Inula Austin Soul Growth

This is a biggie, no two ways about it.

When I started on my Spiritual Path in earnest (when I made the decision to sit to develop mediumship), I had been in avoidance mode with my abilities for the larger part of my life. Seeing and hearing the Spirit People in childhood had freaked me out enough that I’d pushed it all away. Then, out of the blue (or so it seemed to me) the voices came back, louder and clearer than ever and physical manifestations were happening in my bedroom while I was sat watching TV in the evenings.

Finally, I relented and agreed with my Guides and loved ones in the Next World; If you all stop turning up like this and chattering all hours of the day and night, I promise to find a Development Circle to sit in and work on these strange gifts.

I have always been a Spiritual seeker; the search for the Truth has been a flame burning inside me since I can remember. It’s just who I am.

Life wasn’t always easy growing up (as a mature adult I now know that I have this in common with about 99.99% of the population of the earth) and I wrestled with anxiety and depression to varying degrees from being young right into my 30s. (That’s the thing about being energetically ‘open’ and filled with burgeoning psychic stuff; If you’re not using it it in positive ways it can have a few not-so-nice side effects. I know that now.)

I consider myself fortunate that everything came to a head in my life, (all of my issues peaked) and I had my ‘dark night of the Soul’ right before my psychic senses really started to kick in…with hindsight of course I realise that this was an essential part of my path, to clear away the dross and begin healing all those old wounds, before I could begin to take on the responsibilities of my psychism in earnest.

If it hadn’t happened that way for me I could have easily been in danger of using my Spiritual and Psychic Development as a crutch for all of my unhealed issues.

It happens to a lot to people.

I have been very fortunate to have recieved my training from the best and most experienced teacher. A decade down the road in my development (which by the way, is an infinite journey and never a destination) and I  still feel able to ask him questions and seek his advice. My own mentor is exceptionally grounded, intelligent and has decades of experience as a medium, which makes him such an excellent down-to-earth, straight talking influence, that if I am ever in danger of disappearing off into the realms of fantasy, I am sure he’d ask me to take a long, hard look at myself in the mirror and recall why I began my mediumship journey in the first place!

Unfortunately, not many people have access to such a teacher.

If we are carrying unhealed wounds from our past then spiritual development won’t necessarily heal them, in fact, it can make any existing problems far worse.

Any Medium worth their salt knows that Sitting in the Power (a Spiritualist term for the energy we all sit in at a Development Circle) MAGNIFIES a person’s energies in order that they may become attuned to the frequencies of the Astral Realms and higher (the purpose of development); this is an impersonal law and as such, does not choose to simply magnify one’s positive traits!

If you have a tendency to flights of fancy, have or do experience periodic delusions, have existing emotional and mental imbalances, addictions, psychiatric/personality disorders &/or  carry unhealed trauma, then ALL of these issues have the potential to become much worse if you sit for development.

Even for the most well balanced of personalities, spiritual development, meditation groups, psychic development circles etc can become a crutch for unhealed parts of ourselves and a diversion from the hardships that we encounter in our daily lives.

At the very extreme end of the spectrum, in some this may even become a Messiah Complex (a feeling that a person has come into this present lifetime to save the world or certain individuals). It may manifest as Spiritual Bypassing (sticking metaphorical fingers in one’s ears and ignoring the ‘real world’). This bypassing often also tends towards a kind of spiritual nihilism, where individuals take an attitude of ‘nothing matters because we’ll all pass over and be in Spirit one day’.

Those spiritually-minded individuals who walk around all day, everyday with one ear cocked to the spirit realms (and automatically read everyone they come into contact with) are also in danger of not being grounded enough in this reality. I was always taught ‘We open to the World of the Spirit when we are working, we close when we are not’ and it has stood me in very good stead.

We have all incarnated on the Earth in each body, at this moment, to have a physical experience. We would be best advised to seek a middle way whilst on a Spiritual path and to ‘be in the World but not of it.’ (In other words to remain grounded whilst not losing sight of our moral and spiritual compass). It is not always easy, but it is doable.

If you feel that your spiritual development or pathway has become an fully immersive, all encompassing, actual reality fantasy experience, then you may wish to ask yourself this question:

What am I running from?

While it’s a good idea to be mindful of who and what you give your energy to (I’ve always preferred the life of a hermit), if you have dived into your spiritual development to escape from the not-so-great things in your life or your past, I’d suggest hitting the breaks.

The biggest spiritual fantasists I have met are those individuals who didn’t have the common sense to work on themselves first and then move on to the development of their psychic and mediumistic potential.

It’s why self-awareness and personal development should always be a part of any course on psychic development, because without it, at very best some people will try to grow one part of their Soul in isolation, whilst trying to tiptoe around the traumatized and unhealed inner child residing at their core and at worst, some won’t even be aware that their inner child exists.

Seek shelter and comfort in your spirituality, but avoid becoming lost in it. A healthy dose of grounding and reality is always good for the soul!

(Please ignore the ⬇️ author nonsense below…)

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