Q 'n' A

(Updated February the 19th 2010)

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

1)- 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 do 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.

2)- For those who have/would use psychics/sensitives/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.

3)- 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 dont charge any money for their work. Most of them dont with a few exceptions (and they have good reasons why they do charge) but most dont ask for money.

4)- 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.

5)- 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 seperated from what ever you are looking at, don't live in what you are seeing, keep it ouside 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 wavelenght 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 invisble 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.

6)- 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.

7)- 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.

8)- 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 teachs you how to meditate properly and how to developp what you have.

9)- 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.

10)- 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?

Well i can't say i've ever had a really bad negative experience with my spirit guides, i had at the beguining some negative experiences but they're not bad enough to be worth mentioning them here. And i don't think you'll have any unpleasant experience with them if you understand them if you listen to them because they're there to help you out in things. Things that are visible to them from where they are but not to you not to us. And if they show any let's say evil thing from them that's because the person is stubburn and don't wanna listen to what they are trying to say. Have she ever encountered anything evil or she just depressed from what she red? One should not take everything that is red and apply it on one'self, it's better to just take notes in one's mind so to speak of what is experienced and said by others.

11)- 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 momentarely, 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..momentarely 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 Indien 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 todays 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 contro of yourself.

So try doing this or other similer concentration exersice 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 wants to tell me something he comes in he doesn't knock he just open the entrance door comes in tell me what needs to be told then leave.

12)- 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/wavelenghts 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 momentarely visible enough for the camera to catch. Similer 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 beyound are senses perception. The light from the flash light occasionally and with luck make them momentarely visible for the camera to catch.

13)- What is the best meditation technics to developpe 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 Detachements 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 as water on earth.

14)- There isn't alot 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?

Sure, well Mc Gill university is haunted, the section of the university (if i remenber correctly) that is located on sherbrooke, parallel to st. catherine if you exit from Peel metro and you go up. I havent examined the building yet but from outside it is giving off intense haunting energies. From what i heard it seems theres a ghost of a girl haunting it but i doubt thats the only ghost. Also The city hall in old montreal is also giving off alot of energies from the second floor which i tried to get up but couldnt, needed a apointment 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, theres a spirit i got in touch with connected to the huge wooden arch found inside.I havent had a full investigation of the cathedral yet, i will when i get the chance. Saint James United Church on Sainbt 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 Galagher'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 a lady's skirt. It had an interesting patern to it. Color beige with squares inside sqaures. 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 Patriotes Prison is haunted also. So these are some of the sites that comes to mind right now.

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

It's because it's not up to them to get the infos they want. They are more like receivers like a radio, they are able to receive informations only if there are signals being transmited to them only if their spirit guides have something to tell them. You see they can't will it to know things, willing it might give them what they're asking for but with time they'll start to receive infos 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.

16)- 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 symboles 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.

17)- Hi, my son is almost 4 and he started talking at 4month old and even before that he was seening things, then when he was able to talk he would talk to theas people, a few of them evenscared me by the way he was talking to them he would even play with a cupple of them and there are 2 that he talkes 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 beguining now he can talk an interact with them, you should not be worried. This is common to many childrens at this age.I don't know if you beleive in this but people who become psychics and mediums later in life go usually in similer 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 beyound your capabilities in dealing with and get the house clenced from spirits that you may think is harmfull to your family.

18)- 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 thats 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.

19)- Hi i have been looking on web sites looking for some kind of answers and found some one else going threw what my daughter is going threw. and you e-mail address was there trying to reply to her, So i hope you dont 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 dont 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 ressure her and tell her its ok he is her friend, and yet again today it has happend 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 dont know any tonys, and no men here.. my older children was playing and pretend to get him and 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 dont know what is going on, this started a few months back, when she went up stairs to the loo 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 jsut 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 happend in our home for some years, mainly been as soon as you put things down they just disapear, 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 disapears, 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 happend is that me and my daughter who was 13 both see something move although could 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 havent 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 bbo an appointment with a clairvoyant to see what she thinks. I'd be grateful for any insight you can give me.

Hello, sure no problem :) I don't wanna jump to conclusions right away but your house sure sounds haunted from the things you have experienced. These experiences usually are encountered in buildings who their ex owners still with their souls inhabit them,they dont 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 houses being replayed over and over and over. This is only one type of consciousness a haunting soul falls into there are many others 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 melevalent spirits. 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 unvisible visible just like the light from a flash light can make dust particles in the air at night visible if we shine light through it. Also if you have a digital camera it would be great if you can take pictures of your house and send it to us to see if we can pick anything from them, Thank you. We have received many similer emails like yours and responses were added to these questions on the Questions and Answers page on our site please check it out.

20)- 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 create by someone. For a friend to who i believe this happenes to by someone sending bad energies. Thanks!

Remote influancing? That's the first time i hear about it. I know that you can 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 controle someone if that's what you mean, i don't know 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 controling someone else.

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 then just let him imagine pure white light surrounding him. Then let him ask the spirit world/angels around him to protect him.

21)- 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 guides. This is how things work for me. Pictures, i would ask to see alot of pictures of the person you are looking for. And if you have sentances that this person used to use alot that i can read. All this is just to tune myself or get tuned so to speak to the person in question. 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 symboles in the image/images. Sometimes i only get a image with all the needed info in. It all depends on what my spirit guides are willing to show me. But i ca not garantie that i will see images or that might able to help you out 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.