July 2023
Messages from the Beyond
When there are no logical answers to life’s confounding problems, often, the spirit guides step in through mediums and channels to help people heal, get closure, and move on with their life says Jamuna Rangachari
Many things defy logic and leave a lot unanswered. They leave people wondering, questioning, and agonising about the unpredictability of life. This is where spirituality plays a decisive role. It helps us get answers to the incomprehensible mysteries of life and move in the right direction. The Divine always ensures that we get support when we are in dire need of help, healing, comfort, and solace. This divine intervention can come in the form of spiritual mediums, channels, or a chance encounter with psychics with special abilities.
Long ago, when I was a teenager, I knew of a lady who could connect with departed souls. She received messages from them and advised people based on those messages. There used to be a big queue in front of her house. As I had lost my mother at a young age, my aunt took me to her. That woman told me that my mother wanted me to marry an educated, well employed man after connecting with her soul. She (my mother) also told me through her to always continue praying to Hanumanji in times of difficulty. The fact that Hanumanji was my favourite deity was something the channelling lady could not have known. So, her message from my mother added to my faith in her and, of course, Hanumanji.
At that time, I was thinking more about my studies. But as this message had an impact on me, I opened myself to marriage. One thing led to another, and my life turned out very well; in fact, much better after my marriage. This is an experience that I always remember when people talk about channelling, and it has convinced me that it is a genuine phenomenon. Like anything else, it depends on the person doing it and their intent.
What is channelling?
The practice of channelling—a person’s medium’s or channel’s) body being taken over by a spirit for the purpose of communication— has been around for centuries. There are innumerable stories of shamans, witch doctors, prophets, and others who claimed to receive some supernatural knowledge from the higher realms. Channelers, also sometimes known as psychic mediums, often use what are called spirit guides: friendly spirits who give them knowledge and help them on their spiritual journey. To achieve this expanded state of consciousness, channelers usually meditate, trying to break free of worldly influences, and tune in to a higher consciousness. They may imagine themselves seeking out specific spirits of the dead, or they may be contacted, apparently unbidden, by some unknown force that wishes to communicate.
Edgar Cayce, Lee Carrol, and Sohrab Ardeshir are some of the famous names in the world of spirit channelling.
Edgar Cayce
Should we communicate with spirits? Some think that the departed must not be disturbed and attempts should not be made to contact them as their role on earth is over. However, this may not be true for all cases. In cases of sudden deaths, like accidents or murders where the surviving family members might be grappling with shock, unanswered questions, or the pain of not being able to communicate their deepest feelings and emotions to the dead kin, channelling acts like a great mediator
In cases of sudden deaths, like accidents or murders where the surviving family members might be grappling with shock, unanswered questions, or the pain of not being able to communicate their deepest feelings and emotions to the dead kin, channelling acts like a great mediator and the much needed divine intervention for both the parties.
and the much-needed divine intervention for both the parties. The late Khorshed and Rumi Bhavnagri, residents of Mumbai, lost their sons, Vispi and Rattoo, in an accident in 1980. They were beside themselves with grief and could not understand why God had punished them by taking their sons away from them even when they had lived all their lives righteously.
A month later, they received a message from a neighbour, Mrs Dastoor, who conveyed to them that she had met a powerful medium called Mrs Kapadia, who was in touch with the souls of Vispi and Rattoo and that both of them wanted to communicate with their parents on earth. Sceptical initially, Khorshed and Rumi met the medium, Mrs Kapadia, and the rest is history. They received clear messages from their sons who consoled them, healed their pain, and explained to them why they were snatched so suddenly by the Divine from their family on earth. Their conversations via the medium revealed a whole lot of spiritual truths about life on earth as well as on other planes. All these were documented in a book called Laws of The Spirit World, which became a phenomenal success after it was published in 2009.
