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Deborah Livingston: Seven Principles of Spiritualism

Deborah Livingston: Seven Principles of Spiritualism

Deborah Livingston

Deborah Livingston is an award-winning, internationally recognized psychic medium, animal communicator, and Spiritual Mentor. Deborah is a Shaman, a psychic investigator, a spiritual circle facilitator who also teaches workshops, and she serves as a Spiritualist in churches. She is the author of Strand of Pearls.

An Interview with Deborah Livingston-Seven Principles of Spiritualism

Interview by Shaw Parker

 

 

Born with tremendous spiritual gifts and abilities, Deborah Livingston is blessed with the gifts of clairvoyance, clairsentience of Spirit, clairaudience, and psychic premonitions. She views these gifts as a natural, sacred communication through Spirit to Spirit, a bridge between two worlds by linking with eternal energy of love and light.

In her adult-life, Deborah experienced a life-changing event that further strengthened her gifts and gave her the ability to control them. She embraces her gifts and uses them to bring peace, healing, comfort, and closure to people who have lost their loved ones to death. She explains to them that there is no death really, just an ascendance to the next level, a transition between two worlds.

 

To listen to the full interview of Deborah Livingston by Shaw Parker on the show, Your Indelible Mark on OMTimes Radio, click the player below.

 

Shay Parker: Deborah was the Psychic of the Year on Best American Psychics. She has won the 20/21 Fabulous Feedback Award more than once. Deborah is still a successful entrepreneur plugging along even amid all the world’s challenges. How are you doing it? There are so many people out there who are really going underwater. They are not able to keep their heads up right now with all the trials and tribulations. Can you tell us how being a Spiritualist helps you get through times like this?

Deborah Livingston: Absolutely. I am human, so I’ve had my low moments as most of us have as well, but I’m a lot quicker to come right back to that state of presence and peace. And try to understand why all this is happening in our lifetime. I go back to the Seven Principles of Spiritualism, and they really help me navigate through my human journey. Spiritualism is classified as a religion. However, it is non-denominational, and anyone is welcome: Anyone and everyone, all walks of life, all faiths. There are several of my colleagues who belong to many different religions to also participate in spiritualism. It’s a way of life because it does combine philosophy, science, and eternal energy.



So, in the center, we have what we call the essence of life.

Surrounding that, you’ve got the unity of life, the obligation of life, the incentive to do well in this life.

We also have the comfort in knowing the Spirit of life continues after human life. The possibility to contact those who have already passed, and, you also have an assured progression so that you’re always progressing in the evolution of your soul, so to speak. Those are the Seven Principles. It obviously breaks down into a much more profound understanding. Still, in essence, that’s what it is, and we can cover all or one or however you want to unfold.

 

SHAY PARKER: Well, this is your space.

DEBORAH LIVINGSTON: The way they developed is through a very well-known British Medium. These Seven Principles, mind you, belong to the Spiritualist National Union, which is about Light, Nature, and Truth. There are Spiritualist Churches in other countries, as well as here in the United States. However, they have different numbered principles. I, personally, resonate best with the Seven Principles, brought to us by Emma Hardinge Britten in 1871. She was in a state of trance, and her Guides came through. Then they were adopted by the Spiritualism Religion.

 

SHAY PARKER: Just for our listeners and our readers out there, you can actually find these on www.snu.org.uk/seven-principles If you just google Seven Principles of Spiritualism, you will find them as well, and you guys can have a point of reference where it’s actually written down for you to thumb back through, or whatever. So, Deb, I know that you are a very studied and educated Professional Psychic Medium. When and where did you first learn about these Seven Principles?

