Mediumship and Beyond

The words used by mediums may sometimes seem odd to those who are not into psychic speak. If you are new to watching platform mediums you may be bewildered by the words they use.  Here I have given a simple explanation of a few common terms.

A Sitter – Someone who sits with a medium to receive a psychic message

A Medium – A person used as a mediator between the sitter and the afterlife.  Or the sitter and the spirit loved ones.

A Psychic –  Someone who gives information which they glean from a sitter or object by using the sixth sense. and the sitters aura.

Clairvoyance - The gift of being able to see using the sixth sense.  To be able to see spirits and describe them.

Clairaudience -  The gift of being able to hear using the sixth sense. To hear a spirit speak.    

Clairsentience - The gift of being able to feel and smell using the sixth sense.  To sense the smells and emotions relayed by the spirits.

Table Tapping -  A form of communication which uses the sitters’ psychic energy to tap, or move a table.  Used quite a lot by the Victorians and people within the circle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Still used by some spiritualists. I have never found it useful personally, as the messages and tappings can be pre-empted by the sitters’ thoughts.  That’s not good.  But it is a good demonstration of psychic phenomena.

Trance Medium -When a medium allows themselves to go into a higher state of consciousness in order to allow spirit communication.

Direct Voice - When a physical medium is able to uses ectoplasm to allow a spirit to talk in their earthly voice once more.

Physical Mediumship -When a medium has devoted themselves to developing ectoplasm so taht spirits can show themselves as they were when on this material earth plane.

Spirit World - Where we come from and where we go back to after this earthly life is over. It is our home for we are all spirit.

Ectoplasm - This is the material that exudes from a physical medium for the spirit entities to use.

I hope you find this useful.  If you are in any doubt about any of the terms I used, or other language heard in a church or at a sitting,  please contact me. I am always happy to help.

Is a medium always switched on?  Or, does a medium walk round all the time with spirits talking to them or showing themselves.  Do mediums see spirits all the time and is it just like looking at me and you?

Well, if a medium walked around all the time with spirit voices in their head,  picking up all the aches and pains a spirit can pass on to a medium,  they would soon be gaga!

A medium really has to learn very early on in their psychic development,  that they have to tune in and open up, and close down when they have finished their session.  It would be an impossible existence otherwise.  It would be like having crossed wires on a telephone exchange.  Mind boggling.

When a medium is tuned in they see spirits in their head usually.  In a subjective manner.  They  hear in a subjective manner too.  They cannot get mixed up between live humans and spirit people.

It is not quite like Ghost Whisperer where she is constantly interrupted by life like spirits wanting her help.  Although spirits do sometimes need help from a medium.  It is not quite so dramatic. 

Mediums deal with the ethereal world and get their messages in an ethereal way.  That’s what the words beginning with clair… mean really.  Clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience.  Seeing, hearing and sensing or feeling and knowing.

We mediums can only help the living if make sure we set time aside for readings and shut down for the rest of the day.  That way we keep spirit happy, our sitters happy and ourselves sane.

I am often asked why it is that some mediums work with their eyes closed.  You need to understand how mediums work first to understand why they close their eyes.

If a medium is clairvoyant,  they will  ’see’  what spirit is showing them.  They do not see with their physical eyes though.  They see with their psychic sight.  What they see is subjective and not objective.  Therefore, what they see is in their head.  It is a bit like having a TV screen in your forehead.

A medium can learn to work with their eyes open with practice.  It is difficult at first but can become second nature.  When a medium is a novice they will find it easier to keep their eyes shut, so that nothing distracts them from the spirit communication.  A novice is easier to distract as they are generally more  nervous.

Usually you will find that when you have a private consultation with a medium, they will tend to close their eyes more often because they are working closely with you and spirit.  It helps the concentration.

Clairaudients and clairsentients do not need to keep their eyes closed, as what they are getting is not seen.  But, some may do so in order to keep their concentration.  It is only like any normal person who is trying to concentrate on something.

Psychic gifts have names that begin with clair…  I am often asked what they all mean so I will give you a quick insight today.

Clairvoyance, the most widely known, means clear seeing, or the gift of seeing psychically.  Clairvoyants will see most of the message they pick up from the spirit communicators. Or if they work purely psychically  they will see things in their head.

Clairaudience means clear hearing.  A medium with this gift will hear most of their spirit communication.  Usually the voices are subjective, heard within the head.

Clairsentience -which seems to be the gift which is most common among mediums nowadays - is all about sensing.  A medium will feel a sense of pain, or will sense the scent a spirit loved one.   They will find they just seem to know things about their sitter.  Knowing is perhaps a good way to describe it.

Occasionally a medium will have a mixture of gifts.  I am lucky in that I have a mixture of clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience.  Which means my communications from the spirit world are a mixture too.  I see, hear and sense the things I am given to relay.  It allows me to put together a good picture, with the added bonus that I may hear the names and places being spoken. 

I may see a spirit,  so that I may describe them.  I may hear a spirit, so that I may repeat their words.  I may also feel a sense of the pains they suffered or smell their favourite scent.

Whichever gift you have it is a God given gift.  Be grateful you have it and learn to use it to the best of your ability so that you can help people who are in need of proof of survival after death.

As a medium I use colour a lot. I use it for readings and to send healing.  For readings I use coloured ribbons and flowers. Flowers are very popular for psychic readings. Clairsentience is the gift used for this purpose.

It is amazing how many people are a bit afraid to have a reading with a medium. They think they will be haunted or that they will take a ghost home with them.  But tell them it is a flower reading, or a ribbon reading, and they cannot wait.

Colour takes away the fear and adds a touch of amazement.  I still communicate with spirits to give my sitter proof of life after death. After all, I am a spiritualist medium.  I intersperse the colour reading, or the flower reading, with the information that their spirit loved ones are bringing. It is an excellent combination.

