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Chris Medina: Psychic Medium - Part 5

MARCH 10th, 2016

By JOHN LILIES & LANA CARBON

[John] Well dear readers, we have reached the fifth and final part of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina. Missed the first part? You can click here to read it and you will find the second part here. To read Part Three, please click here and you can access Part Four here.

In Part Four, we learned more about Chris’ abilities and the deep effect they have had on his life. Spend some time with us now as we conclude this great conversation. This has been a wonderful adventure for us and we truly value the time Chris spent with us and all that he has shared. So, go grab a blanket, make your favourite drink, get cozy and settle in for the last of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina of Platinum Predictions.

[John] So, going on a totally different tangent, we were very recently listening to your interview on Paranormal Underground Radio: In the Dark and you were talking about astrology. We are not that well versed in astrology but you were talking about double and triple signs and we were stumped because we had no idea what you were talking about. Lana knows all the signs and understands way more about it than I do…

[Lana] Which is still not that much though.

[John] …but that tells you how little I do understand. It was really interesting for us and we were hoping that you could help us understand the double and triple signs.

[Chris] Astrology, I have a deep fondness for. I met a woman, her name is Vanda Pitt – she’s no longer with us – and she was what I called my spiritual godmother. She came into my life at a point where I was going through a really, really tough time with huge changes; I’d just gone through what they call a Saturn return which is a karmic return. It’s a huge lesson that you go through. I met her at a store called the Psychic Eye, in Sherman Oaks California, and she asked me if I’d ever had my chart done. I told her ‘no’ and that all I knew was that I’m a Taurus and that’s it. She was from Kentucky and she said [Chris added in a Kentucky accent] ‘Oh honey, let me tell you about this! There is so much more to this’ and I told her to tell me. It’s fascinating. What she did was called a Natal Chart. What that is, is your birth date – the month, day, year – the exact time of birth, and the city and state that you were born in. Based on that information, you run it through a program on your computer, and it spits out what’s called a Natal Chart. That Natal Chart is very specific to that individual. It’s like a thumbprint. No two charts are alike. Even if you’re a twin, you’re born a couple minutes away from each other, it changes - not drastically but it does change.

There are twelve houses in this natal chart and each house represents something. The first house is public image, you know, how the public sees you. The second house is finance. The third house is communication. The fourth house is home and family. The fifth is entertainment. The sixth is the mental house along with how you work with other people. The seventh house is the house of relationships. The eighth is the house of life and death. The ninth house is the house of higher learning. The tenth house is the career house. The eleventh is friends, hopes, wishes and dreams, and then the twelfth house is a subconscious house.

So what they do is they use all of the planets – Mercury, Mars, they all mean something – and you’re born under three different signs. You have your sun sign, which is the one that everybody looks for under the horoscopes (mine would be a Taurus); and you also have what’s called the moon sign, which rules your emotions. Mine happens to be in the sign of Pisces which is the reason people would say ‘that’s why you’re psychic’, because my moon is in Pisces which is a very intuitive sign. It’s the ‘feeling’ sign. Then you have what’s called your rising sign and your rising sign is how you come across to the world, how the world looks at you. Mine is in the sign of Capricorn. So right away that’s why people tell me I always look very serious, very ambitious and very driven. That’s the Capricorn coming out in me. So I think [in that radio show] one of the guys had a double Virgo and if you know anything about the signs [chuckling while saying this], to have the sun and moon in Virgo is a very nervous, OCD-type person.

You can really find out a lot about yourself. It was very therapeutic for me to learn this and I use a little bit of astrology in my readings. It’s usually men that I have a difficult time reading because they just don’t want to let go sometimes; and I’ll ask them for their birth date and they’ll just give me the month, day and year and I’m able to find out what their sun and moon is in. Their moon tells me the way that they are and why they’re being the way that they are. A lot of times, the guys that I was reading before, would have their moon in Taurus. To have the moon in Taurus, that’s a very practical person that’s not gonna give you much. They are going to be very stubborn and very ‘well you tell me before I tell you’. That lightens up the mood tremendously because at least then they’re tripping out. They’re like ‘Oh wow, that’s fascinating’ and you open up a whole different conversation; it relaxes them. So that’s my astrology. [Chris was very light-hearted at this point, laughing while talking about it].

