On the Road to Positive Change an Update!

Had an interesting conversation with the minister of Church of Universal Love last Wednesday night. Although their classes do not start until the fall I do think I will be interested in checking out their public meditation and message service on Tuesday nights. I also would not mind checking out their meditation and healing service on Friday evenings. It was very nice that someone took the time to call me back and share with me what the church is doing. It was also a relief that I could also be straight forward about who I am, where I am coming from, my experiences of late and what I hope to find in a church home in the near future.

I also spoke to the gentleman from Britten Memorial again and although I have had to put my involvement in their circle on hold until September because of the move, I am very interested their 6 week intro course to home circle development. I cannot wait to be moved and more settled so I can focus on new projects and activities.

As it stands now I know I will be opening my home to a home circle when I am finally moved and settled in. I expect that by late August early September that I will be inviting people to join the home circle. It will be good to have the freedom to work with people I respect and enjoy and a pleasure to see them develop their mediumship.

On another completely unrelated note, I read somewhere that blogs are like one’s résumé. I got the sense from the post that this is somehow a bad thing? I think employers are smart to do google searches and find out who their prospective employers are by what they post and involve themselves in on the world wide web. Yes it can mean risk of being eliminated from a potential job but it can also give your potential clients a sense that you are the real deal and do not put up with nonsense. This latter reason, in my opinion, is all the more reason for me to write about the topics that interest me and my experiences as a professional Spiritualist Medium/ Psychic. I stand by what I have posted in my blogs and on various discussion sites regarding the psychic aspect, mediumship, healing and Spiritualism and find that the honest and direct approach to hypocrisy, duplicity, scams and false accusations that are groundless is the best way to go.

At least when folks come to me for a reading or spiritual advice, they know they will get a no nonsense answer that is based on a combination of 12 years of practical experience, current involvement as a professional and up-to-date reading/research on the psychic aspect, mediumship, healing, Spiritualism and other related topics.

If folks are afraid that what they post will cost them employment opportunities and they cannot stand by what they post in blogs or on discussion sites then perhaps they should not post at all? As for me I have always called things as I see them. This is what makes me a strong medium and I am not about to fix something that isn’t broken as the saying goes.

On the road to positive change...

I had a very nice call from the president of the board at Britten Memorial Church today. It was so nice that he took the time to call and address my questions. I was really surprised that he took about a half an hour with me. I certainly did not expect that but the conversation was helpful and I think I will check out the church and enjoy meeting him should I have the chance.

He struck me as a very knowledgeable person and as someone who cares about what his church is offering the community. It was nice to be treated as an informed, experienced Spiritualist with something to offer! I was able to be forthright about where I was coming from and what I was hoping to gain from church attendance.

I will be attending the Divine Service on Sunday and if I feel at home I will commit to their 6 week series of classes to help with the building of home circles. I also am looking forward to attending the Message Service on Wednesday evening once in a while and also being able to work too. I am most looking forward to meeting new people and apparently they have a regular congregation of 20 to 40 people on a Sunday! That will be a nice change from what I was dealing with for the past 3 years!

I am still waiting to hear from Universal Love but given that it is a distance away and the Sunday Service is a morning service I am not sure that the TTC would get me there in time on Sundays. I will have another look at their website again and see when I can attend during the week and see where that takes me!

So nice to be on the road to positive change!

New Horizons!

Given the circumstances of late, I am now looking for a new church to call home. I have two locations in mind that are close to me in and readily available via the TTC. The first is Britten Memorial Church located at Lansdowne and Bloor and the other is The Church of Universal Love at Wilson and Duffern. Both have a lot of activities happening on their calendars which will be a nice change from the stagnation going on at the church I had attended for the last 3 years.

I will also be organizing a home circle once I move and am looking forward to seeing where that takes me. If you are interested in a home study circle for psychic mediumship development in the Etobicoke area you can contact me at through the email link attached to my profile here on Blogger.com to find out more. If there is enough interest I will look into renting a public location and working out a nominal fee per evening to offset the costs of the location rental.

