Text: Tiina Lindholm, Master of Public Health (M.P.H)

At some point in life, a person may stop and start looking for a deeper meaning for one’s life. There are many ways to find one’s own truth, but official explanations are often not enough for a seeker.

Gathering information about the invisible and extrasensory is meant for all sincere seekers, and for many people, learning the Y-rod skill provides a very natural and safe way of getting closer to the invisible world. The most concrete way of getting in touch with extrasensory information is using the Y-rod. Some people may also acquire a gift of clairvoyance or clairaudience through the Y-rod skill. These skills are learnt faster when the process involves spiritual help.There actually already are many seekers of extrasensory information, although many hide their gift of getting information through extrasensory means. In today’s materialistic world, a person working with transcendental things may lose their friends, job or even respect in others’ eyes, if they bring their wider spiritual views out too strongly in the wrong place. Luckily, the attitudes are changing, and by asking a few subtle questions about the subject, one may unexpectedly find kindred spirits in one’s work place or hobby circle.

Science recognizes only five senses that provide information

According to science, people gain information through their senses. However, we are not yet aware of all the senses that provide information. These channels that science does not recognize are called extrasensory. Science does not accept information that exceeds normal senses. Tools used by science can seldom replace a receptive person, who is, in addition to the five senses that science acknowledges, also receptive to other senses as well.

Let’s think metaphorically that instead of five, people would only have four senses: hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling. People would thus be blind in the absence of sight. If one person were ahead in development and able to see, others would not believe that that person can see, no matter how hard they tried to convince them.

Similarly, there already are people amongst us, who possess more sensitive senses in addition to the five normal senses, senses such as clairaudience or clairvoyance. Because they know that they have these extra senses at their disposal, those people usually have no use or need to prove their skills to others. Luckily, it seems that in the course of time the entire humankind will acquire these extra senses, and when that happens, nobody will question their existence. What is this new sensory receptiveness then all about?

People have seven pastel-color energy centers, chakras. Each of these has a diameter of about seven centimeters – the lowest located at the base of the spine and the highest at the crown of the head. They connect the different bodies. The important function on the spleen chakra is to deliver bioenergy and life force for the varying needs of the body. All these invisible chakras participate in delivering information to both the physical and the spiritual parts of the body. Medicine does not yet recognize chakras, nor does it recognize other spiritual aspects of people.

Spiritual life awakens the chakras

When people start consciously developing themselves in the spiritual direction, for example by working as a spiritual helper, their throat and forehead chakras start developing. This is called their awakening. Through this development, the throat chakra may be sensitized to the point that it gives one a gift of clairaudience. This enables the person to hear voices and receive answers directly to their consciousness. The awakening of the forehead chakra gives waking visions at the beginning, then scenes, and finally some may acquire a partial or even a full gift of clairvoyance. At this point, a person can explore things on the invisible level with an etheric tube. An etheric tube works just like a microscope or a telescope – making the object smaller or alternatively magnifying it.    

From the clairvoyant point of view, the size of the chakras grows significantly after their awakening. This shows us that developing and exercising chakras is in many ways like starting a new type of sport. At the beginning the muscles are small but through training, in this case by activating spiritual life, or providing spiritual help, the chakras grow larger. Just like in sports, the muscles need determined and continuous exercise in order to maintain their size. The same is true for spiritual development, as well. 

Before the awakening of the throat and forehead chakras, the navel and heart chakras awake as well. When you start feeling that one place is pleasant whereas some other is unpleasant, this indicates the awakening of the navel chakra. When you can feel the joy and sadness of other people some way inside you, you know that your heart chakra is getting more active. These kinds of signs of becoming sensitized are common reasons for people to attend my courses: people want to know why even a TV documentary can cause a strong outburst of feelings like crying, for example. One other symptom is a feeling that something is taking away your strength, or, in other words, something is eating away your energy. We are learning to deal with these kinds of situations already on my basic courses.

