I've done it only once, and it was a terrifying experience. So naturally, I got outfitted with all the stuff to do it again, lol. But I haven't had the guts. Anyone do it? Anyone have advice for doing it safely? Here's my story for anyone who's interested: The first time I did it, I was enthralled with the idea, and wanted a black mirror so I could loom into it like Nostradamus and see the future. I was a dork in high school with little social life coming from a very spiritual family. I've lived with ghosts all my life, and had 14 years of my mom telling me there waas nothing to be afraid of and that she used to go to seances and do table-tipping all the time and it was loads of fun. Well, late one night, I'm reading about it on the internet, and I'm feeling all at one with the spirits and the universe and some stupid shit, so I turn around and gaze into the full-length mirror behind me. I stare at my own face and try to quiet my mind and concentrate and I start seeing colors, floating around and blending and then they clear and I see my face clearly but... darkly, know what I mean? Well, it's hard to explain... Maybe I can't. But anyway, the important part is, as I looked at my face, my right eye turned black and started to drip black fluid from the corner and down my cheek. I freaked out and closed my eyes. When I opened them again, I saw only my own frightened expression staring back at me. After watching some cartoons to snap myself out of it and convincing myself it was only my sleepy 3am eyes messing with me, I went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, there was a crack in the top right corner of the mirror. I put it in the closet and tried not to think about it. I told my mom and she told me I shouldn't have been messing with those things on my own. She was afraid that something might have been trying to scare me and that it might have been trying to escape the mirror. That night, we're sleeping peacefully in our beds when my mom gets a phone call in the middle of the night. My grandmother (mother's mother) has had a massive stroke- a bleed in the right side of her brain. Dude... I mean, what do you even say to that? Since then, I've made my own black mirror, blessed it and read up on how to use it. At the time, I thought it would do our family good if we could at least have a warning that something huge was about to happen, because that stroke changed all of our lives- made it hell for us for a few years. I almost felt like I owed it to my family to warn them from now on... but that was a few years ago... Not only have I been too traumatized to try again, but I've had time to think about it, and maybe it's not our place to know. What good does it do us? Only what can happen will happen, and if it's not supposed to happen it won't, so it's not like by knowing these things, I can somehow save us from them. Even if I did, wouldn't I be throwing something off balance? Ugh, heavy questions... Uncertain stuff... Did I hallucinate? Was it a coincidence? Does any of this exist at all? Do I have a responsibility to use it or to leave it alone? Am I putting myself at risk and is it worth whatever I might get out of it? We are all kind of psychic in my family. My mom and I used to play that ESP game and we had about 95% accuracy. Once we fell asleep with our heads together and dreamed the same dream. I feel I shouldn't be so afraid of it, but at the same time, I am. Very much so. I want to be open, but my fear closes me off... This has gone a bit deeper than just messing around with mirrors, I guess. I dunno, any thoughts would be cool.
Sounds like some scary stuff. Is your mom still around? Ask her some stuff. Maybe you could even try going to a few mediums or psychics about it. Then again, you always have the option to just leave it alone.
Well, i'm certain nothing was trying to escape the mirror ... that's just the mind running away and making stuff up. It does seem you had an empathic kind of thing with your grandmother though ... you need to understand that conciousness, ... your conciousness is the same conciousness that is your grandmother (and everyone else), and conciousness is everywhere which why we can have these kind of experiences in the first place. Our bodies, as real or unreal as they are, share the same conciouness and the same life. The only thing dividing and separating everyone is our thinking, based upon our 'separate' (actually not separate) experiences and beliefs about who we are. So in a sense i'm saying that you are your grandmother ... your grandmother is you, and you had an empathic experience. Yet you wouldn't have been able to warn anyone about it because you didn't understand it at the time ... only in hindsight, upon hearing of your grandmothers stroke, did you understand it; And that's just normal .... maybe if you keep having such experiences will you learn to understand them when they happen, to learn their language so to speak, and then you may perhaps be able to actually warn people about what you feel, see and experience about their circumstances.
