The Paranormal True Stories and the Outcomes

By Janet Gant

 Divination is the act of foretelling future events or of discovering things: secret or obscure by supernatural means. These are looked on as unusual insight or intuitive perception. This can be done in several ways, e.g.,  Psychics, tarot cards, astrology, numerology, palmistry, tasseographers, face

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Mulberry Books
• Release date: Nov 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781951742119

Janet Gant

In 1987 when I was at a crossroads in my life a friend suggested I visit a Tarot card reader, which I did. She read my brain and knew my problem, without any assistance from me. Over the years when I have had problems, I have had a variety of readings, which I have found accurate and helpful. After writing two books, I decided to share my experiences on the Paranormal, and have found forty volunteers to share their experiences with me. You will be astonished at their readings and the outcomes. After reading this book, I’m sure non-believers will change their minds on this subject.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART 1

Chapter One

Introduction

Psychics

Tarot Cards

Astrology

Numerology

Palmistry

Tasseographers: Tea-Leaf Readings

Face Reading

Dowsing

Chapter Two

Spiritualism

Mediums

Clairvoyants

Séance

Ghosts

PART 2

Chapter Three

My four readings, a Premonition, and My Fifth Reading

Chapter Four

Russell and my sixth reading

Chapter Five

Pirie, Joy, Lyn, Janet, Annie, Patricia, and Sheila

Chapter Six

Rita’s two readings

Chapter Seven

Maggie, Pam, Vivienne, Anne, Margaret, Merle’s three readings,

Jan’s Two Readings, Karen, and Rosalie

Chapter Eight

Betty’s Experiences and Reading, Shelly’s two readings,

Rozel’s three readings, Ali, Trisha’s three readings,

Mary, Pat, and Gil’s Experience

Chapter Nine:

Fay, Neville’s three readings and Experience, Donna, and Cathy

Chapter Ten:

Pauline

Chapter Eleven:

Dallas’s three readings, Grace’s two experiences,

Ray, Thom, Sylvia, Nora, Kay, and Lorna

Chapter Twelve:

Ruth

Bibliography

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Dedicated to

Carole, my wonderful only daughter

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Preface

After publishing my family memoirs and autobiography Faith and Courage under my maiden name, I went on and wrote my late husband’s family story, from a box of letters given to him by his cousin in Liverpool and a lot of research. He was related to the late Richard John Seddon, our famous prime minister. Its title is ‘From Lancashire to Aotearoa.’ It was written under my name at the time, which was Janet Seddon. However, I have decided to write this book under my maiden name as I did with my first book.

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank my son, Raymond, and friends for their encouragement in writing this book. I’d like to offer my profound gratitude to the forty volunteers who shared their experiences with me. Some of you allowed me to use your name in the book, while others requested that names be changed for privacy.

I apologize to any of you for any unintentional mistakes I have made in presenting the facts or any liberties I have taken in telling your stories.

I am forever grateful and want to thank the following:

To Ruth, for her help, encouragement, and editing of my book.

To my husband, David, for proofreading my book.

To Barbara Clift, for assisting me with her computer skills.

To Marguerita Minns, for her help with a picture.

To Rose Hurley, for her help and encouragement.

To Eileen, for her help.

I do hope that readers who are disbelievers will admit that after reading these stories that they cannot continue to disbelieve.

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Chapter One

Introduction

Divination is the act of foretelling future events or of discovering things secret or obscure by supernatural means. These are looked upon as unusual insight or intuitive perception. This can be done in a number of ways: e.g. psychics, tarot cards, astrology, numerology, palmistry, tasseography, face reading, and dowsing.

Today divination methods are undergoing a resurgence as a modern world incorporates them into daily spiritual practices. Cards, like all methods of divination, speak of life’s great journey, the movement of the soul through cycles and seasons, just as it’s told to us through the planets, our birthdate, and the signs in our palms.

Have you ever thought you needed a crystal ball to sort out your problems? I have.

Over the centuries, spiritualistic mediums and all fortune tellers, both men and women, practised witchcraft against the law and, when caught by the authorities, were burnt at the stake. Others were executed in many parts of Europe, including Scotland, England, Sweden, and Russia. However, finally in 1981, our government followed overseas governments and changed the law. The Summary Offences Act of 1981 No. 113 was passed. This specifies that a person acting as a medium, whose intent is to deceive, is liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000. This cleared the way for mediums, who wished to help people, to advertise their skills.

