Getting in touch with spirits

THE Swan Hill Club will be serving up spirits of a different kind in March as the club hosts two Melbourne-based psychics.

Over two days Suzanne Hatcher and Brian Cuskrin will present their psychic mediumship event.

Ms Hatcher started on her psychic journey at 14, learning how to use tarot cards.

After moving into areas of spiritual healing, becoming a reiki master, learning shiatsu massage and Indian head massage, the former childcare worker decided to offer her spiritual services full time.

Ms Hatcher said that after that she moved more into the mediumship, so she could link with spirits and bring grieving loved ones healing through contact with the spirits and combining those other healing methods.

“People who are in grief can have that help and that connection with spirit and the healing that can come about from that,” Ms Hatcher said.

Mr Cuskrin said he was a late bloomer in mediumship, and coming from a background in industrial flooring was a huge leap.

“I haven’t been doing it as long as Suzanne,” Mr Cuskrin said.

“It was something that I have always had in the back of my head and when I figured out what I was doing and it ballooned after that.

“I didn’t know anyone that did this sort of stuff and I wanted to find out if there was a school or a class or something I could attend and learn about these things.

“I was so naive at the time I even called the local TAFE to see if there were any courses, they promptly hung up on me,” he laughs.

“Eventually I found a little place in Melbourne through word of mouth.”

The weekend consists of several components and starts with a show on Saturday afternoon, where the mediums act as a conduit for the spirit world. On Sunday morning there is a group chakra spiritual healing session and the weekend ends with individual readings.

Mr Cuskrin said that during the show the spirits came to them and usually because they had a loved one in the audience that they wanted to get a message to.

“It’s not like we can dial up Elvis Presley or someone, but it will certainly be a loved one of someone in the audience,” Mr Cuskrin said.

“Sometimes it can be tricky working out who, in the audience, the message is actually for.

“We do get some sceptics in the audience and we welcome that.

“It is always very satisfying when you have sceptic come along and all of a sudden we’ve got their grandfather or someone coming through with all this evidence and they suddenly change their mind.”

Ms Hatcher said that a lot came down to their interpretation of what the spirit was trying to give them.

“Sometimes the spirit will give us a flash of a picture, they might give you a word, a smell or a name,” she said.

“It comes through in all different ways, it is never a guarantee.

“Mediums don’t have a word-for-word conversation. A lot of people think that is what we do but it comes down to interpreting what we are given.”

The Spirit Speaking event will be on at the Swan Hill Club on March 2 and 3.