How To Start Your Mediumship Practice

Mike Robert, creator of digitalsoulspace.org, discusses how to start your psychic medium practice and his journey into this often misunderstood practice.  Mike touches upon the psychic clairs and gives advice on how to determine your strongest one.  If you've ever thought about "talking to dead people" or kick-starting your own mediumship journey, this is the place where it all begins.

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And hey everybody, my name is Mike Robert, and I am the creator of Digital Soul Space and Independent Metaphysical Community. And uh this is an interesting episode of the podcast. I thought it would be a wonderful way to reboot the podcast a little bit because we haven't been on too much and broadcasting too much, so many things going on and scheduling conflicts with my co-hosts. So I decided I'd uh needed to do this solo at least for a little bit. So today's episode of Digital Soul Space Podcast, The Musings of the Metaphysical, Magical, and Nonsensical, is all about mediumship and how you can become a medium and how I became a medium. And so mediumship is really interesting because it's one of those things that a lot of people see. It's been popularized in the media by uh shows like The Long Island Medium. And it's basically, you know, you're talking to the dead, you're talking to people who have crossed over. As many mediums will tell you, and as I totally agree with myself, anybody can become a medium. It is um a gift in some people, as in a piano um person maybe have an aptitude to play the piano really well, but it can be learned just like somebody can learn how to play the piano. So you can be born with a heightened sense of mediumship, or you can train your senses to adapt to those frequencies so you can pick up, you know, messages from people who have crossed over. And this is something that isn't as difficult as you might um think. I do recommend a book to everybody to read, first of all. It's called Um Psychic Intelligence by the Jaminson twins. And these are two twins that have had a huge effect on my journey as a medium and as a psychic intuitive. And there's a part in the book where you basically take this little quiz and you learn what your strongest claire is. Now, a claire is a psychic sense. Most of you are probably familiar with the term clairvoyant, which is French for clear sight. There's claire audience, which is clear um hearing, there's clairsence, clear feeling, clair cognizance, clair knowing. That's clear, sorry, clear knowing, and even clear smelling, claire salience. Anyway, there's a bunch of clairs, and depending on who you talk to, there's four clairs, or some are there's five, and of course, my favorite e-clairs. No, that's a joke. Anyway, uh, I do love eclairs though. Anyway, um, so there's the you gotta be humorous in this in this sort of uh arena. Anyway, so you have your uh major clairs, and this book really helps you uh discover what your strongest clair is, because uh the biggest one of the biggest blocks people have with mediumship is that they have this idea in their head of how they're going to receive. Like uh when you you might hear the Long Island Medium say, they're telling me this, or I might even say in a reading, uh, I I can hear them saying this, or they're showing me this, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you're actually hearing them, or although some do, or that you're actually seeing them, it's it depends on your clair. So, for example, I discovered my strongest claire is claire cognizance, and this is clear knowing. And this is one of the most difficult clairs, I think, because you do not hear people, you do not see people really. Although when I was younger, I used to see a lot of apparitions and stuff like that. But as someone who's claire uh cognizant, you just know. It's like you know, almost like it's a memory, or like if you learned this information just seconds earlier, it's really bizarre how it works. And but once you know that, that you maybe you're claire cognizant, then you know you're not gonna be looking for messages like through your ears. And you're not gonna be hearing voices. And so a lot of people have this misunderstanding of how they're gonna receive. Another misunderstanding is that there's a and this kind of goes hand in hand with the first assumption or the first misunderstanding, is that there's one way to receive. And this is the problem I have with teachers that are trying to teach mediumship, and that they try to teach it perhaps in the way that they receive. And there's so many different ways to receive, even amongst you know, the different clairs. You might be clairvoyant and you have clear sight, but what you're seeing isn't clear at all. It might be hazy and grainy. A lot of times when I see things in my head, in my mind's eye, if you will, things are grainy and they're distant or far away. So another people might see it very clearly. I did have um one very clear vision years and years ago. It was in 1999 when my friend was sick on the couch and he had umolytic anemia, but he didn't know it. He thought he had a kidney stone, and for a split second, I my entire field of vision just uh went away. And I saw him in a coffin, and I immediately said to him, We're taking you to the hospital. And unfortunately, he ended up dying that Friday, and he was my best friend, and it was an incredibly difficult experience, but it was an example of a very clear example of clairvoyance, and it's not my strongest