Foretelling the future has always had a compelling fascination for mankind and continues to do so. It has been used by ancient civilizations to explain life’s mysteries, as well as predicting the future. There have always been wise men and women able to interpret nature’s ways, and they were held in high esteem because of their intuitive and interpretative powers. Readings do not always come true. The situation described by a reader may change because the person to whom the reading was made changed their behaviour in some way. If the reader issued a warning, they may take avoiding action that improves the situation and averts the problem. It is also possible that the reader misinterpreted the reading, and it won’t happen. Over the ages, the tarot has established itself as one of the most popular methods by which man could learn his fate. You must be careful when selecting someone to read your future.

Check with friends, and ask if they have found a good reader and how much it will cost. Find a reader who is honourable, honest, and trustworthy, and believe they care. A good reader will show you, that the power for your own life lies within you. They will discourage anyone who wants to have frequent readings. Fraudulent readers do exist. They just want to make money. Expect to pay around $60 for a reading and a bit more for astrological readings.

Psychics

It is no surprise that the world of psychic and paranormal phenomena has been studied, tested, researched, celebrated, revered, and scoffed at as one giant global con job and reviled as the ‘devil’s work’. The word psychic comes from the Greek word meaning breath, life, or soul. The dictionary defines them as pertaining to the human soul and mind as opposed to physical or pertaining to, exerted by, or proceeding from a supposed non-physical force or power, assumed to operate in various obscure phenomena as those of telepathy, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and supernatural influences.

All mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums. Everyone is psychic to some degree, using the natural or sixth sense in all of us. They do not tune in to the spirit world except by accident. It seems psychics tap into the human aura to read people. The aura is the electrical energy field, which surrounds the human body and registers emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The aura contains all the information about a person’s life. A psychic also uses their natural ability to be aware of their client’s body language, facial expressions, the way they dress, etc.

Psychics are able to pick up health problems from which their clients are suffering, like food allergies, as well as a cause of seemingly unrelated physical ailments that have not been diagnosed. Some allergies don’t show up externally but direct themselves inwards.

Some people seeking help can be very vulnerable, so psychics have to be very careful not to upset their clients. They can subconsciously calculate possible future events by an assessment of information available, or by the natural course of events, and give a probable forecast.

Tarot cards and palmistry are tools that can be used in conjunction with this natural ability.

There are exercises that can be done to increase the natural psychic ability of everyone.

Over the years, psychic abilities were particularly associated with spiritualism and contacts made by the psychic with those who were deceased. Psychic powers can be drawn out and developed if you wish to do so. Another useful key is meditation. It encourages a state of relaxed awareness, the ability to watch and observe one’s inner experiences, and to allow them to develop and grow. Don’t be afraid of developing your psychic abilities because they are completely natural. There is even an organ in the brain that is associated with the psychic sense, known as the third eye, situated at the front of the brain and associated with the pineal gland.

A common form of psychic experience is that of clairvoyance. A clairvoyant’s psychic sense talks to them in terms of pictures. Their other forms of psychic sense receive thoughts and words or feelings and sensations. Some psychic experiences can be direct and literal. The secret is in learning what should be accepted as straightforward information and what should be interpreted as symbols as representational. This ability comes with experience.

Many psychics are also gifted in psychometrics, when they are able to read information by holding objects in their hands. They pick up the energy vibrations emitted by all objects that tell of their history.

Psychics do readings by phone, on the Internet, from letters, and client visits. The famous Sylvia Browne’s accuracy level has been clinically tested at somewhere between 85 and 90 per cent. She says she has helped millions through her books, readings, and television appearances, and she has busted and reported many frauds to various attorneys around the world.

Tarot Cards

Tarot card readers have never ceased to amaze me. I have wondered

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how they managed to identify my problems and then suggest how to solve them.

They are said to embody the esoteric religions of ancient Egypt, India, and Persia, embracing Hebrew Kabbalistic and early Christian beliefs. It is believed that the tarot was first created in Egypt some 4,000 years ago. Another possible origin is Morocco in AD 1200, which would explain the presence of the tarot mysteries in the Muslim world. Tarot cards have been known to the West since 1392, when an artist was said to have painted a set of cards for King Charles VI of France. The Italians have been using tarot cards since the mid fifteenth century.

A possible origin of the word ‘tarot’ is the Kabbalistic ‘torah’, which refers to the sacred texts of the Jewish religion. Another source could be the Latin word ‘rota’ meaning ‘wheel’, applying to the tarot’s Wheel of Fortune.

