| The words medium and channel are pretty much | | | | a translator. |
| interchangeable. The word channel is a newer term. It | | | | Some mediums today add the the word psychic to |
| came a bout probably because there where some | | | | their title so t becomes psychic medium. They claim |
| negative connotations associated with the word | | | | that not all psychic s can be mediums, but all mediums |
| medium in days past. Remember in the 60s, 70s and | | | | are psychic. This is getting complicated. Aren't all |
| 80's most people thought of a medium as a gypsy | | | | psychics just really doing the same thing that mediums |
| looking woman having a seance, with a candle in the | | | | are claiming to do? They too can sense spirits and |
| center of the table and holding hands with a group | | | | guides from the other side. Aren't they all just |
| around the table? The table wold shake and knockings | | | | translator of information they are receiving form the |
| would be heard in the room. You could even see this in | | | | other side? Some see it some hear it and some feel it... |
| most movies about the subject in those times. | | | | Regardless of the medium, channel, psychic debate, I |
| I believe that many of todays mediums didn't want to | | | | have talked to many of them. Some of my best |
| be associated with that image. They started using | | | | readings were with people calling themselves a |
| different words for the same thing. A channel does | | | | psychic. I have also had readings with mediums and |
| exactly the am thing that a medium does. They act as | | | | channels. Interestingly they all seemed to come up with |
| a communicator or translator between our world and | | | | the same information. So who really cares what they |
| the world of spirit. They are able to hear spirits | | | | are calling themselves? They are all merely translating |
| (clairaudience) and see spirits (clairvoyance) and most | | | | information they are receiving from the other side. |
| times fee (clairsentience) spirits. In this way they act as | | | | |