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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND CATHERINE’S ANSWERS
AM I PSYCHIC?
When we are born, we generally have two eyes, two legs, can hear, and can speak. We are also generally born with psychic/mystical gifts and abilities. Have you ever known something was going to happen, and it did? That’s called “prescience.” Do you get a gut feeling, a knowingness, a strong first impression when you meet someone, or maybe enter a certain place? What is that?
Do you sometimes find the pieces of your life fitting together seamlessly? This is “synchronicity,” or being in The Flow. My experience is I end up in The Flow when I follow my spiritual guidance. Is that how it is for you? How is it that you can notice the efforts of your spiritual guides, bringing you information? Because you’re psychic. We all are.
HOW CAN I BECOME A SPIRIT MEDIUM?
“Spirit” is short for “spiritual,” and that’s how you become a medium: by attending to your spiritual growth.
I understand that my favorite psychic, Edgar Cayce, read the Bible all the way through, every year of his life, and prayed constantly to be able to help people, especially sick people. The story is that one day, he fell asleep, using his Bible as a pillow. When he woke, his gifts had opened, and his prayers could be fulfilled.
We each have potential beyond our wildest imaginings. It is our willingness to be used by Divinity, and our desire to serve those we can, which allows latent abilities to become available to us.
CAN YOU GIVE ME INFORMATION ON MY PAST LIVES?
If, in the course of a reading, an issue is noticed and we ask why it exists, the answer may lead us to a previous life or lives. If the information will support your spiritual growth/development in this lifetime, then we will have access to it.
CAN WE CONTACT THE DEAD, THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED?
Generally, yes. Usually those on the other side are willing to communicate with you. They continue being energetically connected with you and caring about you, as when they were “alive.”
CAN YOU GIVE ME INFORMATION ABOUT MY PETS?
I was surprised to learn (from doing readings) that many pets have been born to come to you to help you in specific ways. Often they are guarding their owners, and it is not unusual for pets to be old, highly developed souls who have chosen a life of service, this time around.
It is as easy to read a pet’s personalities and behaviors, as a human’s personality and behaviors.
HOW DOES A MEDIUM HAVE CONTACT WITH A SPIRIT?
Everyone for whom I’ve read, has always had helpful entities assigned to them to help lead them nearer the light. These spirits are usually attempting contact, trying to communicate with you.
My job is to climb out of my personality, to become empty enough that your information can be fed through me, to you, with as little distortion as possible. It’s not that I make contact with a spirit. It’s that I become still and empty, and wait to notice what information is being shared.
WHAT IS A PSYCHIC READING?
When I “read” for you, either you or I ask a question. When the information arrives, I tell you what I’m seeing, or hearing, or feeling, or what thought is being put into my mind. Then I tell you what I think that picture means, or how my body sensation relates to your question, etc. A psychic “perceiving and interpreting” would be more descriptive of the experience than a psychic “reading.”
WHAT IS REMOTE VIEWING?
Remote viewing is clairvoyance, but where the world of consensual reality is seen. Much clairvoyant work has me being inside, or seeing from inside, people, and describing how they are feeling or thinking, or what they’re doing. Remote viewing, as I understand it, more often describes consensual reality: how things look, or actions being performed.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M A MEDIUM?
If information is suddenly and fully available to you, and comes with you having done nothing to acquire it, and the information contains some details which can be verified as accurate, you at that moment are being a medium, or channel.
I find the only information which comes through, is that which supports someone in their spiritual development. Sometimes I receive information and am told to not share it with the client. Sometimes I choose to not share, if my sense is that the information may be used in an abusive fashion. Sometimes, I ask a question, and am told it is inappropriate for the client to be given the information at this time. Fortunately, these situations arise infrequently. In most readings, all information is free to be shared.
HOW TO BECOME A PSYCHIC MEDIUM
I recommend focusing on becoming a person of integrity. Align your actions with high ideals, and your energy will flow more freely. As this happens, many abilities may begin surfacing.
I would caution against hothousing the growth of your psychic abilities by taking a class to learn how to open psychic doors. When it is safe for the doors to be open to you, they will open naturally. When it is time for a baby to walk, the baby will walk. Same with talking. Same with “becoming” a psychic medium. You already have the potential. Focus on your spiritual development, know abilities are hardwired into each of us, and, like a flower, wait for them to ripen naturally.
WHAT DOES “CLAIRVOYANT” MEAN? DEFINE “CLAIRVOYANT.” WHAT IS A CLAIRVOYANT? WHAT IS CLAIRVOYANCE? AM I CLAIRVOYANT?
