Asking questions...?

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During a natural conversation, we ask questions, don’t we?  

From early toddlerhood, our questions aim to help us connect, to obtain information, to satisfy our curiosity, to gain favors. Our questions may be direct or rhetorical, and some of us never stop asking “why…?” 

However, when we are developing our mediumship, we are implored by our mentors not to ask questions and to ask our recipients to not ask questions.

Thus, the mediumship sitting feels like a forced situation, with one individual acting as the medium between two souls who haven’t had a chance to chat since one of them left their physical body, and the recipient is asked to only reply with monosyllabic words if they agree or disagree with the information, or if they just don’t know. 

It feels unnaturally stifling to me.

Don’t get me wrong, a medium should not ask things like “Is your father in spirit?” or “Did your grandmother race motorbikes?” This is because when the medium asks such a question, it is considered “fishing for information” and as a practice should be kept to a bare minimum, if at all. 

I only say that because, as we’re human, a stray question or two may pop out...but even asking to confirm information with the medium asking: “Do you understand this?” or "Does this make sense?" should be minimal at best.

The recipient is often asked by the medium to not ask questions of the spirit person. Why?

 A medium may claim that Spirit is here to give their own message, likely not a message that has anything to do with what the recipient may be eager to know. Perhaps the medium fears it’s something to test the medium, like “What is our special code word?” 

Perhaps the sitter has an urgent question about hidden treasure and the medium is afraid of misinterpreting the answer? Some mediums may not like to take such a challenge.

Spirit indeed comes through for a reason, and that reason should be honored, but why can’t a recipient ask a question or two of their own that their spirit friend may be able to answer? “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is how I see it.

My fondest hope as a natural medium is for the recipient to feel that they’ve spent time with their loved ones in spirit as they remember them, one-on-one, which is why I prefer not demonstrating survival in public arenas. If my recipient has a question or two, we will welcome Spirit’s answers.

I aim to be the clearest channel possible for that specific communication to occur, and that focus is on transmitting Spirit’s emotions and personality in a private setting filled with compassion, light and love.