Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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".
Henry Slade. Henry Slade (1835–1905) was a famous fraudulent medium who lived and practiced in both Europe and North America.Slade was best known for his "slate writing" method, where he would purportedly produce message written by spirits on slates.
The Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6.c. 33) was a law in England and Wales which prohibited a person from claiming to be a psychic, medium, or other spiritualist while attempting to deceive and to make money from the deception (other than solely for the purpose of entertainment).
The alleged medium Daniel Dunglas Home asserted that Crookes was duped by Cook. [ 8 ] A 15-year-old Cook, alone in Crookes' house with Crookes' friends and family as witnesses, was said to have materialised the spirit of Katie King, who walked about, talked, allowed herself to be weighed and measured, and even held the family's baby (Doyle 1926 ...
Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one's consciousness is felt to separate from the physical body temporarily. [1] [page needed] Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
Allison DuBois (born January 24, 1972) is an American author and purported medium. DuBois claims she used her psychic abilities to assist U.S. law enforcement officials in solving crimes, forming the basis of the TV series Medium. Her powers as a medium were tested by Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
After the war he worked as a medium in Belgium, Britain and France. He was also the President of the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU) for 23 years and Principal of the Arthur Findlay College from 1979 to 1993. [1] [2] Higginson was accused of fraud throughout his career, even by spiritualists and members of the Spiritualists' National Union.