Rules of Christian Spiritism

by Sharol Cannon    MSN (psychiatry) 

1.  Acceptance of Christ as the created Son of God and Lord of creation.

2. Recognition of the term “holy spirit”

Recognition that the “holy spirit” is a concept representing God the Father as a spirit or representing multiple spirits from Heaven. They are loyal to God who is holy and to Christ created by God as their Lord. Therefore, they are called holy spirits. They are also referred to as angels.

3. Lucifer: His Identity

Understand that Lucifer sometimes called Satan or the devil, rebelled against Christ and developed a plan which was an alternative to the Lordship of Christ and His method of ruling. Lucifer convinced a third of the spirits in Heaven to try his plan with him as their leader.

4. The Fall from Heaven of the Rebellious Spirits

Understand that this rebellion against Christ’s leadership alienated them from God, the Source of all life. This alienation resulted in God sending them to a lower existence and eventually into outer darkness as they continued to follow Lucifer.

5. God is a Spirit

Understand that God Himself as well as spirits can communicate with mankind.

6. Holy Spirit delegated to Communicate on behalf of God and Christ

Understand that God and Christ usually delegate their communication with mankind to the holy spirits because there are many who are willing to do this communication.

7. Variety of Ways the Holy Spirits Communicate with Humanity

Understand that there are many ways in which all the spirits of Heaven, including the Father, can communicate with us. These methods include use of any or all of our senses: sight (clairvoyance), hearing (clairaudience), sensation (clairsentience), smell and taste. They can also communicate through other people (mediumship), through animals and inanimate means such as wind, rain, and digital numbers on clocks.

8. Evil Spirits and Their Nefarious Influence on Humans

Spirits of the lower realm, Lucifer’s realm, can also communicate with mankind. Some of the spirits are considered elemental (mundane); and some are evil. Elemental spirits are at a human level, therefore, they don’t know any more than mankind and they can’t contribute to our understanding of God, Christ or the higher realm. They are at various levels of the human realm, just like mortal humans. So some have ill intent, some are benign, but they all take our energy - purposely or not.

Evil spirits are loyal to Lucifer and try to interfere with those who follow Christ. All spirits not from the higher realm have a low amount of energy. Therefore they drain our energy by osmosis when they are in close approximation to us.

9. Discernment: The Highest Priority in Spirit Communication

Because spirits of both realms can and often want to communicate with us, the most important rule of spiritism is discernment between spirits of the higher realm and those from the lower one.

10. Understand that Christ is Victor

Understand that Christ was victorious over Lucifer in two ways: The first was his loyalty to God, his Father in spirit, of all the attempts by Lucifer to dissuade him through temptation and mental and physical torment, ending in his death of the cross. Because Christ remained loyal to God unto death, God sent His angels of Heaven to accompany him to hell, where as a spirit he fought Lucifer and freed all the spirits in Lucifer’s realm, who wanted to leave there.

God and Christ allowed Lucifer to maintain control over those who remained loyal to him, but God did not allow Lucifer to retain or get any spirit back by force. He was only allowed to use deception; the reason why the spirits fell in the first place. And God honors their free will to return to Christ; therefore, although the low spirits can interfere in various ways with our serving Christ, their primary tool is deception.

11.  Learning Discernment of the Spirits

Learning discernment requires: 1. Comparison between positive and negative. 2. Character development so one can tell the difference. 3. Belief that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ incarnate, that He was victorious over Lucifer and that He remains victorious to this day.

Comparison between positive and negative involves comparing thoughts, words and actions of oneself and others with God’s standards. These standards are communicated in the Ten Commandments, by Christ, by the prophets and apostles as found in the Scriptures and by the holy spirits in verbal and written word.

Character development extends through life. It involves living the standards found in the resources listed above. Sources which help us to learn character development include families, psychotherapy, self-help books, Christian churches and the holy spirits. Actual development requires learning by the results of experiences.

Belief in Christ is important in discernment because all spirits of Heaven acknowledge and honor him as their Lord and no spirit under Lucifer will acknowledge him as Lord. Therefore testing spirits for their acknowledgement of Christ as Lord is important with speaking spirits. There are also other clues which we can learn from the holy spirits with time and experience.

12. Understand God’s Plan of Salvation

Understand God’s Plan of Salvation. After the fall of the spirits, God created a Plan whereby the fallen spirits could return to their Heavenly home. They needed to change their attitudes to live again harmoniously with the Heavenly spirits. Since it’s hard to change and past memories hold us back, they were given the opportunity to have a series of fresh starts, by which they could change gradually with incarnated steps. In general, spirits remember more readily than mortals because mortal bodies are more condensed than spirit bodies which are more ethereal. This is also why in general, spirits can see us but we can’t see them.

Therefore, God’s plan included incorporation (incarnation) of the spirits in physical bodies. It was a way of starting over and since each individual spirit had different lessons to learn, their incarnation began with the lowest type of creatures in the plant and animal and even the mineral kingdoms. Different spirits incarnated as different kinds of beings, according to their vibration and development as spirits.

One of the clearest examples for us is the ant species in which individual ants learn to work together for the good of all. The spirits reincarnate repeatedly in subsequently more complex species until they reach the human level, in which they have the most advanced reasoning ability of all the lower levels. At the human level, they still had to learn to live harmoniously enough to advance to enter the Heavenly realms.

The holy spirits refer to these levels as spheres of progress. There are thirteen realms in all, with the lowest being the first sphere. The complex animal sphere is the eighth and the human sphere is the ninth. The dividing line between the ninth and tenth spheres is the line between the nine terrestrial spheres and the spheres of Heaven. The highest level of the ape in the eighth contains one hundred and forty nine amino acids, whereas the human in the ninth sphere contains one hundred fifty amino acids.

Even the Heavenly realm has stages of progress, spheres ten to thirteen, the thirteenth being the highest and original. Spirits from the Heavenly realm can be referred to as high spirits. Spirits below the tenth sphere are sometimes referred to as low or negative spirits. If they are from the ninth realm, they may be called elemental or mundane. Spirits still below the terrestrial spheres are those still loyal to Lucifer and are referred to as evil or as demons. Being far from God, their bodies have become deformed and impure with thoughts and odor; they have little energy unless they steal if from humans, other terrestrial sources, or each other and they do not radiate light.

The human sphere is the hardest to get through, and as we can see on earth, there are many levels even within this sphere. Therefore, humans usually reincarnate a number of times, hopefully learning more and more lessons. There is no retrograde from one level to a lower one, but spirits reflect on their successes and failures between incarnations and may have to reincarnate at the same level to try again to pass their tests.

Spirits who have reached the ninth sphere had not been able to enter the tenth sphere until Christ won the victory over Lucifer during his incarnation two thousand years ago as Jesus of Nazareth. The reason is that the ninth sphere is considered part of Lucifer’s realm, (note in the New Testament that he offered kingdoms of this earth when he tempted Christ in the desert). Lucifer would not allow any of the spirits in his realm to leave until Christ defeated him. Because of Christ’s victory, Lucifer accepted terms of a treaty in which he agreed to allow those spirits who wanted to progress to or toward Heaven to do so. He could no longer retain any spirit by force, but only by deception.

One may ask, “Why do we need to know all of this as a Rule of Christian Spiritism?” It is because of the deception that Lucifer’s spirits use in communicating to humankind, pretending to be a higher level than they really are. For further clarification, see “Communication with the Spirit-World of God - by Johannes Greber (available on Amazon.com)

13. Understand the Spiritual Gifts with Regard to Spirit Communication

Understand the spiritual gifts, their recording in the bible and the explanation of the major ones. These are addressed in I Corinthians: 12 & 14, I John 4: 1-3, and described or implied in numerous other places throughout the bible. Examples are stories about Moses who saw the “burning bush which was not consumed“, and heard a voice from it. He was involved in the materialization of locusts and of frogs in Egypt, and was present in the writing of the Ten Commandments by God Himself. There was also Joseph, son of Jacob who had the gift of prophecy through dreams. There was Samuel who had a school for prophets. There was Daniel who saw, heard and felt the Archangel Gabriel. In the New Testament there were tongues of fire over the people at Pentecost and each person heard the apostles and disciples of Christ in their own language. The apostles had the gift of healing and John had the gift of prophecy (Revelation). Finally, the apostle Phillip dematerialized and rematerialized in another town.

