Tsssk, I have been staring at this Blog screen now for quite some time... Where to start? Initially I thought it would be a great idea to start writing some of my thoughts down that are related to my work. Well, work... probably better described as charitable work. I hope by running this Blog to try to explain to the members of the Source and anyone interested what the drive was and still is for running such a "down to earth" Spiritual Society. So, to understand what the Source Society is about, and what I am about.
Where to start? Hmmmm, I have been working as a Spiritual "worker".
"Worker"... Don't like that term. Still don't know what I would like to call myself. "Worker" sounds well, a bit boring, plain or odd. "Psychic or Medium", sounds good though.
Although I can work with both abilities, it is the understanding of the general public that makes me feel uncomfortable to name myself as one.
The general understanding of the public is that a Psychic is more like a fortuneteller. So that leaves the label Medium. I'm not a full time Medium either and having seen some of my "Colleague's" work, I'd rather walk around with a paper bag over my head then wanting to be associated with the majority of this league of "con-artists". It sounds cruel but unfortunately this is my experience and judging by the popularity of "Sceptic" sites and forums this experience is shared by too many others.
What frustrates me is that so far I haven't seen or heard any "spiritual worker" truly been able to talk sense when asked questions by the likes of James Randi or being able to explain themselves clearly to how their "gift" works. Having said this, I have opened up the question, why don't you take on the Randi challenge? Well, the answer is simple but in order to understand this, it will cause a hoard of other questions.
In a nutshell, James Randi has set up the challenge in such a way, knowing that none of his applicants would have studied their own phenomena or even at least understands the randomness of their gifts. I think he has had genuine candidates. Although they claim to adjust the tests to suit the applicants paranormal claim, how can you tailor make anything that is not even studied or understood by its owner?
So, that question is also something that I would like to solve, how can we learn to understand what truly is a psychic ability or is paranormal phenomena?
This is something I have been working on for years! Not that I wanted to, but my own logical mind needed an explanation for the things I was and still am experiencing. I have put myself to the test over and over again and with some success. But from there, it comes to finding out if, that what works for me, also works for other "gifted" people. Over the years I have exchanged some information and indeed the ones that were open minded enough have put it to the test successfully and are still working as far as I know with this method. I have tried to approach some "professional" and SNU mediums to experiment with this information. But alas, pride gets in the way and many don't even give it a moments thought to learn more. After all who am I?
Well, fair enough, I am just another human being, who is just as special as everybody else in this wonderful world. Nothing more, nothing less. However it is unfortunate that to a degree society still works very much with a difference in class. To be able to be heard, you either have had some sort of related education or a need to having been a member of a large group, governing body or simply be famous! And I am none of those. I never attended any of the courses in Stansted Hall or any other psychic, paranormal organisation. I have no degree in psychology and am not famous either. I was a member of the SNU but that became very restrictive.
But what I do have is a 100% belief in the afterlife and a 100% belief in my own experiences. Fate has put me in a situation that in order to be able to pay for my upkeep, I started to give readings at the art and craft markets in London. I have consulted thousands and thousands of customers and never had the need to ask "leading" questions. My success for returning customers was my proof to the accuracy of the guidance I gave them.
This success gave me the courage to set up my own development groups. First I ran the open circle in Edmonton spiritualist church ( before it became SNU). The group started to grow too large and soon I ran an open and an intermediate circle. Running these circles at that time gave me the chance to put some of my findings to the test and since I have never looked back and developed them further.
Now, I live and work in Essex. In 2006, I opened the Source Spiritual Society with a development circle. As far as I know, we are the first to work with a complete non denominational foundation. We work with science as well as religion and new age philosophy. We have created a structure which includes a variety of teachings and exercises in such a way that people can pick and choose to what they feel comfortable working with.
Of course there is more about the Society but for now, this is the introduction to my Blog or the Source's Blog. With the aid of other valuable members, I hope to be able to publish some subjects that have helped to created the theories and work practises of the Source Society. And as with science, if we find that some method works better then the one we are using presently, we will change it and hopefully become more accurate in the workings of any aspect of a spiritual live and understanding.
Yvonne Welch, The Source Spiritual Society
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