MARCH 2nd, 2016
By JOHN LILIES & LANA CARBON
[Lana] It is often funny how things come to pass. If you read our blog or happen to catch our presence on social media, odds are pretty good that you have heard us talk about the Haunted Walk. We had such a great time with them on their tours that we have tried to promote them every chance we get. So when they came to us in October 2015 about participating in a Haunted Talks podcast episode, we were thrilled to lend a hand. They were looking for someone to receive a reading from their guest for the Halloween episode, psychic medium Chris Medina. (You can listen to that episode here or here.)
[John] This was a daunting opportunity but ‘Yes’ was the only answer we knew and soon we were thinking about what we could possibly ask. Then we found out only one of us would actually be involved and that was handed to me. (If you haven’t noticed yet, while Lana is the super social person online where I’m quite awkward and therefore not often on Facebook or Twitter, I tend to be the one appointed for the main speaking roles in podcasts and interviews).
I had no idea what questions to ask Chris Medina – what did I really want to know? I decided that if I had to ask a question, I’d ask if my grandmother was around at all but otherwise I was really quite open to hearing whatever Chris had to tell me. Under normal circumstances this would have been an uncomfortable experience for me – I tend to feel like a hand is reaching inside of me whenever someone ‘reads’ me so it isn’t often something I go looking for – but this reading would be on a podcast for all to hear. Nauseated does not even begin to describe my sensation as the call began – thank you Jim Dean, for making it a friendly experience.
In the end, it was an incredible experience that left me shaking for a couple of hours and it also made me cry – partially from that sensation of someone reaching inside me and twisting around my insides for a while and partially from the hits Chris had. There were things that Chris picked up on that – sure I suppose they could have been lucky guesses and they just struck a chord with me but – I have no idea how he hit on such specific things that made so much sense to me.
[Lana] After hearing how accurate John’s reading was, I knew I had to have a reading from Chris as well. Chris was very accommodating and we quickly had an appointment set for a phone reading. Even though I was impressed by the experience John had received, I had never had this type of session myself and was a little unsure of what to expect. I was intent on trying to give as little information as possible so that I wouldn’t be caught up in any kind of leading questions that could result in a generalized reading with just enough private details to personalize. To my utter surprise, Chris was telling me things that there was no possible way he could know or pick up on from anything I was saying. For instance… I had surgery a while ago and he pinpointed the anatomical location without it ever being public knowledge. A few other more personal details, which I won’t go into here, were right on the money as well. Let’s just say that he was definitely making me a believer in his abilities.
We then began discussing the future. Some of it sounded promising and in the direction I am hoping for and then other pieces were a little confusing. (As a side note, it sounds like Carbon Lilies is an important part of our future and we are heading in the right direction with it.) Apparently there will be a few twists and turns ahead which, if they come to pass, were not, nor never would have been on my radar. (Paris???) I guess only time will tell.
The part I was most impressed with was the no-nonsense approach that Chris took. He didn’t try to bring in the ‘love and light’ aspect that first comes to mind when thinking of psychic mediums (for me at least). Chris tells you what he sees, pure and simple, and I appreciate that. He also has an easy-going demeanor which makes it an enjoyable experience. He doesn’t want to know too much going into the reading so he does a lot of the talking. That was a huge plus for me since I am extremely introverted when not using pen and paper (or in this case, a keyboard). Perhaps most importantly, Chris truly wants to use his abilities to help people. Ordinarily I would wonder if this was just part of a professional’s public relations but in this case, I could tell it was the genuine article. Chris really does care.
After these two experiences, we knew we had to interview Chris. Hopefully some of our readers will contact him and in turn Chris can help those people. Sounds like a win-win situation if I’ve ever heard of one.
[John] Cut to February 9, 2016, when we were finally able to sit down and enjoy a great phone chat with Chris wherein he graciously answered all of our many questions. We experienced some laughs and light-hearted moments and also had some very thoughtful and reflective times. We enjoyed the talk and we hope you will to.
So go grab yourself a cozy beverage and settle in for the first of our five-part interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina of Platinum Predictions. (Part Two will be out soon!)
[John] What is a Psychic and what is a Medium and what does it mean when the two are combined?
[Chris] Okay. I always refer to myself as a Psychic first and foremost. A Psychic, to me, is someone that gets impressions or that can predict or see things, whether it be the past, present or future. People will say ‘well how do you get that information?’ - I don’t know, other than the way that I get it you know, it’s just information that’s automatically placed into my head. I don’t hear a voice. It allows me to kind of go off – especially when I’m doing a reading and it’s face-to-face – to kind of go off and look at that person and get images of what they were like as a child, who they are as a person, things that they may have in their house. It gives me a glimpse and a peek into their life. Being able to answer questions that they need answers to, whether it’s on a spiritual journey, on a personal or on a therapeutic-type level, that’s basically how my abilities work and what I consider psychic is when I get information from somewhere else.
