In a forum discussion the fair question was posed regarding the intrusion, or lack thereof, of Maurice Barbanell’s influence or coloring of Silver Birch’s messages. The assumption was made that there may have been a time in the early stages of Barbanell’s-SB’s co-development that there was coloring.
It would seem to MU!! that the well intentioned spirit guide would not come forth until said guide had taken control of this situation. How can one rely on guesswork to determine the validity of the spirit message if medium coloring is a contending factor?
This is not to say that less advanced or poorly developed relationships between guide and medium do not exist and exist with unreasonable credibility assigned to them presently and historically. It is for this reason I approach medium direct voice with a level of caution and a degree of true skepticism.
SB went to lengths to explain how he took great measures to properly coordinate with Barbanell including language learning and SB’s own extended language. I don’t classify the Barbanell-SB mediumship as either improper or unreliable.
Keeping in mind that Barbanell and constant sitter Hannen Swaffer enjoyed arguing with Birch; great Reality TV if you ask MU!! 😉
Greetings Steve, I was having a paybill afternnon and whilst waiting for someone to get back to me, I found your web address and as i went through the pages ,I found your blog.
I cant agree more with all that you said . It is so important to get the correct training from someone who knows what they are talking about, which by the way takes many years of experience.
Hope you are well,and maybe one day when you are in NZ I just may be able to come to one of your seminars and get some help from you.
Regards and best wishes and may love and light fill you everywhere you go>
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your blog on the use of sound in mediumship and healing. As a medium and musician I appreciate the connection. At Psychic Folk we are making much use of music to help “bridge the gap”. It was so good to hear another voice raise the issue.
Chris Walton.
I don’t usually allow myself the time to read all of the articles, blogs (and books) that peak my interest. But I saved this blog of yours to read on my computer for days and finally took a time out to read. Love your words Steve, very well written and more important than simply writing; very well explained! I have always loved your teachings and look forward to being able to attend your next weekend workshop in New England this spring… God willing if (WHEN) my house sells! Prayers that my house sells before April so that I may be in the presence of your loving guidance toward connections with spirit and the healing coming together brings.
I sat in workshops with Sarah Benson, have yours and her Cds and was blessed to be in her realm of being when she was here on the earthly plane with us. Also have had numerous opportunities to study with you! You are a beacon among us Reverend Stephen and I am grateful! Thank you! <3
How wonderfully synchronistic that you served Cycles of Spirit this evening and I came home and checked out your website only to find that there was immediately information on sound healing and Sarah Benson. I had chosen to use her CD “Flutes of Interior Time” for the healing portion of the service that you spoke at this evening and here you and her are together. There is no doubt in my mind that she accompanied you tonight. What a wonderful service. I thank you for all you do and the incredible gift you share of healing and mediumship toward the purpose of healing and upliftment in mind, body, spirit and soul. God bless you for living your purpose and sharing with us! <3
I very much enjoyed this blog. I have been interested in Healing with sound since I heard Sarah Benson’s tapes years ago.My favorite was Flutes in Interior Time. About the same time Kay Gardner also began healing with music. I really enjoyed Kay Gardner’s Rainbow Path album as a healing tool as well.I got to take a healing workshop with her and watch some of her performances here in Maine.I practice Musical Mediumship with my voice.I find that when I sing for Spirit either at services during the hymn time or in circles I lead including re-direction circles for earth bound Spirits, my range increases and my tone is of a higher vibration then my normal singing.Part of that is the attitude of course that singing is prayer.That helps to make the connection with spirit more firm.What album is the one you created with Sarah Benson? I would like to purchase that.
