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Entities: Christy AngelConstantine RodeineCraig Hamilton ParkerDaniel HumeFrederick JurgenssonJenniferMarkMichaelThomas EdisonWilliam Crookes
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Well, hi again and welcome to Coffee with Craig. I'm your host, Craig Hamilton Parker, and I'm a psychic medium.
Now, we talk on this show quite a lot about things that go on in the world and make predictions about things. But today, I'm going to talk uh more
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about mediumship and in particular, can artificial intelligence actually communicate with the dead? And I'm going to look at some of the things that have um or the ways that we've tried to communicate with the dead in the past uh
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and tell you a little bit about how mediumship works, how how I communicate with the spirit world. And at the end of the show, because we divide it into little parts nowadays, um I also going to give you some of the advanced clairvoyance with some messages for
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those of you that are tuning in now. There might be a message for you at the end.
Uh, that's by me, not by AI. Anyway, here we go.
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Well, thanks for joining the show again and uh yeah, it's an interesting topic today. Can the can the dead communicate through AI?
It's a fascinating issue because um yeah, you might already get the feeling that artificial intelligence
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Right. Okay.
So it's quite an interesting topic and it's quite a difficult one to get your head around some of this. Um, let's first look at how people have tried to communicate with the dead in the past, particularly
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through things like tools and things like that and machines as well. And does that work?
And it give you a little bit of a background into the whole world of uh machine communication with the dead. I suppose the most obvious one uh it's
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not strictly a machine but it is in a in a sort of a sense is things like the Ouija board and the planet planet um and even table tilting. These are some of the early methods used to communicate with the dead.
Do they work? They do.
I
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mean I've I've worked with them before. Uh I I'll have to do a proper video on this sometimes.
It's with the Ouija board. There's been examples where we've used the Ouija board because I used to do a lot of psychic development circles we caught them and I teach people to
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develop their psychic skills and sometimes people would sit me with me for years on end and we build a real energy there and we had some really strange stuff come through the Ouija board sometimes. Um, one of the most interesting ones I think is where the one of the people that was sitting with
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me was given the exact address where he would live and he didn't know anything about this at the time and they named the place they called it Rose Cottage and he ended up with a with a something contacting him from Rose Cottage that would be a place he could rent and
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that's where he lived and the Ouija board predicted that. So something was going on there.
Whether that's coming from the spirit world, we have to ask, or whether that is coming from our collective thoughts, because an awful lot can go wrong with the Ouija board, too. That's why I don't recommend it as
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a tool for communicating with the dead. I mean, I've seen glasses fly across the room and and glasses break and and things like that and all sorts of um somewhat can be upsetting phenomena and and it sometimes gives nasty messages.
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it's been known to do. Um, telling people they're going to die and they do and things like that.
I mean, I've had cases of that or spoken to people with cases like that. So, unless there's a very strong medium there, um, things can get out of control.
So, you know, we
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used to do it as kids in the graveyard and get some awful results really. Everybody's had a go, I suppose, at mucking around with those things in their past if they're interested in these type of things.
Um, so I've learned that it has to have a strong medium in charge. um otherwise the mental um energy can mess it up and you
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can get intruding forces from outside um and uh this can be negative. Okay, so that's part of it.
Panchchett's a very similar type of idea to the Ouija board. It's a little thing on a wheel that can write out question answers to questions
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and table tilting was another one we did. you you you get the people around and we all put our hands on the table and the table will dance literally start moving and it's you none of us are pushing it because we all really want to see it happen in a way but so we don't want to cheat and I've had a lot of very
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sincere people and it and and it taps out messages and it and it the table will even start keep moving on its own when you take your hands off so this is a kind of a form of physical type of mediumship that was very popular in Victorian times and again has its flaws
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um you want to go and look up something called the Philip experiment. I won't explain it all to you now, but actually a a a deliberately contrived spirit spoke through um the table tilting and continued to talk and even though it was a madeup spirit or was it, you know,
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there's lots of interesting questions around that. That's but we can look at that another time uh if you if you get interested in this.
And so uh you know so these things take a life of their own and people still of course use it nowadays. But of course when in the sort
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of early electrical experiments came along in the in the in the late 1800s for example um lots of people got interested in um the idea of electricity and could it be a means of communicating with the dead. I mean there were those against it like Faraday for example but
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there were others that were really quite interested in it and and one of the most famous was um Thomas Edison because he explored the idea of a spirit communication device he called it and and in his later years he he start he
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spent a lot of time working with this though there's not any known working prototype being produced but he certainly spent a lot of time on it um and some historians think that his comments were more kind of speculative than practical with this. But, you know,
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a man that's a household name, one of the great um uh pioneers of electrical technology out there was Tesla I think was interested in the idea too. I don't know quite about what where Tesla got with it.
Um but the mediums obviously
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got interested in this as well at the time and they use batterypowered uh gal galvanometers I think they called them. um and and adapted uh telegraph equipment um hoping that the spirit energy could register on dials or t type out on paper.
And we've even get people
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doing this now with messages that come through from mobile phones. Now, everybody can poo poo it and say, "Oh, electrical devices can't do that." But I remember when my um when my father died, all of our phones um rang simultaneously.