There are a lot of things that you can do with it. You can actually pinpoint events in your life; it can tell you when it’s a good time to do something or why you’re having such a bad day. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Mercury retrograde?

[John] After listening to that interview, when you mentioned it, we were looking it up because we couldn’t understand what it all meant; so we had to do a little research to figure out what you guys were talking about.

[Chris] Yeah, Mercury retrograde is when Mercury goes backwards. That’s usually a time when there’s a breakdown of communication, it’s always a time for reflection. People look at it as a negative thing; always look at it as a positive because it gives you the ability to go back and correct any mistakes that you made or that you need to reflect on. Based on the sign that it goes into, it can tell you how you can utilize it to your benefit. During that time you’ll notice that people have issues with communication, your car breaks down, computer issues, your plans fall through; that’s why people dread a Mercury retrograde, especially people in the technology industry.

[John] [I was laughing somewhat with relief at this stage] You’re making me happy that I’m actually not paying attention to astrology because I think I would have continuous panic attacks if I were thinking about it like that.

[Chris] I actually know a woman that I’m very close to, she’s a Master Astrologer, and she can actually do the charts by hand. Her and I collaborate a lot too, because she’s completely fascinated by it all and she says ‘Wow you are picking up what’s going on in their chart and I’m telling you I’m confirming exactly what your readings are, because this is exactly what’s going on right now’.

I think that astrology is underrated. I think that people should know more about it. I love it. I’m a huge fan of it. The reason that I don’t really go too far into astrology is because I’m really horrible at math and there are a lot of calculations and I just don’t have the energy for it. My brain is fried. I use it more on a psychic level than anything else.

John’s note: Chris proceeded to provide us with our sun and moon signs. I found out that my sun is in Virgo and my moon is in Aquarius, which Chris said is ‘all about the world and how we can make it a better place’. So, while I’m eager to work on the details, I’m someone who ‘can kind of get over things quickly, like - okay let’s not dwell on this, let’s move on, let’s figure out a way that we can move on’. Lana found this last bit very amusing and started laughing (maybe a little more than he needed to)…

[Lana] [Emphatically] That was the best John impersonation I’ve ever heard.

[Chris] Because the Virgo, automatically that’s the sign of details. That’s the servicer. That’s the person that can put things in order, that can organize everything and does not have time for emotional stuff. ‘Let’s get this over and done with, let’s figure out a way that we can really do this and then be done with it.’

[Lana] [Still laughing – a lot] Awesome.

John’s note: Chris moved on to Lana’s information, telling us his sun is in Libra and his moon in Sagittarius. This is where I got to laugh with what Chris was saying, and I’ll admit maybe I also laughed more than necessary. Or maybe I didn’t.  

[Chris] That’s somebody that finds the humour in everything. That is somebody that when – I mean, yeah it’s fine to be sad and when you’re at a funeral and stuff be sad, but he’s the kind of person that would find a joke to make that way. Just trying to lighten the mood.

[John] [Laughing and amazed] So bang on the head!

[Chris] The moon in Sagittarius, too, is always somebody that wants to know a little bit about everything. So it can be a very restless sign too, because you want to always learn. You want to know more, you want to travel, it’s the sign of travel too - it’s ruled by Jupiter. It’s a planet of expansion, which also can be difficult to deal with because with that person’s emotions, if you’re depressed you’re overly depressed. If you’re happy you can kind of be overly happy at times. So you have to try to find that balance, which with that sun in Libra it would be a little more balancing for you so it doesn’t give you that opportunity to go way overboard as you normally would if you had a different sign there, because Libra’s there.

[Lana] Good thing I’m a Libra then!

[John] Wow. You’re creating for me a greater respect for astrology now. That’s crazy that you can figure that out.

John’s note: Aware of the time we had spent thus far with Chris, we knew we had to begin closing out our discussion and allow Chris to get back to his afternoon. Though we had many more questions, we switched gears a bit and turned towards the conclusion.

You have been incredibly gracious with your time, so we’re going to move towards wrapping up, although I feel like I could talk to you for at least another full day. We just have a few questions left for you.

[Lana] These are the tough ones.

