Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye, and
I'm Deb Bowen, and we're so happy to have you here with us for
our monthly Q and A. You guys have sent in some wonderful questions in
some great stories, so just join us around the virtual teople DAB would you
like to start us off? I sure would, Samantha. Before I do,
I would like to remind people that we get so many questions, and
we do our very best to answer the ones that have a most universal impact.
So we hope that that's helpful for everybody. So let me begin with
this lovely question. Greetings from a very far away place. I live in
Poland and just stumbled upon your podcast and got interested. You may call me
a skeptic with an open mind. So I was listening to an episode about
crystals and I was wandering as you said that there is a crystal for every
occasion. I have terrible anxiety. I am getting nervous when I have to
deal with day to day stuff like dealing with other people. Is there a
crystal for this? Since I like to tinker with stuff, I was thinking
I could make a rosary or a bracelet to move it between my fingers when
I have a stressful moment at work or just try to think about things.
Would it be a problem if I cut it or made it smaller? Oh?
Okay? Also, is there a crystal I could present to my close
friend as she is going through a very stressful period in her life. She
is the sweetest and most generous person. I know that she is in a
very dark place. Last question, Years ago, I heard this story that
there was a drought in a country and people came to a rabbi and were
asking him, we need a miracle, Please ask God for rain, and
he said it's not going to work. There is no faith in you.
Look, nobody brought an umbrella. Do you think crystals work despite lack of
faith? Well? What great questions? You know. Years ago, Samantha
and I there was a phrase going around and it was there's a something for
that, whatever it was, And so Samantha and I did a podcast episode
entitled There's a rock for that, and we meant it and we believe it
that indeed there is energy exchange among us and stones and how we connect with
the gifts at those stones spring. And then not long after that, we
did another podcast episode that said there's not a rock for that, and what
we meant by that second episode was that it is our connection and our trust
in the implicit intent of the stone that acts as a conductor between our energy
and the stones energy. So on one hand, yes, Samantha's going to
talk about stones that are very helpful with working with emotional issues such as anxiety.
Are people who are very sad in stones that might be helpful for that?
And I don't know where this person lives in Poland or what kind of
access or she may have two stones cut already. But you can get beads
in lots of different ways that you can make your own rosary front that they're
already shaped in circles for example, and spheres with a little hole through them,
so you can make them into beads all the time. And of course
Samantha sells a lot of bracelets that have different intents, so she might want
to talk about those as well. So, yes, working with some kind
of prayer bead is a lovely way to help with anxiety issues. So Samantha,
you want to talk about specific stones, Yeah, I think lapidolite is
probably one of the best stones for anxiety. It does have some lithium qualities
to it, so it helps calm energy and creates a sense of enter pies.
I think for anxiety and sadness that her friend is going through Botswana agg
it is a fantastic choice. It's called the antidepressant stone. Smoky quartz is
always so good because smoky quartz looks like a clear quartz kind of filled with
smoky gray. That's why it gets its name, and that smoky gray in
that stone helps absorb any inner angst and sadness going on. And then I
think any crystal for self love, like pray night or rose quartz would also
be a great choice. Now, I do think that crystals work despite lack
of faith. I only say that because when I first started working with crystals,
it was when that stone just appeared on my desk at work and I
thought, what this rock can protect me? I did not believe it at
all, and yet that stone did work for me. So while I love
the story of you know you need to bring an umbrella if you're going to
pray for rain and have faith, and I agree with that, I do
feel that crystals work with us, whether we believe in them or not.
I think crystals do their job no matter what we think. Yeah, I
do too. Yeah. Our next one says, today, I was listening
to your podcast on the Secrets of the Vatican on my way into work today.
Towards the end of the podcast, you spoke briefly about EVP recordings,
so I wanted to share my experience. During the pandemic. I was teaching
fully online. Everything was on video or audio. We have an educational app
that I used for students to submit recordings of their instrument playing for grades.
One day, I had an assignment turned in by a very sweet little girl.
