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copyright © 1999, by Karyn Greenstreet. All rights reserved. KG: Today we’re talking with Helen Stewart, an internationally-known psychic and host of her own radio program out of San Francisco. Helen is also the President of UMS, the University of Metaphysical Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Welcome, Helen! HS: Great to be here! KG: What was your earliest "psychic" experience, where you had "real-world" feedback to your psychic abilities? HS: The first experience of being "other" was at four years old, I "knew" that somehow I was not from this place. I guess that was the first experience. I felt an adult, even a peer, and that has never changed. The first psychic experience came at 10, when I awoke from anesthesia speaking French, when I had never been to France or studied French! Prior to that, I used to "read" my parents, knowing what was going on with them, commenting about their relationship in detail (shocking them greatly!) and getting slapped for doing so. Of course they loved each other… how could I know differently? (They'd say.) KG: Yes, I'm sure <smile>. HS: The first corroborable feedback came when I was in my early teens. We were traveling in France. We had never been there, yet I knew exactly where everything was in this border town in Alsace. I guess that freaked out my parents, and they noticed and commented. I also met a man in an airport in Chicago, knew his name, family all sorts of things about him, and we stood there and talked and had never been in the same place ever in life before that moment. Is that "psychic" or "reading someone" or "reincarnational" or what exactly? I guess I would call that psychic, too. KG: Yes, I would, too. HS: Each is a slightly different twist on becoming aware that I was psychic. KG: It's wonderful that you had experiences when you were young and kept up with it even though your parents didn't "approve." Often children are smothered in this regard. Helen, how and when did you meet your first spirit guide? HS: Well, this will be another convoluted answer. I suppose the first experience was with the Ouija Board encountering a future child of mine by the name of Tux who lived in the 21st century. He did tell me that my daughter was pregnant. Later, I took an intensive in channeling with Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer and that was the first verbal channeling. At that time, I gave my "guide" a name, but I had been experiencing him (one of quite a crew) for sometime before. KG: How did you feel when you first met Tux? How did you react? HS: I channeled "dead" relatives before I met this guide, one named Navrooj, and several other guides. It was the intensive that made me begin to call the process of reading I do "channeling," even though the term is a misnomer. KG: How is it a misnomer? HS: Because the guides use every aspect of my own particular experience in the channeling process. I am hardly an "empty vessel" or "pure vessel," as some like to think of themselves. My experience as an interpreter, as a sociologist, as a teacher all are ingredients used by me and by my various guides (about 8) in the channeling and reading and clairvoyant practice I do now. When I do psychic readings for organizations, my sociological background helps and is a part of the channeling process, even though I don't "edit" intentionally or unintentionally. But these factors help me in my particular psychic specialty. KG: Are your guides always around or do you have to try to contact them when you want to communicate? HS: They are always a thought or focus away, off on their own business, here IMMEDIATELY when I need them, with a simply mental note to "please phone home." I don't think about them all the time, but I am definitely conscious sometimes that they are near. When I refuse to pay attention they give me a headache until I respond. KG: I bet! <grin> How cooperative are they when you want them not to intrude into your life for whatever reason? Are they cooperative in letting you alone when you need to be? HS: Absolutely! They are as obtrusive or unobtrusive as I wish them to be. They don't sit on the window sill when I go to the bathroom, unless I am musing and invite them in for a moment (in the only quiet place in this mad house of mine). Otherwise they make their presence known by an "energy feeling." In emergencies, they will pop an image or idea into my head. For example, they always tell me when a deer is about to dart onto the road, knowing that I don't want to kill a deer. Do you understand what I mean? They are most well bred, to be sure. KG: Helen, do you have any particular technique for "calling" your guides? HS: Technique yes, I imagine my guides always coming into a conference room. They always enter from the right through a door into the room. Navrooj, the spokesperson for the group on most occasions, always enters first, and when I see his face I know they are coming in. The others follow and the last one to be seated a very close friend on this plane in California, Tim. He is always the procrastinator and the last one to be seated. When they are all present they usually give me an indication of what the reading will be like by their interaction with each other and with me (sometimes they huddle like a football team, sometimes they give thumbs up, sometimes they raised their arms together or whirl around together…then I know it'll be a wild one! ) When the last one is seated I know I can begin. KG: If you could suggest one simple exercise for someone to do, to be introduced to their guides, what would it be? HS: I would create a safe, warm place which suits your idea of comfort, safety and ease it could be outside or inside. I