[John] What inspires you?

[Chris] My kids inspire me. My biggest inspiration is my children. They were placed in my life for a reason, as most parents would say but I just – [thoughtful pause] - they keep me going. They keep me grounded. They keep me here.

[John] What is your intention in this life?

[Chris] To touch as many people as I can. To awaken as many minds as I can. I know it’s going to sound cliché and it’s going to sound like what every psychic says but to help – to spiritually guide as many people as I can. To basically do what I’m supposed to do. I don’t really talk about this a lot on podcasts but this life that I’m living now is a very important one. This is the one where all the lessons that I’ve gone through in the lives before, I strongly believe have led up to this, to where the next one is going to be free. I can just feel it. I know what I’m supposed to do and it’s not that I want to get it over with; I want to experience it. There’s nothing more rewarding than looking at somebody that comes to you broken and you send them off with that new lease on life, with hope.

[John] What would you really like our readers to know about Chris Medina?

[Chris] [Long thoughtful pause] That’s such a good one. That’s so difficult. [Chris really struggled with finding the words here and spent some time in thought] I would want everyone to know that I’m here to help, that I am real. I guess, to make it simple, that I’m here to help, that I’m here to bring you hope; I’m here to assist. That, basically, is why I’m here – is to assist those in need.

After everything that I’ve gone through, everything that I’ve experienced, everything that I’ve endured; all the situations that I’ve been placed in is to make me better relatable to who you are. I want you to know that I know exactly what you’re going through because I’ve been through it and I can help you.

THE END

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[John] Lana and I wish to extend our sincerest gratitude to Chris for the time he spent with us and for sharing a part of himself for this interview. We spent a long time talking to Chris and though we can only bring so much to the blog, we truly appreciate Chris’ honesty with us and his willingness to open himself up to us and to all of our readers in such a personal way. This was an incredible experience and we look forward to more time with Chris in the future, as his own path continues to develop and move forward.

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Post-script… [Lana] I would just like to thank John for taking the lion’s share of work on this interview. She did everything from asking the majority of questions (as always) to doing practically all the transcribing and putting together the finished product. It was a lot of work and I just wanted to say that it was much appreciated.


UPDATE

Chris has since changed to a new website. You can now find him at chrismedina.guide for all your mediumistic enquiries.

Chris Medina: Psychic Medium - Part 4

MARCH 8th, 2016

By JOHN LILIES & LANA CARBON

[John] This is the fourth part of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can click here should you like to start with it and you will find the second part here. To read Part Three, please click here.

In Part Three we learned about Chris discovering his abilities and some of his unsettling experiences growing up.  

Please hang out with us now as we delve into Part Four. Make yourself comfy, grab a drink and settle in for more of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina of Platinum Predictions. (Part Five will be out soon!)

[John] Are you able to explain what it’s like when you receive your information? Is it like somebody is telling you or giving you the information, is it a visual image, or do you know where it’s from?

[Chris] Um, the way that it feels like to me, if I was on the outside of it looking in, it’s just given to me. I can’t hear a voice but I can feel that presence there. To me personally, since I’ve known it for so long, I want to say it’s like a male figure. He’s been with me for so long it feels almost like my dad. I can’t hear a male voice; I can’t hear an actual voice, it’s just information given to me. I can’t tell you whether it’s male or female. I can tell you that to me, whatever it is, it feels like a father figure type. They’ll post images in my head, they’ll tell me what to say, if I’m nervous they’ll tell me to relax. Again, it’s not really a voice – it isn’t something that’s being said to me, it’s just inputted. That’s the best way to describe it for me.

[John] I find it fascinating that you almost can’t explain it because it is so natural for you.

[Chris] Yeah, I guess what people don’t understand is that I’m used to this. It’s something that I’ve just known my entire life – I don’t know anything else but this.

[John] You mentioned before that the activity for you gets really heavy at night; that they don’t let you sleep, and we’ve heard you in other interviews talk about how you can’t really turn it off. Why is that? Why do you think you can’t turn it off and what kind of an effect does that have on your life?

