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.

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.

Colour is a big part of our lives.  Without it the world would be a far more miserable place to be.  Without the blue sky and the green grass, the yellow sunshine and the flowers of many colours, how dull it would be.

As a medium, colour is very important to me.  I use colour in my readings and to send out absent healing.  The colours I wear have an effect on my moods too.  Have you noticed it with yourself?  If i wear nice bright colours I feel more exuberant and outgoing.  If i wear darker colours, my mood is much more subdued.

Our auras are colourful too, and the colours prominent in them show us a lot about the person it belongs to.  Not only the colours, but the shades and depths of each colour.  An aura reader can tell about our mood and our health by studying the colours.

We also have Chakras.  These are based in areas around our body and cannot be seen with the naked eye.  You need a clairvoyant for this.  Although, you can teach yourself to see auras and you may be able to teach yourself to see chakras or at least become aware of them.

As a medium, I have learned the meaning of the colours, and with the help of my spirit guides I can give mediumistic messages whilst reading them.  It has to be a partnership with the spirit and the reader.  Otherwise you are only left with psychometry.

More on this subject tomorrow.

In today’s paper, there are letters from people, to the advice column, about fortune tellers and fortune telling. If you read it you will perhaps be alarmed at the tales told by would be seekers of the future.

What alarms me is that people are so gullible that they will pay almost anything to be told their problems will go away or some other future events.  Maybe they want to know if a new partner is coming, or if they will marry or win the lottery.

No one can tell you these things!  The reason is that whatever you go out and do or say, directly after your ‘reading’, could well change any future events.  Only you live your life. No one else can change it.  You have the last say in it, not any fortune teller.

This particular reader had written in to say that a clairvoyant had told her, at great cost to the sitter, that if she stayed with her current boyfriend and had a baby with him, it would not survive.  The woman was too scared to ask if she meant the baby or the boyfriend. She fled and lived in fear.  She married the boyfriend, had a child, who is now a healthy 20 years old.

Clairvoyants, we are then told by the columnist, cynical people who are in it for the money!  Hold on here…………………….   Granted, there are a lot of charlatans but some are genuine. 

I personally ask no questions of my sitters.  I never tell them anything which would worry them.  I do not pretend I can tell the future, as I believe no one can.  What I do is to help their loved ones in the spirit world, to communicate with them, and let them know they are not alone.  I give them upliftment not worries!

If the spirits offer advice I will pass it on, but only if the spirit goes on to prove who they are, and that the loved one trusts them.

Some psychics charge the earth for a sitting.  Others are more fair.  The phone psychics seem to charge the most, and I find it remarkable that someone would want such a personal reading via a phone, and paying by the minute.  They must have money to burn.

Please remember my regular advice.  Go to someone recommended to you by a friend or colleague.  Never pay more than you can afford.    Never tell them anything until AFTER your reading is over.  Just say yes, no, or, I don’t understand.

Remember too that ‘clairvoyants’ use their psychic senses to see things that natural senses cannot.  Clairaudients hear things the normal senses cannot.  ‘Clair’ just means clear and in this instance it refers to psychic senses only.

Just because someone says they are clairvoyant, does not mean they can see spirits.  But, a clairvoyant medium can see spirits.  A clairaudient medium can hear spirits.  Please remember the difference and it will help you.

Even the spirits can only tell you about how thins stand at the time.  They are not allowed to tell you the future.  if we all knew our futures, it would impinge on our lives and the way we live them.  That would accomplish little on our pathway to enlightenment.

Take care and beware.  Always use your own common sense and intelligence and don’t be fleeced by someone telling you nothing.

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.

As I have said many times on my blog, we all have the ability to be psychic we just have to learn to recognise it and develop the gift.

Some will recognise it as instinct, some as coincidence.  It really is the sixth sense, as mentioned in the Bruce Willis blockbuster of the same name.

The sixth sense can remain a psychic gift, but in some it can develop into mediumship, which is a greater gift and much more useful for helping people who want life after death proof.

I have developed my own system for development and I shre it with those who ask for help or who come to my workshops and classes for development and awareness.

You may find a good development circle near you.  You can ask at your local spiritualist church to start with.  Asking friends and colleagues to recommend one is always a good thing.

If I can help with any advice at all, please email me here: Barbara@BarbaraBiggin.com

There is only one aim of a mediums message.  It is to prove that there is life after death!

There are lots of psychics and card readers, crystal ball gazers and the like.  These hint at fortune telling and sometimes they do actually say that they can tell the future.

A medium worth their salt, would never mention fortune telling, or infer that they can tell your future.  They are not interested in whether or not you may be going to win the lottery, or find a rich boyfriend.

The only thing important to a medium when giving you a reading is that they can bring you really good information from your loved ones, in the spirit world.  This information should prove to you who it is coming from and that they know you and your life.

The loved ones may offer advice on your life’s problems and send healing if it is needed.  All the information should prove to you that they are still around, albeit in the spirit world.  They can still watch over and care for you. They can inspire you and make you feel safe.

All this information proves that they must be still in existence, even though their earthly body has died.  When you know for certain that this life is not your only life, it ought to prompt you to live your life in a way appropriate.

Life is not for living just for today it is for learning lessons that will last you an eternity!