An Interview with Historical Medium Vera Nadine

This post is the beginning of a series of interviews I am conducting with psychic mediums. I’m posting questions to three very different, equally talented psychics in an attempt to get a wide variety of experiences and some deep answers about growing and cultivating psychic talent and the world of energy.

If you are not already familiar with Vera Nadine I believe you soon will be. A talented psychic and historical medium, Vera Nadine talks with straight forward authority about subjects and experiences that are quite foreign to many people.

PK: Religions are the conduits we use to access spirit. They provide a framework, imagery and general structure for our spiritual work but can become restrictive and spiritually stifling if misunderstood. For this reason I see a trend in people exploring faiths and belief systems outside of the ones they may have grown up with. After this exploration sometimes they return and sometimes they adopt entirely new methods for their spiritual expressions. Can you tell me what systems of faith have influenced you and how paganism is helpful to the work you do today?

Vera Nadine: Well, I say a lot about my spiritual genealogy in my Do You Have the Sight? post. I don’t really think that the system of faith I was raised with influenced me much at all. As a matter of fact it did a lot to make me feel like we have no power over our own lives or the path that our spirits take. I would say the only remnant of Protestantism in my life now is my irksome desire to have everything neat and tidy with all things having a designated time and space, a box for every pin so to speak. The only belief that I can honestly say I ever understood from that whole exposure was that there is a right and a wrong way to do life. This is, of course…..completely wrong.

Paganism was in my life from about age thirteen onward, eventually evolving into Wicca and leading me to formal training in a hereditary tradition of Witchcraft. Though I wouldn’t say that I could honestly be called a Witch or a Priestess until I was about 24. I know that these are words that put up mental blocks for some people. They begin to hear their inner policeman blowing his whistle and calling out for arrest. I however do not suffer from the belief that there is only one way to do things or that there is any person, deity, religious text etc. that is right or wrong.

Paganism called me because of my personal urge to feel more connected to the natural world of which we are a part. The understanding that there is both a Goddess and a God seemed, and still seems, quite sensible and in no way evil to me. We both have a mother and a father, so having a balance in your deities as well is simply common sense.

I do not believe so much in religious systems or structured, dogmatic spirituality. I do however believe that each and every religion has at its core the same overall human values, kindness, responsibility for you actions, etc.. Whatever religion you choose to enter the world of spirituality from is of no matter, what you should get from it is connection, joy, inspiration and strength.

I eventually chose to leave behind all specific rules, requirements and expectations and to intertwine together the elements of belief that work to bolster my own individual spirit without regard for the judgment of others. So long as I feel that I am continuing to grow and that what I do in my life brings no harm to another person, than I know that I am on the right path.

Recently I have begun incorporating elements of Buddhism and Hinduism into my spiritual practices. I find that they calm me and shift my awareness in new and interesting ways. I consider myself a Goddess-worshipper and Priestess, but feel no worries about bringing in flavors from several pantheons, including Norse, Greek, Celtic, Egyptian and Aztec.

So as you can see what is helpful about paganism is the awareness that it brought to me and the fact that it allows me to be as open-minded as I am towards belief and spirituality. When I counsel people about their spiritual paths I am able to view them as whole and entire without the burdens of religion or sin or any of that human construct. I give advice based on the person’s soul energy, their goals, as chosen by them on an eternal level. We are all the learner, at all times, and there are several different paths that we can take to arrive at the same lessons.

(Image Copyright Vera Nadine)

PK: Many of us come to spiritual occupations because of a sort of ‘calling’ that leads us out of normal life endeavors and into the world of spirit. Did you have such a ‘calling’ and how did it manifest the changes in your life that ultimately directed you toward serving others?

Vera Nadine: No, I wouldn’t say that I had “a” calling. Having been a spiritual person since a relatively young age, I would say that I have had several “mini” callings. There have just been many recognizable stages in my personal and spiritual development and each was marked by it’s own miraculous or eye-opening occurrence. These have come in the form of self-acknowledgment, the death of a loved one, opportunities manifesting in an instant, automatic writing reminding me of my gifts, looking at something I’d seen several times and suddenly seeing something else, visiting places where I lived in other lives and mainly just hearing my own soul song and deciding to sing along. My post The Calling: A Spiritual Manifesto is about this.

PK: What is a historical medium?

Vera Nadine: To be honest it is a turn of phrase that I pieced together in my quest to define my innate gift for those who do not know me well enough to understand it. I was born as a recorder, a memory box in the making. I am a medium for history, history just comes through me. For some reason it is not usually “recent” history but history ranging from 150 years ago to 35,000 years ago. Spirits from throughout history who look to resolve their own issues and move (at last) into their next incarnation often come to me for help. Laughingly, I sometimes ponder whether or not it is I who have an affinity for history or whether, perhaps, it is history that has an affinity for me. This is not to say that history is the only area in which I am able to use my mediumship. I also use it for medical intuition and for seeing soul paths, the lessons that we are set to learn on our current journey and how a person can use their talents to fulfill their own chosen life purpose.

