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Q 'n' A

(Updated on June the 9th 2011)

Do you have questions about the paranormal you'd like them answered? If so, email . Below are some of the questions received that were answered by Patrick Zakhm.

- Someone from Halifax, Nova Scotia interviewed Patrick Zakhm recently and below were the 16 questions that were asked -

1)- What do you define as paranormal?

Phenomenons and events that just don't fit the norm or normal ones that you have seen or experienced before. Anything that cannot be explained using either logic or scientific means can fall into the paranormal domain. But one shouldn't mix that term with what some people think it is paranormal. Like seeing a strange cloud form for instance and call that paranormal. I have come across websites and i was really surprised by what people call paranormal.

2)- What are your abilities and when did you learn you had them?

We are all born with abilities to see beyond the physical. But as we grow older the physical life experiences that we lead weaken these abilities which are not based in our physical body but in the soul. We can see some of these abilities in some kids, Where no ego of the physical life have been developed yet.

I'm a sensitive and that means i have different abilities to a degree. And these are clairsentient, clairvoyant,an empath, remoter viewer, psychic, medium, telepath and few others that are not necessary to mention here. The glossary(http://www.montrealparanormal.com/glossary.php)on my website needs to be red though for the words mentioned above to be understood properly because there's alot misunderstanding out there. But you have to know something important about one's spiritual abilities. One can't will it to use them or see with them at will. Because they won't work. It's not up to him to see it's up to his spirit guides to allow him to do so. It's not up to us to receive info through what we have in abilities. Our spirit guides needs to give us permission first otherwise we wont see or pick up anything. That is something many people still don't seems to understand or believe. We are like receivers and if there's no radio stations broadcasting anything then we won't receive anything, as simple as that.

3)- What is the most memorable paranormal experience you have had?

I have had many and keep on having(my upcoming book is on all that). One of most memorable one is the one i had in Lourdes, France few years ago. I was in Paris with some people i know then we decided to go to Lourdes, (about an hour by plane). I've never been there and i didn't know much about what's in there. Just that there was a girl in the past named Bernadette that saw the virgin Mary in a cave, that was all. Arrived there we put our stuff in a hotel and headed to the where everybody was heading, to the grotto. Where the so called apparitions of the virgin Mary took place. People there are in the thousands in any direction you look. We visited the grotto took some pictures then headed back to the hotel to eat and rest. Few hours later we took off again toward the grotto. I passed through the crowd in front of the grotto while snapping pictures then i turned then headed back. And it's as i was walking back that the following happened. I for some reason no longer see anybody, it was like everybody had vanished. The thousands of people all around me were gone. All except one lady standing above in front of me behind a veil. I could not see her clearly through this light grey veil. She looked like in her late 40th early 50th. She didn't say anything. Few moments later she raised her left hand a bit. And when she did her heart started radiating pure white light. That grew little by little in intensity until it exploded into pure blinding white light. There was a pigeon flapping it's wings sound after as i was blinded by this light, then i was back. All that happened while i was walking.

I don't know if i froze momentarily in my place and for how long. I continued walking and didn't realize what i just saw and experienced. It took me few seconds to remember. Then about eight months later i was visiting Lebanon and one of my friends who just got back from a trip suggested that we visit Harissa. Harissa is pilgrimage site in Lebanon hight up in the mountains above the sea city of Jounieh(about 15-20 minutes away from it by car). So i accepted and went along with my friends. Harissa have a huge white statue of the virgin Mary facing the sea/jounieh. Arriving up there i went up a circular stairs with a friend of mine up to the statue's feet. This is the closest you can get. I went up to make a small prayer to someone sick in my family. And as soon as i started my prayer i felt the same lady that i saw in Lourdes, France come forward toward me. She kept a distance and was listening to what i was asking. I only felt her and did not see her this time. Then i left but i kept feeling her attention on me for a bit and that feeling all suddenly stopped. I did not understand what these two experiences meant at first. Took me about a year or two to get to what this lady was trying to say.

4)- What is your scariest experience yet and where did it take place?

I'm not really afraid from anything i have seen so far, yet anyways. What is scary i think is when you are taping something or you are taking a picture of something and you don't realise what you are taping until later. Please check the page about The Westmount House to understand what i mean by that. I'd like also to you tell you about an interesting experience/investigation we have made me and my meetup group a while ago. It's a long story so i instead of rewriting the whole thing it's posted here if you'd like to check it out and use: http://www.mlive.com/paranormal/index.ssf/2010/12/mayhem_and_mishaps_the_montrea.html

5)- Is there something everyone should know about the paranormal?

