Inula Austin Soul Growth

01/09/2025

OK. Here's a post with more than a little controversy.

Before you think I'm going to dismiss all forms of spiritual protection, I'd ask you to read on.

Please remember that excellency in Mediumship and Psychism is never going to be built on the of sands of superstition but on the bedrock of common sense, experience and Truth, so let's dive in.

We touched a little on 'protection' in a previous post ('Can Spirit Follow Us Home?') And it's such an interesting topic filled with so many different ideas that I wanted to take a closer look at it.

🌟The Number 1 Question that people want to know is...
HOW CAN I PROTECT MYSELF FROM EVIL SPIRITS?

In over a decade of working with the so-called 'dead' (who are by and large, far more alive than many people on the earth) and a lifetime before that of seeing and hearing those resident in the Next World I have NEVER encountered anyone or anything evil.

Did I just get lucky? Is it simply because I'm so well protected? No.

A lot is made about 'evil' in our culture. Anything hidden, dark or shadowy has always been a cause for hysteria. This comes from our past as hunter gatherers in prehistoric times when being aware of what might lurk in the dark could literally save your life. We are hardwired (neurologically) to predict, sense and respond to danger in our environment.

When it comes to the Supernormal (nothing is 'supernatural' as everything operates within Natural Law) people are obsessed by the thought of dark, shadowy figures hiding, ready to leap out and harm them. Think of the legends of Vampires, Werewolves and other beastly creatures (often associated with dark forests and of course, the night).While there is always a kernel of truth that lies at the centre of such stories, like many things that play on our deepest fears (often a deep seated fear of our own mortality) they have become large and looming and have spilled over into so many other off-shoots and practices.

🌟WHAT IS EVIL?
Are people born evil? If you had looked at Adolf Hi**er in his crib as a tiny baby, without knowing who he would become and the atrocities he would commit, would he have seemed evil to you? I doubt it. Human beings carve out pathways for themselves through the choices they make and then society labels them 'good' or 'bad.'

Spirit people are just people who no longer have a physical form (they have bodies, just not ones made of physical matter.) If they were reasonably good people on the earth then they will still be exactly the same in the Next World. Those who have led truly despicable earthly lives have to work out their crimes and abuses by beginning their new lives in realms that are a vibrational match to themselves, very gradually they will recognise the lives that they lived and the harm they have caused as they are assisted by other beings in climbing out of their self-made mire.

Still, no 'evil'.

There is a huge market for the horror genre in stories, movies, games and TV shows in the modern era. Demons and zombies have become particularly popular. For example the TV show 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' was centred around a High School that was built over a so-called 'hell mouth', a gateway through which all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures would creep. 'The Walking Dead' is another long running TV show featuring a post apocalyptic world filled with the 'undead'.

When you become too seriously invested in such media and myth, you may begin to fall for these themes. There's something mysterious, glamorous and slightly dangerous about ideas of demons, monsters etc. Although this is certainly not a modern phenomenon (such stories have abounded for centuries) it has a much more fixed presence nowadays, for all of the obvious reasons.
With a resurgence in practices such as neo-paganism, modern-witchcraft and religions such as Catholicism, the subjects of 'demonology', spell casting and protecting oneself from anything 'evil' has an ever increasing popularity.
But based on what factual, here and now, lived experience? Just because a tradition is 'old' does not necessarily make it correct. (Capital punishment anyone?)

We live in a universe of Cause and Effect, we operate within the energy of 'That which is like unto itself is drawn.'

Not a myth or a sentiment, a fact.

When thinking about the need to protect oneself from dark spirits, the issue may lie in how much attention one pays to the subject. If you are constantly thinking about whether you've sprinkled salt on this or said an incantation over that, you're likely to draw to yourself more situations that you feel you need protection from.
It may be a case of simple confirmation bias.

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Energetic and personal boundaries are a form of 'protection' that I feel I must mention here.

