mediumship
Talking with ghosts
Mediumship is the practice or ability of serving as a medium—a person who claims to communicate with spirits of the dead.
It encompasses various techniques: séances, channeling, automatic writing, or conveying messages from deceased relatives to the living.
She developed her mediumship over years of practice.
The term covers both the claimed gift and its exercise.
Semiconscious, unresponsive condition
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- contactCommunication or physical touch
- messagesSent pieces of communication
- transmissionSending of information
receiving · conduit · vessel · instrument · voice · speaking · possession · incorporation
Curved closed shape
- sittingBeing in seated posture
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- table-tippingSéance furniture phenomenon
- planchetteSéance writing device
ectoplasm · materialization · manifestation · trumpet · levitation · rappings · knocks · cabinet
Communion with the deceased
- departedHaving left
- deceasedNo longer living
- passed-overNot selected despite eligibility
- beyondFarther than something
veil · crossing · transition · hereafter · soul · spirit · discarnate · survival
One claiming supernatural perception
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- visionAbility to see
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
telepathy · clairaudience · clairsentience · psychometry · impression · sensation · reading · perception
Communion with the deceased
- spiritismCommunicating with the dead
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- sibylAncient female prophet
indigenous · folk · religious · cultural
Authority to direct
- gatekeeperOne controlling entry
- angelDivine winged messenger
- ancestorPredecessor in lineage
- departedHaving left
apparition · ghost · presence · energy · consciousness · intelligence · communicator · visitant
Ghost communicator believer
- practitionerOne who works regularly
- platformRaised flat structure
- churchPlace of Christian worship
- unfoldmentGradual process of revelation
mentorship · ethics · evidential · proof · validation · skepticism · fraud · debunking
trance
Semiconscious, unresponsive condition
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- contactCommunication or physical touch
- messagesSent pieces of communication
transmission · receiving · conduit · vessel · instrument · voice · speaking · possession · incorporation · overshadowing
circle
Curved closed shape
- sittingBeing in seated posture
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- table-tippingSéance furniture phenomenon
planchette · ectoplasm · materialization · manifestation · trumpet · levitation · rappings · knocks · cabinet · sitter
spiritualism
Communion with the deceased
- departedHaving left
- deceasedNo longer living
- passed-overNot selected despite eligibility
beyond · veil · crossing · transition · hereafter · soul · spirit · discarnate · survival · continuity
psychic
One claiming supernatural perception
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- visionAbility to see
precognition · telepathy · clairaudience · clairsentience · psychometry · impression · sensation · reading · perception · sensitivity
spiritualism
Communion with the deceased
- spiritismCommunicating with the dead
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
sibyl · indigenous · folk · religious · cultural
control
Authority to direct
- gatekeeperOne controlling entry
- angelDivine winged messenger
- ancestorPredecessor in lineage
departed · apparition · ghost · presence · energy · consciousness · intelligence · communicator · visitant · guardian
spiritualist
Ghost communicator believer
- practitionerOne who works regularly
- platformRaised flat structure
- churchPlace of Christian worship
unfoldment · mentorship · ethics · evidential · proof · validation · skepticism · fraud · debunking · test
- magicwizard, wand, sorcerer, witchcraft, mage
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- Death Occultnecromancy, seance, ghosts, channeling, spiritualism
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psychic abilitiesclairvoyance, ESP, precognition, second sight, sixth sense
mediumshipmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · scientific skepticism · naturalism · atheism · rationalism
mediumshipmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
empiricism · scientific method · positivism · evidence-based reasoning · rationalism
medium, immediate, mediator, mediate, mediation, intermediate, intermediary, mediums