Yes of course. Most important of all is not to mess with things you don't really understand. Like for instance the Ouija board. I was shocked the other day to see it being sold at a shop for $11.99. The board is nothing and it's not dangerous. It's what goes on around it that is. We have come across many ghost cases caused by using Ouija boards. So again, stay away from things you know nothing about. Even if your friends say it's OK or laugh at you for not following them. Do not follow them. Only follow your heart and what is comfortable to you. If you are comfortable inside toward something then follow it. If not then just don't. The why (not) we'll be understood later.

6)- Do you think people sometimes lie about a paranormal experience? Why or why not?

yes, some do lie and exaggerate their experience sometimes. well it spices up their experience and make it tastier to the ear i guess. It's like adding salt and pepper to a dish. But then too much salt or pepper can ruin a dish, right. And so is an experience told by somebody lying to the ears of the listeners. His lies will shine through sooner or later.

7)- There is a lot of popularity surrounding paranormal activities nowadays, what do you think people are searching for?

For kicks and getting scared mostly. The rest are searching for a fact that we just don't die and vanish through the experience called death. Ghost existence tells you that. That there's something else after death. And by catching a ghost on cam they'll have the proof they are looking for.

8)- Do you think TV shows such as Ghost Hunters are reliable?

Many shows are not reliable at all. Like one show i saw not long ago where a group of ghost hunters(here in Quebec i think) go into supposedly haunted sites and communicate with the ghosts there using a medium with a table. So this so called medium sits around that table as well as other group members and the owner of the house they are investigating then start asking the ghost/ghosts questions. The medium start asking questions then occasionally the owner of the house. Nothing happens at first all the time. It's the medium is trying to make a long distance phone call. It takes time? Exactly. Then boom a connection has been established. The table lift then slides away from the medium. It always lifts then slides away from him. Why the table keeps skidding away from him one might ask? Could he be applying a force on it somehow? The ghost supposedly Morse code the medium by lifting then dropping the table. And after few questions and the table sliding more and more away from the medium then him pulling it back in front of him.

Those around the table who are not part of this mediums group started questioning things. Like why the table keeps sliding away from the medium? Is he lifting it somehow by applying a small force on part of that table? Since he's sitting down the force applied or part of it goes sideways, is it why it skiddes away from him?And why the medium lift one hand sometimes and scratch his face while keeping the other hand on the table? Is it because those on the table that are not part of his group have grown suspicious of him and are staring at him? And the medium by lifting one hand to say by that"See it's not me, it's the ghost" he breaks the doubts that are building up around that table?. I guess one can only question things without giving answers of course in this case.

So, many shows are just what they are "shows" to entertain. Others have some truth in them and the rest is just exaggerations. And the rest(which are very small)are genuine and you can learn alot from them.

9)- Do you believe in demons?

I would like to share with you few experiences i have had that were not part of any investigation and might answer your question. One time many years ago i was chatting online with a lady that i didn't know what she looked like until she sent me a pic of her(i think this experience is mentioned on the Strange Experiences page on my website) and when i saw her i saw small devils or evil(or demons if you like)entities around her. I did not tell her what i was seeing around her. But then later on she said that she's a witch. Few years later i was in Ottawa and i was ghost haunting in a very haunted site(Ottawa International Hostel)when i came across a lady (a stranger) and when i first layed my eyes on her i saw again the exact same type of little devils around her and i was surprised. As i spoke to her a little she said she's also interested in ghosts. I then asked her if she's a witch?She replied that she's a pagan. But i don't think she was really a pagan. The activities she was in may have been pagan to her but she was doing something else beside that that was more into witchcraft then paganism. Another experience happened at one of my old apartment. One time i arrived home and entered into my room where i usually meditate and there was an evil (or demon if you like) presence located in an area of that room. It didn't stay long, few minutes and it was gone. I guess it didn't like something in my room or maybe my whole room.

But, from what I have seen spiritually so far i can say that there are different types of entities or beings if you like (not of our plane) that you can call demons if you like, each with different objectives. One type works to gain control and influence over people’s lives and souls. They want people to stay in the dark as far as the spirit world is concerned. The less people know about it the better it is for these entities and the stronger their influence becomes. They want people to live feel and think physical, that there’s nothing else beside what we can see with our senses. That there’s nothing beyond the physical plane. Another type of entities objectives is to chain people through carnal pleasures.The more people succumb to their influences in the physical world and the more these entities gain force. Their influence become a control on the soul after the physical death experience.

10)- Do all spirits have a time when they stay here on Earth or is there a “heaven”?

Ghosts you mean?No they don't stay here on earth. They move to another plane of existence vibrating at a different frequency from ours, invisible to our senses. But they stay attached to the physical life, objects, experiences for many years. For how long? All depends on how attached(spiritually that is)they are to their last physical life/objects/place etc. There are many planes of existences all coexist with ours but vibrating at different frequencies. And time only exist here in the physical. Over there time does not exist. It ceases to exist when we leave the physical. Heaven and hell are more of inner experiences then actual places. But then our inner experiences reflect what we are seeing aren't they not? Most ghosts don't even know where they are or who they are(sometimes)?. Some are stuck in between planes. One second they were here then during that same second they are no longer and don't know what is going on or the slightest idea of where they are?

