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Mediums say that they can listen to and relay messages from spirits, or that they can allow a spirit to control their body and speak through it directly or by using automatic writing or drawing. Spiritualists classify types of mediumship into two main categories: "mental" and "physical": [ 10 ]
"Spirit trumpets" were horn-shaped speaking tubes that were said to magnify the whispered voices of spirits to audible range. "Spirit slates" consisted of two chalkboards bound together that, when opened, were said to reveal messages written by spirits.
In parapsychology and Spiritualism, a psychomanteum is a small, enclosed area set up with a comfortable chair, dim lighting, and a mirror angled so as not to reflect anything but darkness intended to communicate with spirits of the dead. [1] [2] [3]
Emphasizing that your support isn’t dependent on any of those things helps lift a person’s spirits because they know you accept them just as they are. 6. “Let’s go do something.”
Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits. [6] Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind. Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. Phytokinesis — The ability to control plants with one's mind. [citation needed]
Many believers therefore speak of "spirit guides"—specific spirits, often contacted, and relied upon for worldly and spiritual guidance. [2] [3] According to spiritualists, anyone may receive spirit messages, but formal communication sessions are held by mediums, who claim thereby to receive information about the afterlife. [2]
Ouija – Flat board for communicating with spirits; Spirit possession – Purported control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods; Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible; Yūrei – Figures in Japanese folklore similar to ghosts; Islam and magic – Divination, magic, and occultism in Islam
Here is a list of people who claim to be mediums or channelers in communication with beings and spirits of the deceased, through the study and practice of mediumship. Mediumship is the practice of those people known as mediums that allegedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings. [1] [2