The Process of a Medium

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The Process of a Medium

by Shelly Wilson
A Medium and Mediumship

A medium is an individual who has the ability to communicate with the Spirit realm using psychic abilities and is a channel for Spirit. There are two types of mediumship: physical and mental. Physical mediumship involves something physical happening that can be seen or heard by others, such as rapping, ectoplasm and transfiguration. This evidence requires more energy from Spirit to produce. Mental mediumship involves relaying the information that you receive through sight, taste, smell, hearing and feeling. The differences between the two types are just as their names imply. Physical involves producing evidence that someone else can see; therefore, it is somewhat tangible or is at least witnessed by another. Mental relies solely on communicating the information that is received. Therefore, mediumship is the term used to describe a medium’s work.

Mediumship involves receiving the information through the reader’s five senses and then conveying it to the client, also known as a sitter, so that they can understand it. It is all about perception. The reader, the medium, receives and perceives the information and then conveys it to the client. The client then perceives what is being conveyed.

 
How a Medium ‘Sees’

The information comes through as thoughts, feelings, words, bodily sensations, impressions and memories. The images received by the medium may be literal or may be symbolic. I liken it to flashcards that children worked with to learn the alphabet. For example, I may see a merry-go-round. This message may mean the individual is conveying the name Mary or it may mean life seems to be going in circles. Learning to give what comes through allows the recipient to interpret the meaning of the message for themselves. It is important to note that the medium’s personality, mannerisms and style as well as their individual frame of reference (what is stored in their memory bank/brain) will influence their delivery of mediumship.

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