Training oneself increases sensitivity

There are different ways to gain receptiveness to sensing extrasensory information. Some people have had extrasensory experiences ever since their early childhood. If someone has had the gift of clairvoyance since childhood, it may also burden the person’s life. At one of my courses, a woman told me that she had tried to block all the transcendental information out of her mind since childhood, because she could not find any use for her gift. Until now, she had considered her gift a burden that had mainly caused her pain. Luckily, her husband came across our stand at a fair and she came to attend my courses and has now learned to embrace her gifts.

People generally think that Extrasensory Perception cannot be learned, and that these kinds of gifts must be received already at birth. Like my mentor, forester and the famous Finnish naturalist and mystic Esko Jalkanen (1921–2007), I have also noticed during the last two decades that even though many people may have had occasional moments of receptiveness before attending my courses, things like waking or dream visions, the spiritual path is nevertheless always open for every sincere seeker. That is why no advance knowledge or skills are needed: through systematic guidance and exercise, sensory receptiveness can grow. Depending on our previous lives and on our dedication to spiritual helping in this life, even the gifts of clairvoyance and clairaudience can be acquired. This, however, calls for resolute extrasensory explorations with different instruments and total devotion to helping others. The instrument used might be a Y rod, a pendulum, cards, a crystal ball or any other instrument or action that teaches concentration. That is to say that even the Y rod is only an instrument of concentration, and can, in time, be left out.

Esko Jalkanen used to remind us that existence as a whole is timeless – just like Nature’s memory that belongs to it. Thus, nothing is new when reflected in light of eternity. When a person “comes up” with something new, the information actually comes to him from Nature’s memory through either the good or the bad helper. The bad helper turns the information into something negative, from nature’s point of view. This is how Jalkanen explains for example the existence of drugs, table salt and margarine. That is why it is worth the trouble to make sure you have the right information.

Nature’s memory helps people and Mother Nature

Sensitive people, who experience a strong sense of unity with other people and nature, and who in general have positive thoughts, may be able to reach higher spheres than our physical world. In addition to these higher spheres, also the natural memory of the mental level can be reached. This is also known as the akashic chronicle. These chronicles depict every past event from every angle, like on a film, for possible use in the future. You may even find yourself in the middle of the events, but you cannot affect them. At this point, the seer is in direct contact with his Higher Self, his divine spark, where all information is available when needed. The seer has then been built with the finest substances and has struggled his way through obstacles to this receptive level, where transcendental information feels natural and self-evident.

Nature’s memory also serves larger entities like, for example, Mother Nature. According to Esko Jalkanen, Mother Nature is a living thing, who from time to time feels that her inhabitants have strained her to the point that she has to move the continents. She also has to resort to stronger hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, which effectively cleanse the environment. These days Mother Nature has repeatedly been forced to use Nature’s memory in order to find out how great damages have been repaired in the past. This need brings about guardian spirits of nature, who together with Nature Spirits repair different damages.

Sensitivity in youth evolved into Rod Skill

My own path to the source of secret information had many phases. When I was a six-year-old child I saw for the first time an astral figure, a catholic nun, who walked through our living room wall into my parents’ bedroom. I did not say a word about this to anybody, because my mother was sensitive in the sense that I was afraid how she would react to it. My father was travelling a lot and strongly involved in science and industry, so I did not want to bother his engineering and managerial brain with these kinds of things.

Tiina Lindholm conducts extrasensory examinations, removes disturbances and provides help.

In contrast, both my grandmothers were sensitive. My mother’s mother had always had visions and feelings about the future, and my father’s mother had skills with cards and even at old age she was good at reciting poems. With my grandmothers, I always felt that the sky was high, which supported my spiritual growth during my youth. As the years passed, I came to see more astral figures, both as spirits or earthy deceased people. Nowadays I do not need to see everything, because I can explore things with my Y-rod. An exploration is always followed by the removal of the burden and disturbance and helping in other ways. This means, for example, that I help dead people who are restless or have suffered an accidental death to move on. However, I do not interfere with the journey of the deceased who died of natural causes: they do not need my help, and they may have unfinished business with their living relatives and friends.