[Chris] I don’t know why – I’m just not supposed to. Again, this is something that’s been going on ever since I can remember so I’m used to it. I’ll be lucky if I can get five to six hours of sleep a night – I’m constantly on. Whether it’s spirits or entities or things like that, I can say ‘not now’ but the psychic stuff, no absolutely not. It’s overwhelming but it’s something that I’m used to. [Laughing as he says this…] I used to smoke pot in order for it to kind of numb me so I could kind of escape a little bit. I don’t drink and the pot would only be at night but even then they were telling me ‘Nope. You’d better cut it out,’ and I’d be like ‘well it’s the only thing that relaxes me’ and they’d tell me no and I’d tell them I’m gonna do it; and then I did it and believe-you-me, they have a way of kicking me in the butt to get me to pay attention. They are not afraid to do it and I know that feeling. When it’s time to give something up or to walk away from a relationship or walk away from a certain situation and they tell me ‘you gotta go’, I don’t question it.

[John] Well that’s probably smart, I mean typically they know a little bit more than we do. Does it ever feel frustrating to you? Do you ever wish that you could control it somehow? Or are you just at that point now where you understand that you just have to accept it and that’s just the way it is for you?

[Chris] I never expect the relationship part of it, that’s something that I have a hard time with. As outgoing as I have to be to the public, as far as my personal life goes – relationships - having this ability and dealing with it and knowing and just seeing how people are, you know, picking up on their intention, the thing that I suffer from are my intimate relationships. That’s the one thing that I have a hard time with, is being able to be close to somebody. You know, I’ve met certain people that I consider to be different or to be – not sacred or holy but to be good people – and then meeting them and just knowing right off the bat that’s not who they are, and what their intention is, I’ll mess with it. I’ll give it a try just to see, so I can ‘learn this lesson that you’re trying to teach me’. To sum it all up the thing that I have the most difficult time with is relationships with people – friendships, intimate relationships.

[John] I think I can understand that. If you’re picking up on intimate details about that person, that you might not want to know and they might not want you to know; it must be intimidating for the other person to have the awareness that you may know a lot of stuff about them and you may be feeling things about them or seeing things that they’re trying to keep to themselves. It’s got to be really tough and frustrating for you too, and I would think depressing at times as well.

[Chris] Yeah it’s very depressing. I mean, it may sound a little sad. I just know what I have to do and I knew as far back as I can remember, as a kid, that it was going to be lonely; that it was going to be difficult as far as with people. So when relationships didn’t work out I was told it’s just time to move on. As much as I serve a purpose in their life, they served a purpose in mine whether it was to have that feeling of intimacy or friendship, in the back of my mind I just know it’s gonna be a lonely life. I mean it doesn’t have to be but to me it’s safe. It may sound horrid, it may sound sad but it’s safe for me to not get too close.

John’s note: We could feel a sense of heaviness move into the conversation and though I was keen to explore things further with Chris, we decided to move in a slightly different direction at this point.

[Lana] Do you ever make any prediction that doesn’t make sense in the moment but it does come to fruition or is realized much later on?

[Chris] Yes [deep sigh], it happens. I don’t follow the news all the time, I follow as much as I can but it can be very depressing to me. So when I get hits about things – about worldly type events, you know, wars or people coming into a position of power – and it doesn’t make sense to me at that time, I’ll tell my manager Jay who I’m really close with, ‘you know I got this hit off of this but I don’t know who it is’. He’ll ask me to describe what I’m seeing and to tell him what I’m getting and I’ll say something like (as an example) ‘it’s just this man, it’s a man from another country that’s coming into a position of power but the way that he’s doing it is… blah blah blah’ and Jay will ask me if he looks like this [particular image] and it will be someone that’s actually on the news. Those types of things don’t make sense to me.

[Lana] You do readings in person and you do readings over the phone, by distance or by Skype. Do you find it easier to do readings in person or does that even matter to you?

[Chris] Oh I’d much rather do them in person. Yeah, I have to look at your eyes. I have to see you. I can do photo readings, I’m not knocking those but to be able to touch that person or look at them, I’d much rather do my readings in person. Then that person gets a better feel for me too. When meeting people that I gave readings to over the phone and then meeting them in person, it’s just a better vibe and a better connection in person because they always say there’s something different about my energy when they meet me in person versus on the phone. I feel the same way about them too because I can confirm what I was getting from them too and I can explain why.