11)- How can you capture a ghost, spirit, demon, etc. on camera, when you can’t see them with your own eyes?

Well you can't at will. You have to be lucky to catch something, specially a ghost. Very lucky actually to catch a ghost. If they manifest physically that is. If they don't there's no tool so far that can catch them in their plane. Only when they manifest in the physical world and you happen to have a cam and at the right time. Cameras are not a magical equipment. It catch what an eye can catch, maybe a bit faster then an eye can can but that is all. Just pure luck, alot of pictures taking and follow your gut feeling where to shoot or where to stand. Also sometimes with an EMF meter you might get a reading of a sudden very short magnetic high reading. This is still under study but it seems that if that happens then something spiritual in nature just passed near you.

12)- Why do you think people are reluctant to believe in the paranormal?

Because they are afraid from the unknown. And Hollywood style movies have added more wood to the unknown fear fire. The paranormal is still a hidden ground to many people you see. And science does not acknowledge it's existence because the laws that govern it is not yet understood. You are dealing with different laws and phenomenons here that are not like the ones we are accustomed to in the physical world. So, it's easier to ignore and say for instance ghosts do not exist then say they do exist but we don't know how they exist or why?

13)- Are you superstitious? Why or why not?

I can't say i am and i can't say I'm not. But many ancient superstition have some truth to them. But over time they have changed over and over to fit people's beliefs and the way they see and understand the world around them. Others which are modern mostly, are mainly based on absurdities and ignorance.

14)- Do you think everyone has abilities to communicate with spirits and that they just don’t know it?

Yes, we all have abilities because we all come from the same place, or our souls come from the that is, the spirit world. Some tend to ignore what they have and others develop them. The abilities to communicate with the spirits was something that was ordinary long long long time ago. But with time the impressions and the influences of the physical worlds on us and the developments of our thought processes overwhelmed and snuffed down our spiritual abilities and left it in a vestige dormant state in most people today. But with proper meditations these spiritual grains of sight and perception if you like that we all have can be awakened again. One might find funny what i will say now but honesty, just pure honesty is a powerful meditation. It is actually a meditation in itself if one can follow the voice of truth that we all have inside of us.

15)- Do you think that there are some places in the world that are more “haunted” than others? If so, where?

There are many very haunted sites all around the globe. I think the degree of haunting has to do with the ghosts in there or how they lived their last lives and in what way that makes a sight more haunted then another. But it's not really possible to say this is more haunted then that because they all have reasons why the haunting exist or why it's happening in this fashion or at that degree. Another thing to add here is that some people here can create more activities in a haunted house then others. You see sometimes ghosts are not aware of their death or that they have passed away. So they still think they are alive in their own memory in their home. Then comes somebody into their house. A complete stranger with a key. Now imagine yourself in that ghosts ghostly shoes what would you do? Alot of haunting are caused by a misunderstanding between the ghost/ghosts who don't know they are no longer in the physical and those people who move in into their homes uninvited.

16)- Is there anything else you would like to let me know?

Always follow your heart and what is comfortable inside to you and what is true. And do not be bothered by what people think of you as long as you are comfortable inside about yourself and about who you are. If people believe you it's fine and if they don't it's fine also. And always stand to the truth no matter what.

- Below are questions received through emails and were answered later on by Patrick Zakhm -

1)- Do all spirits stay "here" on earth or if there's such a place as "heaven"? I thought once you died, you were gone.

No we don't just vanish after death. Our physical body goes back to were it came from, the physical world. The soul, your essence, who you are, your conscience, the"I" move on after the physical death experience or physical separation to a different plane of existence. There are many planes that coexist with ours vibrating at different frequencies if you like. Those who stay connected to the physical world are called ghosts. They are attached to this plane but they don't live in it. Ghosts live in a plane that is just beyond the physical one. And occasionally they can manifest physically and temporarily in the physical plane in particular areas connected to the reason of their death or connected to an area or a place of importance to them when they were still of this world. Souls in this plane live in their memories. Their memories of their last lives are their world there. And time in this plane does not exist. A person died in 1605 stays 1605 to him and nothing changes. And these souls has be guided to move on to a higher plane or needs to be purified first from anything connected or attached to the physical plane before they can move on to higher planes.

Well we all have our heavens and our hells. What we like becomes our heaven there and what we despise(in the physical world) becomes our hell. But still these are all experiences we go through afterward based on how we lived our lives here. Heaven and hell depicted in all religions are metaphoric and symbolic in nature. They do not depict literally what we will experience or encounter in these places but symbolically what we will go through in emotional experiences.

