SPIRIT FAIR

In addition to having pictures of our auras taken at the spirit fair, Brenda and I sat in on another demonstration (Angel Messages) by medium Cyndy Green.  Fortunately I remembered to bring my Sony digital recorder because both Brenda and I received messages this time.  

As usual we are given slips of paper to write our "billets" (french for notes) to whoever we want to contact.  We are to write it in the form of a letter - dear whoever - first and last name; or dear spirit or guardian angel or spirit guide.  We can ask one or two questions, then we must sign our first and last name.  Then we fold the paper and hold it in both hands to impart our energy to the paper.  The notes are collected and given to Cyndy only after she has blindfolded herself.  

Before she puts on a large black blindfold, she tapes her eyes shut.  The basket of billets are put on the table in front of her and she will take one or two out and rub them in her hands and on her forehead and will continue to do this for the entire hour.  Her individual readings are usually short, just a minute or two.  Some are a little longer.  All the while I am trying to figure out if there is some way that she could be reading what is on those notes.


After about the first fifteen minutes Cyndy said her spirit guide (named Tidbit) showed her best friend from high school who was Brenda and then she saw a fish tank.  Brenda's last name is Frisch.
Then Cyndy said she saw her uncle Bill so she could have a Bill or William present - Brenda's father's name was Bill.  Brenda just wanted to know if her father was happy, but the message she got was rather unexpected.  Her father's message was that she didn't pray enough and he felt that he hadn't prayed enough.  This was perplexing to Brenda because her father was very devout and prayed every night and Brenda certainly had had enough in her life going on recently that she had been praying quite frequently (or so she thought).  We could only speculate that when we actually come face to face to God we will all probably feel like we should have prayed more.  


A few more readings, then it was my turn when Cyndy said she was "going back to another Sue, Suzanne, Suzette, that kind of name.  Someone in spirit . . . she's got babies, a baby like triplets, but three like that, but there are four or five."  When she mentioned babies I thought she was talking about someone else, but then she said "She says come here Muffin, Roxie . . .  Someone who has lots of babies, now these can be real babies, cat babies or dog babies.  She says tell her it's Judy and I've got them all . . .  They are all perfect and they are well taken care of."  I was floored.  I had asked my sister Judy if she had my dogs there, one's name was Miffy and another was Roxie.  After listening to the recording a couple of times I realized that when she was talking about triplets she could have been referring to three of my dogs who were Boxers, then Miffy was a Cocker Spaniel and Casey was a mutt.  So, as she said "three like that but there are four or five." 

Then Cyndy said "she says that they visit you and when your feet are down you can feel them when you think you have a bug or fly or an itch below your knee, it's them rubbing up against you.  You can feel them."  Wow.  Now every time I have any little itch I will wonder if it's one of my dead dogs.

When a reading is this perfect you have to wonder if there was some trick here because it was just too good to be true.  Cyndy is having another demonstration on June 2 and this time I am going to really observe and photograph her taping her eyes and watching her closely to see if she could somehow be reading any of the notes.  On Youtube there are videos of her and there is one that shows her taping her eyes before the blindfold - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6-8KujWfU   There are other videos of her if you go to Youtube and search the site for Cyndy Angel Messages.  I will also ask a question that has an answer that she can't get by reading the billet.  With the question I have in mind if she answers with a name like she will need to, then I will believe that she doesn't read the notes.

Another thing I learned after these readings and listening to the recording is that sometimes we will hear things that are not said.  For example, Brenda thought that Cyndy had said her father's initials (B.J.) - she swore up and down that she had heard them, but I didn't.  So after listening to the recording Brenda realized that Cyndy had not mentioned the initials.  For some reason I had thought Cyndy had said something about babies being in a stroller, but once again that was incorrect.  Our minds were probably trying to process the information and maybe filled in the blanks with what we expected to try to make sense of the information that was given to us.  Maybe this is why eye witness testimony is many times deemed unreliable.  Just one more reason why it is so important to ALWAYS record any session with a medium and to listen to it a couple of times later.

