On June 3, 2012, the Spirit Release Forum is sponsoring a day-long conference in London entitled: Working With Soul Consciousness: For Health, Healing and Wellbeing. 

The idea for the conference came from David Hughes, the director of SRF. David contacted me after the publication of Soul-Centered Healing and invited me to be the keynote speaker for the conference, followed by a one-day workshop on Monday. The focus of the conference is on recognizing that each person is a soul, and that the soul can be a powerful and active resource in healing. Catherine G. Lucas, founder of the Spiritual Crisis Network and consultant psychiatrist Dr. David McDonald will also be speaking.

For those in the London vicinity, I invite you to join us at the conference. It is sure to stimulate your thinking about who we are as souls and what that means in everyday life. You can find the registration and conference information here. Just scroll down the page.

I am looking forward to my visit to London and the conference. It is always nice to be in the presence of kindred souls. – Tom Z

I want to announce the release of a new book, Soul Awareness: A Guide’s Message. For those who are familiar with Soul-Centered Healing, you know that this approach to healing grew out of  my 14-year  collaboration with a spirit entity named Gerod.

Gerod was channeled by Katherine Mackey and by the time our collaboration ended, I had had over 650 sessions with him. During that time, Katherine channeled Gerod in private sessions with individuals and occasionally for group sessions. Katherine also communicated with Gerod herself through automatic writing.

Soul Awareness: A Guide’s Message is the result of a series of these sessions that Katherine had with Gerod. The book was Gerod’s idea and he communicated it to Katherine chapter by chapter. She and her husband, Gary, have done the organizing, editing and formatting in order to bring the book into print. (Now available as an e-book also.)

The chapters are short essays that cover a whole range of topics. Gerod writes from a soul perspective and invites the reader to step into this perspective as well, to try it on and see how it fits. It may take more than one reading though. As we know, ego-consciousness has trouble grasping this perspective and understanding the self’s essential relationship to the divine. I think the reader who opens to Gerod’s words will resonate with his message and the deeper truths within.

You can order it through the Amazon link below or through most booksellers. – Tom Z

In 1992, a couple of audio engineers, Jim Wilson and David Carson, slowed down a recording of crickets chirping. Since crickets have a much shorter life span than humans, they slowed down and drew out the chirping to the equivalence of the human life span and discovered what sounded very much like a choir. I’m glad I was reminded of this recording. I had not thought of it as being online, but of course it is, and so I would like to tell you about it.

This recording is an extended digitally remixed and mastered version taken from the original 1992 recording entitled “Ballad of the Twisted Hair” from the album “Medicine Songs” by David Carson and Little Wolf Band produced by Jim Wilson and released on Raven Records. There are many versions of this on the internet. I think the one below is a good presentation. You may find yourself coming back to it more than once.

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Dear Dr. Zinser,

I was so impressed with your book, well done.  You mention the role that prayer played in your work, but you decided not to include it in your book.  I wonder if you would be so kind and outline this aspect for me, as I’m particularly interested in the changes patients experience via prayer and the role it plays in such therapy.

I took some time to think about it, and this was my response:

 As far as your question about prayer, I’ve been trying to find the words. From my point of view, it begins with the Light, (God, Creator, Divine, All That Is). As souls of Light, we are already a part of that Light, and at this soul level, we know we are one with the creator. As souls, discarnate or incarnate, the Light is our essence. Here on the physical plane, as I see it, prayer is when someone intentionally attunes him- or herself to this essence, and so to the Creator. It may be to ask for assistance, it may be in gratitude, it may be for comfort, or it may be to intentionally send Light/Love energy to another person, condition, or situation. I also believe prayer can be done by groups (whether members are physically present with each other or not) where each individual taps into this light and joins it with the others for purposes and intents shared by the group.

As a creative and self-organizing principle, the Light brings balance and harmony, healing and clarity, and knowledge and wisdom. In one sense, living in accord with the Light is living in prayer. In the context of healing, my client and myself, our higher selves, our spirit guides, the client’s family and friends (when asked) are all part of the healing process and can help the person bring Light/Love energy into areas of pain and darkness.

