Everyone is psychic to some degree using the natural intuitive or sixth sense that is inherent in all of us. A psychic is sensitive to the electrical, magnetic and other energies emanating from the individual and known as the aura. A psychic is able to access information from the emotional, physical and spiritual parts of the auric field. As the aura contains all the information about a person’s life, psychic readings can be very accurate. A psychic also uses the natural ability to be aware of non-verbal communication i.e.. body language, facial expression, dress sense etc. It should also be noted that a psychic is able to “sense” on a purely material level and not able to “tune in” to the spirit world, except by accident. All mediums are psychics but not all psychics are mediums.
Mediums are people who have a special gift that allows the spirit people to give messages from the afterlife. The objective of a mediums work is to prove survival of the human personality after death and to help the bereaved come to terms with their loss. Sittings with mediums are not for fortune telling but are experimental sessions to provide evidence of survival. Any attempt to communicate with Spirit is, by its very nature, purely experimental and therefore, results can never be guaranteed.
Mediumship takes two main forms:
Physical Mediums
Physical phenomena is of such a nature that it is usually demonstrated only at private seances. Any person sitting with the medium can hear or see what is happening. By means of raps, audible voices or materialised figures the spirit people convey intimate information about themselves, their recollection of their earthly lives and details of their lives in the spirit world.
Mental Mediums
Mental phenomena is demonstrated through the mind of a medium. Mediums identify three forms of mental mediumship:
1. CLAIRVOYANCE when mediums see the spirit
2. CLAIRAUDIENCE when mediums hear the spirit
3. CLAIRSENTIENCE when mediums senses the presence and the thoughts of the spirit.
Mental phenomena is the type most often demonstrated in public. Trance mediumship is a form of mental mediumship in which the medium is overshadowed by the spirit communicator and allowed to speak directly through the medium.
There are just some things I would like to add…I don’t believe mediums are “special” or have any “special gifts” because we are all capable of being a medium, some of us came into this world with it as natural ability and some have to work at it. Just as we can all draw but some find it an inherent ability and it naturally flows from them. In my world we are all special and we can all learn from each other.
When I am teaching psychic development classes there will always be hazy boundaries and much of what I teach would fall under, what others would define as mediumship development. It does not matter because your inherent abilities will be given the opportunity to grow so that you can reach your potential…it may fall more towards traditional definitions of psychic or it may fall towards mediumship. When we perceive ourselves as energy we all interact on an energetic level anyway. Definitions create boundaries where in truth they are only words that imply boundaries. Any boundary will by its nature have an end point and suggests a stop or no change, and thus if we are not careful we limit our own potential through this belief system.
This is often referred to as “clear seeing” and is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses. The information comes from a variety of sources, it could be from the higher self or from spirit contact through mediumship.
It can present in a wide range of forms, from snippets of information, to long “video screen” replays that you see. It is classically seen rather like a television screen that sits about five inches in front of your physical eyes and looks like a holographic screen. It can extend to encompass your whole visual field or only smaller aspects of it. The visions may not necessarily be central in your vision and may sit anywhere in your visual field. Images can also be seen when your eyes are closed and often start on a red background. They may appear as unfocused images that over time will improve in clarity. My first images like this were streams of faces that appeared as though they were coming off an escalator towards my face. Over time these images changed to involve complex geometrical shapes and became more third dimensional with intricate colour detail.
Remote viewing is the ability to collect information about a place/person or event in space that is unseen to the naked eyes and when observed this information presents in a clairvoyant format.
This is the ability to feel another person or spirits emotions. It is also known as being empathetic. In the world of healing it is an incredibly useful tool allowing you to experience directly what another person is feeling. You will experience their pain, sadness, and euphoria and a whole range of other emotions in between. It is in fact the hardest ability to make sense of, and can create much confusion within yourself as you are learning to understand this ability. Part of developing this means that you have to do much work on yourself on an emotional level because as you develop it is often hard to work out whether the emotions you feel are from an external or internal source. That is are they yours or are they someone else’s. The Concept of “Know Thyself” is vital here, if you are unable to understand yourself on this level, you will will find it very hard to be able to understand the source of the information.
This refers to “clear hearing” A clairaudient receives psychic and/or mediumistic information in the form of subtle words, sounds, tones and songs, that are then perceived and interpreted by the auditory senses within the brain. Often in the early stages of this development you will hear all sorts of sounds, buzzing, whooshing noises, or in my case audible words that were playing at the wrong speed that sounded very “droning” and of low vibration. Sometimes you can feel pressure rises, or a faint tickling sensation deep within your ears. Often these words are heard within your head and not within you ears as you would hear normally and it can be hard to physically identify the source of the sound.
Clairgustance is being aware of tastes without putting anything physically in the mouth. The sensation of what one is tasting is often linked to a spirit on the other side. It is claimed that those who possess this ability are able to perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste. This is often used in spirit communication to present a range of information about likes/dislikes and in some cases can involve confirming how the person actually passed.
This involves “clear knowing”. It can be used for either, past, future or present events and is best described as a strong gut feeling where you just know something yet you do not have an external ability to confirm this knowledge.
This is the ability to smell aromas that are given from spirit as another form of communication. This is frequently used as confirmation of who they are. They may make a particular smell that is familiar to the person they wish to speak to. It is often a smell that means much to that person and the smell has the ability to permeate a large area. It can sometimes also be smelt by the person as well as the medium. Psychic abilities, mediumship and healing are indeed a useful tool to be able to work with other people but they extend beyond that. They extend into the realm of understanding the self. One cannot work as a healer until one is actively working on healing the self. Clairvoyance and Clairsentience are especially important in this area. You can gain access to information that will help you work your way through life. It will give you enlightened choices about which path in life you wish to follow. We have all come here for reason and as part of your spiritual unfoldment you will start to be able to see who you really are and to what purpose you are here. This will dramatically improve the quality of your life. Confusion acts as a heavy mist that obscures rational and clear thinking and we can all get lost in the mist of life. The truth is we cannot help others until we work on ourself.