As indicated earlier, the substance of material beings is denser than that of spirits. So to manifest to physical humans in a way which is perceptible to human senses, spirits ordinarily must take on physical substance. This is what happens to us when we incarnate except that the combining of physical substance with our spirits lasts for a lifetime. The holy spirits refer to this substance as ‘od’ (pronounced ~od). It consists of very fine particles which, when in motion, become energy (also called odic power). The particles are so fine that when they are in a gaseous state, they can pass through solid matter. The od of high spirits is finer and of a higher vibration than that of terrestrial being and also of lower spirits. One can use the analogy of an airplane propeller which we can see when it moves slowly, but becomes invisible when it spins rapidly (a higher vibration). The closer we reach toward God, the faster the od vibrates. Spirits obtain terrestrial od from physical substance, especially human beings. High spirits purify it and return it after using it, whereas lower spirits do not. If spirits manifest in response to a special directive from God, then God supplies all the physical od needed.

The spiritual gifts are referred to as gifts because they are provided by God. All people with the physical and mental capacity have the potential to have spiritual gifts but most people have not developed the potential due to pre-occupation with worldly things. However, they can be developed in conjunction with the spirit world.

13. A. Thought Transference Between Humans and Spirits

One, God created the ability, which we all have as part of our nature, is telepathy (thought transference) between us and spirits. Most people don’t recognize this because they don’t distinguish their own thoughts from those of spirits. One way to perceive this process of telepathy is to ask a question, then pause and suspend one’s thinking for a few seconds. The first thing that enters the person’s mind will thereafter be from a spirit. When communicating with high spirits from God’s realm, the thoughts are orderly and usually spiritual in nature (high spirits do, however sometimes communicate mundane content which has spiritual meanings). Thoughts from low spirits often tempt, threaten or frighten us, or they may be disorganized, or dull our thought, or cause our minds to race. They also give wrong information and lead us away from God. High spirits give us thoughts of consolation, reassurance, calmness, joy and clarity of truthful information. They lead us in personal improvement and direct us toward God.

13. B. Clairsentience (clear feeling)

Clairsentience (clear feeling) is one of the most common gifts. It is the ability to feel spirits. Many people, even if they don’t know anything about spiritual gifts, call it a “gut feeling”, because they often feel it in their abdominal area. However, we can feel spirits in any part of the body.

The feeling of high spirits is one of comfort and harmony and often is felt as slight pressure on the body, though it can be strong. The feeling of low spirits is discomfort and, or disharmonious. However, deceptive low spirits occasionally mimic high spirits by temporarily producing feelings of comfort artificially.

13. C.  Intuition

Many people refer to their intuition. This is a combination of clairsentience and thought transference (telepathy), but it is so subtle that the person does not perceive that it is from a spirit. It is experienced as a thought and a vague feeling, usually that something is right or that there is something wrong.

Intuition from high spirits indicating that something is positive gives a sense of harmony. If it indicates something is negative, the high spirits usually withdraw some and allow the person to sense the low spirits, resulting in the person’s concluding that something is wrong. Low spirits often exaggerate the sensation and thought, as they try to copy the high spirits, or emphasize that the person is experiencing their own thoughts rather that those of spirits. This is one way they create doubts about holy spirit guidance.

13. D. Knowing

This is a gift of thought without the clairsentience. The person finds that they know information without being aware of having received it from external sources. They may say, “How did I know that?” If prompted by high spirits, the information is accurate and helpful to the person and, or to others. If the knowing is from low spirits, it is at least partially inaccurate and misleading.

13. E.  Dreams

Everyone dreams but many people do not remember their dreams or remember very few. Most people believe that their dreams are from their own subconscious. Some people think that they have no meaning, but most consider them to be the result of problems, usually psychological, which they are trying to work out when they are asleep.

Actually, the latter belief is usually true, except that the content of dreams come from the spirit world, both high and low spirits. Dreams from high spirits are very clear and if we analyze the symbolism, they often pertain to something that is happening in our lives. They usually convey a lesson or clarification of something. Some dreams are also prophetic as seen in the story of Joseph, Jacob’s son, who interpreted Pharaoh’s dream about seven years of plenty followed by seven lean years. The holy spirits often give an interpretation of a dream such as in this example. Pat interpretations of symbols are dangerous or can lead to wrong understanding because the holy spirits individualize dreams. However, they will sometimes use the common understandings of symbols if a person relies on them a lot. Mental health professionals often give dream interpretation in therapy. If the professional is of a high character, the holy spirits can still give their interpretations, even if they believe that dreams are purely psychological.