Vispi and Rattoo also said that blocking communication with the spirit world is not good for human beings. Humans need help, guidance, and intervention from above. They need to stay connected to the source in order to stay on the right path and not go astray. By cutting off ties with the spirit world, humans do themselves a lot of harm because the spirit world is eager to communicate with them and help them in their hour of need. Nevertheless, they insisted on going to the right people for such work and not falling into the trap of swindlers promising spirit communication and healing. Many divination arts like tarot, runes, auto-writing, and channelling are all about receiving messages from the higher realm to help humans make the right decision and confirm their intuition. Often, many people get introduced to the spiritual path through these divination methods. Their curiosity gets piqued, and they begin to explore the world of spirituality.
The case of Hari Pai
Hari Pai, based in Goa, was not particularly religious during his college days. His spiritual journey started when he was in New Delhi for a project with the Government of India. Things were not too good, and a friend of his father, who was also a doctor, gave him a mantra of Hanumanji to chant and gain inner strength. He used to chant 30 to 40 malas (prayer beads) a day, and one fine day, he discovered a bump on his forehead. He started seeing things, which at that time seemed unrelated to anything he knew. He started seeing grey areas around people who had physical issues. It took him a while to reconcile with these images and the messages that would crop up in his head when he looked at people.
After some time, Hari went to the UAE to work in an oil company. There, while teaching water skiing, he cracked his kneecap. He was told to undergo surgery and replace it with a neoprene Mr Hari Pai
Hanumanji’s blessings made Hari a medium one. Hari kept putting it off until he could go home to India and consult someone there. He came across Mr V Pai, who did spiritual healing. He used to dip his fingers in a bowl of ash and apply or hold it against the affected part for a couple of minutes. He held it over Hari’s knee in this fashion twice over two days and his kneecap was whole again. This was impossible according to the doctors. This awakened Hari’s belief in faith healing and what faith alone can do for anyone.
In 1995, Hari learnt Pranic healing but he gave it up by 1998 and worked out his own system of healing that was based on tapping healing power from the Source. For him, it was either Hanuman or Sai Baba. Basically, he would ask the Divine to send His healing power in the form of a light beam to the crown chakra (subtle energy centre) of the patient, which would spread all over the body till he could see the body as one big glow of golden light, which he termed as Divya Deha (divine body).
Throughout the years, he has realised that God never lets you down if you ask Him for favours for other people. It is the intensity with which
Channelers, also sometimes known as psychic mediums, often use what are called spirit guides: friendly spirits who give them knowledge and help them on their spiritual journey. To achieve this expanded state of consciousness, channelers usually meditate, trying to break free of worldly influences, and tune in to a higher consciousness. you do it that counts. Whenever there is a case where prolonged healing is required, Hari teaches the mother of the child or the spouse of the sufferer how to do the healing. For he knows that no matter how good his intentions are or how strong his healing prowess is, they can never match the intensity with which a mother will pray for her child, or a spouse, for their partner. God has to listen to them and provide health and comfort.
Curses, afflictions, and healing
Shrinath Iyengar from Mumbai contacted Hari as nothing could help him resolve his liver-related ailments. Hari was able to heal him, his wife, and even their children’s minor health challenges remotely through simple herbal homemade concoctions combined with prayers for healing. Shelly James from Goa (name changed) came to Hari a few years ago with very high sugar levels. He did her spiritual healing, suggested some herbal remedies, and miraculously, she healed completely and is off medication now, leading a normal life.
Genevieve Fernandez, 34, had severe heel pain and could not stand or walk more than ten steps. When she met Hari, he removed her afflictions and healed her completely. She is now able to walk, stand, and do everything perfectly. Seeing her improvement, she took her parents too to Hari, and they too have healed from their aches and pains.
As his intent is only to heal and help, others also came to aid Hari in his efforts.
Seven years ago, a Nath yogi and his aide walked through Hari’s door. He says, “They stayed with me, and on the second day, ordained me as a Nath. He taught me how to take out malicious spirits, entities, and the effect of spell casting. I had seen the effect of spells and entities on people and used to take them to various places to get the spirits released. After Gurudev’s training, I started doing the cleansing on my own and was able to help many.”
