Wednesdays with Linda: Writings, website and willfulness

“I am having to be creative. The task is writing about myself. Not easy, as I have to put myself beyond myself and be objective for a small bio. It’s for my new website. Have to do a renewal as it got to the stage where I didn’t want to acknowledge I had one. This is seriously techy stuff – thank goodness daughter Emily is willing.

Oh, writing is not the issue – I have been doing that for the last thirty years or more. Actually I started with long letters to my Mother-in-law (now an ex, and been in Spirit for some time) – actually now I think it was fifty two years ago – wow! The writing started because then husband, James, declared himself too busy, “Oh I will ring her when . . . . “ Yeah right!

It was before then even, when my mother sat me down and said. “You have to.” There I was, eighteen years old, about to be married in a week’s time and my darling mother-in-law had sent a beautiful necklace of pearls, with matching earrings for my wedding day. [Sniffle, nose blowing] Bit teary remembering that.

That first letter started what was to become twenty-two years of writing fortnightly letters to England, describing all we were doing. Husband was delighted at being let off ‘the hook’ and when I complained my writing was not up to scratch he brought home an old typewriter! Fifteen years later I was doing ‘automatic typing/writing’ and eight years beyond that I was doing serious channelled writing.

Channelling! Such an old word now because we all do some sort of channelling, for example, parts of other lives – sort of unconscious redos! Or we find unfamiliar words coming into our minds that fit the conversation, or as healers who find themselves doing different actions during a healing session, whether that be massage or a healing modality of some label. “Oh,” you think, “Where did that come from – never mind I will continue - it feels right.”

I went in feet first with Trance Channelling and then after a few years into Transmit, which is lighter and beyond telepathy, then into ‘In-body’ Channelling, meaning those I am channelling are part of me and we combine for that period to produce words or writing. At present it is via the written word as I have stopped channelling verbally. Oh, I can still do it, but there has to be a solid reason, and there is only one person currently who seems to qualify and that is to an old friend who got to know the individual identities who work with me.

I am laughing. You know if a psychologist read this script they would have a field day. I wonder what label they would lay on me? Oh, I used to be called ‘odd’, ‘witch’ and worse, but not often to my face as I can give a calm and reasoned explanation of my behaviour without excess emotion, whilst making firm eye contact, and often did.

Mind you one can never presuppose other’s beliefs. I remember finding myself in front of a Judge once during my marriage break up. My soon to be ex told the Judge that, “She says she talks to aliens and dead people.” The Judge turned to me and asked me to respond. “I am a medium,” I said. (Where that label came from I don’t know as I had never called myself one before.) The Judge turned back to my husband and said, “What is your problem Mr T...?”

Some ten years later I was doing research for my thesis, ‘Mysticism in the New Age’, at University and encountered many cases around the early 1900s where Judges had sent mediums to jail or fined them large amounts for working at their skill. Meaning, if one holds onto one’s radical skills for long enough and they will become ordinary!

What has brought on all this memory stuff? Oh, my website bio. That will get done. Those tasks have become rather unremarkable or expected adjuncts to one’s business personality. Come on Linda – get on with it – it is only a short bio!

[Grizzle, grump] I would rather talk of Jessie’s antics or Bronny the Bantam’s. Oh, they are doing well, although Jessie has an allergy which makes her scratch and Bronny has discovered that the titbits that come out of the kitchen door are more interesting than the antics of the other hens in the orchard. I do have to find a cat biscuit without grains in. Not difficult doing the finding, but persuading one determined cat that she has to have a change in her favourite biscuits!!! Perhaps that bio is not sooo difficult (in comparison).”