When people think of Mediums they usually visualise people wearing long flowing gowns in a séance, sitting around a table holding hands with the people they are doing a reading for. 

Mediums are just ordinary people who usually have everyday jobs and families.  A Medium is just an ordinary person who has the ability to act as a link between this world and the Spirit World, and everybody alive has Mediumistic capabilities of some kind.

There are a number of forms of Mediumship but can be divided into two types, Mental Mediumship and Physical Mediumship. 

Mental Mediumship can be split into three more categories, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience.

Mental Mediumship uses our Psychic senses for the communication between the two worlds, whereas Physical Mediumship endeavours to have those in the Spirit World communicate through some Physical means. 

Clairvoyance -   Someone who is Clairvoyant can see those from the Spirit World.  This usually means they see the person communicating in their minds eye, which can be in the form of a picture or like watching a television in your head.  Some Mediums can see those from the Spirit with their Physical eyes as if there is another person in the same room as themselves.  The Medium will then describe what they see to whoever is having a reading.  It is not always people that Mediums see, it can also be animals or even objects and what we call symbols (a sort of shorthand which is built up between the Medium and his/her helpers in the Spirit Word – saves them using a lot of energy to something over).  Some objects will be given to the Medium to be interpreted symbolically.

Clairaudience -   With this form of Mediumship the person hears words, phrases, names and sound (Church bells, music, singing etc).  Again this information is communicated by way of voices in the Medium’s head or thoughts running through the mind.  Sometimes a Medium will actually hear someone talking to them with their physical ears. 

Clairsentience – Today this is the most common form of Mediumship it is what is experienced very often by people just beginning to understand the gift that they have. 

This type of Mediumship involves sensing a Spirit presence, usually through feelings – just like when you are standing in a queue and you know there is someone behind you.  Mediums often feel that they are being touched. They experience feelings of cold or slight breezes wafting past them.  Sometimes they can have the feeling of cobwebs on their face or can even smell fragrances which will have memories of their time on earth.

Mediums will use one or more of these forms of communication in order to convey messages from the Spirit World, and to create Psychic Art. This type of mediumship occurs when the Medium encourages those from the Spirit World to come close and inspire them to draw a picture of a friend, a loved one or a guide.

We must NOT forget about Healing Mediumship. This is a passive form of mediumship - that is to say whereas clairvoyance, clairsentience and clairaudience need us to be nosy and to work with our communicator, persuading them to answer our questions, healing is a different matter. The Healers from the Spirit World find us most helpful when we ask them to draw close and use us as a channel for healing energy, and then allow them to do their work without interference from us. In other words we do not need to enquire who is working through/with us, but merely need to trust in our intent to channel healing

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Physical Mediumship – This is not as common today as it was in Victorian times and the early twentieth century.  The types of Physical phenomenon usually encountered are Transfiguration, Ectoplasm, "Voice Trumpets", Materialisation and Apports, all of which are usually experienced after many years of ‘Sitting for Spirit’.

This is a much closer form of contact with those in the Spirit World and is an absolute joy.

If you feel that you are experiencing the beginnings of mediumship, or even are travelling along the pathway but need help, please take a look at the site and the workshops to see if any of them will be of help to you.