About me 

I'm currently 45 and a follically challenged Scorpio, I'm married to the irrepressible Sharon and live in Blackwater, Hampshire, UK

I've always had an interest if the supernatural and although my family and Sharon were involved with Spiritualism, being a sceptic I stayed on the outskirts looking in. I was eventually cajoled into participating in a home circle in about 1990 and amazed myself with some clairvoyant images, so this was my rather humble beginning in Spiritualism and mediumship.
After this I joined a church open circle where I continually struggled against not only a rather meagre basic ability, but my own painfully introverted nature, fortunately I moved out of the area and began attending another church and it's own open circle. The people running it were not only good teachers but clued up in such things as negative spirits, rescue and clearance work, something I'd have never experienced in most other churches.

Understandably I learnt a great deal from them and soon discovered that perhaps everything wasn't quite all sweetness and light within the spirit realms, and that there were very real problems being caused by negative earthbound spirits as well as numerous other earthbound spirits that really needed some assistance from us here in the physical world.
So while I learnt general circle work in clairvoyance etc, I wasn't cocooned from reality and had to learn not only discernment in who I was in contact with, but also how to deal with those spirits making a nuisance of themselves.

It's fair to say my understanding of spirit has been massively shaped by my own particular learning experience, where I received a broad grounding and a 'warts and all' understanding of how things are, rather than being funnelled into the more traditional message giving mediumship that could so easily have happened, and probably would have done if my wife and I had received more conventional teaching.

The circle leaders decided to start using me to run some of the smaller groups the main circle broke up into for practical work, and I continued to do that until a friend of mine asked me to help her begin and run a church circle at Windsor Spiritualist Church, where previously there hadn't been one.
That was back in 1995 and due to my friend's departure I ran it myself since about 2001. I have to say that I truly loved teaching and just like my own learning experience, my sitters learnt the basics of how things are which included learning discernment, spotting and dealing with problems.
All of that changed however when the church committee decided to close the circle, mostly due to one committee member pursuing a personal agenda and using S.N.U rules and regulations I was supposed to have transgressed, but which with the exception of a membership issue I was unaware of, it's interesting to note that if everything was so important that the circle be closed, why wasn't it important enough for anyone to mention anything to me prior to closing the circle? 

Sometimes Spiritualists are their own worse enemies, and for a movement that preaches unity, tolerance and many other good qualities, it sadly lets itself down on occasion. I certainly don't believe the S.N.U's regulations were formulated to stifle individuality, but sometimes prove convenient when someone chooses to use them to forward their own narrow views and agenda.

Fortunately I've now made a fresh start at another Church which invited me to run an open circle, and I'm pleased to note that once again we have established a warm and friendly group who are supportive of each other.

I currently juggle working for the Water Industry and as a Psychotherapist / Hypnotherapist together with my wife Sharon, who also manages to include nursing and studying for a Psychology degree in her life, and whatever rescue or clearance work I engage in, she'll be there too.

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.  Robert Frost