Spiritual Biography Kathleen Meadows
Psychic Spirituality and Psychic Mind
 I
am Kathleen, a woman-centred psychic, Victorian spiritualist
adherent and seeker on the path to Love and Wisdom. I have been a reader and teacher of the psychic sciences for more than 30
years.
I have been described as irreverently humourous, soft-hearted and spiritually gifted by those who celebrate my work.
Interpersonally people have said I'm honest, resourceful, and responsible. I benefited and developed in the lingering
fumes of the revolutionary '60's, resulting in a spiritually practical world view dominated by a fierce advocacy for personal
freedom, equality, and mutual respect.
On my Spiritual Biography page you will read a snapshot of my personal spiritual journey and experiences from childhood to present. Apart from my spiritual journey what might also interest you to know about me is that I have an extensive academic background in the arts, psychology and religion.
I hold a Master's Degree in Religion and Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University alongside 42 sundry university courses. I am a Tarot Grandmaster, certified psychic, versed symbologist and story-teller.
Like many people my spiritual unfoldment is a culmination of many paths past taken. When I sat down to write my spiritual biography, I felt a little overwhelmed. A thorough description would comprise a hefty volume considering how long (48 years) and how many different traditions I have studied and practiced. For the sake of cyber expediency I've prepared it to read more like a glossary of highlights and lessons learned rather than a stream of consciousness run along which would truthfully weave a more accurate mosaic.
From 6 – 12 yrs
I scrambled to get myself ready and off to church every Sunday
morning to attend one or another of the Christian Churches that
were in my Toronto neighbourhood. My parents were professed
atheists making this eccentricity of mine appear an alarming
aberrance. My mother tolerated this rebellious behaviour as
long as I was open to her version of the Bible and Christianity.
Her primary teaching on the subject was that the Bible was a
fairy tale book that was full of silliness and contradiction
and churches in general were about money not soul.
My favourite aspect of church study was singing. I would sing
my heart out gazing up at the stained glass windows and weep
in spiritual ecstasy. The content of the sermon was usually
too cryptic for my young mind to grasp but I do recall loving
a man named Jesus purportedly loved children. This was a welcome
balm to my experience with adults in general which sadly had
reflected a minimal tolerance at best and rage and frustration
at worst. I only knew one adult that really liked children and
that was my grandmother. She however thought church was a bunch
of blarney too.
17 – 33 yrs
Yoga study and Buddhism. I intended for many years to become
a Yoga Teacher. I had some truly gifted teachers. Kareena was
my first and Ester Myers was my last Yoga teacher. I still practice
Yoga daily before my morning swim. Yoga taught me everything
about the body, mind and soul connection. For years I practiced
Yoga daily and studied the Masters. I learned to be receptive
to my body's voice.
19 – present
The Goddess. When I began university in 1973 I took as many
classes in the study of women that were available. York University
didn't have (nor did any university at that time) a women's
studies department or that would definitely have been the place
for me. One of the professors in the Humanities department at
that time was Joanna Stuckey and she had an enormous impact
on my grasp of the academic feminist discourse. She was to become
the central driving force behind the formation of the Women's
Studies Department. She helped me to finally understand why
the Christian Church failed to hold my attention past 12 years
old. Girls and women never got staring roles to play. This started
a combined academic and personal journey that continues to this
day.
My M.A. began at the California Institute of Integral Studies
in San Francisco studying with Elinor Gadon who was then writing
her book on the Goddess.
I completed my M.A. degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in
Waterloo Ontario in Religion and Culture with an academic focus
on the Goddess. I studied every academic's work I could find
on the goddess and the sacred feminine. Marion Woodman work
(a Toronto Jungian analyst), Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Helen Luke
and June Singer were my heroines.
Vicki Noble's work on the Goddess and the Tarot also comprised
a central piece in my spiritual journey with the Goddess. Feminist
Tarot was something I taught and used as a divination tool for
more than twenty years.
30 yrs to Present
The Spiritualist Church. My father's father and my mother, separately
had found their way to the Spiritualist Church. I had attended
a couple of times with my mom (in her later life she opened
enthusiastically to spirituality finally – mostly caving in
after observing my psychic gift develop) but it wasn't until
I was invited to go to Lilydale in NY with a couple of friends
in the summer of 2007 that I became a true believer. This is
where I picked up Cora's book on The
Soul in its Human Embodiments and knew I had at long
last found my spiritual guide.
Cora's trance mediumship gift was powerfully influential in
the mid to late 1800's throughout the US and the United Kingdom.
Her spiritual guides passed celestial, spiritual teachings through
her instrumentality. She represents ultimately the culmination
of all my studies, prayers and practice today.
Let us have those who are clairvoyant of mind; let us have
those who are penetrating of spirit; let us have those who are
discerners of souls; let us have those who are gifted with inspiration
and prophecy; let us have those who understand beforehand what
is needed. The widow in her weeds, the maid clad in her mourning,
the soul hedged around with despair, the quick and sympathetic
physician understands. To the eye of the spiritual physician
nothing shall be hidden or concealed.
Cora L. V. Richmond Spiritual Spheres 1886
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