Mediumship: How Does It Work And How Can It Heal?
“Mediumship brings you to the threshold of your own inner being.”
—Eileen Davies
What is mediumship, and how can a Medium bring through evidence of the afterlife and our survival beyond physical death? The answer to this question lies in understanding that we are more than just our physical bodies, and that there is more to life than meets the eye.
We are all spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. As humans, we are limited to our five physical senses to perceive the earthly world around us, and our brains filter out most of the energetic frequencies that coexist all around us, including the ever-present Spirit world. In a way, this serves us well as human beings, as we are able to immerse ourselves in our lives and focus on the lessons we came here to learn.
Yet as souls, we are limitless, eternal consciousness, and we are always connected to the Spirit world, our true home. Although we may not perceive or even be aware of anything beyond the physical, we all have the innate ability to do so. These abilities can be developed to such an extent that clear, accurate, and specific communications between the Spirit world and the physical world can occur.
We all have psychic senses that correlate to our physical senses, but many of us remain unaware of them. These senses are referred to as the “Clairs,” and they consist of clairsentience (clear feeling), clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), claircognizance (clear knowing), and even clairaliance (clear smelling) and clairgustance (clear tasting). These “extra” senses allow us to perceive our own energy, as well as the presence of energetic beings separate from our own energy, such as loved ones in Spirit in mediumship, and Spirit guides and helpers in psychism.
A Medium who has developed and fine-tuned their sensitivity to a high degree is able to bring through clear, accurate and specific information and messages from loved ones and guides in Spirit. The act of mediumship joins together the “sacred triangle” of the Medium, a loved one in Spirit who we call the Spirit communicator, and the recipient of the communication, called the “sitter.”
The “language” of Spirit is subtle, and in order to perceive these finer energies through the psychic senses, the Medium must move beyond their everyday thinking mind into an altered state of passive receptivity. It is a heightened state of energetic awareness. From this state, the Medium can perceive the presence of a Spirit communicator, who then impresses the Medium’s awareness with feelings, emotions, images, sounds, and knowings, all through the psychic senses. The Medium narrates their experience in the form of evidence and messages to the recipient. The communicator will bring through identifying information such as their personality, characteristics, mannerisms, aspects of their life, how they passed, their relationship with the sitter, or other facts so that their loved one recognizes them. The Medium will ask the sitter if they understand and can validate the information as true. This is known as “evidential mediumship.” The evidence that comes through in the reading can demonstrate survival beyond physical death.
The Spirit communicator can essentially have a conversation with their loved one through the Medium, and they can choose to talk about anything, including past or present situations in the sitter’s life, aspects of their relationship, advice and opinions, moments remembered or shared between them, and much more. Importantly, this is their chance to bring through messages of healing and comfort to their loved one, which is mediumship’s highest and greatest purpose. The evidence and messages in a reading come from a place of love, and demonstrate the eternal connection we share, even beyond death.
While nothing replaces our loved one’s physical presence in our lives, mediumship can be transformational in so many ways. Mediumship spreads hope and plants the seeds of healing along the grief journey. It can open hearts and minds. It allows us to once again feel the essence and presence of our loved one and to know that they are still part of our daily lives, providing constant love and support. Mediumship also allows the Spirit communicator an opportunity to bring closure to past situations so they can continue to grow and evolve as a soul.
Experiencing an evidential mediumship reading may change your perspective and beliefs on life and death, and thus can open the doorway to your own spiritual awakening. You may feel drawn to explore the nature of your existence and to discover your own unique connection to the divine. Mediumship affords us a glimpse of our unbreakable connection to a world we cannot experience with our physical senses but nonetheless is as real as anything we can see and touch here. In demonstrating that life and love are eternal, mediumship is truly Spirit’s gift to us.