Dreams from low spirits can be frightening (nightmares), not make sense, and be frustrating and, or misleading. One individual known to this writer, who can see spirits, described how he awoke during a nightmare and saw a demon holding a type of video tape player next to his head, playing the content of his nightmare.

Some people waste a lot of time and energy trying to analyze low spirit dreams which don’t make much sense. They are designed to get the time and attention of the dreamer. An example of a dream designed to mislead is a dream of another individual in which his children were depicted as having been in a bad auto accident and were badly injured on the road. He got up to get ready to go find them, then stopped to ask the holy spirits if it was true. His answer was that they were fine and the holy spirits told him where each of them were. It’s a good idea to double check the truth of a message from holy spirits. In this example, the information of where they were gave him the opportunity to double check.

13. F. Clairvoyance (clear sight)

Clairvoyance is the ability to see the spirit world. In ancient times and in the bible, they are called seers. There are various degrees and kinds of clairvoyance. Those with clears auras and facilitation by the high spirits can see clearly what’s going on around them in the spirit world. People can also see when they are out of their body as in clinical death and in some dreams. Those with clairvoyance whose auras are cloudy see through a glass darkly to quote Paul in the bible. They may see shapes but details aren’t clear and colors are not bright. The clarity of the aura depends on the purity of character and of the body. Some people can see farther than others and this is largely controlled by the spirit world. In these cases, an individual may or may not remember what they saw. The value however, is that the person’s guides can recall the information to their minds. An example might be a visit to a higher realm.

Another kind of clairvoyance is the ability to see pictures given by the spirits. These can be very realistic as seen in a dream and or they may be in the form of symbols, such as lines at various angles or various colors. Shade is also a factor, with bright white or other bright colors indicating high spirits. Images from low spirits look dirty, or are some degree of gray to black, depending on the level of spirit. The gray or black images can be given by low spirits or by high spirits to indicate the presence of low spirits. Gray indicates elemental (mundane) spirits and black indicates evil. Dirty colored images are given by low spirits because their od is dirty. A person’s own guides gradually teach a person with this gift, more specific symbolism and its meanings. Finally, mortals who leave their bodies are sometimes given monitors like small TV monitors to view and sometimes hear what is happening at a distance from them.

13. G. Clairaudience (Clear hearing)

Clairaudience is the ability to hear spirits. This ability does not mean that the person can hear like two mortals can hear each other in a conversation. It’s more like hearing a whisper or sometimes a thought.

There are several types of clairaudience; one is hearing spirits in the room who may be communicating with each other or to other mortals. The most common type of clairaudience is the ability to hear a spirit who is speaking to an individual personally. This is often referred to as receiving a personal message from a spirit.

Holy spirits give lofty messages which are truthful and consistent with other higher spirit messages. Low spirits give messages which are either untruthful or are an admixture of truth and error. Such an admixture is very dangerous because the hearer recognizes the truthful part and may or may not recognize the untruthful part as being false. Sometimes, the hearer can recognize a difference in the style of a false spirit compared to that of a true spirit but they can be very tricky, so one cannot count on it.

The high spirits use several techniques to help a person recognize a true spirit, one is clairsentience. They use a characteristic pressure on part of a person’s face or throat along with the clairaudient message as a sign that it is a high spirit message. Sometimes they give their clairaudient message in a certain location, inside or outside of the head. Another technique is to give the hearer some form of clairvoyance along with the clairaudient message. These techniques are taught gradually by the person’s guides using experimental demonstrations. Therefore, there are different techniques for each individual depending on their strengths and can only be taught in a general way by another mortal.

Another type of clairaudience is the ability to hear spirits who may be in the same room who are speaking to each other or to other mortals.

13. H. Perception of sprits through smell and or taste

These ways of perceiving spirits are less common than other ways; however, individuals may perceive smells and tastes brought by spirits without identifying them as such, because if individuals are in their bodies, the od provided by the spirits must be from physical sources in order for the individual to smell or taste it.

In general, smells and tastes from high spirits are very pleasant and vice versa from low spirits. Examples of high spirit smells are the scent of a good quality perfume, roses, frankincense or myrrh. Examples of high spirit tastes are candies such as cotton candy or high quality chocolate. Examples of low spirit smells are rotting meat or sewage. Examples of low spirit tastes are mold or extremes of sour or metallic tasting food.

