What is trance mediumship

Trance mediumship allows spirit beings to take control of the body, mind and energy of the medium to a varying degree for the purpose of communication, spoken or written, while the consciousness of the medium steps aside.

Different layers of communication are required for different work. The most common communication starts at the mind level with mental mediumship, where spirit communicate with the help from the medium and the medium gives the messages. Thats what I have been offering for several years. For some mediums this can deepen through trance speaking (also known as channeling) automatic writing and light and deep medium trance.

Entering a trance state is like a meditation (but nevertheless not a meditation, because meditation is active and trance state is passive) the medium closes their eyes, relaxes the body, quitens the mind and transcends thoughts. As raising their conscious awareness, they become one with the spirit world, and throught the process of surrendering and blending, they allow the conscious collective to speak through them.

I remember the first time I encountered trance mediumship was when I was around 19 years old and participated in a trance event, in my quiet mind I hoped my recent deceased mother would speak to me. She didn’t (first many many years later). Some years later I saw the movie “Out on a limb” by Shirley Maclaine (based on her book with the same name) where she had some trance sessions with two trance mediums; Kevin Ryerson and Sture Johansson.

Many years later, after a long professional career within interior design, I was nudged by different circumstances in my life to reenter my spiritual path, starting with energyhealing leading to mediumship and psychic work and now trance mediumship. The interesting thing is, trance has always been in my life since my teens and I now see some of the attempts spirit have tried to get my attention, especially while giving healing, but also meditating or being in very relaxed states, they have lovingly nudged me towards my trance path.

The last couple of years I have had several trancemedium teachers asking me to consider this path both as a trance healer, trancemedium and creating trance art, and little by little I have . For the moment I am searching to find a more permanent teacher who can mentor me over a longer period of time. In the meantime Im sitting in two international trance circles and developing experience, knowledge and building the trance muscle with fellow mediums.

It is a beautiful path to walk and it has a lot to do with letting go, surrendering, trusting spirit and knowing that the medium is not doing the work, spirit are.

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