What does the medium do?
The medium is said to be someone who is able to bridge the physical world and the spiritual world to engage in communicating with ghosts. They may take the form of the spirits of the deceased, spiritual beings such as angels or natural spirits or gods of some kind. When most people in the West think of the medium, they think of the type of medium that has grown up from the spiritualist movements of the 19th century that drew from other traditions, but were fundamentally western to the extent. However, the medium is an important figure in many other traditions, especially in many African spiritual traditions, and many traditions that have grown up from African diaspora. One of the most common uses of the media is, for example, to speak a deceased relative for a person. Because they are unable to contact the relative, they visit the medium that can pass on their questions and receive answers through them.
different media work in different ways, from very quiet and fat toLight and energetic. Some media enter into trance when they talk to the spiritual world, completely close the physical world, and without any memory of what they say. Others allow their bodies to be temporarily inhabited by the spirit so that the spirit can communicate freely with others. Others communicate with some kind of external device, such as a pen and paper that allow the spirit to lead.
written descriptions of people who seem to have been the media can be found from the Old Testament, where it is said that the witch Endora has brought the spirit of Prophet Samuel to speak Wkrál Saul to allow him to question Samuel about battle. They continued history, but in the West they saw a real revival when spiritualism took off in the mid -19th century. Many spiritualists claimed to be the medium, and the cutting of the sections, where they were called dead to talk to the assembled crowds, took place in the capital cities.
By the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, many people have shown how magical tricks could be to imitate manyNKY that used the medium to use. This robbed the medium, for the most part, their credibility and spiriturists have gradually abandoned the practice in favor of routing. The channels are considered a slightly different takeover of the media, and the channel receives information and history from the long dead or from supernatural spirits, often for its relationship to the world in general in the form of books or educational seminars.
The middle ship is considered paranormal practice, and the scientists are therefore discounted as a completely unfounded in reality. Critics say that most of what the medium says is obtained using a series of techniques, including reading cold, and that accompanying effects are simply magic. Those who perform the role of the media without believe in the real spiritual connection are generally referred to as mentalists for entertainment.