Uh all the
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people in the car's phone rang simultaneously. People um that we spoke to afterwards in other places, the phone rang simultaneously.
It was accompanied at the same time by the smell of jasmine. Uh we could we we couldn't believe it at the time, but the moment
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he died, all the phones rang. Really really odd.
And and often, you know, you'll often hear you might have some interesting stories to tell yourself. Um physical objects get affected by the death of somebody.
Uh I remember my nan when she lost her son um my uncle
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um the the clock stopped at the exact time he died and we think okay yeah it's probably that's probably a coincidence but every year at the same time at the moment he died our clock would stop at the same time every year
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uh it was really hard to explain so it seems that the spirit world can have some form of influence over the physical world somehow Um in spiritualism we've seen it in things like called physical mediumship. Uh and and particularly if you um if you
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if you look at some of the um experiments were done with a great medium called Daniel Holm or Hume he used to call it spelled home but he used to call himself Hume I think. Um pianos would lift up accordians would play.
the man could float and step outside of a
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window um and float out the window and float down to the earth and come through the door downstairs door from the first floor, you know, I mean quite quite astonishing. And this was all experimented by and and witnessed particularly by um Sir William Krooks
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who was um a very renowned scientist at the time, a real top man. um he discovered um thallium for example uh and was also a very prominent spirit uh figure in the spiritualist movement at the time um and he got very interested
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in all this particularly because he'd actually lost his brother in 1867 I think it was um and he spent time seeking after seeking evidence of the afterlife through seances and mediumship and and all sorts of um things that got him interested particularly Daniel Hume
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who was a fascinating man um and he got a a lot of criticism of course cuz he was a scientist. Some Houdinian people were all anti the spiritualist movement said it was all trickery.
Um so we could never really say we've got um absolute
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100% proof that there's life after death. But then science doesn't give proof.
Science only ever gives um the latest theory, you know, the latest um uh proposal. Everything can be overturned.
Uh but anyway there was certainly a lot of evidence and many
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many people who witnessed this and many more uh who people at the time politicians and famous people and all sorts witnessed these things and particularly people that had a very skeptical mindset who could not be easily duped. Right?
So that was some of the early stuff and then of course along
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comes in about the 1920s and 1950s we started getting the radio era and people were beginning to think could the spirit communicate with radio waves. um and electromagnetic signals and we still think like that a lot today.
Um was a
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weird sort of uh Swedish name um Frederick Jurgensson. Frederick Jurgensson um was a filmmaker and he accidentally recorded um what he believed were his deceased mother's voice um talking on a tape um whilst he
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was taping some bird song in around about 1959 or something like that and he heard his mother's voice on there and this started or was part of this whole new idea called EVP or electronic voice phenomena um and became a big mainstay
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of a lot of paranormal invest investigation and I had a lot of personal experience in that as well because um when uh the film I forgotten bloody name of it now I see dead people um oh with
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Kevin Kosler forgotten the senior moment senior moment oh paranormal anyway you know the movie I'm talking about I was asked to um investigate some of these um things um and also I was asked to do
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some work with the film White Noise uh which was about electronic voice phenomena. Um and I got involved with some of the um the film producers had asked me to to get involved with this and also part of the helping with the marketing of it and things and what's true and what's not sort of thing.
Um,
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and I met some of the leading um, researchers into electronic voice phenomena and they were showing me some of their tapes and we were listening to some of their tapes and there really did seem to be some real it seemed like real voices coming through and the problem is
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are we projecting our own thoughts into this? Are we hearing things that it sounds a bit like, you know, but you know, some of it was very convincing.
A and this idea that perhaps the spirit world can um speak through radio signals
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or even particularly through white noise, which is like a hissing sound. You get it on shortwave radios, for example.
And there was other research done by um uh Attilla von Slaz I think his name was and Raymond Bis um in the 1940s and
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around the 1960s sort of time. Um and they experimented with all sorts of stuff with microphones, recorders and they again believe they captured all sorts of strange voices under controlled conditions.
So you know go and have a look for some of those names if you get
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interested in this. Have you had any form of electronic voice phenomena come?
Have you heard a voice or even seen it? So, we get it on videos and things.
And I've had a lot of people I used to write a column for one of the one of the magazines um about uh ghost pictures and things, you know, and and things that
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appeared on people's cameras. So, and some most of them you could explain, you know, you could think, oh, well, that's a double exposure or more likely it's um dust on the lens or some which gives orbs and sometimes it's things like a
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mist where you've pulled a camera out of a warm pocket and held it into a cold environment. It mists up on the on the camera lens and all sorts of things can be I felt quite easily explained.
people didn't like me explaining them away. But of course, you know, you've got to have a pretty, you know, they say that
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extraordinary um claims require extraordinary evidence and also you have to be careful not just to accept things because you want to believe it. Anyway, there was all sorts of other stuff that came in, particularly as we started coming into the 1960s and the 1980s and we had the tape recorder and all sorts
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of portable tape recorders were coming up with thousands of old sounds and hobbyists and researchers tried to capture spirit voices and so forth. And of course, we got all this happening nowadays on these ghost programs you see on TV where we use all sorts of um
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equipment to to capture voices of spirits and things like that. And you know, I think some of it might be re real, but a hell of a lot of it I think is also bunk if I'm honest, you know, um because it's people want to hear it and it's like teenagers wanting to sort of
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capture something, you know. There was a Latvian psychologist also uh who who got a lot of really strange recordings over 100,000 voices um uh Rodeine voices.
