I always get the feeling that whenever TV companies allow mediums to appear on screen, it always seems like they are on trial. There is always a sense of bias towards them. Quite rightly so in some cases but not in all by any means.
To begin with, mediumship is always an experiment, as it is impossible to summon up a particular spirit at will. I know that some mediums in the past have made it sound as though they could summon up anyone from Elvis, to Diana Dors, to JFK. They cannot. It is not possible.
Spirits belong in the Spirit World and only make contact with us when there is a mutual need. This being only when there is a special link between the spirit and the sitter. You cannot ask a medium to call up Elvis and expect him to appear, though that would make great TV, would it not? All Elvis fans would be in line.
A medium asks the spirit world if there is anyone who wishes to make themselves known to the sitter. It is only then that communication can take place. They don’t ask ‘Can you send us Elvis’ or Princess Diana.
On TV programmes I always squirm in my seat whilst the psychic on screen tries to convince the presenter and the audience that they have a spiritual gift. Often it will be a psychic who asks the sitter or questioner ‘Who do you want to speak to?’ and then goes on to say ‘I have them here and they are ok.’ Where is the proof in that? It is even worse when the psychic seems to be taken over by a spirit. Am I the only medium to find it very embarrassing? This cannot happen.
What I find most offensive is that at least one of the current TV mediums have appeared in the past, to be dishonest in their actions.
The way I understand it, as told to me by several mediums present at a seance at which he was the ‘trance medium’, that the medium in question was found with the tools of his trade in his hands when the lights mysteriously turned on.
There were supposed to be keyboards playing and objects flying around the room, in the dark, whilst the medium was supposed to be tied to his chair. When the lights suddenly came on, the man was found with his ties undone and it was he himself holding the objects and making it appear they were floating around.
He made a swift exit when found and all sitters were given their money back. The Psychic News ran an article about it and for a while he did not appear to be working at Stansted Hall. Now he is on TV it all seems forgotten and he is back doing the rounds again, albeit doing mental mediumship and not, as far as I know, ‘physical’ stuff.
As always, use your own intelligence and if it is too much or too ridiculous to beleive, then don’t believe.