Difference between a Psychic and a Medium by James Van Praagh
James Van Praagh is a well-known celebrity Psychic, who can communicate with dead people. He acts as a Psychic medium and talks with the departed souls of the beloved ones of the people on the TV. He is the bridge between the living and the dead and is quite often referred as the living evidence of medium by many.
Raised as a catholic in his early years, his interest in spiritualism began at the tender age of fourteen, when he entered the seminary. However, the major change of his life came during his stay at Los Angeles, when he came in contact with medium. At that time, he was ignorant about what a medium does.
Enriched with his personal paranormal experiences he has differentiated psychic and medium in the following words:
Difference between a Psychic and a Medium:
According to James Van Praagh, the word Psychic is a catchall phrase often used to refer someone, who is associated with paranormal. Similar, to five human senses another real sense called sixth sense also exists. It is this sixth sense or the Psychic ability or the hunch or the gut feeling without any logical explanations, which makes every individual a Psychic to some extent, but that doesn’t’ mean he is a medium.
A medium can be referred as a Psychic, who has finely tuned his extrasensory perceptions to such a level that he can communicate with spirits or non-human entities. Such a person has the ability to hear or feel thoughts, mental impression and voices of the spirits. He acquires a receptive capacity to feel the energies and higher frequencies on which the spirit vibrates. The involvement of a medium is much more than a Psychic, as he or she completely opens himself or herself before an unknown discarnate energy.
Types Of Mediums:
Mediums can be categorized into two types, the first one being of those, who know how they are communicating with the spirits and working with their abilities while being fully conscious. This type of medium basically uses the intuitive mind and not the logical or rational mind.
The second category of medium uses the physical body and not the mind to get the desired information from the spirits. Channeling and trance are well known forms of psychical medium-ship. In the words of James Van Praagh medium-ship can only be developed through practice over the years.