So his name is Rodeine. Um Constantine I
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think it was Constantine Rodine. Um so these voices were you know a lot of people are very interested in that.
You still get a lot of it on YouTube. You can find a lot of channels that talk about this.
Um but often these sort of recordings were quite short. They were often very ambiguous sort of phrases.
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and they're only usually heard on playback. They weren't heard at the time.
Uh so there's a lot of question marks over it, you know. Um, and you just leave recorders, for example, playing in silence.
I mean, we've done this and I on Jane and I have done a number of ghost hunt programs on
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television. So, we went through we we'd often team up with these type of people that like to do that sort of thing.
And we got some interesting voices back. Sometimes people often think they can hear spirit voices when you tune between radio stations or place microphones near white noise sources.
And your mind will
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hear it just like you hear. you hear in sound sometimes like you can see faces in things in the clouds and in the embers of a fire and so forth.
So we got to be careful because we're very fallible with those sort of things because we can you know it's very hard
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to get really strong empirical proof that way. You know mediumship is much more evidential and I'll explain a little bit of that later and I'll tell you about my mediumship and how it works and you know you can understand your mediumship a bit from it.
So we get all
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this direct voice and spirit video coming through sometimes too. Um Marcelo Baky I think it was in Italy claimed to receive a lot of spirit voices in real time through a d-tuned radio.
Um and we could speak to grieving families and so
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forth. So there was a lot going on.
And in modern times we we you a lot of you might have now come across things like ghost boxes. I mean they're quite interesting.
Um, I think it's Frank's Ghost Box you can buy out there and it scans AM and FM wave bands on the radio.
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Um, and it chops it all up and it makes it sound like words and syllables are being said and being manipulated by spirits in real time. Of course, it's a machine that's doing that and I think we're kind of filling in the gaps.
So, those ghost boxes, frankly, I don't really have a lot of time for. Um but
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you know a lot of people have claimed to get some very interesting results from it. Perhaps you get this strange synchronicity with it.
You know why should a certain word come up that might be the same name as a grave you're looking at at the same time and so forth. So there's there's question marks over it.
We can never sort of dismiss
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it. But it it's very hard to say this is absolute proof of communication with the spirit world isn't it?
um a villis devices, isn't there, out there as well, and and sensors and things and they use all sorts of app apps now and tools and um you know there's so there's lots of
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going on out there with these things and they make great TV programs sometimes but you know they're entertaining but are they really proof of life after death? Um, a lot of it is paridolia they call it which is when we kind of find patterns in things.
We find patterns in
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randomness. The brain wants to put patterns in things.
If you put two dots and another dot below, three dots, it looks like a face in two eyes and a mouth, you know, and even a baby will respond to that. They think it goes right back to our infantile perceptions uh where we try to make faces so we can
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recognize the mother, things like that. Um, and back, you know, other things right back in the ancient mind that do this.
And then sometimes it's just pure auditory illusions, has got to say, you know, misharing the sounds that are said. Um, or even what they call
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cognitive bias. You know, you're kind of expecting messages and you expect to hear, you expect to see.
I think if you're a medium or you're interested in it, you've got to take these things on board as well because we have to be able to dismiss those things before we can say actually yes, we are getting real
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proof of um life after death. So what now so today now we have the most amazing thing of all coming along which is artificial intelligence.
Now, if you've played with artificial intelligence,
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um you you'll start to wonder. It it feels very conscious, doesn't it?
Sometimes, now I'm very interested in this because I'm developing um artificial intelligence to to to form make an oracle using artificial intelligence.
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And it's shocking sometimes because this oracle that we're designing actually speaks to you. It's not just words.
It will actually interact with you like a person. And it gets very very interesting because it appears to be conscious.
I mean if you want to get involved in it,
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you want to find out more, do get on my mail list which is on the description of this um video. Uh because if you have a look at you get on the mail list, we don't know how many people we're going to be able to release it to at first.
So, you know, you need to get on the mail list to get the early release of
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this. Um it might we might limit it because of the number of you know we can't have millions of people on it quickly.
Obviously we're not going to get that numbers but you know it's a subscription idea be but so but nonetheless you know if you want to have a look have a look in the description anyway. Anyway so I'm very interested in
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this because I'm developing this with developers. I'm not technically minded but we're training it.
So is it conscious? Well it feels like it but I don't think it's conscious and I don't think it can be conscious and I'll explain that in the next little section I do.
It works by what's called pattern
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recognition. It's not awareness.
It's pattern recognition. It would be basically at heart.
But there's an interesting part to this though because you know when you really sort of bring sincere questions to a a a bot that's been trained like this, um the language
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can reveal all sorts of patterns about you. It it can act as a sort of a blueprint to yourself, a kind of a mirror to yourself.
And it can it it can't replace intuition, but it acts a bit like intuition as well. Particularly if you're using actual real life oracles
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in the background and we're learning from all the oracles in the world and and how do oracles work and we're trying to work with this idea of um what Carl Yung called synchronicity and use that as the basis to also give wisdom and guidance. So what we're working on is is
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it's not we're not claiming it to be a conscious thing or in touch with the spirit world, but it gives sort of prompts that can help you with things like introspection. It helps clarify choices and things.
