This is the twenty third of the seventh series of Lanzarote Sessions, transcribed during a break to the Canary Islands in September 2024. During our frequent visits, I sit in the power of the spirit at least once every day and allow the spirit connect to share a message with me.
|| This summary written on 28th February 2025
Working as a medium can be a lonely life! It’s not like we have scripts to follow, and know what we will say to the anticipating people we face. Worse still, we have to deal with our own high expectations, lo and behold, if they’re not met!
Since retiring from the public arena, most of my mediumship work is focused on producing these Spirit Insights for this website archive. As a reminder, this form of communication still comes under the umbrella of mediumship. Sometimes, I believe it has added pressure too. Transcribing, word for word, what I’m receiving in my mind has to make more sense than if I were voicing it aloud to a client. In voiced mediumship, at least, we can reword, rephrase, or change what we’ve said to some lesser or greater degree. I can’t do that with the pen. I have to rely 100% on writing exactly what the connected speaker is telling me while making sure not to interpret, adjust or finish their sentences.
But like all forms of mediumship, it can be lonely, relying on one’s own abilities and strength of connection. Whenever I sit for the spirit world to transcribe their words, I never know what the subject of conversation will be. I rarely know whether it’s a male or female speaker, or whether they’ve spoken to me before in this process. I will admit that I’ve much more learning to do regarding those last remarks. I hope to improve my abilities whereby I can become aware of those cosmetic details. I’m sure, however, that if those details are important, the communicator will tell me!
Many of the sessions I’ve transcribed, I’ve read back later and thought were excellent. Sometimes, the sessions excite me so much that I can’t wait to share them with the readers, even though I know I have to wait until they’re due in the schedule. Whether my work is a valuable contribution to the spiritualist community is often a concern to me. Close friends and Envoys to this website usually share their gratitude to me and the speakers, occasionally commenting on how valuable the messages were to them. But that audience is small and made up of knowledgeable and trusting mediums. Outside of that small bubble, who I am and my work goes unnoticed to most of a possible audience. That’s where my loneliness can be.
There’s a difference between recognition and reassurance, the latter being what I most desire. I’m not alone in these thoughts, though. Most mediums seek reassurance to some extent. It comes with this craft, and there are no real answers, except to occasionally get a remark from someone reminding you of the importance of what you’re doing. I wonder if it holds less value when such comments are received from the spirit world?
By the way, I’m not seeking reassurance at this time of my spiritualist path. I know where I’m going and unless someone is of the same peer or above in knowledge, comments regarding the quality of my work have a different effect on me. Not in a bad way. But I value comments more when the person sharing them has walked my path or is near me in the progress.
THE SPIRIT INSIGHT
transcribed on Saturday, 5th October 2024, at 3:00 pm
Thank you for allowing me to talk to you today. Did you enjoy how we got your attention? You heard that Christmas carol being sung in your mind. That was us!
We were talking about how you are coming back to this island again in December to experience Christmas here. We can’t wait to talk to you during that period. We love Christmas time, and there’s usually loads of us gathered together.
Anyway, that is for another day to talk about. Let’s bring it back to here and now. Over the past 3 weeks you have sat with the pen at least once, sometimes twice, every day. You’ve welcomed us into your world, and given earth life to our words. And if I may say so, very well too.
I would like to ask you a somewhat rhetorical question. We love talking to people on earth. We get a buzz from it. But what about you? Do you feel you benefit from the sessions, as you call them?
I sensed the cogs in your mind whirling away there. I detected a happy whirl too. Your partner Jane referred to yesterday’s session, after you read it back to her, as like having a conversation. Wow, she’s quick! Of course it is. Because that is what we are doing. A conversation between our worlds that should help all understand how normal we are in this world.
We know you’ve always carried concerns that you’re just making these words up, and that people your side will dismiss it all as nonsense. Question is, do you think you are? Before you answer, we don’t!
The point is, those that don’t understand these processes are hardly likely to accept the words you write as originating from some other source. But whether they believe or don’t, the message still gets delivered! That is all we look to see happen.
Don’t worry about convincing some of the others, you don’t need to. Just keep doing what you’re doing. And be proud of it too.
Time to leave you for this session. Enjoy your nap and we’ll look forward to welcoming you again!
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS
written at the time of this presentation
🔷 There are the tiniest spaces between my thoughts and those placed there by the other side. It’s a line that could easily be crossed and there have been times I’ve been tempted, for a second or two, to cross the line and use my own thoughts to finish a message. But, I’ve always resisted, because I’ve always desired for this work to remain as pure as possible. Even when the speaker’s voice is ‘muffled’ or hard to hear, I stick to writing what it is I hear. For those reasons, my work can be trusted in the sentiments it is intended. The lack of reassurance, none the less, can sometimes play on my emotional state, even though I strongly believe in what I am doing with this branch of mediumship.
🔷 I believe that someone new learning to transcribe messages from beyond needs to first, establish the intent. Whether the words they then write are from their own mind, or from the spirit connect, are irrelevant in the early days. When trust is established, and an understanding that the words written are either wholly or mildly inspired, then, progress is being made.
🔷 I suppose a flippant way of judging this work would be to consider, what if these messages are actually from my own thinking. Then, all I can say is, I’m a much cleverer person than I realised! Winner, winner.
“…those that don’t understand these processes are hardly likely to accept the words you write as originating from some other source. But whether they believe or don’t, the message still gets delivered! That is all we look to see happen.”
2 responses
Hi Trevor
There is always a message in your writings that resonates with me. Sometimes it’s what you’ve written, sometimes it’s the words of your spirit correspondent and occasionally a quote you have included. In this particular submission it’s a sentence in the quote from Tim Ferriss regarding how do you treat yourself when you make a mistake that really upsets you – I would never give a close friend the verbal abuse I give myself or I would end up friendless! So I accept the advice that I have a lot to learn!
How true. Perhaps I do and that is why I am like I am!