As Hari progressed, he could effectuate cleansing in far-off places, like the UK and Canada too, simply through photographs.
Hari emphasises, “The bottom line is that there is no substitute for having God as your everything. God is your friend, mother, guru, mentor, and guardian, and I ask the Supreme to help those who come to me for help, without ever hesitating.”
The curse of the cobra
Another person who has helped many is Roshni Malek from Goa. She uses techniques like meditation, visualisation, and energy work to help people. She mostly aids her clients in releasing karmic entanglements.
Recalling the story of a client, she says, “A young girl who was suffering from vitiligo (white patches) had come to me for help. Hypnosis and past life regression sessions revealed that she had committed suicide in her previous birth. While channelling, I found that the family was suffering from Naga Dosha (the curse of the serpent species). The message came through clearly that a cobra was killed while the girl was in the womb of her mother, which the family accepted as true. At the same time, they
recalled that their ancestors had this ancient knowledge of curing snake bites. But they had neither used this knowledge nor performed any rituals to appease the snake deities for two generations. Additionally, a cobra was killed in the backyard while the girl was in the womb.
Since the family had become distanced from these practices, they had forgotten that these entities were still attached to them. Roshni helped them seek forgiveness from the snake deities and gave them some remedies to lessen the curse. The girl was having a hard time accepting her situation after developing white spots on her face and hands. It had affected her deeply, mentally and emotionally. She had withdrawn into a shell and fallen into a suicidal pattern again in this lifetime. After the channelling was over, the family accepted its mistakes and was able to erase this pattern. Soon the girl found some good doctors and ayurvedic treatment to help with her vitiligo.
Ranjini Banerjee
In life, we often leave many things unsaid, many emotions unexpressed. Often, it’s the belief that there will be time later on or that it won’t matter even if we expressed it. It is one of the biggest mistakes as death can be sudden and unexpected, and doesn’t leave time to clear misunderstandings, express love, or forgive one another.
Ranjini Banerjee, a natural medium Kolkata-based Ranjini Banerjee, who used to work for Life Positive, is the first person I met who could make connections with souls.
She says that she has always been sensitive and aware of the subtle realm of energies. However, she had not always been comfortable with engaging with this mystical world that lay just beyond the perception of our five senses. In fact, she was afraid of it. So the first time, she clearly ‘heard’ (not aloud but in her mind) the phrase “Tell Anu I am fine,” she freaked out. She was lying on the upper berth of a moving train when she heard these words as a request, with visuals of a young girl and her mother. She intuitively knew that this girl had recently passed away and her mother was still grieving deeply. The words that she heard internally were meant to comfort the mother, who was travelling in the train compartment with Ranjini. However, Ranjini was scared to hear and feel things that were not really tangible. She was convinced that she would be considered crazy if she were to wake up the sleeping co-passengers in the middle of the night to check if there indeed was
an ‘Anu’ in the compartment who had recently lost her child to death.
Ranjini did not do anything about it then, but later, she did work on such messages. Today she is an intuitive, telepathic, energy communicator, and for her, everything is energy. She also connects with animals, plants, and places, and reads the Akashic Records. She is clear that a very specific aspect and blessing of the soul communication work has been the healing power of closure that a message from the loved ones who have transitioned can bring to those left behind.
In life, we often leave many things unsaid, many emotions unexpressed. Often, it’s the belief that there will be time later on or that it won’t matter even if we expressed it. It is one of the biggest mistakes as death can be sudden and unexpected, and doesn’t leave time to clear misunderstandings, express love, or forgive one another. Death can also leave the survivors with many complex questions, like why it happened, could this have been avoided, or should they have done something more.
It feels too final, and many are left with the feeling of extreme helplessness, confusion, or anger as they feel they will never get an answer. Soul communication helps one experience that closure.
