Smith - Mediumship: an introductory guide to developing spiritual awareness and intuition

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Text Gordon Smith, 2017

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This book is dedicated to all the great
mediums and psychics of the past.

To those I knew personally:
Mrs Jean Primrose, Mr Albert Best and
Mrs Mary Duffy, to name but a few.

To those who follow, I say, always carry
the torch with pride and sincerity.

Contents

Mediumship is something that has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. As a small child I suppose I could say that I was very sensitive, to the point that I would feel other peoples heavy emotions or pain; I could be lifted by their joy and happiness in just the same way. Its easy for me now to recognize that I was a natural intuitive who was very often affected by the atmosphere around me.

The function of a medium is to be the conduit between this life and the afterlife or spirit world. Every medium is intuitive or psychic, but not every psychic is a medium. With the luxury of hindsight, I can clearly see that my sensitive nature as a child was part of what was to build to become the gift of mediumship, which I first experienced at the age of six, going on seven.

Even now I can say it is one of my most vivid memories from early childhood. I was playing on my own in the small garden at the front of my house when I saw a man coming towards me from the other end of the street. He looked familiar and I soon recognized him as a friend of my parents who had the very unusual nickname of Ummy. He was a frequent visitor to our home and every time he came he would bring presents or give us children a couple of pennies each, usually after he had won cash at the horse races. The racetrack was a big part of his life.

I remember feeling happy to see him and I wanted to run towards him, but my feet seemed to be rooted to the grassy ground beneath me. I also recall feeling that I was in a bubble or membrane of sorts, which felt safe and had a dreamy quality. It also had a sort of buzzing sensation that was pleasant.

Ummy smiled at me the way he always did and his eyes looked so alive and happy. He was singing softly, to a tune Id never heard, We will be buried in Dalbeth. I had no idea what this meant, but it was infectious, so I began to sing along.

Ive no idea how long he was in front of me, but as he began to move steadily away in the direction hed come from, I felt that the bubble I was in had burst and instinctively I ran into the house.

My mother was standing at the kitchen sink peeling potatoes.

Mammy, Ummy was here, Ummy was here! I blurted out in pure excitement.

My mothers reaction was to drop what she was holding. Her eyes widened with fear as I sang the little song: We will be buried in Dalbeth.

The next thing I knew, I was being smacked and shouted at and I had no idea why my happy news had made my mother so scared or angry.

It wasnt until many years later that my mother told me shed been so stunned by what I was telling her that shed completely freaked. Ummy had died in an accident, but my parents hadnt felt that they needed to explain this to their younger children. Also, they had been left to pay for his burial and they had very little money, so they had him laid to rest in what was known as a paupers grave in a remote part of a cemetery outside Glasgow called Dalbeth. Both my mother and father were proud people and hadnt spoken to anyone about it because they were ashamed that they couldnt afford a proper funeral for their friend.

People have often asked me if I was ever frightened as a child when I encountered spirits from the other side, but I honestly didnt ever feel fear of any kind. The reaction of the people around me gave me much more cause for concern than any spirit being.

Even though I came into this life with natural psychic abilities, I still had to learn how to hone and perfect my gift. I had to know how it all worked and why I had it, and also what purpose it could serve.

Now, looking at the combination of sensitivity and mediumship has allowed me to understand more about the mechanics of my gift and to simplify it and break it down, so I can explain it much more clearly to those who wish to learn how to develop their own abilities.

Most mediums Ive encountered on my travels have at some point on their journey met a teacher, someone who could help them to come to terms with their spiritual gifts and direct them in how best to use them. I was very lucky in that I met my teacher when I was in my early twenties, a time when my mediumistic and psychic abilities had been reawakened after the death of a friend, who had appeared to me looking as real as Ummy had in my childhood experience. It was because of this incident that I found Mrs Jean Primrose, a great lady of spirit who would become my mentor and teach me the simple values and moral codes I would need in order to use my gift for the benefit of people all around the world.