If you’ve seen the movie, Ghost, with Patrick Swayze and Whoopie Goldberg, you have been introduced to a séance, or spirit circle. Whoopie Goldberg, portraying a pseudo-psychic who bilks customers out of money, begins to hear and see real spiritual entities around her. In one scene Whoopie’s character, Oda Mae Brown, sits with a small group of people to perform a séance. Thinking that her scheme is going to gain her a good sum of money, Oda Mae is shocked to find that she can actually see the many spiritual beings that happen to be standing around the perimeter of the room.

In an effort to alleviate the fears of those unacquainted with séance, the mental image of Oda Mae’s séance room is exactly what I use to describe what I see before and during the séance. Although I can sense higher-level spiritual beings, such as angels and guides, before the guests arrive it’s not too often that I sense deceased loved ones prior to the event – they normally walk in with their loved ones. [Read more…]