AURAS - OUR ENERGY FIELD

Last Saturday I went to another Spirit Fair with my friend Brenda.  She had just completed her treatment for breast cancer and wanted to get another photo of her aura to see if there was any significant change.  I was curious to have another one just to see if it would be similar to the last one I had.  Interestingly, both ours were basically like our last ones.  This was Brenda's third picture and hers was still a yellow gold but with more green on one side - which turned out to be the side she had radiation.  Mine was still blue but this time the violet had spread more around my whole body.

According to information given to us every living being is surrounded by an electro-magnetic energy field.  This field can vibrate and fluctuate at different levels which determine the color and intensity of the aura.  While sitting for the picture one places their hands on bio-feedback collectors that send messages to the computer to print out the description of your aura. I don't know what kind of camera they use but it records your aura on Polaroid film.

What do the colors mean?  All the color interpretations have both positive and negative descriptions.  Literature provided by the vendor, AuraStar, describes the colors in my aura as follows:

Blue - Communication, learning, calm and peaceful disposition, emotional health, faith and trust, inner-voice certainty, clarity, integrity, creativity, melancholy, immaturity, obsessiveness, spiritual arrogance, cold personality.  Relates to the thyroid and metabolism.  Of course the first nine characteristics describe me.


Violet - Intuition and psychic ability, spiritual activity or information, trance mediumship, transmutation, therapeutic healing, protection, heart or stomach trouble, arrogance, superiority.  Relates to the pineal and pituitary glands.  Honestly, the only characteristic of this color I can relate to is the stomach trouble, which is probably due to the ten or more cups of coffee I have a day.  I suppose that sometimes I do have some intuition, but no more than most people.


Green - Healing/teaching energy, renewal or change, magnetic abundance, calming, physical discomfort, deception, distrust or doubt, naivete.  Relates to the thymus and immune system.


White - High spiritual development, consciously applied protection, natural healing, high metabolism, shyness, scattered energy, stress, tension, nervousness, chemical presence.  Well, I do have a chemical presence from my anti-inflammatory medication that I take.


We were also provided with a description of our photo and what the colors meant in relation to where they are located - center, right or left side.  The color on the left (my left) is the vibration coming into my being.  The closer it is to you, the sooner it will be felt.  A few moments, hours, or as long as a few months.  In my first picture you can see there is a violet blob on my left side which meant that spiritual evolution is in store for me. "Violet brings unlimited knowledge.  You will encounter the rays of guide energies, the highest vibrational frequencies will be distributed to you."  Interestingly, in the second photo the violet has spread all the way around my head so I guess I have unlimited knowledge now.  I just have to figure out how to tap into the high vibrational frequencies that have been given me.

In my second photo my left side is described as "very bright.  A healing is coming for you and those around you.  You are not a novice as the beauty of white light attracts all beings at every level of existence.  These beings are very loving.  They are there to help your evolution.  A time to assist others in transition, or to make transitions yourself."  Assisting others in transition can relate to my work as a hospice volunteer.


"The color seen over the head is what you experience for yourself now.  It is the color that would best describe you.  If the color is high, it could mean aspirations, or what you wish to be."  In my first photo I have white over my head (between the blue and green)
which meant that I am spiritually motivated because white has the qualities of all the colors.


In my second photo I have blue over my head and I was told that meant "depth of feeling would best describe you.  Blue is the blissful fulfillment of the highest ideals of unity, of at-one-ness, of a reunion with earth-mother.  It is truth and trust, love  and dedication.  Peace, tranquility, contentment, tenderness, love, and affection are the qualities most important to you."  Of course.


Color on the right side of the body is traditionally the energy being expressed.  The vibrational frequency most likely seen or felt by others around you.  Many times friends will think this is the energy you are made of, however, it is the energy you are putting out to the world.


In the first photo I have green on my right which meant that "people see you as magical. You put out the highest vibrational frequency and what you want comes to you as if by magic.  (Not that I have noticed . . .)


In the second photo I now have violet on my right but this time it means "a healing energy is being expressed.  An expression of firmness, of constancy, and resistance to change.  --Elastic tension--"  Well, that is kind of vague.

