Is there anybody there who isn’t being rude?

Mar 18 2008 by Emma Pinch, Liverpool Daily Post

Is there anybody there who isn’t being rude?

He follows up with another sucker punch. “Was Jason ever living in two homes?” Yes. One off a main road?

Sort of. Aren’t most of them, I impatiently think? But he scores with family history of illness, and a curious little fact about someone leaving a car engine running while popping out of the vehicle.

He also talks about someone who has passed to the other side whose experiences were uncomfortable, and a feeling of the loved ones that they didn’t know what to do for the best; a sense that the medical profession didn’t have all the answers. I can feel my cynicism tugging at me. Most deaths are in hospital under the care of medics. And the one thing guaranteed to throw the limits of the medical profession into sharp relief, surely, is death.

The spirits are sensing my cynicism and refusing to make a link with me. I’m feeling a bit left out. The spirits, I can’t help feeling, could do worse than learn a few manners.

But when Shaun swivels round to ask if any of us has started a new course of learning, I’m excited. Actually I’ve just started one. But no, again they’re talking to Jason. I sit back in something approaching a sulk.

Shaun can clearly tell what thoughts are forming in my mind, because he gently explains why the spirits are being so snooty. Jason had lots of pulsating energy round him, whereas I presumably emitted a dimmer glow.

“Maybe it’s because you are sceptical, that X Factor is not as strong,” he says. Calm, analysing energy is always more difficult to work with because it is more of this world than the next, he says, adding: “This just proves to someone who wants to understand it more that there’s a complexity about it, to work with it you must try to understand rather than to force our opinions on something.”

Hmmm. If he picks us out a Grand National winner, then we’ll call it quits. When Shaun was a nipper his horses were always placed, and once even won. But today it’s not to be.

“It’s not a perfect science,” explains Shaun sadly. “But I feel one day the scientific community will understand and accept it more.”

Until then, the spirit world should work on its manners.

* SHAUN DENNIS is appearing at The Kirkby Suite on Tuesday April 15 and The Hilton Hotel, St Helens, on Wednesday April 16.