My experience of Spiritualism
When I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, I remember being aware of something in the air occasionally. I did not have the vocabulary at the time to express it. When I was older, I found the stairwell rather scary – something seemed to be living there, and it was not particularly friendly.
My father was a school caretaker, which meant that we lived in various school grounds up until I left home at nearly 16. I had access to the keys to school, so I could go in when it was closed in the evenings, weekends and school holidays. The corridors could be rarely creepy, even in daylight, and often I would hare down the corridors when I felt ‘presences’. As in the house, the many stairs in a school often had a presence which felt malign. I never saw anything visually, but I could feel something. Even though I felt scared, I would still explore and try to understand or see more, but I rarely did.
In my late teens I found myself at Mentmore Towers, home of the Transcendental Movement in England. Mentmore Towers is a stately home, and that too had its own fair share of ghosts, particularly the corridor to the servant’s quarters, which was dark and dingy. There was one oak panelled hall off the servant’s quarters which I had to decorate. Things were fine during daylight, but as soon as evening came, and it started to get dark outside, spirits would return, and I did not look forward to that moment at all. It was at Mentmore that I started to get my first real visual experiences, and it was of Maharishi walking through some of the rooms. It was very real to me. TM does not teach anything about spirits, so after my time there, I began to believe they did not exist, until I met Punditt.
Spiritualism in palmist and tarot readings
I do not remember exactly when I started to have spiritualist experiences during palmistry and tarot readings, but there were many of them, to the point when these experiences became entirely normal.
The first intimation was during the time someone would enter the office and sit down. There is a distinctive energy about a spiritualist, and I would instantly know before they had even sat down – and I would invariably tell them. The conversation then began on a spiritual note before I had even looked at their hands or cards. We were kindred spirits. Spiritualists are invariably healers, using reiki, and other methods. Sometimes, the client would pass me information about my life and what was going on it.
Knowing if someone has died recently is easy to tell – I see a presence over the left shoulder of the client. Sometimes it manifests as the outline of a person or a number of people. Invariably these spirits are grandparents who love and care very much for their grandchild.
Early in my training I would get a lot of these experiences, and I would have to provide more information, sometimes from a photograph. After many experiences, I took the opportunity to discuss them with a spiritualist who would visit occasionally. She confirmed that I was experiencing and seeing was exactly the same as someone working in a spiritualist church! As you may have gathered by now, I had not been to a spiritualist church at this stage.