An Inspiration:
Gladys Osborne Leonard
Everyone has their "favorite" Psychic. From the likes of Edgar Cayce, to Eusapia Palladino, to Alexandra David-Neel... As well as the more recent ones making impacts and changing lives, like, Doreen Virtue, Esther Hicks, Lisa Williams, John Edward, and Theresa Caputo.
For me, I enjoy just about all of them, simply because I know where they're coming from... which is a place of love to help people. But the careers that I heavily follow are Helena Blavatsky, Heward Carrington, Eileen Garrett, Leonora Piper, and my absolute highest admiration is for Gladys Osborne Leonard.
Gladys is known for pioneering the most spiritualist movement of any Medium in history. Before I tell her story, I do want to clear up one thing… There is a difference between being a Medium and being a Channel.
A Medium is someone who's psychic intuition can expand a range of frequency perceptions, so that they're able to connect with energies from other dimensions that operate at higher frequency levels then ours in human form.
A Channel can absent themselves from their bodies and let a resident of the spirit world speak through them.
So, while I have high regards for those Psychics I named above, as well as many others, my biggest respect, and most similar style of connecting and reading is for Gladys Osborne Leonard. I didn't start studying her amazing work until 2010 when I discovered her through the archives of the Society For Psychical Research, a place she devoted much of her Mediumship training to. What makes her so spectacular, is she was voluntarily one of the most investigated mediums ever. She had no fear of any kinds of questions or tests that came her way.
One of the many reasons I particularly relate to her is from the moment I started studying her work, like myself, her experiences began happening when she was just a child, through no effort at all on her part. It just was a part of her. In fact, she assumed everyone saw the same things she did, which is thoroughly describes in her book, "My Life In Two Worlds." (A book I highly recommend. See link below to read free online.)
There was even a point in time of me studying her life that I thought I may very well be her, reincarnated. Only later, much to my disappointment, I found out through Past Life Regression that I'm not her... But I did learn that my previously life from the 1800's was in Fairhaven... A neighboring London town next to Lytham (where Gladys was born.) I then started hoping that she was one of my Spirit Guides that I was unaware of… She's not that either. Oh well, one should be so lucky. Perhaps our paths crossed back then, and that's why I feel a kindred connection to her.
In her book, she describes the magnificent landscape of The Other Side. She discovered The Other Side through her daily visions when she was a small child... Much to the dismay of her father whom demanded she never speak of that "crazy sounding stuff" in public.
One major thing that is fascinating to me is that I have described The Other Side countless times (even before knowing who this woman was) during readings, lectures, blogs, columns, and even writing my first book, "Psychic Medium On A Mission." Upon discovering Gladys's work, I found that many of our descriptions were slightly different, but so many of our descriptions were extremely (and excitingly) similar. How could a woman I once knew nothing about, describe in detail a dimension that I have described the same way? Most notably, the exact replication of the Arrival back Home... the departure into Reincarnation... And our writing our Charts for our next incarnated experience. That is exhilarating to my own brain!
Back to her wonderful story, Gladys's family fell on hard times during her teenage years, and she took to her natural talents and became a dancer and actress to earn a living... Another side of my life that mimics hers. Without a doubt though, the most significant performance of her career was at a spiritualist church, where one of the Mediums sought her out to tell her that she was destined to accomplish "great spiritual work." I have to say, when someone (without a motive or agenda) tells you that, it's like a lightbulb in your heart switching on!
Gladys continued her low-paying theatrical career in London and then married Frederick Leonard, an actor who became a devoted and loving husband in Gladys's pursuit of spiritualism throughout her life. Eventually, while working on a small production, Gladys's met two other like-minded women on set. The three of them started meeting in Gladys's dressing room for an hour every night between performances, gathering around a table engaging in séances. (By the way, the word séance is French for sitting.)
Nearly 30 sessions later, Gladys's Spirit Guide revealed herself. The Guide introduced herself as a Hindu girl who had been married to Gladys's Great–Great–Grandfather. Another side note, my very first prolific and public connection to the spirit world also happened when I was on set at Mage't Brannon Theatre in 1991, where I met a girl upstairs in the costume department, later to find out she was dead. I suprised everyone there when I started talking about our conversation. They all knew she was dead, and her father, who was a part of the production got very angry with me for mentioning her.
Gladys found her Spirit Guides (Hindu) name too complicated to keep repeating… So she renamed her Feda. My Spirit Guides name is NINA, which sounds uncannily close to Feda! This was another shocker for me! Except NINA is not Hindu. Gladys went through several periods where she felt overwelmed with her work as a Psychic Medium, and the detractors would continue to scrutinize her just for helping and couseling others, so she would take breaks and sabbaticals from her spiritual work to rest and regroup. I often go through that as well. But again, like Gladys, no matter how far away I go, I always come back.
Her most significant session took place in 1915, when Sir Oliver Lodge and his wife came to Gladys in a desperate, highly skeptical attempt to communicate with their son Raymond. Their son had been killed in WW1. Feda's information fed to Gladys was so accurate that the Lodge's skepticism was completely removed, as they described her accuracy to be "99% perfect" and spent the rest of their lives promoting her.
From that point forward, Gladys, like myself, began to do readings several times a day. Her name spread quickly through the publicity surrounding her success… And along with that came the numerous investigations and testings of her skills. Just like the challenges I've constantly received, I, like Gladys, have welcomed them all because we both believe that the ONLY gain for Mediumship is the Spiritual growth of others.
She transcended into the Afterlife in 1968 at the age of 85… and according to the one and only Psychic that I let read me, back in 2006, he answered the only question that I had for him… "At what age will my Energy transcend back Home?" (I've always believed that it was 85,) and without telling him, he said 84. Close enough!
Thanks to Gladys's reliable authenticity, her integrity, and her devotion to Mediumship as a means to advance humankind's certainty to a Higher Energy Source, a joyful Afterlife, and Reincarnation, she has become my biggest inspiration as a Psychic.
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