ORBS - CRESCENT HOTEL, EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS

Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to visit the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs.  The Crescent was built in 1886 and for the first 15 years operated as an exclusive year round resort hotel. What it is actually remembered for, however, is it's operation as a cancer hospital that was run by a con man, Norman Baker, who claimed to have a new cure for cancer.  Tragically many people believed it and went to the Crescent for treatment.  Today the hotel has a nightly ghost tour where one can learn the entire story of Mr. Baker and hear stories of the sightings and experiences people have had over the years.  They encourage taking many pictures during the tour because you are more or less guaranteed to get a picture of an orb.


Before I went on the Crescent ghost tour I never thought orbs were real.  I thought they would be too easy to fake so I never thought that much about them.  My sister's position on paranormal photography was even stronger since she worked with photography and publishing.  She had once commented that anything can be done with photographs today and not to believe anything you see in one unless you taken the picture  yourself.  I thought that was good advice. 

One spring weekend in 2006 I went to Eureka Springs with my sister Judy and my best friend Brenda where we had made reservations at the Crescent.  We were put in room 313 - which we learned later had a reputation for occasional paranormal phenomena.  After depositing our bags in our room we bought our tickets ($15) for the ghost tour, then enjoyed a drink at the Norman Baker Bar before embarking on our shopping spree downtown. 


The ghost tour is very popular and there was a good size crowd for our tour.  We began in the basement area where there is now a spa, although the morgue where the autopsies were performed was further back and probably hasn't changed too much.  As we sat on the basement stairs and listened to the lecture we were told to start taking pictures and we would get orbs.  I didn't believe it, but started taking pictures anyway.  After the first couple of photos I noticed my first orb.  I was really shocked.  The first orbs show up in front of the glass door to the spa and there is a bigger one in front of the sign to the left.

In the second picture the orb in front of the sign has moved to the right and is larger (or maybe it's a different orb) and there are several more further down that look like they are exiting the spa.

It's really impossible to determine how big they actually are because we don't know their distance from the camera. Next we went through a long hallway which led to several storage rooms in the back.  One of which was used for the morgue. 

Ghost Hunters have also been to the Crescent Hotel and you can go to their website and watch the episode.  Using their infrared camera Jason and Grant caught a full body apparition in front of an old storage cabinet.  If it's not staged, then it really is impressive.  For more information on this episode go to www.americasmosthauntedhotel.com where you can also see a short video clip of the apparition that was filmed.  As you can see in the picture below, I did not capture anything paranormal.

On the second floor is a room that is said to be haunted by Michael, a stonemason who fell to his death as the Crescent was being built and landed in room 213.  I didn't think I had anything that interesting in the way of orbs when I took several photos of the hallway on the second floor.  What I did not appreciate at the time, however, was that my sister who was also taking pictures of the hallway apparently got a photo of the same two blue orbs that I did.  So much for orbs being dust.  Anyway, we thought that was interesting and then did not think anything of it because the orbs were small and we liked the bigger ones.  We were totally unaware of the controversy surrounding orbs so we had no thought about trying to determine what orbs were or were not.  We were just middle aged women on a weekend trip having fun.  (And fun we had!)  We even made a new friend who also lives in Tulsa and we see from time to time. (We met up with Leslie in Atchison, Kansas and she is in the photo with us and the big orb.  See my post on Atchison, Nov. 11, 2011.)  


In this photo are the two small blue orbs on or near the floor on either side of the hallway that my sister and I both took a photo of.  Not a real impressive picture, but it was exciting for us.

Our room, however, seemed to be a little more active.  We heard the story of how some former occupants of room 313 were playing with a ouija board and being loud enough to generate a few complaints to the management.  At one point something happened that scared them so bad they all ran out of the room and would not go back in.  A hotel employee had to retrieve their belongings.  Nothing that scary happened to us, just a couple of odd things.  In the bathroom there is a pedestal sink with a shelf above it for toiletries.  As we were sitting in the bedroom enjoying the wine I brought along we heard a clatter in the bathroom.  Upon inspection I found that my deodorant had fallen from the shelf into the sink.  Weird. I replaced it back on the shelf and it didn't fall again.  Back to my glass of wine that I was about to finish off when we heard a "pop".  The cork that had been placed back in the wine bottle had actually popped out and flown a couple of feet.  I don't know if that was paranormal or not, but that has never happened before or since. If anyone else has ever had a cork pop out of a bottle of wine like that I would like to know.


