Discover the World of Spirit
A journey of understanding, connection, and spiritual discovery.
Explore the mysteries of mediumship, understand the soul’s journey, and discover the roles of angels, spirit guides, and loved ones beyond the physical world. Learn about spiritual energy, ethical communication, and discernment through Donna Young’s personal experiences and channelled teachings.
Your learning path
Lessons from Spirit, one at a time
Each lesson is channelled by Spirit & builds on the one before. Read in order, or jump straight to the topic you're curious about.
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Spirit Talk
Communicating with Spirit -
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What is a Soul?
Who we really are -
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Self-Love, Growth, Life Lessons and Personal Responsibility
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04
Guides
Those who walk beside us -
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Loved Ones
Connecting with family in Spirit -
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Ghosts, Poltergeists & Spirit
Understanding imprints and energies -
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Energy for Evidence
Reading what's around you -
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Permission & Ethics
Working with respect -
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Discernment
Knowing what's true -
10
Angels
Help that's always near -
11
Feedback
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12
Freewill and personal choice – nothing is set in stone
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13
Missing Persons
What is a Soul?
The soul is the essence of who we are — a spiritual energy that exists beyond the physical body. Learn how to recognize, understand, and connect with your soul on…
Self-Love, Growth, Life Lessons and Personal Responsibility
To be able to give positive messages of love and hope toothers, you must carry all of that within yourself.As mediums, it is important that we work on ourselvesevery day,…
Guides
Spirit guides are always with you, offering wisdom, protection, and direction. Learn how to connect with your guides and receive their messages.
Loved Ones
Even after they’re gone, loved ones are never truly lost. Discover how to feel their presence, receive signs, and keep your connection alive.
Ghosts, Poltergeists & Spirit
Understand the differences between spirits, ghosts, and poltergeists. Learn how to identify their presence and bring peace to your space.
Energy for Evidence
Energy is the bridge between the seen and unseen. Explore how to use energy work to find answers, receive signs, and trust your intuition.
Permission & Ethics
Spiritual work should always be done with respect, honesty, and integrity. Learn the importance of permission and ethical practice in the spiritual world.
Discernment
Not everything is what it seems. Learn how to trust your intuition, separate truth from illusion, and make wise decisions on your spiritual journey.
Learn Mediumship with Donna Young
Spirit Talk Communicating with Spirit
Your first experience with spirit can be quite a shock. Spirit often has to shout loudly to get your attention, otherwise most people wouldn’t notice them.
Many people notice the presence of spirit after losing someone close, or going through a difficult break up, or some other traumatic experience.
Spirit always shows up when you need it most. When you start out on your spiritual journey, you need to create quiet space for yourself. You can do this
through sitting, walking, running, cleaning, lying down … anything that helps your mind to stop and listen.
The first signs of contact can be anything from actually seeing spirit clearly, almost in human form, or seeing a shadow, or a visual image that fades in and out, to hearing your name being shouted, or a whisper in your ear, or a voice in your head.
Some people experience random visions in their mind’s eye, that seem to come from nowhere. Others feel the sense of walking into a wall of energy, or notice arbitrary smells. I saw spirit first, and heard them. They were almost in human form, but had a blue glow and a different energy to most people. My first contact was with my guide when I was 4. Back then she had long black hair; these days she has long silver radiant hair.
I’m sure I am the cause of that now shiny silver hair, the stress of watching over me all these years …
Soon after I was introduced to my guide, I saw my nan. Nan had more of a white glow, but other than that, looked and sounded very similar to how I’d remembered her.
Over the years my form of communication has changed to ensure I receive the most detailed messages. I’m sure it will continue to evolve over the years.
Others first feel the touch of spirit, maybe a gentle tickle on the side of the face, the holding of a hand, or a brush over the arm. Spirit can pull your leg or jump on you for fun. Spirits can be very playful. I was doing platform readings at a church once, when I had the spirit of a dog come in and start licking my hand just before I started my readings.
The best way to understand communication with spirit, is to understand the other side.
The best way to understand communication with spirit, is to understand the other side.
What is a soul?
A soul is pure energy. A soul can be in many different places at once.
On the other side, there is no concept of time, and no limitation of what we understand. We see situations from every perspective.
Everything is energy living in a world of love, light and healing, where everything is beautiful and everything is known.
When spirit comes to us, it’s a fragment of the soul of our loved one who once was.
Our souls are always busy, visiting loved ones from past lives, learning about the lives we have lived to prepare for the next destination, living on earth in human form, visiting the library, connecting with teachers from the highest realm, and much, much more. They are everywhere.
In the spirit world it’s like everything is happening at once, all at the same time. Which is a concept way too complicated for any of us to even begin to comprehend. I have learned to be open to everything that is good for me, to understand that I have so much more to learn, and that sometimes not everything has to be understood. I have learned to trust that my soul will guide me in the right direction.
Some things take many life times to be understood as our soul is capable of things we cannot even imagine.
Asking questions can assist on your soul’s journey, although you will only receive the answers at the right time.
Some things take many life times to be understood as our soul is capable of things we cannot even imagine.
Angels
Everyone meets their angels and guides at different times. My golden angel came to me when I was on the other side, and he has never left me.
Since then, I have had other angels around me, and I also see many around other people, especially in my classes. I see a black angel over people when I need to be aware of them. It’s not that they are bad people; it’s just a sign to watch my energy. These people can be needy, and will take all of your energy if you let them. I also see angels around healers, and I see them around people who have been to the other side, as they come back with that special, purified light energy.
