What Is Mediumship Is Foolishness?

It’s like the story of this little boy Johnny, who was always disruptive in class. Johnny would always end up standing up in time-out. And so, as Johnny would go to the corner in time-out, he would stand there and mutter to himself, “Yeah, you may have me standing over here in this corner, but I’m still standing up on the inside! Whatever I got going on in my mind, I’m still standing by it!”

In the articles "Whispers from the Grave" by Katia Bachko and "The Haunted House" by Valerie Worth it mentions how even before scary horror movies where made, people where almost addicted to scary stories, scary movies, and scary things in general. In the article "Whispers from the Grave," it talks about how back in the day people would love to have a medium come to their house, it was like having a celebrity in your house, and when a medan was in the state word spread very quickly. The article says “In Sarah's day—before movies or television—visiting a medium was an extremely popular form of entertainment. Many Americans thought it was possible to communicate vdth the spirits of those who had died. Mediums like Adam Coons were thought to be bridges to the "other side"—that is, the unknown world beyond the grave.

There had been convictions that these healing practices were helpful, at least as supportive care, to clients suffering chronic mental illness. Spiritist healing practices: Spiritist medium diagnosed by seeing (inwardly envisioning) the causes of the illness and other problems to the spirit world. They do not heal in any direct sense but open their bodies to possession by illness or problem causing spirits who have attached themselves to sufferers. Healing takes place when the spirit medium assists the sufferer to come into harmony with these spirits and forgive them so as to change his or her emotions, lifestyle, physical complaints and/or destiny. The widespread fear in Puerto Rico associated with either becoming or being labeled as a loco acts a restraint on the ways medium works with persons whom they perceived psychiatric concepts and definitions of mental illness and those of the Spiritists. There was a case that was compared with the most frequent complaint of 220 women receiving help from Spiritits mediums at ritual healing

Many times, we don't realize when see something with our eyes that our brain stores that information away... rather we were aware of what we saw or not. Often our brain stores and processes that imagery in a subconscious format after the fact. This can have some interesting spiritual implications.

In the article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, It shows how people are so interested in ghost stories because it is not something you would see in your normal day life. In the article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, it shows how people were interested with ghosts stories because in them you could talk to the dead, which is something you cannot normally do. The article states, “In Sarah’s day-before movies or television-visiting a medium was an extremely popular form of entertainment. Many Americans thought it was possible to communicate with the spirits of those who had died”(Bachko 6). This shows how Americans saw entertainment in talking to the dead. Plus, it shows how people were interested in the fact that they could

Spirituality gives meaning and purposes to their belief (51). In Reconnecting science and spirituality, Walach defines spirituality as “a way to understand the natural makeup of the world by means of rational methods of inquiry”. This quotes allows the world to have faith in their own beliefs (425). The happenings in Hydesville involving the Fox sisters started to increase the rate of mediums around the world (Walliss 129). Spiritualism started to have a greater influence of people’s lives. People started to go to mediums to communicate with lost love ones. Spiritualism was given closures to people in the world (Walliss

Many people have experienced supernatural effects for themselves even if they have not realized it, but hearing or seeing paranormal activity for themselves is a different story. In the text, "Army Apparitions" and the clip, "Most Haunted" is an article and a clip, but have similar points to share about paranormal activity. In "Army Apparitions" Moore tells his audience about ghost stories that are related to the military. In the clip, "Most Haunted" Yvette Fielding is trying to tell her audience of the paranormal activity that happened in the Whaley House.

This established that certain people could communicate with the spirit world by sitting and developing. It brought like minded people together in peace. It began widespread and mediums started to communicate with the two worlds. Victorian’s took it to new levels and started table turning in their living rooms. From this activity, curiosity had been aroused from people wanting to speak with their relatives and friends. Even Queen Victoria and Prince Albert participated in spiritual séances. This lead on to spiritual associations, Lyceums and churches being established. Outsiders started to see these practices to be fraudulent or even evil. The Roman Catholic churches in 1898 disapproved of these public displays. They did allow however scientific research into Mediumship phenomena. A scientist proved the phenomena was genuine. In 1901 the foundation of the Spiritualist National Union Limited was

For years, people have wondered whether supernatural abilities are real, or if they are simply the slide of hand. Now we have the ability to see the truth without mass hysteria. Sadly before the technological advances that we have today if something “supernatural” were to happen the people would not know what to do. This is where towns would get into trouble.

Followers of Fidencio and other spirits tend to have much more religious beliefs due to the fact that they are wholly focused on doing their work through the guidance, protection and possession by that saint. Although it is interesting to note that people consider the curenderos to be a saints because of the connection that they have with the seen unseen realms associated with the gifts that mediums possess. Not all mediums choose to become part of a cult dedicating themselves and their work to the will of a saint who will ultimately work through them. Others might choose to work alone, some for profit and some solely for personal growth knowledge and gratification as is mentioned in chapter six

We believe that Father Bishop was rationally justified in believing that the body of Ronald Doe was possessed by a demon based on documentation of his sensory and personal experiences. Firstly, Father bishop was rationally justified on the basis of his own personal experiences that the body of Doe was possessed. Accounts of witnesses involved such as family members, close friends, and associates that all agree with the claims made by Father bishop can help provide strong support to the truthfulness of his experience. Secondly, due to accurate documentation of his personal experiences we can add that Father Bishop must have used undistorted sensory experiences such as hearing and sight. For instance, the sense of hearing was apparent when he

Jim Lynn takes material from the Barna Research Group to show the percentages between Christians and non-believers are similar on the questions they posed (p. 57-60). Such questions are - Is there any such thing as a Holy Spirit? Is there such thing as a literal devil? Surprisingly, 55% of born-again Christians deny the Holy Spirit as a living entity and 52% deny the devil as a living entity. Except for channeling, astrology, fortune telling, reincarnation, witches, ghosts, and superstition are within a few percentage points between born-again Christians and non-believers. “Based on the above polls, roughly 1 in every 5 Christians in the U.S. is engaged in occultism, even as they worship God.” (p. 60)

spirit is injured or insulted, it can retaliate. Human beings must therefore show that they

Arthur Warren Waite was born in 1886. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and attended the local high school. Waite was the typical jock and all the ladies loved him. He thrived on the attention. But he also had a sinister side. Waite later admitted to killing animals and stealing money, as a young child. When he attended the University of Michigan, he began studying dentistry. Although he was smart enough to do the work by himself, when he would fall behind, Waite would steal his classmate’s work and submit it as his own. Later, he travelled to Scotland to attend medical school at the University of Scotland. Waite altered his University of Michigan diploma to appear that he had earned an advanced degree, so he could then complete a two-year program in only six months. From Scotland, Dr. Waite went to Cape Town, South Africa to work for a local dental company. He was eventually caught stealing from them and left to go back to Michigan but not before meeting Clara Peck, who he began corresponding with while in Cape Town. Waite’s adult life, up to this point, had been based upon manipulating the system to get his way and he would continue that up until his death (Buhk).

Millions of Americans express a belief in extrasensory perception, or ESP, they believe that certain people have psychic abilities. Movies like “The sixth sense” , and commercials for telephone psychics add to the common perception. That psychic abilities are real. Newspapers and television news show are frequently too ready to provide a forum for self-proclaimed psychic. And too quick to dismiss the skeptical viewpoint—if the writers even bother to find out what skeptics believe. People who believe in ESP claim that skeptics are curmudgeons.Who automatically reject any claim about paranormal abilities, no matter how compelling the evidence. The truth is that no psychic has ever been able to demonstrate his or her abilities under controlled