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This book is about my continuing journey to explore and uncover truths about the nature of the universe. This means understanding what truly underlies the physical plane that we use our normal senses to perceive. Now, I must admit that after conducting a three-year research study on mental mediumship and examining other survival of consciousness issues, I thought that these findings would be enough to answer questions like: Who are we? Where have we been? How did we get here? and Where are we going?

While I learned a lot from this initial journey, along the way, there was even more phenomena encountered that required further exploration. Before you accompany me on this journey, let me give you some credible reasons to review this phenomenon via my lens. 

First, let me explain a bit about myself.  I am not a medium although you will read a lot about various types of mediumistic abilities in this book.  In other words, you will never see me standing up on a platform claiming to be able to speak to your past family members in spirit. I will say, however, that from a very young age, I have had many spiritual experiences that provided me with enough impetus to further read and research about paranormal issues in a systematic manner. 

Throughout this book, I will reveal some of my own personal spiritual experiences to complement the phenomena we are discussing. As a social scientist for the past twenty-two years, I have been conducting and overseeing studies in the criminal justice and health fields.  My experience using rigorous methodologies including systematic reviews, quasi-experimental designs, matched comparison groups, all types of qualitative research and multivariate analyses has provided me with the range of tools needed to study paranormal phenomena.

While it is useful to have scientists who systematically and objectively investigate extraordinary phenomena, one of the most important messages for you as you embark on this journey is for you to wear your critical hat and be discerning about everything you learn. The idea here is that when faced with phenomena that do not fit with your early social conditioning or with the status quo, it is important to obtain all the facts and come to your own conclusions. If you can experience this phenomena first hand, it would be optimal and will allow you to discern the truth.

For those of you who have not had any spiritual experiences, the next best thing is to learn about the information from an objective assessment. While conducting research for my first book, Medium7: Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions, questions were answered but new phenomena emerged for which I was not prepared to address at the time. For example, when mediums I interviewed began to talk about partially materialized hands and bodies, I thought, hang on here, does this currently fit within the realm of reality or fantasy? I had created this square box for myself that said, “I can only process certain extraordinary claims in small doses—only one at a time please!” 

Some of the mental mediums also talked about being energy healers and while I was hearing and seeing these claims during the Medium7 research days, I really could not say much about it until more systematic research became available. Therefore, as you will see in this book, I was empowered to learn more about claims made during my initial research. I struggled in my first book about talking about a materialized hand, and now I am ready to tell-all about full body materializations.

The claims made in this book are extraordinary. It is really quite comforting that they are no longer burning witches at the stake or persecuting the researchers that study and report on phenomenon that would have at one time been considered heresy and could have resulted in a punishment for treason! Outside of burning at the stake, any other outcome is bearable when the pros of stating the truth outweigh the cons.

Revealing the Various Forms of Spiritual Energy

I have been intrigued by the transformational powers of the energy responsible for the phenomena discussed in this book.  Why is it so intriguing?  It is fascinating to know that a non-physical force that is difficult to measure and prove contributes to beneficial phenomena.  I began to realize that that there were many forms of  non-physical energy that mankind did not either understand or did not know how to access.  My purpose in this book is to reveal these various forms so you can harness them and positively transform your life.

This non-physical force has contributed to unique voices and materializations in a physical séance.  We will also see how this inexplicable force allows those in the spirit world to materialize into the physical world and create memorable exchanges.  The energy is also present in mental mediumship.  When messages from the spirit world are shared with the living via a medium, most refer to this energy as psychic energy—where the use of clairvoyance, clairsentience, and clairaudience is used to provide information to verify that we don’t die.  

This mysterious energy is present when we have an out of body experience.  When we change vehicles and move from the physical body into the astral body, we are experiencing yet another form of this energy.  We will see how this energy form leads to great exploration, enhanced knowledge, and potential healing.

Those who are familiar with complementary alternative healing techniques refer to this non-physical energy as healing energy referred to as Chi or Prana—they all represent an energy that can unblock or rebalance the energy body to regain healing.  The form changes yet again, when we examine past life regression therapy—hypnosis resulting in altered states of consciousness allow us to gain access to important information in our past lives.  Such information can often transform current lives.

What exactly is this enigmatic form? I have used the umbrella term spiritual energy to describe all of the various energy forms referred to in this book. Some have used the term spiritual, psychic and healing energy, to describe this non-physical form.  I have selected this umbrella term as it indicates there are powers that can positively transform lives, create inspiration, enhance positive motivation, and create both emotional and physical being.  The spiritual term is not used in the religious sense.  Instead it describes an experience that can be miraculous but not be explicable by traditional science or physical laws.

One of the reasons these terms spiritual—psychic—healing energy are often used interchangeably is that their very essence is still unclear.  It is similar to the concept of love. We feel it with every sense in our body, yet try to measure it, quantify it or even explain it and we find that very difficult to do.

When grappling with the concept of non-physical energy keep some of the following basic points in mind:

• We are all vibrational beings.  All matter is energy vibrating at various frequencies;

• Vibrational energy will change forms but it can never by destroyed;

• Slowing down the speed mass of energy, known as the vortex will result in materialization and speeding up the vortex will result in dematerialization; and ...