A 12-WEEK LIVE MENTORSHIP IN TRANCE SPEAKING, WRITING & HEALING

The Art of Channeling

Sept 8 - Nov 24, 2026 | 7:00 PM Eastern
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There is a word for what you are looking for. It is older than you think, and more profound than most courses will tell you.

What this course teaches has a specific name in the Spiritualist tradition. Trance mediumship. In America, that practice is most often called channeling. Two names for the same sacred discipline.

In the trance state, you may sense the presence of spirit working with you and within you, feel the creative force and inspiration that flow from that connection, or find yourself contributing to the healing of another with a clarity and power that surprises you. This is the experience this course is built around.

This is a twelve-week mentorship in trance speaking, channeled writing, and healing from the trance state. You will work in a small group of no more than twelve students, with individual attention throughout, developing the strand of the practice that calls to you most deeply. What you carry from this course will be your own. A deeper sense of connection. The upliftment that comes from words received and shared. The quiet confidence of knowing that something greater is working with you and through you.

The depth of what flows through you grows with your own inner development. This course begins there.

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Karen's trance mediumship course was like nothing I have ever experienced before. It brought me in touch with feelings and emotions I now realize I had buried very deep.
Alice Alexander

CHANNELING/TRANCE MEDIUMSHIP

A Discipline with Ancient Roots

Trance mediumship is one of the oldest and most profound forms of spirit communication known to human experience. It is the art of entering a deeply altered state of consciousness in which the everyday mind steps aside, allowing a sustained and intimate connection with higher beings, guides, and the spirit world to flow through. In trance, you do not observe the communication from a distance. You become a living conduit for it.

Unlike mental mediumship, where the medium remains in ordinary waking awareness and interprets impressions, trance requires genuine surrender. The quality of what flows through depends entirely on the clarity of the channel, and that clarity is cultivated from within. Serious trance mediumship training begins with the inner life of the medium.

Trance mediumship encompasses trance speaking, channeled writing, and spiritual healing. These are not separate practices but different expressions of the same discipline.

The medium is the instrument. The work of developing that instrument is inseparable from the work of tending your own inner life.

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I absolutely loved the Trance course. I gained new and valuable skills and knowledge around the different practices. I love her method/style of teaching.
Debbie S

WHAT THIS MENTORSHIP OFFERS

The Work

Twelve weeks of sustained teaching and guided practice create something a short course cannot: genuine development. Real trance work requires time, repetition, trust, and individualized guidance. It also requires a willingness to look inward, because the depth of the channel reflects the depth of the inner work.

Deeper, more reliable trance states
Trance is not a gift reserved for a few. It is a discipline that builds the inner conditions that make genuine altered states accessible and sustainable.

Healing in the trance state
You will learn to receive and offer healing from within the trance condition, working with your healing guides for yourself first, then for others.

Grief and the open channel
Grief is not an obstacle to trance mediumship. Brought consciously into the trance state, it can deepen empathy, open the channel further, and begin to move toward its own healing.

Channeled writing you can trust
Channeled writing at its best surprises you. The words that come through are wiser, more precise, or more beautiful than your ordinary mind can reach.

Confidence in speaking
In the trance state, the analytical mind steps aside. What speaks through you then can carry a clarity and authority your ordinary voice cannot reach.

Discernment and ethical practice
Serious trance work requires an honest and critical eye. Learning to distinguish authentic communication from imagination is at the heart of this practice.

THE PROGRAM

Twelve Weeks of Interdependent Trance Practice

Twelve weeks that move from the foundations of attunement through trance healing, inspired writing, and trance speaking, to trance communication in its fullest expression. Each stage opens and deepens the next: healing clears the channel for the writing, the writing finds the voice for the speaking, the speaking becomes the vehicle for communication with spirit. By the end you will have real experience across every form of trance mediumship, supported throughout by individual attention and sustained guidance.

You will learn what trance mediumship is and what it is not, set within the context of the great trance mediums of the Spiritualist tradition. From the first session you will begin moving into attunement and deepening your trance states, building the foundation everything else rests on.
Before you can open the channel for others, you tend to yourself. Drawing on the Buddhist practice of Shamatha, you will learn to sit with difficult emotions, including grief, without being swept away by them. This inner work, done with your own spirit team and healing guides, is the necessary foundation for trance healing with others.
Working in the trance state, you will connect with your healing guides and allow healing to flow to you, through you, and to others. These weeks deepen the surrender and receptivity that healing work requires, cultivating the stillness and openness through which spirit can work without interference.
In the trance state, writing becomes a direct channel for the wisdom and inspiration of the spirit world. Over three weeks you will develop inspired trance writing as a serious mediumistic practice, learning to recognise and trust what flows through you. These skills also enrich and deepen creative work of every kind.
In the trance state, speaking becomes a vehicle for philosophy, guidance, and inspiration from the spirit world. Over three weeks you will find and develop your voice in the trance condition, learning to deliver what comes through with clarity and without the interference of the analytical mind.
Trance communication works like evidential mediumship — loved ones in spirit communicating through the medium — but from within the trance state. The deeper altered state reduces the interference of the medium's own mind, allowing a stronger and cleaner presence from spirit. In these final weeks you will bring everything you have developed to this most complete expression of the work.