13. I. Mediumship

Mediumship is the ability to release od from one’s body so it is available for spirits to manifest to physical beings. There are many kinds of mediumships. The most commonly known is speaking mediumship. With this form, the medium receives a message from the spirit world and verbalizes it. People often mistakenly consider clairaudience and clairvoyance to be mediumship whereas, with the true gift of mediumship, the medium receives the message in a trance state. The opposite also occurs with people’s perception of mediumship. They interpret the thoughts they are having as their own, whereon they are being given by the spirit world, this is called automatic mediumship. The spirit world gives ideas, and the mortal verbalizes them, sometimes word for word, thinking that they are sharing their own thoughts. This mistake occurs for two reasons, one is that the person has been hearing spirits all of their life and so do not distinguish the difference between their own spirit thoughts. The other reason is that low spirits are attracted to those doubts and magnify them.

Those who receive messages in a trance state are often referred to as trance mediums. The trance is similar to a hypnotic trance. There are two types of trance mediumship: one is referred to as part trance and the other is called full trance or deep trance. With part trance, the person does not initiate the thoughts but is aware of the message and has to be careful not to interject their own thoughts as they speak, this takes a good deal of concentration. Part trance is similar to clairaudience, except there is more flow with part trance. The medium is often out of their body and their spirit may even be involved with other things in the spirit world, but still assists with or at least is aware of the verbalization of the message.

In deep trance, the medium is completely unconscious, leaving their body free for use by the spirit world without interruption by the medium. For this reason, messages through the deep trance medium can be the most trusted of any form of mediumship as being completely from the spirit world though not necessarily high or low.

Another form of mediumship is that of writing. Writing mediumship is often referred to as automatic writing. With this form, a person holds their hand completely relaxed and the spirit moves the hand, resulting in a written message. Automatic writing does not necessarily develop easily, but is often preceded by the spirit making circles and other marks on the paper. When it begins to form words, typically, the writing is done very fast and the word all runs together with no capitals or punctuation.

Another form of writing mediumship is receiving the phrases by inspiration. (See earlier description of inspiration). The writer writes down what is received. The same process can be used with clairaudience and or clairvoyance. Sometimes several ways of giving a message are used by the spirit world.

Messages from the holy spirits are informative, encouraging, sometimes admonishing and generally direct the readers toward God and Christ. Messages from low spirits give some inaccurate information, it often contains some accuracy in order to mislead. A general rule of thumb is that they contain information that the spirits think the writer and readers want to hear or at least will accept. This is the deceptive nature of low spirit communication. Their main tool of deception is to copy or mimic what they hear or see from the holy spirits. This copying is also because many of them are not capable of giving consistently accurate information themselves and because Lucifer will not allow them to say or do anything which would support belief in Christ and his victory.

Another factor with low spirit messages is that most mediums are interested primarily in mundane affairs of the world and so they attract mundane spirits rather than the high spirits who give lofty messages. Even if the medium is of a high character, other people present can have a negative influence on the medium and therefore on the type of spirits who can manifest. If, for example, potential hearers or readers of a message have a lot of doubts or are primarily curious rather than a seeker of truth, this can bring feelings of tension or hesitancy to the medium, thus interfering with the release of od and the free flow of a spirit message.

Another form of writing mediumship is use of a planchette. In the bible, this is referred to as the breastplate of judgment. It consisted of a slab of wood covered with gold which hung from the neck of the high priest. It had twelve precious stones on it in rows. Each stone had engraved on it a character representing one of the tribes of Israel. In this way the characters formed a kind of alphabet. The breastplate was placed horizontally and a small plate (a diadem), of gold was placed in a groove between the stones. The high priest placed his hand over the plate without touching it, or the breastplate, and the spirit world used the od from his hand to glide the plate from stone to stone until a word was formed, the plate would then strike a small bell on the right side When a sentence was formed, the diadem was guided by the spirit world to strike the bell on the right side, then on the left. The diadem and the bells were referred in the Hebrew as the “Urim and Thumin”. Over time copies of the breastplate were made for use by the priest within families. They were often made of silver.

Copies in this day and age are known as Ouija boards and are used by low spirits. They are made of cardboard and available as table games. They are dangerous to use because people don’t understand the need for a lofty attitude and a controlling spirit who would only admit high spirits for communication by this means. However, a planchette if used as it was in the days of the early Israelites could be a valuable means of communicating with the high spirits of God.

