Mediumship - Are Messages the Glass Ceiling?
What is the point of being a medium? Is it just to provide 'evidence' or comfort?
My mediumship has been apparent since childhood, but I was formally trained - if you can call it that - at various circles after a wake up call.
The students all attend with the hope to be able to pass messages on to others in the circle with the end goal to be a working medium on the Spiritual Circuit in the UK.
When you first step into these circles as a newbie, stepping onto platform (stage) seems terrifying and so far off it’s ridiculous. Honestly, there are some that don’t want to go on platform, simply happy with honing their skills, but it is seen as selfish to not share your gift, and it gives your teacher a chance to show off.
After a couple of years, after my confidence grew and I stopped being scared of my own shadow, I wondered what the point of all this was.
It was the same people in the same chairs on Sunday waiting for messages from the same dead people. This was the one place no one was asking for evidence, and I understand a need for comfort, but this should be for a finite amount of time.
The mediums on the circuit were always the same and it was this little cliquey, incestuous, pat on the back circuit. They felt like heroes. Neighbourhood celebrities.
What was the point?
It Should Only be the Beginning
My love, if you can speak to the dead, that means you WORK with the dead.
Your spirituality shouldn’t be about performance, it should be about change. Ideally for you and your community, whatever that looks like.
If you are able to talk to the Ancestors this hugely opens up your path, as where do you think your knowledge and wisdom is supposed to come from? Books? Those people of different lineages? TedTalks?
The knowledge and gifts you hold inside yourself can be cracked open by working with your Ancestors and spirits - to stop at giving messages of comfort is ludicrous. You can take down governments with the help of the dead, but you are sat here giving Gladis a message from her husband that died 15 years ago.
You are worth more and this is not what your gifts are meant for. Gifts can be used as a weapon, so point them in the right direction.
Alongside this, if you are a medium you should be trained to psychopomp - cross the dead over safely and sometimes your ancestors need something from you in the Underworld. A position of purpose and responsibility has be bestowed on more than one occasion.
Please bear in mind that there is danger at play with this so ensure you are trained to ensure you aren’t being put at risk.
If you wish to stay ‘death-centric’ you also have doula work, healing, removing death energy from locations, focusing on specific type of death and aiding their plight, interceding on their behalf in energetic work in specific territories and much much more.
Being a medium is the key to an entire path, not just a death-centric one.
So hone your technique, give a few messages and then go out into the big wide world be a threat.
(In the best possible way obviously).
~ Malika
If you wish to learn who your spirits are, begin down your mediumship path or step forward into the world of psychopomping with The Order of Bona Dea, you can either email us here: att@bonadeas.com or send us a direct message for any pertinent questions.
No one ever understands just how big their role in the universe can be until they are actually doing it.