MEDIUMS
Mediumship
is an integral part of Spiritualism. It distinguishes Spiritualism as a religion from all other religions. Spiritualism emphasizes
a belief in and teach a life hereafter. As we pass from the physical world to the spiritual world, we maintain our individuality
and our personality in accordance with Natural Law.
Mediumship
is the manifestation that demonstrates that life is one continuous whole. The responsibility for this communication rests
on the medium.
Mediumship is a process by which an individual acts as a channel for the spirit influences. It rests
on the ability of human instruments to attune themselves to the vibration of the spirit people and through peculiar chemical
properties of their physical bodies to produce the ectoplasm necessary for the manifestation of physical phenomena.
The National Spiritualist Association of Churches defines a medium as 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.
Mediumship has been divided into two classes: mental and physical. In developing any
phase of mediumship, the responsibility rests heavily with the individual. Ignorance of the laws of nature that control the
phenomena is dangerous. Mental phenomena are dependent upon the impressibility of the mind of the medium, while physical phenomena
depend upon the chemical reaction of the body. The difference between mental and physical phases of mediumship is one of quality
of vibration.
