Uncovering Psychic Ancestry with Terri Blair

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Megan Mary – MeganMary: Today we have Terry Blair. She is a nonfiction writer, artist, amateur genealogist, and business owner. Terry has over 40 years of psychic training, including studying at the Edgar Casey Institute Association for Enlightenment and Research, and with other accomplished teachers of psychic studies and mediumship. The adventure that led to her book Psychic Ancestry began when Terry [00:01:00] searched for the stories of her ancestors. Conventional research left many family mysteries unsolved. Terry realized she could use her lifetime of psychic skills to try to contact her ancestors. The things she uncovered are remarkable. Welcome, Terry.

Terri Blair: Thank you, Megan. It’s great to be with you.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, I am very excited to discuss your book and all the things that you encountered on this amazing journey that you went on. So the first question I ask everyone is, what does enlightenment mean to you?

Terri Blair: So that’s something that I don’t think about very often. So that was an interesting question. But I think anytime you elevate your connection to the spiritual world, it contributes to enlightenment and there’s many ways to do that. You can do it with meditation or psychic development or [00:02:00] just being in nature or anything like that, really.

Recently for me it was learning mediumship and connecting with my ancestors that really felt like I was enlightening, enlightened, like something really clicked for me with that. So I think for everyone, it’s a personal journey and it’s different for everyone. But it was interesting that you would bring that word up because even though I’ve done a lot of psychic practice and spiritual learning in my life, I never think about that word.

So thank you. That was good.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Absolutely. Yes. I always start out the show that way and it’s amazing different ways that everyone answers it. And someday I’m gonna make a compilation of everybody’s answer. ’cause I think it’s just a fascinating topic. Of course. There are a lot of things that I wanna talk about today. Some of them are obvious that we, in the intro, mediumship, [00:03:00] ancestry, lineage, genealogy, but I also wanna talk about automatic writing dreams. there were two dreams in your books that you talked about that I would love to hear you share. So tell the audience what led you. To go on this journey to research your family ancestry, and then a little bit, a back and forth about what you encountered.

Terri Blair: So I was not intending to write a book about this at all. I was doing so. Some family research I had come across some old photographs that my aunt had and there was pictures of my great-grandmother, my Scottish great-grandmother. I didn’t really know too much about her. I never met her in my life, so I really wanted to dive into our family history.

So I started to work on that and I was retired at the time. I just retired from advertising. Had a lot of time [00:04:00] on my hands. It was during the pandemic. So I started working on that, and then at the same time I was taking some classes for psychic development. I was doing remote viewing classes with Uri Geller that was on online.

And then a little bit later I learned about a mediumship class. So I started to take that class and learn mediumship. So these things were happening together. I was researching and finding family mysteries and roadblocks that I would hit that I couldn’t solve. And as I was learning mediumship and having success with that, I thought, wait a second, I could probably just ask the spirits of my ancestors some of these questions and see if they can help me solve the issues.

And a lot of times that did happen. And I talk about a lot of that in my book. So there’s several references to that in the [00:05:00] story. One of ’em being the father of my great-grandmother, Annie Macintosh. So we discovered that she was born illegitimate, which she didn’t even know that.

As a child or as an adult or anything. She never knew that. She never knew her real age. She died thinking she was much younger than she actually was. Very interesting, and she didn’t know who her real parents were in her life. So when I contacted the spirit of her mother. Who ended up being a servant girl, not the parents that raised her, the mother that raised her.

That spirit gave me the name of Annie’s father. So I’m not gonna reveal the whole story right now, but that’s something that takes a lot of explaining and it’s in the book, but that name I was given by the spirit ended up being what solved [00:06:00] the mystery after some more legwork after that. So that was a really interesting, that was the first thing that happened.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Okay. And

Terri Blair: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: that kicked off this spiral of research that led you so many interesting places and so many coincidences. I love when writers are almost real time. Experiencing and writing. I know for myself, I was going through this profound spiritual awakening when I was writing my fiction trilogy and I was putting everything that I was experiencing and learning into the story, and it really makes it so much more personal.

I haven’t read a book as fast as I read yours, and it just felt like we hung out for four hours and you told me everything. It was just very accessible the way you told the story. And of course there was that [00:07:00] intrigue too, in terms of your Scottish ancestry and being able to fill in the blanks for what the, ship manifests and so on weren’t telling you and the things that Spirit was then able to tell you. So tell us a little bit about automatic writing and the role that played.