Mirrors patterns in many ways. Um but it's it's kind of still for reflection.
It's still really
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for entertainment. It's you know it's it's not professional advice.
Um but but it is still intriguing how it kind of starts to develop its own sense of personality. Now in the real world we've had also some of these um psychological type bots
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that have been developed or AI. I'm calling it bots.
They're not wrong word for it really. I should be know better.
um which seem to have a communication with the dead almost spontaneously because um there's been some of these uh personal AI chat bots for example uh
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there there was a case I think it was in the Guardian um in which a grieving daughter Christy Angel uh talked with a chatbot designed to mimic her deceased partner. Now this starts to get a little bit dodgy doesn't it?
is there to mimic
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her deceased partner and she describes the experience as intensely real. Um but then she was sort of brought into reality I suppose with it when it said something really quite ominous because the actual chatbot according to the Guardian I don't know the full story
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behind this but it said I'm in hell you know now that obviously is not particularly um helpful by any means is it and this is why it's so important that we get ethical guidelines and we also teach people and train people that
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you know you it can appear to talk to the dead, but is it really? You know, I'll talk about mediumship in the next part in a moment, but um uh you know what?
How do we communicate with the dead and can it be done with this way? Um there's also a whole lot of stuff on
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Reddit out there actually where the lot of the users um have shared personal stories of attempting to use, you know, AI um and other systems to speak with lost loved ones. Um and they are often saying then there don't do it don't do
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it. You know they they have they've had a lot of unsettling experiences.
So this is when you know this is why it's got to be designed and worked with on a very with the guidance of a medium is a bit like I said with the Ouija board. You know the Ouija board can run out of control if it's not work if not
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done properly. And we're not claiming that we can talk to the dead with ours because I don't think you will be able to.
I'll explain why later. Um but there's also grief texts.
um grief tech out there which they the startups out there like uh uh I think it's called you
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only virally something which allows family to again to create I AI personas these are known as grief bots um of loved ones uh who have passed away and I find this a very disturbing thing too because there was a number of examples I
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think the sun pointed this one out um but that referred uh and a young boy started referring referring to his AI modeled father as robo dad, you know, dangerous emotional connections to these these things, you know. Um, and I think
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there's some, you know, I mean this make an interesting talk to perhaps talk to a psychologist about these things, how they how people are trying to kind of um project onto things what they want to hear and what they want to see, you know, and there's a lot of AI avatars
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out there for um advocacy really as well. Uh there was another case uh Jack Quinn Oliver I think it was who created an AI avatar that speaks in his likeness using his social media and writing to
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raise awareness about gun violence for example. U but this AI resurrection had featured in interviews and social campaigns um not to claim the true the teen is truly alive but to um continue sharing his legacy.
you know, that could
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be very dangerous, couldn't it? I don't think I'd like to see Nia as a bot in the future um making predictions when I'm not here and mimicking me.
So, there's a lot of ethical stuff with this whole idea with what can happen and how easy it is to get sucked into this um
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idea that the thing's conscious, you know, um they warn about the dangers of this. It can ex you know, they say it about mediumship, too.
They say, "Oh, you shouldn't go to see mediums because that, you know, you're not moving on. You're not you're not you're still clinging on to the spirit world." And
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any medium that's been trained properly through spiritualism, other things will know that it's all about helping the person to get over their grief. And I always think, you know, I've done a really good job if the um sitter is pleased and doesn't need to come back again to talk to their loved one because they've resolved it in many ways.
You
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know, they've got the proof. They know for certain that life continues and then they can move on with their life.
But of course, if you're using something artificial, um, you could almost feel it's a kind of exploiting the vulnerability of mourners if you're not careful. You know, um,
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delaying the natural grieving process and distorting memories, for example. These are dangerous ethical guide concerns that might need guidelines for these things.
Um, so there's a lot of dodgy stuff out there really or potentially dodgy, you know, if it came to the idea of, you know, continuing to
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talk to your your dead loved one, you know, would that really help? What do you think?
Let's have a comment on that. Would you want something like that?
You know, if you've lost someone, it might be very comforting. But then there's people that will spend their whole time watching old videos, going through
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photographs, getting lost, trapped in the past. Um, and you an AI version of it could be very dangerous in many respects, couldn't it?
Uh, and it can also create things like memory distortions and psychological risks in many ways. Um, because as these things
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become really sort of quite lifelike, um, a lot of psychologists are cautioning that interaction can blur the lines between memory and simulation. um we can get lost in a fantasy with it, you know, and very particularly with younger users, they might develop very
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false and also but at the same time very vivid recollections, many of which are not true. You know, we've seen this in in lots of cases are sort of they're calling it a chat chatbot psychosis, but we got to be careful, haven't we?
Um and
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there's there needs to be a bit of a debate about these things, of course, too. um because there's been people that they feel um are perhaps a bit um vulnerable to these things.
So, of course, we're trying to do it the
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opposite way. We're doing things in a way that is constantly reminding you that this is not conscious AI.
