Speaking with Spirits

Hannah - working medium

Hannah Macintyre is an evidential medium and also teaches others how to develop their own psychic abilities. She has been involved in spirituality for over a decade, first as a student and now as a working medium and teacher. Hannah got into mediumship through joining a spiritual development circle. 

She said: “I just honestly went to my first group not because I thought I was gifted, not because I thought I was special,  and I still don’t, but I thought it would be interesting.

“It was never something I thought that I would be able to do. To find out that it was something available to everybody and you have to work at it, was kind of mind blowing to me.”

Describing herself as ‘clinical about it’, Hannah has always questioned widely-held beliefs around the Spirit World and believes healthy scepticism is a good thing. 

"There is a common misconception that if you go for a psychic reading, the medium will tell you exactly what is going to happen to you and when, as if you were a passive agent in your life," Hannah said.

She disagrees with this and stressed the fact that we always have choice. She said: “When someone comes for a reading, it’s like you get a snapshot of their energy in that moment, and the energy surrounding them.

“You can open them up to things, and you can say, ‘I feel all this potential for you here, I know what you can do.’ But then it’s the client’s choice whether they do create the space for that to come in or not.”

On a personal level, working with spirits has been ‘life-affirming’ for Hannah. She now believes in the continued existence of the human spirit. 

“I once did a connection with somebody who was killed by a brick falling off scaffolding on the street. It just shows you how quickly it could all change,” she said. “I’m not afraid to live because I’m not afraid of dying.”

Much like the principles of meditation and mindfulness, connecting with the Spirit World can help to cultivate awareness and compassion. 

Hannah claimed: “There’s no judgment from spirit. There’s nothing other than love, so you might as well choose happiness and stop punishing yourself for what has been long forgotten.

“We are all guided and loved, they never get annoyed, they never need a break, they never leave us behind.”

She summarised it succinctly: “If I could boil down every card reading I have ever given , it would be the Spirit World believes in you, forgive yourself, choose what you want.”

Molly - clairvoyant

As a child, Molly Bean-Harding lived in an old Tudor cottage where she said she frequently saw spiritual activity. She remembers having conversations with a young boy who was present there. 

As well as being a spiritual person, Molly could be described as clairvoyant.

During lockdown she claimed to receive visual messages or images from loved ones who have passed through her third eye, or mind’s eye. She described these experiences as both healing and comforting. 

“It’s like I am tapping into a beautiful, golden energy which is healing me as it passes through. It brings a great sense of comfort that we are all connected and life goes on. We don’t end.”

In her view, we are living one life to the next, each with its own set of lessons to learn. 

“I love to come across people who may be sceptic as I can understand their views, but I always feel drawn to help them see that they are part of a much bigger picture, we are merely a blink in time,” she said. 

Molly also believes that we are all guided by spirits and are never alone. 

“Throughout childhood, our ‘light’ is slowly made dimmer and dimmer by outside forces, and programming which causes a great closure of connection to self, and spirit. We can build it back up again by doing things like grounding, smiling and laughing,” Molly said. 

“If you are connected to the Universe, you are living in alignment to your highest good.”