HOW MEDIUMS WORK
- how do mediums communicate with spirits?

Article about how mediums work and how mediums communicate with the spirits in the afterlife/spirit world. For more information about the how mediums work read Craig Hamilton-Parker's best-selling books about the Spirit World and developing your powers to become a medium.
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HOW MEDIUMS WORK:
Proving the Survival of Your Personality

Your personality doesn’t go though a massive transformation when you go to the spirit. Actually, you remain comparatively unchanged. Some of your cherished beliefs may be undermined, but the fundamental qualities of your personality remain fixed. Sadly, you will not become a demigod, even though your loved ones on earth may begin to idealize you as such--no matter what they thought of you when you were with them--since now you have seemingly all-knowing messages to pass to them from the beyond.

No, grumpy old Uncle Bill will still be grumpy old Uncle Bill when he gets to the spirit world. If he was a grumbling old fart in this life he will remain so in the world beyond. The human personality doesn’t change very quickly during our earthly life and there are no sudden transformations either when we enter the spirit state. We may become more aware of our faults and have a clearer insight into ourselves and the mistakes we made during life, but the human personality itself remains relatively unchanged.

HOW MEDIUMS WORK
How would you communcate from the Spirit World?

If you think about your own nature, how much have you changed since you were a teenager? You may be a little mellower in your behavior but the fundamental qualities that make up your personality probably haven’t changed a great deal. It takes “spiritual” effort to bring about a metamorphosis of the personality. Changing ourselves into more spiritually aware beings is, in my opinion, the reason we have been given access to earthly bodies. This is the objective of most spiritual disciplines, and for most people the changes within only one lifetime are marginal.

You can therefore imagine how much more difficult communication gets if grumpy old Uncle Bill is the spirit communicator. Not only must the message get through the interference of the medium’s mind and the blocks created by the sitter’s own aura, but we also have to get Uncle Bill’s participation. He may be very stubborn and not like being asked to speak. Similarly, he may not have said much in life and is not especially inclined to be more talkative from the spirit plane. Too, many spirit communicators can become quite shy about speaking out!

If you ever try communicating through a medium when you are dead, you will soon realize that it is a tricky business. In addition to the personalities involved, you have to slow your astral vibration in order to “sink” to the earth plane. You next have to attune your consciousness with the mind of the medium. This spiritual overshadowing is a difficult astral art that may require practice and instruction from the spirit helpers of the medium. It is also a strange experience to the newly dead to feel your inner world blend with the inner world of the medium, who becomes aware of your whole personality and earth memories. (Think mind-meld.) It’s a job to keep any skeletons in the closet when communicating telepathically!

HOW MEDIUMS WORK
The Unborn Self

In order for telepathic communication to take place between someone in the spirit world and the medium living on earth, it is necessary that a common state exists for them to work through. Some Spiritualists and mystics have called this the “mirror mind.”

Nobody knows for certain how consciousness is created or sustained. From the brain’s part, consciousness does not appear to be limited to any one place in it. It appears to be generated by the whole brain working together. Some scientists believe that the idea of consciousness and free will are, in fact, an illusion. For example, it has been discovered by measuring brain activity that the intention to do something comes “after” the brain has already decided to do it. The unconscious parts of the brain make decisions before “you” do. Our behavior is therefore guided not by free will but by subconscious processing. Professor Susan Greenfield claims “The feeling of “you”–the individual in your head–could well be the most impressive trick the brain plays. Somehow, the brain creates the illusion of a conscious self in control of its actions, while the true controlling force is the subconscious.”

HOW MEDIUMS WORK
Understanding mediumistic perception

The medium’s view is quite different. The brain is an organ of perception for creating images from the sensations that come from the five senses. It makes sense of the material world by generating images of reality. In many ways, the brain is similar to the computer I am using to write this book. If the computer goes wrong, or gets a virus, then my words may be destroyed or jumbled. If things go really bad, the machine may crash or become completely unusable. However, “I” am not the computer. The computer is my means of processing and communicating information and ideas. Add a modem and camera and it becomes a means of perception as well. The brain is an immense organic computer but “I” am not the brain.

I have already spoken about telepathy, the ability of people to share thoughts through something other than the normal five senses. In your everyday life, you may “know” when someone is about to telephone you, or you may sense a person’s mood before you see his or her face. If you are proficient at telepathy, you may be able to perceive much more detailed information. This would indicate that thought is not limited to the confines of the brain but can extend beyond it. Telepathy is a fact, and there is a great deal of proof to show that the whole of human consciousness can exist beyond the body.

HOW MEDIUMS WORK
Extra-sensory perception

Extra-sensory perception and out-of-body experiences illustrate that it is possible for consciousness to exist independently of the body. My own view is that the brain is just our doorway into the material world. Human consciousness is not limited to the brain but extends in all directions. The extent of the reach of consciousness may be limitless.

Mediums believe that we are not prisoners of the brain. We are free. When we die, we live independently of the brain as, even now, part of us lives independent of the body. A portion of our consciousness is unborn and exists permanently in the spirit world. It may be the source of our sense of identity. I believe that I am able to do mediumship because I am in touch with this part of my being. I can blend with it simply by looking within myself.

The spirit people talk to me via this unborn self.

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