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28-10-2010, 08:31 AM
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What is a Medium by Stephen Wakeling
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29-10-2010, 03:52 PM
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That was a nice link not only for the term Medium, but also for other definitions.
During a reading my wife was having, the reader asked her who the Medium was in her life. She identified me as that person, provided my DOB, and continued. I myself am not fond of this term. The energy work and service to the community I am involved with is beyond that description.
In my view, all terms/labels/definitions are limiting or confining descriptions. I realize we like to identify and label different things, however we never seem to look for the potentials. Those are undefinable because they are dynamic in nature, without limits.
None of us are just a (...), whatever label you select. We are,each and every one of us, what we need to be in any given moment. We are all without limits, if we choose to be.
John
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29-10-2010, 05:09 PM
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Yes, I understand what you are saying, there again, I suppose the term 'reader' is also a label?
I have known at least 4 excellent, not sure what to call them now, people who were brilliant at giving evidence on life after death. I would never very call them 'Readers' because they didn't/don't read........ if you know what I mean?
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29-10-2010, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Tricia
Yes, I understand what you are saying, there again, I suppose the term 'reader' is also a label?
I have known at least 4 excellent, not sure what to call them now, people who were brilliant at giving evidence on life after death. I would never very call them 'Readers' because they didn't/don't read........ if you know what I mean?
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Yes I do know what you mean.
We are required to use vocabulary words for most of our communications with others. I found your link to be quite informative for that. We do need the vocabulary.
Nice to know you understand these things.
John
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26-11-2010, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by John32241
Yes I do know what you mean.
We are required to use vocabulary words for most of our communications with others. I found your link to be quite informative for that. We do need the vocabulary.
Nice to know you understand these things.
John
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I'm a language and vocabulary observer. They can be our slaves or our masters.
Take John's use of "quite informative". In the USA this means 'very informative', a compliment, whereas in the UK it would simply mean 'fairly informative' i.e. What was written as a compliment might not be perceived that way by the intended recipient.
Little wonder that I am always banging on about defining words which have very different meanings for people - in this instance 'medium' and frequently confused with it 'psychic' for examples.
Effective communication is hard enough when we use common words differently from one another as above. When we use more specialised words we get even larger divergences of meaning and the risk of misunderstanding increases.
Vocabulary is so very important and yet often we treat it so very casually.
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29-10-2010, 08:24 PM
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There I feel we must differ. The medium, is reading, maybe not in the sense that you read a book, but in other ways, such as a persons Aura, a sensing of their energy field, their persona, infact everything about them. It is a sensing really, but you have to be able to interpret that sensing and that is why we call it a reading.
Does that make sense?
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29-10-2010, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Zandorf
There I feel we must differ. The medium, is reading, maybe not in the sense that you read a book, but in other ways, such as a persons Aura, a sensing of their energy field, their persona, infact everything about them. It is a sensing really, but you have to be able to interpret that sensing and that is why we call it a reading.
Does that make sense?
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Sort of lol :) I can only go by what I have experienced, being with someone who is able to connect to those passed on. A friend of mine who is in spirit came through with certain information/evidence for me. This lady who was passing on the information to me actually came out with the same type of tone my friend used when here on the earthplane. It was almost like it was her voice speaking to me. Pretty amazing really, not only the tone of voice but the gestures she used also
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29-10-2010, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Zandorf
There I feel we must differ. The medium, is reading, maybe not in the sense that you read a book, but in other ways, such as a persons Aura, a sensing of their energy field, their persona, infact everything about them. It is a sensing really, but you have to be able to interpret that sensing and that is why we call it a reading.
Does that make sense?
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And that is where you're wrong I'm afraid to say. A medium doesn't read a persons anything. A MEDIUM provides proof of life after death by communicating directly with spirit people, channelling evidential messages from loved ones passed to the spirit world S/he is communicating directly with a Spirit person from the other side of life. A PSYCHIC reads/senses a persons aura for want of a better word.
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29-10-2010, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules
And that is where you're wrong I'm afraid to say. A medium doesn't read a persons anything. A MEDIUM provides proof of life after death by communicating directly with spirit people, channelling evidential messages from loved ones passed to the spirit world S/he is communicating directly with a Spirit person from the other side of life. A PSYCHIC reads/senses a persons aura for want of a better word.
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Couldn't have put it better myself Jules :) I don't remember any Medium I have seen that read me :)
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30-10-2010, 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Jules
And that is where you're wrong I'm afraid to say. A medium doesn't read a persons anything. A MEDIUM provides proof of life after death by communicating directly with spirit people, channelling evidential messages from loved ones passed to the spirit world S/he is communicating directly with a Spirit person from the other side of life. A PSYCHIC reads/senses a persons aura for want of a better word.
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Now let's be right here mi ducks....
Mediums providing evidence of life after death by communicating with those on 'both sides' of the divide are 'evidential mediums' - they provide evidence of identity etc. of the discarnate communicator. Those who know me also know it's probably my favourite hobby horse I'm riding right now by saying this. It also happens to be the particular province of (Modern) Spiritualism and I am a dyed-in-the-wool Spiritualist.
BUT there are many enquirers on forum boards generally, not just here, who see mediums and mediumship altogether differently. They're not wrong, we're not right. It's all down to definitions of the words.
Now I was a self-righteous blighter about mediums and mediumship at one time but I've changed my ways as I was very much out of step with modern meaning of this word. It's been a sea-change for me and now, even more than was usual, I play devil's advocate on this.
Call 'em mediums, psychics, readers, channellers or what have you, there are widely differing understanding of all these terms. Most frequently I find that 'psychic' and 'medium' are used interchangeably with no understanding of how each will be very different from the other in different circles. Channeller or channelling is the next most misunderstood/misused term in my small experience.
Clear definitions would be a boon and I work constantly - and without success - to get folks to differentiate.
hey, ho, onward and upward....
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