What is a medium?

A medium is a person who is psychic and also has the ability to communicate with spirits, (but not all psychic's are mediums.)
Mediums may also be described as 'channels' or 'channellers.'

The word medium means:

a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums"

There are many more meanings for the word medium but the above three highlight why this word was chosen for a medium.
A medium 'picks up' information from the spirit world by several means, some will use only one of the following, but many use a combination of the following:
Clairvoyance: literally means 'clear seeing' and refers to mediums who see spirits, they may see them in solid form or see them psychically, they may recieve messages as symbols which they then need to interpret and pass on to their client.
Clairaudience: this literally means clear hearing and refers to mediums who hear spirits, they may hear the voices of the actual spirit, or hear them in their own voice, often this 'hearing' is heard in thought form, yet others hear very clearly and directly in their ear.
Clairsentience: This is probably the commonest of the the three and means clear sensing or feeling, this is when the medium picks up on a spirit's feelings or 'senses' spirits.

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Thank you "Not all Mediums are Psychics" oh that is so so true . I be both but so many I know are one or the other and to be lumed in a common clump at times is not fun.

Lynn

It bugs me too Lynn, and there's a world of difference.

I don't know how I missed this but thanks for posting mac, this sounds like 'clairsentience' to me, many mediums work in this way:

A ‘sensitive’ is someone who is able to detect the presence of ‘unseen’
individuals in other dimensions of existence.

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Not saying this be right or wrong more HOW I have come to see it all.

Mediumship


Mediumship is the term used to describe someone who claim to have the ability to communicate with the Dead or Spirit World. This is not yet been scientifically proven of disproved . From the scientific point of view a medium is simply doing a cold reading. Getting information from what is said. In face to face readings using facial and body reactions.
Testing the information given though rules a lot of this out.



Modern Mediumship


Physical Mediumship :

is the act of picking up energies from the other side. This can be done by voice communications where one talks directly to the Spirit. Or visually were one can see the Spirit and describe who is being seen.


Mental Mediumship:

This is via thought or telepathy via the Medium. Nothing is seen or heard in the physical but in the brain only of the Medium. This is also know as trance Mediumship where the Medium can be either fully aware of the process or in full trance.



Physical Mediumship:


This encompasses levitation, Automatic Writing, and visual sight of Spirit energy. Letting a Spirit for a time enter your body to speak.


How we make or know of contact.


First off working well protected and grounded.


Burning of candles gives a Spirit that Light connection.


Spirits often move things, can be something simple like a picture being off center on a wall or turned face down.


Make sounds such as footsteps, or bang something.


Odors that go to the person passed. IE Smoke, perfume, cologne.

Even medicines or home surroundings odors. Cooking smells from special event days.


At times emotion in you come into play. You feel something come over you. Something that brings in a memory of one passed. You smile for no real reason and feel a sense of peace.


Music that you hear that takes you to the memory of someone passed. Some phase that is seen on a billboard sign that takes you to someone.


Pictures where the is a ORB or other strange image in it. Many images will when enlarged have a face in them.


Spirit contact to you. That cold shiver you get. Watch for Goosebumps that are only on one side of the body.


Feathers that come from no where. Some refer to them as Angle Wings.


Pennies found in odd places note the date.


Books left open to a page or when toppled from a table they are on take note of what is on the page.



Lights going on and off, TV volume changing, doors or windows rattling with no wind. Indoor wind chimes moving. Whisper sounds. Seeing things in the corner of your eye. Phone rings and no one is there. Note the number might not exist. Messages left on a machine that the number does not exist or was the number for someone passed.


Dream contacts where a message is left.






Lynn

Violet wrote:I don't know how I missed this but thanks for posting mac, this sounds like 'clairsentience' to me, many mediums work in this way:

A ‘sensitive’ is someone who is able to detect the presence of ‘unseen’
individuals in other dimensions of existence.

Hi Violet,
a 'sensitive' is just another word for a 'medium.' It's yet another word that has recently slipped into the spiritual language.