I know this is a short answer, but I hope it speaks to your question.

Tom Z

 Photo: Courtesy of Don Christner 

When Isabeau Esby’s grandmother passed away, she was riddled with grief. Until, just an hour later, she said her grandmother paid her a visit.

Standing in the middle of her living room, Esby recalled being terrified by seeing her grandmother’s spirit.

“Out of pure desperation of wanting to talk to her again, I thought, ‘Well I’ll see if this is grief playing itself out or if this is a possibility,’” Esby recalled.

With the ability to channel her grandmother, Esby said she was happy to share a special connection with her even after death.

“Just when I thought I’ve got this inside thing when I can talk to my grandma whenever I want, more spirits started to show up. It was something I had to adjust to,” she said.

Her grandmother’s death occurred just over six years ago, and since then, Esby has fine-tuned her medium abilities.

“For a long time I thought I should do readings because I thought people who had this did that. I would be booked out months in advance and I got burned out. In the meantime, about two years after it started, I found myself in a position of helping spirits who have not fully completed their transition. That’s the majority of what I do. It’s very behind the scenes. A lot of people don’t see what I do, but that’s what I love to do with it,” Esby said.

Andy Kitt, of Kitt Research Initiative, studies paranormal psychology and claims Esby is the real deal.

“We are doing our best to find out who is legitimate and have them come in and do stuff and find out who isn’t and don’t bring them,” he said of the Initiative. “I can tell she’s genuine because when she’s channeling, she’s looking behind you instead of directly at you. With some mediums you can tell they’re frauds because they’re looking right at you and whether they think they’re genuine or a fraud, they’re coming up with things off the top of their head. With Beau, it’s like she’s talking to someone over my shoulder. And that’s pretty much what she’s doing.”

When Kitt was in need of a new vehicle, he said he enlisted the help of Esby as a friend. Fortunately for him, he said Esby’s ability came into play and led him directly to a vehicle within his modest price range.

“There’s no way she could have found that car unless she spent hours researching and looking for a car for me,” Kitt said.

In addition to helping spirits cross over, Esby said she works with house clearings and detachments, often known as exorcisms.

“A house might be what pop culture calls ‘haunted,’ I go in and help those spirits move along. People might have an attachment, a spirit that hangs around and wrecks havoc in their lives,” Esby explained.

And while many are tempted to call Esby’s ability a “gift,” she cautions against using that term.

“I stick with ability and I avoid the word ‘gift’ because I think ‘gift’ sets me apart from everyone who has it. I mean, everyone has it. It’s about how much I fine-tune the ability. I don’t see it as a gift bestowed onto me,” Esby explained.

Although she continues to utilize her ability, Esby sometimes becomes frightened.

“If it’s more than what I’m used to, it can get scary,” she said. “My thing is that I’m kind of stubborn, I won’t leave unless I helped or do what I came to do.”

She said one of her most difficult cases was a house clearing in Gilmanton, N.H., with an uncrossed serial killer.

“I didn’t know that it was a serial killer, I knew he was male and he showed me a lot of stuff about how he liked to drain blood from people and how he was in the medical field,” Esby said.

But after the homeowner did her research, she phoned Esby and informed her that the information she provided during the clearing matched a profile of a serial killer who had lived in the area.

“That spirit was so strong he had affected the male in the house and he bragged about it. The spirit said, ‘I sent him to the hospital,’ so I turned to the man and I said, ‘What is he talking about?’” Esby said. “He was really shaken up because a month earlier he had woken up and thought he was paralyzed and thought he had a stroke. Within an hour of being in the hospital, they said nothing is wrong and he walked out.”

Although she helped the spirit cross, Esby recalled being shaken by the experience.

“I’m putting myself in a vulnerable position against something that’s hurting living people,” she said. “It turned out to be the 115th anniversary of his death, piecing together in kind of a spooky way, but I guess it was a good anniversary.”