2)- When you say "something happened" in that room where you picked up vibes from the pictures i sent you, is it like a death, something tragic? And does a psychic trail necessarily involve a spirit or it's a kind of leftover energy of some sort?

No, it's not death nor it is something tragic. What i picked up was activities that resembles those encountered in haunted buildings. But by the way they are present or located(in the pictures you sent me) tells me that they were brought in or created by accident by the use of some kind of spirit communication tool like a Ouija board for instance. Ouija boards are not something anybody should play with because you can never know who is speaking through them. Most of those who come through are tricksters. And Ouija boards are not just games like most people think. They are tools that can open windows between our plane and the plane that is right behind it. They can rupture the veil if you like that separate our plane from other planes. Usually causing lost souls to drop into the house of where the Ouija board was used and haunting it. And most of these souls don't have the slightest idea of where they are or what is going on? The board itself is nothing really it's what people concentrate on that is the dangerous part here and that's what can slice open a door and let in all kind of spirits. Opening a door is easy but closing it is something else.

Anything emotionally experienced in a place leave a psychic trail behind that can be red by some sensitives or psychics. Specially intense emotional experiences like anger, rage, argument, fights, sufferings or pain. All these emotional experiences leave behind a trail or an image that can be seen or red by some people with permission from these people's spirit guides. No permission given nothing can be seen or red.

3)- One last question. I know the last few tenants(where i now live)all ended up in a divorce, or at the least there was a lot of arguing. It might be a common thing these days, or maybe a coincidence. But I was wondering if a house can hold a negative energy? which could influence the people living there. I once saw a house being cleansed with sage(actually I saw it on TV, so it might not be worth much) to purify the air, the bad spirits.

Absolutely. Like i mentioned in my previous answer previous emotional experiences depending on their intensity can stay behind and these residual energies can be like catalysts for arguments and fights. If you live in a house where there has been a lot of arguments and anger and fights in the past experienced by previous people who lived there then these energies will cause some people living in that same place now to act on them. These left behind negative energies if you want will create fights and arguments for no reason at all sometimes. And other times they can multiply the intensity of a tiny misunderstanding to something much much bigger and violent. Yes, sage is a good cleanser of negative experiences and thoughts and negative or bad energies that are present in a house. This plant has been used for ages by native indians to cleanse themselves and their houses from bad energies and spirits. But you have to know that using sage work sometimes in cleansing a house or an area but it does not work all the times in all cases.

4)- Do you differentiate between psychics, sensitives and mediums? If so, how would you define each of those?

Yes of course, just like you would differentiate between a house electrician, an auto electrician and an electronics technician. They all work with electricity but each is a bit different from one another in what they do. The same can be said about psychics, sensitives and mediums. They all belong to the same family yet they are somewhat different in what each pick up in spiritual energies.

A psychic is someone who can see souls of those who have crossed over as well as communicate with them (if permission from the spirit world was granted otherwise they won't see anything). Souls also has to allow themselves to be seen by a psychic or again the psychic won't be able to see them. And this communications between souls and psychics take the form of metaphoric and symbolic images that the psychic has to be translate properly (which is very difficult sometimes) in order to understand what a soul is trying to convey. Some psychics give off a particular energy or light that attract the attention of souls and ghosts. And in consequences a contact get to be made instantly with those on the other side. So this is basically the main characteristics of a psychic. And almost all psychics has some degrees of clairsentience, clairaudience, clairvoyance and empathic abilities to name a few. But they are not as developed as the ability to see souls and ghosts and communicate with them.

The sensitive on the other hand is more developed in these fields. Most sensitives have a natural investigative nature. They are more conscious and perceptive then the people around them. Sensitives seems to also have several well developed abilities in spiritual perceptions all working at the same time like a multi frequencies radio waves scanners. But instead of picking up radio waves they pick up different spiritual vibration energies. They usually are clairvoyants, clairsentients, clairaudients, residual energies readers. Some can see images and translate them just like we saw above with psychics. Others can see souls and ghosts in their planes but they cannot communicate with them like psychics do. They can see them but they can't talk to them where as psychics can. And this is where psychics excel the most at.

Some sensitives are remote viewers and others can read auras. Some can read haunted sites from outside and tell you which house is haunted and which isn't and if there are ghosts and their numbers. Others have degrees of psychometric and can read personal information from objects when they get in touch with. Emotional events leaves spiritual traces behind and some sensitives can read that. Some can take a glimpse of people's past just by looking at them. This is basically some of what they can pick up in vibrations, energy and what they can do.

