Pascal Voggenhuber - The young spirit messenger

Many people, of course, would like to know lottery numbers from me, but honestly, even if I could know these things, I wouldn’t tell anyone. Another topic I’m often confronted with is money. There are quite a few people who think that a medium shouldn’t ask for money. I can’t understand that. After all, everything costs money, but time and again I have to hear that my gift comes from God and therefore I’m not allowed to earn money with it. I don’t consider it a gift, but rather a talent, so to follow their logic nobody would be allowed to make money with their talents. Religions, for example, also come from God, and in Switzerland we pay church taxes for them. Yes, even death is determined by God, and everyone who has lost a close family member knows that even death is not free. So I say to all those, if they would pay my living expenses and those of my assistants, I would work for free.

Nobody is forced to come to a consultation with me. It’s voluntary and everyone can decide on their own if they want to spend money on a consultation. Personally, I don’t believe that money spoils character – rather it makes what already exists visible. I’m often reminded of a quote by Bruno Würtenberger: “Money is dirty, but only if it ends up in dirty hands.” However, each medium should decide this for themselves, just as each client does.

Many people believe that mediums are better people. This, unfortunately, is not the case. I’m a human being like everyone else. Just like the deceased are not suddenly enlightened and can play the harp. I find it fascinating what people expect when they come into my practice. Television teams especially have always been very disappointed by my practice. What comes up again and again is the image of a medium holding a session in the dark by candlelight – the air filled with smoke from a variety of incense sticks, or at least a crystal ball or something else spectacular is in the room. This is not the case with me. Many people tell me that my practice is even more unspectacular than a doctor’s.

Others think I chase spirits or visit haunted houses, but this is also not the case. It happens once in a while that I’m asked to inspect the home of clients because they have the impression their house is haunted, but my main task is to create contact between this and the other world.

I personally don’t believe in evil spirits or demons. I’ve never seen one, and I don’t know of any other serious medium who has witnessed possessions or evil spirits. There is much in life that can perhaps terrify us at first sight or cause fear, but according to my perception there is no evil. Up until now, all my clients who thought they were possessed by an evil spirit had a psychosis and no evil spirit. They were no longer in psychic balance. In my first book I wrote more about all this.

Of course it often happens that the deceased want to contact their living relatives. This can certainly be uncomfortable sometimes, especially if we don’t know who or what it is that’s frightening us. Just recently I had a case where a client had been hearing“knocking” in her bedroom. She was sure this was something evil, but it didn’t turn out to be. I checked if I could perceive a deceased person with her, and I saw her mother.“Your mother from the spiritual world has made contact. She informed me that she died recently and couldn’t say goodbye to you. It was her who wanted to make herself known through the knocking. She wants to tell you that she is fine and she wants to say goodbye. Can you understand this?” My client could understand everything and the noises disappeared, as she told me later.

Needless to say, you should also check beforehand if certain knocking sounds don’t have a natural cause, because in most cases they do.

Mediumship and Spirituality

Before we get deeper into the subject of the spiritual world, I’d like to clarify one of the greatest misunderstandings. During consultations in my practice, I’m frequently asked the question: “Do I have spiritual potential or talent?”

Clients would like to know whether they have mediumistic, healing, or other extrasensory abilities, however, spirituality has nothing to do with these.

Mediumship and spirituality are two completely different things. I’ve noticed that a distinction is often not made between them. Being a medium does not automatically mean that someone is spiritual. But unfortunately many people believe this – even quite a number of mediums themselves. But whether the mediumistic talent is used for “good” or for “bad” is always dependent on the person using the talent. During World War II, clairvoyants, for example, supported Adolf Hitler in the war. Nobody today would suggest that was an assignment marked by love. What I want to say with this is that no matter how mediumistic someone is, that doesn’t mean they’re spiritual (and a good person respectively), and of course vice-versa would also be true. I’ve had the privilege of meeting many spiritual people who were not psychically gifted. Plus, I’ve gotten to know many spiritual people who were not even aware of the fact that they were so spiritually advanced. And I’ve also met people who considered themselves very spiritual, yet in reality they had fallen prey to spiritual pride. I believe a truly spiritual person would never, from him or herself, claim to be spiritual.

I can still remember the beginning of my training very well. My teachers at the college for mediumship and healing kept telling us how important it was to have a spiritual attitude. How important it was to work at improving your character. At that time I underestimated all that. For me it was much more important to develop my mediumistic skills down to the minutest detail. For me a good medium, above all, had to be able to provide very precise information and many details and facts. This is still my conviction today, however I’ve learned something even more important: When a deceased person speaks through me, at that moment it’s not only important to provide many facts and details from the person’s life to the client, but also to relay, above all, the love and healing that’s being expressed to the bereaved.

The question is, of course, what does “being spiritual” mean after all? Today the expression “spiritual” is used very commonly and is, in my opinion, often abused or misunderstood. Previously, everyone called themselves esoteric who considered themselves so. At some point the word wasn’t good enough anymore – something newer was needed – and so the word “spiritual” emerged. I believe that you can’t understand spirituality with the rational mind – but only with the heart. And I’m convinced that you can’t be on a spiritual path. Spirituality is something personal, and each person can only discover their spirituality for themselves.

Spirituality to me is seeing and discovering God in everything that IS. Spirituality means surrendering to God or the Divine Energy and finding your own inner Divine core, or better said – recognizing it. Here alone, you can already see that spirituality and mediumship, which simply means communicating with the spiritual world, are two totally different things. Yet spirituality isn’t a path to God, because there are no paths to God – God IS. There are only countless numbers of ways leading away from God. When we recognize God in everything, and also the Divine in ourselves and, of course, in every other person as well, then we are spiritual. Whoever wants to reach God must become still, must stand still and stop following any path, and simply be. Since God is always and everywhere present, we can only encounter Him here and now. For a spiritual person, it’s not about being spiritual, but rather being with God. In my personal opinion, there is no right way that leads to God. There are also no spiritual practices that promise success and allow you to find God! Everything and every way is the right one, when through it you are able to recognize God. Stop searching for God and instead go into your heart and welcome Him. Have the courage to be that which you truly are. Stop leading a special way of life, following special practices, being nice only in order to be spiritual. True spirituality can’t be bought with things like that. God does not let Himself be discovered through prescribed activities and patterns of behavior. God and spirituality can’t be understood through the intellect; it doesn’t lead you closer to God when you try to understand spirituality with your head – you can only experience God. Stop wanting to understand spirituality and God – you’ll only get lost in intellectual masturbation. God can only be experienced in love and in everything you encounter.