So what is it that Esby actually sees?

“I see, in general, if you look at heat coming off the road, that’s how I see it. When it forms stronger I start to see features and stuff like that. Almost all communication is telepathic. A ghost doesn’t have hands and brown curly hair. You see what they project,” she explained.

Similarly, Esby said she’ll see images and need to translate them before it makes sense.

“Over the years you build up a dictionary. Like, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” probably means a woman has been married twice and working on her third,” Esby said. “There’s a lot of symbolism, when I see a spirit I can typically get height, basic features. I can hear words as they say them, too.”

And while many mediums work for the living and grieving, Esby does things a little differently.

“My rule of thumb is that I work for the dead, I don’t work for the living,” she said. “If somebody who’s deceased came up to me and said, ‘I want you to say this,’ I often do if something’s coming through that’s important. If people want one for performance-type reasons, I usually say no.”

As for skeptics, Esby said she was agnostic and had no relationship with spirituality prior to seeing her grandmother’s spirit.

“I was one so I completely respect their position. I won’t try to budge them, I won’t try to change their position,” she said. “A skeptic is someone who has simply not had an experience enough to change their point of view.”

Although Esby said having intuition and medium is not genetic, her sons have their own abilities.

“I have two boys, one is very medium and one is very psychic. The psychic is a very hard kid to raise, it’s hard to get him a Christmas present,” Esby said.

But neither will probably follow their mom.

“They’re not really interested in it, I don’t think it’s a path they’ll go down but they’ve been in an environment so their personal intuition was able to open up,” Esby said.

Esby wants to take the “pop” out of pop culture and continue to help stuck spirits.

“My hope is that people will start to recognize their ancestors and that ghosts are people, too. I don’t want them to be scared. I’d like to bring awareness to the public,” she said. “My future with this, I want to do more clearances and help as many people be not stuck as possible because if a grandfather passes away and gets stuck and doesn’t complete his transition, he’s not in a powerful position to help his grandchildren.”

For better or worse, through skepticism and acceptance, Esby said her life has been infinitely improved by her ability.

“I don’t think I ever truly understood bliss until I lived like this,” she said. “When you’re involved with spirituality so strongly and you walk a strong spiritual path, things that are amazing are 10 times more amazing and you open yourself up to things that you never would have.”

Source.

For information about Isabeau Esby, visit www.isabeauesby.com.

Go & Do

At 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, join A. J. Kitt, founder of the Seacoast Paranormal Research Group and the Kitt Research Initiative, and Isabeau Esby, internationally known psychic medium, as they present “Ghosts, Souls, Spirits, and Guides” at the York Public Library. They will discuss the history, the research, and the realities of paranormal phenomena, and what possibilities may lurk in any home, business, or graveyard.

Alan Sanderson

Dr. Alan Sanderson is a London psychiatrist and president of the Spirit Release Foundation. After receiving an announcement on the release of Soul-Centered Healing, Dr. Sanderson contacted me, said he was excited about the book, and wanted to review it for their organization. I was familiar with Dr. Sanderson’s work in the fields of hypnotherapy and spirit releasement, so I looked forward to his review of the book as well as his assessment of the work. I knew that his experience and clinical  perspective would give an added depth.

Coming from someone who knows the territory, it has been gratifying to read Alan’s review. It says to me that the book in some essential way hits close to its mark. Here is the start of the review followed by a link to the entire review.

Tom Z

The Spiritual Mechanics of Mind

SOUL-CENTERED HEALING by Tom Zinser

reviewed by Alan Sanderson

http://soulcenteredhealing.net/Site%20Pages/The%20Book.html

Soul-Centered Healing is an extremely important book. It shows the way, as never before, to a working understanding of the spiritual mechanics of mind. It does this clearly and directly, and it tells in detail, how advice from a channelled spirit guide, repeatedly tested in the consulting room, was used to resolve complex psychological problems. With this publication, Thomas Zinser takes a giant stride, towards the new paradigm for which so many are longing. I believe Soul-Centered Healing is worthy to rank with De Motu Cordis and The Principia as a beacon in the history of profound (and useful!) ideas.