[John] I would think that body language plays into that as well, in terms of somebody being open versus being very closed and maybe scared or unsure; that it helps you to be able to see that rather than to just hear it over the phone and not really be sure of what it is that you’re picking up on.

[Lana] And the best way to deliver what it is that you have to tell them.

[Chris] Right. Yeah, because the phone is informal especially when you’re giving them readings regarding their life and personal situations; you’re making predictions about their health and there’s no way to sit there and comfort them and hold their hand and say ‘Oh my God I’m so sorry but… blah blah blah’ and they’re crying. I like to be able to comfort them.

[Lana] Do you ever record your readings so that you can revisit them later on or track your accuracy?

[Chris] No, I never record my readings. I don’t mind if the client records the readings but I never record the readings. Some of the stuff that we discuss is very personal and to me it would be like having it lingering around for a little bit. I don’t know if that makes sense to you – I just want to be able to deliver what I have to deliver and then move on.

[John] Do you ever wish that you could go back to any of those readings and revisit them? Knowing that you don’t record anything, are there ever any times that you wish you had that in your back pocket?

[Chris] No, and I’ll tell you why. When I do these readings and I get the information, the only way I can describe it – the reason why I don’t promote the love and light and the reason that my readings are very direct, is because whatever I give that person within the first 30-40 minutes of that reading, is what I need to get out. You know what, to be honest with you, sometimes I don’t remember. I don’t know if that makes sense. I will remember the person and the reading but not the details. It’s almost like ‘please don’t stop me, I have to get this out’. I have to tell you what I’m saying and then once I’m done it’s kind of like a relief.

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Here, we have reached the end of the fourth part of our interview with Chris Medina. There’s still some final ground to cover, so please stay tuned for Part Five to be released this week!

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Chris Medina: Psychic Medium - Part 3

MARCH 6th, 2016

By JOHN LILIES & LANA CARBON

[John] Well hello there. This is the third part of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can click here if you’d like to start with it and you will find the second part here.

In Part Two we learned a lot about Chris’ personal and work ethic as a Psychic Medium, and the frustration involved with witnessing the effects of readings from those in the industry who are not always so well intentioned.

So spend some time with us now for Part Three… settle in with a yummy beverage for more of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina of Platinum Predictions. (Part Four will be out soon!)

[Lana] We’re going to go back a little bit to when you had your first experience that you can recall. What was your reaction to it when you realized what was happening?

[Chris] My first memory of being psychic or knowing that I was different – I mean I’ve had stories that my father told me where I was doing readings for his friends when he would have little get-togethers at the house – but for me personally, it was when I was around three or around that age, maybe four. I had really bad asthma as a kid. I almost died – I lived in a plastic bubble for a long time. Back then it was a plastic bubble that they put you in. Feeling so weak, feeling that sick, at the age of four I just knew I was going to die. I said it out loud, ‘I want to die. I know that I’m getting ready to die.’ Then I heard it, ‘No, you’re not going to. There are things that you have to do first.’ I heard it as plain as day. That was my first experience with it. People can say that it was a near-death experience but it wasn’t. Before that happened, I would feel certain things but that is the first memory that sticks out in my head – that voice telling me ‘No. Don’t give up’.

My mind wasn’t that of a four-year-old – I don’t know if this makes sense to you but I always felt that I’ve always had this same mindset. I didn’t have the same experiences but I had the same mindset. I feel like I’ve always had it. At a young age I would just know certain things, know what people were about, know how to maneuver through certain situations as I would as an adult. I didn’t have the experience of what I was doing but I was always guided. I always felt that my mentality was so far ahead for my age. I mean, to sit there and contemplate death, contemplate my future, have visions of what’s going to come, dreams. Yeah, four years old was the first time that I knew - that I really knew - that there was something majorly different about me.

[John] And it never scared you?

[Chris] It didn’t scare me until I started feeling the spirits. I didn’t know whether they were good or whether they were bad - there was just always something here. The hairs on my neck would stand up. As soon as it was time to go to sleep I just knew ‘Oh it’s going to start’. I would sneak off into my sister’s bedroom for comfort to sleep because they would literally wake me up out of my sleep. I could hear them walking on the carpet, whispering ‘He can hear us, he sees us, this is him, this is him’.

