Sunday, May 24, 2015

Day 13. Meeting Oceana in Spirit Channeling Classes




I joined a Spirit Channeling Group. Strange, freaky and brave thing to do. We met weekly and learned how to connect with higher realms.

The spiritual leader Olana, a sixty something Italian woman who (supposedly), inherited her gifts from her father who “used to see spirits and talk to them on a regular basis”. She however, opened her psychic abilities a few years after a regular Reiki practice. 

Day 1 
We were about ten in her little lounge room, sitting in a circle, staring at her candles, fairy paintings, guru photos and crystal stones across the rooms waiting anxiously for something mystical to happen. It was 7.30 pm on a hot summer night. Her neighborhood and house were disturbingly quiet.
We introduced each other, stated the motifs of our attendance, told our experiences with the spiritual world…. I told about my 2 freaky experiences* when I was younger and everyone got a bit terrified. I reassured them and explained how to make “unwanted energies” go away. Olana agreed and reassured everyone too. 

I also spoke about the positive times, for example when I got woke up by a presence in my room, during my sleep, in a very old house, in my early 20ies, and how she was soft & gentle and didn’t worry me at all. She was a white energetic field, with a woman face floating in my room.  I went back to sleep very peacefully and she did her own thing. I also spoke about the times when I saw faces of recently deceased people, in places where they had just passed, without knowing the situation; I was just describing the faces that suddenly appeared to me.

I was the last to talk so my stories left some people in deep thoughts (or goose bumps!).
Two people were tarot readers, one a Reiki Master, another an advanced meditation practitioner, and the others fascinated by the spiritual stuff. No ‘freaky’ stories were reported by them.
After our introductions, Olana was getting ready for the first channeling session. She took her 2 favorite stones (that help her stay grounded apparently) and called in for protection. She called Archangel Gabriel as a (traffic) gatekeeper, Archangel Michael as a protector. 

Then she called for spiritual masters to join the group. Very quickly she started to talk into a weird voice: “Greetings, I am Master Subabu (something like that). I –have—heard –your call. Full stop (marked). I am here to tell you that you are all beings of light. You are all beautiful. You are here to grow and connect with your essence and higher realms have heard you. We are here and will assist you for a higher purpose…Etc etc.” After his new-agey speech - a mix of Eckhart Tolle and Gandhi wisdom, with a pinch of Indian accent and an imagined long white beard, Olana asked: Do you have any questions to ask the spirits today? 

I jumped in! I had PLENTY of questions! Are you kidding me?! I have waited a lifetime to put the self-called psychics to the test! THIS WAS IT!
So I was asked to give the name of the person I was inquiring about and formulate my question: “How is X feeling? What can you tell about them?...”
She says: ‘I feel stuckness... And there is pain. I feel a stubbornness and unwillingness to take action…. They need first to acknowledge the pain and do some work on themselves to be able to move forward….etc etc”

Hmmm…it fits, I was thinking. I was quite astonished. She described well the character…
Next question was more general and any monkey could have answered it. So I can’t check the validity of it. I wanted a yes or a no. 

Olgaa :  “not yet! You have things to learn! So no! Give yourself until August at least!” It resonated with me but I want answers that ‘monkey’ can’t elaborate on.
Then Olgaa spread the Archangels cards and we were asked to pull one out. Mine was: the knight of Earth. A knight on a horse with a message. “Honor your commitments and be loyal to yourself ! It’s really about time to honor your commitments!” So loud and clear: “start what you came here for and stop complaining!” So funny and SO relevant…..!” 

All those who pulled the cards has specifically the messages they were waiting for. A woman said that during the channeling session, she heard her guide angel’s name: ‘Michael ‘. She felt him next to her. Then she pulled out card off the deck and it was Archangel Michael. The card was referring precisely to her currently situation. On the second draw, she pulled out the SAME CARD! Speechless. 

Are you listing enough?
Homework involved meditation. More meditation, more connection with our spirit guides and establishing protection. 
 
Photos Reading practice
After my first channeling class, I started practicing on photos. I joined a few psychic groups online and started to practice on people’s photos and answer their specific questions. I was starting to hear “key words” and I was telling them back to the person…’mortgage’, ‘big house’, ‘many kids’, things like that. So the first psychic modality that developed in me, after clairecognizance, was clairaudience. 

I was learning to be very quiet in my mind, very relaxed in my body, in a very silent environment, and very receptive to external words/phrases/cues. This alertness puts one increasingly in a state of connectedness and communication with higher realms. Is when one becomes able to distinguish their own material (thoughts, feelings, projections, etc) from outside input, that your information becomes accurate.