would build a doorway in that place. The doorway could be in your mind or in an object. (For example, I have a crystal stone with a flaw that shines opalescent green in the middle of it. When I first learned to channel, I imagined going through that space into a room where my guides would meet me.) Once you create the space through which you will enter their realm and they interact with you in yours, this is a "joint anteroom," if you will, between the dimensions, where you each feel comfortable and are each fully yourself. Then I would suggest that you enter this doorway and suggest to yourself before you enter that you will meet your guide on the other side of that door, whether in a library or other room, or in a glen or cave. When you go through the doorway, look out ahead of you and see what you see. Your guide could look to you like a person, or like an animal, or like light energy, or like nothing but a feeling that is deep and glowing. Just look and see. Your mind will suggest the proper and comfortable form for your guide. You can consider this guide to be a separate entity or a different, more knowing part of yourself. Remember, this will be a lifelong friend, so choose to see someone/something that you can love deeply and converse with and feel kinship with, without question and without concern for safety or clarity or commitment. Make sense? KG: Yes. HS: Then ask the guide you see if he/she/it has a name to give you to call the guide. This helps in the early stages but is not necessary over time. I hardly call my guides by name anymore, first because there are several who help in readings, and secondly because I know the name is a convention for my sake. So the name helps you to focus and gives you clarity when you are trying to distinguish energies, but can be used sparingly or discarded later if you and the guide prefer. Some guides are very attached to their names so don't dump them unless you feel you are ready and they don't mind. KG: First you go to their realm, then they will meet you in yours? HS: I described an anteroom between the realms where you meet jointly on mutual, neutral turf, so to speak. They must adjust their energies to me, and I to them, so the "doorway" device acts like a decompression chamber of sorts and permits us to meet them in neutral territory. KG: That makes good sense to me, Helen. Do Guides come and go in your life? For example, for a specific purpose, like a consultant? HS: Hmmmm. Good question! I think so depending upon the circumstances. I have sent one guide away for a time because I felt he behaved badly. He was the uptight, professor type, who seemed too possessive and who interrupted all of my massages when I wanted to relax. He is certainly still here, and helps a lot. He also knows a lot and helps me with scientific material, on which I am particularly focused of late. I have a health specialist, Naira, who does my health readings, and she is always here, but does not participate in every reading. I have a vet, who works exclusively with animals and an Egyptian physician. A few days after my Dad died, I did a session and he popped up at the conference table! So I suppose they do come and go depending upon need. KG: It's all about that inner "feeling," and trusting it, isn’t it? We are always thinking hard and find that we cannot close off our mind and our own thoughts enough to have a blank slate. How can we open up more? HS: Ah, I think that this is probably the first major fallacy of channeling to what would come through and attempts to channel. Remember what I said earlier about using your own unique experience in the channeling process? Well, you don't need to be a blank slate to read someone... you need to be able to interpret the barrage of information that is coming in all the time. Channeling is discerning among the images, discerning among the possible interpretations of the same image. For example, I could see rushing across my closed eyelids an hourglass shape. I have to decide why I'm getting that image for this person now is there a question of time: the time the person spends, the time the person has, the time the person wastes, the importance of time to the person. I must assume that the hourglass image comes and frames itself to me either in words or image now, because it is relevant to the person I am reading or to me. That is the essence of good or mediocre channeling, to discern that the person is afraid about losing time and so rushes through life without stopping to measure and reflect on the time that is passing. It may also be an indication of how long until the person's request will be fulfilled. KG: Yes, that makes sense. Helen, how do you know when you have the right interpretation to an image you receive? Does this come with time and practice or do you know instinctively what the image means to the person you are reading? HS: I think this comes with time and practice. Each of us has and will develop a unique "style" of reading. I don't think "right" interpretation is a concept I work with very much. For example, I sometimes get double images, then I have to figure out which to use first. At first, I tried to decipher and choose. Over time I realized that what I saw was what I got: a double image that would have meaning for the person being "read." So I mention that I am getting a double image and say both, which is important because the second will often be lost while you are working on the first, much like dream material. KG: Well, Helen, I'm afraid we've worn you out with our questions! Thank you so much for speaking with us! HS: True, true. But a fun wearing out indeed!!!!! KG: You can reach Helen via email at helen@compuserve.com. |
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