In its deepest mystical meaning, the tarot is the practice of assessing or divining the truths of chance and meaning. The shuffling and dealing of the cards symbolizes the chance element and the interpretation of those cards to discover the meaning of life and consequently ourselves. The tarot offers a method of predicting events and personal character reading. In combinations or spreads, the cards are thought not only to foretell the future but also to affect it.

The imagery and meaning of the tarot, which are best expressed through the ancient myths that gave birth to it, are neither supernatural nor occult, but deeply and profoundly human and natural and available to us all if we only take the time to look and learn.

The Freemasons learned about the original tarot from the Templars and used it, but they kept the knowledge to themselves.

The tarot card pack consists of elaborate picture cards coded and filled with esoteric knowledge. It is divided into two sections, the major arcana and the minor arcana. The major consists of twenty-two illustrated cards, which depict the journey of a soul during a lifetime—for example, the Empress, which speaks of women and power, abundance and beauty. The Lovers, side by side, are blessed by an angel overhead. The Wheel of Fortune is a card that depicts the ever-changing nature of life.

The minor arcana consists of fifty-six cards, which are not usually illustrated, that speak of the subtle day-to-day influences, opportunities, and obstacles as influenced by the major arcana cards laid down during a spread. They consist of four suits—namely, the Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Wands rule business and enterprise, change and opportunity. Cups speak of love and happiness, generosity and fertility. Swords foretell struggle and strife, aggression and courage. Pentacles are linked to fortune, trade career, and plots.

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he images on the tarot cards are mainly pagan in origin, and the Dark Ages dogma of the Christian Church referred to them as ‘the devil’s books’, linking them with black magic and witchcraft. It is possible to use an ordinary pack of cards, without the lower numbers, by discarding twos, threes, fours, fives, and sixes of each suit.

Here are the meanings of five major arcana cards.

The Fool card sits at 0. He is life and death and the perpetuation of the soul from one cycle to the next. He is the beginning and the end. It describes the excitement, enthusiasm, and optimism that usually accompany fresh starts. Alternatively, other people may belittle your plans even though you are certain you are right. It warns you to check that your plans are feasible and won’t lead you into dangerous territory before proceeding with them. If this card is inverted, it can warn that a decision may be foolish, too extravagant, and that there is a danger of taking risks too casually.

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The Magician card sits at number 1. He is at one with himself and all creation, a powerful figure. It may describe an influential person who enters your life, in which case it is warning you to be wary because there may be some trickery or deceit. Alternatively, it says that you have more power and ability than you realise. You must find ways of releasing and expressing these talents, and you are already equipped with the means to do this.

The High Priestess card sits at number 2 and is the card of instincts, psychic ability, and intuition. It tells you to trust your gut feelings and also pay attention to your dreams as these have important messages for you. You can also discover a great deal about life, either by study or by learning from experience.

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The Empress card sits at number 3 and represents fertility, abundance, and creativity. You possibly need to spend more time in the open air or surrounded by nature. Sometimes she describes shifting to a home in lovely surroundings. She can also describe physical or symbolic fertility, whether it’s the cultivation of land, the birth of a child, or a new idea. In fact the outlook is favourable because it is a positive card.

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The Emperor card sits at number 4 and represents the feeling ‘I am’, which we all possess. He speaks of grim authority, of being prepared to go into battle, and of the need to maintain control. Sometimes it says that you will soon have authority bestowed on you. He tells you to stick to your guns and stand up for yourself. Alternatively, it can describe someone you know who is powerful and reliable. You can trust this person to do the right thing.

The meaning of the card used depends on the cards next to it to complete the overall picture. A successful reading is dependent on other kinds of divination, such as numerology, dominoes, astrology, palmistry, and psychic help. The psychics actually receive information from their spirit team as well. They use the pictures and the meanings of the cards to help them interpret the information correctly.

Tarot is a spiritual realm of divination that doesn’t work as mechanically as it does using astrology and numerology. The spirit world doesn’t seem to understand time in the same way that we do on earth. The tarot card reader is assisted by their spiritual guide.

A good reader will ask you to shuffle and cut the cards and will place them in a spread. Different spreads are used by readers, depending on the personal vibrations they feel are troubling their client.

Those who seek a tarot card reading usually have problems in their lives, and they are looking for answers and, hopefully, a light at the end of the tunnel. This means a reading rarely needs to cover more than a year or so,