We had more luck getting pictures of orbs in our room.  In fact I deleted a lot of pictures from my camera and just kept the good ones.  For whatever reason it seemed that I had the best luck getting orb photos whenever my sister was in the picture.  I guess they liked her.

Maybe it was her perfume . . .

By the second evening my sister was getting a little annoyed with me taking her picture every few minutes to see if there were any orbs. The next two are taken while she was trying to watch TV and there was another orb around her that seemed to move slowly as it had changed position in the next picture.  There was at least 15 seconds between the two pictures - I would take a picture then look at it and if there was an orb in it I would immediately take another one.

In this picture the orb is by the pillow.  What looks like what might be a huge fish shaped orb to the left of the bed is actually a weird reflection from the camera.  I found that if I covered up the mirror that would not appear.  In the next photo the orb has moved from the pillow to right above my sister's head.  It is a little fainter so a little harder to see.

My sister hates these pictures.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA PSYCHICS

My youngest daughter has lived in Phoenix, Arizona for the last three years, during which I have had the opportunity to visit her several times a year.  One of the things I have noticed is that there is an abundance of psychics and mediums in the Phoenix area.  My daughter lives in central Phoenix and it seems that every time we go somewhere we will usually pass a sign advertising psychic services and within two miles of my daughter's condo are two:

I have seen these same style signs on the roof and windows of another similar building in Branson, Missouri which makes me wonder if it is a franchise.

 This sign was in the other direction of the condo but still less than five miles from the other business.  

Sedona, Arizona is well known for having a large population of psychics and healers.  The rates there are, however, more expensive; most likely due to the higher cost of doing business.

 On the main street the psychics are nestled between the souvenir shops.

 Sign for Psychic Reader second from the top on the left.

Since I was with my skeptical husband there was no way I was going to suggest I get a reading with one of Sedona's psychics.  However, when he saw the first office for a psychic he did mention that maybe he should consult a psychic about his bad knee that was getting worse.  That was probably the closest I will ever get him to even thinking about going to a psychic!

AN AMAZING GALLERY WITH BRANDIE CHRISMAN

A few weeks ago I took a friend to another gallery given by Brandie Chrisman (see psychic # 2 from last April post).  Christine had been in town to care for her elderly mother who was in declining health and on hospice care.  Chris had also lost her brother suddenly only a month prior to coming to the gallery, so naturally she was hoping to hear from him.  Well, hear from him she did - and her father.  For her $25 she had a little over 20 minute reading.  And as usual Brandie was extremely accurate.

The gallery was held at the same Hampton Inn as before in a small conference room.  There were less than a dozen attending this time which increased the odds of getting a reading.  I had a feeling, however, that Christine's dad would come through as he did for me when I had a reading with the Kansas City medium (see post for medium #3 last October) and my intuition was spot on.

Brandie began the session by explaining how an intuitive medium works and then having us ask questions.  Unfortunately I did not have enough sense to turn my recorder on and I should have because her information was very interesting.  One question I asked her was if she could hear a spirit and she replied that she could not - everything she received was from her "feeling it".  I also asked her if she had ever tried remote viewing and she had not; in fact she didn't know what that was.  (For information on remote viewing go to www.mceagle.com - a website for Joe McMoneagle who worked for the government as a psychic spy.)  I have a feeling that Brandie would be excellent at remote viewing.  Christine asked her if she had ever "seeked knowledge" and I had no idea what she was talking about.  However, Brandie did and stated that she had tried it once and can't remember anything she said.  She said that her mother was present and a couple of other people.  Apparently she must go into a trance and channel someone or something.  I'd really like to know what she said! 

Fortunately I remembered to turn my recorder on for the reading!
As usual, Brandie was uncannily accurate.  After transcribing the reading I counted over 40 items that Brandie had mentioned about Christine's father and brother.  When Christine read the transcription she realized that there were a few things where she had responded no that she should have responded yes.  This underscores the importance of always recording any reading you go to!  During a reading you are trying to process one piece of information when you are given another piece of information to process and while you are trying to process everything it is not uncommon for one to have what John Edwards calls "psychic amnesia."  You really can go blank - I've done it.

