FACE TO FACE WITH SPIRIT
An Architect's Journey of Discovery
FACE TO FACE WITH SPIRIT tells the extraordinary journey of an architect whose work took her all over the globe and whose projects included designs for private clients, governments and royalty. But her horizons expanded even further when she became a medium. From drawing portraits of those in Spirit, to discovering the healing power inherent in us all, to understanding how the emotional lives and belief systems of families can affect generation after generation, this voyage took her to even more exotic locations.
Esi’s journey, told with humour and the touching stories of people she helped, reveals how her experiences freed her from the belief that we have no choices in our lives: that we are randomly born to certain families and societies, we grow up, and then die. Instead, her journey led her to a completely new way of looking at Life.
FACE TO FACE WITH SPIRIT will encourage you, too, to start questioning old habits and ideas, and find the knowledge that will bring new meaning and self-empowerment into your own life.
“Just as I started to think that my adventurous life was finally settling down, a completely unplanned and most astonishing journey began, taking me to a place of wisdom and wonder. I was introduced to the world of the Spirit, but that was just the beginning!”
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FACE TO FACE REVIEWS
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THE SHEER NUMBER OF DRAWINGS, BY MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY ALONE, RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RANDOM COINCIDENCE OCCURRING TIME AFTER TIME. FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS WERE VOLUNTARY AND RANDOMLY SENT TO ESI, LONG AFTER THE DEMONSTRATION WHERE THE DRAWING WAS CREATED. THE ACCURACY OF IMAGES AND ACCOMPANYING MESSAGES, THE DRAWINGS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE BOOK, AND MANY OTHERS AT WWW.ARTOFSPIRIT.CO.UK, PROVE THERE ARE LITTLE GROUNDS AND POSSIBILITY OF HOAX. IN SHORT, FACE TO FACE WITH SPIRIT PROVIDES EYE-OPENING REAL PROOF OF EXISTENCE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD BY A PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECT WITH NO REASON OR MOTIVATION TO TRY TO FOOL ANYBODY.
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FACE TO FACE WITH SPIRIT IS AN ASTOUNDING BOOK THAT DEMONSTRATES THE VERY OLD WORLD OF SPIRIT IS THE NEW FRONTIER OF SCIENCE PROVING ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS THEORISED BY SPRING THEORY AND QUANTUM PHYSICS, AND THE LIKE. THE FACTUAL BOOK, PACKED WITH EVIDENCE, MAY OPEN YOUR MIND TO NEW WORLDS OF SCIENCE AND REALITY PROVEN BY A TALENTED ARCHITECT WHO BECAME AN EVEN MORE TALENTED MEDIUM.
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“.... ENCOURAGING AND INSPIRING STORY.....A JOURNEY INTO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD SEEN WITH THE RATIONAL AND CURIOS EYES OF A WOMAN...."
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“...CONGRATULATIONS TO ESI FOR PUTTING IN PRINT HER FASCINATING LİFE STORY AND HER EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES REVEALING A LEVEL OF OUR LIVES THAT IS FULL OF WONDER… HER BOOK BROADENS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE....”
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"... IF I HAVE TAKEN ANYTHING FROM HER BOOK IT IS THAT WE ALL NEED TO ‘KNOW’ OURSELVES. THIS IS NO SMALL THING AS THE LONGER WE LEAVE OUR OWN VOYAGE OF SELF-DISCOVERY, THE LONGER IT WILL TAKE TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES AND THUS FORM THE HEALTHIEST RELATIONSHIPS WE CAN WITH THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES.”
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“… THE BOOK IS A TRUE LIFE STORY…. I FELT CARRİED AWAY WHILE READING THE BOOK AND STRONGLY FELT (THE NEED) TO RECONSİDER OUR PRİORİTİES TO ENJOY LIFE…”
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“...WHAT MAKES THE BOOK VERY INTERESTING IS THE FACT THAT IT IS WRITTEN BY AN ARCHITECT WHO HAD NO INTEREST IN SPIRITUALLY UNTIL SHE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE THE CONNECTION WITH THE SPRIT WORLD...VERY INTRIGUING AND ENJOYABLE READING.”
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“... GAVE THIS BOOK TO MY HUSBAND AND WAS TRILLED WITH HIS SERIOUS ATTENTION TO A BOOK HE NORMALLY WOULD NOT READ....”
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"VERY MOVING AND TOUCHING BOOK. BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. IT HAD A DEEP IMPACT ON ME"
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"WHAT A JOURNEY; NOT ONLY THROUGH HER LIFE BUT ALSO INTO LIFE AFTER DEATH. MUST READ FOR EVERYONE"
TWO WORLD INTERVIEW
TWO WORLDS, BOOK REVIEWS - November 2017
'Graham Jennings paints a written picture about the life story of Turkish-born psychic artist Esi Cakmakcioglu'
Medium, psychic artist and healer Esi Cakmakcioglu has made London her home yet she was born in the city of Kars in eastern Turkey, a place that could not have been more different. Her family moved to Ankara in the 1960s, where she spend her childhood before settling in Istanbul.