[John] That would creep me out now let alone when I was a kid. How old were you when you first realized that you were hearing and seeing spirits?

[Chris] We had just moved into our new house so that was at the age of seven. When I went to go sneak into my sister’s room to sleep with her, I woke up because I felt something and I looked (the door was open) and I saw what looked like my sister waiting for the bathroom. This was an actual image – not my mind’s eye – this was physical. This little girl, standing there in front of the door and she looked at me and she said, ‘Shh’. I was like ‘Hurry up’ because I thought it was my sister. I turned over and my sister was in bed with me.

John’s note: I must admit at this point both Lana and I expressed nervous laughter and I was feeling very creeped out by this story. I would have nightmares now, as an adult, were that to happen to me – as a child, though, I’d have been a total wreck!

[Chris] As a kid – I don’t know if it was journeying or astral projection or whatever it was at the time I did not know, and to this day I still do not know what was going on, but I would turn over and I would hit a wall. I would turn over again and I would hit another wall. It felt like I was in a box and I could not open my eyes. I could not open my eyes until they were done telling me what they needed to tell me. I look back at that and it was more lessons at that time, like ‘this is what you have to go through; we’re telling you’. I didn’t feel like those were spirits, I felt like those were – if you want to say my guides.

[John] Wow. I don’t think I’d handle that very well as a kid.

[Chris] Yeah, I made the mistake of playing with Ouija boards too.

John’s note: At this point, I felt conflicted. My audible reaction was ‘Oh’ but internally I was feeling both dread and excitement. I’ve been reconciling my previous feelings of fear regarding the Ouija board and though I’m not feeling strong enough in my own energy to be able to try using a Ouija board and be confident in a positive outcome, I definitely no longer view it as a portal for negativity only. As Chris introduced his Ouija experience, I was nervous to likely hear a negative story but excited to learn about how it shaped his life experience.

[Chris] After I realized the whole Medium thing and speaking to the other side, one of my sister’s friends came over and she had a Ouija board. I asked her what it was and she was surprised I didn’t know. She was seven and I was nine and I said ‘No, what is it?’ and she goes, ‘It’s a game. You can talk to ghosts’. I asked her what she meant and how it worked and she said ‘You just move this thing around and ask questions to it’. I got so involved with it. I would make my own and my mom would thrown them out and I was so obsessed with it that I would make my own out of cardboard. I would ask them questions like ‘where’s this’ and ‘where’s that’ and I would literally feel that presence there. I’d ask ‘Give me a sign that you’re here’ and the phone - back then it was actual telephones not cell phones - we had a phone on the wall and it would ‘ding’.

I spent a lot of time growing up dabbling in the spiritual realm. Dreams, too, dreams were huge for me. I spent a lot of time alone. I didn’t come from the best family so a lot of my time was spent alone in my room sleeping. I would sleep – I would want to travel and dream of other things. I knew I had the ability to dream of anything I wanted to. If I wanted to find out things, I knew that all I had to do was just go to sleep and think about it. I would meet different people; to me it was a huge escape mechanism growing up, to have this ability.

[John] Did you decide at any point to stop using Ouija boards or is that something you would still dabble in now?

[Chris] No. I stopped using Ouija boards. I had a really bad experience. During that time I started getting into Witchcraft. I met somebody that was involved in Santeria and I was fascinated by it. I know it sounds weird and people say ‘Well why would you do that for?’ but it was a lesson that I had to go through. I had to see what was going on and see how it worked and pick up that vibe and that intention off it. So I had a really bad experience; I was messing with the Ouija board and I let something in and whatever it was, it was not human. It felt almost like an animal, kind of, and behind my door I could hear it breathing and kind of like laughing. It woke me up and I was wondering what it was doing; and that thing ran to the edge of my bed and bumped the bed and just left. So I said, ‘That’s it! I’m done!’

John’s note: At this point we all laughed a little bit and my own laughter was partly nervousness. I had the most sinister visual image as Chris described this creature and his experience, and I was trying very hard to not allow that image to settle deeply in my mind.