In my youth, using cards as instruments in my predictions was important. This way, in retrospect, I realize that handling the cards exercised my concentration. “Old Maid” and “Go Fish” from my childhood had to make way for predictions in my twenties: I was asked to chart people’s life situations and locate future spouses almost daily. The results were often vague, but sometimes so accurate that I kept using cards for many years to predict future events. This continued right until I graduated and became a specially trained nurse.

This is how my helping started thirty years ago in practice. Thinking back, I notice that my work was great, because it allowed many senses to continue becoming more receptive – working in the emergency department and in the emergency ambulance requires good hearing and vision along with fast action. Working more than ten years as a public health nurse and as department head taught me how to listen to people and take part in different phases of their lives. Later, I wanted to learn more about health care administration, because I was disappointed with the limited helping possibilities offered by traditional medicine. That is why I studied at the faculty of medicine in the University of Helsinki and graduated a Master of Public Health.

Already before my graduation I had discovered the secret powers of nature presented by Esko Jalkanen and I started familiarizing myself with them. I hardly noticed that I had drifted back to the path of helping, only this time working in a higher spiritual form. Providing help led to the growth of my spiritual strength and to possibilities to help both people and animals on a higher spiritual level. Interest in the Y-rod and its uses grew, as Esko Jalkanen recommended that, instead of the so-called esoteric rod or bobber, I should start working with a wooden rod. The transition was not easy, for the new instrument required regular exercise and new kind of concentration.

A traditional wooden rod is a bendy forked branch that consists of the top of a tree and one branch. With tape, you can also make a very durable instrument of two branches.

The rod is only an instrument

One should perhaps start learning the rod skill with a wooden rod because of its sensitivity. A rod is often cut from a living tree. It is a flexible forked branch that consists of the top of the tree and one branch or alternatively of two branches, and each limb is 40–60 centimeters long. If you use the rod a lot, you can tape two limbs together, which makes a more durable rod. In Finland, a temporary rod is often cut from a willow, but any other tree, like rowan or birch, will do as well. Juniper is the most durable and a juniper rod may last for many years. The part that stays inside your palm needs to be so thin that it can be bent to a right angle without breaking it. A branch that is about as thick as a pencil fits to this purpose. You need to learn carefully how to grip the rod right. A rod can also be made of wire or metal plates. In England, so-called angle irons or L-rods are being used. In those, there are two wires bent in right angle and the wires draw closer to each other when radiation affects them.

On left: A mini metal Y-rod fits even in your purse or pocket.
On right: The larger metal rod was bent for Tiina Lindholm by Esko Jalkanen.

One special form of the Rod skill is the traditional water dowsing. In the old days, the skill was passed on from father to son, and the task of water dowsing came along as a part of life, without the “stigma” of transcendence or clairvoyance, for in almost every village there was a water dowser, who searched the best place for a well, and his abilities and services were commonly known. It is great that there are still today people who master this fine talent. Often the water dowsers are so dedicated to their work that they do not have time to get to know the rest of the unseen world.

Esko Jalkanen finds it important that the Y-rod is only an instrument of gaining extrasensory information that is either used for exploring things or for helping nature. Little by little, the rod may become unnecessary and the person gets the answers without its help. The answer will be given directly to the question that has been asked. Receiving the information is like a flash, a flame or an intuition. When the matter is checked, it will hold true – even in matters that have been formerly unknown to the seer. We just need to have the right cause. The gift is not meant for boosting one’s ego or for showing off. It will be taken away if used wrongly. If, for example, information is needed to help a person or to make him get better, this kind of information will be given. This is what Jalkanen also stressed on his courses.

In addition to this, there are many other things that can be done with the rod. Science does not believe this, because the Y-rod does not bend in everybody’s hands. Successful using of the Y-rod requires a positive attitude and willingness to understand nature. But the skill can also be cultivated much further. After a few years of practice and hard work, I thought I handled the technical side of the Y-rod quite nicely, and yet, there was still a long way to go to reach the source of deeper knowledge.