claire, but it kicked in, and boy, did it kick in hard. So, anyway, everyone receives messages differently. So, with that being said, keep an open mind and think about how you might receive messages. Uh, will you hear voices? Uh, will you get sensations? Will you just know? And let me give you an example of how I discovered I was a medium. I started uh reading oracle cards in 2000, I believe it was. It's 2000 or 2001, I started receiving or I started uh reading oracle cards because my sister-in-law gave me a deck of oracle cards to deal with a very bad breakup. And I still have that deck today. I still read with that deck, even though it's almost 30 years old. And I and and strangely enough, it is uh the Healing with the Angels Oracle deck by Doreen Virtue. Now, if you're familiar with Doreen Virtue, she was one of the leading new age uh people or celebrities, if you will, um, of her time. I mean, she was big time. Uh I used to love watching her weekly videos from her home in Hawaii with all the animals, and she had classes, how to get to know fairies and angels, and she was also a big influence on me. Unfortunately, well, I shouldn't say unfortunately, because everyone truly is on their own path. She ended up uh becoming extremely conservative after she saw a vision of Jesus in her church, and he basically, according to her, said to her, All this that you've been doing is bad, so or is not in alignment with me, and so I want you to stop. And she did, and she became very anti New Age in the process and kind of disenfranchising all her fans and everybody really who really liked her and looked up to her. With that being said, I made sure I got an extra box of those Oracle cards, just because I've become so familiar with them. So I started reading in 2001 for myself and then, you know, for other people. Um, in about 10 years ago or so, I went through a major awakening, a huge awakening where I, you know, just the synchronicities were going off the charts. You know, I was sensing things at the atomic level. I know that sounds really strange, but one day I was eating my eggs, and I swear I knew or I could sense the atoms and the molecules that were comprising the eggs that were that were the building blocks of these eggs, and I could feel them whizzing around the electrons around the atoms. It was quite fascinating. So I went through this massive uh awakening. I started uh collecting crystals and I felt like they were vibrating with me, and I started gritting them without even knowing what gridding was. I was just like, no, this crystal wants to be here, and so I started having a ton of experiences. It's it's the first time I met the triple goddess, which some of you might know as Hekate. Um so it was, well, I shouldn't say the first time I met her, it was the first time I realized who it was. It was just really, really amazing. Anyway, so I'm going through this awakening process and I start reading for people. And part of reading for people when you're reading oracle cards is just you get these little bits of information in your head, right? And you start to realize that these bits of information, however strange they may seem or however bizarre, that they might have meaning to the person you're reading. And you start to learn to trust those and to not be scared of them and to actually um mention them. And I've had some pretty bizarre messages come through from spirit, from people who had just committed suicide, and one of them involved adult toys, and I was terrified to bring this up to these people who were mourning her death. However, they had a very significant story uh with an adult toy and her that blew them away when I told them, and it was so like out of left field that it was a huge validation for them, and it made them feel so much better when she died. Because then the subsequent message I was getting also they knew were accurate because I had given them a piece of information that absolutely nobody knew, only her close circle of friends knew. So, anyway, so while you're starting to read for people, um, I started, you know, uh reading and and what I always used was arc my archangels, uh Michael being a huge um buddy of mine. I literally consider him my buddy. And so I would call upon Archangel Michael to oversee the reading, Archangel Gabriel to strengthen the messages that are coming through, because he's often considered the messenger uh angel, archangel. I would call upon my guides and my ancestors and ask them to speak to the other guides, right? So I would, you know, do this and I would get in clear, very clear messages from guides and angels and everything like that. Well, then one day, and again, these came in uh as little uh pieces of information, and and as you get used to it and as you practice, and I can't express this enough, you have to practice over and over. It's like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. And so as I started reading more and more people, I started becoming more and more relaxed, and I get into this zone of just receiving. It's hard to explain, but you eventually get into this zone of just being open to receiving and letting go and surrendering so that you don't try to filter what you're getting. Okay. And once you tune in there, it's not only an amazing process, it feels great. And I was in the hot seat with Abraham Hicks, if you're familiar with them, and they told they literally said that to me. They go, You know you're connected because you feel great, and that is so true. It's a huge buzz to be connected to spirit