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  2. Mediumship - Wikipedia

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    The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s). When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is known as the "sitter".

  3. List of channelers - Wikipedia

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    Here is a list of people who claim to be mediums or channelers in communication with beings and spirits of the deceased, through the study and practice of mediumship. Mediumship is the practice of those people known as mediums that allegedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings. [1] [2

  4. Obsession (Spiritism) - Wikipedia

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    The medium knows that they are being obsessed and, therefore, can resist it. This type of obsession disturbs both the medium and those for whom they are carrying messages, especially because the medium may let slip random sentences due to influence of the obsessor(s), much to the surprise of those present.

  5. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense. Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod. [10] Dermo-optical perception – The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin.

  6. Svikiro - Wikipedia

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    A svikiro is an ancestral spirit primarily known to possess a living human and will give advice based on that communication. [1] The word comes from the verb kusvika meaning "to arrive at or reach a place". It also stems from kusvikirwa meaning "to arrive upon", as it is believed that the ancestral spirits arrive in the bodies of the mediums. [1]

  7. Ectoplasm (paranormal) - Wikipedia

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    Danish medium Einer Nielsen was investigated by a committee from the Kristiania University in Norway in 1922 and it was discovered in a séance that his ectoplasm was fake. [37] He was also caught hiding ectoplasm in his rectum. [38] Mina Crandon was a famous medium known for producing ectoplasm during her séance sittings. She produced a small ...

  8. Medium theory - Wikipedia

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    Medium theory is a mode of analysis that examines the ways in which particular communication media and modalities impact the specific content (messages) they are meant to convey. It Medium theory refers to a set of approaches that can be used to convey the difference in meanings of messages depending on the channel through which they are ...

  9. Christian views on magic - Wikipedia

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    For example, Deuteronomy 18:11–12 condemns anyone who "casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you", and Exodus 22:18 states "Do not allow a sorceress to live ...