One gift which involves automatic movement but is not in written form is pantomime. It is similar to automatic writing in that the medium refrains from voluntary movement and a spirit moves the head and limbs of the person There is a feeling of lightness in the areas being moved and a sensation of flowing movement. The spirit pantomimes well known movements, such as pointing, as well as certain movements with symbolic meanings. The spirit can demonstrate the symbols to the medium as a way of communicating a message to the medium as well as to others. This gift can be used especially well with people who have a strong gift of clairsentience. One example of effective use of this gift is in communication with the deaf. The spirit who knows sign language for the deaf can communicate a message whether or not the medium knows the language.

Use of this gift by high spirits results in a flowing, graceful movement and a feeling of lightness by the medium. Whereas low spirits produce jerky movements and sensations of resistance or unpredictable release of resistance, thus interfering with the smooth flow of movement.

Another form of mediumship which could be valuable today to a doubting world is that of materialization mediumship. In this form, a spirit takes on physical od to form all or part of a body which can be seen, heard and felt by human beings. Materialization of an entire body requires a great deal of od so that the medium leaves their body, releasing their od for the materialization. When there is not enough od available for a full materialization, spirits sometimes appear smaller or only materialize part of their bodies such as their eyes or hands. When God requires a full materialization for a special mission, He makes all the needed od available. An example would be when Gabriel materialized and appeared to Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father.

When high spirits materialize, they emit bright light, lighting up a whole room. Mundane human level spirits appear like ordinary human beings. Animal level spirits materialize as the animals that they are in the spirit world. Evil spirits materialize with distorted bodies or as animals and appear as black since they emit no light. An example of animal spirits with negative attitudes is the black ravens who tried to steal Abraham’s sacrifice. Another example is the materialization of locusts and frogs to the Egyptians in Moses’ time. (For a thorough description of materialization mediumship, see Communications with the Spirit World of God by Johannes Greber).

A form of mediumship which is less well known today is apport mediumship. In this form, physical objects or even persons are dematerialized and rematerialized in a different location. An example in the bible is of Philip who disappeared from the presence of the eunuch from the court of Queen Candace of Ethiopia and reappeared in the city of Azotus (Acts 8:26). The medium, who in this case was Philip, usually has to be in a deep trance state.

Two other types of mediumship that are seldom used by high spirits and only for specific purposes are called mediumship by physical mediums and mediumship for table communication. A physical medium is a person whose od is used to move objects around a room. With mediumship for table communication the od is used to raise or lower a table or to make rapping sounds as a form of sign language. When these forms of communication are used by high spirits, it is usually for purposes of demonstration. In addition to demonstration there is a certain type of person with whom rapping and other forms of sign language are used. This is the person who is very detail oriented and has a lot of verbal opposition. The verbal opposition makes it very difficult to hear the holy spirits but the detail orientation enables the person to use very complex sign language, the high spirits can give very complex sign language and rules for using it. If the person follows the rules, then the high spirits can limit the low spirits, reducing the opposition This is an example of how general rules are sometimes adapted to individuals and why each person is guided differently.

14. Understand the Development of Gifts

This writer differentiates between development and progression, in that development refers to development of gifts, whereas progress refers to the overall spiritual growth of becoming closer to God and Christ.

Everyone has the potential for development, but whether they develop is a matter of desire, time and effort. Most people involved in spiritism have the desire to develop gifts but if they are involved with the holy spirits, they greatly underestimate the amount of time and effort it takes. It is much more difficult to develop as an instrument for the holy spirits than as an instrument for low spirits because low spirit’s od is on the same level as humans. This makes it easier for them to use human od and it takes much less effort on a human’s part because they don’t have to raise their vibrations to a higher level to make contact with them.

Because most people underestimate the difficulty of developing with the holy spirits when they don’t perceive the development of gifts, they assume they have no potential or they try to copy others who manifest gifts, and when nothing happens within their time expectations they stop trying, which slows or halts their development altogether.

There is a lot of variation between people as to the time and extent of their development. A lot depends on the amount and type of development that occurred in their past lives. Even if there has been a good deal of development in the past, the high spirits have indicated that it takes thirty to forty years for them to fully develop a medium. This is because character development and testing has to occur in addition to techniques of the gift.

Often, development begins with occasional high spirit dreams, interpretation of those dreams and discernment of low spirit dreams. The person being developed is taught to not pay attention to low spirit dreams. Because the high spirits often use mundane content with spiritual significance, the person has to learn to really discern and not automatically discount dreams which appear to be mundane.