when i spoke to my dead dad last friday the medim told me every name ad said he was there with her talking to her an i believe that because she told me things that only he would say. and he knew things about my feet and he knew everysingle person i spoke to that day by exact names and he spoke to me through her the exact way he speaks to me and the things he said about his feelings towards his family were exactly what he would say. this medium told me everything that he would say including knowing the exact birthdays or his relatives and events coming up. it was unbelievable since she had no time to research any of this i had just e-mailed her and she called me back and said she was booked for a year ahead and would read for me that night because she knew my situation. she said he could not do it again because of the energy in me was so strong she was wired after and i do not know where that came from it is scary everything is scary right now and i do not know who has the ability to sstop it if i can get this thing outof me. i have had readings where a medium would say i am getting an a or b you know a b i think these people are frauds. who needs that it is a joke. i want to speak to my dad there really is not anyone else that would knowof my life except him because there is no one else whoi know who has died that would know of my life. thank you, karen p.s if you know someone with the experience i may need please tell me about them as i have little time left and i am in excruciating pain. thank you for your call back and reading this. love, karen
Hi Steve,
We have met once in Brisbane, not that it’s important. I have been reading a number or your writings and find the information both refreshing and enlightening. Having attended a number of mediumship presentations delivered at Spiritualist Churches in Brisbane as well as in a professional setting, I have yet to be impressed. I appreciate that some people/attendees at these functions need and do get, some solace or closure from messages delivered on behalf of lost loved ones. My frustration is that the opportunity to also deliver significant knowledge or wisdom to help people grow and develop is rarely offered. In fact it’s often quite the opposite with trivial information that I call “fortune cookie wisdom”, which is obviously coming from the misguided knowledge of the medium…or regurgitated information from a book, rather than from the higher realms working to correct misinformation. I have been flabbergasted, nay alarmed, at times when hearing questions answered, or information supposedly channelled by the experts in the game, that is just plain ludicrous. In fact I find some of it a down-right insult to my intelligence. But in particular, you have confirmed for me that some, if not many mediums, are simply channelling an aspect of themselves. I don’t know what the answer is but I have filed the Spiritist – Spiritualist comparison in my memory banks, so now it will be interesting to see what the Universe presents to me for further education.
Mark
I enjoyed your articles on Sound & on psychic fairs. I moved to Millers Falls, MA 3 yrs ago and have been blessed with a studio set upon water falls, while receiving my certification in sound therapy using bowls & gongs. I also use intention based on DR Emoto’s work. The energy that builds in this small space is incredibly healing. I look forward to meeting you at your retreat and learning mediumship. If only I had met Sarah before she crossed over, will definitely check out her/your CD’s.
In a forum discussion the fair question was posed regarding the intrusion, or lack thereof, of Maurice Barbanell’s influence or coloring of Silver Birch’s messages. The assumption was made that there may have been a time in the early stages of Barbanell’s-SB’s co-development that there was coloring.
It would seem to MU!! that the well intentioned spirit guide would not come forth until said guide had taken control of this situation. How can one rely on guesswork to determine the validity of the spirit message if medium coloring is a contending factor?
This is not to say that less advanced or poorly developed relationships between guide and medium do not exist and exist with unreasonable credibility assigned to them presently and historically. It is for this reason I approach medium direct voice with a level of caution and a degree of true skepticism.
SB went to lengths to explain how he took great measures to properly coordinate with Barbanell including language learning and SB’s own extended language. I don’t classify the Barbanell-SB mediumship as either improper or unreliable.
Keeping in mind that Barbanell and constant sitter Hannen Swaffer enjoyed arguing with Birch; great Reality TV if you ask MU!! 😉
http://www.the-voicebox.com/debateonreincarnation.htm
when are you coming back to NEW ZEALAND
Greetings Steve, I was having a paybill afternnon and whilst waiting for someone to get back to me, I found your web address and as i went through the pages ,I found your blog.
I cant agree more with all that you said . It is so important to get the correct training from someone who knows what they are talking about, which by the way takes many years of experience.
Hope you are well,and maybe one day when you are in NZ I just may be able to come to one of your seminars and get some help from you.
Regards and best wishes and may love and light fill you everywhere you go>
John (from Australia)
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your blog on the use of sound in mediumship and healing. As a medium and musician I appreciate the connection. At Psychic Folk we are making much use of music to help “bridge the gap”. It was so good to hear another voice raise the issue.
Chris Walton.
I don’t usually allow myself the time to read all of the articles, blogs (and books) that peak my interest. But I saved this blog of yours to read on my computer for days and finally took a time out to read. Love your words Steve, very well written and more important than simply writing; very well explained! I have always loved your teachings and look forward to being able to attend your next weekend workshop in New England this spring… God willing if (WHEN) my house sells! Prayers that my house sells before April so that I may be in the presence of your loving guidance toward connections with spirit and the healing coming together brings.
