PLATFORM MEDIUMSHIP
Serving
spirit with a Bull’s eye
Louis Erikson
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Copyright (c) 2011 by Louis Erikson
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Ebook Description: This ebook (which is ‘workshop ready’ meaning it is ready to be incorporated into a workshop or used solely as a workshop by an experienced medium and workshop facilitator) will introduce mediums to a most challenging, highly evidential and rigorously disciplined technique and a thoroughly explained background on mediumship. Thoroughly researched and with many sources cited, it draws on experiences of many well known mediums to include those at Lily Dale Assembly, anecdotes, research along with the experience of the author. It outlines a technique to serve spirit during platform or public mediumship (which can be incorporated into private readings only under certain conditions). This technique is termed the “Bull’s Eye” approach to Platform Mediumship because it should link spirit to a recipient with an absolute minimum of time and words.
Tags: medium, psychic, mediumship, platform mediumship, public mediumship, reading, spirit, Lily Dale Assembly, psychic reading, message service.
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Table of Contents
What platform mediumship is and isn’t
Current
methodologies of platform mediumship
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Spirit centered platform mediumship
2. Recipient centered
platform mediumship
How skeptics view platform mediumship and why you should care
What constitutes evidence and how evidence is best presented
Cloaks of Protection, Affirmations and Your Chakras
Why is ‘Piggy backing’ not a good sign
Doubting, believing and knowing
Exercises
to sharpen focus and develop technique
Exercise
1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Is this an appropriate technique for a student medium ?
Professional attitude and confidence
Why you should not enter into a dialogue with the recipient
Why should you avoid the use of symbols
Your ego, personality and platform persona
Is this technique only for platform mediums?
The development of a good medium
Self criticism / self improvement
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This e-book is dedicated to the spirits who have helped me write it and to all the spirits I have had the honor of serving.
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As with any work that mentions or outlines the practice of mediumship, something must be firmly stated. Mediums work with spirit (i.e. discarnate beings – aka ‘dead’ people not angels, not fairies, not extraterrestrials, but a ‘dead’ person known to the recipient). Psychics can tell you what’s in your refrigerator; mediums can describe with specific clarity someone you know who has made the crossing called ‘death’ because those spirits are relating to, linking to, communicating with the medium. All mediums should be in total control of themselves – on the platform and off. If spirit controls you or wants to control you or you can’t get spirit to go away, this is not what this e-book is about. Automatic writing is an example where spirit can control, influence or guide a medium’s writing only at a specific time and full trance mediumship is another thing completely. These are not what I’m referring to. If you are not in complete control of yourself and/or cannot get spirit to go away, seek immediate help through local spiritualist churches and/or mental health professionals. You should tell them immediately and exactly because this isn’t a situation that is normal. The mediumship referred to in this e-book requires the medium to be complete control of themselves at all times.
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What platform mediumship is and isn’t [1]
If you ask a group of mediums worldwide, what platform mediumship is you will probably get a number of different responses. At some locations, mini-psychic readings are done on the platform and are erroneously termed ‘platform mediumship’. Go to the website http://www.youtube.com and search the uploads using the term ‘platform mediumship’ and you will view mostly psychic readings with no or little evidence from spirit [2] (‘dead people’). When you do hear the ‘medium’ provide ‘evidence’ on these You Tube uploads or see mediums at churches give evidence, it may be vague or general statements applicable to a sizable percentage of the audience such as “I have a spirit who would have used a cane, walker or wheelchair while on the earth plane”. Within an audience of 40, maybe half would relate to this ‘vaguely specific’ piece of ‘evidence’ from spirit. So, answers to the question “What is platform mediumship?” may contradict others as worldwide purposes also seem to vary considerably. Is it a short psychic reading in a public setting, is it showing evidence from spirit, is it showing highly specific evidence from spirit? Does ‘platform mediumship’ require a message? Is the message a psychic message or a message from spirit? ‘Platform mediumship’ unfortunately and certainly covers a broad array of activities.
Regardless of the variety of answers to the question, “What is platform mediumship?” serving spirit (and serving man, i.e. the recipient, by being a link to spirit, but foremost mediumship is serving spirit) is the reason for, the motivation behind, the essence of, the purpose of all mediumship – particularly platform mediumship. To serve spirit is why platform mediumship should be done. (This is why the word ‘service’ should be used instead of ‘demonstration’, ‘performance’ or even ‘work’.) The word ‘service’ must be engrained in the mind of the medium. Certain words have emotive connotations and power, and they become important if used consistently, they reveal an attitude. “Serve” means ‘to wait on, to give out, to provide, to aid, to work for’. Take a minute to think about that and re-read the previous sentence. The medium, like a health care or education professional, will never get back anything in proportion to what they give. Platform mediumship is giving – sacrificing, disciplining yourself over time, committed to giving without thought of return – truly selfless service. Serving spirit. Platform mediumship is serving spirit. The medium’s focus is with spirit – to serve spirit. The purpose of ‘platform mediumship’, being defined as ‘serving spirit’, moulds our expectations as to what ‘platform mediumship’ is or is not. The purpose of mediumship in a broader sense is not to find lost cats, to demonstrate that we don’t die or hear a message from your late uncle, mediumship is a tool for spiritual development.