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Carole Obley, a psychic medium for over 30 years with approximately 16,000 contacts with the spirit world, shares that her spiritual journey began in her mid to late 30s after a devastating business fire left her directionless. This event, alongside overcoming alcoholism in her 20s, redirected her towards her soul's purpose. Her initial mediumship focused on touch healing, evolving into evidentiary mediumship after training at places like Deli and Lily Dale.
Obley explains her primary clair, 'clairsentience,' which is clear feeling or sensing, forming impressions from spirit. Clairvoyance (seeing) and clairaudience (hearing) develop organically from clairsentience. She clarifies that while a psychic reads the energy of living individuals, a medium connects with the consciousness of souls without physical bodies, highlighting the core difference as the recipient's physical state.
Obley notes a significant shift in client questions over 30 years, moving from materialistic concerns ('when am I going to get laid, when am I going to get paid') to deeper questions about self-understanding and inner transformation. She links global events and astrological shifts, like Pluto entering Aquarius, to a period of intense transformation and polarity, emphasizing going within to find peace amidst anxiety and fear.
Obley stresses the vital importance of ethics in mediumship, including avoiding client dependency and recognizing that abilities don't equate to inherent goodness. She advises against mediums being 'on' all the time, as life experiences are crucial. Her work is fundamentally about healing, guiding individuals to understand the power of their choices and cultivate their inner senses for an improved quality of life.
Comparing current times to past transformative periods like the 1960s and even the Civil War, Obley discusses how planetary positions, like Uranus entering Gemini, signify accelerated change in communication and technology. She emphasizes the need for grounding amidst overwhelming cognitive shifts and expresses concern about AI in mediumship, viewing genuine mediumship as a blending of souls that AI cannot replicate.
Obley considers the possibility of spirit manipulating technology like AI for communication, similar to how they use synchronistic events or alter electrical phenomena. While skeptical of AI mediumship for direct communication, she acknowledges spirit's ability to manipulate physical and electrical energies to convey messages, though full body manifestations are exceedingly rare and often involve substances like ectoplasm.
Obley confirms encountering higher beings like angels and ascended masters in her readings, often perceiving angels through clairvoyance and color. She describes angels as extensions of the creator specialized in various forms of healing or spiritual awakening, like Archangel Raphael (healing) and Archangel Michael (truth). She also sees Mother Mary, particularly when clients grieve the loss of a child, representing divine motherly care.
Predicting that current extremes will eventually level off, Obley sees planetary shifts as a call for humanity to integrate polarities and heal societal 'cancer.' She emphasizes that readings reveal potentialities, not fixed futures, due to free will. The current 'unraveling' of truth in institutions like banking, food, and pharmaceuticals is a necessary exposure, urging collective discernment and individual spiritual anchoring to navigate these changes.
Obley explains that the law of polarity, a natural law, drives humanity to confront extremes to achieve harmony through integration. She critiques certain 'new age' philosophies for demonizing natural emotions like anger and misinterpreting the role of the ego. Instead, she advocates for recognizing emotions and the ego as necessary tools for navigating the physical plane, encouraging daily practice of inner stillness to find one's sacred anchor.