A Letter to Neale: Does God malign psychics?

Reader question:

Dear Neale.. I recently listened to Book 3 where God is saying that mediums and channeling the other side is pretty much fraudulent and useless. I've been a medium for over 30 years, bona fide, honest and convinced that I am bringing a useful, and sometimes priceless service to people who have lost their loved ones and need comfort, assurance of life after death, and the knowledge that their loved ones are always with them. Why is my channeling of this information so terrible? You channeled God, and I'm doing so, too, if God is all of us, dead or alive, so why does he malign what I do?

Debbie

Neale Responds:

Hello, Debbie...I am not sure what book you listened to in which it was said that "mediums and channeling the other side is pretty much fraudulent and useless," but it certainly wasn't Conversations with God-Book 3. In that book, God says that channeling can be very useful---and even goes so far as to tell people not to "short-change" a psychic or medium when they do their work.

Let's see exactly what CWG-3 says about psychic ability, and about channels and mediums, shall we?

"There are three rules of psychic phenomena that will allow you to understand how psychic power works. Let’s go over them.

1.  All thought is energy.
2.  All things are in motion.
3.  All time is now.

Psychics are people who have opened themselves to the experiences these phenomena produce: vibrations. Sometimes formed as pictures in the mind. Sometimes a thought in the form of a word.

The psychic becomes adept at feeling these energies."

Well, nothing denigrating there. Let's see what else CWG-3 says on this subject...

To be psychic, you’ve got to be out of your mind. Because intuition resides in the psyche. In the soul.

Intuition is the ear of the soul.

The soul is the only instrument sensitive enough to “pick up” life’s faintest vibrations, to “feel” these energies, to sense these waves in the field, and to interpret them.

Well, nothing denigrating there. Hmmm...Let's look further...

A lot of people claim to be psychic. How can I tell the real from the fake?

Everyone is “psychic,” so they’re all “real.” What you want to look for is their purpose. Are they seeking to help you, or to enrich themselves?

Psychics—so called “professional psychics”—who are seeking to enrich themselves often promise to do things with their psychic power—“return a lost lover,” “bring wealth and fame,” even help you lose weight!

They promise they can do all this—but only for a fee. They’ll even do a “reading” on another—your boss, your lover, a friend—and tell you all about them. They’ll say, “Bring me something. A scarf, a picture, a sample of their handwriting.”

And they can tell you about the other. Often, quite a bit. Because everyone leaves a trace, a “psychic fingerprint,” an energy trail. And a true sensitive can feel this.

But a sincere intuitive will never offer to cause another to come back to you, get a person to change his mind, or create any result whatsoever with her psychic “power.” A true psychic—one who has given her life to the development and use of this gift—knows that another’s free will is never to be tampered with, and that another’s thoughts are never to be invaded, and that another’s psychic space is never to be violated.

A true psychic knows and lives the Prime Directive. That’s why, if you ask her to bring back a “long-lost love,” or read the aura of another person whose handkerchief or letter you have, a true psychic will tell you:

“I’m sorry, but I won’t do that. I will never interfere with, intervene in, or look in on, the path walked by another.

“I will not attempt to affect, direct, or impact their choices in any way.

“And I will not divulge to you information about any individual that is personal or private.”

If a person offers to perform one of these “services” for you, that person is what you would call a shyster, using your own human weaknesses and vulnerabilities to extract money from you.

Well, now, Debbie...what feels bad about that? Seems to me that all of this is just telling us what a good ethical standard for psychics and mediums is. What part of the above do you not agree with? But wait, let's go further and see what else CWG-3 says about all this....

Is it okay to ask a psychic to contact the dead? Should we attempt to reach out to those who have “gone before”?

Why would you want to?

To see if they have something they want to say to us; to tell us.

If somebody from “the other side” has something they want you to know, they’ll find a way to cause you to know it, don’t worry.

The aunt, the uncle, the brother, the sister, the father, the mother, the spouse, and lover who have “gone before” are continuing their own journey, experiencing complete joy, moving toward total understanding.