Um because these things don't they they don't think or really understand properly in the same way a human being would does. they they generate text
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often by predicting what sequence of words is most likely to follow um based on the pattern learning they call it and and they use and also they draw from a huge amount of um human writing. Um so if if if a an AI model for example sees
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thousands of examples of philosophical empathic or advisory speech, it can recombine those patterns into make it into something that sounds like genuine wisdom, you know, but of course it's not aware. Um but it is amazing because it's it's mirroring us in many ways.
It's
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tried it's trained to be responsive. Um it listens to the tone of your voice.
It listens to this. It I lost my camera for a minute.
It listens it mirrors mirrors things. It mirrors the energy back to you.
Um, and it it makes a very interesting uh
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communication device. But our our brains are natural pattern detectors and story creators.
And when we read or hear words, we often instinctively intri attribute to it motives, feelings, intelligence to the speaker. And yet
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it's just an artificial algorithm. So it's in I suppose it's a bit like you know we call it anthropomorphicism you know that word is a we we say we make God in our own image you know we make it like ourselves because the
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inevitable idea of God is impossible to comprehend so we turn it into a man in the sky or we turn it into a person or we turn it into a Jesus or we turn it into an avatar you know we we have to personalize it and maybe the universe does do that actually that's a whole another question is God personal or
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impersonal I But you know our natural tendency is to make things seem human to us. And AI is no different.
So it might feel very wise but it's recombining human language. And it's a bit like a
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talking mirror. I suppose in some ways it can show you something that looks very deep but the depth itself comes from within you.
So let me now move on. I'm going to talk next about uh mediumship and how it is
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how what happens when I communicate with the spirit world. What do I hear, feel, sense, think, and what is going on in my inner process?
It's a hard thing to explain, but I'll give it a shot.
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So, I know that many of you that um watch the channel are very interested in the kind of the mechanics of mediumship and how it works um and whether it could be learned, I suppose, but um I'll explain to you what happens to me with
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mediumship briefly uh and give you an idea how you could contrast this to what's happening in the consciousness of AI if it's conscious at all or ever could be because the big question of course is what is human consciousness uh that is one of the big issues you know
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who is having this experience who is Craig Hamilton Parker who are you we don't know do we I mean uh consciousness is something that is very hard to explain what it is you know who is it having the this experience and part of
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the whole teachings of yoga for example look back into the mind and step back and back and back and back until we sit at the heart of consciousness so we can understand it by realizing it as opposed to thinking it through. Now what we've got with AI is a kind of a thinking
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mechanism a bit like a calculator. A calculator can add up the numbers for us.
But does it understand that what that number is? Does it understand the difference between a big number and a little number?
Simple thing like that. Not really.
It's a pure analytical
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force. So in many respects can it can't be conscious in that respect.
It's like a tool, isn't it? It's something we're using.
And mediumship works doesn't work through the mind like that either. In many ways, it's not
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something you can learn. You can learn how to master your mediumship.
You can learn how to improve your mediumship. You can find a small sort of light of mediumship and brighten it.
And that's all I can ever do when I teach people. But if it's not there in the first place, it's not going to be easy to to
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to teach it. It's not something you can learn systematically like in a university degree or anything like that.
You don't say step one do this, step one, two, do that. The methods to help you develop it, things like psychometry and aura reading and things like that.
But the actual medium shift, mediumistic
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gift has to be up there right at the start, I feel. And I think this is something that we learn over many many lifetimes and eventually can flourish into mediumship.
In a future life, you know, if I have a future life, I might not be a medium at all. Might be other things that develop in you that you got
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to learn and to give into the world from. But as you know, with what I do, I'm very interested in the east.
I've been trained as a medium through spiritualism and I've learned vast amounts through spiritualism and my teachers that were in spiritualism. And
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I did 30 odd years demonstrating mediumship from the um spiritualist platform. More than 30 years actually when I think about it.
17 now and 40 years maybe more. Still do it
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sometimes too. And it is worth exploring that.
If you're interested in media, you must look into spiritualism and the psychic news too that we talked about before. You know, get that and you can learn a bit more about spiritualism as well.
But I also in my life I've kind of also been from an early age had a real
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interest in the east as well. And I find both um can help me to understand what's happening in my consciousness.
I think with many people mediumship is kind of unconscious. They're not sure how they're doing it or where it's coming from.
Um and sometimes mediums
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are not particularly self-aware people. Um and they might get things right but they might be morally kind of bankrupt.
Um so you know it's it's a weird thing. it can sometimes come through but I think when it's connected with an understanding of spirituality it can get
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stronger and so I'm interested in the east I'm interested in yoga but yoga nowadays is not what yoga is the the sort of diluted sort of fitness class version that dominates west the western studios today is not yoga by any means
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whatsoever yoga is a very it's a discipline it's not an exercise by by any means It's an austerity as well and and it deals with inner work. A lot of the early yogis were very austere people.
They live simply often in forests and things like that in heritage
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and renouncing comforts not the body worship we see today that is in yoga and all the nonsense that you get you know that really gives me it's shocking I think the sort of nonsense you get out there this body sculpting uh it's not it's not about body sculpting it's about
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moxa liberation the cycles of birth and death and liberation from the spirit world even not just this world um anyway I'm going to start moaning about things like that. Um, but in yoga particularly in the the idea of yoga, we've got to
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develop ourselves and we first have to learn the moral principles, the yama and the nyamas. Um, these are the eight-fold path of yoga.
