You Are a Medium: Discover Your Natural Abilities to Communicate with the Other Side
✍️ Dillard, SherrieA practical guide to developing mediumship skills based on decades of professional experience.
Dillard structures her advice around personal anecdotes and specific spiritual challenges rather than abstract theory. She uses her background in pastoral counseling to frame mediumship as a service for healing and transformation. The text covers diverse subjects including suicide, coma, and dementia, offering perspectives on how spirits communicate during these difficult times. Readers learn to identify their unique medium type and handle negativity through the Chain Gang concept. The approach is grounded in New Thought principles and practical workshop experience.
This paperback from Llewellyn Publications sits within the American New Thought tradition, blending psychic practice with pastoral counseling. Dillard’s work reflects a contemporary approach to spiritualism that integrates intuition development with therapeutic insights, appealing to readers interested in practical metaphysics rather than historical occultism.
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“Everything that Sherrie Dillard writes has the ring of authenticity that comes with great beauty and spiritual depth.”
📝 Description: You Are a Medium: Discover Your Natural Abilities to Communicate with the Other Side
📑 What's inside
- Table of Contents 2
- Introduction 4
- Section 1 My Path to Becoming a Medium 16
- Chapter 1 The Good Dead: My Early Years 17
- Chapter 2 Spiritual Helpers, Angels and Guides 30
- Section 2 How You Help the Other Side- The Sessions 50
- Chapter 3: From Fear to Courage 51
- Chapter 4: Addictions, Embracing Your Spirit 67
- Chapter 5: Conformity and Breaking Free 83
- Chapter 6: Heart Disease, Call to Love 99
- Chapter 7: Suicide and Transformation to New Ways of Being 116
- Chapter 8: Stuck in Three Dimensions and Activating your Sixth Sense 134
- Chapter 9: The Chain Gang: Cure for Negativity 148
- Chapter 10: Alzheimer's, Dementia, Coma's, Repeating Lessons 164
- Chapter 11: Lost and Wandering, Finding the Way 181
- Section 3 Develop Your Natural Medium Ability 200
- Chapter 12: Discover Your Medium Type 201
- Chapter 13: Your Medium Potential 207
- Chapter 14: Mastering Medium Abilities 225
- Chapter 15: Medium Help 911 260
- Conclusion: The Enlightened Medium 285
- Continued Reading 290
💎 Expert review
📖 Why choose it
Why this book is worth reading
This book is ideal for the curious skeptic or the spiritually sensitive individual who has long felt a pull toward the unseen world but lacks the technical framework to understand it. Sherrie Dillard offers a compassionate, demystifying approach that validates your innate potential, removing the intimidation often associated with mediumship. If you desire deeper connections with loved ones who have passed or wish to explore your own psychic sensitivities without dogma, this guide provides the practical techniques and encouraging perspective necessary to begin your journey. It empowers you to view these abilities not as rare gifts, but as natural human capacities waiting to be awakened, fostering a sense of unity and understanding across the veil.
⭐ Reader reviews
Reader rating
Dillard’s text serves as an inviting entry point for those new to mediumship, successfully stripping away esoteric jargon in favor of accessible, practical advice. Her two decades of experience shine through in her compassionate tone, making complex spiritual concepts feel manageable and grounded. However, seasoned occultists or academic researchers may find the content overly simplistic and lacking in rigorous historical or theoretical depth. It is not suited for those seeking dense metaphysical analysis or traditional ceremonial magic frameworks. Instead, it thrives as a gentle primer for personal exploration rather than scholarly study, appealing primarily to readers looking for emotional resonance and practical steps over intellectual complexity.
❓ Frequently asked questions
📖 Who should read this
Are you curious about your own psychic potential? Do you long to connect with loved ones who have passed? This book is for anyone seeking practical, accessible guidance to explore and develop their natural abilities to communicate with the spirit world, fostering deeper spiritual awareness.
🎯 Key themes and symbolism
Awakening Innate Mediumship
This book posits that mediumship is not a rare, mystical talent reserved for a select few, but a natural extension of human intuition and empathy. It guides readers through exercises and insights designed to awaken and acknowledge these inherent abilities, framing them as accessible pathways to spiritual understanding. The focus is on recognizing and nurturing one's own latent capacities for spirit communication.
Practical Spirit Communication
Dillard provides actionable strategies and techniques for establishing contact with departed loved ones and other spiritual entities. From interpreting signs and symbols to developing clairvoyant, clairaudient, and clairsentient faculties, the book offers a step-by-step approach. It emphasizes creating a safe and sacred space for communication, ensuring a grounded and respectful interaction with the spirit world.
Ethical Psychic Development
Beyond simply opening to spirit communication, the text stresses the importance of responsible and ethical practice. It delves into maintaining energetic boundaries, discerning genuine messages from personal projections, and understanding the purpose of spirit connections. Readers learn how to develop their abilities with integrity, ensuring their practice is both empowering for themselves and respectful of the spiritual realms.
📜 Historical context
📚 Glossary
- Medium
- Channeling
- Psychic
📔 Questions to reflect on
- Reflect on a time you felt an unexplained connection or received an intuitive 'nudge.' How might that have been a whisper from the unseen?
- What fears or preconceived notions do you hold about communicating with spirits? How might this book challenge or affirm those beliefs?
- Consider how developing your mediumistic abilities could enrich your life or help others. What responsibilities come with such a gift?
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