Free My Life As a Medium by Betty Shine

and had only agreed to visit me to keep his wife happy, I did not tell him the true story. I did tell his wife later though, and she passed the information on to her husband.
    ‘I don’t give a damn who did it,’ he said. ‘I think healing is bloody marvellous.’
    You might well ask, after reading the chapters so far, whether I am really living on this planet. And believe me, I asked myself the same question, over and over again during this period. Although I had always been a very spiritual person, my feet were very firmly on the ground, and yet my day-to-day life hadbeen turned upside down. My previously very private home had been turned into a healing sanctuary, and the telephone never stopped ringing.
    For as long as I can remember I had always been a seeker of knowledge, and perhaps this is the key to the mystery. Always looking outward instead of inward, I was projecting my mind energy into space, where it could absorb information from the Universal Mind. At the time I knew nothing of mind energy, but I was obviously doing the right thing, because my psychic powers had been developing all the time.
    I had also been captivated by the information one could extract from the hand, and I practised palmistry and, later, medical hand analysis. Again, the focus on the hand became almost meditational and my mind, during these sessions, was free and expansive.
    When I was in my early twenties – more than forty years ago – I studied vitamin and mineral therapy. Information was scarce then, but I was able to obtain the White Papers, listing all the latest discoveries, from the famous Mayo Clinic in New York. They were way ahead of their time, and so was I. When I saw the transformation they brought to my own young family, and how they cured the dermatitis that my husband had suffered from since the war, I spent the rest of my life recommending remedies to anyone who would listen. I suppose there were those who might have considered me to be a crank but, to be honest, I never thought about it. I was too busy learning.
    I had been similarly absorbed by my singing career,and had spent most of my time listening to and studying opera.
    Opera, hand analysis, and vitamin and mineral therapy. In retrospect, I realize that I have always chosen to follow subjects that are open to ridicule. Was this chance, or was it planned from another dimension? After all, I had seen and heard spirits from a very young age. Why then, had I not been remotely interested in spiritualism – especially as my paternal grandmother had been a medium and spiritualist? I do not know! Neither do I know why the subject of the paranormal never crossed my mind. As far as I was concerned, the hand analysis was scientific.
    I now believe that it was all part of a great plan. As the medium remarked when I first visited him, ‘You have been reading hands for so long – did you not realize that you were healing people whilst holding their hands?’ At the time, as you might have read in Mind to Mind, I thought he was crazy to suggest such a thing.
    Over the years, vitamin and mineral therapy has saved my life more than once, and it has also helped hundreds of others who took my advice.
    The singing! Well, it taught me discipline. And my wonderful singing teacher taught me how to listen, which is the most important part of mediumship, for listening in this profession becomes as much of an art form as it does with singing. A favourite phrase of mine is ‘listening to the audible silence’. Once you have found the key to another dimension, it is amazing to hear just how much ‘hubble and bubble’ isgoing on. It is rather like listening to the muted whispers of an audience before the conductor appears on the rostrum. There were so many conductors in my life at this stage but, when they raised the baton, peace reigned and there was a pure clarity in the voices of the communicators.
    One such person told me something very important.
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