That’s the practice to work on. I also learned to TRUST my first messages and gut feeling. Most of the time, they speak the truth.
From the photos, I open up to a vibe, a feeling that expand on and write down everything that follows. ..Results are just unbelievable.
Curiously, at this time, I can read people much better than pets. I shall not be surprised. As people, we are used to pick up on humans’ emotions, observe them, and unconsciously know things about them, even in photos. But with animals we cannot ‘cheat’.  Animals not only don’t give us subtitle facial expressive cues, but they teach us to look beyond appearances and ‘looks’.

Day 2 in the Spirit Channeling Class
On next session, we were only 4. We did psychometry exercises which involve reading the energy of jewelery owners. I read Michelle’s ring while I still knew nothing about her. My interpretation, once again, fitted her perfectly. Olana was surprised how much I could tell from a jewelery and the how specific I was able to be. Once I started opening my mouth with the FIRST word popping from the jewelery, information flowed.

Day 3 in the Spirit Channeling Class
Today it was about literally reading a person by looking at them. ‘Say something about them, what they like, what they do, what you see, what do you hear…?”
“What?!? Week 3 and we are supposed to read people like that?!” I hated it. I thought it was too much asking! Its one things reading photos, in your own time and meditative space and a complete other to read the people in front of you, their ‘secrets’, likes and personal info in a class with the pressure of performance anxiety and the noise of a social gathering.
“OK Alex, you go now, we don’t have all night….” Our guide wanted no excuses. She pushed me to read Luana.

I looked at her, at looked and looked Blank blank blank. My guides or her spirit was giving me no info. Or rather I was unable to pick up on anything for a minute….One long minute staring at the walls and wondering “what on Earth am I doing here? I’m not hearing anything, I’m not seeing anything! That’s so pathetic…. I suck at this clearly. I’m so wasting my time”.
Beacause our group leader wanted us to come with some answers anyway, I took a note book and started writing on it to get the ‘flow going’…. To center myself. First, I wrote the question itself. “What can we say about Luana?” Then her name several times. Then ‘I feel Luana is …..”, then ‘ I hear from my guides that she likes to ……..” 

This technique helped unblock the information and slowly, I was starting to get key words on the notepad:
 “Stories….stories…stories…”, “children….children books”, “children stories”…”History”…..”Children story images were coming in too– I told her these words. She laughed crazy when she heard me saying that: ‘I’m currently researching at work all children story books at the library where I’m working, and I’m taking it all by historical chronological order! Wow!". 

Okay….that’s nice to hear…encouraging …I can tell my other words now ‘safely’. 

I heard: ‘cookies…’ pastry…cookies.’ She laughed hysterically again.
“Why you laughing like this Luana, please tell us??? What is it? I so wanted to know what a simple silly words like ‘cookies’ meant to her!

Luana explained that every Sunday she used to do cookies. It’s a family tradition. Now, because in the last months she is no longer doing it, her husband and her 2 boys keep nagging her every single Sunday to do again. It’s a big thing!

“Oh…..cool! good start. I was doing Ok! It feels amazing to get validation like that and learn to trust random words and images that just come in your mind…”
The session unfolded by another channeling circle, led by the leader who called in again for guiding spirits and higher real communications.

This time, I DID CONNECT. It’s was incredible…Amazing feeling! The energy shift was very palpable to me as soon as we “called in”. There were a lot of ‘people’ in the room. I mean a lot. It felt super crowded to me. I felt my body getting suddenly heavy, especially my shoulders as they presence was sensible. Never before had I been feeling sudden heaviness on my shoulders while meditating...I was connecting not to a lot of ‘people’…

My heart area started to heat up and went progressively from warm to HOT. Very unusual feeling …I couldn’t make sense of it! I was NOT controlling my body to do this in any way. I simply felt the temperature increasing in my chest to unprecedented levels. It was the first time I was feeling my heart burning inside like this….Not even heart meditation got me to these levels! It’s a bit hard to explain this part…Basically, the only time I felt the heart burning this way, I was in the hospital, receiving gadolinium contrast injections for an RMI test.  You feel this hot substance circulating in your blood stream and can tell exactly where and how is traveling. When the liquid reached my heart, it heated just the way it heated then in the room.

Olga starts by seeing a lot of blue….. She asked us :“who do you see here, can you catch any names….”I can’t hear names but I hear someone next to me who says “I come from the Ocean…”
(What? How random ….)

“Have we met before?"

“No” s/he says.

Olana meets ‘someone else’ and tells us his message. It was a long message on the currently global crisis and the rough times awaiting ahead of us…Not encouraging but comforting with several tips and advices: you must learn to ASK for help, people must practice being grounded much more, etc etc!”

Later, a few days after, I buy my first set of Oracle Cards, “Messages from the Angels” by Doreen Virtue. I had never seen these cards before. I imagined messages would become much clearer is I use explicit tools. That’s when I very very quickly met “Oceana” brought me a message to one of my most important emotional questions I had back then…Her image and message were clear: Here below my ‘Oceana’ spoke…


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