[Chris] Yeah. I just stopped. I just realized that it wasn’t for me. You know, my guides will tell me that that’s not something I should do, that ‘you’ve experienced it, you know that you shouldn’t do that, this is what you’re supposed to do’. I believe that it was all set up for an experience so I could witness it and see what’s going on, so when I do have readings with clients that are involved in anything like that and they’re having difficulty with it, I can relate to them on that level. I can talk about it through my experience as well.

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Thus ends of the third part of our interview with Chris Medina but our chat continued with so much more, so please stay tuned for Part Four to be released very soon!

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Chris Medina: Psychic Medium - Part 2

MARCH 4th, 2016

By JOHN LILIES & LANA CARBON

[John] Hello again friends. This is the second part of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can click here if you wish to start with it.

In Part One we learned about Chris’ role as a Psychic Medium, what it’s like when he ‘receives’ his information and that when people die, they don’t always become a different personality than they were in life; you aren’t always renewed or your soul isn’t always lifted. As Chris shared, “A lot of times the person that once was still remains that person.”

Join us now for Part Two… get yourself a cozy beverage and settle in for more of our interview with Psychic Medium Chris Medina of Platinum Predictions. (Part Three will be out soon!)

[Lana] What was it like for you to first identify yourself to people as a Psychic Medium? What were their reactions and has that changed over the years?

[Chris] It was a shock to me, not necessarily to the public. I’ve always been this way, so growing up giving readings to my father, giving readings to my siblings and my cousins, and even my friends growing up in high school, to me it was always advice. They would always say ‘Go to Chris; Chris is usually good’ and even they never connected the whole psychic thing. They would just say ‘If you need someone to talk to, go talk to Chris; he’s really good at talking to people’. Jay (my manager) was the one who said I should really think about putting myself out there more and being more of a public image; that I’m helping other people. I was hesitant to put out there the name Psychic Medium. I thought the people that know me would think it was weird but they all said it made total sense. They’d just never thought about it that way because they were so used to it.

At the very beginning I used to be kind of nervous about getting the information wrong or that it wouldn’t make sense to the person. My guides would just tell me to ‘tell them what it is you need to tell them and it’s up to them for it to make sense’. I’ve done a couple podcasts where I’ve done readings on air and the people would say the information doesn’t make sense or it’s about issues going on with them that they don’t want to discuss on air. Then they’ll email me after the show and apologize, saying they were sorry for making me go through that but it wasn’t something they were prepared to answer on air. So to me the nervousness comes from me. I guess I’m the one with most of the issue when everybody else thinks it makes perfect sense; that what I’m doing makes sense.

[John] That’s often the way we are just as people. We’re usually a lot more intimidated by our own selves and insecure in that way when everyone else sees us totally differently.

[Lana] What do you find are people’s biggest assumptions or most common misconceptions about what it is that you do?

John’s note: Chris’ light-heartedness appeared here and he laughed a bit through this before becoming serious again. Both Lana & I also found his answer amusing and somewhat surprising; I guess we were expecting a different answer though what, I’m not sure.

[Chris] The biggest misconception is ‘Pull up lottery numbers for me’. Yeah, ‘Read my mind for me. If you’re a psychic, read my mind for me and tell me everything.’

[John] Really?

[Chris] Yeah. I find that funny. I’ve got a sense of humour with it all. I’ll play along with them for a little bit because nine out of ten times they’re more nervous about the reading than they’re wanting to admit.

I like those kind of skeptical people when they have those misconceptions; then after they sit there and talk to me a little bit and I warm up to them to where they realize it is not what they thought it was going to be. They’re nervous. When you start describing somebody’s life to them and you’ve never ever met them before, and you start bringing up things that have gone on in their childhood or pictures that they have in the house, they’re sitting there and questioning how you know that. They start to get uncomfortable. What I always say is that you blow their mind.

[John] Yeah, I can relate to that. I think we both can.

[Lana] I’m sure it helps, too, that you’re not like the normal assumption of what a Psychic is. You don’t do the love and light stuff and you profess that right up front.

John’s note: It became evident at this point just how serious Chris is about what he does as his personal and work ethics brilliantly shone through. There were moments when Chris’ frustrations were very clear in his tone and it really sounded as though he aches for more honestly-intentioned people to work in the field.