Terri Blair: So automatic writing, there’s various ways to refer to automatic writing. It could be called inspirational writing, automatic writing. I use it more as a tool to connect with spirit, where the spirit gives me a message through telepathy. So I hear their message in my head, and then I write it some, I think in spiritualism.

People sometimes actually let the spirit control their hand and they write, that’s not how I used it or how I learned it. So I use [00:08:00] automatic writing by asking a question and then going into a light meditation and then allowing the answer to come through and not judge what’s coming.

Just write it down. Which is a little tricky because your brain wants to say, oh, that can’t be right, but you have to put that aside and just write what’s coming to you. So I use that a couple of times. I believe in my book. One of them was to connect with three ancestors that I call the Highland women and that they are Scottish ancestors on my great-grandmother Annie’s side who lived in the Highlands of Scotland, and they came through very strongly in an automatic writing and gave me their story, which is in the book, and it’s a very interesting insight into them, and also an insight into the history of psychic women in my family. That it goes [00:09:00] back through the family line a long way back and there’s more to say about that particular subject. But the psychics in the family, but they gave me a very clear message with automatic writing. And then there was another time where I used it to connect a spirit.

I had a photograph I was really interested in, and there was a mystery surrounding the photograph. I had no idea who was in this photograph. Maybe I knew one of the people, one of the women. It was three women and a baby. And I didn’t know who these people were. So I thought I would use automatic writing to see if any spirits would come through and tell me who’s in this picture.

And a spirit did come through. But it turned out not to be correct, and there’s a little mystery about that one. I don’t wanna reveal everything, but that one turned out to be a little trickster person. Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: And

Terri Blair: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: [00:10:00] it’s not unlike the word play, I’ll say that I experience in my dream messages that it’s sometimes it’s not as obvious as it first comes through, I think. I have a similar experience with dream journaling with the automatic writing because I’m essentially picking up my journal in the middle of the night in the dark and writing, and I’m not fully awake.

I’m in those transitional states. Where I have enough cognizance to think I should write this down, but not enough that when I wake up I could have told you what I wrote down. And so I tend to get a lot of information and messages that way, and I just am letting the pen lead the way.

Terri Blair: That’s exactly what I did. I just let, I let the words come and I just wrote it down and I didn’t judge what I was writing, and then I would read [00:11:00] it after the fact. It’s really a cool way to connect with spirit, I think, even if they’re not always, telling you the truth.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah that’s a whole other, ball of wax, I think is whether you can believe what’s being communicated. And of course the spirits can be just like humans and that not all of them have good intent. They might just want attention. They may not be really helpful, and it’s, I think that’s why the practice of discernment, which we talk about a lot, is so important.

Terri Blair: I agree. Then also just being very focused when you do it and just making sure when you sit down to do automatic writing, that you are putting some boundaries and rules in place, which I may not have done that day. But usually I do. That’s a big part of it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Sure,

Terri Blair: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: and there were a number of dreams and that I remember when I read them, I was like, okay, I have to ask her about this. [00:12:00] Is there one of the dreams that you’d like to share if it doesn’t reveal too much?

Terri Blair: I had a couple of dreams. I, sorry, I don’t remember everything I wrote in there. There was one dream I had, I think it was about my mother. My mother committed suicide. In 1985 she had a very hard life, struggled with mental illness. She was only 45 years old. And when she died I didn’t have a lot of afterlife connection with her for some reason.

So I, we were close, but I didn’t, I guess I did expect something to happen. Some sort of spirit communication from her, but really it didn’t happen for a long time. But then she started to show up in my dreams. And it was a lot different than a regular dream. It felt like she was really there.

It felt completely different. It felt like a soul connection. That’s the only way I can really [00:13:00] describe it. I felt like we really did visit with each other and talk, and she let me know her various stages that she was going through after having passed that way. At first she was a little bit, unhappy of where she was on the other side. It was not a terrible place. It was just, she was confused. She didn’t know what was happening. And then like maybe a year later I had another dream where she was in a better place. And then recently, or while I was writing the book, I started to have dreams where she came and told me she was doing great and she showed up wearing these wonderful outfits and looking really good.

And telling me that she was reliving her young years now in the spirit world to have a better outcome.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: I love that.

Terri Blair: that was really pretty great.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, the visitation dreams can be so powerful. I’ve had them myself, and I had the, a [00:14:00] similar experience where when I lost my father, I saw him the age he was when I lost him. And then I started to see him younger and younger as the time went on, and he just looked better and better.

