Before we understand what is a medium, let me first clear a few misconceptions regarding a medium and what they do. People often are of the opinion that a medium possesses powers that are beyond this realm. They are a paranormal investigator of sorts. There is this whole other group of people who are of the opinion that mediums are equipped with supernatural powers that enable them to communicate with the spirits. Even worse, some people also think that mediums derive their powers from praying to the dark lord and that they worship the devil to be able to talk to spirits. All we want to say is that people sometimes believe in mediums for all the incorrect reasons. As you are aware by now we are a team of paranormal consultants and investigators in Chennai, India under the leadership of Mr Praveen Saanker.
Just the thought that a medium can perform like magicians leads you nowhere. Mediums are not magicians or people with dark powers. They are just people like us who have the will and the capability to establish a connection with the unknown. Most of the real psychics are fearless by nature and their intrigue drives them to discover the unknown. A lot of people also have the misconception that a medium has the capability to read their minds and that they can tell what one is thinking at that point in time. This to us is just rubbish and holds no standing in the world of paranormal research.
What is a Medium?
Mediums are normal humans, just like you and me. They possess remarkable powers that have been bestowed upon them by God or other powerful entities. What they possess the most is empathy. This gives them the inherent capability to do psychic readings and tell the true mood of a person. They can dig deep into a person and find out of the person is sad, happy, or depressed. A psychic can also understand a lot about a person by getting to know their spirit guides. Yes, spirit guides provide a lot of information about a person to the psychic. This enables a psychic to know a lot about you or anyone they meet and want to analyze.
Another rumour that people believe about a medium is that they are able to predict a person’s future. Mediums are not fortune tellers and cannot tell the future of anyone simply because the future of a person is neither explicit nor absolute. There is no paper in which it is written and so no one can tell you about your future. So the question arises that how some psychics are able to tell what is going to happen?
We think that this is due to the fact that a medium is able to tap into a person’s spirit guides. The psychic then gives his opinion depending upon what information he derives from the spirit guide of a person. The psychic can only give advice and not ask a person to take a certain path. A person is free to follow what he deems fit for himself.
A Medium Does Not Cast a Curse
Another thing people are really afraid of is curses. They are of the belief that a medium has the intention and the capability to cast a curse on them. This is not true. Curses are meant to cause someone’s downfall or in extreme cases, a person’s demise. It is the work of a witch and not mediums. Since time immemorial, people have confused witches with mediums. Curses are nothing but wishes of a negative nature. They are engineered by a witch or a group of them to cause destruction to a person.
However, it all boils down to what you want to believe or what you believe in. These wishes, according to me, never come true. It does not matter if you believe in them or not. It’s all in the mind of a person. The question of whether witches possessed such power or not is yet not answered. But if there was any, it is either wrecked or lost.
Remember that a medium is not always in its usual paranormal investigator mode. So when people talk about a medium knowing everything, they are wrong. A psychic cannot predict something wrong happening to him. He can have a gut feeling but even he is unable to pinpoint exactly what will happen to him.
When a medium engages in reading a person, he taps into the person’s spirit guide who then gives him information about what is happening to the person and what the future has in store for him. We would again like to reiterate that the future is not absolute. For the future to be absolute, it would mean that the order of nothing would change. This is highly improbable in practical life and we all know that.
A Medium is Only Able to See What is Probable, Not Certain
A person undergoes several changes in their mindset on a day-to-day basis. Hence, a medium is only able to see what could most probably happen. Also, when the meeting is over and the person leaves, the psychic then stop tapping into his energy. And after that, there are multiple endings to the story of a person. This is even true for a medium themselves. Even they don’t listen to their spirit guides at all times. If they did, they would go crazy. We, humans, have the free build inbuilt in us that enables us to change what we think and how we think. This makes our future highly unpredictable and concealed at every level.
When you really give it a serious thought, you will understand that a medium is nothing but cold readers. The process of cold reading involves looking at the body language and the personality of the person to ascertain certain information about him. This information can be the trait of any person in the universe. However, not all of the readings are true for everyone. There are many mediums out there that are of the school in which they use body language to find out about a person. But, according to my experience, real mediums make use of spirit guides to find out about a person. We are not saying that telling about a person after looking at his body language is flawed but the people who do that are not psychics.
Difference Between a Psychic and a Medium
Another misconception among people out there is that some believe that psychics are mediums. This is a very pertinent question to the subject that psychics are mediums. We however are of the belief that psychics are people with capabilities that enable them to talk to the dead. They can also establish connections with a person’s spirit guides and other powerful entities such as angels.
Whereas a medium gets its information from gathering information from a sequence of what we call visions. They regard it as their eye that enables them to visualize certain events. There is also stimulation in other senses such as the tongue and ears. What we want to tell you is that there are differences between each medium and how they function. They all have different methods of collecting information. Some people are even able to collect information while they are well asleep.
Empaths and Their Connection to Psychics
There is another group of very gifted individuals known as the Empaths. They have a very close connection with the psychics and are able to feel the emotions of others. This is the chief difference between someone having the feeling of empathy and someone feeling sympathy for them. There is a difference between understanding what a person is going through or feeling and actually suffering with them. Empathy involves going through the same feeling as another person. While sympathy means feeling bad for someone.
Types of Mediums
The various types of mediums can be further classified into different groups. For example – Physical mediums, trance mediums, automatic mediums, and sketch mediums.
Channelling and Physical Mediums
A person who channels the spirit into himself in order for the spirit to be able to communicate with the concerned person is known as a channelling medium. Whereas, a physical medium uses his own body for the spirit to communicate. But, this technique is seldom used. This is because mediums usually don’t like some other foreign entity to have total control over their body. They don’t want to risk giving control to spirits who also might be negative in nature and can cause harm in a physical as well as a mental way to the medium’s body. So, our advice is that if someone comes to you and wants you to use this technique then, don’t entertain them. Just say no.
Sketch Medium
Now, let me tell you something about a sketch medium. Sketch mediums make use of a pen and a sketchbook to draw. This helps the spirit to communicate with them and pass on relevant information to the concerned party. This is a very common practice among mediums to use drawing as a tool to capture the things passed on by the entity.
Automatic Medium
Moving on, let us now see what an automatic writing medium means. An automatic medium utilizes his guide to write down information that the spirit is trying to pass on. Communication is established by making use of the spirit guide and the main tool in which the information is presented is a pen and paper. Every bit of information that the spirit wants to impart is recorded in the form of hand-written notes. This is another very popular type of medium and is the most popular when it comes to India.
To Wrap it Up
We understand that people who feel negative about mediums are influenced by what they see in their day-to-day lives. There is an immense concoction in facts about them. What we see in movies and TV shows is far away from reality. Also, having half knowledge about something is a deterrent to the cause of learning about paranormal beings. So don’t believe in what others make you see. Believe in what you see and what you read. Knowledge is key. So, people who are mediums are just like you and us. And the same goes for mediums.
Now the question arises that how one can find and meet a medium. If you are on the lookout for a real paranormal investigator to help you with any of your investigations, then don’t be too quick in doing so. Have a lot of patience if you are looking for a good medium or a paranormal expert.
Additional Tips
Here are some additional tips. If you want to meet a medium then the place to start is some sort of metaphysical place or some type of place where metaphysical workshops are conducted. You can also search the web and see from references if the person is legit or not. Another way is talking to a good paranormal investigator. Paranormal Investigator usually knows mediums and they will help you to find one. A good paranormal investigator always has a psychic in his team for conducting investigations in haunted places. Hence, you can approach an investigator and seek the contact details of his psychic.