A medium is someone who can become the medium of a spiritual communication with someone in the spirit world. They can channel in information or messages coming from a deceased person. They usually give permission to someone on the other side to speak through them using their bodies as the medium of transmission(hence the name medium). Although they can become the medium for a soul on the other side to come through they stay though in control of what goes on or what comes through. Some mediums loose complete control of their bodies during a reception seance but most stay in control. Mediums are able to fall into a particular conscience state enabling by that souls that are on the other side to step in momentarily and say through the medium what they came here for to say. Mediums also have other abilities as well similar to what we've seen with psychics and sensitives. But they excel the most as being mediums.

5)- For those who have/would use psychics/sensitive/mediums, which of the three do you think would help the most in a paranormal investigation? Why?

In this field it's better to have at least a sensitive and a psychic with you in order to have a better understand of what is going on exactly in a haunted location. Each brings in part of the puzzle. It's like the fingers in a hand. They all work together to accomplish a particular movement or action.

6)- From your experiences and from what you've see so far how can you tell a genuine psychic/sensitive/medium from a false one?

Only through tests you can arrive to that. You have to test them. And it's better that someone who's been into this field for a long time to do the testing. Not an ordinary person because he/she might not have the experience or the necessary knowledge to know what to look for while testing any of the three.

Basically the three are usually extremely honest people in life and about what they can and can't pick up and they come out clean with that. They also don't charge any money for their work. Most of them don't with a few exceptions(and they have good reasons why they do charge) but most don't ask for money.

7)- Do paranormal groups have any obligation to expose psychic frauds?

Yes we do have this obligation to expose psychic frauds just like any other paranormal groups following the way of honesty and truth would do. Specially if these fake psychics are creating more problems to people then solutions. By problems I mean if they are scaring people and putting wrong ideas in their heads for nothing then we will intervene to clear out these things out and explain the situation to these people.

8)- What should I do when going out to take a look at houses that's supposed to be haunted or just going out to see if one can tell which house is haunted and which isn't?

First and most important thing to follow is to stay calm inside, not to be excited whatsoever about what you're doing or what you might see, just complete calmness inside and nothing else. And even if you feel something from a house just stay calm. This is important because our soul's forces expends instantly during a emotional experience and tend to cover the object of our experience and also mix with it, and that should be avoided here.

This can be noticed during a argument between two people for example. No need for both of them to be angry, just one is enough because the one with the agitated forces will engulf the other person with his energies and make them his, and so with that both of them are angry now. And that can happen only if the other calm person tune himself to what the other irritated person is saying, like by listening to what he's saying, if he doesn't, if he thinks of other things during the argument then he will stay calm and won't be irritated too.

Another important condition is not to analyse what you're looking at. Analysing through thinking here doesn't help you understand what's going, it will do the opposite, it will actually damage what you're picking up. So avoid analysing and don't let the ego get the hang of your perception. Just let your soul be in front here and put the ego behind, then see what impression you get from what you see.

Also important is detachment from the object of one's perception. Stay detached separated from what ever you are looking at, don't live in what you are seeing, keep it outside of you and you outside of it.

And always keep a camera with a good working flash with you, and when there is something or you feel something coming from a particular place then what you should do is take pictures with and without the flash from different angles. Like take a shot where you're standing then move away few feets then take another picture from that angle. The white light from the flash carries all the wavelength of colors that we see and those that we can't see which are invisible to the naked eye. And in some cases some of the invisible light like infra-red or ultra violet light created by the flash gets reflected by whatever invisible thing your are shooting and that get caught by the camera. So always keep a camera handy and take pictures from different angles.

9)- Why do you think that these houses are giving off weird vibes?

well it's because they are haunted. Haunted to me means there is a soul still tied up to that house and it's energies are spread all over the building(which what is being picket up here)but concentrated in one or more then one particular place and that's where the soul is located. And it can be conscious of it's state or not and on the cover of my book(Haunted Houses)that i drew myself you will notice small drawings depicting the most common emotional states that ghosts fall into after their physical death experience.

10)- Does that mean if i visited one of those houses on your site i would see a ghost?

Physically you mean, not necessarily. You have to be very lucky to see a ghost manifesting physically. You have to be at the right place and the right time. Psychically, if you have abilities in spiritual perception you may or may not see one because they have to allow it first. If the spirit plane and the ghost allows it then you'll see him.

11)- When I was viewing your site - the photos - my heart started racing and I got a very eerie feeling - It sort of freaked me out, does this mean I am sensitive?

The pictures on my site were taken to let people feel what i picked up in ghost vibes. Haunted buildings give off particular vibes that i was picking up and that's what i was trying to catch with the camera. To give a glimpse to people of these vibes. You see these ghost vibes are intense at particular angles because they carry in them emotions and feelings that these ghosts are stuck in. The emotional states these ghosts are in are being given or radiated off through these vibes. We all are sensitives to a degree. We can all pick up things if we know how. Some are just imaginations and others are more then that. In my book "Haunted Houses"there's a section that teaches you how to meditate properly and how to develop what you have.

