Terry Evans – A letter to my critics

Recently I had this huge realization regarding the wonderful opportunity that you, my critics, have offered by all the criticism you have thrown at me over the years. You have certainly been an important part of my own personal development. You have accused me of many things and offered your opinion about my work as a medium and my personality. When you have posted something on the internet, or shared your opinion in other ways, your comments and your tactics have been hard to receive. However, I know that everybody has their shadow side that they are unaware of or aware of, so each time I have experienced this kind of attack you have given me an opportunity of self-examination. Each time you have attempted to slander me I have taken what you have said within and asked myself if there is an element of truth in it. You have given me the opportunity to make a decision: Should I become a victim or if I should use these experiences to grow?

Yes, I have discovered aspects of my shadow self, but at the same time I have discovered this enormous resource that lay dormant within me. So you have helped me establish better order. You have helped me find that middle road within myself. That middle road between light and darkness. That is the road I want to walk. It helps me with the separation process between light and darkness. I believe that we must know our darkness to know our light.

All of you truly have played an amazing part in helping me pioneer my work as a medium and hopefully my development as a human being. Without this intense interest that you have shown me down through the years I doubt that I would be in the place I am today. When your comments have taken me into that no-man’s-land of self-doubt, and at times insecurity, that light within me has very often turned this no-man’s-land into fertile ground. Because of realizations I have been able to sow new seeds that have given me the courage to continue my pathway. As you have challenged me you have helped me discover new weaknesses and strengths, as well as new ways to protect myself in a balanced manner.

By use of social media you have spread my name far and wide and people have come to me because of what you have written or what you have said. Many have said: “I have read about you on the internet, but I wanted to come here for myself and discover who you really are.” Because of that fact you have unwittingly opened many new doors of opportunity for me that have enabled myself and my company Creative Experiences to reach another level of awareness and create new projects.

Many of you have commented that I will never meet you or that I go into silence, but when you continually attack me what opportunity do you really create to have any open form of dialogue? Perhaps what I write here today might inspire you to respond to me in a different way, where we can create an open room that lends itself to emotionally intelligent dialogue. I say this with respect: You never have quietened me, I have not lost my voice. I simply have no wish to get stuck in a contest of ego: Who is right – who is wrong.

However, from my heart I can truly say: Thank you to one and all for the many opportunities that you have sent to me that have enabled me to find my inner strength. It has helped me discover who I really am and given me the opportunity to update myself from time to time. I also want to offer a special thank you to Vetenskap & Folkbildning and Humanisterna.

I also must add this: I am lucky; I am surrounded by people who have their own opinions about me and are not afraid to tell me what they think. This kind of support has proven to be extremely meaningful. They will tell me the truth, but at the end of the day, only I can bear responsibility to discover that truth. To find the truth can be a process too, the answer does not always come in an instant.

I do not expect that any of you will change your opinion of me because of what I write. Perhaps you will react again, that is your choice, but I accept that without needing to attack you or humiliate you. That is not my goal. I wish you well in your own search for truth. At the end of the day there is only one thing that can destroy us: The inability to tell ourselves the truth about ourselves and that is a universal law for everybody.

Thank you!

/ Terry Evans

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