and to be receiving messages. So anyway, I started, you know, I'm getting these messages from spirit. I'm starting to become more comfortable with receiving, and then what I started noticing is that sometimes I would get other pieces of information. Like I was like, wait a second, did you lose uh uh a son or did you lose a husband? And I started saying things to them that I realized was actually coming from them. And one of the big um one of the big moments I realized that was when I was reading for a lady, I used to read on Facebook Friday nights for two hours straight, and I would read like 15, 20 people, and it was exhausting, but it was exhilarating. And I read for a lady that had lost her husband to suicide, and I relayed a message to her, and she said to me, That's exactly what he said to me before he killed himself. And I realized, wow, that message came from him. And I realized that the messages I was receiving from spirit and allowing myself to receive from spirit weren't all that different from messages that I was receiving from loved ones. So little pictures that would pop up in my head, or that like I said, that clear sense of knowing was really strange. And what I realized is once I got myself into the state of being able to receive these messages, when you practice and you stop being scared of those little things that pop up into your head, and you you let yourself into the state of knowing, I started realizing that a lot of the messages or the sensations I was receiving were from those people who had crossed over. Then another thing started happening. I started, I get pictures in my head of how they look like. And it's usually how they would look like if they were celebrities. So it was quite fascinating because sometimes they will get me to literally Google a picture and I say, they said look at this photo, and the person in the side of the celebrity may be the person I'm talking to. It is very strange, but a lot of times it looks like a celebrity, a hairstyle. Um, sometimes, not always, and so these pictures and this information, these little bits of information start coming through. So as you do this, it gets stronger as you realize, oh, I'm actually communicating with dead people. And let me tell you, it's not spooky. I was I always thought it must be really spooky. Um, and it's not. It's I can't express how joyous it actually is. Uh, a lot of times you get amazing good vibes. A lot of times they're very excited to speak with you, and and sometimes so excited that they send you a lot of energy and you might start sweating, and and that's why it's always important too to call in protection, in the sense that you know, I ask Archangel Michael to oversee everything and you know, just surround myself with his protective light. Because some spirits uh really kind of overmodulate, so to speak, and they can send you a lot of energy in a very short amount of time and can kind of fry you in a way. You get very tired, but it's usually a very exhilarating experience. I've had readings where I can't sleep afterwards because I'm on the biggest natural high. I've had readings where they totally exhaust me and I sleep like way past my you know wake up time because I'm exhausted. It all depends on the energy that you are connected to. Again, using um Archangel Michael as a as a uh a way to modulate and filter also Archangel Gabriel, so that I feel comfortable in receiving. So you have to you really have to get rid of this fear that you're gonna receive maybe information too that you don't want to know. And a lot of that is ego, it's your own survival mechanism. When I say ego, I don't mean like, oh wow, you have a big ego. I mean like your Freudian ego, the part of your brain that's concerned with survival. And so it will try to interject and scare the shit out of you because it wants you to be safe. Because that part of your brain goes way back to when we were living in caves and hunter-gatherers sort of societies. So you have to get used to letting go, and you set up your protection, so you have to trust that. If you don't trust it, then I can't help you. You really? Because uh trusting that you have protection in this arena of being uh psychic intuitive or psychic medium, trusting in your protection is everything. I truly believe that people give way too much power to things that they call evil spirits or demonic spirits. Um, because what about the protection? Like, why would you worry about anything if you have Archangel Michael by your side? Like, why? Literally. You're also in a the human realm, the physical. These beings that you're communicating or outside of their normal realm, they're energetic. As such, they are more prone to your energy and your rules because they're out of their realm. So they're entering your realm, they're entering the physical, and you're energetically stopping them and saying, No, you can't go this far. So um basically what I do when I go into a reading, I anything negative, I discount. Um, I discount anything negative. Uh, I don't want to know anything negative. I tell Archangel Michael, I don't want to know anything negative. So if I Archangel Gabriel, so if I'm getting negative information, I know that's from my ego. Again, I'm trusting my system of protection. And so I need to relax. And and guess what? I hardly ever, ever get anything negative. Hardly ever. And and then when I do, I know it's fear-based, it's not for real. Your angels and guides would never tell you something that would scare the shit out of you. And they also