Interview with
Margaret West H.MA A.M.A.N.F PSY.D AD.CYS
By Emma King
Find out a little bit more about Margaret from this intimate rare interview.
Q- Hi Margaret. Thank you for allowing
me to interview you today. How / when
did you realise that you could communicate with spirit?
A- Hello Emma. It’s a pleasure. From a
young child spirit people would visit me at night. When I reached twenty, I
could hear disembodied voices calling my name, feel their touch, and smell
their perfume or cigar smoke. I was 22 before I actually spoke to them and they
spoke back.
Q- When you were a child did you understand why spirit were coming to you?
A- No. Whenever I went to bed I would hide under the covers. I knew the room
would suddenly become terribly cold, my skin would prickle and I just knew spirit
people were around my bed, sitting on it sometimes and it terrified me. I used
to say my times table over and over again until I drifted off to sleep. It
wasn't a good experience for me at the time, but I learnt my times tables very
well!
Q- How do you communicate with spirit now?
A- After years of training from a wonderful teacher, I have honed my ability to
now be able to hear, feel and see spirit people. I just ask them to come if I am giving a
private sitting, and they do. Now I feel blessed to have them in my life. I
suppose I speak to the dead more than the living nowadays.
Q- Talking about training, how did you train and where?
A- I trained for 13 years in Sutton Church in Surrey with Betty Masters who is
the president. She showed me how to hone my skill, through her no nonsense
teaching and friendship, thus moving me forward on my spiritual journey. After that,
I did various courses at the Arthur Findlay College and continued learning with
spirits help and from those they have led me too. It's an amazing journey that
I feel excited to be on.
Q- Did you ever have times when you
found it hard to accept what spirit were giving you?
A- Yes, in the beginning I found it hard to feel their pain and anguish. Now I
accept it as part of their life journey. Their messages help those they love
and I feel honored they chose me to deliver them.
Q- When you were learning is there a particular time that sticks in your mind?
A- Very much so. I was in an open circle. The spirit lady came to me and showed
me how she went through the windscreen of her car and was killed. It was
horrendous to see. That has stuck in my mind until this day. After that I ask the
spirit people to tell me HOW they died rather than see it for myself. Another
time was when I did my first platform debut. I was giving a message when my
eyes were drawn to the back of the church that had suddenly begun to fill with
smoke. A man dressed in army fatigues trotted out and towards me. No one could
see all this except me of course. He walked up to me and began to tell me how
he had died. The explosion that had taken his life the day before. He really
wanted his family to know that it hadn’t hurt. His death had been instant and I
had to relay that message to a couple in the front row, who knew his family.
Now it is the mediums responsibility to be careful what they pass on from
spirit to the living. One of the spiritual laws is DO NO HARM! All I could do
was give his message out as carefully as I could, but of course they refused to
take it. I wasn’t surprised. They insisted he was alive, as they’d only spoke
to him that morning. That was a very sad moment for me. I hope when they
received notification of his passing that they remembered my words and took
comfort from them. Of course I have had many happy times and lots of laughter
from spirit people. This is when I enjoy my job the most.
Q- You do many workshops and circles- what made you decide to do these?
A- All of my circles and workshops are spiritually inspired. I often wake up
with wonderful ideas that I implement. The same goes for the books I write. I try
to keep all my workshops affordable and I am a great believer that there should
be some sort of energy exchange when you earn money from spirit based work. I
am passionate about animal welfare. A large percentage of my earnings goes to
various shelters and rescues all over the world. I honestly feel this is why my
workshops and circles are always so full. I thank spirit every day for allowing
my work to flourish and for enabling me to heal or help animals and humans on a
daily basis.
Q- You work with crystals too, how did you become inspired to work with them?
A-
Crystals are a big part of my life because I work with them so closely now. I
can't exactly pin point when I started to feel drawn to them, I just know I
always have. Each crystal seems to come alive in my hands and I feel totally
overwhelmed by its beauty and energy. I have a lovely spirit lady who was a
healer in her lifetime, and she helps me with all my therapies. Her knowledge
of crystals never ceases to amaze me. For as long as I live I know crystals
will always play a huge part in my life.
Q- You teach trance, how did you begin in your path of learning it?
A- Trance mediumship is a fascinating subject. It is about having trust in your
spiritual communicator and allowing them to work through your consciousness. After
sitting in trance for five years solid and doing a week live in course at The
Arthur Findlay College, I developed the ability to see a communicator, as they
moved closer into the mediums auric filed that they were working with. I was
then able to talk to them via my thoughts before they had fully integrated with
the mediums energy. This is how I know that people are definitely in the trance
state and it isn’t their higher self allowing them to believe they are in
trance. Which can happen a lot. After a few more years of study and working
with my helpers in spirit, I became confident enough to help those who wish to
learn and develop trance. I have seen many people, in the last 15 years that I
have been teaching trance, who play act or really believe they are in trance,
when actually it is their higher self talking. I then ask spirit to help these
people, because many have an ego that won't allow guidance or criticism. Therefore,
I cannot help them in any way to move forward. Trance is a blending of two energies and it's
a magical time for both guide and medium. Guides have such wisdom to impart.
They are kind, wise, and full of love. Their guidance and philosophy is astounding.
They never criticise, always nurture, and fill the room with their energy. Trance
Mediumship is amazing to watch and experience, but unfortunately, there are not
many trance mediums out there nowadays. I hope it changes.
Q- You also work with the angels. Which ones are you connected to and how did
your path lead you to them?
A- The angel story is a funny one. I never really believed in them but after
reading a book about meeting my guardian angel, I followed its instructions and
asked for my angel to come to me in my dreams. Every night for two weeks, I
asked and nothing happened. So I decided it was a load of old tosh and I gave
up.
That week I saw angel signs everywhere I went. On cars, angel window cleaner,
angel recruitment, and I went to church and one book standing alone in the
library shelf was Angel Therapy. So I borrowed it. That weekend I was asked to
fill in a space at a meditation circle. The circle leader said, “I don't know
why I have to do this meditation but I do". And he led us on a journey
through a crystal forest. I had to stand under a tree and wait to see who came
to me. Out from behind the tree stepped two men dressed casually in cheque
shirts and jeans. I said "hi" and asked for their messages, thinking
they were spirit people coming to tell me something for a circle member. The
youngest man laughed .I said, “what’s the joke"?
He introduced himself as Daniel and said, “if I had come into your dreams you'd
never have believed it, so I waited for this meditation". It was then I
knew these were my angels. Daniel was my angel for this lifetime and John was
my guardian angel. John said, “I know you so well Margaret. You wouldn’t have
believed it was really us appearing in your dreams, and he was right! From that
encounter my healing with angels really started. I am now a Master Angelic Reiki Healer and teacher and I feel blessed the angels took the time to seek me
out and lead me down this beautiful path.
Thank you Margaret for allowing me a rare interview about your journey with spirit.