Hi Lynn, thanks for sharing your opinion above regarding physical and mental mediumship. You have a very interesting view, I agree with all. xx

skye wrote:

Violet wrote:I don't know how I missed this but thanks for posting mac, this sounds like 'clairsentience' to me, many mediums work in this way:

A ‘sensitive’ is someone who is able to detect the presence of ‘unseen’
individuals in other dimensions of existence.

Hi Violet,
a 'sensitive' is just another word for a 'medium.' It's yet another word that has recently slipped into the spiritual language.

Yes they keep slipping different words in, it can become very confusing especially for those just starting out, I did create a 'spiritual jargon busting' thread I really must find it and stick it.

I wouldnt go to far as to say that spirits can move things, although recentl and most of the time the sky seems to delete a recording and change it to another time of the same show. When things like this happen we think its my nephew, but I doubt he can delete a recording list and select another one a different time as his only 2! lol

Coins in odd places, I will check dates now, although im bad with dates.

One question, if spirits come to you can others who can see the spirit world see them to, or do they just appear to you? Eg do you ever go out and see people with their guides etc? Or isit just our own doorway?

"Yes they keep slipping different words in, it can become very confusing
especially for those just starting out, I did create a 'spiritual jargon
busting' thread I really must find it and stick it."

That's OK, Violet, until you find that the definitions you devise may not be widely agreed or accepted..... Been there, done that over the past few years and still have the mental scars of the opposition I encountered. And I was only asking others to comment on my suggested ones!

Whatever one individually might decide is a good definition, there's the likelihood that someone else will see it another way. Only earlier today I was discussing with another website owner the term 'psychic medium'. Turns out that the term is used to denote a mental medium in the country where the owner lives. And as we've discussed before, many see mediums and psychics as being the same.

Whadya do?

Oh I know that Mac, and as you highlighted different terms are used in different countries too, the idea of the thread was just to offer a very basic jargon buster to assist newcomers, but it's probably better I don't find it.

All this infomation is frying my brain lol xxx thanks its really helpful xx

Violet wrote:A medium is a person who is psychic and also has the ability to communicate with spirits, (but not all psychic's are mediums.)
Mediums may also be described as 'channels' or 'channellers.]

In my understanding a channeler connects with an entity or being of a higher vibration then oneself.
Mediums in most cases connect with past ones who are not higher in vibration then themselves, and are in the non physical realm.

"In my understanding a channeler connects with an entity or being of a higher vibration then oneself.
Mediums in most cases connect with past ones who are not higher in vibration then themselves, and are in the non physical realm."

Maybe it's one definition but whether it would be widely accepted is a moot point.

Some time ago I ran a thread on several websites trying to get some idea what others thought various practitioners did but nobody offered your explanation as a definition of a channeler.....

I have been told that a channeler is someone who totaly gives up themselves t spirit and it could be dangerous

millergrls wrote:I have been told that a channeler is someone who totaly gives up themselves t spirit and it could be dangerous

Not necessarily, there are different levels of connections, and with it come different levels of accuracy, in most cases.
The deepest level is called a trans channel. Edgar Cayce was one, and an other one I knew was Carla Lisbeth Rueckert. Both have channeled Ra or a particular part of Ra, since Ra is a soul group.
If you watch Steve Rother or Geoff Hoppe you can see a channel in what I would call a second stage channel. They can still remember some of what went on in the channel.
In a light channel, you know everything, you can feel energies, have your own thoughts, intuitions, and knowing. No interference with your voice box.
And of cause this is the most inaccurate one.

Thank you for some very interesting information,Detlef.

A lot there I didn't know.....



Joanie

millergrls wrote:I have been told that a channeler is someone who totaly gives up themselves t spirit and it could be dangerous

Anyone who fails to exercise self-control and caution is foolish and there are mischievous spirit individuals who would love to take advantage of such incarnate individuals.

One may work with trusted communicators but not abandon oneself before that trust has become established.

One may work with trusted communicators but not abandon oneself before that trust has become established.

I heartily agree with Mac

That was a lot of helpful information!!! Thank you! I didn't know any of that. I will be fileing that information away.