Another early form of development is the recognition, discernment and use of clairsentience. Some people begin to have some form of clairvoyance early in their development. Such people often report occasion clairvoyant experiences in childhood and throughout their life. The high spirits may suppress clairvoyance in persons who are excessively frightened by clairvoyant images given by low spirits. Clairsentience and or clairaudience may be developed instead.

As the gifts are developed, the developing instrument usually expects more frequent manifestations than are typically given. This leads the person to prematurely conclude that they won’t develop any or many gifts. Gifts are usually developed in small steps with a series of techniques. For example, clairsentience may begin with “gut reactions”. Then after several months or as much as one to two years may be used in the face or throat and eventually in the entire body. This may be broken down to one part of the face or throat at a time. Typically a technique is introduced by the holy spirits and they give thoughts to help the person understand it and how to apply it. This usually takes three months, though it can take much longer if needed. The high spirits let the low spirits also use the same technique. This lasts for at least three months and gives the developing instrument a period of time to experience the difference between the low spirits and the high spirits’ use of the technique; this is for the purpose of teaching discernment. Following the second three months, the high spirits allow the low spirits to use the technique almost exclusively while they go on to teach another technique.

This kind of training can go on for years as the developing instrument learns many skills. Included in the skills is refinement, the ability to perceive very subtle manifestations and those which seem like low spirits but aren’t. This is good training for discernment. The instrument also needs to learn to resist expectations because they interfere with unexpected manifestations from a spirit.

Another area of learning is that of cycles. Some people’s opposition is such that there is more for a period of time and then there is a period of relatively little. An instrument has to learn to manifest their gifts during periods of intense opposition as well as when everything is relatively smooth.

The developing instrument needs to learn to recognize, rise above and overcome various types of opposition. These types can be divided into mental and physical. Mental opposition includes distracting thoughts, doubts, deceptive thoughts, flooding of thoughts, dullness, and lapses of memory, obsession and confusion. Physical opposition affects every system of the body and includes pain such as headaches and some joint and muscle pain, physical tension and digestive problems. There is also emotional opposition which starts with our thoughts and adds a feeling component. Examples of emotional opposition include depression, rage and guilt. The type of opposition depends on a person’s natural tendencies which the low spirits build upon and intensify. This is one reason why character development is so important. It helps to eliminate our weakness as these attract low spirits which are similar to the weaknesses. Rising above the weakness enables us to also rise above the low spirits which bring the opposition. Eliminating the weakness is a form of overcoming those spirits.

Weaknesses are not the only reason for opposition, however, even those of high character are tested by the low sprits to see if these individuals have, and give in, to certain weaknesses. A good example of this testing is Job in the Old Testament of the bible. God pointed out to Lucifer what a good person Job was, and Lucifer asked to test him. He brought many problems to Job to see if he would remain faithful to God. He did pass the tests and God restored everything doubly what Lucifer had taken away.

As part of development, the holy spirits teach techniques for counteracting opposition. For example, with thoughts of guilt, they point out the spirits which bring the thoughts and tell us to watch for such thoughts and feelings and to immediately say “no” or something similar every time we detect such a thought. This blocks the spirit and prevents it from preoccupying us with it. The high spirits might also give us a technique like immediately imagining our pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. One point which should be mentioned is that the high spirits often give guidelines one way or another, and then allow low spirits to give consequences for not following the guidance. For example, the high spirits may guide a person to keep confidences then test the person by exposing them to a potential violation. If the developing instrument does violate the guideline, the low spirits are allowed to violate the instruments confidential information.

With physical pain, it’s important to check for physiological problems and not just assume it’s a spirit, although low spirits can magnify physical problems. If we get medical or spiritual healing for a physical problem it might also eliminate the low spirits who are intensifying it.

There are two schools of thought on talking about a person’s experience of opposition. One is that it’s better to talk about it, at least to some extent, because low spirits cause problems then hide behind other reasons for them, like a medical problem or a mental health problem, and let the patient or the medical profession take the blame for it. When people first start having physical opposition, they assume this is a medical problem when there may not be and they spend a lot to time and money pursuing treatment. Talking about problems from opposition helps to reveal the low spirits.