Forget the dead, undead, demons etc, no protection necessary.
The living however, are a different matter.

Making sure that your personal energy is not sapped by 'energetic vampires' and toxic friendships/relationships IS important. You can do this by severing ties to such individuals and by setting and reinforcing healthy boundaries.
Boundaries should exist in all of our relationships and serve to stop us either misusing others or being misused by them ourselves. If you regularly find yourself exhausted because you are constantly running around after other people, be it friends or family, then it may be time to learn how to say 'no'. A boundary is only healthy if it is reinforced and respected by yourself and others. It is no good saying 'no' and then capitulating. You must decide where the line is that cannot be crossed and follow up with consequences if it is. That way, everyone knows where they stand.

🌟BUT SHOULDNT I AT LEAST SAGE A ROOM BEFORE I SIT TO MEDITATE?

If you like.
I love some Californian White Sage, Palo Santo, Copal and incense, the scent sets the tone and focuses my mind ready for whatever I am about to do. However, none of these contains magical properties nor are they essential. (Many such cleansers do contain anti-microbial and anti-viral properties, so they have a practical use.)

When I cleanse space it is to reset the energy of that place to 'neutral'. In between therapy clients or before a circle (particularly if we are in a shared space) I like to 'clear'/reset and do this by offering a prayer, visualizing white light or using smudge (Sage, Palo Santo etc). I open the windows, let the sunlight in and then am ready to start afresh.
It is as much about setting an intention for an uplifting, positive session and really is the only 'protection ritual' you'll ever need.

I don't believe that any physical, chemical compound or matter has the ability to repel people who are no longer made of matter themselves, let alone 'evil' etc

How would the scent of certain smoke be repulsive to dark entities (should they exist) if they themselves are non- physical? The same goes for salt, crystals, pendants, the Eye of God, holy water, silver bullets and all other superstitious paraphernalia. (I believe that the use of salt at least harkens back to the days of alchemy and necromancy).

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🌟YOU ARE YOUR OWN PROTECTION!
The state of your Soul, your own inner world, translates into a unique vibrational frequency (after all
everything is energy vibrating and there is only one of you).
Any being (person) physical or non-physical that does not share a similar vibration can simply not interact with you. It would be like someone tuning a radio to AM wanting an FM station. It's not going to work.
Therefore, the BEST PROTECTION you can have is YOURSELF.

🌟TO PROTECT YOURSELF
Have an honest think about what kind of person you really are, when no-one else is around to see or hear you, who are you in those moments? Are you cheerful, compassionate and kind? Or do you always see the worst in others, gossip and judge?

Your soul is an honest representation of your true nature that cannot be hidden from those who are able to see it (the spirit people and clairvoyants).

WHO YOU ARE IS WHO YOU ATTRACT ON EVERY LEVEL, PHYSICAL AND NON PHYSICAL.

So, do you still think that you need protecting?

🙏

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31/08/2025

Here's an interesting question that came up in last week's Development Circle;

'Can the spirit people follow us home from circle or a demonstration of mediumship?'

Lets break this down.
Sometimes those who begin their mediumistic development may have had very early encounters with those in the Next World that have unsettled them. I can understand this very well. As a child who both saw and heard spirit I reached an age where I linked this with horror movies and ghost stories and became utterly terrified of any contact. Let me state here and now that the spirit people themselves weren't terrifying; they did not try to scare me or do anything that was frightening, it was MY OWN fears and prejudices (brought on by a culture which quite literally demonises such encounters and abilities) which scared me.

Many of us learned to push down our abilities in order to 'protect' ourselves from these feelings of terror. Sadly, we have latterly been governed by an orthodoxy that preaches about eternal life, but isn't so happy with those able to give evidence of that fact. Although seers, mediums, prophets and prophetesses are all foundational to biblical teachings and other religions, many would have us believe that these faculties died out in the Old Testament era. Any such Gifts of the Spirit, such as Clairvoyance, demonstrated since that time are deemed to be 'evil'.