As far as my mediumship abilities, that goes hand-in-hand with the psychic [abilities]. Whether I’m giving a reading face-to-face or on the telephone, if there’s someone from the other side that wants to come through I’ll (so-to-speak) ‘hear’ that person. I was doing a reading the other night and a woman came through and she said ‘Oh ask him about Linda’ and I said ‘Um, there’s somebody Linda on the other side’ and that usually confirms for that person right then and there that there’s someone that they know on the other side. They’ll say ‘oh Linda is so-and-so’ and so that’s usually how it happens. Once that starts going, I’ll get more and more information coming through from other relatives that have come through from the other side. Or I’ll pick up, whether it’s home, I’ll pick up on different energies or spirits that come through that want to just make contact with me.
I get a lot of passers-by. My house is so active, especially at night. To me, the way that I look at it is being like a light to them. They can sense that I feel them and I can hear them, so what they’ll do is they’ll try to make contact here in the house. They’ll tap something or they’ll try to talk to me when I’m asleep. Very rarely do I actually see the entity; I get a mental picture of what they looked like when they were alive. I can think of only a handful of times that I’ve actually seen an apparition or spirit in front of me. I usually just get to hear them. I don’t usually see them, thank God.
John’s note: Chris was laughing a bit with his last couple of statements about happily not seeing apparitions and that really sparked my curiosity. My naïve self assumed that someone who hears and feels and deals with those on the other side, would have no issue at all with seeing them especially when incorporating this into his life’s work.
[John] I’m curious about the difference for you in hearing them but not necessarily wanting to see them. Why is that?
[Chris] I had bad experiences when I was a kid. I used to think they were nightmares but they were actually things that I was seeing and I just put it out there that I’d rather not see them. I don’t know if I blocked it or how that worked but unless they’re really forceful I don’t see them, I usually hear them. I will see them in my mind’s eye, like a Polaroid picture of who they were. If they’re in the room here I’ll blink my eyes and I can actually see them where they’re standing in the room but not physically, not in the present. It’s always in my mind’s eye, unless there’s a passer-by that comes through in the house; the other day I was walking up the stairs and I just saw a pair of legs just walking across the stairway.
I prefer not to see them. I watched a lot of scary movies growing up and it’s enough to be able to feel them at night. I sleep with the television on sometimes because it can get that intense. Or they’ll get me right when I’m ready to doze off and fall asleep, I’ll wake up because I can hear someone talking to me and I actually hear myself answering them back.
A lot of times too, when I do medium readings, people want to connect with loved ones on the other side; but there are a lot of misconceptions about when you pass away that you’re automatically renewed or your soul is lifted and that’s not the case sometimes. A lot of times the person that once was still remains that person.
I gave a reading to a woman whose father was kind of racist and when he was talking to me, answering back the questions she was asking, he was really rude. He said ‘under normal circumstances I wouldn’t waste my time with a —’ he made a [derogatory] gay comment and I said ‘Whoa! I don’t know if this was your father speaking; was he a racist man?’ She said ‘Oh yeah.’ She asked me what he was saying and I told her; she said it sounded just like him.
I had another woman whose mother came through. The woman wanted information in regards to family secrets and things that were going on and the mom came through and she said ‘I am not going to discuss this again! Tell her she needs to leave well enough alone and lay off!’
When I start to do those readings, a lot of other things will start to come through too – people that aren’t even related come through. I don’t know if they can sense what’s going on, so I asked her if she’d had this conversation with her mother prior to her death and was she upset having this conversation. The woman said yes, that her mother didn’t want to have the conversation with her. So I told her that her mother was adamant that she needed to leave it alone. The mother said that she was going to get up and walk out if the daughter didn’t stop with these questions.
[John] Wow. It’s interesting that we do automatically assume that everything changes once you die and that the person becomes something completely different; that we have that preconceived notion when the reality could be very different.
END PART 1
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Well dear friends, so ends the first part of our interview with Chris Medina. We had such a great time talking to Chris that we have so much more to share with you. Please stay tuned for Part Two to be released very soon!
Here’s a question for you… if you were able to choose between seeing a ghost or hearing one, what would you prefer? Tweet us @carbonlilies or comment on our Facebook page to let us know and tell us why!
Would you like to contact Chris Medina? Check out the links below…