Ranjini has seen children come to terms with the death of a parent and feel their love again when some answers have been received through soul communication. Parents have made peace with the death of a beloved child, knowing that the soul is doing well and getting answers to why this happened. The spouse of a person who took their own life could finally release the tremendous guilt of a survivor, after knowing the karmic contract the couple had with each other and hearing the message of love and forgiveness and the reason for the sudden departure of the soul from the equation. It helped the surviving partner not just close the cycle of pain but also find the strength to start an initiative, a suicide helpline, turning their experience into a gift for others that saves lives. Through Ranjini, a son received communication from his mother who was in the ICU. Her soul informed her son that she was trying to fight back for her children’s sake and recover. The patient started to respond and was taken out of the ICU. Her symptoms improved. However, the next communication indicated that she was tired, and the body was no longer able to support life though she was trying. She slipped into a coma and passed away within a few days. In the next communication after her passing away, she asked her son to keep their loving connection alive through food and cooking, and told him to bake a cake for her birthday. The son confirmed that he was fond of cooking and would often take advice from his mother while cooking recipes. As the family was grieving, they were not planning to celebrate her birthday, but her soul’s message about baking a cake (his sister would bake cakes for everyone’s birthday) got them the assurance that she was indeed connected to them, at peace, and was urging them to move on with life and not stop the celebrations.
Ranjini’s message to Suma helped her navigate the difficulty of her mother’s paralysis
Death can also leave the survivors with many complex questions, like why it happened, could this have been avoided, or should they have done something more. It feels too final, and many are left with the feeling of extreme helplessness, confusion, or anger as they feel they will never get an answer. Soul communication helps one experience that closure.
Ranjini also helped another son receive communication from his father’s soul about how he had made peace with the extended family even though they had cheated them financially and requested the son to let go of his anger and move away from the toxic family. The message resonated at a core level with the son, who could finally let go of his anger and need for punishment, and move away to focus on his own life.
Life Positive’s ex-editor Suma Varughese too is a beneficiary of Ranjini’s psychic abilities. In the last four months of her life, Suma’s paralysed and bedridden mother went through a very bad phase, which was agonising for Suma to watch. At that low point, Ranjini sent her an email that her mother’s soul had sent her a message. Suma almost toppled off her chair, but the message, when she read it, soothed her immensely. It said that her mother and she had entered a contract to go through her mother’s paralysis journey together, and Suma’s job was to serve her unconditionally without wishing for her to recover. Only that unconditional seva (selfless service) would heal her from the wounds of
the past. As soon as the daughter found inner peace with the situation and both mother and daughter were free of expectations, more love and ease flowed into the relationship, and the mother passed away peacefully within a month. The grieving was inevitable, but there remained no unfinished or unresolved emotions left behind.
The chosen one
Roshni Shehnazz from Mumbai, who also does channelling, shares, “My life took a turn around a few years after a life-threatening incident which moved me out of the glamour industry after 20 plus years and took me on a path I never had the slightest clue of. My work as a spiritual medium began after a series of channelled messages and healing energies were worked upon me, for my own transformation.
Roshni says, “In the early days of my spiritual journey, when I started my work as a sacred medium, I was at a friend’s dinner, and out of the blue, I got a message for someone sitting across who I didn’t even know. I got the message to tell the person, “Release the tension about the health of someone elder who’s in the hospital.” Later, this person came and sat right next to me. I exchanged a smile and almost as if someone was pushing the words out of my mouth I told the person the message. The person was spooked and walked away. I kept wondering what the person may have thought about me and wanted to exit quickly. I started searching for my friends to say bye when the same person tapped me from behind. He said sorry for abruptly moving away but admitted that he was indeed disturbed by the condition of a comatose aunt and asked me how I knew about it. I briefly mentioned my new path and that these messages keep flowing through. He asked if I could help and call the daughter of the aunt. I was simply guided to tell him to ask his cousin to call me directly and that if God wanted to do anything through me, then it would all fall into place.