I know that all things are born of God/Source/Great Spirit. As the Bible correctly states in John 1:3
'All things were made through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being.'

Created and uncreated, manifest and unmanifest, all comes from Source, all is God. Therefore, contact with the Next World is simply a God-made fact or birthright. Nothing demonic or evil about it, nothing to see here folks.

Because of such baked-in fears some individuals are frightened of their own very natural abilities. They fall prey to all kinds of misconception and nonsense, which is one of the reasons that I am so determined to teach mediumship development from a stance of common sense and knowledge rooted in spirituality and self awareness. We each carry many beliefs and ideals about ourselves, the ways in which we should act and live, about others and the world we live in. Most of these beliefs do not belong to us, we have inherited them from well meaning, though sometimes ill informed and occasionally abusive primary caregivers. Many of us have never even stopped to ask ourselves 'is that really what I think/believe/want?' We simply carry around the basket full of heavy rocks that has been handed down by those before, who knew no different.

🌟So, what is the answer to the question posed above? Are the spirit people able to follow us home?

It's a question steeped in physicality and fear, based in an entirely material perspective. In asking this question we are erroneously inferring that if we connect with a person in the Next World they will be attached to us forever, we will come under their influence, or even worse, be possessed and lose all of our autonomy! Woven inextricably into this question is the implicit sense that the spirit people are somehow 'other'; that they are ghosts, apparitions, the type that haunt, terrify and wander without purpose for centuries.
The fact is, YOU AND I ARE SPIRIT PEOPLE.
We are all Spirit Beings enjoying a sojourn in the physical realm (and physical body). When our physical shell eventually falls away at 'death', we do not suddenly cease to be. We continue on, just as we always have, only with our original etheric body (an exact copy of the physical body, minus any disease or deformity. Our physical expression is created out of our karmic patterns, parental physicality and our etheric body - the matrix of light upon which the material creation is structured.)
What I'm trying to say is, THE SPIRIT PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY PEOPLE.

Of course, there are nice people and not so nice people, people who resonate with you and your ideals and those who don't, but for the main part, you will only ever communicate mediumistically with your own guides and loved ones and the guides and loved ones of others. All very normal, reasonable people.
Those who are resident in the Next World have lives to lead. They are busy with acts of service, pursuits and talents that they were unable to develop on the earth, art, music, learning, travel, loving and laughing.

Why would they want to come home with you?

Seriously. WHY?
What's so interesting about you that they can't find in the Next World? (a world where thought creates almost instantly).

🌟My development circles are extremely well organised, guided and guarded both on the earth side and the Spirit side of life. 'Protection' is something that is often over-egged in spiritual circles. I'm happier speaking about having healthy boundaries, as 'protection' makes people think that there's evil lurking around every corner, ready to pounce and that's just not the case. As you should have healthy boundaries in all of your earthly relationships, so you should apply this to any spiritual work and communication. To set healthy boundaries you decide what is and isn't appropriate for you, draw a line in the sand and reinforce it to make sure that it's not crossed. No amount of salt, sage or crystals are going to do this for you if you haven't intentionally decided that your space is your space, your life is your life etc (we will cover this in more depth in a future post).

🌟WHO DO YOU FEAR COMING HOME WITH YOU?
Is it just the thought of someone else's Grandma knocking around your house or are you imagining Pennywise hiding in your closet?
I ask because the two are VERY different things. The first is a person, with all of their memories and love and life experience, who has relatives and loved ones of their own to watch over and attend to. The other is pure fiction straight from the pen of Stephen King.

🌟WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO COME HOME WITH YOU? (AGAIN!)
They have a wonderful home in the Next World and I hate to tell you this, but the chances are, it's much nicer than yours!

🌟DO THEY NEED SOMETHING FROM YOU?
If you are sitting in a circle then they usually will have given their message to a friend or loved one whilst there. If they did not get through this time, then the guides who organise circle and communication on the Other Side of Life will help them to try again next time.