12)- Do you believe that spirits follow people or do they mainly stay with a building or house, etc?

Hauntings can follow you, it's not only in a building, it can be connected to anything physical anything that belonged to someone who in his life here was attached to this object it creates bonds spiritual bonds that will enable the soul to come back to be close to it, to haunt it. Beside that, one can also bring ghosts to his house by playing with "tools of communication" like for example the Ouija Board.

13)- My friend is distressed about things concerning guides, she red many negative things, i was concerned about her that's why i came to dialogue with you, what do you think?

I can't say I've ever had a bad negative experience with my spirit guides. And i don't think anyone will have any unpleasant ones with them if they understand them if they listen to them because they're here to help us out in things. Things that are visible to them from where they are but not to us. Their help gets misunderstood sometimes and badely translated into something that is not correct. Also, one should not take everything that is reads as true and apply them to himself. It's better to just take notes in one's mind so to speak of what is experienced, heard and said by others and pull from all that what they feel in their hearts as true.

14)- What can you do to stop abnormal thoughts like thinking all the time and not being able to stop?

A good way to reduce or even get rid of all these thoughts is to change your vibration your frequency to another one which isn't tuned to the thoughts that you are picking up. Have you noticed if there are more thoughts during the day then when it's night during the night time after midnight? Because if it was mainly during the day time that means you are picking up other peoples thoughts, they are being reflected in you. If it's during the night which i doubt it this mean its from spirit guides but they wouldn't be doing this to anyone unless there is a good reason.

We all change our vibratory energies by the things we do and even by what we eat. Like the tv does to you it made your tuner so to speak change channel momentarily, other things try reading listening to music drawing painting anything you like to do? If this doesn't work try meditating if you have a sink water running near a kitchen for instance let the water sink drips drop by drop in a way that you can hear it then go sit in a quiet not too lighted place then try to quiet your mind put the thoughts behind you some tricks like grabbing the thoughts that you are hearing then trowing them behind you helps you stop them..momentarily that is. So when your mind is quiet a bit concentrate on the drops of water in the kitchen and when ever other thoughts try to sneak in grab them through visualisations then throw them behind say "I'll think of that later I'll have all the time for that later ".

If water dripping bothers you try putting some Indian music a music that doesn't have side effects meaning a music that does not keep playing in ones head after the music was turned off which today's music do that and i find it very irritating. A musical instrument music is the best i think in making you focus and be in control of yourself.

So try doing this or other similar concentration exercise and see what happen. By the way I'm like you but with me i have my private house so to speak and when a spirit guide/s wants to tell me something he comes in he doesn't knock he just open the entrance door comes in tells me what needs to be told then leave.

15)- How can a ghost be captured by a camera if it's not physical?

Ghosts do manifest sometimes(but very rarely)in our physical plane. So if you have a camera and you were at the right place and at the right time you might catch a ghost. The camera is much faster then the eye. It can catch things that the eye can't like objects moving at high speed. Just like you can't see the wings flaps of a fly or a bird flapping his wings, cameras can because of their high shutter speed. Another thing the light from the cameras flash is pure white which means it carries all the colors/wavelengths of the spectrum visible as well non visible.So if there was a object in the let's say invisible part of the spectrum it may not have the substance you are thinking of but it has enough substance to absorb or reflect parts of that spectrum of light from the camera's flash light making it momentarily visible enough for the camera to catch. Similar to seeing dust particles in the air. We cannot see them with the naked eye but if you shine a light from a flashlight on them then you will be able to see them. The same goes to some phenomenons that are beyond are senses perception. The light from the flash light occasionally and with luck make them momentarily visible for the camera to catch.

16)- What is the best meditation techniques to develop psychic abilities?

The following are not so much of meditation exercises they are however more of a state of self and behaviour, and i give Honesty Serenity and Detachments the best marks. Specially Honesty which is something that is not hard to follow. Honesty IS a meditation by itself. A life in honesty is as precious to the soul as water is to our physical body.

17)- There isn't a lot of places on the net that have places that are haunted in Montreal]. Can you give me a couple of places i can check out, thank you so every kindly for your time?

