
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What Quality Evidence Is Not |
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181 | (1) |
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Information That Can't Be Validated |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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Fear-Based, Predictive, or Interfering Information |
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183 | (1) |
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Information That's Lacking Context |
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184 | (1) |
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How to Get Quality Evidence |
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Describing the Changes as They Happen |
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186 | (2) |
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Exploring Layers of the Communication |
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188 | (5) |
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Exercise: Making a Clear and Evidential Link with a Spirit Communicator |
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193 | (4) |
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14 Sharing the Message from Loved Ones in Spirit |
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197 | (10) |
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What Constitutes a Message |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (2) |
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Things That Might Be Included |
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200 | (1) |
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Examples of Quality Messages |
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201 | (3) |
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Exercise: Message-Focused Reading |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (2) |
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15 Troubleshooting Readings |
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207 | (20) |
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Issues Stemming from the Medium |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (2) |
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Switching---Is This More Than One Spirit? |
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212 | (3) |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (2) |
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Issues Stemming from the Sitter |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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Sitters Who Want Something Specific |
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222 | (2) |
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Issues Stemming from the Spirit Communicator |
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224 | (3) |
| Conclusion |
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| Recommended Resources |
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