How to Run a Spiritual Development Circle?

Many circles work on teaching that in order to becometogether in a psychic school circle to create
an accurate and proficient medium you need to learnacceptance, then there is no need for competition as
to get a link with spirit, and then get three accurateyou either accept what you get or you do not. It has
pieces of evidence to prove that the link we have isno bearing on the other members of the circle.
true.However, when you do get a good link and you can
I believe that asking a beginner to get accurateoffer honest, positive and accurate evidence to
evidence in or out of a meditation exercise is onlyanother member of the circle, it enhances
promoting fear and doubt in their ability to do so. If theyeveryone’s learning and teaches that accepting
get the evidence wrong then they are learning towhat they get and offering it honestly is a positive
judge themselves harshly.process of their development.
In all our human physical abilities, such as sport, if weMany circle leaders are very rigid in their teaching
start off getting it wrong , we do not expect to bemethods, with many unnecessary rules and regulations,
accurate first time as we know we need to practice.because they themselves have been taught that way.
The more we practice the better we will become. ThisThey expect other people to develop in that same
is the same for spiritually developing our spiritual gifts. Ifway, thus inadvertently stopping others from finding
we begin by disregarding accuracy, but work ontheir own path and hindering their progress.
getting used to linking and disconnecting and linkingIn a circle we are there to learn about our own
again with spirit, accepting anything we get, we buildpersonal spiritual development. It is a very personal and
our confidence and thus open the door to far betterprivate self discovery process that we share in a
accuracy, confirmation and evidence in the future.circle, so we may also learn from other people's
Focusing on accuracy makes for a very long anddevelopment. However we need to be sure we are all
arduous process of psychic growth and constantlydeveloping in our own way. We need to strongly abide
belittles people in the process.by the most important law of spiritual development.
If we stop worrying about accuracy and instead“What feels right is right, what feels wrong is
promote acceptance, we learn that if we trust whatwrong”. In saying this, many people may disagree
we hear, see or feel when we are open to spirit, wewith what I have written, but I hope they disagree
can accept these things for ourselves and thusbecause it feels wrong, not because it was not the
promote our self confidence in our own development.way they were taught.
This promotes a fast and efficient method ofAfter all that I have said I know that every single
development creating confident and proud mediums.person has their own opinion on their own psychic
Insisting on "evidence" also creates competitiongrowth. I hope that this information promotes thinking
between the fledgling mediums, about who can get itand change in the way our wonderful and dedicated
right and who cannot. This in itself is also creating egomediums teach and run their circles. Knowing that
problems. Ego, when out of control, is very much thewhat they are doing is for the highest of good beyond
opposite of spirituality.their own needs but is providing the universe with the
If we do not focus on evidence but rather workability to connect to us on the earth plain.