Talking to the Dead-Gift or Curse?

I just watched the movie Hereafter with Matt Damon as George, a retired
psychic medium, who is called back into service against his will.
I know how he felt.  
I’m one of those people who easily sees and talks to the dead––those who
have passed over. In the movie George tells another how he became
psychic: As a child he had become very ill and needed surgery on the back
of his head. Because of it something happened in his brain resulting in him
“knowing and seeing” things about people he had no prior access to and
this information was told to him by dead people. 
I appreciated how the scriptwriter presented a correlation between
head/brain surgery and changes in one’s psychic abilities. I also had a
similar experience where a head injury had awoken my psychic abilities.
When I was nineteen I was in a very serious car accident and received
grave injuries to my face and head and for a moment in the ambulance I
“died”.  That brief moment profoundly changed the course of my life
forever, although it took me years to, not only understand what happened,
but talk about it openly.  Like one character in Hereafter I went to
the“otherside”. My experience was like what some others had as described
in the book Life after Life by Dr. Raymond Moody.
The attending physician told my parents that it was nothing short of a
miracle that I came through as well as I did. I had blasted through the
windshield, bounced back inside the car with glass embedded in my face
and eyes. A leg hit the gearbox with such force that it broke it out. No
broken bones, no blindness (the biggest concern). The face scars were
deep and ugly, but I lived through the initial freaking out. The physical part
in time healed but the true miracle was what happened afterward. 
Within a couple of months I began to have strong premonitions, about
people’s past (recognition) visions of future events (precognition) and dead
people spoke to me. It was not pleasant. Heck it scared the bejeevus out
of me! Not that I was new to accepting psychic occurrences. My mother
had a curiosity in it, even having a few prophetic a few dreams and for fun
read tealeaves, but my experiences surpassed this greatly.

Quite a few years later I read in the Time-Warner popular book series
“Mysterious of the Unknown” how a head injury often happened before one
experienced psychic abilities. The knock opened a part of the brain
resulting in this phenomenon. One of my strong abilities is mediumship
and I rather enjoy it. I’ve mostly given up giving spirit communication (aka
séances) because of the physically living beings as George experienced.
Of course the dead can be an annoyance as Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi
Goldberg) in the movie “Ghosts” learned where she was deluged by spirits
all coming through (talking) at one time––it can happen like that when they
find a person who can see and hear them. 
Do they haunt you like Oda Mae was by the dead character Sam, Patrick
Swayze? You bethca!  This happened to me once. The spirit didn’t lighten
up until the police contacted me for all her information (her killer was
successfully prosecuted.)
There are many rewards from having these abilities’ and talents: I’ve met
people from all over the world and been invited to travel to share my
abilities. People have told me the information I shared changed their lives.
Then again there’s a downside. In the movie George says that some
people say he has a gift, but he thought  of it more as a curse. I can relate.
The curse is seeing and knowing too much as George says.  
Psychics do become tired. Its takes a lot of energy, much focus and a
certain detachment as information surges through. I’ve worked with law
enforcement and even the believers have a particular way that can make
one feel a bit blocked. There’s the need and expectations of clients to fulfill
(or not) and neediness of the people seeking help and connections to dead
loved ones. Let’s not forget the testing doubters, the ridiculing critics and
the condemning haters (oh yes!) of psychics. 
We don’t want to just answer one teeny weeny question while at parties or
shopping and running into you. We do have lives along with the same
problems of others. No we don’t know our own futures although we may be
more aware than most because of our beliefs, meditations, etc. I can’t
speak for all psychics as each is her or his own self.
After having used my abilities for 40 years I believe that psychic energy
must retire and the person must live for her or himself. But then, like
George, there’s always that one more person who truly needs that
information.
My book, The Timeless Counselor, tells it all - how psychics receive
information, psychic readings, how to have a positive experience with and
take my ESP test in it.
Available as an ebook at www.smashwords.com & Amazon Kindle. More
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