A2G Approach.

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There is no reason for anyone to be worried about communicating with the Spirit world. It is a natural phenomenon, it is as natural as communication with any incarnate being. 

However, we mediums often are trained to present a laundry list of information in order for it to be accepted as evidence. Fair enough; the sitter must be sure, as we don't have a concrete representation of the spirit communicator before us, to have this spirit person positively identified.

But if your mother called you, and a friend picked up the phone, would you ask the friend: “What’s her hair color? How tall is she? What’s her favorite flower? What piece of jewelry did she leave me? C’mon, I have to be sure it’s my mom!” Of course not.


By conveying just a few pieces of key information such as a description, relationship and personality of the person within 1-2 minutes, and going direct (if in a group situation), we can identify a known person in spirit and spend most of the time with them in telling the recipient why they’ve come in the first place. 

Instead of referring to a mental checklist you must ask of the spirit (hometown, occupation, cause of death, hobbies, number of children, favorite seaside memory, etc.), why not consider practicing the A2G approach listed in the chart above? 

Listed are what I consider the basic steps for a more natural communication with Spirit, as taught by mediums such as Margaret Challenger, CSNU (d) of Wales, UK. Margaret may not be a big fan of CERT or keeping such acronyms as A2G in mind as that means you are “thinking and not linking.” 

Please note that steps A through C can happen almost simultaneously. If you notice Spirit around you, you may begin blending but even before that, you also may have already sensed the gender and relationship of the communicator. 

Note also that there are three Ds listed. They are all important! On disregarding “Nos”, there are many reasons why a recipient will say “No”, but it is often due to how you as the medium are imparting the information. Try asking Spirit Can you say a bit more about that? Be true in relating the information immediately received and give it with the emotion you felt. Be willing to listen, give the information verbatim and converse without a safety net of preconceived questions (As Margaret says, “when you’re thinking, you’re not linking”).

I contend that internalizing the A2G approach as much as possible when practicing mediumship will aid you as the medium in focusing on what Spirit has to say, and making mediumship the genuine, selfless act it was meant to be.