Sometimes I just feel the sense of calm around someone, the feeling of love and peace. Angels will send you number repetitions to get your attention, like 1111 or 2222. They also send you feathers. I see lady beetles when my angels are around. In the northern hemisphere the bird, the robin redbreast, is also often a sign that spirit is close by. Every person is different when it comes to what they believe, and what’s special to them.
Many different cultures see what they have been told by their elders. Numbers have basic meanings, though over time you will learn what each number means for you. Angels are our helpers and healers from the other side. All we need to do is ask, and they will be there. They cannot come without being asked. We have our freewill. They cannot intrude on our freewill. Some people know their angels by name. My angels have never shown me names, just different colours, energies, and mine mostly show themselves as male.
Our Angels send us Gifts - All we have to do is ask
Guides
I do know the name of my main guide. I have had Molly around me since I was a child. Molly is a very old soul.
My understanding is that we have one main guide who never leaves our side, and many others who come and go as we need them, to learn different lessons.
I work with many guides, particularly when I’m teaching. This includes my students’ guides too. My students’ guides are there to help everyone to reach their full potential. I also work with an American Indian, a Tibetan monk, an Aboriginal lady and man, a wolf with different colour eyes, and at times I have many others drop in.
I also have my past life guide, the prophet with no eyes, from Scotland, who I mentioned earlier. And I have another past life guide that comes through a lot, a big Icelandic fisherman wearing skins. He lost all of his family and lived on his own for many years. He became very spiritual during those years alone.
We have one main guide who never leaves our side, and many others who come and go as we need them
Loved ones
My loved ones on the other side also guide me. The spirit I am closest to these days is my pop, who I never met. Pop was my dad’s father. Like me, he worked with trucks, in tunnels as they were being built. Whenever I go into the tunnels he sits next to me. He teaches me about driving trucks, helps me to fix them – as well as many other things.
I have some other very special people on the other side that I go to for help. Bob, who was my first boss and like a second father to me, helps with my writing and my business. Joan, who was one of my first spiritual teachers when I was in my teens, and many others who were spiritual teachers here on earth and are now in spirit. Nan comes for cooking …
I have different people who assist with every situation. Not long ago, one of the doors in my home broke. My pop mentioned to me that I needed ‘plaster joiners’. He showed me a shelf with a red label, and a drawer that would contain what I was needing. I went to the hardware shop, and found something in one aisle, but knew straight away that wasn’t what I needed. I went to the next aisle and found the exact shelf I’d seen, with the exact tray he’d shown me, with exactly the product, and they were the perfect fix for the problem at home.
We can use our guides and loved ones for everything and anything we need assistance with, all we need to do is trust, ask and listen. If you let them in, they have all the answers. Spirit is an open door to endless information.
Spirit is an open door to endless information.
Ghosts, Poltergeists and Spirit
Understanding imprints and energies
As I was growing up, I really didn’t understand all the fear around ghosts. They were such a significant part of my every-day life, I had only ever known them as pure and gentle energy.
I didn’t realise there was a difference between spirit and imprints. Imprints are also known as ghosts or poltergeists. When I think back, there were a few situations that did scare me as a child, but I always had the reassurance of my guide, who was by my side explaining everything that was going on.
I imagine that, without that guidance, it could have been quite debilitating. I understand the fear and the confusion that so many people feel in relation to spirit and the unknown, and why ghosts and poltergeists attracted the stigma they carry throughout the world.
The only thing scary about the other side is not understanding.
Energy for evidence
When spirit is around me, I feel it as a very gentle and pure energy – unless they are trying to show me evidence of the energy and behaviour they displayed while here on earth, which can then feel emotional, cranky, sad, funny, soft, and even forceful or aggressive. Until you fully understand the communication that’s happening, and start to trust the information that you’re being given, it can all make you feel like you’re going crazy.
Take notice of everything around you.
Permission and Ethics
One of the most important rules, and the one I see being broken all the time, is that you never read people without their permission.
As a strong empath, and one that connects easily, I do take safety precautions when I’m with people. I tune in to people’s energy just enough to keep myself energetically safe. I never tune in enough to intrude in their personal business.
Reading someone without their permission is like walking into their bedroom without an invite. There are too many mediums who will start telling you about yourself and your personal business before they even say hello, and more importantly, before you’ve even given them the go ahead to do so.
I’ve listened to many mediums bragging about reading people they don’t know while they’re walking through shops or other public venues. It’s our personal responsibility to nurture our gifts with total respect for spirit, for ourselves, and for every single person who comes in contact with us.
There is no place for ego if you want to work as a medium. If a medium discusses someone’s personal business following readings they have done, they are crossing an ethical line and shouldn’t be reading at all.
Reading someone without their permission is like walking into their bedroom without an invite.
Discernment
It is also important to be aware that we don’t need to share every single piece of information given to us about a person, and that don’t always have to be right.
Sometimes our job is simply to plant a seed. As empaths, we often can’t help but feel other people’s energy. Being an empath means we often feel other people’s emotional and physical pain. Even when you’re not working with someone personally, but you know you’re feeling their energy, you must always make sure you don’t intrude in their personal business.
Sometimes just a hug, or a simple ‘are you ok’ can speak a thousand words. When I’m working with spirit, I have all the answers and I give great advice.
However, it is also my responsibility to discern what information I pass on.
I help people make peace with their past, and with what is going on now, in the present. I can also see the future, so give people hope. I can describe their next job, house or car in detail. But I understand the fine line between discernment and judgement. It Is not our place to judge, but it is our place to discern.