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MEDIUMSHIP
A talk by Pastor Lucy Baker, 12 October 2008

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We have received so much in the way of positive commentary about this church of spirituality and my team and I are grateful for your support. However, we have also been aware of the undignified rush to label the church as not good enough, too new age, not structured enough, too structured – mostly from those whose experience lies only in traditional religion.

I will restate again, this is a Church of Spirituality, not a Spiritualist Church. As such, it welcomes speakers from all paths, encourages links to spirit through personal development and spiritual growth, encourages new mediums in training to develop their connection to Spirit on platform, and as a progressive church is committed to keep openness, learning and transparency flowing. Growth is part of our path, part of your path, part of the path of those on platform. We will not support the unintelligent black and whites of absolute perfection or total failure which is where most people go whenever something is ‘not good enough’.

The idea of not being good enough has closed more hearts, ended more relationships, caused more wars and created more regression for the human race than any other limited thought we could conceive with our tiny brains!

Mistakes are how we grow, trauma is how we learn best, practice makes perfect, and the link with Spirit is tenuous at best for even the strongest and most famous of mediums.

Training never stops for a medium. There is not one so-called developed or established medium in Canberra who has managed to deliver clear and definitive links to spirit 100% of the time. There is very little in the way of training here, and most training, if available, has not realised its potential. Spirit is patient, and so shall we be, with those who seek to work with spirit in such a way. By allowing the space here for our new mediums to gather confidence will mirror your own ability to give yourself the generosity of time and patience to also grow.

However, not everyone wants to grow. There are many more people who prefer to ignore their wounds rather than heal them. Far easier for some to distract from their own need to develop and evolve, by filling their time and heads with how things should be, how others should work and how this church should be. We have also been aware for quite a number of services now, of a deliberate blocking of energy by a tiny handful of individuals in this congregation that has been restricting the mediums’ link to spirit. Apart from this being appalling and unspiritual behaviour, it is important to remember than psychic attack reveals less about you than it does about the limitations and fear of the small-spirited attackers.

Psychic attack is simply negative energy sent towards someone with a conscious or unconscious intention to inflict harm upon you, your family, your life or a block placed between you and the wisdom of Spirit. Those negative energies directed towards your physical, emotional, mental or spiritual states are projected in the form of thought, based mainly upon jealousy and a need to control.

Those who send such energy fail to remember the Law of Karma, so intent as they are on believing a distorted truth – that there is a limit to light, to healing, and that these should not be shared with others.

The attackers’own mediumship and healing qualities should have transformed them, however, sadly, this is not always the case and inevitably their own work depletes in value and power, and this current life for them may well become a step backwards, rather than a conscious choice to evolve and do their best and most harmless of work.

Harry Edwards, a great teacher in spiritualism and a famous UK medium and healer from the 1940s to the 1970s remarked that psychic attack only happens at a church or within a group when definitive progress is happening, where Light is creating a place to live. Where the potential for great change and healing exists, it creates a ripple of energy that attracts the attention of lower entities and those who would feel threatened by it.

This then is a great sign for a church to behold!

This is a new church and we need to be new within it. Old rules do not apply. Secrecy will not apply. Uncomfortable change and unpopularity will be part of this Church’s evolution. You are welcome to join us for the ride or it’s perfectly fine for you to choose another, perhaps more traditional place to visit. I trust you to follow your path towards creating a world where you and everyone else, wins.

Spirit has always been quite clear in its vision for this Church – to go beyond the norm, to break free of the petty politics and structure of existing churches – and to expand into the unknown. Thus I encourage all those who think they know better to have the courage to move into a place of NOT knowing, as their evolution and the progress of any church depends upon this new and brave step.

Light requires commitment and courage. The new and the different will always be seen as threatening for those who carry fear of the unknown. Look at the challenges that all great spiritual teachers have had to walk – Gandhi, Mandela, Mohammed.

No matter what our spiritual path or religion, most of us can agree that Jesus Christ was one of the great teachers. In Luke 11:34, he was believed to say – the light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, they whole body is full of light, but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Translation, if you focus like a laser on spiritual evolution and transformation, your whole body will be full of truth and power. But if you split your attention, get stuck in the lowest choice of your energy, cling to old ways, you will not achieve the heights of light attainment.

Remember: Everything in the universe is comprised of Light. Therefore, the more light, the more everything – from the tangible to the intangible. That’s exciting isn’t it?

The word ‘evil’ is ‘live’ spelled backwards. To be evil, to consciously and deliberately seek to have power over others and restrict their Light, is to live in a backward way, to live in darkness – the opposite of light.

I like this teaching. It tells us that you and I have to choose which master we’re going to serve. Are we going to operate like the majority of the population in a physical world and hope for spirit to take pity on us and throw us a bone, or are we going to access who we truly are, beyond our fears of loss of control, beyond our fears of sharing success, beyond our fears of the essence of Light being limited – and like, conscious adults, begin to co create the results we choose in our life?

Which do you choose? Whichever path, choose whole-heartedly. One cannot be spiritual for one hour a day and spend the rest of your week harming others and consequently oneself with lower actions, thoughts and deeds. Pursue the Light with a single eye. This is the true spiritual vibration. When you experience your true giving and godly nature, you enter a state of grace, but it takes courage and a knowledge that single minded commitment to Light will always attract the weaker gaze of others less able or in fact, less ready.

At the first service, these words were spoken. I would like to repeat them again.

As the author Marianne Williamson said, and these words were echoed by Nelson Mandela in his inauguration speech

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Thankyou!