Not all mediums are spiritual. I have met mediums with low morals and high egos. I have even seen known fraudulent mediums exposed by spiritualists working on television in the past. Sometimes, the flower of mediumship blooms on strange soils, but the human values and character qualities I have spoken about are present in most mediums.
What is a medium?
Before we proceed, it is important to clarify exactly what I mean by a medium. Mediums are people who have a special gift that allows spirit people to give messages from the afterlife. They are the link between the two worlds, communicating with people who have died through mind-to-mind contact (telepathy). A medium’s work aims to prove the survival of the human personality after death and to help the bereaved come to terms with their loss.
The medium may produce enough information to satisfy the inquirer that their family member, friend, or loved one still survives death. The medium may give an accurate physical description of the deceased, their work, anecdotes from their earthly life, what illness they died of, and so on.
Only once the identity of the spirit person is clearly established will the medium provide further evidence about shared and past memories related to current events in the sitter's life. In addition, the medium may provide extra details, such as information about hobbies and idiosyncrasies, that can help prove the communicator's personality.
Becoming a Medium or Becoming a Psychic?
It is essential to differentiate becoming a medium from psychic counselling and fortune-telling. A psychic is a person who has extrasensory perception, also known as ESP or the sixth sense. These gifts include telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and sometimes psychokinesis. Although a medium will have the same gifts, the psychic cannot give verifiable information about spirit communicators. A psychic is able to "sense" on a material level but cannot "tune in" to the spirit world, except by accident.
Some of us call ourselves ‘psychic mediums’ because we have mediumistic abilities and powers of clairvoyance and prophecy. It is, however, unwise to mix prophecy and mediumship. In British spiritualism, the medium is forbidden from making predictions and restricts himself from providing verifiable information to prove that there’s life after death.
Emma Hardinge Britten Spiritualists were given seven principles that became the bedrock of their beliefs through the mediumship of the trance medium. One of these was the maxim “personal responsibility’ Taking personal responsibility for our lives implies that we have free will when deciding the future.
Psychic powers are pervasive, and everyone is psychic to some degree, using the natural intuitive or sixth sense that is inherent in all of us. To develop mediumistic powers, one must first develop psychic powers, and I will walk you through these stages in this blog post about becoming a medium.
The human qualities you need
We have already established that patience is important when developing your gifts and that the path requires the spiritual qualities of integrity, morality, and compassion. You may also have experienced suffering in your personal life, so you may have empathy with others. Given that you have these qualities and a latent gift, your powers may begin to unfold with work.
This will not happen all at once but over time. Sometimes, you will make great strides and surge ahead quickly, but the path may seem steep and slow at others. But it is all part of the same journey. Keep going and never lose faith in yourself.
Faith in yourself is vital to the success of any enterprise. An entrepreneurial businessman has faith in himself, but as success comes to him, he may grow arrogant and self-centred. It is sad to see self-confidence turn to arrogance, for instead of receiving the admiration of others, the person will only receive our scorn. These are not the qualities you would expect to find in a medium, yet it is an endemic problem.
Resources
- This is an extract from Psychic School published on Amazon by myself Craig Hamilton-Parker. Please note that it is copyrighted.
- Previously published as Opening to the Other Side, Craig Hamilton-Parker, Sterling Publishers USA ISBN 1-4027-1346-0
- The development of mediumship in the UK can be enhanced at the Arthur Findlay College and the College for Psychic Studies.
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