know how you would react to any information. So if you decide that, hey, you know, I'm I'm not gonna tell this person this thing because I think it's completely and totally fear-based, they know that. I mean, right? I mean, people are coming to you to get information from a lot of times for the future or guidance for the future. So you're telling me that a higher being wouldn't be able to understand what you would do with information if they gave it to you? Because some people say, Well, what if you have to tell somebody or else they would die? No, that's not my job. That's not my job. Spirit wouldn't spirit when it put that on anybody, okay? So, I mean, it's entirely possible that somebody may receive information like that, and coincidentally, something like, you know, they did or they think they saved somebody's life, but here's the deal is that your time of death, in my belief system, anyway, is something you've chosen ahead of time before you even came into the physical. So that goes out the window, too. There's so much fear based bullshit in this arena, and a lot of it has to do with money because there's a large segment of Of the population that will then charge you for fixing a lot of these evil spirits that are hanging out. Also, it your own fear dictates your personal experience. So if somebody's terrified because they think there's something in their house that's dark and is haunting them, they're just they're just feeding that energy, they're giving it steroids because they're feeding off that fear. So anyway, you got to release that fear. Start reading your friends, start, you know, pick up a deck of Oracle cards, see how they make you feel, and and and take your time. It took me one of the reasons I love using this Oracle deck that I've been using for you know almost 30 years, is that after a while you start to understand the not only the card meanings, but when you give yourself readings, these cards will represent something to you, and you'll have a personal story to attach to that card, and spirit will use that reference. It's like building a vocabulary. A lot of times you hear like people, uh psychic medium saying they have a symb symbolic. A lot of times, things with me uh are when I'm doing a reading, I use my cards, and those cards are a lot of times reference certain experiences. For example, um, I had an accidental exposure to HIV years ago, and I was terrified I was going to become HIV positive because back then everybody was, you know, getting sick, seriously ill from HIV. And so I decided to pull a card. I was terrified. I was I couldn't sleep, I was having panic attacks. So I pulled the card, and of course, I'm praying nonstop. Oh, please, please don't let me get sick, right? So I pull a card that weekend and it's answered prayer, and I'm like, oh wow, okay, thank you, thank you. Of course, fear creeps in, and a couple of hours later I decide to pull another card. Well, the second card was answered prayer, and I felt really good that I didn't have to, you know, deal with that anymore. Um, but then again, fear creeps in and you start to get scared and you start, you know, to you know, to let that aspect of of your fear take over your life and everything. So I pulled the card again hours later. I have to say that I pulled the same card seven times in a row over the course of a weekend before it switched to another card. So it answered prayer came up seven times, and this is after shuffling the deck. So you do the math. There's 47 cards in this particular deck, and seven times I picked the same card from that deck after shuffling. So that card, answered prayer, has a very specific uh meaning to me and an experience, an emotional experience. So a lot of times when I get that card and I'm doing a reading, I can uh kind of use that as a guide of what spirit is trying to tell me. So that's something else that you'll find when you pick up a deck of oracle cards and you start using it, use it on yourself. A lot of times people say, Whoa, you can't read yourself. No, absolutely, you can read yourself. In fact, um many, many, many people I know pick a card every morning for themselves to guide themselves through the day. I recently picked a card to decide whether to get impact windows for my home. Um for my husband and I. It was actually my husband that made the the call. He said, Hey, why don't you pick um why don't you pick a card and we'll figure this thing out? And this is in front of the salesman, and I'm like, oh, I felt embarrassed at first, and I thought he would be scared. But Anthony was like, hey, he's been in your home office and he's seen it. Because if you come into my home office, it looks just like a witch's lair, which I love. There's skulls everywhere, there's uh very and old antique clock, my altars here. So, you know, it looks spooky, which I love. But anyway, so I picked a card and it was the magician, which is all about having, you know, stepping into your personal power, having the resources, uh, manifestation. I mean, magician is a powerful card. So, and then the guy, the salesperson, goes, Let the magic happen, let's do this. And I was like, Okay, we'll buy the windows. So, our home, you know, is gonna have impact-resistant windows now because of a tarot pull. Because you start to trust and you start to release the fear. So that's a huge part of becoming a medium is knowing your strongest Claire, researching that, getting um, start start getting a deck of cards. Now, this is the thing. I the reason why I recommend getting a deck of