Barbara Banner is a psychic medium who communicates with spirits to deliver evidential messages that help grieving people find peace; she discovered her abilities later in life after a spontaneous paranormal awakening during the pandemic and now teaches others to develop their own intuitive connection with the other side.
Awakening and Training
Barbara’s mediumship activated suddenly in her 60s when her house experienced intense poltergeist-like activity — orbs on video, objects flying, fans spinning without power — witnessed by her skeptical husband.
She had no prior meditation practice but enrolled in a beginner “Soul-to-Soul Communication” class with Suzanne Giesemann; on her first attempt meditating in a closet, she saw her deceased father peeking in, signaling approval.
Before this, she had only vague teenage intuitions (predicting Oscar winners, sensing school trouble) and a lifelong draw to helping work: 14 years on a crisis hotline, ER volunteering, and crisis response team work at death scenes, which she now recognizes as divinely planned preparation.
How Mediumship Works
Mediumship is a learnable skill available to everyone with a soul and heart; it requires meditation to quiet the critical mind and raise one’s vibration to meet spirits who lower theirs.
“Seeing is believing” does not apply — “believing is seeing”; skepticism blocks reception, while openness allows a relationship with departed loved ones to continue.
Barbara receives information through multiple channels: clairvoyance (mental images), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling), and physical mimicry (spirits moving her body).
She conducts readings by having clients ask silent questions to avoid analytical interference; answers arrive as spontaneous symbolic scenes (e.g., a boy riding a giant butterfly matching a picture in a book the client owned).
Trust is the hardest hurdle — she must relay even bizarre images without filtering, though she sets boundaries against sexual content from spirits.
Soul Contracts, Earth School, and Karma
Life is “Earth School”: souls choose incarnations with guides and a council to work off karma, learn specific lessons, and evolve; being of service is mandatory or the soul returns for more lifetimes.
Difficult experiences (abuse, child loss, illness) are pre-chosen lessons; the consciousness forgets the plan before birth so the test is genuine (per Dolores Cannon: “it’s not a test if you know the questions”).
On the other side, only three emotions exist: love, gratitude, and joy — no hate, judgment, or jealousy; abusers apologize and seek to make amends, showing their true healed nature.
A “whiteboard” review after death reveals every lesson’s purpose; the goal is to graduate the merry-go-round, though many souls return voluntarily for more experience.
Delivering Peace to the Grieving
Readings aim to lighten grief by proving continuity of consciousness; Barbara uses humor as a high-vibration tool (15 minutes of laughter ≈ two hours of restorative sleep) to interrupt pain and shift perception.
She reframes grief: the same photo that makes you cry will eventually make you laugh; fighting the universe prolongs suffering, while accepting the lesson eases it.
Grief has no timeline; some remarry in months, others stay housebound for years — both are valid.
Spirits often deliver specific, verifiable evidence (e.g., a husband showing a scooped-out bagel, later confirmed by a father-in-law’s prototype bagel scooper) to bypass skepticism.
Suicide and early deaths frequently come with explanations that soften blame; spirits want the living to know they are at peace.
Reading Mechanics and Spirit Behavior
Barbara asks clients who they most want to hear from; that person usually comes forward first unless another spirit has priority (e.g., a mother-in-law stepping ahead of a polite husband).
Spirits are always available in the collective field; they don’t hover constantly but respond when a medium tunes in; guides direct appropriate spirits to compatible mediums.
Chills signal Barbara that a piece of evidence is critical; if a client doesn’t understand it, spirit repeats it until it lands — sometimes days later.
Readings often come full circle: an opening symbol (e.g., the color red) resolves at the end (red pills used in a suicide).
Developing Intuition and Recognizing Signs
Anyone can increase intuitive ability: meditate daily (free guided meditations on YouTube), study NDE accounts (soulproof.com by Dr. Mark Pitstick), and practice the “1-2-3” exercise — ask for a sign, note the first image that appears, then watch for it in the world (e.g., “dogs” → a license plate reading “I LOVE DOGS”).
Spirits communicate through symbolism because they operate in pure high vibration; they place signs in the physical world at precise moments the recipient will notice.
Skeptics should suspend disbelief: “what if the priest wasn’t right?” — explore NDEs, read widely, and test the method personally.
