I sat for a test reading with a medium- Danielle Hope Wolfe. Danielle may have been told my first name. But, she had no other information about me. She set up a Zoom meeting for us to meet and Mark Ireland emailed the meeting information to me. I did not know who the reading would be with until I joined the Zoom and saw her name. I did not recognize her name.
The reading was about an hour. Right out of the gate, she felt my maternal grandmother coming through. She knew she had been like an extension of my mother. My grandmother lived with us from the time I was around the age of 6 until she passed when I was 21. She knew she had had a lot of children (10). She felt one of her sons with her, said his death felt tragic, then exclaimed: “Was he murdered?”. She knew about the frustration with the police. I felt they didn’t do much to solve his murder.
When Shayna came through, she described her as beautiful and angelic. She used that word repeatedly. Then, she asked if I had a daughter in spirit. Coincidentally, a few weeks ago, Tywana bought a painting of Shayna, as an angel. It’s hanging in our family room.
She said she saw me kneeling over Shayna praying. She saw me kneeling at my bed praying. Praying over Tywana. All of this happened the day Shayna passed. I took her from her bed to put her on the floor (a hard surface) to do CPR. I prayed as I knelt over her. When the paramedics arrived. I knelt and prayed in my bedroom, with Tywana, as they worked on her. This was the last time I knelt to pray.
She knew approximately how long it had been since Shayna has passed. She estimated five years. It will be four years in three months.
When she sensed Shayna in spirit, she told me she shifted the reading to be more of messages than evidence. Even though she was being scored, she threw that out of the window. We had a conversation and she gave me a lot of healing messages and encouragement. She knew I was a writer. She knew I was writing a book. She has written a book and gave me tips on writing and publishing.
She saw “Princess and the Frog” in her mind’s eye and asked me if Tywana’s name is Tiana. No one has ever gotten that close to Tywana’s name. She saw me standing in front of men guiding them in marriage, in a church. Tywana and I participated in the pre-marital ministry at the Vineyard for several years.
She did get a couple of things wrong. She thought we have four children. We only have two. But, I am one of four and my brother has four. She sensed that Tywana or I have a brother in spirit. Even though one other medium insisted I have a brother in spirit and asked me to ask my mother if she had had a miscarriage. I do not know of a brother in spirit. (correction- this is why it’s important to have someone else listen to your reading. When Tywana listened to the recording, she reminded me she has a brother who was stillborn over 40 years ago. Her mother was pregnant with triplets. Two were born alive. I forgot about her brother in spirit). So, she was right about that, too.
Overall, I gave her a score of 86% accuracy with 12 bonus points, bringing her final score to 98%. More important than the percentages though was the reading had more than enough evidence to convince me that she was genuinely connecting coupled with healing and encouraging messages and a genuine conversation.
Recently, Jon Oliver published a program about psychics and how they are all fakes. Tellingly, at the beginning, he admitted he wasn’t going to go over the pros and cons of psychics because there are no arguments for any of this being real. He selectively chose examples where psychics were stunningly wrong or just flat out faking it with cold or hot reading techniques. It was a hit-job and a pretty poor one that that. I’m a fairly experienced sitter. There was no possibility of a hot reading (looking things up) in this situation because there was zero contact between Danielle and myself up until the moment we joined the Zoom call. Cold reading is not going to give you the fact that my uncle was murdered, that I’m writing a book, Tywana’s name, or the fact that I taught in a premarital ministry. And, these are just some of the highlights.
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Your reading with Danielle was awesome.
It is amazing how a good medium can bring forth evidence and messages that prove that we do not die. Sad that some people that are too afraid to believe, seek out scammers as evidence that their false beliefs are correct. It’s obvious Danielle operates out of love while serving the spirit world.
Sounds like a job well done just a few tips for Danielle and others: the reading went from mediumship to psychic from how it comes across in the writing. When it went from evidence from spirit to the sitters life it became psychic. Psychic and mediumship readings are 2 different things both equally great but if we go into a mediumship reading it should be mediumship not psychic and if so then the sitter should be told which seems like she did sort of. Psychic reading is the reading of incarnates energy/soul and mediumship is connecting to the discarnate. Curious to see the score if being judged purely off mediumship. Compassion is compassion but the spirit world never leave so to move the reading to psychic would raise a flag for me and it would mean it’s possible you haven’t built up enough power to stay with the spirit world and lost the link and needed to dive into the sitters energy.
Thanks for the comment. I’ve heard other mediums make this distinction before. Let me say this from the viewpoint of the sitter. We don’t make such distinctions. We go into a reading wanting healing. I think a good medium/psychic will sense what is best for the sitter. I’ve had over a dozen readings since Shayna passed, including one the day before. Danielle sensed that what I needed was messages more than evidence, which she actually specifically stated during the reading, when my daughter came through.
What impressed me is that, even though she knew she was being graded and I was taking notes furiously during the reading, she seemed to put the scoring aside and gave me what I needed. Twice we went down a couple of rabbit holes I didn’t outline in my write up because she was interested in connecting with me and helping me. In fact, she made a comment like “OK, let’s get back to your loved ones.”
I didn’t mind at all that she crossed into psychic reading. And, even with that, she brought through more evidence that most other mediums are capable of.
Thank you for your feedback PJ. I really like your dissection and analysis!!! It is really great! As I read the article, that same thought popped into my mind. I thought, “Did I drop down while I was reading??” And I also agree that it’s important to tell the sitter if we drop from mediumship space to psychic space (whether they know the difference or not). Giving credit where credit is due, is of upmost importance ethically.
Also, delving a bit deeper (and I’d love your thoughts on this :))….I’ve learned in recent years that spirit will sometimes guide me to see what is going on in the sitter’s life, psychically and then deliver messages regarding that current life event. I asked this of a mentor and this was their reply: “Why wouldn’t they use that tool (psychic), along with the rest of our tools to convey a message, and conserve their energy?” Prior to, I thought one or the other. However, more recently, I have been working with both spaces… if spirit guides this.
While I was reading, I didn’t feel I had dropped into psychic space and felt the connection was very strong with Shayna. An hour felt like 10 minutes. Usually, when I drop into psychic or psychic readings, the time seems slower, more dense. Brian and I chatted about how beautifully strong her link was. But, I still thought it might be possible after reading your feedback, and really wanted to evaluate for my development.
After watching our reading and really dissecting; right around the area where the description seems a bit psychic, we had moved into the messages, as Brian describes. I believe he was sharing the pops of evidence in his writing the article (thank you so much for your article, Brian:)). I believe Shayna brought through evidence in the messages. For example, Brian wrote, “she knew I taught premarital ministry.” That statement sounds psychic. However, there is dialog that happened before. Actually, I incorrectly delivered an imprint immediately prior to the second imprint… in which she was showing Brian standing in a church teaching and speaking about marriage. The very next imprint was a memory of my husband and I sitting in our church sermon, learning about marriage… when we were struggling in ours. Those two imprints (quickly, as you know) were the connection to Brian teaching premarital ministry, and that was during a message. It felt mediumship space and I was looking up and to the right (where imprints come in) with these evidence pings.
I’d love to hear more about your thoughts! Truly, thank you for this feedback. I think it’s so great for development!!! ?.
Thank you for this article, Brian! You are so kind!