And it was almost like he was reliving, he was like a, teenager almost, and just having his best life. So very interesting how the spirit world works that way and those experiences are so profound and they’re so different from what I call the story dreams, which are also very profound and deep, but it is its own classification dream experience for sure.

Terri Blair: I agree. And long before I did any kind of mediumship or was into mediumship. I had another person in a dream, a friend of mine who was murdered. This sounds grim, but he’s fine. He’s okay on the other side. He contacted me in a dream as well. He showed up on a bridge, [00:15:00] and he stood on one side. I stood on the other, and I knew it was him quite clearly. He had been gone about two years. He had been passed about two years when this happened. And he told me that he was having a really hard time adjusting to the spirit world and he needed help. And he knew that in life we were at one time, roommates.

He knew that I was into all kinds of spiritual things and psychic development. So he knew he could reach out to me and that I would listen. And at that time, I was not equipped to help him. I didn’t know how to, what to do, how to help a spirit get acclimated to where they are. So I reached out to another friend of mine at the time I was living in Phoenix, and she was an established medium and she helped him and then he was able to move on.

But that was in a dream too, and it was incredibly real. I knew it was, I guess I’m not really talking about dreams in a way, it’s like a communication, but it appears to be a [00:16:00] dream, if that makes sense.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: is the best word that we have for it, or the most common word is not, I would call it otherworldly spiritual experience maybe but it does happen while you’re sleeping or while you’re transferring into those different brainwave stage, which are similar to meditative states or trance states, but they have their own unique flavor, I think too.

Terri Blair: And one, one little happy note about that story is that my friend was able to help him. Or to show him that he could help people on the other side who were transitioning from a very quick death like that he could show up to help them with that. And he was willing to do it. So that was a positive thing.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, that.

Terri Blair: Yeah.

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Megan Mary – MeganMary: In your experience with mediumship and contacting your ancestors, to you is one of the more surprising things that you discovered since you were new to it in the beginning and the further you got down that rabbit hole, the more experiences you had. And for people who are not. Familiar with mediumship or haven’t done it themselves? Tell us a little bit about what that

Terri Blair: Each person I contacted was. So different. Sometimes it would be just an intuitive sense, like [00:19:00] I’d be working on a story about someone and I would get a feeling, no, this isn’t right. Look again, at the information, something would just pop in my head and say, no, you’re going down the wrong path.

Keep looking or look here or look there. So I felt like in that sense. The spirit of that ancestor was telling me, Hey, just, look over here or look again at something. Sometimes I would go directly to them if I had a question. I spent a lot of time. With traditional research first, because I didn’t know there was gonna be things I couldn’t solve unless I had really researched, done the research first.

So if there came to be a mystery, something I couldn’t solve, then I would through mediumship, see if I could contact that particular ancestor. And often they did show up. For me and give me information and oh, spirits, with mediumship, they like a [00:20:00] dream. They show you images, like props or visual images of things that are symbolic.

Sometimes it’s not literal. And so those are clues they would give me to look for something. I had one ancestor that, was somebody in the my state Wisconsin, that I didn’t know too much about. And in a mediumship session, he showed up with a like a little it was like a watch, but it was like a, had a scooner on it, like an old fashioned, like from the 1800s, like a ship, sailing ship.

And I thought, okay, I just wrote it down. I thought alright, that’s. Doesn’t make sense ’cause he was a farmer. He lived in a, on a farm. Okay, whatever. And then as I was looking into his history, I found a letter, a family letter that said, oh yeah, he was a sailor. He did that for a living before he came to America in Spain.[00:21:00]

So that was his way of showing me, this is an a piece of evidence. When you find it that I am really connecting with you. And there were so many things like that. The whole book is full of little stories like that where they would show me things or in the case of my great-grandmother’s mother telling me a name, that only happened once.

So the rest of it was more, visual or sometimes telepathy with words. They would tell me stories, they would tell me. I was, I had, I was just looking at my book just to refresh my own brain right before we got on this call and I was looking at, there’s a chapter about my sea captain ancestors in Scotland and they had a lot of stuff that they gave me.

That was interesting. Like I couldn’t find the obituary for one of my ancestors. There’s a mystery about this guy. He seemed to have disappeared. [00:22:00] He turns up in another town with another wife. That’s a whole story in the book, but I wanted, I needed some proof about what he was doing, and I had looked for his obituary on newspaper.com, like probably four or five times, and I’m a pretty good researcher and nothing was coming up.

I went into a mediumship session with him and he said, okay, today look again. And when I did that, it just popped up like it had been there the whole time. And I put in the same search terms I had been using for the last several months and I thought, okay, thank you.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: It’s amazing.