[Chris] Yeah, there’s nothing against it, don’t get me wrong. I’m all about love but when someone’s coming to you for help and they’re seeking spiritual guidance, you have a responsibility to be as honest, as truthful and as direct as you can be.

What I’ve witnessed going through these events and seeing different Psychics and different Mediums and intuitive people, is that what they do is they’ll coddle somebody. They’ll tell them that it’s all about having to love themselves and be open to the light, and this and that – but doing that, you’re not really doing anything for them, you’re not helping them, you’re pacifying them. If you have a message to deliver that can change their life, I believe that it is our responsibility to do that. I would feel horrible if I lied to somebody or they took what I had to say and they did something to themselves.

I’ve seen people do that. I’ve had clients come to me that were hypnotized, believing they were involved in some traumatic experience. All because that person wanted them to go back and pay the $200-$300 a session to give them these regressions when nothing really happened.

[John] That must be so infuriating for you.

[Chris] It is. It is because that’s what makes the public have this fear against us. ‘Well they’re just out to get your money. All they want is your money. They’re liars, they’re charlatans. They’re the Devil.’ No. I want to change the way the world views Psychics – people that are in the metaphysical world – because we do have abilities. You know, some of us are different; we have the ability to see into the past, present and future and talk to spirits on the other side. I can pick up on alien presences and things like that. There are other people who have the ability to heal – actually touch you and heal your body. We can do good in the world. We can change lives. We can make a difference. Not all of us are what you see on television.

[John] I appreciate the fact that you are aware of the damage that is being done and how people are discrediting what you do and who you are just because they want the money.

You’ve mentioned in other interviews that a lot of people say they were born with this ability but that you actually were and it made me curious. Do you find that often people falsely make that claim?

[Chris] Yeah. I get asked that question all the time. I get a lot of crap for that, for being honest. They ask me how I know that. This is just my opinion on it. [Long thoughtful pause here…] I believe that the people that say they have natural born, natural built-in abilities, when they really don’t are people that are being misled not only by themselves but by other people too. I’ve been in these meta-physical communities where what they do is they all stick together. They all band together. They don’t realize - no one has the heart to tell them they’re wrong.

Does that make sense? I hope that doesn’t come across as being rude. I don’t want to discredit people but again, I have a huge issue with claiming to be something that you’re not and then trying to go help people when you’re just as damaged to the person you’re reading - you’re not really doing anything. Like I had one lady tell me that she gives readings because it makes her feel good when she’s suffering from other things that are going on in her life. I said, ‘What you are doing is you’re distracting yourself by helping other people and you’re telling them things you want to hear about yourself and you’re not helping anybody. You’re giving these people false hope and then they go home and when these things don’t happen that you’re predicting for them, they’re not working, they’re not going out.’ I’ve seen it happen. The person that was hypnotized by people - she hypnotized a kid that was barely 18 years old that was not openly gay yet and had him believe that he was raped at a young age and he was suicidal afterwards.

No! I could never mislead somebody that way. Again, I would feel horrible if somebody committed suicide based on something that I said.

[John] That is tough to believe. I mean I know that it does happen – I know that there are people like that out there - and I sometimes wonder if it’s a lack of self-awareness, if it’s a lack of confidence, a lack of security; but regardless of what it is I find it unacceptable. It really gets to me when I hear stories like that. I’ve known some people who have had readings before and they’ve really thought it was so legitimate. Then they recount it to me and I think that something just doesn’t seem right about it. Again, it comes down to the money.

[Chris] You know, I have kids, I have a family to support and I do charge for my readings; but if somebody ever walked away after the reading and wasn’t satisfied with it, in all professionalism I would not be able to take their money. I guess that’s what sets me apart from someone that does it for the money but also does it under the wrong intention.

[John] You’re providing a service and that’s good customer service. If somebody is unhappy with the product or the result, you do what you can to rectify it. If you’re able to influence other people in the field, to be similar and to do the same, then you are serving a greater purpose than just with your intention of the readings themselves.

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This marks the end of the second part of our interview with Chris Medina. Our in-depth conversation with Chris continued, so please stay tuned for Part Three to be released very soon!

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Chris Medina: Psychic Medium - Part 1

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.

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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!

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