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Writer's pictureBrian Sharp

Mediumship Readings: Common Myths About Mediumship Dispelled

As an evidential psychic medium, I'm often asked about mediumship readings and how to get the best reading from a spirit medium. Allow me to begin by first clarifying terminology, as I have found that many people inadvertently confuse the terms "medium" and "psychic." A psychic is someone, who provides intuitive guidance regarding the client's past experiences, current circumstances and possible future outcomes. A medium is a psychic, who--in addition to having these intuitive abilities--can also perceive messages from a client's deceased family members, friends and sometimes even pets. It is commonly said that "all mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums"--that is, not every psychic can perceive and communicate messages from the Afterlife. As a spirit medium I consistently find that clients are often able to find emotional and spiritual healing from receiving evidential messages from their loved ones and pets in the spirit world. With that said, let's talk about some common myths about mediumship...


  • Myth: "Mediums summon evil spirits, and mediumship is scary."

Much of this myth is rooted in Hollywood depictions of mediums and bias in various religious teachings. Having been raised in fundamentalist Christianity, I sometimes joke with others that we were taught more about the devil, eternal damnation, and demons than we were taught about God--what I call "Universal Consciousness." I've been sensing the spirit world since I was a very young child, and I have never had my eyes roll back into my head, never been possessed and never encountered anything frightening. Likewise, I've never had a reading with a client, in which such things have ever occurred.


  • Myth: "Mediums are fake and are really just out to take advantage of people."

While there may historically have been some mediums, who engaged in trickery, that doesn't mean that all do so. There are fakes in every profession (politics, anyone?), and just because a handful of individuals have engaged in trickery that does not mean that all psychic mediums are fake. When I have a client to schedule a mediumship reading with me, I do not want to know anything about them or their loved ones in the Afterlife. Rather, I prefer to allow the mediumship reading to prove evidential and to speak for itself. I often have clients (mediums use the term "sitter" to refer to their clients), who come into a mediumship reading and want to start telling me about their departed loved ones. I interrupt them and humbly request that they do not disclose information to me, as this can actually compromise the quality of the connection, which the spirit world makes with me.


  • Myth: "If a psychic medium is legitimate, he or she should be able to contact any spirit I want."

If only it worked that way! I always tell my sitters that I do not have the ability to summon anyone, from whom they may wish to hear but that normally those individuals can and do make themselves evidentially known during a mediumship reading. A psychic medium cannot force a particular spirit to communicate during a reading but rather makes himself or herself spiritually available for those loved ones, from whom the sitter may need to hear. I actually remember a mediumship reading I once had (yes--even psychic mediums have mediumship readings!) shortly after my maternal grandmother died. I was not especially close to my maternal grandmother and had hoped to hear from a great-grandmother on my father's side of the family. However, my maternal grandmother instead came through with irrefutable evidence, which the medium had no means of knowing--a grandmother, with whom I had not spoken since I was thirteen years old! I remember the medium relating to me, "your grandmother keeps mentioning the time she spent in the desert...it feels like Arizona." My grandmother used to tell me as a child just how much she used to love living in Arizona many years before--information, which the medium could not possibly have known. This was not the only piece of evidence to have come through, either. I heard from the spirit, from whom I needed to hear at the time, rather than from the spirit of my great-grandmother. My late grandmother has made numerous appearances in mediumship readings with various mediums since her passing, and it has since given me such spiritual healing to have evidence that her life goes on in the spirit world.


  • Myth: "A medium needs to be able to read my tarot cards or needs a name or photo of my deceased loved one."

Again, this myth involves the rampant confusion of the terms "medium" and "psychic." I do not read tarot cards, stare into a crystal ball or do anything mystical during mediumship readings. Such an expectation is a product of Hollywood and religious fearmongering tactics. As I explained earlier, I do not want to know anything about a client or his or her loved ones in the spirit world prior to a reading. As a medium it is my job to make myself available to a client's loved ones, in order to provide comfort and emotional closure to the client. I quite literally become a spiritual vessel, which the client's loved ones can use to provide evidence that there truly is no death.


I consider it an honor and a privilege that the spirit world has chosen to use me as a means of providing closure to those they have left behind in the physical world, and I endeavor to approach each mediumship reading with integrity, respect and humility--both for the spirits in the Afterlife, as well as for the ones they left behind.


To learn more, visit my YouTube channel or my website section on mediumship. I have also included a list of recommended book titles about mediumship, including scientific research on this topic.

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