Author: Barbara Raphael

Some days ago, someone said to me: Make hope happen. And I wondered – how do you make hope happen? Things you can make happen are usually not the things you hope for. Hope is connected to things that you cannot achieve, that are beyond your control. My husband says: “Hope is a beautiful state…

Sometimes life seems nothing more than an overwhelming succession of loss and/or excessive demands. In such situations, the messages I receive through mediumship are always about finding an inner state of love. “You cannot change what is happening in the world. Being full of negative emotions does not help you or anyone else. What you…

Part of a course I took in August was a Vision Quest. This is an ancient rite of passage that connects the seeker to the visible and the invisible world and provides a path to enter the spiritual realm. The vision may contain nature and animal symbolism and the seeker may meet their power animal….

Mediumship is mostly about trust. In the beginning there were many doubts. Can I do that at all? For a long time before every reading, I was afraid: will there be someone on the spirit side of life who would like to communicate through me? What if no spirit person “shows up” (so far someone…

… since my husband passed. His passing has intensified my experience of the spiritual dimension of life. Among the things I learned: You don’t get over it – you learn to live with it. We find a new, different connection to the deceased person that we loved and continue to love. With whom we were…

Pearls of wisdoms are one-liners of philosophy. Some time ago a tutor gave me a personal pearl of wisdom: Life is like the sea – it ebbs and flows. We usually label change as life’s ups and downs, depending on whether we want the change or not. When I sense an impending change, I often…

In his messages, my husband often refers to a boat.  Since ships once played an important role in his life, I thought it represented this. A few days ago, I received two messages from him on the same day, in which he again mentioned a boat. Finally, I looked up the spiritual meaning of boats…

Listening to a song again after a long time is a wonderful opportunity to experience it in new ways. This is how I felt recently with this song by Cyndi Lauper: True Colors “… I see your true colors shining through. I see your true colors and that’s why I love you. So don’t be…

Imagination is the human ability to visualize something. Our thoughts create inner images that we can perceive with all our senses. These inner images determine how we experience our lives. They influence our feelings and these in turn influence our inner images. Images are equally effective whether they are images of joy or images of…

My blog posts are always influenced by current events in my life. Sometimes I deliver a message during a spirit contact and know that I am to write about it, or I get a message myself, sometimes I am inspired to write and later realise that this should be the topic for the next blog…