“The daughter shared the details of the mother after two weeks. The daughter, father, and I
Roshni Shehnazz
were shocked by the details and the emotional causes of the coma that tumbled out during the channelling and which were confirmed by them, including the fact that several medical reports had no conclusion as to why she was in a coma. Later, the daughter agreed to the guided healing sessions for the mother (after much resistance from the family), for which I went to the hospital three times a week.
“The bigger turn around happened when I gave a timeline regarding when she would come out of the coma, and she did so exactly during those dates.”
But there was more to come. The mother had never known Roshni before, and when the latter had gone to the hospital to do her healing, she was comatose in the ICU.
Roshni continues, “Three weeks after she was conscious, I went to visit her. As I walked into the room, she looked at me from a room full of family members and asked me, “Where were you all these days, and why didn’t you come to meet me?” Her daughter and I were shocked. She then went further to tell her daughter that it was me she was referring to all those days when she asked, “Where is your ponytailed friend who prayed for me?” I told her I was the same person though not in a ponytail now, and she was happy.
“This not only confirmed the fact that I was indeed being used as a divine instrument but confirmed a deep truth that, even when comatose, the soul can see, hear, and experience the outer world. This incident should make us realise that the soul is active all the time and that we need to remember to always be compassionate.”
Sai Baba visits
There are others also who have found this path almost automatically. Suzy Singh—mental health therapist, grief expert, international
Suzy Singh
author, and karma scholar—from Delhi says, “My first real experience of channelling for another person occurred in Bangalore. I had recently quit the advertising profession to focus singularly on my spiritual path. There used to be a stream of seekers and clients who would visit me throughout the day. One evening, a middle-aged gentleman sought my help. He was undecided about something and came seeking guidance. On listening to him, I was pulled into a powerful trance-like state, and suddenly the room burst into an illuminated fire, so bright that it felt as though the resplendence of the midday sun had suddenly filled the otherwise dark room. It was quite an extraordinary experience, particularly as there was a complete sense of timelessness associated with it. From the golden brilliance that permeated all around, messages from Shirdi Sai Baba started flowing through, answering all of the gentleman’s questions.
Until then, Suzy had no prior active connection with Shirdi Sai Baba, but his presence was so unmistakable and loving that she became a devotee for life. Later, she discovered that the man consulting me was an ardent devotee of Sainath and had been one of the orphaned children whom the master had embraced and nurtured in a past life, as was revealed during the session.
The experience activated something in her consciousness, enabling her to receive communication from the spirit world quite spontaneously thereafter. In subsequent years, she encountered many types of spirits. The first type were trapped spirits. These included land
bound spirits ( i.e., spirits living on a particular piece of land), property-bound spirits that lived in old, uninhabited, or locked constructions, harmless entities that attached to people,
Sai Baba of Shirdi
“In the early days of my spiritual journey, when I started my work as a sacred medium, I was at a friend’s dinner, and out of the blue, I got a message for someone sitting across who I didn’t even know. I got the message to tell the person, “Release the tension about the health of someone elder who’s in the hospital.” Later, this person came and sat right next to me.
and wandering spirits that moved frequently. Suzy channels only when a spirit shows up in a session. She is willing to convey their communication only if it occurs naturally and spontaneously to assist closure and facilitate the onward spiritual evolution and journey of the person undergoing the session.
Why channel?
The underlying message and spiritual power of soul communication reiterate the fact that the soul continues its journey beyond the cycle of life and death. It erases the sense of finality and brings in hope. It helps you make peace with a major event like death and facilitates forgiveness, both given and received.
Channelling can heal a painful wound and bring about closure, helping a person move on with life. The fact is, there are many things we cannot understand in the journey of our lives. Though there are many sceptics, believers, especially those with personal experiences, do make us want to explore the world of channelling to understand ourselves and our life better. It indeed is a remarkable gift of the Divine bestowed especially upon some. We can explore it if we want, especially when circumstances are beyond our comprehension.
When we pray ardently, the medium will be sent to us in a way that the supreme power deems fit, as the ways of the Divine are unknown and mysterious.
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