I just got some great feedback about a recent gallery event.
Here's a portion of the email I received:
I was a beliver of talking to the dead before I came, but after leaving I dont know if I belive any more. Which is really sad because that was something I needed to belive. There was 5 of us at that event who were hoping to hear from loved ones,and I know if this was to be a true thing someone would have come through.Its not even the $100.00 we spent, like I said I belived before but not sure I belive anymore.
When I started working as a medium and teacher full time, I made two promises to myself:
- The psychic information I received had to be real and verifiable, and
- It had to be helpful and healing to my clients.
I can't change your beliefs. Only you can, as only I can change my own. Beliefs are choices we make, each and every day, about what things we want to accept as truth and what things we don't.
Nobody can make you believe anything.
But I sure do want you to agree to believe after each and every event. I want your socks to be knocked off! I want you to be energized and excited and a little awestruck.
That's why, when I first read the email above, it stung a bit: my ego wants to be loved by everyone while helping people believe in this as much as I do. I don't take this person's disappointment personally, but it certainly made me take some time out and think.
Why do I hold these events? What are people getting from it? How can I improve?
I received a wonderful insight yesterday. (Where was I when I got it? That's right! I was in the shower, of course.) I hold these events because:
I want to offer opportunities for conclusive illustrations of the miraculous, permanent, and deep connections we have with everything around us.
I want to offer opportunities to change beliefs.
Only some of the people in each gallery event audience are going to receive a personal message.
But, even though you don't get a direct reading, it doesn't mean you don't get read. Information comes through all the time in the "overlay" format: very detailed and specific information that applies to more than one person in the audience. Let me give you an example.
At one of my first gallery events, I was shown a picture with the Little Rascals on it. There was a big pie in place of the moon, and the words "Pie in the Sky" were printed along the bottom. One of the characters (Porky?) was staring up at the pie in adoration. I got that this was hanging in someone's kitchen.
Pretty specific, huh?
Nobody acknowledged the information for a few minutes. Then a woman raised her hand. She said that the picture was a rare one that her deceased mother had given her long ago. She had it hanging in her kitchen. She had never seen another one and was surprised that the information I got was so detailed.
Another woman raised her hand and said, "Oh my God! I have that same picture in my kitchen! My Mom gave it to me, too! I've never seen another one!"
Overlays. Impressive examples of the spiritual connection, coordination, and foresight that becomes apparent at gallery events.
Even though you may not get a direct reading, it doesn't mean you don't get read!
I'm always looking for ways to improve as a medium and teacher. And as a person!
You have my word that I'll strive to be the best conduit for connection I can possibly be until the day I pass from the physical world.
What I find most humbling about being a medium, though, is that it's not about me. It's really about you. Let me explain.
It's your real and deep emotional connections with those who have passed that allow me to communicate with them; you’re the switchboard operator, I just pick up the party line and see who’s there.
I am not an all-powerful “beckoner of the dead.” I won’t summon, conjure, or otherwise magically command spirits to appear. That, to me, isn’t what this is all about.
What it is about though, is love and faith and healthy skepticism. Before each event, I spend time setting my intention that whatever happens during the event serves our higher good and purpose. Then I “let go” and allow the evening to unfold. I hold my faith that I am there to serve you and that the best will occur without fail.
So what are people getting from these events? Well, that differs with each person, I think. But I'll tell you what I hope people get from attending a gallery event.
As I said above, I hope you leave the auditorium walking on air and feeling the miraculous all around you. I want you to feel loved and connected and joyous. Even if you don't get a direct reading or connect with an overlay, I hope that you still attend and bask in the love that's communicated at each and every gallery event. I hope you're grateful that, even though your expectations for a direct reading may not have been met, others got what they needed at the right moment. And so did you.
I hope you think about agreeing to believe.
The gallery event is a way to intentionally connect--with other attendees, with those who have passed, and with, in a way, all of us. We've all loved and lost. It's this shared experience that bonds us during gallery events, and at all times. We’re the same.
So, if you must have a personal reading, I hope you try a gallery event first. You may receive the blessing of a direct connection there. If not, you can always contact me for a personal consultation session. (And don't worry about payment! I am ALWAYS willing to consider alternative means of exchange, like barter, reduced rates, etc. We can make it work, have no fear.)
Let me end by telling you what Pat, a frequent gallery event attendee, told me a while back:
"Keep up the good work, your galleries are incredible. I don't know why, but they make me tingle, and it is always kind of a sad time when we have to go home."
Share in the joy, share in the "tingle." We're all connected. We're all brothers and sisters.
It’s this core reason I do gallery events. And it’s the main reason I love them so.
I hope you join us (all of us!) soon.
