You may be a medium and you don’t even know it
Dr. Julie Beischel is a scientist who has scientifically researched mediumship and life after death for over 15 years. His goal with Windbridge Research Center is to alleviate suffering related to death, dying, and what comes after. They conduct rigorous scientific research and share it with physicians in the general public to disseminate information.
This Skeptiko video interview with Dr. Beischel explains her mission with the research and explores some myths about mediums.
He didn’t know much about mediums until he experienced a reading with one after his mother’s death and realized how accurate and useful they can be.
He also noted that there is a large percentage of people who do not know anything about the subject of mediums, but dismiss them as scams.
Dr. Beischel decided to use her scientific background and apply the scientific method to help others understand the middle process and show more people how it can ease the pain of losing a loved one.
More common than you think
He said that after death, communication is very common, but people are used to hearing that it is strange, so they may not recognize when a loved one is trying to contact and comfort them. Understanding it when it happens can alleviate suffering and make the person more open to it the next time.
“As a society we move forward with science and data,” Dr. Beischel said, and this is part of her goal of applying the scientific method to mediums. The data helps people, including doctors and nurses, and especially skeptics, to realize that mediumship is real.
In the past, most medical professionals would say that someone was crazy for saying that they encountered deceased loved ones. It still happens today, and some medical professionals even classify them as schizophrenic and give them medication. She hopes to help stop this.
Psychic and mean overlay
In his research, he found that during psychic readings for the living, it is common for psychics to communicate (whether they realize it or not) with randomly deceased people in the area who are not associated with the psychic or the “caretaker.” In other words, the lines between a psychic and a medium overlap and are much more blurred than previously thought.
Misconceptions of mediumship
Our consciousness is actually more than just our body. You only think that “you” are in your body because you receive constant feedback that you are. Once you die, you are still “you”, but not in your body. Dr. Beischel said that mediumship is like a radio; the consciousness and communication of another person is not hers, but passes through the medium.
He said that now more people know what mediums are thanks to television programs on the subject, but they do not always show the reality of the process.
For example, 30% of the mediums you surveyed don’t charge for readings.
Not all mediums are clairvoyant (see); some are clairaudient (hearing), some are clairvoyant (feeling), some are clairvoyant (knowing) and many are all of these at times.
Some mediums do not understand how they receive information.
Many mediums see themselves as freaks and don’t feel like they can be open about their talents.
Other Findings
Dr. Beischel said that many mediums have a higher rate of health problems, such as autoimmune diseases. At first they wondered if mediumship can cause disease. His organization drew blood before, during and after mean readings in a controlled study and did more than 30 blood tests. They found no changes, which showed that the mean readings were probably not causing the health problems.
Then, they surveyed more than 200 outlets in a survey on child abuse and got extraordinary scores. She said others have made the correlation between child abuse and psychic abilities. It may be because they had to learn to feel the danger or disassociate from the abuse when it happened, which made them more aware or in contact with the Other Side. In short, he discovered that mediumship does not cause disease, but trauma can stimulate mediumship and disease.
Side note: Scott can determine from his extensive work in astrology and numerology who is most likely a channel or natural environment. For example, strong recurring patterns that include the numbers 7, 11, and 22, in part, tend to symbolize innate psychic ability.
The future
The host asked Dr. Beischel if she sees the future of technology helping with mediumship. She said that consciousness is channeled through the brain. Meditation helps to become more psychic and acts as a medium for awareness. Technology can eventually help us with that state of mind so that we can be psychic, a medium, and access other realms more easily.
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