She turned the camera on and prepared to play the assigned song. As
she was getting her body organized and her fingers set on the strings, there
was a voice that came through clear as day. It said, I'm with
her all the time. It made me laugh. I could only imagine some
spirit that was feeling protective of this child and most likely worn out from the
stress or of the pandemic. It almost sounded like this was a spirit that
lived in the house and it was used to some quiet time at home alone,
and now there was none. In any case, It made me smile
to know if someone was looking out for our children stuck at home. The
voice did not feel mean or scary to me, so I'm thinking it was
okay, wow, all right. I hope it was okay, because if
a voice effort came through this microphone dump that said I'm with her all the
time, I would be getting out the stage, the holy water, all
of it. Isn't that interesting? That's where you went, you know where
I went. I was trying to think of famous violinists who had passed on
who might be there to help her all the time. If I was trying
to play a violin, I'd need somebody with me all the time. Okay.
Think about it. As a writer, I am forever calling on my
muse. I know you are too. I would like that mused to be
with me all the time because I'm writing a lot when I'm not writing,
right, True, what's the difference between an old soul and a new soul?
Our souls born? Where do they come from? Is one sober body
or one soul through lifetimes? Yikes? This is way too big a question
for this episode, and we've done episodes on old souls and new souls in
the past, by the way, but let me just give a very brief
overview of this. One theory is that there's an energy source from which we
individuate. We make a choice to come into an earth plane to learn human
emotion lessons over the course of many lifetimes, and so when a soul chooses
to individuate away from that energy source, it changes. So it may be
that, for example, Samantha may be and I'm sure she is a really
old soul, so many many many many, many, many many many lifetimes
ago, in what we on earth plane would call eons ago, Samantha chose
to individuate and come to Earth to learn life lessons what it feels like to
be in human embodiment. Newer souls are folks who do that more recently.
Right, the process of the lessons learning is different because if you're an old
soul, you've been working at learning these lessons a long time. If you're
a new soul, you're newer at all of this, and the lessons are
younger and different. And the answer to where do they come from is from
this notion that we are really all one thing, that there's just really this
energy source in the universe and beyond one soul per body I think so,
and that one soul goes through many, many, many lifetimes, not only
here on the Earth plane, but in that time and space between incarnations.
So one soul traveling through time and space for eons. That's a very short
answer to a much more complex question. Well, I think you did a
great job with that. I don't know that I'm an old soul. I
think if we were going to look at souls in the form of like an
average lifespan, maybe I'm thirty. So I don't know that I'm an old
soul. But thank you for saying that. Yeah. I think that God
Creator, the divine all that is, is a creator, and so I
do think that that divine source is always creating. And one thing that this
light, this divine Source, he she all creates is new souls. And
so I do think that there are old souls and new souls. I do
believe that souls are eternal. I think where it becomes challenging is the soul
has to incarnate into a body that has genetic DNA, that has ancestry DNA,
that has personality from all of that cellular memory. And I think that's
where some challenges and confusion can arise, and I find it really fascinated to
think about that. Okay, Our next one says, I have a question
about losing synchronicities and insight. I've always felt like an EmPATH and an intuitive.
Before COVID, it seemed to be getting stronger. I had dreams that
came through crazy synchroticity. I saw someone I knew that it passed. I
felt like I was headed in a direction and was excited. But now it
seems to be gone. I feel sort of lost. Is it possible that
I just had a connection temporarily that it's now gone. I miss feeling connected,
and I don't know what happened. You know, deb This is something
I've heard from a lot of listeners that something about that whole COVID lockdown kind
of just shifted things for people, and it put us in this weird state
of fear and anxiety and worry and this world is falling apart type mentality.
And I think it did temporarily break a connection for many many people. What
I have learned though through my own experiences that connection is never really lost.