Here is a condensed version of the reading with just the facts that Brandie gave to Christine:

She felt he had height to him - over six feet.
He had broad shoulders.
He had very long legs.
He was a father or grandfather on the father's side.
He wore jeans.
  [This is all correct except for the broad shoulders.  Brandie said
she felt him pulling her shoulders back which is why she felt he must have broad shoulders.  Later Christine thought maybe he was
trying to get across that he was no longer stooped and his back was straight again.]

He was a plain, simple kind of guy.
Works with his hands, he was a mechanic.
Brandie wants to place him outside when he worked with something mechanical.
[He was a mechanic for an airline and was a plain, simple man.  Not sure about working outside but since he worked on planes during WWII he probably did work on some of the planes outside.]  

His passing was heart related.
His death was sudden but the illness was not.
He didn't want to talk about it or get it looked at.
He did not want to inconvenience anyone - did not want to upset the momentum.
He had an issue with his lungs as well; a smokers cough; and his cough was bothersome.
He had a very mechanical aspect to him.
He had a natural knowledge and wisdom.
He would stand his ground.
[All true.]

Brandie said he was talking about his other girl and asked if it was Christine's sister, however, since Christine has no sister Brandie said it must be that she and her mom must have been his girls. [Correct]

He had a quite side.
He could communicate when it mattered.
He was a nail bitter.
He had a rigorous background - military.
Took his background in the military with him.
There was a sad side to him that was pretty deep.
Chris was not there when he passed.
His wife was very giving and he felt he did not fully vocalize his appreciation.
There were words left unsaid.
[All of this describes Christine's dad.  He learned how to work on planes in the military and after the war he worked at American Airlines until he retired. He did suffer from depression. Christine confirmed "the words left unsaid" were what she always wished she had said to her father before he went into surgery.]  

He really wanted Christine to succeed academically.
He was showing Christine as an academic.  (Chris answered NO to her being "an academic".  He always wanted desperately for her to be more academically inclined and would enroll her in anything extra outside of school he could find.)

He showed Brandie a hospital bracelet.  (Christine's mother was in the hospital at that time.)  Brandie also saw a watch and a ring.  (Christine thought that her mother's watch and ring had been lost at the hospital but fortunately they were found.)

Brandie said that Christine favors her father in demeanor and that
she sizes people up before she lets them in.
[A spot on description of Christine!]

Brandie then mentioned her brother and Christine told her that he had recently passed so Brandie connected to him next.  He began by showing her his last few days although Brandie said he did not want to talk about his cause of death.

She saw her brother as being less focused and not being able to gather his thoughts.
He had a great deal of confusion.
There must have been a blood clot, stroke or some sort of alzhiemers.
She could feel his overwhelming frustration and anxiety.
He physically could not talk.
People were caring for him.
[Everything is correct.  Her brother had open heart bypass surgery a few months prior to his death and he could not recover enough to take care of himself.  Eventually, one day he could not catch his breath and called 911 and when the paramedics got there he went into cardiac arrest and they resuscitated him for six minutes.  At the hospital they put him into an induced coma to help reduce swelling in his brain and put him on a ventilator.  A couple of days later when he was awakened and they tried to wean him off the ventilator he could not tolerate it because his lungs would keep filling up with fluid.  It was then determined that he had lung cancer and he was in no condition to have chemo.  In short, there was nothing left to do for him.  The doctors were not sure how much brain damage there had been from such a long resuscitation. However, he did recognize people and could respond that he understood some things. Sadly, he could not live without the ventilator and his doctors had to let him know there was nothing more they could do for him.  When his breathing tube was removed he passed very quickly.]

Also:
He was Christine's older brother.
When they were younger they got on each other's nerves but as adults they became closer.
He had a sense of humor.
He passed within a month or two.
He was in a nursing facility.
[All of this is correct]

Then Brandie gave Christine's Bob's message, which was that he was no longer in pain and he was up again.  [Christine and Bob's children had worked hard on encouraging Bob to get up and start walking after his surgery.  It was difficult for him to walk so he would rarely get out of his recliner when he was home.  He did not tolerate the post surgery pain well.  I was not surprised that he would want to tell Chris that he was up.]

Christine's father's message was that her brother is not alone "because it is very significant that they are together and they are not alone."
[The one question that Christine had wanted answered was were her father and brother together - that was very important to her. Fortunately she got her answer.]

