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Psychic Medium

Mental Mediumship

Mental Mediumship has several different aspects, such as Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience, along with prescribed training methods for developing these abilities. However, some of these terms are defined differently in spiritualism than in other paranormal fields. "Clairvoyance", for instance, is often used by spiritualists to include seeing spirits and visions instilled by spirits, whereas the Parapsychological Association defines clairvoyance as information derived directly from an external physical source.

Clairvoyance or "Clear Seeing", is the ability to see anything which is not physically present, such as objects, animals or people. This sight occurs "in the mind’s eye," and some mediums say that this is their normal vision state. Others say that they must train their minds with such practices as meditation in order to achieve this ability, and that assistance from spiritual helpers is often necessary.

Some clairvoyant mediums say they can see a spirit as though the spirit has a physical body. They see the bodily form as if it were physically present. Other mediums say that they see the spirit in their mind's eye, or that it appears as a movie or a television programmer a still picture like a photograph in their mind.

Clairaudience or "Clear Hearing", is the ability to hear Spirit voices from the Spirit World, which are not audible to other people who are even next to the Medium who is hearing the Spirit World. Some Mediums profess to hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, it is as though the Spirit is next to or near to the Medium, and other Mediums maintain that they hear the voices within their head/mind as a thought verbalisation of a thought.

Clairsentience or "Clear Sensing", is ability of extra feeling, or having an impression of what is being communicated by a spirit, it is said to be received by the Medium from the higher vibrational plane of Spirit.

Clairsentience or "Clear Feeling"', this is an ability where the Medium is said to take on the ailments of the person who is now in the World of Spirit, feeling the same problem of that person they had whilst they were here on the earth plane. If they had pains in their joints when they were on this side of the veil the Medium will feel it. As they will if the link in Spirit suffered with heart problems, cancer, stomach problems, loss of a limb, tumour on the brain. These feeling go when the Medium acknowledges the Spirit being there.

Clairalience or "Clear Smelling" is the alleged phenomenon where sensitive people can smell the odour of the person who is not on the earth plane. They can sometimes smell their pipe tobacco, cigarette tobacco, food smells, different spices as though they are coming from a kitchen. Some Mediums profess to smell the places where the deceased person worked like a chemical factory, the docks, the places to be reminded of for the recipient of a message off the platform in the church or meeting place or in a development Circle.

Clairgustance or "Clear Tasting", this is where the Medium can apparently taste the foods, liquid and anything that goes into the mouth of the deceased person, it is tasted by the Medium. This is given by those in Spirit to confirm it is the correct person being contacted. Taste within the mouth can at times be strong as though the medium/sensitive has taken it in their mouth this is “objective” clear tasting. “Subjectively” is when it is put as a thought in the mind.

Claircognizant or "Clear Knowing", is the ability of knowing a message is correct or something about a person or situation is correct without getting a clairvoyant, clairaudient, or clairsentient message from Spirit, it is when you just know. It is more than a clairsentient feeling.

Physical Mediumship

Spiritualists say that the physical phenomena of mediumship encompass such things as levitation, automatic writing, and poltergeist or ectoplasmic activities. Ectoplasm is the substance which produces spirit materializations, telekenisis and other forces from the “other world”. Closely related to the concept of ectoplasm is the aura, a subtle field of luminous multicoloured radiation surrounding a person or object as a cocoon or halo, which can be perceived by the medium. By noting variations in the hues of a person’s aura, a medium can describe his personality, needs, and illnesses. For example, the "shrivelling" of the aura is considered a sign of impending death. In what is known as "solar plexus voice mediumship", a spirit appears to speak through a medium’s body.

Mediumistic automatism is the automatism associated with a medium receiving supernatural messages from ghosts, spirits or the like, the expression of such messages (in speech, writing or drawings) lacking conscious control or intervention by the medium.

The book "Dead Men's Embers" by Gerald O'Hara contains several photographs, mostly taken in the early 20th century, of what is said to be physical mediumship.
 

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