| Can psychic mediums really talk to the dead? What | | | | appeared in full form, in front of large groups of people. |
| do they SEE when they "see" a ghost anyway? And | | | | As a matter of fact, the movie with Edward Norton a |
| how do the mediums who contact spirits really do | | | | few years ago, "the Illusionist" was based on some of |
| what they do? Is it real....or is the whole thing just a | | | | the amazing work done by what were referred to as |
| giant put on? In this article we are going to take a quick | | | | "manifestation mediums" who procured actual ghostly |
| and insightful look at psychics, ghosts and where | | | | entities into large, well lit rooms with many people |
| BOTH of our worlds intersect....in the hope of shining a | | | | present. (although in the movie version...the illusionist |
| bright light on the magic, and the MYSTERY of what | | | | was using trickery, in real life, many of these events |
| happens when we die! | | | | have been witnessed by VERY credible scientists and |
| Filed Under: Do mediums see ghosts or just hear their | | | | well respected researchers, including the CO-founder |
| voices? How to the dead come through? | | | | of the theory of evolution - Sir Alfred Wallace and the |
| It really depends on who you ask. Some mediums say | | | | famed author of Sherlock Holmes....BOTH devout |
| they 'SEE' spirits much like they see you and I. Fully | | | | Spiritualists!) |
| formed, with our anatomies intact. Other mediums say | | | | Did you know, for example..... |
| they see a shadow, or simple "symbols" of what we | | | | That in a recent book by Pulitzer Prize winning |
| may have looked like during life, and try to interpret or | | | | Journalist (and previously hard core skeptic) Deborah |
| filter the energy they pick up into a concrete form. | | | | Blum, she outlines the history of some of the most |
| What about voices? How come many mediums | | | | AMAZING work done by mediums in the late 20th |
| "miss" important facts and figures about the spirits | | | | century, and the super smart scientific minds who |
| they are communicating with? | | | | studied them? It's true....and mediums like Leonora Piper |
| I like the explanation given by John Edward, the | | | | and Eileen Garrett were tested for YEARS, by some |
| famous TV medium who is well known for his work | | | | of the greatest scientists of the past 200 |
| with spiritual energies. He says speaking to "spirit" is | | | | years...including the founders of much of modern |
| akin to talking to a friend through a heavy frosted | | | | psychology, William James and F. H. Meyers. (both of |
| glass window. You can make out general | | | | whom....concluded that much of the information these |
| characteristics, and hear many words....but you can't | | | | mediums claimed to be getting from "ghosts" could |
| complete the full picture, nor can you necessarily | | | | NOT be explained away with conventional science.) |
| understand EXACTLY what they are trying to say. | | | | Meyers....actually wrote a book called "Human |
| Therefore, often mistakes are made in "translation", | | | | Personality and the Survival of Physical Death" based |
| even when the over picture is pretty accurate and | | | | on his surprising conclusions with GENUINE mediums, |
| hard to argue is real! (even though many skeptics still | | | | and real messages coming from the OTHER side that |
| do..) | | | | could NOT be explained away! |
| Have any REAL ghosts ever been seen by many | | | | Very cool stuff indeed...and if you THOUGHT psychic |
| people during a psychic reading or seance? | | | | mediums (and ghosts) were fake, you simply need to |
| Truthfully - YES! There have been countless cases of | | | | take a better look at the BEST evidence there is. |
| mediums who have "channeled" physical | | | | (because it will change your mind in a hurry! |
| manifestations of energies (or entities) who have | | | | |