There are many places that are haunted and many are not open to the public. The following are few sites that are open. Mcgill university, the section of the university (if i remember correctly) that is located on Sherbrooke, parallel to st. Catherine if you exit from Peel metro and you go up. I haven't examined the building yet but from outside it is giving off intense haunting energies. From what i heard it seems there's a ghost of a girl haunting it but i doubt that's the only ghost. Also The city hall in old Montreal is also giving off a lot of energies from the second floor which i tried to get up but couldn't, needed a appointment with the protocol. The lady was on vacation when i called, ill try again in the future when i have time. And also Cathedral Mary Queen Of The World, on Rene Levesque, there's a spirit i got in touch with connected to the huge wooden arch found inside.I haven't had a full investigation of the cathedral yet, i will when i get the chance. Saint James United Church on Saint Catherine is quiet haunted. People have reported seeing a couple on the second floor. Also one time with me i picked up a ghost sitting in about the middle on the second floor. He was staring at me curious what i was doing. Mary Gallagher's ghost is sort of the most famous in Montreal. No idea why though, there are plenty of other ghosts beside her but not much attentions are given to them. Do a bit or research on her to see where she usually appear. I have seen one time on a street corner where is said she appears and saw spiritually for a few minutes a lady standing wearing a skirt that was only the visible part. The skirt had an interesting pattern to it. Background color was very light beige with black squares inside squares. So i don't know if that was Mary's or had to do of how she was dressed the last time she was seen alive. Montreal is very haunted by the way but the thing is many haunted sites are not open to the public. Things are a bit hush hushed as far as ghosts goes. So even if you come across a haunted site you most probably won't be allowed in. The old Patriots Prison is haunted also. So these are some of the sites that comes to mind right now.

18)- Since psychics can see the future why don't they get the number of the next winning lotto ticket and get rich?

It's because it's not up to them to get the info they want. They are more like receivers like radios, they are able to receive information only if there are signals being broadcasted, transmitted to them. And only if their spirit guides have something to tell them. You see they can't will it to know anything, willing it might give them what they're asking for but with time they'll start to receive info that aren't correct. From my experience the best thing is not to ask anything and when you're spirit guides wants to tell you something that they see it fit for you to know about then they'll tell you.And if that was followed be sure that what is received is 100 percent correct.

19)- I had a reading by two different psychics and they both gave me somewhat similar messages why is that not the exact same thing?

Because each one is different no two alike, different in a sens that they didn't spiritually evolve the same way, so one won't see the exact same thing another is seeing. Also translating into language what they are seeing usually is not easy. This is basically one of the most difficult thing because souls usually communicate in symbols and you have to put in words properly what they are showing you or you're way off their message. That is if they are clearly visible to the psychic because sometimes they aren't. That's why sometimes you see psychics asking in some feedback from you because they can see somebody but it's not clear to them, it's foggy.

20)- Hi, my son is almost 4 and he started talking at 4month old and even before that he was seeing things, then when he was able to talk he would talk to these people, a few of them even scared me by the way he was talking to them he would even play with a couple of them and there are 2 that he talks to that scare him.

First of all i don't think you should be worried here because he seemed to have been seeing these things for a while now and if they wanted to hurt him they would have long time ago don't you think? He was able to see them only at the beginning now he can talk an interact with them, you should not be worried. This is common to many children at this age.I don't know if you believe in this but people who become psychics and mediums later in life go usually in similar experiences. So there is nothing to worry about unless you feel from what he tells you that they want to hurt him. This may sound off the wall to you but sometimes and i have witnessed that with my own eyes,kids around your son's are able to see the spirit world. The souls if you like of people that are no longer of this world. These spirits have usually a purpose for being visible to these kids and it's usually to protect them from harm from things happening in the child's life. And in other cases their presence is not connected to anyone just to the house where one has moved in and they are seeing the soul of someone who is still for some reason bound to his house. About the ones he's telling you are "mean",you have to know that there are kids at this age who doesn't use proper words to describe what they are experiencing or seeing. I'm not saying that he's doing that is it's just a thing to take into consideration also. You probably have already done this, but have you asked your son to ask whoever he is seeing like Who they are? what they're coming from? even if that sounds absurd to you, just try it see what he tells you. Have you always been in the same house where you live now? And have you ever checked the history of your house? Do you know who used to live there? This is another thing to check or maybe to do first if you haven't done it already. Also you can still go see or bring a priest to your home to bless it if you feel it's something that is beyond your capabilities in dealing with and get the house cleansed from spirits that you may think is harmful to your family.

21)- Hi! I need some help. I'm trying to gather information about telepathy, premonitions, precognition and post cognition for a research paper. If you know of any books that would help me I would appreciate it a lot. Thank you.

well i can't point a particular book for you because each person is different, my favorite books may not be good book for you.The best thing to do is to look around shops check the new age sections in libraries and when a book sticks to you that means that's the one for you. In other words your spirit guides wants you to have it. If it doesn't stick that means its not for you and keep looking.

