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| | And what is [[mind]] if not the [[medium]] through which our spirit guide works in and through us to [[communication|communicate]] with the physical world? | | And what is [[mind]] if not the [[medium]] through which our spirit guide works in and through us to [[communication|communicate]] with the physical world? |
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| − | ==Cultural Application== | + | *'''''[[Celestial Contact]]''''' |
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| − | '''Mediumship''' is a term used mostly in [[Spiritualism]] to [[denote]] the ability of a person (the '''medium''') to produce [[psychic]] phenomena of a mental or physical nature. The term is usually used to denote a person who is thought to be able to facilitate communication with [[soul|spirit]]s of the deceased, either by going into a trance and allowing a spirit to use their body, or by using [[extrasensory perception]] to relay messages from the spirits. Some mediums (or the spirits working with them) are also said to be able to produce physical [[paranormal]] phenomena such as materilizations of spirits, [[apport]]s of objects, or [[levitation]]. 'Skeptic'[http://skepdic.com/medium.html] Skepdic's Dictionary by Robert Todd Carroll, on Mediums Retrieved March 23, 2007 "In spiritualism, a medium is one with whom spirits communicate directly." [http://parapsych.org/historical_terms.html] Parapsychological Association website. ''Glossary of Key Words Frequently Used in Parapsychology'']. "Materialization: A phenomenon of physical mediumship in which living entities or inanimate objects are caused to take form, sometimes from ectoplasm." Retrieved [[January 24]], [[2006]].[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/medium]
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| − | Skeptics say the phenomena of mediumship are the result of self-[[delusion]], unconscious influence, or of [[Magic (illusion)| magician's]] techniques such as [[cold reading]], [[hot reading]], and [[conjuring]].<ref name='Skepdic'[http://skepdic.com/medium.html] ''Skeptic's Dictionary'' by Robert Todd Carroll, on Mediums]. Retrieved [[March 23]], [[2007]] "In spiritualism, a medium is one with whom spirits communicate directly."
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| − | ===History of mediumship===
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| − | Mediumship was described in modern scientific terms by [[Allan Kardec]], who coined the word [[spiritism]], ''ca.'' 1860 ''"spiritism is not a religion but a science"'', by the famous French astronomer Camille Flammarion in Allan Kardec's eulogy on April 2, 1869, in "Death and Its Mystery - After Death. Manifestations and Apparitions of the Dead; The Soul After Death" Translated by Latrobe Carroll (1923, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. London: Adelphi Terrace.), online version at [http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/articles/flammarion/manifestations.htm] Allan Kardec eulogy]. Spiritualism in the United States dates from the activities of the [[Fox sisters]] in 1848. Some mediums acknowledged by the [[Spiritualist Church]] today include [[Andrew Jackson Davis]] and [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. In Britain, the [[Society for Psychical Research]] has carried on investigations of some phenomena, mainly in connection with [[telepathy]] and [[apparition]]s.The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sp/spiritis.html "Spiritism"]
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| − | There are several distinct types of mediumship. ''Mental mediumship'' is defined as communication of spirits with a medium by [[telepathy]] having received the communication, the medium then passes on the information. ''Trance mediumship'' is defined as a spirit taking over the body of the medium, sometimes to such a degree that the medium is unconscious. ''Physical mediumship'' is defined as manipulation of energies and energy systems by spirits, using the energy or ''[[Ectoplasm (paranormal)|ectoplasm]]'' released by a medium .Somerlott, Robert, ''Here, Mr. Splitfoot''. Viking, 1971.
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| − | A spirit who communicates with a medium, either verbally or visually, is known as a ''spirit communicator''. A spirit who uses a medium to manipulate energy or energy systems is called a ''spirit operator''.
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| − | ====Mental mediumship====
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| − | Mental mediumship involves communication between spirits and the medium. The medium mentally "hears", "sees", and feels messages from spirits, which he then relays to the recipient(s) of the message. When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is know as the ''sitter''.
