The Other Side Revealed

Many of those who research spirit contact consider that the difference between the authentic medium or channel and the great majority of humanity lies in the fact that the medium's threshold of awareness may be set lower than that of others. In other words, the medium has access to levels of consciousness that lie beyond the normal "reach" of the subconscious. The ghost contact generally use in daze, and while in this state of sleep, he or she claims to be under the contact of a spirit guide or spirit control. Spiritualists thought in the reality of the guide as a spiritual entity apart from the medium. Psychical researchers hypothesize that the control personality is but a secondary personality of the medium that is able to dip into the psychic abilities residing in the subconscious.

The physical phenomena of medium ship are amongst the strangest and most dramatic of all occurrences studied by psychical researchers. Under laboratory conditions, serious claims have been made of the appearance of human heads, hands, and even complete bodies from a cloudy substance, known as ectoplasm, which one way or another appears to issue from the medium's physical body. Mediums have been seen to levitate into the air, manifest stigmata on their bodies, and cause mysterious arrivals of flowers, medallions, and items of jewels.

Spirit communicators are capable to send feelings, known as clairsentience, to the medium. This is mostly useful if they are trying to indicate what complaint caused them to pass over. They may for instance send a mild pain to the heart of the medium; the medium would then be capable to tell the client how their loved one died. This is used as outstanding confirmation. These thoughts, feelings, voices and pictures range in intensity and are combined together. Sometimes the information flows so effortlessly that the medium has no qualms about the information being given, but on other occasions the information can look as if a little patchy, and the medium needs to work harder to resolve what comes through. One explanation for this variation in power or quality could be how well the spirit communicator has learned to communicate, but it could also be due the medium's ability to tune in and the rapport he or she has recognized with spirit guides who play a significant role in the proceedings.