On the other hand, there are two reasons why it’s better to not talk about opposition. One is to avoid giving the low spirits attention, credit for problems in our lives. They often have inflated egos and crave attention, so we don’t want to add to it.

The other reason for not talking about one’s opposition is that it might discourage other people from pursuing development. The high spirits usually follow a policy of not revealing the next steps in a person’s development until they’re ready. This usually means that they start understanding or asking questions about something that they are experiencing. So to reveal too much about one’s opposition may be revealing more than the person is ready for.

One area of mental attack of which there is a need to be especially wary is deception. Two types of prediction which the opposition uses a great deal is prediction regarding names and dates. The high spirits obviously make predictions. The bible is full of prophecies and the translations and interpretations we have available to us credit “the Lord” for the prophecies, but the biblical wording use “the Lord”, often to refer to Christ or God, without clarifying that the high spirits often work under their direction, so we can’t tell from the translations exactly who the prophets are referring to. However, the high spirit predictions usually give sign posts, descriptions of events and many symbols rather giving names and dates. A similar area of prediction the opposition uses a lot is of predicting a person’s death.

Those who progress to advanced development are at some point taught language characteristic to that used by the spirit world, and various means they have of encoding their messages. One example of their language is to use the term “individual” or something similar to refer to either a spirit of a mortal. New people in a group sometimes complain about this, wanting the developing instrument to use terminology they are used to rather that figuring it out from the context. It’s like they want the spirit world to adjust down to their level of understanding rather than their adjusting up to the holy spirits’ level. Another confusing term is “fine”; this word is often used to mean barely perceptible manifestations by the spirit world’s manifestations at that point in time.

Coding is sometimes used so that listeners or readers, other than those for whom a message is intended, will not understand it. It is also a form of advanced training. Instruments of God are required to keep progressing for the high spirits to continue to work with them. This can be done by their efforts to improve their health, by character development and, or, by increased development of their gifts. One way that the high spirits enable improvement is to make or allow more difficulty in a person’s life. In return they increase the rewards, including greater manifestations of the high spirits.

Coding is a way of increasing mental difficulty. It consists of using analogies, reversing meanings, substituting words and using symbols. In using codes, the high spirits don’t necessarily say they are encoding a message. They simply teach their developing instruments to recognize and be able to use them. Analogies are probably the most frequent method of encoding and they allow for another technique that the high spirits often use, that is the use of multiple meanings. This is used with dreams and visions as well as with verbal messages. There is often a literal or mundane meaning, a meaning about the individual receiving the message or dream and, or, about a group if there is one, about a country, the world, the universe and, or, a realm. The multiple meanings in a message attest to the great intelligence of the high spirits. They often use multiple meanings in creating a movie or guiding the announcing of a sports event. One can find, for example, in watching a movie that one or all of the characters represent people they know. This makes it especially interesting because it’s about people they know. It can be very instructive as a means of personal growth.

One symbol which is used frequently is numbers. The high spirits assign certain meanings to certain numbers and use the numbers sometimes instead of words or phrases. “One” for example usually means “yes” or positive, it can also mean “beginning”. “Two” usually means “no” or “negative”. “Three” and “four” indicate “yes” or “positive“. The high spirits have assigned the number “two” to low spirits who use that number proudly. The high spirits control who may use what number, so unless they are using reversals in their code, the numbers can be used to help with discernment.

In addition to this system of numbers, the high spirits sometimes use certain numbers and combinations of numbers to mean certain things uniquely to individuals. The spirit world also uses them in the literal sense. A person can usually tell what system is being used by the context.

There is one more form of sign language used by the spirit world, and that is body language. There are various types of movements which the holy spirits use which have specific meanings. For example, one sideward turning of the head means “alright”, two sideward turnings means “not alright’.

These meanings and also the use of numbers are changed periodically to help us think and not just use the techniques automatically. If the movements or numbers are inconsistent or appear random it’s an indication that the high sprits aren’t guiding. It could be low sprits or not guidance at all.

The high spirits can use animals as mediums with both a number system and with body language.

It’s important to note that whatever type of development is used, it must be guided. As we learn to communicate with the high spirits, even if it’s a system of “yes” and “no”, they can gradually demonstrate each subsequent step. Therefore, we don’t need a system of someone’s techniques. They may be helpful but they may not be the ones that a specific person’s guides think is best for that person. For this reason examples only are given here, rather than detailed information about a particular method of guidance.