🌟ARE THEY ATTRACTED TO YOUR LIGHT, YOUR AURA OR PERSONALITY?
Again, this calls for a reality check: are you seriously saying that there aren't many, many more charismatic, attractive and illuminated beings on the Other Side of Life than you?! 😉

🌟 BUT WHAT DO I DO IF I AM FOLLOWED HOME BY A SPIRIT PERSON?
If on the very, very, very off chance that you feel that someone in spirit has come home with you, YOU TELL THEM TO LEAVE. You don't necessarily have to be rude about it, but they do have to do as they've been told. Your space, your rules.
(Though I would caveat that by asking you to make sure that you have checked for any potential plumbing/heating issues, creaky floorboards, pests etc. Nine times out of ten these things have a perfectly normal explanation. If you are 'sensing' Spirit around you, then it is far more likely to be a loved one of your own. Alot of 'hauntings' fall into this category.)

🌟 Something to remember is that if you are fearful of spirit contact for any reason, this may hamper or even prevent your mediumistic development. After all, your loved ones and guides will be extremely sensitive to your fears and because they care for your wellbeing as much as they do, they will not wish to do anything to make you even more afraid.

Above all, although we often call those living in the Next World the 'spirit people' they are, simply PEOPLE. They have lives to lead, pursuits to enjoy, friendships and relationships, just as you do, all lived in a world of beauty, love and light. A place without war, disease, old age and death. A place where no one works for a wage to house and feed themselves.

The 'evil' that so many fear is made of man's misdeeds and is all around us on this earth plane. If I were in the Next World the last place I would want to be is the earth.
We should try to keep this in mind as we traverse our pathway of development and always remain grounded in common sense, a good knowledge of our subject and sensible teaching. 🙏

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30/08/2025

🌟 Mental Mediumship is the form of mediumship most widely used at demonstrations and in private sittings today.
Mental Mediumship is simply mind-to-mind contact between a person living on the earth and a discarnate person (the so-called 'dead').
Telepathy is the natural mode of communication in the World of the Spirit, which is why when we arrive in this life we need to learn how to talk, using our new physical body!

Upon our passing back into the Next World we quickly remember that we 'hear' the voices of others in our minds and our own thoughts are just as easily known by others. That is why nothing is hidden in the World of the Spirit. (Better to start having loving, compassionate and charitable thoughts now and begin raising your intellectual and spiritual sights here on the earth, than wait until you have passed over and every little thing is known by everyone!)

For a medium practicing mental mediumship to recieve impressions and contact from the Spirit People, it is essential that they are able to quieten their mind. Consider most people's minds to be turbulent and ever churning, like the surface of the Mid-Atlantic in winter. Stormy and full of movement, a single drop of rain falling onto that surface would be extremely difficult to register. Likewise, when the water is still, quiet and glassy a single droplet falling onto it will create ripples and be more easily noticed.

Communication from those resident in Spirit is usually extremely subtle. The mental impressions create very subtle ripples on the mind of the medium and in order to pick up on them we must learn to distinguish them from our own mental processes, thoughts and memories. To develop this quiet mind (and greater attunement) we sit for development.

Many developing mediums get stuck in a rut of thinking that the flotsam and jetsam of their own mind has greater meaning than it actually does. In the early stages as we are learning to quieten the mind through guided journey and meditation, the mind can take us on some rather wild rides. This is often when we encounter random archetypes, mixed in with characters from books we've read or films we have seen, or myths and legends that we are interested in. This is usually the subconscious clearing out the gunk, getting it all out of the system to make way for actual communication to take place. If you pay too much attention to these types of journies and credit them with greater importance other than that of simple 'waste removal', your developmental journey may falter and plateau. It takes spiritual discernment and self awareness to recognise when this is happening. Spiritual Discernment means having the ability to determine the difference between communicating with a discarnate person and a figment of your subconscious. This is of course common sense, but many seem to get caught up in admiring the imaginary fool's gold instead of continuing to work towards the gold of spirit.

