LECTURE - SUNDAY 14 JULY 2024
REV. LORRAINE LE TET
HOW SPIRIT COMMUNICATION WORKS
Good afternoon everyone, Val has just given the introduction to my talk today because she was speaking about the fact that Spirit is all around us and we just have to open the door and that fits in perfectly with what I thought I would talk about today.
Yesterday, at the V.S.U, we had a session that looked at all the difficulties we might have when we are beginning our mediumship endeavours. It is not only those who are wanting to develop mediumship who have this problem because, as Val said, any of us can have make a connection with our loved ones in the Spirit world but how many of us actually struggle to do that?
Some people of course get a look in the door unexpectedly as the little boy was talking about and, I’m sure we would all love to have that experience without having the correlating near-death experience that goes with it. But, for most of us, that doesn’t happen. Certainly, when it does happen, it is a life changing event as it was for the little four-year-old so, if an adult when through something like that there is suddenly this realization that, all these things they have wondered and heard about are actually true. However, then they have to be able to process that and that is when they come to somewhere like this because, most of the world won’t even embrace the thought of there being something outside our world never mind being able to find to what it is all about.
Sometimes though people have, what we call spontaneous spirit encounters. People come along to try to find the answers. Now it may have happened to you that you have walked in to lounge room and there is Uncle Fred or Dad or someone sitting in the armchair, and you know that they have been gone for 20 years.
My mum actually copes very well with my mediumship. In a sense she indulged me because she couldn’t quite connect with it. But she would have these experiences from time to time and she would tell me about them, and she would say, “Don’t you dare tell anyone but, this happened.” She actually saw my dad and they had been separated for many years and she never saw him before he passed, and she rang me and she said, “Did you father look life such and such before he died?” And I said, “Yes, he did.” And she said, “Well, I looked into the lounge room and there he was sitting there in his pyjamas.” So, she had to compute that. Now my Mum wasn’t a non-believer, she had a very strong faith of her own. So, you know we can all have those personal experiences quite spontaneously.
And usually there is a very good reason for it when it happens because when those who love us pop in, it is a surprise because we are not looking for it, we are not trying to achieve it and that is when these experiences happen. And that too is when we need some sort of support, and this is one of the places where we can find that support.
Now those of you who know me from my past appearances know that I carry this little book around with me, and I will read a little bit out of this book that is relevant to my talk. Silver Birch is speaking about why they come to be with us and how Spirit communication works. He says, “Our work is to give that which has a purpose, a significance so that, while it demonstrates the existence of the law, it also enables comfort to be given and knowledge to be spread. Our work is not only to reveal the existence of laws beyond the physical but to reveal the truths of the Spirit.”
So, I think the law he is talking of there is the law of our existence; what life is all about and that we do go on as Spirit. “Plenty of workers have come to take their stand at your side. There are those who are known to you, those who are bound to you with ties of love and those who are attracted to serve you out of the love they bear for you. When you think of those whose names you know try to realize that there are countless hosts of the unknown who serve without any desire to be known or recognized but they give their power to be used.”
So, he assures us that this does happen. And he goes on to say, and this is very important for those of us who want to develop our mediumship abilities, “When you get to the development of the psychic without the spiritual you have a low psychic vibration. And when you get a combination of both then you, not only have a great medium, but you have a great man or woman.” Silver Birth wants us to develop ourselves as well as our ability to communicate with the Spirit world.
So, I think that is the secret to the problems we have with communication. What happens when we are trying to link with Spirit and we think firstly of those who are trying to develop a level of mediumship and the question asked is, “Are there any preparations made on the other side before a seance takes place?” Now this is an old book written nearly one hundred years ago but really, when you think about it, and where we are in our own understanding, this is a séance. A séance is a time when you gather in the presence of Spirit and that is what we are doing here in this Church.
We are coming together with Spirit. We don’t have to be sitting a dark room with a candle lit saying, ‘Is anyone there?’ to be in a séance. We only have to open our eyes and open our heart to Spirit and ask Spirit to be with us.
So, what preparation does the Spirit world make? We are trying so hard to make that connection. Silver Birth says, “Yes, we are making the way clear. We have to harmonize our circles with yours so that, when we gather together, those on the Spirit side are gathering too.” A whole team of them gather to work with each one of us so, even though we may not be aware of them as we have come here today, our guides know and, if they can, they will draw close. Most of us will not know but there will be that something that makes us question and then think that maybe we have imagined it. So, we don’t trust ourselves and when that happens, we close off a part of ourselves and it is harder for our loved ones to come near. We have to trust ourselves and we have to trust Spirit.
Okay, sometimes we may it wrong but, does that matter? Of course, it doesn’t. They know that we are open to the love they bring. So, he says that we have to mix all the elements to get the best results. And to my mind, that means they have to consider where each one of us is on our spiritual level or journey and the vibration they need to bring in to be able to come close. “We work in highly organised bands for that purpose.” So, nothing happens by accident. The Spirit intelligence is around us all the time and we forget that. We think of Spirit as some ethereal fog in the distance, but it is intelligence. Far more intelligent than we will ever understand.
