Picture this- you’re standing on the sidewalk of a rundown strip mall in the bad part of town, the door in front of you loudly advertising ‘Psychic readings; Get the Clarity you Need for Life’s Problems” with a giant Evil Eye insignia painted in loud colors underneath. Your girlfriends are giggling behind you as they nudge you to go in. You push through the door, narrowly dodging being swallowed up by the dangling crystal-beaded curtain as you enter into the main room.
There in front of you in the dimly lit room is a table covered in crushed purple velvet with a giant crystal ball perfectly positioned in the middle of the table. Behind it, barely visible, sits a lady of indiscriminate age, a gold turban embellished with peacock feathers wrapped around her head. Her bright red lipstick causing her skin to appear sallow and drawn.
She beckons you to sit down on the tufted chair in front of you. Hesitating slightly before sitting down, you wait to hear what she says, trepidation making your heart beat out of your chest.
The fortune teller stares at you for an uncomfortably long amount of time before reaching over to shuffle a deck of tarot cards sitting next to the crystal ball. As she shuffles, she encourages you to focus on a question or problem in your life.
The kicker was- you don’t really have a question. You only came because your friend Kristie insisted everyone had to get their fortunes read for her bachelorette party. You don’t even really want to be here but now you’re stuck.
The fortune teller starts placing cards in the form of a cross on the table and then turns the cards over, gasping dramatically at the last card. There sitting in front of you, a mocking smile on its face, sits a Devil.
‘Great’ you think, ‘just what I need.’
The fortune teller insists she can fix everything, she just needs to perform a little ritual to rid you of this bad energy, at the small cost of an extra fifty bucks.
Now, if this scenario is what you picture when you think of a psychic, it’s completely understandable, as that’s how they are typically portrayed in movies, TV, and the media. And it’s important to note is that there are A LOT of people claiming to be mediums who are just really adept at reading body language and making generalities that are very global.
However, there are plenty of legit psychic mediums who actually CAN help through several different methods, including good old-fashioned psychology and active listening, but also through what is called ‘extra-sensory perception’ (ESP).
One aspect to address is the difference between a psychic and a psychic medium. A psychic can use their own internal guidance system, (ESP) which typically consist of claircognizance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and clairvoyance.
These extra senses help the psychic to tap into energies that allow them to predict future events and intuitively gather information about a person’s emotional state in the present moment and offer advice or information to help the ‘sitter’ (person who came to the psychic for help) make decisions.
A psychic medium, mostly referred to as mediums (dropping the psychic as it’s kind of already implied if they’re a medium they are psychic) takes it a step further. They may use the same ESP tools, but in this case, they utilize it to tap into the energies of a person who has passed.
So basically, you can be a psychic but not necessarily a psychic medium, but if you’re a medium, you’re psychic. 😊 My opinion on this is that if you’re psychic you’re also likely able to tap into mediumship, but it takes practice and connection.
I’m from the Midwest, raised in a very Baptist environment so the idea of psychic mediumship has always been almost taboo. However, I found myself intrigued by it after finding the podcast, “Enlightened Empaths.” I’d had my own moments where I seemed to ‘know’ things, events that from a logical perspective I shouldn’t or didn’t have any prior knowledge of and I felt drawn to the idea of psychic abilities.
After listening to the podcast and following them for several months I decided on a lark to make an appointment to have a reading with Denise Correll (If you’ve read my book Awakened Power: Emma’s Story then you might recognize her- the book Denise is 100% a depiction of the real-life Denise!). I found her warm, funny, supportive, and down to Earth. She did the reading, but I was skeptical about some of the things she told me in the reading.
Stuff she told me about my family didn’t add up, UNTIL I talked to some of them and they confirmed what she’d told me. It was an interesting experience but I kind of set it to the side and went about my life.
Then some very synchronistic, out of the blue things happened in my life, things that Denise had predicted. And I don’t mean, “You will move into a blue house in the future,” kind of stuff, I mean very specific, “You and your husband will be splitting time between this city and that city and will then move to this place together.”
Meanwhile, after my reading with Denise I started researching mediumship and how it worked. When Denise and her fellow podcaster Samantha opened a beginner’s psychic mediumship class I decided to try it for fun and out of curiosity.
I had some amazing readings and experiences with fellow students. In some cases, I knew things about our class partners loved ones; eerie considering I’d never met these people before.
Ok but still. I’m of that very fun class of people that would LOVE nothing more than to believe with all of my heart, but remain skeptically optimistic (not sure if that’s possible but here we are…).
Sooooo…..here we are. I’m still a believer but not a ‘knower’ if that makes sense. I believe mediumship is real, I absolutely believe there are people in this world that can connect with those who have passed. I think the ‘knowing’ will come into play when the spirit shows up right in front of me like you see on TV on shows like Charmed or Ghost Whisperer….
My hope is that anyone who reads this allows themselves to stay open to the possibility of something more out there, the ability for people to connect to the other side and share wisdom, love, and support.
As always- take what resonates and leave anything that doesn’t, keep seeking your internal truth and compass, and help others along their path when you can!
Podcasts:
Psychic Teachers on Apple Podcasts
Enlightened Empaths on Apple Podcasts
A Psychic's Story Podcast (apsychicsstory.com)
Books:
Where Two Worlds Meet by Janet Nohavec
Your Soul Purpose by Kim Russo
Unveiling Your Psychic Powers: Never Before Told Secrets of a Psychic Medium by Priscilla Keresey
Websites:
The Grateful Messenger | Intuitive Readings and Mediumship
Samantha Fey – The Crystal Chick
Mental Mediumship Research | Psi Encyclopedia (spr.ac.uk)
