| This is usually done by mediums. They are people with | | | | channeling or trance meduimship. |
| highly developed psychic skills. The earliest historical | | | | Channeling is one of the most controversial forms of |
| descriptions of mediums dates back almost 4000 | | | | mediumship. It was popular up until the later 80's. |
| years, to Chinese literature. Ancient Asian emperors | | | | Channeling is not as popular anymore because many |
| consulted with mediums also known as Wu. The Wu | | | | channels misused or faked their ablities. Some of them |
| claimed to communicate advice, information and | | | | were using their talents to start cults & gain |
| insights given by spirits of the deceased. | | | | power over others. |
| There are two kinds of mediums. Mental mediums | | | | Another name for channels is trance mediums, they |
| receive inner visions, experience clairaudience (hearing | | | | are called this because when the spirit takes over their |
| voices and messages), and access mental | | | | body to communicate through them, they enter a deep |
| impressions (thought). Some well known mental | | | | trance state and lose consciousness. Often channels |
| mediums are John Edward and James Van Praagh. | | | | will speak with a unique accent and bestow complex |
| Physical mediums act as channels for physical | | | | messages and teachings. |
| manifestations initated by disembodied spirits. A | | | | Spirits sometimes claim to be extremely spiritually |
| popular Reverend William Stainton Moses was known | | | | advanced souls or super human entities - angels, |
| for levitation, table-tiliting, mysterious sounds, lights and | | | | avatars or ascended masters. Some believe that |
| scents and materializations of lumuinous hands and | | | | many of these spirits were never human, or that they |
| columns of light with human shapes. | | | | were once human but have now surpassed the |
| I am sure that most of you have seen the movie | | | | human condition and that they have risen to higher |
| Ghost with Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore. To | | | | dimensions. Most channels do not communicate with |
| recap the movie Sam (Patrick Swayze) must warn his | | | | regular people that have passed to the other side. |
| wife Molly (Demi Moore) that she is in danger, so he | | | | J.Z. Kinght, the most popular trance medium, channels |
| tries to communicate to Molly through Oda Mae | | | | an entity named Ramtha. Ramtha claims to be a |
| Brown(Whoppi Goldberg), a phony psychic that learns | | | | 35,000 year old ancient warlord from Atlantis. Another |
| her powers are real. At the end of the movie Oda | | | | trance medium named Penny Torres channels an |
| Mae allows Sam to enter her body so that he and | | | | entity named Mafu. Mafu claims to be a spirit of a |
| MOlly may kiss one last time. This is known as | | | | leper that lived in ancient Pompeii. |