🤓IS IT THAT EASY: BECOMING A MEDIUM🤓

[BigJohn]

According to the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, a Medium is suppose to "Do prove the continuity of life by bringing evidential greetings from the Spirit World".

Sounds pretty simple.

That Association even defines what a Medium is: "A Medium is one whose organism is sensitive to vibrations from the Spirit World and through whose instrumentality, intelligences in that world are able to convey messages and produce the phenomena of Spiritualism."

I suspect, almost everybody on SpiritualForums has felt and been around Spirits of one sort or another. But how many of us have come up with schemes to communicate with Spirits, especially with those who have died?

Back in 1848, a family in central New York moved into a house which many would say was haunted. That family was the Fox family. The 'hauntings' consisted of rappings which would keep people awake at night. The Mother and the younger children devised a way to communicate with that Spirit. It started with a clever scheme. Make one rap for "no" and two raps for "yes". Before you know it, they had expanded on that scheme to actually get the name of that Spirit. That type of communication with Spirit was performed by rapping Mediums. The Fox Mother and sisters opened the door ways for Modern Day Spiritualism to 'begin' which is typically anchored as happening on March 31, 1848!

It did not take long before others became rapping Mediums and expanded into other schemes to be used as a Medium. Have you communicated with Spirit via other schemes? Where you also able to communicate with Spirits that have died?

[bobjob]

Becoming a medium is as easy - or as difficult - as any particular individual experiences it.

That can range from finding they can't provide mediumship at all through to being what's often called a 'natural medium', someone who's never needed human support and may have always had contact with spirit individuals.

But mediumship isn't simply the ability to sense discarnate entities or even being able to communicate with them. Mediumship is communication of whatever kind with spirit individuals or entities for the benefit of others.

That might be simple evidential mediumship where information identifying a spirit before conveying a message from them to demonstrate the continued existence of that individual after their prior death.

It might also mean the conveyance of healing energy to someone needing healing help. Mediumship may be for teaching or philosophy but the key to all mediumship is that whatever service is provided it benefits someone other than the go-between, the medium herself.

A medium may benefit from any spirit contact but mediumship is to provide service to others.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by bobjob

Mediumship is communication of whatever kind with spirit individuals or entities for the benefit of others.

Was this true of the Fox Mother and Sisters when they were rapping Mediums?

[bobjob]

The title of this thread asks is it that easy to become a medium, something I answered early on. An obvious follow-on question is to ask "How easy is 'easy'?"

Someone who is a natural medium might reply that for her it was always easy to communicate with spirits and she found no problems helping others by using her mediumship.

Another individual may have been aware of spirits around her, may even have been able to hear and/or see them, but then she did not know how best to use the contact she was getting. Such individuals can benefit from the help and support of an experienced medium running a development group. There she will learn many things she might never have figured for herself.

In such development situations progress can be greatly enhanced the intention/hope being to help that individual become a competent medium who has the confidence and ability to help others.

Without support the would-be medium might not achieve her full potential.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by bobjob

....Without support the would-be medium might not achieve her full potential.

Back in 1848, there were no Spiritualist Churches to provide support nor where there any Circles as we can relate to as of today. When the Fox Mother and sisters became raping Mediums, the sisters were separated. Why? Some suspected the sisters were making the rappings. One sister was sent to Rochester, NY to live with her older sister. Oder sister? Yes, the Fox family consisted of 2 'liters'. The first liter of about 4-5 children, a 'family' we hear very little about and then after a lengthy pause of about 20 years, a second 'liter'. It appears the Father was an alcoholic and the family separated but later rejoined.

Some might say having 'such' a family or similar types of families 'helps' in the development of Mediums. Hopefully, others will share their experiences so to see if such 'clear' patterns do emerge.

As for the rappings, they followed the sisters.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by bobjob

EXCERPT

The title of this thread asks is it that easy to become a medium, something I answered early on. An obvious follow-on question is to ask "How easy is 'easy'?"

If we study the development of Modern Day Spiritualism, we can see how 'natural/easy' it was. This might empower others to see the 'signs' and to act on it.

With a little bit of encouragement, which helps to build up their confidence, they too might be able to do things they thought were impossible.

[bobjob]

This thread began by asking a question - is it that easy becoming a medium? I fully answered that question earlier.

I'd rather thought, though, the question meant now rather than in historical times but if would-be practitioners feel drawn by history then of course they should follow that calling.

I think it's fair, though, to point out that mediums were around long before Spiritualism emerged and Modern Spiritualism has no monopoly on mediums or on mediumship.

Natural mediums, for example, may not have had any involvement with Spiritualism yet have been 'servants of the spirit' much of their lives. It's not a prerequisite to be a Spiritualist in order to be a medium - period.

There's no need for a medium even to know about Spiritualism BUT there may be great advantage in being guided and supported by an experienced Spiritualist 'teaching' medium in a development situation.

Blessings on all those who seek to serve the spirit.

[BigJohn]

When the Fox sisters were rapping Mediums back in 1848, what benefit did they provide for others? For the most part, they had come up with a scheme to be able to communicate with a Spirit that had been murdered in that house. They even came up with his full name.

As you examine the National Spiritualist Association of Churches definitions between the distinction of Mediums and psychics, it opens up the question as how easy becoming a Medium might be. That definition reads:

Medium vs. Psychic
Mediums produce phenomena and convey messages from the Spirit World, while psychics are picking up directly from objects, events, and people, not through the intervention of intelligences in the Spirit World.

As the Fox family heard rappings (noises) which we would probably attribute to poltergeist activity, how many of us have used that experience to have a back and forth communication with the Spirit to see what is going on?

Today, we have a plethora of tools to be able to do that, so what tools would some use today or would they use no tools at all?

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Today, we have a plethora of tools to be able to do that, so what tools would some use today or would they use no tools at all?

Hello Big John,

For me the best tool to communicate with spirits or souls or ghost or else is silencing the mind like the surface of a crystal clear lake.
The voices or sensations of spirits will then be heard or felt as the stars may reflect on the surface of a clear lake with a clear sky at night.

Antoine

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Legrand

For me the best tool to communicate with spirits or souls or ghost or else is silencing the mind like the surface of a crystal clear lake.
The voices or sensations of spirits will then be heard or felt as the stars may reflect on the surface of a clear lake with a clear sky at night.

Antoine

You make it sound so easy...... which I believe it is.