3 Biggest Misconceptions About Psychic Mediumship
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Common pieces of information about psychic mediumship -
Psychic mediumship occurs when a medium (the conduit) uses already present psychic abilities to receive and translate communications from the other worlds.
A psychic medium acts as a receiver for information from a variety of transmitters: other living people, deceased people, natural spirits, prophets, God and so on.
These transmitters deliver images, messages, singular words and symbols all joining together to create a picture that forms into the transmission the medium gives to either to a specific person or a specific group of persons.
There are main types of mediums (receivers): clairvoyant mediums and clairaudient mediums.
A psychic medium can spend years avoiding and ignoring their gift until something pushes them to awaken their abilities. This push a medium receives is called their calling.
Once following the calling, a medium can choose to enter into a career path of
spiritual energy healing
message delivery (message mediumship)
inspirational speaking and/or writing (using the messages they receive from the other world)
animal communication and healing
coaching and development
a combination of these
and more
A psychic medium can work in a variety of specialty areas like any service-based practice.
Psychic mediums come in all shapes and sizes, hail from all cultures and creeds, and even carry different belief systems (often based on their home culture's traditions or teachings), but one thing binds them all.
This is their purpose.
A psychic medium's purpose is on earth to help heal others.
A medium works to heal the pain of others by bringing forward the evidence of life from loved ones on the other side, by answering questions to the unknown that provide certainty, or by teaching others who share the same gifts as them on how to use and awaken their abilities as well.
Despite this, there is a lot of misinformation out there regarding mediums and how they operate.
Today, I'd like to clear that up.
The three most common pieces of misinformation
Psychic mediums are cold reading
In April 2015, Dr. Oz and his guest, Dr. Amen, monitored the brain activity of Theresa Caputo while she was channeling a deceased person spirit for a guest live on stage.
This scan, when compared to the brain activity of someone who is lying, looks completely different, as different regions of the brain are activated.
The brain pattern activity of a psychic medium when channeling is more similar to a monk in meditation than it is the brain pattern activity of someone who is actively lying.
Further, now with advances in modern technology, such as the telephone and the internet, most readings in modern times occur by telephone or online chat. These telephone readings make body language reading impossible, a technique commonly claimed by skeptics to be the cause of 'the gift.'
A medium who charges will lose their gift
Similar to 'a psychic medium shouldn't charge money for their gifts.'
This myth states that if a medium really cared/was genuine, they then wouldn't charge their clients for their abilities. Originating from the mid to late 1800s in the United States, this myth stems from a belief at the time that mediumship was popularized, that any woman working for money is deplorable and it is the man who is to hold the home.
Mediums who did not charge for their gifts were supported by husbands or fathers and because most mediums were women, and because any woman working any job for money was societally shamed, most mediums who did so were shamed as well.
Since that time, our culture has changed dramatically. Psychic mediumship is now a career path embodied by both genders and many mediums charge standard counselor based rates for both their time and services.
And finally, the most interesting piece of misinformation about psychic mediumship
In 400 BC, Plato coined the term Daimon to refer to any spirit that was not God, an intermediary thereof and also benevolent and benign.
Daimons acted as an intermediary between the human realm and God, where Daimons were things like nature spirits, deceased persons, spirit guides, and so on.
Then, with the advent of Christianity, the church brought in their own suite of spirits, the Angels.
The church officials idolized the Angels to the people of the community and in an effort to convince people to join the church, they gave the Angels powers and jobs that were previously held by the Daimon.
As Angels rose in ideology and official charge, Daimons were slowly, well, demonized. Anyone who continued to convene with the Daimon throughout the Christian Revolution was then also demonized.
This included mediums. Mediums who weren't appointed by the church, that is.
Non-affiliate church mediums are written in texts of the Bible to convene with demons (Daimons were once and still by some considered beneficial) and therefore it was claimed you shouldn't associate or convene with a medium.
This is a linguistic distortion of the word Daimon from old Christian culture extending to today, though the original word was in reference to a beneficial being.
Thankfully, as more and more mediums start to tell their own story, we learn more of the truth of this practice.
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Sources:
https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/long-island-medium-inside-psychics-brain
https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/theresa-caputo-sets-record-straight?video_id=4179672701001
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/mri-lie-detectors
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15744871
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