A medium is the person who supposedly has the ability to contact the deceased. This activity is part of spiritualism, which is the doctrine that defends the existence of the spirit of the deceased and that it is possible to establish contact with them.
Understanding Spiritism to arrive at the concept of the Medium
Spiritualism implies that when someone dies their soul survives and is located on a plane that goes beyond known reality.
A medium has, in principle, an extraordinary gift that allows her to communicate with the spirits that are in another dimension. In this sense, she is someone with an exceptional psychic gift and for this reason her activity is considered to be of a paranormal nature.
An unexplained phenomenon
Some scientists have studied this strange phenomenon but have not yet provided a definitive explanation. Some studies attribute the faculties of a medium to a kind of mental hallucination that makes them believe that they are in contact with a deceased.
Fraud, superstition and mystery
The unusual capacity of a medium is valued as a fraud by large sectors of society. To carry out the deception, the medium uses the emotional predisposition of someone who wants to get in touch with a loved one and from this circumstance provides information about the deceased using words with skill and high doses of psychology.
Fraud obeys a reality: there are superstitious people who believe in ideas that have no scientific foundation.
Fraud and superstition equally have a logical explanation: we have no idea what happens when we stop living. This uncertainty creates a mystery and in this mysterious context it makes sense that there are people who present themselves as mediums.
an enigmatic character
Regardless of the authenticity or falsity of the paranormal power of a medium, one thing is evident: she is someone enigmatic. This characteristic makes literature and cinema use this type of character to create attractive stories. The character of a medium allows the introduction of very suggestive narrative elements (the soul as something that transcends life itself and the existence of a world where spirits are found).
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