Why do those on the Other Side ask for our prayers?

What I do is an extension of my religious beliefs, and I make no apologies for that. So when people find out that I recommend that they pray for their loved ones who have passed away, some pass it off as a “Catholic thing.” Actually, I’m often asked in readings by spirits to relay to their loved ones that their prayers are needed. 

When I’m doing a reading I receive messages in a number of different ways (I’ll explain this in a future post). One of those ways is that I’ll be shown what I call “symbols.” Each symbol typically has at least four different meanings, and I’ve got to try to figure out which meaning I’m supposed to talk about. When it comes to prayer, the symbol I’ll typically see (psychically) is a lit candle, or “praying hands.”

I’ve learned over the course of hundreds of readings that when I see this it means that someone is praying for the person who’s coming through, or the person who is coming through is asking for prayers. If the person is being prayed for, usually the symbol I’m seeing is accompanied by a feeling of gratitude, so I’ll say, “You’re praying for this person, yes? He (or she) wants you to know that they’re grateful.”

Why would they be grateful? Why would they even need prayers? It all goes back to what happens after we leave this life for the next. When we pass, we go through a process the souls call a “Life Review.” It’s kind of like the answer sheet to all the questions we have about our life, the experiences we went through, and why. All the time this is going on, God (or whatever you want to call the Source of all that exists) is with us, not in a judging way, but lovingly supporting us. When the review is over, the soul places itself on a level that reflects it’s degree of insight. The greater their enlightenment, the closer they are to God, the more light they experience. The lesser their degree of understanding, the greater the “darkness” they find themselves in. They can still journey deeper into the light that is God however. 

Souls often tell me that the reason they come through during readings is that part of their spiritual journey is to help their loved ones that they left behind with their spiritual journey here on earth. That’s why they’re so eager to communicate with us.

Our prayers show our intent to communicate with them. Our prayers also bring so much joy to souls that the joy they feel raises their vibration, and in doing so helps them on their own journey. 

One of the ways I explain this is to use the example of a glass and a 55 gallon drum. Fill them both with water to the top, which is more full? Now substitute happiness for “water.” Our prayers help those we love who have gone before us develop and grow on the Other Side, enabling them to have an even greater capacity to experience more love, more happiness, more peace, more joy. 

I feel your peace. 

Anthony

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Being a psychic vs. being a medium

There’s a saying that “all mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums.” Because my focus is primarily on reconnecting people with their loved ones who passed away, most people don’t know that I also do psychic readings as well.

Today, I filled in for another psychic at Cornerstone Bookstore, in Englewood, CO. Cornerstone has a psychic type doing readings from noon to 5 pm Monday through Friday. I’m there whenever someone can’t be there. People drop in for readings, though some make appointments in advance, especially with the regular readers. 

When I’m at Cornerstone either filling in, or working it’s metaphysical fair, I usually do psychometry or “photo readings.” What I do is tune into the person’s energy contained within a personal object or photo. Once I do this, it’s like a movie starts running through my head and I tell the person what I’m seeing. Often the “movie” shows me the person’s past, present, and even their future. I tend to see these sessions as a form of “spiritual direction” as opposed to fortune telling. 

I not only do these readings at fairs, but as part of my private practice. I just don’t emphasize it. The reason is that even though I refer to myself as a “psychic medium,” as I pointed out in the beginning of this post, “psychics” and “mediums” are not one and the same. I’d like to explain the difference. 

Psychics rely on intuition to gain information. In order for a medium reading to happen, two elements must be in place. The first is a soul who wants to communicate messages to a loved one. Secondly, there must be someone to receive the messages being passed along. Otherwise, it’s similar to you picking up a phone, making a call, and no one answers the phone. There isn’t any communication taking place.  

The souls use mediums such as myself to disclose their thoughts, feelings and messages to their loved ones who otherwise can’t see, feel or hear them. By passing the information on, I essentially become their “voice,” or “mouthpiece,” for the length of time that my energy, and theirs, holds out. 

I refer to myself as a “psychic medium” in order to describe the way that the communications take place. I don’t “channel” spirits, nor do I go into a trance. I’m fully with the person who is in front of me, while at the same time a part of my brain is receiving messages from those who have passed away. The information coming into my brain is perfect. It’s once it hits my fragile psyche that things get mixed up. But I’ll save that for another post.

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