You might be going through a stressful time, you might be going through some
changes, There might be some inner energetic shifts that you're dealing with, but
that connection is always there. And once your energy she calms down and kind
of aligns and assimilates to this new normal that they keep calling it, and
you get back into meditation and deep breathing and connecting within through periods of silence
and solitude, all of that will start back up for you. You know,
Samantha, I agree with you wholeheartedly. And I have found in my
life, COVID or not, that when there have been times in my life
where I have gotten very busy with the mundane world, with just life going
on, and have walked away from kind of ignored that spiritual aspect of myself,
that part of me that connects with at a soul level with my guides
and so forth. That that happens, and when I kind of it feels
almost like coming too out of a sleep, and I go, oh,
my lord, I haven't sat down and talked to my guide a write good
while. And so I do that. I go into a deep meditation,
I go back into a meditation practice I may have neglected, and everything's okay,
it's okay, it's been there. It is me who has walked away,
not my connection. If that makes sense. Yeah, it really does,
and it's a great reminder. Yeah. Okay. The next one says,
I've listened to many of your past episodes, but don't recall this question
being discussed. What are your thoughts about the properties of natural, unheated or
untreated crystals versus those whose colors have been enhanced are changed with heat or radiation.
I recently had a dream where I was instructed to get some topaz.
No context or story. I recall, just a voice telling me to get
that stone. Since I'm working on issues of creative self expression in my life,
I initially thought to find a blue topaz pendant. However, I've since
read that natural blue topaz is rare and that the popular London or Swiss blue
topaz are created by treating white topaz. I know this applies to other crystals
as well, like citrine. Just treating a crystal alter its metaphysical properties and
uses Samantha, why don't you start with that one? Well, I think
this is in many ways a personal opinion. Yes, if you heat treat
a crystal, it does affect its properties, and you, I think you
always have to think about what is this stone? Originally and so originally this
blue tobas is a white topaz, so you need to look at the qualities
of white topaz expressing itself through the qualities of the color blue. So I'm
not a huge fan of heat treated crystals, but I know there are many
people out there who will strongly disagree with me, and they will say that,
oh no, no, when you add this element or that to this
stone, it makes it even more powerful, and that's great and wonderful.
I just love crystals for how they grow naturally, how they come to us
on their own, without adding anything or creating them in a lab. I
do think that it affects them and changes them a bit, not for the
worse, not for the better. Just it's a change, right. Think
about you. If you have brown hair and you bleach it blonde, that's
a change, right. So it's very similar with crystals. And I think
if you love to look at the natural growth patterns of a crystal and know
that it belongs to the earth and connected to nature, I think the untreated
ones are really great. I don't think I own a treated crystal. I'll
just leave it at that. Okay. Our next one says Samantha, I
just finished your book, The Awake Dreamer and wanted to share my thoughts.
On page one seventeen, you talk about the relationship with your mom. Mine
is with my narcissistic dad. I chose to have this abusive, angry man
for my father. I understand that I chose them in this life of mine,
but why. I've always questioned why my sister and I chose to not
verbally, mentally and physically abuse our own children. We both feel like we
somehow broke the mold. On page eighteen, you indicate that the Angel three
Ladies told you you are breaking a generational chain. I love this. That's
what my sister and I have done. Not sure I totally understand the repercussions
here. I have to say that I cried throughout that whole chapter two years,
blurring the words on each page, feeling so very deeply the pain and
suffering I have been through because of my childhood upbringing. I've been feeling signs
of healing from within. I feel I'm on the cusp of a major breakthrough,
of some kind of coming out of the darkness. Amazing insight and work
you've accomplished here in these pages, I'm learning and leaps and bounds and healing
in many ways. Well, thank you so very much for sharing that and
for reading the book. I'm so glad that you answered your question. I
feel in your question because you said, you know, why, why would
I have chosen this mean, narcissistic, abusive man as my father? And
then you say that you and your sister, who were raised by this man,
do not continue that cycle. You do not verbally, mentally, or
physically abuse your own children, which means, yes, you are here to
break a general chain, and I think that is really important healing work.