cards, it's sort of like a Dumbo's feather. Okay, it's sort of like when you're doing the cards and you're reading, and you get into that zone of receiving messages, then you start to morph into the mediumship role. Now, you can skip the cards if you want, and you can just start, you know, reading your friends without anything and just seeing what comes to mind, but I feel like the cards help open a door. It's almost like a portal, you know. Um, and a lot of sometimes people use Ouija boards. I am one of these people that I'm not scared of Ouija boards, but what happens with the Ouija board is that um people go into it as a game and they go into it with the intention of being scared. Like teenagers love that, right? Oh, let's do the Ouija board. Oh my god. So they're literally their intention is is prefaced by a dark feeling, they want to feel that darkness, they want to feel scared. So they're literally, quite literally, calling in negative vibrations and negative beans because they want that experience, they want to be scared. And so what that does is it kind of also sets a tone for when anyone uses a Ouija board afterwards, getting older, that they are doing something dark, and so they attract the dark. So when you're using a Ouija board, you have to realize that it's a tool, just like cards are and just like anything is, and that you do the protection thing, right? You do the protection and that you're not talking to anything spooky or you and you really have to detach yourself from that fear-based thinking and that pop culture association with the Ouija board. Because if you're too programmed with pop culture and a Ouija board and what it represents, then you're gonna you're just gonna call dark energy dark beings, and then you're gonna go into it with that intention, and and that's a really bad thing. And it's a bad thing regardless of what you're using. Always go in with the intention that you're going to do something positive, and it's just gonna be a positive experience, and possibly, you know, helping people. Um, so yeah, so any, so yeah, anybody can become a medium, anybody can start practicing. Uh, I like I said, I recommend getting a deck of oracle cards and learning the sensations of receiving messages uh from spirit. Always use protection, always call upon your you know, archangels, your guides, kind of benevolent beings, set your intention for um only receiving information uh from those beings of the highest plane and the highest vibration. And that's another thing that's in that book, um, psychic intelligence by the Jamondson twins, because they go over protection and automatic writing, which is something I've been doing since also 1999. And that's a whole nother podcast of how I got involved with automatic writing and how I literally thought I was going crazy until the Jamondson twins. So that's another podcast that's uh an incredible journey and with a miraculous ending, a really miraculous ending. So there you go. That's how you should start in becoming a medium or fine-tuning your mediumship skills. Um read that book, uh, lose your fear, and start practicing and use your friends, uh, family, relatives, and and start, you know, sensing. And don't be scared because again, if you start using, if you start freaking out, you're just gonna start feeding the very thing that you don't want to encounter. And that's never a good thing, right? You need to have faith and belief in what you are invoking as far as protection, and I think that's one of the biggest uh flaws that people do, not only in psychic intuitive circles, but in organized religion. You know, they always talk about um how powerful the devil is, and the devil can do that, and the devil can do this, but somehow they always put God and Jesus in the back seat. And uh they really assign the devil a whole lot of power. And um I again, fear-based, it's a it's a fear-based practice anyway. So that's about it. I hope you enjoyed this uh podcast. If you did, please subscribe, uh, leave a review, that would be awesome. I'd love to hear from you. And um let me know what you'd like me to talk about, and I'd love uh to get feedback and uh go over some topics that you're interested in. And also, of course, if you are interested in a very cool social media experience where there are no ads, no algorithms hunting you down, and it's filled with psychics and mediums and artists and really cool pagans and witches, then uh visit the site I've created, digitalsoulspace.org. It has been around almost five years, and it looks like a Facebook sort of interface, but it's not Facebook, it's so much nicer. There are no rude people because guess what? Rudeness isn't allowed. And um we have a wonderful team of moderators that keep the site humming and just being friendly and open, and we have made such amazing friendships and connections all over the world. So check out digitalsoulspace.org. It's also where you can reach me, and uh it does since we do not have ads and we do not sell your data, we have to pay the bills. So there is a monthly charge on digital soul space, and it also that charge also helps keep our system safe in the sense that you know people that want to cause trouble a lot of times they don't want to pay for it and they want to go the easy way, so that helps us out. So take care, everybody. I hope you enjoyed this podcast of Digital Soul Space, musings of the metaphysical, magical, and nonsensical. Until next time, have a wonderful evening. Take care.

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