Sunny was born in the UK as Clark Burgess and whose early childhood memories saw many visitations from spirit that were to later characterize “the gift” as he terms it.

Sunny talks about his childhood in a large dark house positioned under the umbrella of an old majestic oak tree. It was also in this house that he had many of his early visitations.

“Regularly I used to wake up and spirits would be tapping me on the shoulder. I saw my grandmother who died some years before my birth, and instantly recognized her from a photo at a later date. She has been my guardian spirit and I have had a lot of contact with her throughout my life.”

It was an active period – the first 7 years or so in his life - but then things just shut themselves down in the teenage years- nothing psychic, no “gift” - until a strange thing happened at the age of 28. Before this time, Sunny had traveled over many countries in Europe, the middle East and Africa, during his twenties and saw a lot: the good; the bad and the eerily fascinating in human nature.

Then he found himself in Corsica working as a stable boy.

“I had twenty seven beautiful horses that I looked after – it was labour intensive work 365 days a year but the setting on a windswept Mediterranean beach was very alluring”.

It was during November 1992 that Sunny experienced a feeling that he had to leave and virtually within the hour got his belongings together and left the stables. He wandered a few kilometers across the sand dunes to a local beach bar where he saw a black transit van and caravan with British number plates. A man with a mousy moustache sat on the caravan step and beckoned him over. The conversation and following months that followed transformed Sunny’s life and brought him to the point where he is now.

“It was one of life’s little miracles” said Sunny. “I feel so blessed to have been guided to this point”.

It turned out that an extended family of mediums from Glasgow who had been guided to leave their home town and travel around Europe for a year were waiting on this little beach in Corsica passing the time of day, because their spirit guides had told them that someone was coming to join them — like you do on an average day!

The family intimated to Sunny that he too was a ‘sensitive’ (another word for describing someone who has the psychic sensitivity to pick up spirit communications from the ether) and he would travel the world doing this work.

For the next few months they traveled together across the breadth of Italy.

“Life was certainly never boring,” recalls Sunny. “There were lots of things to learn about spirit healing, physical manifestation, crystals and their role in building up magnetic energy, shamanism, prayer, and meditation. My Native American spirit guide ‘Buffalo’ — who remains my main communicator to this day also revealed himself which changed my life on so many levels.”

Ronnie and his family were soon to disappear out of his life as quickly as they entered. In Reggio Calabria, Italy, Ronnie felt guided to inform Sunny that he must make his own way and had learnt from them what he could. They parted company and Sunny continued his travels eventually arriving on Australian soil in 1993 and proceeded to spend six years in Melbourne furthering many aspects of his mediumistic development and polishing ‘the gift’ of being able to communicate with those departed from this physical world.

Sunny spent many visits at the Arthur Findlay College (Stanstead Hall) learning the philosophy and mechanics of mediumship. “Learning to feel spirit first rather than striving to see or hear was the greatest gift those mediums taught me. Assessed demonstrations by very knowledgeable and gifted mediums was a great way to learn and keep the ego in check!” muses Sunny.

After leaving for Brisbane in tropical Queensland, Sunny worked for 8 years around the spiritualist churches often being booked for nearly 40 appearances a year as a platform demonstrating medium. That was the real training ground as many of these churches were not spiritualist but New Age and weren’t conversant to survival evidence. It taught me more to believe in what I was doing and focus on the people whom spirit wanted to connect with rather than trying to be a people pleaser and give everyone a message. “The feelings and voice of spirit should always come first,” relates Sunny.

In 2006 Sunny left his full time job as a state registered primary school teacher to commit to full time international telephone and face to face reading while also taking mediumship out to a wider public audience though his ‘spirit listener shows.’

‘Making this work your life is a passion,’ says Sunny.“It is all about trying to honour those in the spirit world who want to move their thoughts and feelings from spirit consciousness and through the ether to their loved ones. It is a mediums job to try and learn how to be passive – to strip back the many layers of ego that wants the memory of this energy for itself and to recognize that it is a sacred encounter between the family member in spirit and the person still alive who is receiving the message. A client has to feel safe, valued and comfortable enough to express their grief which then can open up a deep sequeway into the spirit world as any emotion that accompanies grief greatly stimulates the psychic energy during a sitting.

I feel very blessed to be able to scrape a living doing something I enjoy so much. I see the spirit shows as an opportunity to give back to humanity and spirit aid has presented a wonderful focus for this direction.”

Blessings