Another question is, “How will we ever become receptive to the influence of those who have passed on?” Well, that a $60 million question, isn’t it? Silver Birch assures us that those who are passed are never lost to us. He tells us that they do not wander outside the radius of their love for where their love is, they are. They know that you still love them. And so, they are connected to us. They are held to us, connected by that love.
It is like a silver cord that links us to the Spirit world. Sometimes they are closer than at other times. Sometimes they impose their influence on us and sometimes we are more receptive.
There are times when you allow yourselves to develop thoughts of fear, worry and anxiety and you create a wall so that it is harder for them to get near to you and, while we want that contact, at times we are our own worst enemy. We desperately want our loved ones around us but, when we are afraid or worried or anxious, we can’t even think straight so how can we possibly think to make space in our minds for the Spirit world to be around us when we are so stressed. The answer of course is that we need to be less stressed. “If you would be calm and peaceful, full of brightness, hope, trust, faith and confidence you would be always feel their presence.” It’s not easy to do though, is it? And they know that, and we are very fortunate that those loved ones and those who help us the spirit world are so patient because they care. They don’t give up just as we would not give up on a child even though they see that we are going in a different direction they will still be with us.
Another question. If we think too much of those who have passed on does it hinder their progress? Now I’m sure that you have all heard, “If you lean on them too much, if you try to hold onto them too much, then they can’t progress in the spirit world.” How many times have you heard that? And has that thought made you feel guilty? Here Silver Birch tell us that it is not true. We cannot hold someone back. “You, who live in this world of matter, have no power to prevent the progress of us who live in the world of Spirit. Our progress depends entirely upon our actions not on yours.” So, as it is here so it is above. We are responsible for our actions here and we have control over our lives here and in the Spirit world it is the same.
So, if we grieve, if we are sad, if we miss our loved ones that is okay. They want us to learn that they are close, and they want us to feel that closeness so that we can go on and lead a productive life. Of course, a part of that sadness will always be with us. Nothing is worse that when a parent loses a child. That sadness will always be there, but that child wants them to learn how to go on with life, to find joy and, what better way than for that child to be able to draw near so that his parent or other loved on can feel that he is around them and, in that sense, can bring his strength into the life of the one still here.
So, how do we open that door? Well, here we need to understand that the vibration of the spirit world is so much lighter than ours. That here, in this heavy physical environment, we haven’t got that lightness. However, I’m sure that you will have heard that, if we meditate, then we can raise our vibration to, if not the same lightness as the Spirit world, then at least enough to lessen the denseness of our vibration so that we may feel the contact with Spirit that we are seeking.
The process that brings the ability to make those connections occurs when we meditate. But what actually happens when we do that meditation? This is where we try to step away from our physical selves, by quieting the mind. Now this will not happen overnight. We need to practice. We need to practice stopping the thinking about all the worries and all the things that are happening in our lives. We need to put aside the list of things to do, the thought of that argument we had with someone and the uncertainty about making things right. By practicing meditation, we will learn a process that will enable us to shift our mind space up from the physical level and into the Spirit level so that we can be more open to what Spirit may want us to know. And, to help us do that, all we need to remember is that to raise our vibration we just need to be more light-hearted. Have a laugh as Val said. See the beauty in the things around us. Smile more and give that smile away.
Another important thing we can do is sit quietly and be calm and peaceful and to help us do that, we can focus on the very simple life force which is our breath. To breathe we don’t have to consciously think, breathing just happens. But I wonder what would happen if we focused on that breath. And if we focused on where it begins in our lungs. Now when I focus on my breath, I do not feel it in my lungs, and I suppose that you might say the same. So, if we focus on that other part of us, that Spirit part, for we know that we are Spirit, but do we really understand that Spirit is really within us, that Spirit is a part of us? It is very hard for that to come into our minds in a way that we can understand, so we have to think of it simplistically and I think that it might be so much easier to perhaps see Spirit as that little pilot light in the heater, the light that sits there just doing its job and that part of us is always there without our even realizing it. But once we realize that by concentrating on our breath that little light will start to grow and will lift our minds away from our physical and we will start to be more aware of our Spirit. And as that awareness comes in, we make a shift in our vibration and our loved ones can draw close to us.
So even if we do not want to be involved in becoming mediums, we can have our own personal relationship with Spirit and that is truly the gift that we all have. So just that simple exercise will help us. Alright, maybe to begin with, we will not meditate every day but, as the time goes by, to meditate will become our daily practice and through that practice we will begin to be aware of those who come around us when we sit in that space. And, over time, by being disciplined and intentional with our meditations, we will find that our connection to Spirit becomes strengthened and that Spirit will join us in our endeavour to make that link between their world and ours. Spirit is always there and always listening to us.
Thank you for listening.