Funny enough I thought that if I left the church I was attending that it would have an adverse impact on me and my plans for the future. In actual fact, the complete opposite it true. I am now looking to see what else is out there and going to continue my ministerial training with The Morris Pratt Institute and the Center of Spiritualist Studies through the National Spiritualist Association of Churches of America. I really hoped I would find good Canadian training but since there is nothing recognized in Canada and no real Spiritualist organization here fit to do the job so f

Personal Responsibility Requires More than Lip Service

It is interesting to note how those who manipulate and take advantage of others cry foul and say it is “abusive” when called on their actions. They claim to be spiritual and focused but in actual fact they are aging, grasping at old dreams, unfocused and jealous of younger folks who have their whole lives ahead of them.

The computer can be a useful tool and were it not of the more talented who are assumed to have so much time on their hands the one crying foul would not be as computer savvy and able to post her gripe as she has done these past days. Why is it that some folks insist on dishing out negativity but cannot understand when it is returned to them?

Law of attraction dictates as we put out there so we get back. Should the manipulator be surprised when their behaviour comes back to roost? Not particularly. They keep whining about the anonymity of being behind the computer screen but did they deal with issues as they came up or did they let them build and explode unreasonably when they could not get their own way? I do not consider rude, unfounded accusations to be a spiritual way to deal with problems. Perhaps I am missing something here?

What can be learned is that those who need title and feel this gives them power over others are shocked and angered when they discover that the title and the organization they have fritted their life away on is really of very little value to anyone other than themselves and their fragile egos. They accuse those who want to address real problems of organized religion and the position of minister of putting in bad words about them. Perhaps more accurately they have been shown an accurate mirror and they do not like the image they see from the life they have created for themselves? If that is so then it behooves them to take personal responsibility make changes and stop trying to place the blame for their short comings and discontent about their situation onto others who have better things to do with their energy, education and time. They advise others to be responsible for actions and yet are unable or unwilling to do so themselves. What a sad statement for a person in a position where they looked upon for guidance and with respect.

Free Like a Hawk

Those who take advantage of others time and effort and just assume that they can orchestrate how the people will give up time in their lives just because they are a member of a volunteer organization do not like it when the people whom they try to control and yet dump all the work on while they expect to take all the credit are usually dismayed when the underlings finally see the light and put a stop to the invasion into their lives. Standing up for me and talking about the things that have happened to me in the guise of church and spirituality and Spiritualism is the most healing.

To be obligated several nights a week and to be expected to give up weekends with friends and family for the sake of Church obligations planned without my input and with no respect for my personal life is such physical and emotional drain. Like a hooded hawk stuck waiting to be released.

To finally have the strength to break free of the constant demand and expectation of tasks to be done with little to no appreciation shown for work done is most healing. Now I can go anywhere I want and just be a member of a church. I do not have to put up with being told how I should think, what I should say, how I should act and how often I shall serve. So much to look forward to! As I rediscover again what it is like to live my own life on my terms unshackled!

The hawk has flown off the dark arm and is now truly free…

Is religious affiliation necessary to be a Spiritualist?

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The longer I am exposed to the organizations that call themselves Spiritualist Churches the more I wonder if these will become a thing of the past for the most part. Seems to me that most folks want to do psychic development and learn about spiritual healing without the trappings and politics of religious affiliation.

Consider the fact that the world is running on the mentality of being open and available 24-7 and for many this change in the world of business that allows us to have service on demand means that many folks work at times where traditionally they would have gone to church. For those who do have Sundays off (the common day of worship in western culture) is it any wonder that the last thing these folks really want to do is to kill a Sunday morning, afternoon or evening at church? This time my be the only real time they have to spend as a family and when it comes to Spiritualist Churches there are not enough of them around so that you can find one in your community. Then when you do there is the issue that each is doing its own thing and then there is the internal personality clashes and politics that are bound to send even the most ardent Spiritualist running for cover.

Does Spiritualism need to organize itself in the traditional religious structure or is there some other way that the principles of Spiritualism can be brought to the masses? What do we need to do to reach genuine seekers and to eliminate the pitfalls of the traditional religious organizational structure? Do we need churches or is it time to move ahead and on to new ways of sharing spiritualism? What other kinds of organizations would better suit our faster paced, jaded and spiritually seeking society? Just some of the questions I wonder about more often these days.

Catherine