About the Author

Gina Ravenswood has worked as a medium for over 30 years. She lives in a quiet village by the sea, in NZ, where she writes, paints, does readings and takes development groups. Being a mother of five children, from two marriages, she has experienced many difficult situations in life and found by obtaining information from higher beings, known as Spirit Guides, she could bounce back and turn any negative into a positive. Her main love is to help others gain their own guidance, and her most recent Spirit Guide, Lalesha, has helped her to do this. Her book A Year with Spirit covers every aspect of guidance required to live life from a spiritual centre and master your physical life.

This is Gina’s perspective as the channel:
After 30 years as a psychic medium counselling people, I became aware that if a person changed their thinking, so would their life change. However, towards the end of the 90s I noted many of my clients that were using positive thinking and sincerely trying to manifest their ideals, were getting nowhere – I decided to look at why. The first thing I observed was people's destinies were changing to work in with the new energy during the planet's transition into the Aquarian Age. Yet, many clients were holding on to predications made in the past that still hadn't manifested – leaving them unfulfilled.

Much knowledge had come in during the seventies, many talked about a New Age, yet not many seemed to relate or know the affect this would have on their personal lives and their subtle bodies. A lot of my clients accepted we were multi-dimensional, but didn't understand or know the difference between their Higher Self, their Light Body, or any of the terms used to explain the many selves. I observed people linking with their own Higher Self and thinking it was a Spirit Guide; and I also observed people linking with a Spirit Guide and thinking it was their own Higher Self or Soul.

The many parts of people were all exposed to me whilst I was in trance. I wanted to help people come into alignment but my guide at that time wasn't an expert in that field. Constantly I observed people's link with light short-circuiting in their aura – cutting out. Their reaction to this happening was to go back to the old Piscean ways of working with Spirit. I didn't want to go back to old wisdom because of what I could see; I knew all the different aspects of the spiritual self had a part to play.

So at the year 2000, like many others I waited for the “change” in frequency. Because I am a medium, I was more open to the changes in energy than the physical changes, and I am sure anyone working with awareness knows it is this energy that creates our future. I was trying to sense this new energy. Nothing happened; I couldn’t sense any difference. Then about three days later I lay down to have a rest and the moment I closed my eyes I felt myself being propelled towards a BAND OF COLOUR AND LIGHT AND IN WHAT SEEMED LIKE A SPLIT SECOND I WAS INSIDE THIS LIGHT, consciously looking back at planet Earth. The love I experienced whilst nestled within this colour and light permeated my mind. I was conscious; I could feel it and see it.

Then a beautiful Being of Light started telepathically speaking to my mind saying that this Band of Colour and Light contained the new Aquarian vibration, and how every month a colour containing pure Aquarian energy would be released into the Earth's auric field. She went on to say how the congestion (old thinking) surrounding the planet was blocking its flow; therefore it would take until 2003 before it would be felt, but this was the new energy containing guidance for this new time.

Telepathically I inquired what her association with me was, and almost instantly I was back in my body lying down with the name Lalesha in my mind. From that day on everything I'd planned went wrong: nothing seemed to flow. It was like my aura was repelling everything that wasn't in harmony with my new energy. The moment I thought the words “new energy” – I worked it out. This new Spirit Guide had dosed me with Aquarian energy; my past awareness wasn't needed anymore.

After deep meditation I dedicated myself to receive the Spirit Guide Lalesha's knowledge about the New Age. Even though her teachings cover the same topics that those, like me, already on a spiritual path are aware of, i.e. karma, true destiny, psychic perception, telepathic communication, soul's blueprint, angels etc., viewed from the Aquarian viewpoint it all changes. For example, Lalesha explains how to clear karma using the higher mind, instead of living through it, whereas the Piscean perspective was geared to atonement – making up for wrongdoing.

Often Lalesha has said, “Spirituality shouldn't be complicated” and “one should be aware of who and what they are giving over or linking with.” With both Piscean and Aquarian energy present, being able to discern the difference does prevent you from linking with concepts that belong to the withdrawing Piscean Age. I have compiled Lalesha’s messages into A Year with Spirit where she goes into depth explaining the different bodies or centres that you can go to for specific guidance or energy to manifest your dreams. Every chapter relates to a different aspect of life. Visualizations are included to help people merge with the Aquarian vibration and not be held back by the withdrawing Piscean energy.

For those who wish to be part of this new time of integration, if you blend with these higher frequencies by working with light you will resonate with the new sound that echoes from the band of colour & light surrounding this planet.
This is my favourite exercise I would like to share with you from Chapter 8 on the Higher Self:

Stretch yourself way into the future. Ask yourself how long you think you are going to live - another ten, twenty, forty, fifty years?

Look at the time. Maybe break it down into ten-year-cycles, then break it down to five-year-cycles, then break it down even further to one-year-cycles, break it down again to one-month-cycles. Look at the month of August and come right into the NOW.

You are living a life with other people and all of those people have led a journey of many lifetimes. Each one of them have been very rich and very poor, very emotional and very cold, very selfless and very selfish, full of belief and full of doubt.

You are living with parts of yourself right now, and when you live through the day with other parts of yourself...

• WHO knows what is going on?
• WHO knows what tomorrow may bring?
• WHO can see the time you will depart your earth life? And,
• WHO can see when you will breathe again as a new baby?
• YOUR HIGHER SELF CAN.

Lalesha refers to the Higher Self in most Chapters. Chapter 8 explains how to connect and know this important part of your higher consciousness. A Year with Spirit is all about developing your own connection with Spirit.