ABOUT BARBARA
I like to think I am a spiritual person (as opposed to religious) but the truth is, the definition of spirituality is a perception, so what one person thinks of as spiritual can be radically different from another person’s definition!
I guess anyone who appreciates Life, nature, sees the good in others (regardless of what they’ve been told) and basically works through their heart rather than their head is a spiritual person (and yep, by that definition, I am most definitely a spiritual person!)
I would have to say that the basis for my spirituality stems from childhood when my experiences didn’t tally with those of other kids, some good, some definitely not!
I am what’s commonly referred to as an Hereditary Psychic. My father was an intuitive. His mother was a medium, and her sister was a clairvoyant with the ability to foretell the future. As my grandmother died when Dad was in his late teens/early 20s … and as Dad NEVER talked about “that stuff” (because of my mother) … I have no idea how many generations before me were gifted.
In my immediate family, my sister had a couple of intuitive experiences and my brother only one. Both of my sons have experienced psychic phenomena; both of them, like my mother had been, are scared. My youngest likes to pretend “that stuff” doesn’t exist … I don’t know how he’s going to cope when he realises his son has the “psychic gene” (yes, I’ve seen instances of it).
I should point out that there are things I do now that I didn’t do as a child/adolescent; and there were things I could do then, that I choose not to do now. I’m 99.9 per cent sure I’ve still got ‘stuff’ to learn!
Just to set the record straight: not all psychics are mediums … but all mediums are psychics! Some psychics have the ability to hear what others can not (clairaudience), some can see what others can not (clairvoyance), but every psychic I’ve ever met has been clairsentient – they are able to feel what many can not.
What am I? Well, I’ve walked with angels for many years, and I’m a channel for their messages. I always have to tell my clients that they can’t shoot the messenger if they don’t like the message they receive (through automatic writing) because I have no control over what is written, how it is written, or its contents. I just turn myself over, so to speak.
I have had a few ‘moments’ over the years: there was the time the message was written in Korean – and I had to ask my client what it said … and told the angels not to do that again! Did they listen? Did they heck! Another time, part of the message was written in Macedonian – another language I don’t have a clue about!! Then there was the teenager who told me his name was Carmelo, but the message began with ‘Carmelito’ – honest to goodness, I was cringing on the inside until he told me no-one had called him that since he was a youngster. (Apparently, the ‘-ito’ is a term of endearment.)
I have the gifts of clairaudience, clairvoyance and clairsentience. I used to see auras in colour … and I wish I still did; now I see auras in black, white and 50 shades of grey. I understand why – without the colour I am better able to see the cracks, crevices, and canyons in an aura, which makes it easier for me to heal it.
Like my grandmother, I am a medium. Unlike my grandmother, I prefer not to be. Nowadays, I don’t move people on unless I absolutely have to. It’s not that it’s hard, or difficult, it’s that the dead always seem to think that between two and three in the morning is a good time to move on.
Thomas, my grandmother’s guide when she conducted seances, is now my guide when I astral travel or explore other dimensions … and I have to say I wouldn’t want to go anywhere without him. I know that I am safe with him by my side and will be guided back to my physical body, always. You have no idea how important that is because I’ve come close to being lost once or twice!
I see ghosts – and sometimes I’m not even aware that they are. That’s because they are as solid as you and me … not transparent. I remember having a wonderful conversation with the gardener at a National Trust house only to find out they didn’t have a gardener!!
I not only have the ability to see negative entities – those that feed on auras, and those that feed on people – but also have the ability to clear them (with angel help, I hasten to add). I’m also able to close portals to other dimensions when the veil between that dimension and this one become so thin that the little – and not so little – critters come through.
Negative entities also inhabit and create depression in houses and workplaces and I have cleared many such places in the last 20 years. Most of the time, I cope quite well but there have been a couple of instances when I’ve been so fatigued from the clearing that all I want to do is sleep like Rip Van Winkle.
And if all that isn’t enough, I’m also an empath! (Which is great when I’m healing; not so great if I forget to protect myself before venturing down the street.)
I’ve run a successful psychic course since 2003; have facilitated hundreds of workshops connecting people with their angels; taught a variety of spiritual/metaphysic/esoteric topics at countless workshops; channelled soooooo many angel messages at psychic fairs, “angel parties”, and for individual clients; helped heaps of people on their individual Life Journeys; shown other empaths how to shut down and protect themselves from other people’s feelings and energy; and mentored many others.
Phew!
I’ve written a little book about some of my experiences …. If you’d like a copy, just click here, and a copy of Close Encounters of the Psychic Kind will be yours.
