Q. What is a medium?
A medium is someone who has learned how to communicate with
those who have passed into the world of spirit.
Q. What is a Spiritual Healer?
A spiritual healer is in effect a medium, as they
are able to channel healing energies from spirit into the patient.
Q. What is Clairsentience?
Clairsentience is a term given to describe feeling something
psychically. It is when a medium is able to feel pains that may be associated with
how someone in spirit passed away, or to detect pains in the living when conducting
healing for example. It also extends to being able to feel emotions such as sadness,
happiness, despair etc.
Q. What is a Clairoma?
Clairoma is the term given to describe being able to sense
smells. Some spirit communicators may send the medium a scent that identifies them,
such as tobacco, aftershave and perfumes, bread, flowers etc.
Q. What is trance mediumship?
Trance is a form of advanced mediumship where a spirit
person uses the medium's body to communicate with others, usually in a development
circle. There is also light trance, sometimes referred to as overshadowing, although
similar, this is caused by spirit guides being very close and and guiding the medium
to speak. This should not be attempted without supervision.
Q. What is clairvoyance or a clairvoyant?
Clairvoyance is a term given to describe
the act of clear sight. A clairvoyant medium `sees pictures` in their mind and relays
what they see to to other people.
Q. What is Psychometry?
Psychometry is a psychic skill that involves reading objects
histories by holding them.
Q. Are psychics and mediums the same thing?
No, a medium contacts those in the spirit
world, their job is to prove spirit existence and deliver messages. A psychic gets
information directly from or concerning the individual, their aim is to help with
that persons life problems. Though in a reading both methods may be used by a medium.
Q. Do mediums belong to a religion?
Most mediums follow the beliefs of The Spiritualist
Movement. Spiritualism is a nationally recognised religion in the UK.
Q. What is the human Aura?
The aura is a number of layers of Electro-
Q. What is a spirit guide?
A spirit guide is a spirit person who tries to guide our
journey through our earth life. It’s generally thought that we have one guide who
is with us for our entire life and other guides, like teaching guides to help us
with more specific lessons like developing mediumship.
Q. Is there any reference to this subject in the Bible?
Try Corinthians.
Q. What is a psychic artist?
This is a form of mediumship whereby the medium is able
to draw or paint pictures of those he communicates with.
Q. Where are spirit people and what is it like there?
This is a common question, with
no definitive answer. Perhaps because it goes beyond what we are able to understand.
The world of spirit has been described as being much like the beautiful and natural
areas of earth, though I think this explanation is for the benefit of what we are
able to perceive. Spirit people are energy and can perhaps build their surroundings
from their thoughts. As to where it is, descriptions like-
Q. How can I tell if I'm psychic?
You are! Everybody has within them the capacity
to experience psychic events, though to what degree is determined by our acceptance
and practice of the art. Once you begin to explore what it is to be psychic, you
will usually find your awareness opens and your intuition grows.
Q. How can I learn to channel my abilities if I do have them?
Learn, find out what
other famous psychics did, read books, watch TV. Make it part of your life, and it
will become part of your life. There is no one answer here, it depends on your commitment,
your expectations, your understanding. Where you want to go with it, your goals.
You will need to learn respect, how to speak to people, what to say and how to say
it. Get the idea? You are best off joining a group if you are serious, although this
is not essential.
Q. Can meditation help me develop?
Yes! Meditation is one of the best ways of developing
your psychic gift. We can reach a state (some people call it the Alpha State) of
relaxation and it's here we become very receptive. Meditation is almost essential
for helping to improve mediumship.
Q. My abilities surface when I least want them to, can I gain more control?
Yes! By
learning about the Chakras, it's possible to close down our ' receptors ' so that
we don't pick up things we don't need.
Q. Are Ouija boards really dangerous?
Actually no, but they do get a bad press. This
is a focus tool, much like Tarot cards and crystal balls etc. The difference is that
it is used almost exclusively for contact with the spirit world, rather than general
psychic work. In the hands of a trained and experienced medium, it forms a valid
aid to communication. However, used in fun, by the inexperienced, or the un-
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