If part of what they want to do is to come back to you—to see how you are, to bring you an awareness that they’re all right, whatever—trust that they’ll do that.

Then, watch for the “sign” and catch it. Don’t dismiss it as just your imagination, “wishful thinking,” or coincidence. Watch for the message, and receive it.

So are You saying, then—to get back to the original line of questioning—that we should not go to a psychic or a séance seeking to contact those on the other side?  

I’m not saying that you should or shouldn’t do anything. I’m just not sure what the point would be.

Well, supposing you had something you wanted to say to the other, rather than something you wanted to hear from them? 

Do you imagine that you could say it and they not hear it? The slightest thought having to do with a being existing on what you call “the other side” brings that being’s consciousness flying to you.

You cannot have a thought or an idea about a person who is what you call “deceased” without that person’s Essence becoming completely aware of it. It is not necessary to use a medium to produce such communication. Love is the best “medium” of communication.

...Now, back to your question: Do you need a so-called “medium” or “channel” to communicate with beings out of the body? No. Is it sometimes helpful? Sometimes. So much depends, again, on the psychic or medium—and on their motivation.

If someone refuses to work in this way with you—or to do any kind of “channeling” or “go-between” work—without high compensation; run, don’t walk, the other way. That person may be in it only for the money. Don’t be surprised if you get “hooked” into returning time and time again for weeks or months, or even years, as they play on your need or desire for contact with the “spirit world.”

A person who is only there—as the spirit is there—to help, asks nothing for himself except what is needed to continue to do the work they seek to do.

If a psychic or medium is coming from that place when she agrees to help you, make sure you offer all the help in return that you can. Don’t take advantage of such extraordinary generosity of the spirit by giving little, or not at all, when you know you could do more.

Look to see who is truly serving the world, truly seeking to share wisdom and knowledge, insight and understanding, caring and compassion. Provide for those people, and provide grandly. Pay them the highest honor. Give them the largest amount. For these are the Bringers of the Light.

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Do you know what, Debbie? I think all of this is awfully good advice, don't you? God says here that we do not need to go to a medium or a psychic in order to communicate with the dead --- that we can all do this ourselves. Would you disagree with that? Do you think you have a special gift that others have not been given? Or do you think that you have developed very highly a gift that everyone is given? Which is it?

And what you seem to have overlooked, Debbie, is that God says here that while going to a medium is not needed, it can "sometimes be helpful."

Do you disagree with this statement, Debbie? Which of the statements that follow --- about insincere psychics who refuse to help others unless they get money, or about mediums who "hook" people into returning again and again --- do you disagree with, my friend?

And how about this statement from God, Debbie...do you agree with it?

A person who is only there—as the spirit is there—to help, asks nothing for himself except what is needed to continue to do the work they seek to do.

If a psychic or medium is coming from that place when she agrees to help you, make sure you offer all the help in return that you can. Don’t take advantage of such extraordinary generosity of the spirit by giving little, or not at all, when you know you could do more.

My goodness, Debbie...these all seem like wonderful affirmations of the work of truly pure, sincere mediums and psychics. I am surprised that you would come away with the feelings that you have expressed in your note to me.

And I would like to clarify one thing you said at the end of your note. You wrote to me: "You channeled God, and I'm doing so, too. If God is all of us, dead or alive, so why does he malign what I do?"

For the record, Debbie, I have stated over and over again, repeatedly through the years in every radio or TV interview and magazine article or newspaper story ever done on me, that I do not "channel" God. My work, I have made very clear, is not "channeling." I describe the experience I have had as "inspiration."

I do not believe that the writers of the humanity's many books about God were "channeling" God...but I do believe that they were inspired by God, and wrote from their place of inspiration as clearly and as purely as they could. That is what I have earnestly endeavored to do.

Thank your for your note and your questions. I hope you see upon closer examination that God has not maligned the work that you do in any way.

I send you my wish that you may experience God's presence in you and working through you all the days of your life.

Love,