Often times, usually whenever I identify myself as a Medium, I am asked to define the term. It is a very hard task to define that term in a short phrase because the term “Medium” is very generic. Like so many other genres, Mediumship has become very splintered over the past 150 or more years. Mediumship came about as the result of the development of Spiritualism beginning in the 1840’s and continued to develop well into the 1920’s in the United States.
Spiritualism is a belief that the spirits of those who have passed on from the physical world have the ability and the desire to communicate with the living who remain in the physical world. In the Afterlife, Spiritualists believe that the Spirit continues to evolve in its non-physical or ethereal domain. They believe, as a result, that Spirit is more highly evolved than man and that spirits are capable of providing useful knowledge about moral, ethical and personal issues, as well as about the nature of the creator of the Universe. That is why Spiritualists came up with the term “Spirit Guides” for the Spirit that they communicate with from the ethereal realm. Spiritualists believe that they are demonstrating the existence of Spirit through messages obtained by Mediumship.
I usually offer a simple explanation of what a Medium is and what they do. I say that a Medium is a person, usually female, who communicates with spirits on behalf of another person. And that is what Medium does in a nutshell. There is so much more to it than that, though. In the years since the 1840’s much experimentation has been done in the field of Mediumship. And, because humans are individually unique, many of those experimenters found different ways to demonstrate the existence of Spirit.
The state of consciousness that needs to be achieved in order to perform Mediumship is the same regardless of the type of contact with Spirit. All Mediums have to enter a state of Trance. I have discussed this state in a previous post in my discussion of the Alpha States. Mediums drop into Alpha 3 which is the Trance State. Contact with Spirit requires that we alter our state of consciousness so that we can be communicated with by Spirit. Some of us are born with the ability to drop in, hold and return from the Trance State at will. When we have that talent we are known as Mediums who are used by Spirit to communicate with us across different planes of existence.
(To Be Continued)
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