Terri Blair: And that obituary. Gave me proof of his story.

So that was, there was stuff in there that really solidified his story. So that was important. Anyway, it’s all, this is so much fun. I was having so much fun doing this, it was one thing after another and it was just really fun to [00:23:00] write it and to experience it. These ancestors are not done with me by the way.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And to take the reader along for that

Terri Blair: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: too, because I personally have always been fascinated by my family history. A lot of people attempt to research their genealogy. And also when you get into the topic of ancestral healing, is a whole other aspect, there’s, the uncovering of these hidden mysteries, but those spirits have stories to tell and they have closure that they’re seeking many times, and there’s healing that is taking place as part of your research and as part of your discovery That to me has always [00:24:00] been one of the more important parts of uncovering that information is to be the person at the end of that, not that it’s the end of the line, but at the end of that lineage line, that at that moment in time to be ready to listen what those other spirits want to communicate and to also incorporate your role is in uncovering that and what it means for you to discover all of that.

Terri Blair: I agree. There’s so much there. It’s so hard to talk about it all because it’s, it’s more than just writing a historical perspective on these people. You really feel like you are connecting with them and they are sometimes learning about their own lives through, like through me.

There’s things that they didn’t know. There’s things [00:25:00] that there’re still discovering because I’m a channel for that, for them. So it’s pretty remarkable that can still happen.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: It’s not just, it’s not just a linear discovery. It’s not just that, oh, I found out that this person was from here and that they had this many children and they did this for a living, and isn’t that interesting? And that’s where it ends. When you’re discovering that people had illegitimate children, or that they left their partners and were living down in the same town with other families, and all these things that you discovered that reveals it for all time, for everyone involved and it changes, it almost becomes like a different timeline path. And so you’re not just filling in the [00:26:00] family tree.

Terri Blair: I agree with that. There’s so much more there. You are filling in a family tree, but you’re discovering their stories and revealing their stories and I guess I have one example of I guess I’m talking about my great-grandmother again, my Scottish great-grandmother, but I think for her not to have known who her real parents were, and now on the other side, she knows it.

I truly feel like she didn’t go to her grave with any kind of idea of that, but now she’s discovering it along with me and there’s more I’m finding out about that family. It keeps it keeps happening like we’re going further back now in Scotland to more people and those clues just keep coming and I’m not really looking for them very hard right now.

I’ve put that aside. So when they show up, I think, ah. Maybe my great-grandmother wants to find out [00:27:00] more and she’s prodding me along here

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Interesting.

Terri Blair: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah. And how, I guess that’s another interesting question is what happened after this? Because when did you publish this? Not that long

Terri Blair: It’s almost been a year January of 2025. Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So in the after period of writing and doing all that intense research, obviously you took a break, but then it seemed like it wasn’t done with you, like you said. It’s

Terri Blair: Yeah. Yeah. It’s, and I’m still learning mediumship too. ’cause when I started this writing the book, I was just brand new to mediumship. So I did a lot of psychic development, but I had never worked with any type of mediumship. So I feel like I’m still learning and I’m taking classes and evolving with that, and who knows what will happen as I grow with this, more things could be [00:28:00] revealed.

We did leave some unanswered questions in the book I think, two stories that weren’t solved. So we’ll see if that can get resolved in the future.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah. Yeah.

Terri Blair: Yeah,

Megan Mary – MeganMary: be, it could become a series. There’s a lot of people in there.

Terri Blair: there, there are a lot of people.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah. And. I had never encountered something that merged genealogy with mediumship and with psychic abilities. So of course, a lot of people go to psychics to communicate with their loved ones that have passed on, and that’s fairly commonplace. But the process of mining your family history through the methods of mediumship, I found to be very unique. Have you encountered that previously?

Terri Blair: Actually I was a little ways into the book when a friend of mine recommended I’m gonna show you his book, Psychic Roots by Hank [00:29:00] Jones. Hank is a former child actor and turned genealogist. And so he wrote two books, and I didn’t know this when I had started my book. It was, I was about halfway through when I read his books.

He wasn’t doing mediumship. But what he did was he interviewed in his first book, over 300 genealogists so that they could tell their stories of how they used intuition synchronicities, things that would come up when they were doing their research that there was no explanation for.

So it wasn’t exactly psychic, but some of it was. And so his story was really interesting and his book inspired me. To keep going. I thought, okay, this is, I was taking it one step further than what he did as far as using mediumship, but he interviewed all these people that were encountering similar things.

