| Some people who have experienced the death of | | | | the recipient and the spirit. The underlying purpose |
| a loved one seek the help of a psychic medium | | | | behind their profession is threefold. They seek to |
| to re-establish contact with that person, who is | | | | prove the existence of life after death. Mediums |
| believed to be in the world of spirits. Psychic | | | | also wish to console and advise others as well |
| Mediums are people who claim to have | | | | asfurther develop their own spirituality.Psychic |
| superhuman powers they use to help ease the | | | | predictions and phenomena can be traced back |
| pain of those who are grieving for someone who | | | | throughout history. The early demonstrations of |
| has passed into the spirit world. They achieve this | | | | medium ship were very physical, like table rapping |
| by proving that their loved free from pain and | | | | and table tilting. Over the years, these declined in |
| wish to communicate with the people they left | | | | popularity to be replaced by the type of medium |
| behind on earth.A medium is a person who uses | | | | we witness today.Mediums may have a number |
| his or her psychic abilities to communicate with | | | | of skills, though most have specialties. Most |
| people in the spirit world. They are called mediums | | | | mediums work by seeing pictures in their mind. |
| because they are the means of contact between | | | | |