When people advance in this skill, they often switch from a wooden rod to a metallic one, which lightens the strain on palms and shoulders. That happened with me as well. The strain comes up especially when the Y-rod is being used a lot – even as many as several hundred extrasensory examinations per day. This is the case, for example, in our office and on our fair stands, where skilled volunteer measurers may examine and help several dozens of people during one weekend. In these two-day fair examinations, we use the information that comes directly to consciousness, and in addition, always metal Y-rods as instruments for helping and concentrating. This way the noises and energies at the fair can be more easily brushed aside.

The ability to concentrate that I gained with the Y-rod, along with the spiritual help and personal guidance I got from Esko Jalkanen, slowly smoothened my personal edges, widened my world of thought, and bit by bit changed my spiritual bodies in a direction, where moving between the present, the past and the future was possible. During the years, this brought along half a dozen nightly outpourings of energy, which prepared my body for its future purposes. High spiritual guides and helpers also always appear at the right time to guide and help people on their path. In the best case, the helpers may even be members of the White Brotherhood.

I had the most difficult time when the Y-rod always answered my questions, but the answers were, due to external uncertainties, still incomplete. However, that time was important and it had to be gone through, for it gave enough time for the right kind of responsibility to develop.

Here is one model of a pendulum, which is also a good instrument for concentration.

The times of uncertainty at the beginning are still important to a person using a Y-rod or a pendulum, because at that point there is not yet other knowledge available. The results received with the Y-rod may be good at pointing the seer at the right direction, but they can also be stumbling-blocks, if the person only relies on their technical skill and does not yet understand the limits of their skill, and starts using their talent more and more for demanding measurements and comparisons. There lies a risk that a person’s so called own power gets the upper hand, and therefore, their own personality, the Lower Self, may become too strong, and as a result the person will be left out of the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This is an ever-present danger to everybody on the spiritual path.

What bends the Y-rod?

Many thousands of people learning to use the Y-rod ask the same question: “What is the force that moves the Y-rod?” There is no clear answer, but several explanations.

Nowadays the Y-rod is being used for many other functions besides the traditional locating of earth radiation. It has become almost as important as the drill to a dentist. We can easily measure the bioenergy field of a person, check the condition of their inner organs, inspect the suitability of different foods and products as well as many other things. What makes the Y-rod even more miraculous is that things can be explored even from great distances, like from America. Esko Jalkanen emphasized that distances do not mean anything, and continued that he had also on several occasions helped domestic animals, mainly cows. For example, if there is an evil eye in the barn, every animal inside the barn is suffering from “burn-out”. When the negative force was extinguished with spiritual powers, the situation got better instantly. Jalkanen had countless examples of helping and examining from a distance, and this work continues in a trust that carries his name.

Before long, you start getting information about illnesses or other problems even without the Y-rod. At first, it feels incredible, but one gets used to it. After reaching this level, you can be called a helper who has attained great results, and who has a very large spiritual field at your disposal. Now we can ask, what bends the Y-rod, or even gives direct information to the more advanced? According to Esko Jalkanen, the answer is very simple: “It is about positive clairvoyance, which starts developing when the Y-rod bends for the first time. Of course, a person may have shown slight indications of this gift even earlier in life. I always emphasize the effective use of the Y-rod until the Y-rod becomes unnecessary for the person. All the potential users are examined if they are mentally ready for the secret source of information, the Y-rod. Most people need to practice their spiritual strength before starting with the Y-rod. The Rod skill is a path to the source of knowledge in the spiritual world for responsible people.”

We cannot always know on what level of seeing or knowing we operate on, but we do know that learning never ends. The world is the way as we see it.

More information: www.thesecretpowersofnature.co.uk or www.eskojalkanen.net

Text: Tiina Lindholm
Photos: Laura Lindholm and Heidi Kallio