22)- Hi i have been looking for web sites for some kind of answers and found some one else going through what my daughter is going through. And your e-mail address was there trying to reply to her, So i hope you don't mind me e-mailing you? My daughter is 2 and a half, and started saying that there is a man in our house, but we don't have any men living in our home, yesterday she hide behind the kitchen door saying the man is there(in our front room)and hide her face away when we picked her up and was very scared, she said he sits on our sofa and moves around the room as she points to different parts of the room where she says he is. So i tried to reassure her and tell her its OK he is her friend, and yet again today it has happened again tonight she was sitting on the sofa and started muttering to her self and then calls out and points Tony is back, but we don't know any Tony, and no men here. My older childrens were playing and pretend to get him to leave and said there is another one over there, and tony is here. The older 2 are getting very worried about what the little one is saying is there! I don't know what is going on, this started a few months back, when she went up stairs to the room and then came running back down and kept telling me to come and look! in a way she never has before, when i went upstairs with her she kept pointing in the hallway saying mum look there, but there was nothing there, the look on her face and the way she went on about going upstairs to look you would think the hallway was full of lots of goodies "sweets", i just took her back down and said there is nothing there silly, and now around the same period of time she want go upstairs on her own. Strange things have happened in our home for some years, mainly been as soon as you put things down they just disappear, I.E i could be working at my desk and talking on the phone and be writing notes i put the pen down for less than a minute and when i go to pick it up that disappears, i go and get another pen and the same thing happens, you can pull the whole desk apart and it is no where to be seen, and days later it is back there where i put it! The only other thing we have had happened is that me and my daughters who was 13 both see something move although couldn't tell you what it was, and as quick as we see it it was gone, me and the oldest daughter just looked at each other and i asked her did you see that and she said yes it was next to me, which is what i see! I just haven't got any clues to why this is happening in our home, but the last few days seems to be getting stranger, is there any in sight you can give me, I am even going to have an appointment with a clairvoyant to see what she thinks. I'd be grateful for any insight you can give me.

I don't wanna jump to conclusions right away because it's better to be physically present on site but your house sure sounds haunted from the things you have experienced. These experiences usually are encountered in buildings who still have their ex owners souls inhabit them,they don't know they are no longer in this world. They are so much impregnated by their last experiences in this plane that the physical death came and gone without them being aware of its happening. So they keep on living in the memories that they had in their house, being replayed over and over and over. And this is only one type of consciousness a haunting soul falls into sometimes. There are many other conditions which influences the behaviour of the haunting soul. You shouldn't be scared unless you feel from what you see and experience that harm could happen if you don't do anything. To me they don't sound that they are malevolent spirits, these are probably ghosts that are trying to understand what is going on and who are you. I suggest to grab a camera and see if you can catch something of what your daughter sees with a flash because light sometimes makes the invisible visible just like the light from a flash light can make dust particles in the air at night visible if we shine light through them. Also if you have a digital camera it would be great if you can take few pictures of the inside of your house and send it to us to see if we can pick anything from them.

23)- Do you have some knowledge in remote influencing? And do you know someone who can have this abilities or some knowledge to reverse this kind of link created by someone. For a friend to who i believe this happens to by someone sending bad energies. Thanks!

Remote influencing? That's the first time i hear about it. I know from experience that you might be able to heal someone from a distance by sending energies, healing energies. And you can also send energies to calm someone down who is very upset even if he lives far from you. But to control someone if that's what you mean, i don't know if it's possible, some people might able to do that but i doubt it it works on everyone the subject needs to have a weak personality very weak but even with that. I'm not sure that someone can keep on controlling someone else though. By the way everyone has spirit guides and he's protected at all time to some degree all according to his Karma. But if your friend needs additional protections one way is to surround himself mentally with pure white light. Just let him/her sit down just for a few minutes. After closing the eyes and calming down his thoughts then just let him imagine pure white light surrounding him. Then let him ask the spirit world/spirit guides/angels around him to protect him.

24)- Can you find somebody who's been missing? and how much?

I might be able to but that does not depend on me but on my spirit guides. This is how things work for me. Pictures, i would ask to see a lot of pictures of the person you are looking for. And if you have sentences that this person used to use a lot that i can read. All this is just to tune myself or get tuned so to speak to the person in question energies or frequency. Then see if i pick up something. I usually get images symbolic images in which the person you are looking for is in is part of the settings of this/these images. Then what i have to do is decipher properly the whole settings, the symbols in the image/images. And deciphering sometimes is very difficult to do. Being able to see images is an ability and deciphering what you are shown is another. Sometimes i only get a image with all the needed info in. It all depends on what my spirit guides are willing to or can show me. But i cannot grantee that i will see images or that will be of help here because like i said it's not up to me to see it's up to what the spirit world want to show me.How much i charge? I charge nothing. I don't do this for the money and i don't think anybody who is able to do the same should charge anything. It should always be free.