Concept
Mediumship
Overview
practice of communicating with spirits or other supernatural entities through a medium
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The lowest phase of mediumship is automatic writing, and the lowest grade of that is where the Subject knows what words are coming, but feels impelled to write them as if from without. Then comes writing unconsciously, even whilst engaged in reading or talk.
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
States what Mediumship is; opens on Mediumship.
This Davey-Hodgson contribution is probably the most damaging document concerning eye-witnesses' evidence that has ever been produced. Another substantial bit of work based on personal observation is Mr. Hodgson's report on Madame Blavatsky's claims to physical mediumship. This is adverse to the lady's pretensions; and although some of Madame Blavatsky's friends make light of it, it is a stroke from which her…
William James, The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Names Mediumship several times; opens on Mediumship.
But just as it is not by reason of any deficiency on the part of the Divine Power that It works through the mediumship of secondary causes, whereas it rather tends to the fulfilment of the harmony of the universe that His Goodness should be more copiously diffused upon things, so that things not only receive from Him their own peculiar goodness, but themselves become a source of goodness to other things as well; so…
Aquinas Thomas, On prayer and the contemplative life
Opens on Mediumship; names Mediumship.
Philosophers who discussed Mediumship
Related ideas
- Animal
- Ghost
- Women's suffrage
- London
- Kardecist spiritism
- Spiritualism (movement)
- Martin Gardner
- Scientific skepticism
- New Age
- Paris
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Society for Psychical Research
- Scientific American
- The New York Times
- Paul Kurtz
- United Kingdom
- Berlin
- The Times
- New Scientist
- Abolitionism in the United States
- Cathedral
- God
- Naples
- Consciousness
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of New Age.