A medium is a person who can communicate with people who
have died. There are many different
kinds of mediums.
Mental mediumship is now the most common form of mediumship
in the modern western world. A mental medium is someone
who is able to see, hear, smell or sense people in the spirit
world as well as being psychic.
Here is an example of Lisa Williams working
with a client in the USA.
Many mediums have passed strict
scientific tests.
Professor Gary Schwartz and colleagues at the University
of Arizona conducted a number of research studies with some
of the top mediums in the United States including (in order
of working with them) Laurie Campbell, John Edward, Suzanne
Northrop, George Anderson. Anne Gehmen, George Dalzell,
Allison Dubois, Catherine Yunt, Mary Ann Morgan, Janet Mayer,
Christopher Robinson, Traci Bray, Sally Own, Mary Occhino,
Debbie Martin, Doreen Molloy, Sally Morgan, Robert Hansen
and Angelina Diana.
Dr Schwartz writes:
These mediums have been tested under experimental
conditions that rule out the use of fraud and cold reading
techniques commonly used by psychic entertainers and mental
magicians.
The video below, made in 1999, shows Professor Schwartz
conducting experiments with five of the mediums.
Part 3 (10 mins)
Part 4 (10 mins)
THE WINDBRIDGE INSTITUTE IN THE USA has recently
conducted many scientific tests on mental mediums and published
academic papers showing that they are getting very accurate
results by means which are currently unknown to mainstream
science. They proved that the mediums were not cheating
or guessing.
see http://www.windbridge.org/publications.htm
Many mediums in English speaking countries belong to the
religion of Spiritualism which began in the 1840s in America.
Spiritualist Churches are found around the world, but are
more common in English-speaking countries. In North America,
many churches are affiliated with the National
Spiritualist Association of Churches, and in the UK
with the Spiritualists'
National Union. These organizations test and certify
their own mediums.
Several magicians
try to claim that mental mediumship is a trick. They claim
that it is "cold reading". This
means that the medium watches the client's body language
and tells them vague statements that could apply to anyone.
While this might be true of some people who are
not real mediums, it is not true of the best mediums.
1.The English and Scottish Societies for
Psychical Research and the American Society for Psychical
Research have investigated mediums for over 150
years and found many of them to have access to information
that they could not have gained by any normal means. Archie
Roy and Tricia Robertson, researchers in Scotland, published
three important papers between 2001 and 2004 which showed
that the information being obtained by their research mediums
did not come from guessing or any normal means.
2. In 1917 a father in the spirit
world began to co-operate with his living son in
a series of 348 psychic experiments to provide knowledge
from the spirit world that was not in any earthly
mind.
These were the
famous "book tests".
3. Dr Gary Schwartz conducted
a number of experiments where the medium could not even
see the sitters who were only allowed to answer yes or no
during the reading. Yet the mediums scored hit after hit.
(see video above)
4. The Windbridge Institute
has conducted a number of similar double blind experiments
where mediums cannot see the sitter who was only allowed
to answer yes or no. Yet the mediums get spectacular results.
(See video below and Windbridge
publications)
5. People can see for themselves
gifted mediums on television come up with names
relationship identification, specific details which could
not possibly be gained from body language (see video of
Lisa Williams below).
DR JULIE BEISCHEL OUTLINES THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS THAT
PROVE MEDIUMSHIP IS NOT COLD READING
HOW
CAN THIS BE COLD READING? How could any
normal person could get this amount of specific detail from
the grieving fiance's body language?
Warning- many people who claim to be mediums are not genuine.
Remember that the
research mentioned above was done with only the most talented
mental mediums. Unfortunately there are a lot of people
who try to make money who are not very good or who are not
real mediums at all. Sometimes they may be psychics who
think they are getting information from a spirit person
but are actually doing a psychic reading of the sitter's
aura.
If you do want to have a sitting with a medium try to get
a recommendation from someone you know or from an organization
that tests mediums. Do some research on "cold reading
techniques" so that you will not be tricked. Be pleasant
and open but limit your answers to yes or no- don't give
away information like names that could come through in the
reading as evidence.
How to get a good reading from a
medium
If you want to have a good reading with a medium
you should be completely open-minded- being skeptical makes
it much harder for the medium. You need to relax for at
least 15-20 minutes before the reading starts and send out
your thoughts to your loved one. Daily meditation in the
days beforehand can help. Medium Carole Lynne (interviewed
below) has written a book How
to Get a Good Reading from a Medium.
On the Internet
One mental medium and teacher of mediumship who we can personally
recommend as absolutely genuine is Christine
Morgan. Based in Sydney Australia she does telephone
readings for people all over the world.
Bob Olson is a provate detective who used to be a skeptic.
He has spent 11 years investigating the best mental mediums. Best
Psychic Mediums
