TERESA COLLINS WORKS as a psychic medium in Cork, communicating daily with loved ones who are dearly missed by her clients.

But she knows not everyone will believe that first sentence.

Some people think it is crazy. And even some clients come with a challenging attitude, she tells TheJournal.ie. It is always important to give some evidence about the spirit. But it is also important that you bring a message through to validate that the person has not left them. Their spirit goes on.

Collins will be talking more about mediumship, spirituality and the supernatural at Cork Citys 13th annual World Ghost Convention later this month.

I will discuss the importance of mediumship, she continues. It serves a need for both the spirit and the human. Bereaved people feel abandoned but spiritualists believe the spirits go on forever. By bringing through a spirit to a loved one, there is proof that they go on.

She mentions a recent reading where she was able to give a message to a lady that her sister told her to get a hair cut. The client did not pass on the information about her sister being a hairdresser or that she expected her to say something about needing a trim.

Collins says she discovered her skill when she started having spontaneous experiences. Her grandmother appeared to her one night, despite the fact that she had died 10 years before she was born.

At funerals, I would see the spirit of the person if I was sitting next to the coffin, she adds.

Communication comes in many forms, she explains. It can be through how she feels when she meets a person, a sudden shift in temperature, the energy she feels from a spirit with no physical form.

If I meet a spirit who has passed away from lung cancer, I might find it hard to breathe, she notes. But the very big one is telepathy. You cant necessarily speak to the person but you can hear them in your mind and understand what they are saying to you.

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