On Spiritual Shorthand as A Claircognizant Trigger

If you take a look at the sample channeled reading I’ve posted on this blog, you may notice that some of the “raw” text that comes through seems slightly grammatically jumbled and hard to understand. This element of my channeling method has unfolded itself spontaneously over the past few months. I find it quite fascinating, since although it was never a method my guides and I mutually agreed upon, it operates similarly to the system of symbols clairvoyant evidential mediums often develop as a kind of spiritual sign language to communicate with Spirit. Today, I’d like to dive into the system of coded, linguistic shorthand communication my guides employ, how it works to expand the information transmitted in the reading beyond the channeled words themselves, and how this fits in with the general mechanics of psychic reading.

First, let’s talk a bit about the psychic reading process. The universal currency of both psychic and mediumistic communication - as well as of life itself - is energy, in the metaphysical sense. This is the raw stuff of emotions, imprinted memories, physical information, thought-patterns, sensibilities, etc., that we carry around with us, mostly in an intangible or subtle state. Spiritual entities also carry this subtle information in energetic form. The job of a psychic or medium is to engage with that energy, and use their nervous system - which has usually been sensitized and trained to do the job through meditation and practice - to decode and translate the information into tangible form. This results in the experience of what we might call the sixth sense, or the phenomenon of intuitive knowing. In theory, everyone has the potential ability to do this, and most of us do so, subconsciously, every single day, to varying degrees. How specific we can become in our ability to intuit information is a question of learning to pay attention to the subtle impressions we receive, and to understand them. However, whether we are intuiting information directly from people’s personal energy fields in a psychic reading, or receiving energetic impressions from Spirit in mediumistic communication, there is always a synesthetic process of translating subtle impressions into tangible information. 

Every psychically sensitive person will have different tendencies in how their personal nervous system interprets energy. (Different forms of this ability can also be honed with practice.) The acuteness of people’s physical senses, and their aesthetic bents, will often be a good indication of which forms of “clear sensing” will come to them most naturally. A musical person might be more prone to being clairaudient than clairvoyant. A visually oriented person might more easily open up clairvoyantly than empathically or clairsentiently. However, the more seamlessly a psychic can get all of the clair-senses to work together synergistically, the more easily the transmission of energetic information will flow. 

The curious thing is, sometimes, in the mediumistic process, Spirit will use one clair-sense to energetically relay additional information that would normally come through a different one. Many clairvoyant mediums develop a system of visual symbols to convey larger concepts, or even auditory information such as names. (A medium might, for instance, see their grandmother Ada every time a spirit by that name comes through, or see a red cross every time a spirit was employed in the medical field in their previous life.) But this can also work in unexpected ways. For example, once, during a psychic reading, I heard the word “mud,” and shortly thereafter, when visualizing the readee’s home, saw a children’s slide in the backyard, accompanied by the phrase “history of trauma.” Sadly, it turned out that she had lost her home in a literal mudslide, and this traumatic event was being conveyed not only clairaudiently, but through a kind of visual pun.

Visual symbol systems are probably the most common way of receiving clairvoyant information in mediumistic readings. In my case, clairaudience has become more dominant, and is how much of my channeled information comes through. In addition to the technique of clairaudient dictation I’ve described on this blog, my guides also have a system of written shorthand. Instead of a “symbol bank,” I have a word bank! This shorthand operates through a kind of idiosyncratic logic, which means that I often reverse-engineer my guides' longer messages from the “Cliff notes” version of the full channeling. But there is more to the words than meets the eye.

Somewhat counterintuitively, there can be an actual advantage to this shorthand system compared to long-form clairaudient channeling. Mediumistic communication can require quite a lot of energetic effort on both ends of the conversation. The medium has to raise their vibration as high as possible to reach toward the frequency of Spirit, and Spirit has to “wind down” theirs to bring themselves closer to the density of the physical plane. It’s not always comfortable or easy for either party. So, the more efficiently the communication can take place, the more information can be relayed in a single session. What I have discovered is that the system of shorthand not only serves to convey more long-winded verbal messages, but also relays information clairsentiently, empathically, and claircognizantly. The reason this works, I think, is because my guides are intimately familiar with my energy, my history, my understanding of certain spiritual concepts, and the associations certain words will trigger in my mind.

How does it work, then? Well, for starters, every word has a certain raw emotion or momentum to it, and this is largely what determines the system's word correspondences. Emotion is one of the easiest energies to read. It is a universal human language, and spirit guides will take advantage of this. Adjectives will often be paired with the word “energy” to convey a more complicated concept than the surface meaning of the word implies. For instance, the word “jealous;” in the abstract, conveys a feeling of lack, a sense of “bleeding out” emotionally, and also of vicarious experience. So, in spiritual shorthand, “jealous energy” can mean that someone is either feeling a sense of lack, inadequacy, or experiencing something vicariously through another rather than honoring their own individuality. “Hard energy,” on the other hand, can mean any kind of emotional harshness, quarrel, denial, or personal struggle. Similarly, the word “bless” can mean not only literal blessing, but also appreciation, acceptance, or one thing benefitting another, often in the future. (For example: “Your individual joy blesses the joy of marriage.”) Sometimes the grammatical order of a sentence will be reversed, Yoda-like, for emphasis. The correct nuance of the full message will be reached intuitively when the shorthand is translated into longhand. 

The choice of words in shorthand messages can also help to convey more sophisticated, hidden meanings in them. One of the correspondences that always elicits a chuckle from me in the hardest of times is the habit my guides have of referring to excruciatingly difficult life lessons as “gifts.” The repeated message is clear: Your challenges are always a potential path to greater understanding. Another recent gem was my guides’ phrasing when encouraging a readee to avoid falling into anxiety: “Don’t get excited without smiling.” Hence, the implication: There can be good excitement, and bad excitement. The physiological difference between anxiety and enthusiasm is happiness.

The most recent, and perhaps interesting, development in this system of communication has been the emergence of claircognizant communication triggered through the language itself. As the words are received, impressions also begin to form that go beyond the scope of their literal meaning. I will notice myself feeling emotions associated with the situations under discussion, as well as suddenly having a sense of  simply “knowing” something about them.  Increasingly minimally worded snippets are enough to relay sophisticated information. For instance, in one channeling: “All care next: daughter. Decide who is sick: Them both.” triggered the realization that the daughter of the person under discussion had recently been hospitalized with a specific mental illness. (This was confirmed to be true.) In yet another instance, even though it didn’t seem especially necessary, “Please hear from wonderful rest.” was instinctively reworded into “Please allow yourself sweet, sweet rest.” in the longhand reading report. It turned out that the readee had had the phrase “sweet, sweet rest” stuck in her head for weeks, and the translation process had provided this as a form of validation or evidence to support the reading’s legitimacy.

I’m still learning the ins and outs of this system. It is an evolving technique, and my guides seem to find new ways to implement it as times goes on. Every reading teaches me something new about the nuances that can emerge through this form of communication. Every mistake I make teaches me more about how to do this job better, too! Psychic development is a marvelous exploration of consciousness, reality, and how much there is to learn about it all.

Have you noticed specific systems through which your own guides communicate information? Have they evolved over time? If you haven’t thought about it before, try tuning into how your intuitive knowing interprets energy, and see if you can pick up on certain patterns that allow you to access information in new ways!