Hrmm...
My Derek Acorah (a medium...) books arrived this morning.
Yes, both me and Kizzi are a tad obsessed after seeing him live, but I did buy them out of curiosity as well as obsession.
I've read most of Mia Dolan's (another medium...) books- well, I've read all her earlier ones, and not the ones I think she's written since doing her own tv show- and, well, I'm torn about it. I think she's fantastic, I do. In her ideas and thoughts if she has no real psychic talent, and of course, in her talent if she does. But I don't know what to believe about her...
I've read through the most important sections of one of my Derek books already, and I find it interesting that he says many of the same things as Mia Dolan. They both believe in God, in reincarnation, in karma and being judged until you reach a high enough level at which you will be with God and not have to be incarnate any more, in higher and lower planes of another existance (light and dark), in spirit guides, in a restoration period for the dead when they leave their physical bodies- you get the idea. It's all similar. In fact, many mediums seem to agree the same thing.
Now, is that because it's all fake and it's more likely to be belived if they all say the same thing? Or is it because they're actually all getting the same messages and it's all true and this is evidence? Who knows...
All I know is, I'm happy with the idea of reincarnation, I think I have to believe that. Who knows why, I just do, it makes sense to me. I'm not happy with the idea of a light and a dark side in the spirit world, I'm not happy with spirit people running around doing little jobs in heaven, babies growing up in the spirit world. I'm not sure quite what anyone believes about how there are spirits, and yet we're all reincarnated. Why do ghost hunts find spirits from further back rather than finding spirits of recent dead people? How is that possible if we all reincarnate?
Basically, having read two chapters of this Derek book (really they're the only chapters- there's all this weird 'test yourself' nonsense filling the rest) I really want to sit in a room with him and quiz him. Yes, I realise I would not be able to sit calmly in a room with him. Maybe Mia Dolan would be better? She's less sweet and charming, and I am much less likely to feel the need to cuddle her...
I would just really like to know how bits of there theories mush together. The ideas of reincarnation, and then spirit people are just unmeshable for me. Surely if you're reincarnating, everyones on earth all the time? I know there are higher spirits, and I understand there is an idea of a 'rest and recuperation' period where spirits are meant to get better before, presumably, being reincarnated again- but I can't really find out what people really think about that. Does everyone have to rest? For how long? You wait for your family before reincarnating, but how long do you wait? Maybe you'll get up there and find no family waiting because they're all reincarnated again? Psychics seem to be throwing around fuzzy ideas without any definates.
Now, I'm not saying by that that they're faking everything, that it's all a lie, I don't think it can be. I'm not sure it's real either, but, having met Derek, he seems so nice... I know you could easily act being nice the majority of the time, but it didn't seem like an act. Which, I understand would be the point of an act, but anyway... He just seems, real... I don't think I could believe that he was a con-man. Mad? Deluded? Schizophrenic? Perhaps, but I don't feel like he is knowingly attempting to con anyone. Whether I just wouldn't like to believe it, I don't know...
Anyway, this ramble is without ending because Kizzi is back from her lecture, and I want to tell her about my odd theories, and my Derek books. I shall continue at some point...
I really should be packing anyway, we're off home at five this afternoon and I'm not ready to go... Ack...
Yes, both me and Kizzi are a tad obsessed after seeing him live, but I did buy them out of curiosity as well as obsession.
I've read most of Mia Dolan's (another medium...) books- well, I've read all her earlier ones, and not the ones I think she's written since doing her own tv show- and, well, I'm torn about it. I think she's fantastic, I do. In her ideas and thoughts if she has no real psychic talent, and of course, in her talent if she does. But I don't know what to believe about her...
I've read through the most important sections of one of my Derek books already, and I find it interesting that he says many of the same things as Mia Dolan. They both believe in God, in reincarnation, in karma and being judged until you reach a high enough level at which you will be with God and not have to be incarnate any more, in higher and lower planes of another existance (light and dark), in spirit guides, in a restoration period for the dead when they leave their physical bodies- you get the idea. It's all similar. In fact, many mediums seem to agree the same thing.
Now, is that because it's all fake and it's more likely to be belived if they all say the same thing? Or is it because they're actually all getting the same messages and it's all true and this is evidence? Who knows...
All I know is, I'm happy with the idea of reincarnation, I think I have to believe that. Who knows why, I just do, it makes sense to me. I'm not happy with the idea of a light and a dark side in the spirit world, I'm not happy with spirit people running around doing little jobs in heaven, babies growing up in the spirit world. I'm not sure quite what anyone believes about how there are spirits, and yet we're all reincarnated. Why do ghost hunts find spirits from further back rather than finding spirits of recent dead people? How is that possible if we all reincarnate?
Basically, having read two chapters of this Derek book (really they're the only chapters- there's all this weird 'test yourself' nonsense filling the rest) I really want to sit in a room with him and quiz him. Yes, I realise I would not be able to sit calmly in a room with him. Maybe Mia Dolan would be better? She's less sweet and charming, and I am much less likely to feel the need to cuddle her...
I would just really like to know how bits of there theories mush together. The ideas of reincarnation, and then spirit people are just unmeshable for me. Surely if you're reincarnating, everyones on earth all the time? I know there are higher spirits, and I understand there is an idea of a 'rest and recuperation' period where spirits are meant to get better before, presumably, being reincarnated again- but I can't really find out what people really think about that. Does everyone have to rest? For how long? You wait for your family before reincarnating, but how long do you wait? Maybe you'll get up there and find no family waiting because they're all reincarnated again? Psychics seem to be throwing around fuzzy ideas without any definates.
Now, I'm not saying by that that they're faking everything, that it's all a lie, I don't think it can be. I'm not sure it's real either, but, having met Derek, he seems so nice... I know you could easily act being nice the majority of the time, but it didn't seem like an act. Which, I understand would be the point of an act, but anyway... He just seems, real... I don't think I could believe that he was a con-man. Mad? Deluded? Schizophrenic? Perhaps, but I don't feel like he is knowingly attempting to con anyone. Whether I just wouldn't like to believe it, I don't know...
Anyway, this ramble is without ending because Kizzi is back from her lecture, and I want to tell her about my odd theories, and my Derek books. I shall continue at some point...
I really should be packing anyway, we're off home at five this afternoon and I'm not ready to go... Ack...