What Is Mediumship?
WHAT IS MEDIUMSHIP?
In our contemporary world, there continues to be great skepticism surrounding mediumship, and rightly so. The field of communication with the deceased has attracted fraudulent people who have found the grieving an easy, often naïve and gullible target since the birth of modern spiritualism in the 1840s.
Even today, the spiritual marketplace and bazaar is filled with new age-y woo-woo beliefs and practices. Mediumship is an extraordinary gift and blessing – not some purposeless parlor game or paranormal phenomenon as often depicted in Hollywood movies.
There are many authentic and talented mediums in the world. Not all are famous or seek recognition, and not all are on the same level of development. You must do your due diligence when looking for a medium and find someone you feel is a good fit for you.
Every major religion has a belief in some form of afterlife eluding to the survival of the soul after physical death. In the Bible, there are many veiled references to spirit communication, one of which is communication with the holy spirit. If you understand that everything is energy, and energy can never be destroyed, only transformed, it will open the door to consider life after life. In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he states that we have a perishable body and an imperishable body—a physical body that dies, and a non-physical body that lives on.
When we return “home,” we remain consciousness, we are energy not bound to a physical body. Death can be compared to how we are in our dream experiences. In the dream state, we exist in another dimension, another reality that is quite different from our waking state. Our body and conscious mind are at rest.
In the dream state, we communicate telepathically and use our inner senses – we continue to see, smell, taste, touch, and hear, but in a different way. The experiences we have while dreaming are the closest thing each of us experience that will give us an idea of what it is like for people after physical death.
An EKG/ECG machine registers the electrical impulses of the heart. A quote from an article on Quora, a contributor to Forbs.com, states, “Virtually every single process which is keeping you alive can be traced back to an electric field that some component of your body is creating.” If we are physically electrical, what of emotions, thoughts, and beliefs? What of the soul? In my opinion, if we are pure energy, we cannot be destroyed – we are transformed.
It is unrealistic to assume that all mediums work alike. Think of a musician that plays the violin, for example. This musician is classically trained and is very good technically, but, does this musician play with soul? There are some very good mediums that are technically good, and by that I mean they may be very good at names, dates, circumstances, describing Aunt Mary’s favorite ring, or father’s favorite hat. I work with emotions, relationships, and the meaning of the deceased’s life.
If one has the expectation that a medium’s information should be perfect and must meet the expectations one has of the mediumship process, he or she will predictably be very disappointed. For the medium, interpretation is key. Messages can be literal or symbolic, and again, messages can be very layered in their meaning or have a double meaning. A reading is a process and journey with everyone involved working together.
When we pass from physical life we are not automatically enlightened. True, we have a much broader view and understanding of our entire being and life, and the life of people in the physical, but we still carry with us our personality, idiosyncrasies, and unresolved issues. If dad doesn’t wish you a happy birthday in the reading, there is a reason. Possibly, if dad chronically forgot your birthday in physical life, it just may be his way of communicating that in the reading. It’s like playing a game of charades or interpreting a dream.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw