Mediums are ordinary people who, through training, have developed their natural ability of clear sense perception to such an extent that they can communicate with people who have died (English: spirits).
There are roughly three types of mediumship; mental, physical and healing mediumship.
The 3 forms of mediumship
Mental mediumship
In this, our loved ones and friends in the Spiritual World themselves use the best way to make us understand the truth that there is an afterlife. It is mostly the Spiritual World which tries to approach our materialistic world with the loving message that there is more between heaven and earth.
Mental mediumship is the most common and can be split into two qualities; active and passive.
Active mental mediumship
Under active mental mediumship falls the ability of a medium to clear sense perception;
- feel > clair-sentience
- see > clair-voyance
- hear > clair-audience
- tasting > clair-gustance
- smell > clair-alience
- knowing > clair-cognizance
A medium receives these perceptions both objectively and subjectively.
Passive mental mediumship
In the passive state, the medium will allow the Spiritual World to work through the medium through some degree of ‘control’. Each form of mediumship has a relationship to an altered state of consciousness. As the name suggests, in ‘passive mental mediumship‘ less aware of what is happening. There is often talk of Trance but this is a misconception; trance is also a passive form of mental mediumship but there are many gradations. Passive mental mediumship can express itself in:
- inspired writing & automatic writing
- different forms of art
- direct communication with the Spiritual World
- cure
Physical mediumship
The rare physical mediumship requires years of patience and development. What is special is the direct form of mediumship because everyone present will experience the same phenomena. Deceased people will be able to speak in their own voice or even materialise so you can see and sometimes touch the apparition. Objects can be lifted and move without visible support to realise this.
Over the years, there have been many fantastic physical mediums who certainly played a major role at the time of World War II. Unfortunately, of course, there are also situations where the phenomena are not authentic and are scams. It is therefore always very important to remain critical in addition to having an ‘open-mind’. If you want to know more, you should definitely delve further into the following mediums:
- Alec Harris
- Helen Duncan
- Eusapia Paladino
- Margery Crandon
- David Thompson
A special form of mediumship is healing the sick by direct laying on of hands (or from a distance), through the power of prayer. Many people have already been successfully treated. A healer will not be able to guarantee results but usually it will relieve pain and sorrow, give insight and possibly cure diseases. Spiritual healing is not based on trust with the patient. It is an interaction from healer to patient where children or animals can also be helped.
Healing mediumship can also take physical forms where the results are objectively observable or verifiable.