We are all here for many, many many purposes and many many many different
lessons. But I think breaking a generational chain that has caused feelings of shame
and guilt and sadness throughout so many family cycles, what could be more important
than that? And so the fact that you and your sister have banded together
and chosen to break this chain and love your children unconditionally a man that you're
doing the hard, wonderful soul work, and hats off to you, lovely.
It's just amazing the number of people your book has touched, Samantha.
It's a wonderful thing. Oh, thank you. Okay, let me tell
to the next one. I want to share a store with you. That
happened to my mom. My grandmother passed away last year. While she was
in bed, my mom took care of her every day. One frozen afternoon,
my mom left my grandma's side for groceries, and when she returned,
there was a huge hawk sitting on the porch in front of the door.
As my mom got closer, it didn't move. It just sat there,
staring straight in the eyes. She sat down the groceries and skated over the
iced porch. The hawk was still, as if it were frozen too.
She knelt down, wow and looked him back in the eye. She claims
it was almost like he gave her a little nod and a screech before flying
off. My mom knew what it meant, so she quickly opened the door,
went to my grandma's side, and held her hand for her last breaths.
Our family is part of the Cherokee tribe, and hawk is a sacred
animal, a protector. When my mom saw the hawk, she knew he
had come to help guide my grandma's spirit. When we had her celebration of
life a few months later, a huge hawk circled overhead as if Grandma was
dancing along with us. Wow. Wow, this is a lovely story.
And you know, and I think this brings to my many things. One,
what a blessing, what a marvelous gift, and how various animal people
mean, various things and various cultures. And so she points out here that
she's talking from her Cherokee heritage and that hawk came to be a guardian to
help her grandmother crossover, and I just I love that, and I love
that the hawk came back and flew over during the celebration. That's just absolutely
wonderful. I have to tell you, because if if you listened to this
podcast for any length of time, you know that I have such a deep
connection to hawks too. And I know I would not be brave enough to
get that close to a hawk on my porch and kneel down in front of
it. That would be absolutely terrifying to me. So so, but then
reading that took my breath away. It's like, oh, my golly,
but what a lovely story. And thank you for sharing that and reminding us
that when we pay attention to the natural world around us, the natural world
pays attention to us. Well, let's take a quick break to mention our
sponsors, and then we'll get back to some more fascinating stories about signs and
asking for signs from our people on the other side. Okay, welcome back.
Our next one says I was intrigued and inspired by all the stories of
asking and receiving specific signs from our guides. I asked for and this might
sound weird. I'm not sure why I chose these, but I asked for
a green chicken for if I'm on the right path, and a red chicken
if I need to rethink what I'm doing right now. I gave it three
days. That morning, I saw someone with a Chick fil a bag which
has a red outline of a chicken. This made me wonder if this was
it. I questioned it and asked for another red chicken, just in case
I was okay with either colored chicken. Nothing came, So by day four
I was in my car talking to my guide, saying, maybe I was
too vague, maybe I should accept the first sign, Maybe my guides didn't
hear me, maybe they aren't real, and so on. Anyway, I
finally decided I was just overthinking everything, as is very much my thing,
and turned on the radio. The song was Undercover Angel. I found that
interesting. What do you make of this? I've been told I'm the queen
of overthinking. Yeah, I think you might be. I think many of
us have that issue where we just get way too much. I don't know
that I've ever seen a green chicken, so I don't know. Deb you're
more of the nature lady. You might know about that, But seeing the
red chicken of the chick fil a bag, to me, that would be
them giving their sign and maybe hearing the Undercover Angel song was their way of
saying that your guides work pretty subtly. I think so too. You know,
I think you're right. We do overthink. Indeed we do, and
we forget that the universal energy has a sense of humor, and we forget
that our literal minds think I need to see a red chicken, when an
actuality you can see a symbol in red and there it is. So don't
overthink and trust. That would be my biggest takeaway from this is trust the
signs you get. Well. I think this next one illustrates that really well.