Each time you sit in a development circle you are allowing space for your own mental detritus to clear out, for your mind to settle in stillness or at least quieten a little and to practice perceiving or sensing contact from those on the Other Side of Life. One of the most common questions that developing mediums ask themselves (and their teachers) is;
HOW DO I KNOW IF I'M JUST MAKING IT ALL UP?

I often try to reassure individuals that it is through experience, practice and trust in their guides, that will eventually allow them to release any doubts and become much more trusting in what it is they recieve. After giving multipleessages that are positively recieved and validated by each recipient, you become ready to trust that it is mediumship after all.

It's not easy. Mental Mediumship may often feel like it is in the realm of our own imagination precisely because we use similar parts of our brain to recieve impressions from the Next World. For example, when a spirit individual gives me a memory of a loved one as a child, it arrives in my mind as if I was having that thought spontaneously. The difference is that I know that the memory doesn't belong to me.

Another point to consider is that when developing Mediumship (of ANY kind) we must have a communicator in spirit, evidence of them and their life, and a message pertinent to the sitter/recipient. In this way we are not confusing an imagined communicator with an actual, living person in the Next World. Developing mediums should be aware of this. If more often than not you are linking to individuals who cannot provide any valid evidence of themselves (names, relatives, addresses, age, loved one linked to them on the earth and their details) then you may wish to consider why that might be.

This can all be very confusing when starting out as mediums may struggle to sift and sort what belongs to their imagination and what may belong to a communicator. It is for this reason that it is so important to develop in a circle under the watchful eye of a well grounded, experienced and practical teacher.

(ALL THIS TALK OF HEARING VOICES SOUNDS INDICATIVE OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
It may well sound that way to the ignorant. However, I would state clearly that the voices of those from the Next World are never violent, angry or ask us to harm ourselves or others. Again, this is another reason why those with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental and/or emotional issues should NOT sit for any kind of psychic or mediumistic development as it may exacerbate any existing imbalances and create further distress.)

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29/08/2025

"Everyone will live after what you call death, not because of believing in a creed, a doctrine, or dogma, but because it is an unalterable natural law. It has nothing to do with religion."
Silver Birch 
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27/08/2025

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Psychic & Mediumistic Development

27/08/2025

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE A MEDIUM?🌟
It depends on who you are and what you feel your purpose is.

I can only speak for myself, but I feel that being a Medium is the greatest privilege of my life.

To be able to be a force for good, to be an ambassador for the Great Spirit (Source, God...) and to work in harmony and cooperation with those resident in the Next World (who are not 'dead' but very much alive!) is an honour of which I feel undeserving most of the time.

To know that you have tried your very best to serve both those in the World of the Spirit and those who are very much in need of evidence of the continuity of life beyond so called physical death, may bring great peace.

Of course, it's not all great! Having to stand in front of a room full of strangers, trusting that I will be linked to the people in the Next World did not come easily to me. As a naturally shy child and anxious over-thinking adult, one of my greatest difficulties has been working on the platform in front of an audience, sometimes the nerves are horrendous (I guess those dance performances in theatres as a child stood me in good stead!).

We may practice our connection to those in the Next World, but a good Medium always works LIVE. There are no scripts or prompts, only a wing and a prayer and, fortunately the organisation and love of the Spirit Guides and helpers that get us through a demonstration.

FAQ:
🌟Is it spooky? No! Not at all. Being a Medium is like talking to someone else's loved one on a telephone in a distant country; sometimes the line is crackly with static and you may only make out a couple of words they say, other times it's like face time and you see and hear everything with crystal clarity! A good Medium doesn't lie awake in bed continuing to talk with the spirit people, unless there is something desperately important that we must know, we recognise that we have lives to lead too and our rest is paramount.