DEBORAH LIVINGSTON: I was raised Protestant, and I respected it, but I was not sure I fit there. My husband’s Jewish, and I highly respect that, but I didn’t fit there. Even as a child, a tiny child, I knew that there was much more beyond just living a human life. When I first read them, I got goosebumps. I so resonated. It’s almost as if I had written them myself. There are no words to explain how my body just absorbed. My body, heart and mind, and soul just absorbed every little word. By the way, depending on which site people go on, there are different interpretations, so the test may be written differently depending on what site they come on, but the best one is the one that you did give, the www.snu.org.uk



SHAY PARKER: Yes, and I see what you’re saying here. For instance, Unity of Life, the First Principle, is also known as Brotherhood of Man. Of course, they have this lovely graphic here, in the center of the circle. I guess, actually, that’s the first one. It’s the center. So that’s called Fatherhood of God, or Essence of Life. It begins in a clockwise, you know 1 o’clock, 3 o’clock, and so on and so forth on this little graphic they have here. The first one says Fatherhood of God, but I would encourage you not to get too attached to the word God. I just don’t want you to get caught up in this as a religious thing. It could be Fatherhood of Source, or Fatherhood of the Divine, or whatever. The basic point of it is Essence of Life, so what I’m saying here is I don’t want our readers and our listeners to think that’s not for me because of the word God.

Deborah, I know that being a spiritual entrepreneur is literally your life. I want to share with our audience who may be out there saying they’re so overwhelmed and don’t know where to turn or what to do. When they’re feeling these feelings, and you’re really struggling, like many, many are at this point, you may need some help. I would like to give them some guidelines for how somebody like you implements these into your life and helps overcome obstacles.

DEBORAH LIVINGSTON: Absolutely. I’m not going to recite them as they are on the www.snu.org website. It’s better for me and better for the listeners and you to just interpret how I work with it. As I said, it is called a religion, but it’s just a way of life. That’s how I view it. The Fatherhood of Life, the Essence of Life, is like the core belief of spiritualism’s philosophy.

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It’s the acceptance of divine energy, so there’s no mistake in that we all have energy, even if someone doesn’t have any belief system. We are made up of energy, so you can give whatever name to it you want, but the bottom line is that we are this energy that has been created, and there is and sustains all creation. So, you could call it the fear of God, you could call it the Spirit, our Spirit, you could call it our soul, the divine energy.



Again, as you said, whatever name you want to give to it. It exists. My belief is it exists within us and around us. So, if it’s within us all, then we’re kind of like this one big family. We’re this one big blanket, and each of us is a thread weaving within one another, making a whole. Therefore, we’re like this one big family. We should treat each other as such, regardless of whether we’re strangers or not. I come back to this during times like we’re experiencing and do my best to help another struggling. I know that somebody else will help me when I’m struggling, and I certainly did. It put me in the hospital a couple of months ago.

So, I came out of it quite quickly because I had to speak to my own Spirit. I allowed myself to get caught up in my human ego where I allowed fears to creep in, and we all know fear is false evidence appearing real. I just had to bring myself back to the knowledge that this energy I’m made up of is myself and those around me and everything else around me. So that’s my interpretation of Principle One.

 

SHAY PARKER: I think lots of times it comes back to the Essence of Life, but what I heard you say was essential, in so many words, to treat others as you want to be treated. I, myself, always go back to that because Eternal Creation can be seen around us. It’s in each of us, right, and so really when we’re ugly to someone else, or we’re short with someone else, we’re really in an extraordinary way, mirroring back to ourselves. That really ties very well into the Essence of Life’s energy. If we’re putting negative energy out, then certainly it stands to reason we’re going to get negative energy back.

DEBORAH LIVINGSTON: Absolutely. That’s the law of attraction, there.

 

SHAY PARKER: Yes. It’s really just amazing, and I think sometimes we get lost. I’m guilty of it. We get lost, sometimes, in the things that are going on around us. You know, the political stuff really fires a whole lot of people up. Myself, included. You read this stuff on Facebook, and you’re like, “Ugh,” and it can really frustrate you. It comes down to where we have to just remember that God or the Creative Force of the Divine Being is manifesting directly and indirectly, literally, in all things and in all of us. We really just have to be very mindful of that. It’s crazy. We’ve been discussing the Seven Principles. We’ve covered the Essence of Life a little bit, I want to jump into the Unity of Life, and I want to get your interpretation of that one.

 

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