Sending absent healing using colour is a wonderful way to use healing gifts.  And as I wrote about yesterday, it can be used to give yourself a healing boost too.

Have you noticed how different you feel when you suddenly wear different colours to your norm? Try it tomorrow.  Even wearing the colours has an impact on your life.  Go to sleep at night thinking of a nice calming colour and you will have sweet dreams. Visualise wrapping the colour around you.

Fill your house with colour and add flowers when you can.  Your whole mood can be helped with the right choice.  Have you any colour stories to share with us? Email me here if you have.

Psychic art is practiced by some mediums, those who have developed the gift.  They often use it alongside their mediumship and clairvoyance, but in some cases they work with a partner who may give clairvoyance whilst the artist draws.

The medium makes a link to a spirit,  and then uses their clairvoyance and clairsentience, to capture the appearance.  As the portrait appears, clairvoyance adds to the picture and good communication can take place.  It can be very spiritually rewarding.

The medium who uses automatic writing will usually work alone and later show the prose, or sometimes music, which they have created.  They have to tune into their spirit guide and let their hand and pencil be controlled by the guide without hinderence. 

Psychic art seems to be a gift that is disappearing. There do not seem many mediums who are dedicated enough to develop such gifts.

Along with automatic writing, psychic art is a gift that was used a lot in the Victorian era. It can be a lonely development as often it is a gift best developed in solitude.

Those who practice automatic writing often do it late at night when they can be alone and undisturbed.  Psychic art can be developed in a circle, but again, solitude often helps.

Once the gifts are developed enough to share, a small circle is perhaps the first place to demonstrate, before going fully public.

A very famous psychic artist was Coral Polge, a spiritualist medium who is now on the higher side of life. She drew wonderful portraits and there are several books about her work.  I was fortunate  enough to be able to see her work on many occasions.

Clairsentience is a psychic gift.  It is the gift of sensing, feeling and emotion.  This gift is great for tuning in to the emotions of spirit loved ones, as they come through to communicate with us.

The medium can often tune in to the emotions felt by the spirit at the time of their transition.  The pain they were suffering at the time of death may also be sensed. I do mean sensed here, as the pain will only be a sense of the pain endured, not the actual pain.

Clairsentience comes into its own when the medium is reading FLOWERS.

Because flowers are such a personal taste and choice, the vibrations held on them give a great insight.  I can really be drawn into a flower when I am holding it whilst giving a private reading. It always amazes me what comes through in this way.

The sitter brings along a flower of their own choosing.  It is important never to let anyone else hold the flower. Not even a florist.  Only one set of vibrations should be on the flower and that is the sitters. For this reason you must pluck your own flower from its bed.

The type of flower is not important, it is the vibrations which are important.  But, the vibrations are created by the response of the flower picker as they collect it.  All the things they hold dear are felt more intensely as the flower is held.

Somehow the person’s emotions are transferred to the flower and in doing so the communication with spirit becomes clearer.  Do try it.  Take your flower along with you and see what happens.  Obviously you will need a flower reader for this purpose.

Coloured stones are one of my favourite things to read and I also like using coloured feathers.  Those who know me know my ultimate favourite is reading coloured ribbons, but I like reading flowers too.

Flower reading has its own rules.  You can of course read the colours of the flower.  You can also use the flower for psychometry.  Using both in unison is even better.

When I read a flower, I read the colour first.  I then progress to the flower itself.  Finally, I will tune into the Spirit world and communicate with them.  My flower reading is complete this way.

Clairsentience is the gift best utilised here.  You can feel and sense so much!  It always amazes me just how much you can give this way.

Always experiment with your ‘tools’ and learn the best way for you.

My friend made meaware of a website which is for empaths.  He asked me for my opinion so I have visited the site several times now.

People write into the site admitting “I Am An Empath”!

Exactly what an emapth is or does it quite wide ranging.  It also varies  a lot  from one to another.  They seem to have empathetic feelings for others. They get very emotional when others are upset.  They sense the imminent death of loved ones and close friends.

Some pick up bad feelings when there have been arguments around.  if they visit a home where there is bad feeling, they feel it too.  They sense when a place is not good for them.

Others tell of the senses they have for the uses and need of healing.  They can tell someone is in need and so they send out healing thoughts and prayers.  They also sense another when they are in the presence of another empath.

Is it not true that all these qualities are mediumistic.  Are these people mediumistic and do not want to use the word medium to describe themselves.  Or is it that they have all these senses but cannot talk to the dead. Is that the only difference between them and me?

Tell me what you think please and type in Empaths at google to locate the site if you are interested.

When psychics give readings, they often use a ‘tool’ to help them tune in to thier sitter.  Some may use a tool as a focal point to help their concentration.

There is an endless supply of items to use.  Psychometry is when a psychic reads the vibrations from an article belonging to their sitter, or their sitter’s loved one.  Any item can be used really as long as the size permits.  Only items made from pure silk cannot hold vibes.

Ribbons are another favoured tool.  In this case most psychic use the ribbons as psychometry.  Personally I read the colour of them instead.

Sand is another easily available item which is very easy to read either as psychometry or by looking into the sand for images.

Water can be put into a bowl and the medium gazes into it.  Another focal point really.  Images appear as though in the water but they are in fact seen in the mediums mind.

The crystal ball is used by mediums to gaze into and see images.  Again, the images are in the mediums mind and not inside the ball.

Flowers are a lovely tool to read.  Basically it is clairsentience which is used in this case.  The sitter chooses thier own flower, not the medium.

I am always interested to hear of any other regularly used tools for psychic reading.  Please feel free to email me.