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Spiritual Medium
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What is a spiritual medium? |
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A medium is a spiritual messenger. Mediumship is a term used to refer to a person who communicates with spirits of the deceased as well as guides and angels in order to pass on messages from the spirit world to people on earth. Modern spiritualism defines two distinct types of phenomena that can occur through mediums; communication, or mental mediumship, and manipulation of energies and energy systems, known as physical mediumship. In the spiritualist belief system, a spirit who communicates with a medium, either verbally or visually, is known as a spirit communicator. A spirit who uses a medium to manipulate energy or energy systems is called a spirit operator. Mental mediumship is supposed to involve communication via thought transference, or telepathy taking place within the consciousness of the medium. Believers assume that the medium hears, sees, and feels messages from spirits, when he or she then relates, hopefully with minimum personal influence and prejudice, to the recipient of the message, also known as the sitter. Some mediums claim to remain conscious during this communication period, while "full trance" mediums state that they pass into an unconscious state in which their physical and mental processes are completely controlled by the spirit visitors.
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