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| − | Psychic senses used by mental mediums are sometimes defined differently in spiritualism than in other paranormal fields. ''Clairvoyance'', for instance, is often used by spiritualists to include seeing spirits and visions instilled by spirits. Fact|date=June 2007, whereas the Parapsychological Association defines "clairvoyance" as information derived directly from an external physical source.[http://parapsych.org/glossary_a_d.html] Parapsychological Association website, ''Glossary of Key Words Frequently Used in Parapsychology''], Retrieved [[January 29]], [[2007]]
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| − | '''[[Clairvoyance]]''' or "Clear Seeing", is the ability to see anything which is not physically present, such as objects, animals or people. This sight occurs "in the mind’s eye", and some mediums say that this is their normal vision state. Others say that they must train their minds with such practices as meditation in order to achieve this ability, and that assistance from spiritual helpers is often necessary.
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| − | Some clairvoyant mediums can see a spirit as though the spirit has a physical body. They see the bodily form as if it were physically present. Other mediums see the spirit in their mind's eye, or it appears as a movie or a television programme or a still picture like a photograph in their mind.
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| − | '''[[Clairaudience]]''' or "Clear Hearing", is usually defined as the ability to hear the voices or thoughts of spirits. Some Mediums hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, as though the Spirit is next to or near to the Medium, and other Mediums hear the voices in their minds as a verbal thought.
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| − | '''[[Clairsentience]]''' or "Clear Sensing", is the ability to have an impression of what a spirit wants to communicate, or to feel sensations instilled by a spirit.
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| − | In '''clairsentinence''' or "Clear Feeling", the medium takes on the ailments of a spirit, feeling the same physical problem the spirit person before they died.
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| − | '''[[Clairalience]]''' or "Clear Smelling" is the ability to smell a spirit. For example, a medium may smell the pipe tobacco of a person who smoked during life.
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| − | '''[[Clairgustance]]''' or "Clear Tasting", is the ability to receive taste impressions from a spirit.
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| − | '''Claircognizance''' or "Clear Knowing", is the ability to know something without receiving it through normal or psychic senses. It is a feeling of "just knowing". Often, a medium will have the feeling that a message or situation is "right" or "wrong".
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| − | ====Trance mediumship====
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| − | ''Trance mediumship'' is often seen as a form of mental mediumship.
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| − | Some mediums remain conscious during this communication period, while others go into a trance, wherein a spirit uses the medium's body to communicate. ''Part trance'' mediums are aware during the period of communication, while ''full trance'' mediums pass into an unconscious state in which their physical and mental processes are completely controlled by the spirit communicator.
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| − | In the 1860s and 1870s, trance mediums were among the most popular of lecturer-entertainers, many delivering passionate speeches on [[abolitionism]] and women's rights. Braude, Anne, ''Radical Spirits, Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
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| − | ====Physical mediumship====
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| − | According to spiritualists, physical mediumship involves such manifistations as loud raps and noises, voices, materilized objects, [[apport]]s, and materialized spirit bodies or body parts such as hands, and levitation. The medium is used as source of power and substance for such spirit manifestations. The power or substance taken from the medium is called [[ectoplasm (parapsychology)|ectoplasm]].<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ectoplasm] "Ectoplasm" def. Merriam Webster dictionary], Retrieved [[18 January]] [[2007]]
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| − | According to an article in the ''Journal of the Society for Psychical Research'', in some cases mediums have produced personal information which has been well above guessing rates ."Guess", ''Journal of the Society for Psychical Research'' January, 2001 - Vol. 65.1, Num. 862
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| − | VERITAS Research Program of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health in the Department of Psychology at the [[University of Arizona]], run by [[Gary Schwartz]], was created primarily to test the hypothesis that the consciousness (or identity) of a person survives physical death.[http://veritas.arizona.edu/index.htm] The VERITAS Research Program of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona]</ref> Studies are conducted by VERITAS have been approved by the University of Arizona Human Subjects Protection Program and an academic advisory board.
