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“Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.”
Mediumship is the claimed ability of an individual to experience contact with “the spirit world” (spirits of the dead, angels, demons or other incorporeal entities). A “medium” is the term used to refer to a person who claims to communicate with spirits of the deceased and passes on information from the spirit world or Heaven to people on Earth; information which the medium had no way of knowing without the intervention of “the spirits”.
Many mediums claim that spirits of the dead communicate with them directly, while other mediums claim the use of a “spirit guide”.
Some mediums define a “spirit guide” as a highly evolved spirit with the purpose of helping the medium or their clients develop their personal skills and assist in the person's following a spiritual path. Other mediums define a spirit guide as one who brings other spirits to a medium's attention or carries communications between a medium and the spirits of the dead. Many mediums claim to have specific guides who regularly work with them and "bring in" spirits of the dead.
Modern mediumship defines two distinct types of phenomena that can occur through mediums:
A spirit, who communicates with a medium, either verbally or visually, is known as a spirit communicator. A spirit who uses a medium to manipulate energy or energy systems is called a spirit operator. The role of the medium is supposedly to facilitate communication with spirits who have messages to share with non-mediums. Mediums claim to be able to listen to, relay messages from, and relate conversations with spirit, to go into a trance and speak without knowledge of what is being said and/or to allow a spirit to control their body and speak through it.
Mental Mediumship and Physical Mediumship
Mental Mediumship -- Communication of spirits with a medium by telepathy, either directly or while “in trance”. This may manifest directly to the medium (direct voice) or by “channeling” in which involves mediums who speak to spirits and then relay what they hear someone else
Mental Mediumship has six different manifestations:
Physical mediumship -- The manipulation of energies and energy systems by spirits. Physical mediumship may involve perceptible manifestations, such as loud raps and noises, voices, materialized objects, materialized spirit bodies, or body parts such as hands, and levitation. The medium is used as a source of power for such spirit manifestations. By some accounts, this is achieved by using the energy or ectoplasm released by a medium. Most physical mediumship is presented in a darkened or dimly lit room. Most physical mediums make use of a traditional array of tools and appurtenances, including spirit trumpets, spirit cabinets, and levitation tables.
"The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth."
Spiritualism is religious systems that wherein its members called “Spiritualists” believe in communicating with the spirits of discarnate humans. They believe that spirit mediums are humans gifted to do this, often through séances. They believe that spirits are capable of growth and perfection, progressing through higher spheres or planes. The afterlife is not a static place, but one in which spirits evolve.
Spiritualists maintain three fundamental beliefs:
Attempts to communicate with the dead and other spirits have been documented back to early human history. However, modern Spiritualism is said to date from practices and lectures of the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York in 1848.
Kate and Margaret Fox had been living with their parents in what was considered a haunted farmhouse in which the sounds of unexplained raps and knocks of a departed spirit could be heard. On one night, Kate began to ask the spirits questions, the responses developed into yes and no based on a “knocking” sound supposedly coming from the spirit.
By 1860 the term “Spiritualism” had been adopted and by then the girls had channeled for both famous and not famous people of the time, conducting séances and spirit communication. Kate and Margret, now joined by their sister Leah, began to travel in circles of high society because of their apparent gift of talking to the dead. Very quickly these methods spread like wildfire, with Mediums coming forward claiming spirit contact.
In later years, both Margaret and Kate drank heavily and lived a raucous lifestyle, causing Leah and other dedicated spiritualists to be concerned. Margaret and Kate feuded with Leah until finally Margaret made a confession of fraud.
Margaret told her story of the origins of the mysterious "rappings" in a signed confession given to the press and published in New York World, October 21, 1888. In it, she explained in detail about how she had learned how to crack her toe joints causing the supposed spirit rapping and that she and Kate had devised methods to convince those attending that the messages were real. Margaret then went on tour exhibiting her toe cracking ability. Margaret recanted her confession in writing in November, 1889, about a year after her toe-cracking exhibition. Kate's first letters back to London after Margaret's exhibition express shock and dismay at her sister's attack on Spiritualism, but she did not publicly take issue with Margaret. Within five years, both sisters died in poverty, shunned by former friends, and were buried in pauper's graves.
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