Inula Austin Soul Growth

Recently I’ve noticed an increase in the number of people on social media talking about ‘Evidential Mediumship’.

(I know I’m going to step on some toes here, so please bear with me.)

I’ve always believed mediumship to be a link between a medium, a discarnate person (the so-called ‘dead’) and the recipient.

Mental Mediumship (telepathy between discarnate entity and medium) is based upon clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience natural faculties or ‘soul senses’ which every person possesses. Therefore, anyone who has the time, correct attitude and desire to develop mediumistically, can theoretically do so.

Development is by no means easy. Even with the most naturally talented individual, correct unfoldment takes trust, patience and persistence. With the right guidance and training mediumship may be an incredible discipline, used to bring forth evidence of the survival of the soul of individuals beyond death.

Mediumship should always be about touching and awakening souls on the earth not only to the truth of the survival of their loved ones, but also to the realities of their own inate eternal Spirit nature.

In order to do this, well trained mediums sit in ‘The Power’ regularly to attune themselves to the higher, finer frequencies of the spirit realms so that they may bring forth clear evidence of survival.

When people start using and popularising the term ‘Evidential Mediumship’ it concerns me.

Firstly, what do these individuals think mediumship actually is?

Whilst a part of our mission may be to provide ministry and comfort to a sitter or demonstration participant, that is not the foundation of a good quality mediumistic message.

Secondly, has there been an overall drop in the standards of mediumship that necessitates the definition of ‘evidential mediumship’ as something all together separate?

Thirdly, do any of the people using this term realise that whilst psychics and mediums are both clairvoyant, only a medium has a direct link to the World of the Spirit and is able to bring forth evidence?

Much like the term ‘Psychic medium’ the ‘Evidential mediumship’ tag denotes a lack of formal training and education in these matters. All mediums are psychic, yet not all psychics are mediums. If you use the label ‘psychic medium’ you might as well call yourself a ‘medium medium’, it is nonsensical.

Where Have All The Mediums Gone?

The wide use of this terminology would suggest to me that standards of mediumship are slipping. How long are individuals spending in development these days before they step onto the platform at their local Spiritualist Church?

A medium friend of mine was recently thanked by an SNU church they had served by being congratulated on the evidence they gave. Surely that is what we as mediums should be doing and if not, why not?!

My quarrel isn’t with any individual association or union per se, but a desire to wake up everyone involved and call for higher standards and better training across the board.

If services and demonstrations are bereft of evidential messages, then what is it that’s passing for mediumship in the twenty first century?

The CERT Formula

I am extremely fortunate to have a very experienced and knowledgeable teacher who passed on his ‘CERT’ Formula as a tool for crafting the perfect mediumistic message. If you are a sensitive, particularly one working as a medium, perhaps you would like to use this as a guide for the spirit contacts that you bring forth to clients and recipients.

C is for ‘Communicator’. In order for a message to be mediumistic there must be a discarnate third party communicating with you, the medium (if there isn’t, you are working psychically and not mediumistically). Do they give a name or relationship to your recipient? Are they male or female? Family or friend?

E is for ‘Evidence’. Are you able to describe the communicator’s appearance? What can they tell you about themselves or their life whilst on the earth? What hobbies or occupations did they have? What is their character like?

R is for ‘Reason for Return’. Why has the Communicator made the effort to communicate? (Hint: It’s not usually just to say ‘hello’). What is it that they wish to say to the recipient?

T is for ‘Tying up loose ends’. Try not to leave your recipient hanging- tie up any pieces of evidence that are still outstanding. A sitter or recipient should never leave a reading or demonstration more confused than when they arrived!

This is the correct way to give a link from a spirit contact.

The Ministry

As a medium who demonstrates on the platform weekly, I have not only noticed a drop in the numbers of members of the public attending demonstrations, but also a general malais and depression of mood in those who do attend. This was certainly not as evident before the widespread roll out of government mandates, lock downs and all of that hoo-ha. The general public seems more exhausted and down hearted than we have seen for a long time and I am sure this cannot all be down to the grief of loved ones lost during that time.

We went through a good few months where messages appeared to be ‘ministration heavy’ and lacking in finer details.

Perhaps the audience members needed to hear that ‘everything would be alright’ and they were safe to continue their lives as normal. Whatever the reasons, we found that for that short period of time our messages were slightly less evidential.

Sat in our green room after a demonstration we would ask ourselves; ‘Why was the evidence suddenly lacking?’ ‘Why the sudden dumbing down of the messages?’ We were none the wiser for picking it all apart and simply concluded that the World of the Spirit and those inhabiting it must have their reasons for all of the ‘cwtchy-booboo’ messages (please excuse the Welsh terminology.)

Evidence now seems to gradually making a return, thank goodness. I count myself a propoganda medium, I like to get and give solid facts as evidence, not simply wishy – washy sentiment, no matter how heart felt and sincere it may be.

It saddens me that so many people taking to the platform or private sittings seem to settle in terms of their skills and abilities. Continued personal development is as essential in mediumship as it is in any other profession and if we wish to raise the standards of all mediumship I believe that teaching has to be at the vanguard of the movement.

Without proper training from experienced, sensible and intelligent tutors we are left in a situation where mediums believe that there’s no difference between a psychic and a medium and mediumship messages contain no evidence of an intelligent, unseen third party alive and well in the Next World.

It is a sad day when mediumship is entitled ‘evidential’ in order to distinguish it from a nebulous, non descript and fluffy other type.

Whilst I believe that there is an important role for mental mediumship, physical mediumship, clairvoyance, psychism and ministry in this world, please can we do away with ‘evidential’ as some kind of sub-type of mediumship and demand that every medium wishing to be unleashed on the public is trained to a sufficiently high standard and that they themselves understand that the best mediumship is always filled with evidence.

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