Okay, I've asked my direct guide for their name, to see them,
and for a sign, and I haven't gotten much of anything back from
them. I've been working with a metaphysical counselor on and off for three years,
balancing my chakras and discussing things metaphysical. Once I was asked to say
the first name that came to my mind, which could be my guide's name,
and persephone came through. I've been told goddesses that God's typically aren't guides.
I also wrote a letter to my guide asking to see them. I
had a dream that a man wearing a trench coat and a comically large disguise
mustache was communicating with me on behalf of my guide. And finally, listening
to your listeners stories of how frequently their requests for a sign has been given
to them, I decided to ask for a sign. I ask, is
it okay to ask for a sign just because you need a sign? If
so, show me a pink car within the next three days. Here I
am writing you on day four. No pink car follow up. I just
needed to follow up on my first email. I saw the pink car not
two hours after I hit Sinned. After I had emailed, I pulled a
t row card, and it was the judgment reversed in my research and meditation.
I believe the universe is asking something of me, and I'm either choosing
not to hear or I'm not paying close enough attention to me. I feel
I get signs every day. I know I am connected to source and all
the universal energies. I think my guide was telling me, we don't need
to do this dog and Pony show. We don't need to get slowed down
with insignificant details. When you need that sign or connection, it's already there.
The reason I had asked for a sign is about two weeks before this,
I had asked the universe for a sign if I was wrong. I
connected a dream to a childhood trauma and felt the need to trust my intuition
because I have been wrong so many times in the past. I had told
the universe, I'm going to believe this is truth, but if I'm wrong,
please send me a specific sign. I still haven't seen that sign,
so when I wasn't seeing the pink car, I thought, well, maybe
I was wrong about the first sign, since I'm not getting a follow up
sign, and I feel much better having seen the pink car. We've all
done that, haven't we. I mean, we have all doubted, We
have all asked our guide for a sign and not really seen it or thought
maybe that was it, maybe that wasn't it. I think we can all
relate to this listener's story absolutely. When I was a little girl, I
asked I got stood at the foot of my bed, as clear as as
if he were a real person, and I would ask him his name,
and he would laugh at me, and at some point he finally said,
I don't care what you call me, call me what works for you.
You didn't say it exactly like that, but that was the gist of it,
because really don't have names. It's us that need the name. They
don't have names on the other side. So I named him and I said,
is that okay? And he laughed and said yeah fine. And so
for more than sixty years, the name I called him as a child is
still the name I call him, and that works just fine for both of
us. Signs. I've come to realize in my practice this may not be
true for anybody else, But in my practice I'm very specific and very clear
and very consistent in when I choose to ask for a sign. I don't
deviate from that, and that has been very helpful to me to just randomly
throw up I need a sign for X, Y and Z about this set
and the other. It's not something I do on a daily basis. Most
often, what I have found that works for me is, rather than asking
for a lot of signs, is to just sit in meditation and be quiet,
and the answers and the information I need comes to me. And at
some point later in our spring programming, we're going to do an episode where
we investigate the question that probably many of you are asking right now, which
is how do I know it's my intuition or how do I know it's my
imagination? And we're going to talk a lot about that, because that's a
lot of what really is being asked here. I think, what do you
think about Persephone? Do you think those beings can be guides? No?
I do not. But the other thing is, remember the name Persephone.
It's just it's a name. I mean, there are people today in the
world whose names are Persephone. You know, that's just a first name.
Persephone, the goddess from the Greek myth, is not a guide. She's
busy doing some other stuff. Okay, I agree, all right. Our
next one says when I was pregnant with my firstborn, I was at a
computer store, just browsing around when I looked at an image of a holographic
type of the city with random stores and buildings and things that were part of
this picture. Well, I remember it like it was yesterday. As I
was giving the different pictures and words, it was like the phrase in big
bold letters literally jumped at me, completely startled me as I was taken back.