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Karen is both a master teacher and a gifted medium. I needed a deeper path into achieving a trance state, and Karen's classes have been so helpful.
Tamar Gordon

FOR STUDENTS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA

Participate Fully Wherever You Are

All sessions are recorded and available for one year — nothing is lost if you cannot attend live.

Submit up to three 10-minute recordings of your own trance practice or writing if you would like personal review and feedback
Post questions in the Spirit Space community or by email, and Karen answers them at the opening of the following week's class, so your answers are in the recording
Connect with fellow students in the Spirit Space Facebook community for practice and support between sessions
Join the free Sunday morning healing circle
Full access to all guided practices and bonus content throughout the twelve weeks

What Students Say

Exceeded My Expectations

This class exceeded my expectations, I consider it an important step in my personal and spiritual development. Thanks to the trance mediumship experience facilitated by Karen I could connect to higher realms and feel the sweet taste of self love (that I only read about in the past, but never actually felt it).
—Andreia Ledda, 2023
Like Nothing Before Experienced

Karen’s trance mediumship course was like nothing I have ever experienced before. I think it broadened my mind in that I have different perceptions of some psychic phenomena now. That one exercise brought me in touch with feelings and emotions I now realize I had buried very deep. Some things I had refused to acknowledge before but I now realize I must deal with and resolve. Thank you for your guidance.
—Alice Alexander, 2023
Master Teacher

Karen is both a master teacher and gifted medium. She is gentle and present, and extremely articulate. Her techniques are based on meditation practices informed simultaneously by Buddhist philosophy and Spiritualism. The Silver Birch text, combined with Karen's spiritual pedagogy was key to this integration. I'm so grateful to her for this experience!
—Tamar Gordon, 2023
Exceeded expectations

I took Mediumship Development with Karen and it far exceeded my expectations. Karen provided detailed explanations of the theory behind her teachings and helped students to learn and grow each week. Karen also provided tools that helped us develop while outside of class and a way for students to interact with each other to further enhance their development. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to develop their mediumship.
—Sandra Gilligan, 2022
Increasingly Rare

Karen has something that has become increasingly rare; thoughtful, well-researched and wise advice to those of us who want to explore the things that Western society so often dismisses.
— Melina Campbell, 2023
Wonderful caring teacher

I took Karen’s first-level mediumship class and was very happy that I did. She invites the student to blend in deeper with loved ones in Spirit, to learn of and experience their essence and qualities. I always felt excited to practice with my classmates to sit in the Power, and to invite the many interesting souls to tell their stories to the sitter. Karen is a wonderful, caring teacher who simplifies the techniques to be able to connect to the other side.
—Bryn Durham, 2023

ABOUT YOUR MENTOR

Karen Frances McCarthy, PhD CSNU

Karen Frances McCarthy is an Irish Spiritualist medium, academic, and author whose approach to trance mediumship is grounded in decades of dedicated practice. Her training at the Arthur Findlay College earned her three Certificates of Recognition from the Spiritualist National Union in mediumship, spiritual healing, and public speaking.

Her doctoral research at the University of Birmingham examined spectrality and the supernatural in contemporary American fiction. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and teaches with the Shift Network, the Edgar Cayce Center, and the Spiritualist National Union International. Her book Till Death Don't Us Part has been read widely by those navigating grief and the question of continued consciousness after death.

Karen was mentored by two of the most respected figures in modern mediumship, the late Glyn Edwards and Mavis Pittilla. Her approach integrates that rigorous Spiritualist lineage with the depth of her long-standing Zen practice and the lyrical wisdom of her Irish Celtic tradition.

IS THIS PROGRAM RIGHT FOR YOU

Prerequisites & Readiness

THIS MENTORSHIP IS FOR YOU IF

You have an established meditation practice and some prior experience in mediumship, healing, or serious spiritual development. You are ready to commit to twelve weeks of focused, sustained work and to bring your full presence to each session. You are willing to do your own inner work, not only develop outward mediumistic skills, and you understand that tending your own inner life is part of the practice, not separate from it. This mentorship requires genuine psychological stability.

THIS MENTORSHIP IS NOT FOR YOU IF

You are entirely new to mediumship, altered states, or spiritual practice. Before joining this course, you should have an established meditation practice, some experience in spiritual development, mediumship, or a healing modality, and the psychological stability that serious trance work requires. If you are currently in crisis, experiencing acute mental health difficulties, or in the very early stages of bereavement, please speak with a counselor or therapist first. This work may be right for you later. It is not the right entry point now.

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