What Is a Medium?

What Is a Medium?

A medium is a person with the ability to serve as an intermediary between living people and spirits. There is a distinction between mediums and psychics.

So, what is a medium and what is a psychic?

While mediums are able to communicate with the deceased, psychics generally perceive information from living people, places, and, in some cases, potential future events.

Here are some of the main abilities associated with mediums:

- Communication with spirits: Mediums may receive messages from the spirit realm and relay those messages to living individuals.
- Clairsentience: Mediums often have heightened perception that allows them to sense the presence of spirits or spiritual energy. This is sometimes described as a headache, a feeling of pressure, heaviness, or general discomfort.
- Clairaudience: The ability to hear spirit voices, names, messages, or sounds from another realm.
- Clairvoyance: The ability to receive images, faces, or visions in the mind.
- Claircognizance: Also known as "clear knowing," this occurs when a medium receives intuitive information that may be difficult to explain but the message is understood instinctively.

A psychic primarily receives information about the living, places, and possible future events through extrasensory perception. A medium is a psychic who can also communicate with spirits of the deceased. While all mediums are often considered psychics, not all psychics are mediums.

Psychics have parapsychological abilities and sometimes instruments such as Tarot cards or other card decks. In some cases a picture or the person, or something belonging to the person being looked for. It is said to help anchor the energy of the individual and helps the psychic identify where someone is, or what happened or what may happen to them.

It can be difficult to prove whether these claims are true. However, stories of people with these types of abilities appear throughout history, folklore, and oral traditions around the world.