Then Brandie said "They are wanting to talk to you about you must have been worried that you were the only one left and it must have been causing you some stress . . . they are talking about things needing to be proved to you . . . this is your proof."
[She had been mourning the fact that soon she would be the only one left of her family and she was looking for assurances that there really was something after we leave this life.  I believe she got what she came for!]

SPIRIT FAIR

A couple of months ago I attended my first Spirit Fair that was held in Tulsa, OK at a hotel by the airport.  The admission was only six dollars which we thought was a bargain for the interesting lectures and vendors.  There were two large rooms - one containing about 20 vendors and another for the lectures. 

 Among the vendors was a couple with a special camera that took photographs of auras and which was then interpreted.  Of course I had to have that done and was delighted to see I was surrounded by my favorite color blue with a little pink on one side.  Supposedly that pink meant I was a little physic but I'm not feeling it!  My friend Brenda was surrounded in gold. Photographs of other people and their auras displayed at their booth showed that there are some basic auras that people can have with a few minor differences.  Which made me wonder if the camera was really taking a photo of my aura or if it randomly alternated the same colors around people. 


There were lectures on spirit photography, EVP's (electronic voice phenomena) and the pro's and con's of ghost hunting.  But the only one we were really interested in was the Angel Messages given by a talented medium named Cyndy (and her spirit guide Tidbit).  This was the most unusual and entertaining gallery I have ever attended in my life. Participants are given a sheet of paper and asked to write any question they have for a deceased loved one, Tidbit, spirit or the universe.  You then sign your name and fold the paper which you hold between both hands and press to your chest.  An assistant passes a basket around for all to place their billet.  Billet is french for note.

While everyone is writing their question Cyndy is taping her eyes shut and then is blindfolded.  The basket filled with billets is placed on the table which she is standing behind and she takes out each billet and rubs it in her hands and on her forehead and she continues to do this throughout the entire hour. Then she begins her readings which appeared to be quite accurate (including names) for the lucky ones she read for, some of whom she left in tears.

There are videos of Cyndy on Youtube (search for Cyndy's angel messages) and of course there is her website www.cyndysangelmessages.com.  We really enjoyed Cyndy's sense of humor and without a doubt she is the most entertaining medium I have witnessed (and that includes the ones I have seen on tv).

ATCHISON, KS GALLERY WITH TRACI BRAY - UPDATE

Toward the end of the gallery Traci had worked her way around the room and made her way to our table where she stopped and stood less than two feet from my friend Brenda.  Traci asked if anyone knew of someone named Brenda who had passed from breast cancer.  No one responded and the room remained silent.  Brenda and I looked at each other and I knew what she was thinking, which was the same thing I was thinking, which was "oh shit!".  Having no one acknowledge knowing anyone named Brenda who had passed, Traci moved on to the next soul wanting to come through. 

After the gallery concluded Brenda asked Traci if perhaps that message could be for her since she was named Brenda.  Traci's response at the time was that "it really didn't work that way" and she thought Brenda had nothing to worry about.  I wasn't so sure.
Brenda had already gone through uterine and bladder cancer and she unfortunately has a genetic condition called Lynch Syndrome which greatly increases her risk of getting cancer. Naturally I told her I thought she should go ahead and get her mammogram scheduled "just in case".

So - to make a long story short, Brenda did call for her mammogram and had to wait about six weeks before she could have it since it had not quite been a year since her last one.  After the test she received a letter from the breast center stating she needed to come in for a more detailed xray of her breast because something did show up. That test led to a needle biopsy which led to her discovering that she did indeed have breast cancer.  Thankfully it was in a very early stage and after out patient surgery and radiation she is doing very well.

We don't believe this was all just a coincidence.  Of course we will always be speculating who came through at that moment to give Brenda a warning.  Was it another woman named Brenda or could it have been a classmate from high school who had passed a few years earlier from breast cancer, or an ancestor?  But no matter who it was, we are very grateful for the message! 

I wrote to Traci about Brenda's cancer and she was amazed and I think a little shocked.  She plans to add this testimonial to her website.  This underscores the importance of always recording any reading you have.  Something that may seem of little significance at the time may reveal itself later to be much more important than you would have imagined.