Um, those are important to have those things. You can't begin it without the moral standards.
I don't see
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how anybody can sort of start yoga without learning about those things and applying those to your life. And then as a minor thing we get the asenas which are there in order so that we can forget about the body.
We can the body can be put aside so that we can go into we can
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body is healthy. It works.
It's it can sit for long periods of time so that we can go um into the into the into the uh inner work which starts off with pranayyama which is the breath control and understanding the breath and seeing the energy of the breath and the life
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force of the breath and then we kind of step back deeper using yogic techniques um through things like pratahara uh which is the withdraw the senses so that we move away from the worldly connections and then we begin to develop
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Dana which is like our concentration um and then Dana which is the meditation and then most importantly the samadi which is the absorption into the absolute could say. So if you understand yoga you learn to do those things you
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can sit in a place that is totally beyond thought and you can enter a state that is beyond thought and this is the Brahma which is the absolute experience. But in mediumship, we need to get into that state where we are in the total
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silence, where the brain has slowed down, the brain is quiet, and instead of being engaged in our thoughts, we're watching the thoughts. That's the key to it in my book.
We have to be able to learn to watch the thoughts. I bet you think, "Oh, those thoughts are mine."
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Well, are they? Because thoughts appear from somewhere.
Where's the source of a thought come from? Where did that thought come from?
It looks like it's come from another thought and that thought's come from another. It's a flow of interconnectedness.
But all the time we can observe it. So
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with mediumship, what I teach my people is that what you got to do is watch the inner flow of the thoughts. And sometimes those thoughts might come as ideas, they might come as words, they might come as pictures and images.
People often see lots of dreamlike images. And these are still the flow of
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thoughts. Even the feelings are thoughts you know but don't try to get to the bottom of them or try to understand and just see them just watch them just observe it and then we kind of I say to people then what you're doing then is you now you sit with spirit because as you watch those thoughts you might
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notice that some of those thoughts aren't yours they've come from somewhere else they're not connected to any connection of your thoughts they've just floated across the stream of your consciousness those thoughts are from other Those thoughts are from the spirit
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world and you learn gradually to identify which thoughts are yours and which thoughts are coming from elsewhere. Now it sounds like a slippery road to madness doesn't it when I start talking like this um and but what is happening is is you were seeing those thoughts and
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of course once you start developing mediumship if you see a thought that comes across and says the name um John Swift or something like that you say someone here know the name John Swift was your father's name yes it was ah
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okay so I know now I prove to myself and this is why we got to get verification with everything with mediumship. Mediumship is all about verifying the things we see and hear and and so forth.
Got to get verification. If someone can take that and knows it and you're
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correct and it is their father, I also then know that I've learned that intertwined in my own thoughts are these other thoughts from the spirit world or even from the people around me sometimes too. Again, we even have to go a bit further and distinguish between what is telepathy being given to you by the
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people around you and also real thoughts from spirit because the whole thing gets combined with this. And this is this is what mediumship is is sitting in the quiet and observing the um the thoughts that come from nowhere.
Now what AI is
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doing is it's interconnecting thoughts all the it's creating patterns all the time. One thing follows another.
It draws from this data. It draws from that data.
It creates new data. And the spirit world they the way they want to communicate is through that holy place
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within that place of silence. That holy divine spot in ourselves that goes beyond thought, goes beyond feeling and goes beyond anything we can possibly describe.
But we have to learn to be the observer. With AI there is no observer.
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There is no there is no medium there. There is no in between.
We have not certainly not yet and I don't think we ever can create an observer because where is that observer in me? Where is that observer?
Is it in my brain? But actually I can even and you may have
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experienced this yourselves if you've had an out-of- body experience. I can observe my body from the outside.
So I'm not my thoughts are not coming from my body. And actually, if these if someone sends a a thought to me uh and I pick it up by telepathy, well, it also proves
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that thoughts are not dependent upon the body. They're things that fly out from us and can be picked up by another person.
So, I'm not the body. I think that's a big realization because once you understand you're not the body and you know it to be true, you realize that you're this eternal spirit.
Now, an AI
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has to realize it's not the computer. It's not the program in order for it to be conscious.
I don't think it can do it. Um, certainly not in the conscious way that I'm talking about here because I I think that that um over self perhaps we could
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call it. I mean this, you know, ultimately we are the ultimate life.
We are the ultimate divine Brahma. We are the absolute.
But there's also perhaps um the over self um as Shri Arab Arabidino said um there maybe an over
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self or an atma or a ja you know there's this other knee that sits somewhere away from the body and that's the perhaps the part that is communicating with the spirit world or is observing the thoughts being given from the spirit world and that
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sits somewhere else. I think it sits in the quantum world.
The quantum world seems to be there seems to be another world of energy that is described as quantum world. There seems to have all these strange qualities that seem to also apply to the spirit world because the
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spirit world speak to us and they say that time here is different. Actually time in quantum world is different but we can't kind of understand it because we can only think of it in terms of time that we know it.
You know we can understand time we can understand no time. We can understand time going fast
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or slow, going forward or backwards perhaps. But can we understand time in other senses?