Literally, “clairvoyant” means “clear sight.” In general use, “clairvoyant” means I see things which cannot be seen with the physical eye. Some of what I see is exactly what you would see: a person’s gender or height, or the color of their hair. Much of what I “see” are visual metaphors, pictures which give information answering your questions.
Many people have clairvoyant abilities. Many people don’t want others to know of their skills, or perhaps, don’t themselves want the information which sometimes arrives unbidden. Other people are drawn to the idea of clairvoyance, and long for its development in themselves. Some people know well that they are clairvoyant, and want to share their gift, but fear information may not come consistently, although they wish it would.
I have little control over the information. The most I can do is get myself out of the way, and literally pray that what you need, will be given to you. Then you (or I) ask a question, and – in thousands of readings – the answer has been given. “Ask and ye shall receive” seems to be the basic design.
A clairvoyant, then, is someone who has confidence that this is the work placed before them, and who is willing to label him/herself as such, and who trusts that the process will work, that useful and accurate answers will be forthcoming.
HOW CAN I BECOME CLAIRVOYANT? HOW DO I DEVELOP CLAIRVOYANT ABILITIES?
To some extent, we are all clairvoyant. Knowing this, pay attention to the images which enter your mind.
I spend a half hour or so focusing on my breathing, feeling my heartbeat, relaxing my body, and stepping away from thoughts which enter my mind, letting them go. When I feel empty and still, and then a question is asked, information comes. If it doesn’t, slightly rephrase the question, perhaps making it more specific.
Information may be visual (clairvoyance), or I may hear the answer (clairaudience), or I may receive a complete thought (telepathy, maybe, or thought transfer), or I may feel the answer in my body (clairsentience). With clairvoyance and clairsentience, I have to translate into words what I’m seeing or feeling, so you can make use of the information.
Clairvoyance, it seems to me, comes when one is ready to serve others with the information. Again, consider the biography of Edgar Caye.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CLAIRVOYANT AND A MEDIUM?
A medium is able to be a channel for those who have left their bodies, to communicate with persons still in the flesh.
A clairvoyant has “clear vision” and can see things which cannot be seen with the physical eye (such as how someone is doing who is at a distance, or what’s going on inside someone’s body, or how certain investments may fare).
HOW TO TELL SOMEONE IS CLAIRVOYANT
Occasionally when someone is told what I do, they come close to me and look into my eyes, and then say, “I believe it.” What are they seeing?
Once I finished a reading and walked out of my office into the parking lot. A woman was standing by her car and said something on the lines of, “Hello, one who walks in the deep waters.” What had she felt or seen?
I was in a group of people who had been together a couple of days. I walked across a banquet room. A woman at the far end of the room thanked me for being so peaceful. She had seen it in my walking.
I suspect many people never hear such comments, and so I offer them to you as ways people have described me. Often I hear comments about how peaceful I am. This would be news to my family, who think I’m opinionated and fiery (which I am, also).
Another way of spotting someone who has access to the other side, may be finding you are uncomfortable around them. If your life is constructed and you closely monitor your image, I am not a comfortable person with whom to spend an hour, or a day. You would feel I was “weird” (a Welsh word describing a person who has one foot in this reality, and one in the other), and you’d feel uneasy around me.
My energy field has often triggered honesty in people around me, and this has frequently created dissension. In my presence, some people suddenly feel permission to express feelings generally kept to themselves. A friend said of me that, when I was a teenager, all I needed to do was walk into a room “and all hell would break loose.” I didn’t have to say or do anything, just be present.
This triggering effect can also be a portal, for those on a growth/spiritual path. When we are together, doors may open, possibilities may be more readily recognized, potentialities may seem more accessible than when you are by yourself, and when reality seems set in concrete. Around a clairvoyant, you may feel you have more choices, that the world is friendlier, softer, more supportive of your dreams, that you have more permission to relax and be yourself.
The more I am in alignment with my ideals, the happier I am, and the more effective I am as a reader. I’m not saying everyone who’s happy is actively clairvoyant, but the best clairvoyants and light workers I’ve met, have been secure, peaceful, and happy.
HOW CAN I CONTACT A MEDIUM OR PSYCHIC?
If you’re on my website (taospsychic.com), my phone, email and mailing addresses are listed on the “Contact” page. I look forward to meeting you.