I sat in workshops with Sarah Benson, have yours and her Cds and was blessed to be in her realm of being when she was here on the earthly plane with us. Also have had numerous opportunities to study with you! You are a beacon among us Reverend Stephen and I am grateful! Thank you! <3
How wonderfully synchronistic that you served Cycles of Spirit this evening and I came home and checked out your website only to find that there was immediately information on sound healing and Sarah Benson. I had chosen to use her CD “Flutes of Interior Time” for the healing portion of the service that you spoke at this evening and here you and her are together. There is no doubt in my mind that she accompanied you tonight. What a wonderful service. I thank you for all you do and the incredible gift you share of healing and mediumship toward the purpose of healing and upliftment in mind, body, spirit and soul. God bless you for living your purpose and sharing with us! <3
I very much enjoyed this blog. I have been interested in Healing with sound since I heard Sarah Benson’s tapes years ago.My favorite was Flutes in Interior Time. About the same time Kay Gardner also began healing with music. I really enjoyed Kay Gardner’s Rainbow Path album as a healing tool as well.I got to take a healing workshop with her and watch some of her performances here in Maine.I practice Musical Mediumship with my voice.I find that when I sing for Spirit either at services during the hymn time or in circles I lead including re-direction circles for earth bound Spirits, my range increases and my tone is of a higher vibration then my normal singing.Part of that is the attitude of course that singing is prayer.That helps to make the connection with spirit more firm.What album is the one you created with Sarah Benson? I would like to purchase that.
when i spoke to my dead dad last friday the medim told me every name ad said he was there with her talking to her an i believe that because she told me things that only he would say. and he knew things about my feet and he knew everysingle person i spoke to that day by exact names and he spoke to me through her the exact way he speaks to me and the things he said about his feelings towards his family were exactly what he would say. this medium told me everything that he would say including knowing the exact birthdays or his relatives and events coming up. it was unbelievable since she had no time to research any of this i had just e-mailed her and she called me back and said she was booked for a year ahead and would read for me that night because she knew my situation. she said he could not do it again because of the energy in me was so strong she was wired after and i do not know where that came from it is scary everything is scary right now and i do not know who has the ability to sstop it if i can get this thing outof me. i have had readings where a medium would say i am getting an a or b you know a b i think these people are frauds. who needs that it is a joke. i want to speak to my dad there really is not anyone else that would knowof my life except him because there is no one else whoi know who has died that would know of my life. thank you, karen p.s if you know someone with the experience i may need please tell me about them as i have little time left and i am in excruciating pain. thank you for your call back and reading this. love, karen
Hi Steve,
We have met once in Brisbane, not that it’s important. I have been reading a number or your writings and find the information both refreshing and enlightening. Having attended a number of mediumship presentations delivered at Spiritualist Churches in Brisbane as well as in a professional setting, I have yet to be impressed. I appreciate that some people/attendees at these functions need and do get, some solace or closure from messages delivered on behalf of lost loved ones. My frustration is that the opportunity to also deliver significant knowledge or wisdom to help people grow and develop is rarely offered. In fact it’s often quite the opposite with trivial information that I call “fortune cookie wisdom”, which is obviously coming from the misguided knowledge of the medium…or regurgitated information from a book, rather than from the higher realms working to correct misinformation. I have been flabbergasted, nay alarmed, at times when hearing questions answered, or information supposedly channelled by the experts in the game, that is just plain ludicrous. In fact I find some of it a down-right insult to my intelligence. But in particular, you have confirmed for me that some, if not many mediums, are simply channelling an aspect of themselves. I don’t know what the answer is but I have filed the Spiritist – Spiritualist comparison in my memory banks, so now it will be interesting to see what the Universe presents to me for further education.
Mark
Steve I love this article and would love to print it. (But being Facebook I can’t) it needs to be shared. Love your work and you. Nancy
Thanks for this very informative post. I very much look forward to reading your book.
I enjoyed your articles on Sound & on psychic fairs. I moved to Millers Falls, MA 3 yrs ago and have been blessed with a studio set upon water falls, while receiving my certification in sound therapy using bowls & gongs. I also use intention based on DR Emoto’s work. The energy that builds in this small space is incredibly healing. I look forward to meeting you at your retreat and learning mediumship. If only I had met Sarah before she crossed over, will definitely check out her/your CD’s.