Elaine's Journey with Spirit.......

Childhood Experiences

"Since childhood I was often aware of Spirit, whether through very vivid dreams, or through sensing spirit around me. I would see things out of the corner of my eye, very much like a lot of other people, but my parents would put it down to being just my imagination. Also, in my room at night I would surround myself with as many teddies and toys as my bed could hold, just to keep me safe from who or whatever it was trying to draw close to me. My mum would often recall how I would just not settle in my own bedroom and how I would wake her up so that I could sleep in her bed as I was too frightened to sleep on my own. This eventually led to me being told that I was far too sensitive, which was the definitely the case.

Living in a Haunted House

As I got older I would have a tendancy to walk into a building or a particular environment and sense whether it had a negative or a positive energy within it. This would also happen wherever I lived. I felt that I would always be aware of spirit trying to communicate. In particular, when I was an art student living in Dundee, I stayed in the old part of town called Stobswell. This was where jute worker's houses stood and two other students and myself lived in a particular flat for a one year period. During this time I felt that there was always someone standing in the corner of my room next to the window, and as I would see shadows and hear noises that were unexplained, this really freaked me out, especially when alone and in the dark. I would ask my flat mates if they felt anything strange but nobody seemed to experience it apart than me. After a while I felt as though this particular spirit wanted to communicate, so when I opened up I discovered that a spirit women had been trapped in a horrific house fire and tried to jump out of the bedroom window.

Key Evidence of Past Events

As the logical part of my brain began to take over I wanted to find some factual evidence as to whether or not this event had actually happened. I decided to go to the local library and look through turn of the century 1900 news clippings. To my amazement, a horrific fire had been documented and two or three homes had been destroyed in that exact area, with the sad loss of lives too. Unfortunately, there were no names recorded on that news clipping but I was sure it was the women who had occupied our flat. On inspection of my room, there was blistered paintwork on the skirting boards, but as they had many years of paint over them I just had not noticed.  

Importance of Psychic Protection

As I was really unaware that I needed some form of protection, a lot of the time I would be constantly open to negative energies and, at times, horrific images would present themselves when walking past couples and I would sense domestic violence or abuse. Even when walking through a part of the city, I could sense that there had been a death - all very gruesome and not at all what I wanted to be visualising or sensing. This concerned me greatly so I realised that I would have to learn and develop how to protect my energy and inner spirit. This led me to various books and CDs on the paranormal, spirit guides, psychic development and protection and, of course, TV programmes like Most Haunted. But this was simply not enough to quench my thirst for knowledge on how to work more closely with spirit and find like-minded people to share experiences with. 

Readings for Friends & Colleagues

With regards to experience of psychic and mediumship readings, there have been times when out with either close friends, work mates or business colleagues that I have been able to sense spirit drawing close. I would then bring up the conversation of psychic readings just to find out what their opinions were prior to embarking on passing on a message. As this was an ability that I had kept very personal, most of the people who knew me, including my family, were simply not aware that I could communicate with spirit. People have said to me "well you must have known who was in your friend's life?" But my answer is no, how can you possibly give clear evidence of a grandparent's, friend's or family member's life, the personal experiences they may have had with that particular person, a physical description i.e colour of eyes, hairstyle, clothing, what condition they passed over to the spirit world with etc, etc? When you have no knowledge of them, haven't seen a photo, or they just haven't come up in a conversation when on a girls' night out.   

Quest to find like Minded Others

Giving readings to friends, etc was, and is, always a very humbling experience, especially when the message is very apt for the time and really means something special to the recipient. But in order to hone these skills and develop things a stage further, I needed to find like-minded people. So it was really important to find a group or organisation that I could go to on a regular basis. So my mum and I went to a few Spiritualist churches in Glasgow. We sat, and like others around us, waited for the service to begin and the mediums to start their readings. I recieved some lovely messages from my Gran in spirit. But this was not what I was looking for as I knew that I also wanted to develop my relationship with spirit.

Development Circle

I attended weekly development classes for a period of two years. I also attended Trance Mediumship courses, which gave me the wonderful opportunity to develop my relationship with my inner spirit, my guide, spiritual workers and also other devine spirit. This was a very humbling and emotional experience and the feeling of love from spirit and the other members in the group was truly spectacular.

Although I am still very much a beginner to Trance Mediumship, it really is an area of Mediumship that I adore and, if enabled, I would be very honoured to continue to work on this particular level with spirit.

Spiritual Motherhood

In 2008 my partner and I had the wonderful discovery that we were expecting our first child. From that moment I knew that the beautiful growing spirit within my body had chosen me to be it's mother, and what a humbling feeling that was, and still very much is........  So, meditation and healing was very much a priority and our gorgeous son was reborn.

Motherhood for me is such a spiritual experience. On a day-to-day basis I know that spirit is working with me and my son, enabling both of us to grow and learn from one another. But it has been a rocky and challenging road, and as time goes by, it has left me feeling even more determined to work for, and with, spirit, feeling very excited on embarking on my new motherly spiritual journey........

Being Guided in 2011

After taking time out to concentrate on life as a Mother and just life in general.... house move etc I felt that the time was right to re-embark on my spiritual journey. That's not to say that not all life is spiritual in some manner, whether communicating with spirit while doing house hold chores or daydreaming, while walking in the park or simply reading but a more concious path to work for spirit. So, I asked out for guidence and one thing that became clear was to put my pen to paper and communcate with Spirit through Inspirational Writing, some of which can be red on Inspirational Writing.

Continual Development

To keep developing my skills as a Medium I have been attending workshops at the Glasgow Association of Spiritualists. It really has been a pleasure to meet and practice with like minded individuals and learn from others, both experienced and new to the world of mediumship.