Esi is qualified as an architect and urban designer, and worked in a dozen countries around the world including the UK, Germany, Kazakhstan, Brunei, Hong Kong and Philippines. Recently, she was presented with a plaque from the Istanbul Metropolitan Branch of the Chamber of Architects. This was to mark her fortieth year as an architect, even though most of her work had been outside Turkey.
Esi grew up in a secular Turkey, free of religious quarrels. Indeed, her scientific family did not even practise a religion. It was not until 1987 that she was introduced to spirit communication after a friend’s father invited her to two seances. The result was a lengthly interactive communication from the school and poet Ibn’i Sina (980-1037). Better known by his European name of Avicenna, his chief medical work was “The Canon of Medicine”.
He offered Esi dietary advice and guidance on spiritual development. Shortly afterwards, she experimented with automatic writing. Through scribble at first, it soon made sense. When Esi became convinced that the writing was the hand of another and not hers, she received complete messages.
She also began to hear the words as they were written. Esi began to talk to her spirit guides and ask their advise on day-to-day matters. She heard their answers clearly and any advise and prediction they made turned out to be true.
The turn of tre century saw her working professionally again in the UK, based in London. It was then that she heard about the London Spiritual Mission.
Esi had not known that there was such a thing as Spiritualism, let alone that there are some 600 Spiritualist churches and centres in the UK. As well as London Spiritual Mission, she attended the College of Psychic Studies and the Spiritual Association of Great Britain. She joined every development group and circles she could, and her spiritual gifts developed rapidly.
Esi discovered an aptitude for psychic art and took carrying a sketchpads everywhere. Although an architect, she is at pains to point out that actual drawing was never part of her work and that she only sketches portraits with spirit help. Even if she “sees” the subject clairvoyantly, she cannot draw a portrait on her own.
Her portraits were so good that leading mediums began to invite her to join them on platform. While they were demonstrating, Esi would be busily sketching. Many portraits were claimed by members of the public. Some brought back comparison photographs.
Esi’s fascinating, very readable book, packed with anecdotes concerning her spiritual work, contains many examples of psychic art.
At first, the mediums themselves gave evidence to prove communicators’ identities, but increasingly Esi added her contribution. Eventually, she was persuaded to take platform alone, either demonstrating clairvoyance or psychic art, or both. She has served London churches for many years.
Esi decided to settle in the UK permanently and retired from professional work.
Now able to practise mediumship full time, she discovered a natural aptitude for healing. She qualified as a healer with the Corinthians. Still not satisfied that she was making the most of her spiritual gifts, Esi became interested in past life regression and qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Finally - if indeed there is anything “final” about Esi - she is an excellent trance medium. However, she is reluctant to demonstrate trance in public because English is not her mother tongue. However, she speaks English far better than many Brittons. Here is part of a trance address with which she brings her wonderful life’s story to a conclusion - for the present:
“there is no religion in our world. You are party off us. The world is full of people looking for a faith. They do not know that they give their power to outsiders. There is nor religion in our world. You are part of us; we are you; you are us.”
PSYCHIC NEWS REVIEW
December 2016, a good read recommendation.
TWO WORLD MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
Below is an e-interview with Esi in the Two Worlds monthly magazine December Issue 2010. The Two Worlds was founded in 1887 by Emma Hardinge Britten.
This month’s e-mail interview is with Turkish-born psychic artist Esi Cakmakcioglu, an architect and urban designer who has been based in the UK many years. After receiving her master’s degree in Urban Design at Oxford, Esi (pictured left) worked on projects in eleven different countries – England, Ireland, Germany, Northern Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan (part of the former Soviet Union), Myanmar (better known as Burma), the Philippines, China, Hong Kong and Turkey for public and private clients, including members of royal families.
-The first question put to her was, ‘What do your colleagues think about your mediumship?
Because my involvement in Spiritualism is relatively new, I only have a small number of colleagues in the profession of architecture & urban design who are aware of my spiritual work. While some are really interested some others keep a distance- not from me but from the subject of Spiritualism and Spirit. It has been a challenge to accept me as a spiritualist medium.
-Where were you born?
I was born in a small town call Kars in the far Eastern part of Turkey close to the Russian border.
-Were you raised in a particular faith?
Not in the sense of a practised religion. As a child, I was told that we were Muslims, and that we have to be kind and have respect for all other religious beliefs.
-Were you psychic as a child? If not, what was your first psychic experience?
