How to Communicate with Spirits by Elizabeth Owens

A working medium's method. Owens is a certified, practicing Spiritualist medium.

Real accounts throughout. Encounters from practicing psychics ground every chapter.

Award-recognized. Winner of the 2001 COVR Award.

• Author: Elizabeth Owens; Format: paperback
• Publisher: Llewellyn; ISBN: 9781567185300
• SKU: BHOWCOMS

Spirit communication is one of the oldest human undertakings and, in its modern organized form, belongs especially to Spiritualism, the movement born in the nineteenth century around mediumship's disciplined practice, whose certified mediums, Owens among them, train in the tradition's methods of sitting, development circles, and evidential contact. Her book carries that lineage's approach: contact as relationship rather than novelty, sensitivity developed patiently, the everyday signs read with discernment, and the seance treated as the structured practice it historically was rather than the theater it became in caricature.

Its readers are the quietly curious and the grieving alike, the people who feel the subtle company and want a grounded way to answer it, and the book's Spiritualist manners, respect, patience, and discernment, are its real curriculum. It shelves naturally beside the ancestor-work titles, the two practices being old cousins.

1. Read the foundations before attempting the practices; Owens builds deliberately.
2. Develop sensitivity gradually; the book's patience is the method.
3. Practice discernment with every sign; the tradition insists on it.
4. Approach seance work with the book's structure, never casually.
5. Pair it with ancestor practice; the two deepen each other.

It reads gently and asks the same of its reader, which is very Spiritualist of it.

• Honoring Your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise: the relationship the contact serves.
• How to Use a Pendulum by Richard Webster: the yes-and-no tool of spirit questions.
• Halloween Oracle by Stacey Demarco: the thin-veil season's reading deck.
• Gabriel Oil by Lailoken's Awen, 15ml: the intuition register's anointing oil.
• Black Chime Candles, 20 Pack: the sitting's traditional flames.

Who is Elizabeth Owens?

A certified, practicing Spiritualist medium and Llewellyn author, writing from inside the tradition whose methods the book teaches.

What does the book cover?

The development of mediumistic sensitivity, sittings and seances in their structured Spiritualist form, everyday signs, and real accounts from working psychics.

What is Spiritualism?

The nineteenth-century movement organized around disciplined mediumship, whose certified practitioners train in evidential contact: the living tradition behind the book's methods.

Is it appropriate for the grieving?

Its gentleness suits them: the book treats contact as relationship approached with respect and patience, never sensation.

Is it beginner-friendly?

Yes, deliberately: sensitivity is developed gradually, and discernment is taught alongside every technique.