Sounds like a part of you wants to explore the darkness. I relate well to that. I'm exploring my own darkness in this life. When you bring it to light - it's no longer dark! But you're scaring yourself something fierce, Firefly. You need to work on that. I've had to work on that...and eventually found myself dealing with scary spirits - and laughing. Laughing is the key to a lot of hard things. One of the best tools in your kit bag. Of course, there is kind of a thrill in being scared, and if you like that thrill, you might not want to laugh. At least, not at this point in your life. Whatever. You get to decide. I wouldn't get too befuddled by moral questions. If you think too much, you never get anywhere. What you need to do is decide what options make you feel good, make you feel exhilarated - and follow those options to see where they lead you. Those things show you in which direction your spiritual path lies. Follow your heart, not your head.
It is thrilling, but yes, I am frightened of it. I don't know if I could look a nasty spirit in the eye and laugh, because for all my talk of living with them, they still give me the shakes when the sun goes down. I've lived with strange things happening in every house I have ever lived in since birth. I used to communicate with spirits in my old house all the time when I was very little (so says my mother, who heard us talking and told me later... I can't remember any of it). But I'm always afraid of that thing they might do- some nasty little jump at me just because they can or supposing they decide they don't like me and decide they want me to go. Suppose I attract something negative that wasn't there before and it comes after me or my family. There are a lot of things to be afraid of. This doesn't exactly come with an instruction booklet, you know. I have no idea what the consequences might be, and if I unlock something, even just within myself, so I really want to live with the consequences, possibly for the rest of my life? I do have a tendency to overthink and complicate, but that's just me, I think. I'm constantly reinventing myself. There isn't a thing about me that I haven't questioned a million times if not changed completely. Perhaps I'm not a stable enough creature for this kind of thing. Thanks for that. It was a thinker. I'll ponder on it. She seems to think we shouldn't do anything on our own, like we need a medium. She's been made to fear things coming after her, but she is very gullible with this kind of thing, and I don't know if it is because it is true or if this is just "mediums" looking to make a buck and telling her that she needs them. Which is why I have come here: to get the straight story.
Sometimes what we're most afraid of is exactly what we most need. And yes, it can be hell, with major and longlasting ramifications. Of course, if you don't do something, you'll never do anything...but whatever. Play it safe as long as you want. Maybe someday you'll get bored, like I did, and decide to do what you wanted to do years before. And yes, as a matter of fact, a lot of it has been hell, Firefly. And yet, if I had stayed put, I never would have experienced such supreme joy and such amazement. A lot of it has been heaven. There's a price for freedom - and lots of rewards. As I said: You get to decide. Perhaps. Perhaps you should just try taking a step sometime, on a whim. Somehow I think that might not come easy for you, but I have to suggest it, anyway. Apparently you did do that, once... The spirits have something special for each person. Our experiences won't necessarily be yours. How does a medium become experienced? By experiencing mediumship, of course. Still, an experienced medium might show up here or on some other forum eventually, and be able to help in some way. It's certainly worth a try. If you get in a pickle with a spirit that's fickle, send me a tickle. I do evil spirits for free, because it's so stinkin' good for my spiritual development.
If I ever find myself in a situation where I would want to devote more time to this and go past that point of no return, I probably will. Right now I'm not ready to go that far. I'm a dabbler, and only on my terms.
Good luck with that. In my experience it's a carrot-and-stick thing. The universe kept dangling the carrot in front of me. My first "bite" was at age 20, and then I held back for about 18 years before I bit again. I would be very interested in how your life goes, but I suppose I'll never know. Oh well - good luck and best wishes.
the gig is up, we know you got that from the plot of skeleton key! lol http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/
LOL totally. I saw that movie. Wasn't impressed. Failing to make the connection, at any rate. I don't remember the part where she predicts her ailing mother's stroke.
there is an excellent book available that details how to build a psychomantium and use it properly, titled "Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones" by Raymond Moody it's definitely worth checking out if you'd like to explore scrying further - it's got some nice case studies as well
I've seen Moody on the tely talking about this subject. He built one and demonstrated how it worked. Interesting stuff. I don't know how old this show was or even if Moody is still alive. He also wrote a book on NDEs that was pretty interesting also.