PK: The concept of time as we know it does not really exist if we are present in the now. When we access the part of ourselves that is timeless we can interact with all that has ever been and ever will be. The opportunities are then endless for expansion and learning as it is possible to observe past and future events, learn from historical figures, your great grandparents and even your past and future lives all of which serves to enhance your state of consciousness. Can you tell me how you got started with historical mediumship?

Vera Nadine: I often saw imprints of past occurrences as a child. Just brief flashes of people going about their daily lives, getting on and off of a train that was no longer there, sweeping their front door stoop when the house had long been torn down. It was our public school’s penchant for museum visits that really brought it out. But at that same age I began to know that it was “weird” what I could do. I banished the ability behind a haze of heavy metal, half-hearted rituals and underage partying only to have to work really hard to dig it back out when I found my connection to spirit in my college years. Since then I have been doing lots of writing and lots of traveling inspired by my historical visions and this has helped me to solidify historical mediumship as the base, my innate talent upon which all of the other gifts have then been built.

The first step in developing such a gift is not, I would say, to understand the nature of time. That is a never-ending lesson and one that often requires you to “go back to the drawing board” several times before even an inkling of its true nature can be found. Instead it is the challenge of suspending disbelief. We are born believing both everything and nothing. That is as close as one can get to what they call omniscience, at least in physical form. But as we are raised in a world molded to human desires, it is a construct that allows for a only a very limited world view. We have our beliefs sort of trained out of us. We end up having our million or more vast beliefs wheedled down to a nice, exclusionary, thousand or so beliefs. All else is ridiculous or impossible in the adult human world view. So suspending disbelief in the theory that time is all happening at once and that we indeed CAN see the past as it truly is/was, that is the first hurdle to developing historical psychic connection.

PK: What are some of the largest misconceptions you’ve encountered about time?

Vera Nadine: That time exists is the main one. Time does not exist, it is an illusion. Our intent manifests instantaneously once we put our belief behind it but then we set up blockades to reaching our goal or intent by believing that we must follow the set pattern of time in order to reach that manifestation. No matter how hard we try to believe time away we cannot, because the systems of the human world are set up to constantly remind us of its dominance over us. You plant a tomato seed today and you believe that you have to wait weeks and weeks to see it to fruition, but its already grown, just over there, can’t you see it?

Another important point about time is that although the past the present and the future all exist at once, our lives are not preordained. It is a difficult concept to grasp, that time is ever present yet the choices that you make now are of your own free will. There are two ways for me to attempt to explain this.

One is that certain things in your future are preordained but by YOU, you have chosen them before birth. There may be a certain situation that you must be put in, or a certain conversation that has to take place or a specific company that you need to work for or a specific person that you are destined to meet. But it is the concept of the moment that is preordained, not the means by which you get there. Believe it or not, in this vast world, there are several paths that you as an individual can take that will eventually lead you to the same point. There are numerous crossroads in our life that we generally fail to recognize, but they exist nonetheless.

The other way to explain this is that you are making the decisions that bring you your specific future, its just that you have already made them. Understand me, everything is happening at once: now and five minutes from now and five years from now and five generations from now. So you are deciding in this moment what to do tomorrow but in actuality you’ve already decided and that tomorrow is already happening. It is likely that all possibilities are happening at once as well. So you may change your mind again twenty minute’s from now about those plans for tomorrow which is okay too. Because THAT tomorrow is already happening as well. The same goes for if your lunch date for tomorrow changes their plans without you knowing. That alternate tomorrow has already happened as well.

Time is all things at once, possibility is the same thing, so I guess you could say that time and possibility are one and the same.

PK: If you could give everyone on the planet one of your experiences to help them expand their consciousness which would it be?

Vera Nadine: It is so difficult to say because there have been some really great and interesting things that I have seen. But, that being said, I know that the best of what I am to be opened up to is still yet to come. I guess I can’t say what would be a good experience to help others expand their consciousness, because what each of us needs is so similar but honestly so different. I can only know what worked best for me. Perhaps, if I could have everyone become truly aware of the power of energy and how the things that happen to them are actually happening with them. It is with our agreement to allow a person (or a situation, an emotion, a food we digest etc.) to alter our energetic state that the experiences we have are allowed to be by each of us. This one piece of awareness alone is the most dear to me and is the catalyst for so many other possible discoveries and understandings. But we all come to our Knowing in our own time and fashion.

I hope you have enjoyed this interview with Vera Nadine and her answers to these questions. For more stories and medium-adventures please check out www.veranadine.com.

Comments

By Vera Nadine on June 18th, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Thank you again Paula for asking to interview me.

It was very thoughtful of you.

It is so nice to find kindred spirits.

Bright Blessings,

Vera Nadine

By Enola on June 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 pm

I found the ideas and concepts discussed in this interview fascinating and enlightening. Vera Nadine has helped me with some things before this so I am familiar with some of her posts. But since I rarely have the time to read more than the briefest of entries in any blog, I was pleased at this opportunity to learn more about her and her gift. Thank you for making this interview available to the public.

By Paula Kawal on June 24th, 2007 at 5:51 am

Vera Nadine,

It was a pleasure to interview you…thanks for the opportunity to showcase your talent

Enola,

Thanks for checking out the site and I’m glad the interview brought some new information to the surface for you.

All the best,

PK

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