I went to reread the phrase and it was just a normal font,
no bigger than any of the other words or phrases. It read it's a
girl, and I knew in that moment, without a doubt, that I
was having a baby girl. This has happened to me one other time since
then, which was about six years ago, that I was reading something and
the letters almost jumped at me as they looked bigger and bolder, with the
same startling feeling. But when I reread what I'd just seen, the font
was just regular font. But again what I read was the correct answer.
Can I train this? Perhaps? And have you heard of anyone else doing
this? I like to think that maybe it's my little psychic ability, and
if I can strengthen that, I'd love to learn how to do so.
Well. That's a really interesting way to get intuitive messages. I'm not familiar
with that, but it is indicative of natural clairvoyance, which is connected to
the third eye chakra. So I would recommend that you study clairvoyance and work
on really honing, cleansing, balancing, and strengthening your third eye chakra,
your brow chakra, and work on your visualization. One of my favorite ways
to do that is to simply stare at a candle flame and then close your
eyes and visualize the candle flame in your mind's eye. You can also do
visualization exercises like you can imagine a yellow circle and put a red triangle inside
the yellow circle, and then a blue square inside the red inside the yellow
and try to hold that. Any concentration exercises you can do, like counting
backwards from one hundred by threes, all of those are going to do so
much to strengthen this wonderful ability of yours. Lovely good good suggestions. Our
next one says, as I have recently started my conscious journey with mediumship,
I wanted to have a sign that I am on the right path and taking
with steps and really actually doing this. Shortly after, I began seeing numbers
eleven eleven at one eleven or receiving eleven eleven in change in other moments of
my life. I have frequently seen these numbers before and took it as something
nice, so I didn't realize it was a sign from my question to my
guides. I continued to ask for a sign until one night someone came to
me in my dreams and said, we are showing you numbers. I instantly
woke up. It was eleven eleven. I smiled and finally realized how silly
I was not to have noticed before. I have really been wanting another baby
and praying for twins, as this will most likely be my last time to
get pregnant. I've been asking for a sign to know I'm ready, really
ready for possible twins. I need fertility treatment, so twins as a possibility.
The other day I was listening to you and you were talking about double
rainbows. I thought, wow, I haven't seen a double rainbow in ages.
Again. That night, I prayed and asked for a sign. The
next day, my family and I were returning from a beautiful day in the
countryside, not a drop of rain. Suddenly my husband says, look a
double rainbow. I thought, could this really be for me? We are
all seeing this double rainbow. So that night I asked my guides, could
you send me a sign a little more personalized. Then next day I went
to buy a book from my niece where they speak Spanish in the country she's
living in. As I went to check out, the cashier took out a
little keychain from behind the desk and said, I don't know why, but
I feel you need this. When I read it, I almost cried with
joy. The keychain, which was in English, said double rainbow power.
I couldn't doubt the sign any longer. Thank you for teaching me to keep
asking for signs. They really do come, even when you are hard headed
like me. They really do. Because what's happening is, like we said
earlier, your guides are saying, Okay, one more here you go.
Yeah, I got it this time. That's the way my God would talk
to me. These lovely people probably have guides who don't talk to them that
way, but that's the way my guide talks to me. It's like,
Okay, one more time, Dan, So I'm so glad you're getting the
signs you need. That's wonderful, it really is, and it just you
know, I really do empathize with all of these listeners because I was exactly
the same way when I was trying to connect with my guides and feeling really
silly and overthinking it and doubting it and wondering if it was my imagination.
And I did all of this, I would get a sign, and then
I would ask again and again. But you know it does that. You
often read test the sign three times. So I don't think we should be
so harsh on ourselves. But I love that they're connecting with her in so
many ways. First she's seeing the repeating numbers. Then they give her a
dream that says, hey, you know, we're trying to show you numbers,
so she starts paying attention to that. Then she gets the double rainbow
signed twice when she's asking for twins. Okay, so now, dear listener,
you have to you have to get setting us an update, you know,
let us know when the twins come. That's so exciting. Well,
thank you guys so much for listening. We hope you've enjoyed these listener questions
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