No, though I have always been curious and interested in anything supernormal. Gradually, as I grew up, I became aware that I had strong intuitions. My first direct experience with Spirit was through a friend’s father in Istanbul who communicates with Spirit through the Ouija board. That was in 1984, a couple of years after my cancer operation. The person communicating was Avicenna 1 (980-1037), a Persian physician and philosopher.
-What does your family think about your mediumship?
My family seem to accept it and trust me without questioning!
-Why did you decide to move to the UK? What do you like about living here?
I came to the UK to do my MA in Urban Design. At the time, Urban Design as a profession was not yet recognised in Turkey. After completing my studies, I decided to stay on for a few years in London and gain experience. I was immediately offered a position with a large UK company. After working on UK projects for two years, I was employed by international companies. London has been my home for more than 30 years. There is so much to list about what I like; the countryside, London parks, the scale of towns and cities. Finally, I feel I belong to a community and would not like to live anywhere else.
-If you were prime minister for a week, what three laws would you introduce?
It seems that with the advance of technologies, we are in danger of leaning towards a soulless society. Everything is money oriented and everybody is always in a rush. We no longer have time to be in contact with our feelings. I would love to introduce laws to ban global multi international companies and encourage returning to self sufficient communities instead. I would also love to reduce the damage to the environment and utilise renewable energy resources. I would ban the use of mobiles on public transport, ensure strict control of noise pollution generated by the activities of councils at night time and set up incentives to encourage the growth of local communities.
-What psychic gifts do you have?
Soon after my first contact with Avicenna in 1984, I started doing Automatic Writing, and after that I started ‘hearing’ Spirit. I am now clairaudient, clairvoyant and clairsentient. I also sketch portraits of people in spirit. My hand is guided by Spirit.
-What makes a really good medium?
My guides tell me that all we have to do is to open up our hearts; it is that simple.
I believe that humility, honesty and a sense of humour would help. The mediums, while working, should put their egos aside. Good mediums would respect the information communicated by Spirit and pass it on as they receive it.
-What’s your age?
I am now the proud owner of a Freedom Pass but still feeling 30!
-What was the best day in your life?
One of the best was when this lady brought me a photograph of his father together with his portrait that I previously did for her. It was the first time I saw them together and I was speechless!! The resemblance was amazing. It is now the first portrait and comparison photograph in the gallery of my web site.
-What’s the best piece of advice you have ever been given and by whom?
I can think of two. The first one was given by my mother and it was “the feet get punished for a mindless head”. My father told me the other one. It is a quote from Confucius- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
-What’s your philosophy of life in no more than two or three sentences?
As I see it, life is so precious. We have to be grateful for everything given to us, be it in sadness or happiness.
-What’s your favourite colour and why?
For the last few years, I have preferred single strong colours, especially the red. I think they give me energy.
-How do you relax at the end of the day?
I am mad about films and love sitting around a dining table with friends. I always read a few pages from a book before I fall asleep.
-If you were stranded on a desert island, which three luxuries would you like to have with you?
It would be well pressed white linen to sleep on, a Chrystal glass to drink water from and lots of moisturiser and suntan lotion!
-What really irritates you in life and other people?
Unfairness irritates me and also people who are inconsiderate to others as well as people who refuse to think for themselves.
-What would be your perfect day?
Any day with laughter would be perfect.
-If you could change anything about your personality or appearance, what would it be?
I can not think anything about my appearance. As for the personality, I used to be the most impatient person ever but life teaches how to become one!.
-Are there any bad habits you would like to give up?
Not anymore! I gave up smoking after my cancer operation in 1982 and I only drink occasionally.
-What advice would you give to fledgling mediums?
Every medium is different and works differently. Therefore they should not imitate anybody else, just be themselves and trust Spirit. I would also suggest that they go to the demonstrations at Spiritual Churches as often as possible. That way they can observe how good mediums work and also observe what not to do when they start their own demonstrations.
-Have you ever demonstrated abroad?
Yes, I have been demonstrating in Istanbul for the last five years. I have also demonstrated in Germany, Spain and Hong Kong. I have plans to travel to Hong Kong again as well as Singapore, Sweden, Australia and the USA.
-Before demonstrating at a church, do you ever worry that you might obtain nothing?
I used to worry a lot. Now, I am more relaxed as it has been shown to me time and time again that Spirit will step in as soon as I am ready. I have now complete trust in Spirit and in me being able to work with them.
-Where do you live? Do your neighbours know you are a medium? If so, what’s their view of the subject?
I live in north London. Only a small number of my neighbours know that I am a medium. I am always very open about my spiritual work but it is not something you bring up unless the subject is mentioned.
For further details about Esi’s mediumship and to see examples of her psychic art with comparison photos, please go to www.artofspirit.co.uk
IS ACUPUNCTURE FOR YOU?
Esi translated the book ‘Is Acupuncture for you’ by Prof. JR Worsley into Turkish. It is published by Aritan in istanbul in 2001.