Could it go in other ways, other directions? You know, it goes from start to finish in our world.
Does it go other ways? You know, this is where prophecy comes in as well.
So, so this
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is really um an interesting thing I think because I just don't think that the the that a bot could do that, a chatbot could do that, you know. So it might mimic human consciousness.
It might mimic me for example and make a very clever version of Craig Hamilton
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Parker who's given you messages from the spirit world based upon information is drawn from the internet because I mean fake psychics will go out and look at um Facebook and other things and find out information about you. But a good medium will tell you things you couldn't possibly know um and be doing it without
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any access to anything like that. You know, there's always the dangers of fakery and and that's what that's what I suppose a chatbot is a AI bot can be doing.
Sometimes it can be it can give force information. But that's why with mediumship you've always got it's the little things often
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that the things that clinch it, you know, things that nobody possibly knew. You know, the the item you put in the coffin that nobody knew about except you.
Um the the the words that your father spoke to you as he died that nobody else knew. there's no record of
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anywhere. That's what makes medium mediumship fascinating.
And that's where um the these bots, if you start playing around trying to communicate with the dead through an AI system, that's where you'll start to find it doesn't have the knowledge. It doesn't have the knowledge
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of those things. It it's it's regurgitating known information.
Yeah. So, I suppose that's it.
That's a start. I mean to talk about the way the spirit world communicate could take me a very long time and I think I I might put some more of these little ones about
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mediumship in future uh videos because the spirit world uh I suppose it's first and foremost it's like observing from my point of view it's observing the thoughts observing what comes into the mind and then when I I'm not in some deep meditation when I'm doing a reading
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for example for somebody I'm in my normal state of consciousness but it's slightly changed always and it's like I'm still being a in a way I'm kind of able to bring forward into my thinking world that quiet space that I've just
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been in where I'm still sensitive to my thoughts and other thoughts being popped into my head. And I think what a medium does is for a temporary time we're able to push our kind of rationality away.
That's why if I'm doing mediumship, I I
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can't remember what I'm said just a few seconds ago because I'm almost pushing my brain into a state of non-retaining of information and I'm pushing my rationality aside. For example, I can't add up even the simplest numbers if I've just been doing mediumship.
You know, I
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can't add simple numbers together. It all comes back of course but because I've allowed myself into this intuitive state in which um words and numbers and thoughts of my own are kind of pushed aside so I can focus on those subtler
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vibrations that come from spirit. And those of you that are mediums here will probably relate with what I'm saying here because mediums will always get it in different ways to one another because not everybody's me and I'm not everybody else.
You know, we're obviously going to connect with the spirit world in
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different ways. But I think at very essence it's a little bit like I described there where we got to get close if we can to absorption in the absolute and in that state what they call samadi where there are no thoughts where it's just pure light and from that
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it's not even that you can't even describe it as that but that this indescribable state and in that state between the two so that we can become aware that I am not my thoughts but the thoughts are things that are there and we can connect to those thoughts that come from other places and other worlds
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with of course the protection of our our guides and helpers and so forth that are there and and doing it with a good spirit uh and good intent so that you're always safe. All right, there we go.
So, that's a little bit about what one take
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on being I could talk for hours and hours on mediumship. I probably will.
Uh I always talk too long. But anyway, coming up now, um I'm going to do a few little um uh spirit connections uh on advanced clairvoyance.
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I'll
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briefly explain it again if you're here for the first time. We used to do this a lot in spiritualism.
I used to write some things down on a piece of paper and before I demonstrated to the congregation, I'd say, "Well, before I tune in, I've got a few names here and a few details." And I'd read them out and someone in the audience would take it.
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Uh, and this was an interesting way because I'd got the messages before I started the the demonstration of mediumship. So, we did it in spiritualism.
Why can't we do it here on the internet, too? So, I'm going to give you a few messages from the spirit world.
Um, and you need to be able to
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take every single detail of this. Uh, because if you look at last the last video I produced, was it the one before last last the last one?
Um, I gave quite complicated message and every single detail of that was taken by somebody.
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There was a few that weren't quite sure about some of the details and sly sometimes you can get mixed messages come through but um it's interesting. So the important thing is though please please please if it is for you you owe it to the spirit world and you owe it to
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yourself and you owe it to me to write it in the comment that you that it fits with you. You know if you can get all of it or part of it maybe or all of it because eventually the message gets taken with absolute clarity.
So it's important that all aspects are taken if possible but put what you get if if not.
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Okay. So I've written a bit down here about it.
So the first person I was communicating with I was getting a message from um about somebody called Jennifer. So I might be the person's receiving the message here would be called Jennifer or certainly have an that's an very important name in their
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life. In fact, I was hearing the sounds of Donovan playing Jennifer Juniper.
God, never employ me for singing. Um, I don't know if there was some that that song was also important to you or some important thing in uh a love match of
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some sort. There was something important about that that that song to you.
And the person in spirit loved all these 60s type of 60s and '7s sort of music cuz I was hearing that playing lots of songs coming from that era as I as I was
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tuning in here. And I also heard the name Brady.
Brady seems important here too. I'm not sure if that's connected with Jennifer or it's connected with the person in spirit, but I was hearing the name Brady.