Thomas Zinser had no thoughts of soul when, in 1983, he resigned from his post as staff psychologist at a private mental hospital to set up in psychotherapeutic practice. In this enthralling, beautifully written book, Zinser describes his Odessey. It begins with his early experiences working with multiple personality disorder and concludes, 25 years later, with the final homecoming, as a confident, many-faceted therapist, with a conviction in the primacy of spirit in the human physical experience. To his homecoming Zinser brings a carefully-woven tapestry, with a picture of coherence and power, such as no psychologist has previously provided. It is a soul tapestry and it carries great implications, not only for psychotherapy and the understanding of personality, but for the spiritual dynamics of the cosmos.

How did it happen? I almost put, “By Divine intervention.” Surely it was not by chance. There could have been no book without Gerod, the genie of the story.

Read the entire review here.

This defense is most obvious in people like the Amazing Randi. (James Randi is the world-renowned debunker of paranormal phenomena.) These are not skeptics. These are people who have already decided before you ever talk to them that paranormal realities don’t exist. When I see Amazing Randi on TV, I have to ask myself: what would happen to his world were he to have a direct and undeniable experience of the paranormal?

I believe it would shatter his world and put him in shock—psychological shock. After some time to reflect, I think we would hear that he has either rationalized it away or denied to himself that it ever happened, or he would tell us he has experienced a conversion. How one responds to this shock depends on the person, the circumstances, and the phenomena involved.

Amazing Randi is the extreme. It is total denial; a complete shut off of other dimensions of reality. I don’t know what percentage of people in our Western culture hold this extreme position. It could be substantial. In our day-to-day world, though, I suspect most people take the “maybe” position. They fudge on it. “Maybe there is something to it. Maybe there is an afterlife. Maybe ghosts are real.”

Within the strict materialist framework, however, there is no fudging allowed. At this level, those in the maybe position join Amazing Randi. When push comes to shove, they too are in the same all-or-none position as Randi. Either these other dimensions exist and we need to account for them, or they don’t and it’s all nonsense. Depending on your answer, it leads to two very different worlds.

I wouldn’t argue with someone like James Randi. It’s like talking to someone who shuts his eyes and crams his fingers in his ears. He has way too much at stake. Whether it’s his public persona, psychological identity, commercial interests, or ego needs, I don’t know. If he acknowledges the paranormal realities, though, there will be upheaval for him at all levels.

I believe the fear of this revolutionary upheaval underlies the denial of the paranormal in our culture, both at the individual and collective levels.

If you do find yourself in discussion with someone who categorically denies the paranormal realities, ask yourself whether the person can hypothetically take the position of ‘what if it were true.’ Can the person intellectually step outside their box? Can he genuinely assume the possibility that these other dimensions are real and then discuss the logical implications? If not, there won’t really be a discussion.

It’s important to know that just by talking about your experience or paranormal phenomena in general, you force the strict materialist (at least unconsciously) into a paradoxical position where the only way out, in the end, is a revolutionary shift in consciousness. In the meantime, denial is a stop-gap measure.

If you are challenged by the materialist to offer proof, remember, they are demanding that you prove it within their framework and basic assumptions. In that case, they cannot be a fair judge of your experience, its validity, and its possible implications for your life. They cannot be a fair judge of paranormal realities in general. This is also true at the collective level where social pressure and institutions enforce the denial and keep the subject of paranormal phenomena taboo.

The point I would make is this: for those who know or believe they possess certain psychic abilities, are in contact with other beings or dimensions, or are aware of subtle energies, etc., it is important to know that your experience is valid. Even though you may lack the framework to fully explain or understand your experience, it takes nothing away from its validity.

Photo: Courtesy of Rob