They might be working on something and they, they had an intuition to look [00:30:00] here, not in this place. And they followed it and it turned out to be important clues for them and their story after story. So it’s pretty interesting.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Okay,

Terri Blair: Yeah, so I, while I was writing it, I didn’t know too much about that, but now I’ve, and I’m connecting with him now again after I wrote the book.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Nice. I think that there is often a misperception about psychic abilities that people have a very narrow concept maybe from television or movies that they think that is. And to me it’s just being able to access our intuition, being able to use our clear senses, being able to recognize synchronicities and signs from the universe and from spirit.

And when we start to do that, we’re activating those abilities and those are. “psychic abilities”, [00:31:00] whether it’s clairvoyance or Clair audience, or Clair Sentance. All of those things are commonly things that once people, once you explain it a certain way to people, they say, oh I’ve had that experience. I’ve smelt something that wasn’t there. I’ve heard a song in my head that had a message. I’ve seen a white feather over and over after somebody passed away. I had a visitation dream. I’ve, all these things. And you’re like, yeah that’s psychic abilities. But pigeonhole it so much that they don’t recognize that these are actually quite accessible abilities and. All those things are there for us. Our brain is taught to filter them out, and so I love the synchronicities that you have in the book. I love documenting the synchronicities that I encounter in my experience because through the more I got down this pathway, the spiritual pathway, the more obvious [00:32:00] and rapid they started coming into my life and it was so uncanny. You could never make it up. And I really enjoyed sharing it with my family and friends. ’cause it was like, you’re not gonna believe this. And it just never ceases to amaze me how amazing those coincidences can be.

Terri Blair: I agree. It just, it’s paying attention to those small things and recognizing them. And if something’s nagging at you like that, it’s something you have to keep looking for. I’m putting together a class. I’m gonna start teaching a class about how to connect with your ancestors.

By using simple techniques like looking at a photograph or we’re gonna use automatic writing and psychometry, which is simply holding an object and seeing what impressions you get. Because in, in all my years of taking classes, I’ve realized that people that have no psychic training whatsoever, they all can [00:33:00] do these things and they can do it the first time they try.

It just takes a willingness and the results are always there, and I believe everyone has, to some degree they have intuition for sure, but they do have psychic abilities. It’s something we have, whether you can see it or not, it’s there. And so it’ll be really fun to see what people come up with when they tune into a photograph or a object of their ancestor and see what happens.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. I’m sure that you’ll get a lot of response to that because I’ve met a number of people who’ve lost someone tragically, and they’re just, how do I contact them because they’re not in touch with other senses. They’re not just tuned in. It’s like a radio station, they’re not. And they’re also not in the habit of listening,

Terri Blair: Right.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: It’s just a matter of honing that skill and practicing it, but being, like you said, being open to it. And so I think [00:34:00] that would be a wonderful compliment to your book. And that was gonna be my next question, what’s next? But is there anything else I.

Terri Blair: Yeah so I’m gonna be teaching that class locally here in Milwaukee. And then if it turns out to be something that people like, I could probably develop it into an online class, I think ’cause psychic and mediumship that works over zoom too. It works just as well. I’ve taken lots of mediumship classes and it’s over zoom and it works great.

‘Cause spirits, spirit is energy, and energy is everywhere and there’s no confines to it. So it works. And then I am starting to work on another book right now. I’m start just starting it research right now, but it’s gonna be about spiritualism. In my home state turns out a pretty wild history here in this seemingly normal land of farm rolling hills and farms.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah.

Terri Blair: We have a pretty good spiritualist [00:35:00] history, so

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Oh,

Terri Blair: starting to work on that.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: okay. For those who are interested in finding out more about the class that you’re going to be holding as well as your book and the other services that you offer, where can they find you?

Terri Blair: My website is terriblairauthor.com and on social media I’m also Terry Blair, author on Facebook and Instagram and Blue Sky. So that’s basically where you can find me and you can contact me always through my website. And I would love to hear anybody’s ancestor stories. I just love to hear everybody’s stories, especially if there’s a mystery.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Great. All right we’ll encourage everyone listening to go check out Terry’s website and to leave your comments on this episode. If you have experiences, we’d love to hear them. And I will also add your book to the Women’s Dream Enlightenment podcast Amazon storefront, as well as. The bookshop.org [00:36:00] storefront so that everybody can find it there. Thank you for being here today, Terri, and sharing your story and your experience and your journey in discovering your psychic ancestry.

Terri Blair: Thank you, Megan.

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