🌟Do you see Spirit everywhere you go? Not if I don't 'tune in' to the psychic atmosphere of a place (which takes discipline, proper training and the right attitude). That would be like a neurosurgeon going out and about trying to perform brain surgery on random people in the street and super market. When I'm not working I'm NOT working. It's all about the discipline.

🌟Am I going to meet my soul mate? I have no idea. That kind of thing is the realm of two-bit psychics and fortune tellers and that's not what true mediumship is about. If anyone was truly able to tell you your actual future would you really want to know it ALL?

🌟Isn't summoning up Spirits and mediumship black magic? I have no idea. Ask a black magician. A Medium has as much to do with the 'conjuring of spirits' as a high court judge has to do with a ballroom dancer! We cannot dial up/call up/summon/conjure the spirit people. We work with our own natural conscious awareness and that of our guides to form thought to thought links with those who live in the Next World. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. No one ever communicates with us unless they wish to. Those resident in the World of the Spirit are still living under the Universal Spiritual Law of Free Choice, just as you and I are.

🌟Why are houses haunted? Usually these stories are misconceptions. Many times ghosts or apparitions are seen in certain homes or stately manors, walking through a wall at the same time each night, or similar. These are simply energetic imprints on the psychic atmosphere of a place. These apparitions, like videos on TikTok, are not 'alive'. You cannot communicate with them. Usually a 'haunting' is one of 3 Things: An over active imagination and creaky central heating/floor boards. An adolescent with a lot of psychic energy creating a field of activity in the home (unbeknownst to them). OR a loved one or former resident of the place in question wishing to be recognised and remembered.

It's so important to be properly trained and well read/educated in Mediumship and Psychism. Those who aren't can often fall foul of many commonly held misconceptions, superstitions and delusions.

Being a Medium is a very natural part of being Human. After all, we are all Spirit Beings HERE & NOW. Mediumship exists to provide evidence of the continuity of life beyond the physical realm. Eternal Life, although mainly associated with orthodoxy, is a FACT OF LIFE. It is your natural birthright as a Child of the Light. Although the temporary physical body will age, decay and finally fall away, YOU are everlasting because you were created by and of the substance of Source (God, Great Spirit...).
There is nothing to fear in death and where a bond of love exists between two people, no one is ever lost to you.

Love is stronger than death 🙏❤🙏

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26/08/2025

A huge 'Thank You' to everyone who joined us at The Academy for our Evening of Mediumship last night!

It was wonderful to have such incredible support and although I very nearly melted (🥵) I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!

🙏

24/08/2025

Deep sadness at the passing of a dear friend and colleague Tony Jones, who passed peacefully yesterday afternoon. Tony and I shared the platform on many occasions and trained together at the Academy of Psychic and Spiritual Studies. He was a true gentleman who helped many throughout his life and I know will be missed by so many people, not least his daughters and grandchildren.

I am sure that a very happy and blessed reunion will be taking place in the Spirit World right now as Tony is welcomed home. Thanks for everything my friend and God Bless You 🙏🕊😔

22/08/2025

A quick reminder that our August Bank Holiday Fundraiser Event is on MONDAY 25TH AUGUST 2025.

DOORS OPEN AT 7PM (Please be seated by 7.15pm)
Refreshments and Raffle
£11pp* (On the door)

*The Academy is non-profit & all proceeds go to the upkeep of the House. Mediums do not get paid. (We choose to serve 😊).

Please come along if you can, we'd love to see you!🙏

21/08/2025

Tonight 🙏

14/08/2025

"When shadows cross your path, remember that they are but shadows, not reality. When clouds obscure the sun, remember they are but clouds. When beset by trial and difficulty, remember that these are but birds of passage that will continue their flight when they have all but rested for a short while.
The knowledge that you all possess is more priceless that all the treasures of the world of matter. We do not bring you gold or silver, diamonds or precious jewels. Rather do we seek to bring the priceless jewels of the spirit, the greatest treasures that you can have.
Silver Birch "A Voice in the Wilderness"
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