BLOCKING CLAIRVOYANTS
I sometimes feel someone wandering inside me, looking out through my eyes, feeling the degree of openness of my heart, feeling me being aware of them. This happens infrequently. When it has happened, I’ve felt no resistance to being explored.
When clients ask me for information about another person, I generally find it easy to go inside and come back able to describe how the other person is feeling or thinking. Every once in a long while, though, as I head toward someone, they make it clear they do not want me inside them. This completely stops me.
I suspect most clairvoyants feel as I do. All you need to do is know you don’t want me inside you, and I am effectively blocked.
HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH A DEAD RELATIVE
A shortcut is to work with a channel who regularly has access to those who have passed.
In my experience, the “dead” have always been available for communication. They may not say what you want, or behave as you want (or they may, indeed); but I don’t remember someone flatly refusing contact.
Establishing contact on one’s own is tricky, because the grieving person has so much desire, and that may distort accurate perception of information which is subtle in form. I was at peace with my father’s passing, and so was able to glance at him, obliquely, keeping the energy stream at a minimum. He was seated, his legs spread, slapping his right hand on his right knee, laughing at what a fool he’d been in this life, understanding that the joke was on him. Some such picture is not unusual. Once they are fully on the other side, personality and memory remain, but ego seems to leave. A person’s perspective about what’s going on, becomes broader than when they were incarnate.
HOW TO TALK TO DEAD LOVED ONES
Understand that, once they are fully passed, any selfish traits growing out of their fear or desire for control while they were alive, are irrelevant. They are now in a place of compassion, love, immense understanding, and fully surrendered to supporting us in our growth, as well as working on their own new “life” assignments. They are no longer crippled with desire or bedeviled by pain (which is fed by not knowing the big picture). When you talk with them, share your gratitude for all they meant in your life, both the joyous and the difficult aspects. Speak your love.
HOW DO THE DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH THE LIVING? HOW DO THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH US? WHAT ARE THE WAYS DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH US? HOW DO DEAD RELATIVES COMMUNICATE WITH YOU?
Sometimes they literally show up and talk. I heard recently of a woman staying in a house built by a friend of mine. She was sleeping in the bed he had shared with his wife for years, before he died. The woman didn’t know who he was, but saw him clearly, and was able to describe him to us. We all got a good laugh. He was a passionate guy, and wanted to know who the heck was sleeping in his bed. That was completely in character for him.
Sometimes the dead show themselves in a dream, or in a waking dream (a vision). A vision is distinct from a daydream. It has a clear beginning and end, and I have full recall of my visions. Also, they don’t jump around as do images in dreams. A vision is coherent. If it occurs at night, you’re likely to wake just after, and remember it fully. It seems to be “really” happening. In my experience, it really is happening.
Sometimes they communicate with fragrance. I was once sitting at the table of a friend when suddenly the room was filled with a strong, sweet scent of roses. When I commented, my friend, an exquisitely devout Catholic, said, “Oh, that’s Saint Teresa.”
A good friend of mine passed. I was told his wife had also died. For months, I craved knowing just where they were buried. Finally, after diligent research, I discovered she was still alive. She’d been for two years in a rest home, which she had originally entered together with her husband, a raconteur. The employees at the rest home hadn’t known she could speak until they heard her singing with me. From the other side, he had been bugging me until I finally found her, so she could have attention and love and caring, until her time came to rejoin him. She lived several years more, and became the darling of the rest home. In this case, the communication came to me as an irresistible desire to find their graves. Once I found her, I no longer had any desire to find his grave.
DO THE DEAD LEAVE SPIRITS TO COMMUNICATE?
Our bodies are composed of far less than $100 worth of raw materials. What causes us to “be alive”? Is it not the animating force of the soul, that which inhabits the body? Experiments have been conducted which have shown that when people die, they lose a few ounces. Was that the weight of air leaving their bodies for the last time? Or do souls have a slight amount of mass? People have reported seeing wisps and hazy figures emerging at the moment of death, and disappearing upwards.
This question sounds to me as though you think the soul is going off somewhere, but leaving some other entity to communicate with us. I have not found this to be the case. It appears to me the dead are in “bodies” vibrating at a higher rate (which makes them generally invisible to people in our more dense version of “reality”), but I don’t see them leaving a “spirit” behind to be in contact with us. It looks to me as though they, themselves, are the communicants.
DO THE DEAD REALLY COMMUNICATE THROUGH DREAMS?
I have received in dreams, clear messages from people who are in the flesh. I expect those who have passed might well choose dreams as a communication mode, although I haven’t experienced this personally.