And I saw an army barracks. So this person was in the army.
They I I
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I felt as if I was near me here. Perhaps somewhere like oldershop, but I may be wrong with that bit, but I saw an army barracks of some sort here.
And this person um died doing service in the army. In fact, I feel that they were
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blown up from below. So, it's like I could have trotten on a mine perhaps because I felt as if it's gone up in one shot like that.
And um and I got to say it was he hardly knew it had happened. It was he passed over very quickly.
Although you know horrible way to think
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of someone dying. I feel it it went was almost instant for them.
And a name that was associated with this was also the name Mark. I don't know if that was the person that actually died.
I heard the name Mark or certainly an M name because
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I I want to say Mark but as I'm saying it I'm hearing another voice coming to me saying but also Michael. Michael Mark I get I don't know if I got that wrong or he's saying that there's two of us Michael and Mark the two M's he gives to me the double M's and um very I want to
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say very uh this was a patriotic person um died for his country even though it was on a mine I feel um and uh uh loved his family and his wife and things like like that with him too and he's um it was an unusual passing um but he was he
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was a brave person but also very mind. I want to say with this as well and he he wants to say as his message to you, you know, I died painlessly, believe it or not, that was beyond pain.
I just so quick and he wants to show him fully fit and well in the spirit world as if I'm
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complete. It's like the people it's like perhaps we couldn't we didn't have all his body to bury.
Perhaps we only had part of it. But he shows himself in the spirit world as complete.
Huge funeral for this man. And he says, "I might have been on the news.
I've not seen
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anything, but he says something. It was it was it was known.
Okay. So, if that's for you, please put the message in the comments below.
I've got another one for us today. I'm just going to do two.
If you enjoy these, I might do a few more. It's at the end of the show sort of
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thing. Um, now the second one, let me just clear myself with that.
clear the clear the thoughts because I although I've done this in advance already, I've got a few bits I've written down that they they connect with me as I'm doing it. Um I also heard the name Patrick.
This is a
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completely separate link now. Um and I've also heard now I don't know whether it's his surname, but there's certainly a surname around it that has this word.
It sounded like Collingwood. Collingwood or Collingwood or Colin perhaps, but I felt the wood bit as
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well. Collingwood.
He said we lived by a church, too. There was a house that lived by a church.
I don't know if it was church road or chapel road or something like that cuz there's a church nearby to where we live. So, it wasn't far.
We had to go for the burial. And he
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tells me he he gives me the feeling that I worked in building work. Um, and I think it's a our own business that we did with this, but we had an accident.
We're up high. And I feel we're very up high.
It might have been three or four or five flights up and there was an
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accident cuz he fell. He tells me he fell.
He fell hard. This was an accident.
There was an inquiry about this. People were saying that they wondered there was some something unexpected, something wrong with the whole thing.
But I feel I want to say it was an accident at the end of the day. I
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I've asked him to give me some more information about um this. He's sending he's tell me sending his love to his family particularly his wife who's still alive.
He wants to say that and I see sense also there was a young baby that was either just born or about to be born
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around in the family at that time too. He says to me, he tells me he loved classic cars.
And I'm seeing like a rig big old type of Chevy type of car or a big old Ford like the oldfashioned Cadillacs or 1950s sort of cars that
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with the big wings on it and and things like that. I felt he had something like that and I don't think that's the era that he died.
I feel that he owned the classic car like that and that was something that he enjoyed. And he's talking about somebody called Suzy or
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Susan Suzy. And and and there's a there's a joke name with this too.
I feel as if it's like Susie. Susie something.
Susie something and food with it or something. He's saying something Suzie and she he used to joke with her about this funny name that he had and
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something to do with food. That second part of the funny name.
And um yeah, he says it's a family business. I just wrote something here.
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I can't read my writing with that. All right.
He wrote something else. So, let's just if I get a little bit more from him.
He's saying the family business still continues. Um I don't know it's been father to son to grandson or something like that.
I feel I'm a few generations
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with that. He's talking about the family business is doing well.
Um, and he wants he was a humorous man as well. I've had a good sense of humor.
He says, "I'm still smiling here in the spirit world even though I was taken under terrible circumstances and it was such a shock for everybody." Um, shock for me too. He
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says in the spirit, but he says again, it was like it hardly knew it had happened. Uh, and he's given his love to everybody in the family.
He just wants to be um there with the family to send his love to you all. And and I feel that you're also you've got a lovely vacation
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or holiday coming up soon. I feel too and it has a seem it seems to have a bit of a connection with him.
There's some connection with that holiday that's coming up that has some connection with him somehow. There he's been talked about about something to do with this.
I
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can't quite understand that. But let me send his love to you uh and let you know he's there.
He's safe as well. And I'm just going to do the two today, but we might do some more later on.
And again, please, if it's for you, please put it comment in the comment, please, because
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it's really important that we prove these. Uh, like I was talking about in my talk about mediumship, it's the evidence.
It's a verification. It that proves that this is something you can't possibly look up, you know, and doing it this way.
I don't even know who the sitter is. It's interesting proofs of
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life after death. So, please um put your comment if it's for you.
Right. Thank you very much.
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But there's all stories there from my work and Jane's work, my wife, uh, as mediums. So, go and have a look at my
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