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| − | Critics dispute the existence of genuine mediums, arguing that individuals who claim to possess this ability are either self-deluded or charlatans who engage in [[cold reading|cold]] or [[hot reading]].[http://www.csicop.org/articles/19990608-vanpraagh/]
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| − | Critics say that Gary Schwartz's studies such as [[The Afterlife Experiments]] have not provided competent scientific evidence for survival of consciousness or that mediums can actually communicate with the dead. In the January/February 2003 issue of the ''Skeptical Enquirer,'' Ray Hyman charged that the research Schwartz presented is crucially flawed in a number of ways, including inappropriate control comparisons, inadequate precautions against fraud and sensory leakage, reliance on non-standardized, untested dependent variables, failure to use double-blind procedures, inadequate use of double-blind protocols, failure to independently check on facts the sitters endorsed as true, and the use of plausibility arguments to substitute for actual controls. [http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-01/medium.html] ''How Not to Test Mediums1
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| − | 'How Not To Review Mediumship Research'' In January 2007 Julie Beischel and Gary Schwartz published the results of a triple-blind study in ''EXPLORE The Journal of Science and Healing'' that also had positive results.[http://www.explorejournal.com/article/PIIS155083070600454X/fulltext] ''Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums Demonstrated Using a Novel Triple-Blind Protocol'' by Julie Beischel, PhD and Gary E. Schwartz
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| − | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=w7R7xyB0T80C&pg=PP1&dq=channeling,+klimo&ei=IivySbSaOIbEzQSllMyeCw Channeling, by Jon Klimo]
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| − | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0clTcDCO5cC Who Translates: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason, by Douglas Robinson]
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| − | *[http://www.enformy.com/Gary-reHymanReview.htm A further point-by-point response by Gary Schwartz to Ray Hyman's article ''How Not to Test Mediums'']
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| − | *[http://www.adcrf.org/ After Death Communication Research Foundation, Jody A. Long, J.D. and Jeffrey P. Long, M.D.]
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| − | *[http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/background/scientificproof/scientificproof1.html The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death]
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| − | *[http://allan-kardec.org/index.php?page=bookstore.php Allan Kardec Educational Society website: The Book of Mediums]
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| | [[Category: Religion]] | | [[Category: Religion]] |
Definitions
For lessons on the topic of Channeling, follow this link.
1. The bed of a stream or river.
How many times has Michael said he is the water of life; who then would not delight to have him flowing through their life slaking the thirst of our world?
2. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
How many times has Jesus referred to the safe harbor of salvation; who then would not desire to be a way of such passage for our fellows?
3. A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.
Did not our Master refer to his life as the pattern of union between humanity and divinity; who would not desire to link these respective 'seas' that we are?
4. A trench, furrow, or groove.
Are we not encouraged to dig into the depth of divinity, burrow beneath the surface of a jaded consciousness and get into the 'groove' of doing the will of God, and who would not thereby delight to be an encouragement for others.
5. A tubular passage for liquids; a conduit.
Who does not wish to serve as a conduit for the liquid of our Father's love and affection warming the hearts of all we encounter as 'we pass by'?
6. A course or passage through which something may move or be directed: new channels of thought; a reliable channel of information.
Are we not encouraged to explore new ways of thinking such that would challenge the world with the quality of our thought, and who does not delight to be a 'channel' whereby another might learn of the 'information' that has encouraged us to love?
7. Often channels . A route of communication or access: took her request through official channels.
Who when they pray does not know in faith that every sincere petition is carried aloft through appropriate 'channels' to lay our heart's desire before the one who will answer with an everlasting effect?
8. Electronics. A specified frequency band for the transmission and reception (see TR) of electromagnetic signals, as for television signals.
Who among us does not look forward to and aspire to receive the reflectivity broadcasts directed by Majeston even as we look with interest to news of hope in the 'communications' of our own design?
9. The medium through which a spirit guide purportedly communicates with the physical world.
And what is mind if not the medium through which our spirit guide works in and through us to communicate with the physical world?
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