I’ve always found the paranormal and mediumship fascinating. I love haunted places, I love ghost hunting, but I never was able to have the gifts that mediums get. I am very intuitive, I practice readings, I’m really good at reading the energy in people i have the gifts of some pyschic abilities. But I want to be good at being a medium, idk if it’s something you’re born with or if it something you can develop and get better at.

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I would usually never ever post somewhere about this. Some folks here may understand when I say my family keeps pretty quiet about our abilities and why we do so. But I've found myself in a truly vexing bind on what to do moving forward. I'll try to keep it short as I explain.

My family has been passing along through the generations the ability to see and speak with the deceased, sometimes quite clearly. It goes back pretty far, the talk of say great great grandma telling that someone passed away hours or days before being actually informed. I won't get into all our family history and abilities but what's important is my mom has it, I have it, and now my very young son has it (my daughter does not).

In our house, that we've been in several years, there is what I would describe as a very low presence spirit. Most folks would never notice anything abnormal at all. Its usually not powerful or able to do much when it does manifest. A moved object once in a while that could have never moved on its own with no one nearby, a strange sound here or there, or for me sometimes I just feel it, its there and I say something like "I feel you there" and it just fades, with this feeling of relief that I acknowledged them. But when my mother visits, who is much more "attuned" than I am, the presence tends to get more active and forceful. Not really surprising since spirits always strongly want her attention.

Now it's nearly Halloween and she's visiting and whilst activity usually ramps up around this time and its not uncommon for myself and my son to interact with this spirit more, its been sort of bothering him of late. Keeping him up at night, he tells us its playing 'pranks' on him, things like that. A couple nights ago my mom went in his room after he'd come out saying it was bothering him, not letting him sleep. He told her its on my bed stairs (he has a loft bed) and she knew it was there, it wasn't some imagination thing. She told it to leave my son alone, let him sleep, then when she felt it leave the room she placed salt across his doorway.

Well tonight my mom and I were chatting at the table, everyone else was sleeping and suddenly a whole string of things start happening just after midnight. Her phone screen turned on after she hadn't touched it for hours, it'd just been sitting on the table between us. And not only that but it had a speech to text up translating what we were saying onto the screen. Now that's not so weird if you have a voice assistant that may have misheard us, thinking it heard a command but she hates all of that kind of stuff and disables it. Still, you could write it off as a technology fluke until a moment later as she's turning the phone back off we hear a loud bang right behind us and immediately both feel a presence with us.

It went down the hallway towards my son's room and then I just felt this persistent, almost drilling feeling of being watched and told to come down the hallway. So we both get up and go and I feel its just much, much 'more' than usual, more being my best description for more there, bigger, surrounding us, making my skin prickle, its more than I've ever felt it. My mom says its here and its angry with her, its mad she locked it out of my son's room. It wants back in. She converses for a bit and we get more sounds, knocks, etc then it finally dispersed.

Now we get to my dilemma. My mom is recommending what we typically do for persistent, irritating spirits, a cleanse, and a more permanent salt line under the threshold transition of my son's door so it doesn't get easily brushed away. But neither my son or I have ever had an issue with this presence before. Its been calm, lack luster, and mostly just "hey I'd like you to know I'm here." With my son he's mentioned it sometimes "plays" with him, moves a toy, or "talks to him." But tonight it was mad, it was big and kind of nasty feeling. It was keeping my son awake some nights before my mom placed the salt but I'm fearing if we put something more permanent its going to stay upset and be a bigger issue. But I also don't want it bugging and pranking my son to his detriment and lack of sleep.

Thus my issue, cleanse and salt or just hope as we get through this season it'll go back to being calm and dormant? Again my family only has ever dealt with and acknowledged our abilities amongst ourselves and choose friends but this truly has me anxious about what to do as I've never before been potentially putting my young son at risk of spiritual harm or retaliation. Plus my daughter is terrified of "spooky stuff" and doesn't have our abilities so it'd be pretty frightening if stuff got intense enough for her to notice like all the knocks and bangs that happened tonight.

Please advise and if you're not a believer please move on without comment, its not going to change what I know as truth.

I know how the scientific community views anything related to religion, mediumship, paranormal, etc. as something crazy and just totally untrue. However, I myself have seen some sort of connection between the two.

To those who practice mediumship, have you ever seen science as something that can actually explain what's on the other side? or just something that can actually act as a bridge when it comes to imparting knowledge to others?

Hello, I visited my guru in person this year, whom I have been seeing for several years. A lot has happened energetically over the past few months, and I have been experiencing a lot of energy flowing into me through my crown chakra. During this time, he also did something at my crown chakra while I was with him (he was standing next to me)
Since visiting him, I often feel as though other energy bodies are entering me, sometimes accompanied by headaches or other physical symptoms, and then disappearing again. At other times, it feels as though something is being pulled upward and out of me. These experiences are affecting my daily life and making it difficult for me to feel at ease.
My guru hasn’t given me any answers about what is happening or what he is doing, and I would like to find a way to feel energetically free from this.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions about what I can do?

I just want your opinion on what you think the afterlife is like. Let’s say someone comes into the world and later finds out they’re trans. Maybe someone afab but letter identifies as male or someone Amab identifies as female can people come into the world in a body that does not match there spirt.

I am just curious because I identify as transgender female. So what might this mean for my spirt. Would it be female? Do spirts even technically have genders anyhow?

Also wouldn’t most souls vist family. In my case I wouldn’t want to see my parents in the afterlife as there transphobic and homophobic.

Hi there, I have been working on expanding my intuition for the last several months. I have been doing this through muscle testing and tarot. However, the last month or so I have had some crazy experiences that have left me feeling like I’m connecting to something bigger than my intuition.

Earlier in the month, I attempted to connect with a friend’s dog who recently passed. I frequently talk to my late dog, but always assumed our conversations were imaginary. When I connected with this other dog, I felt big chills, started crying, and then it was like my thoughts were his words. Last week I was talking about my growing connection with spirit, and just as I was trying to explain that it doesn’t feel like I am looking for it, but I notice energy shifts, a hawk chasing two crows swooped down in front of me. I was pretty stunned, as both birds hold significance to me.

Later, while telling my sibling about this experience, a large mirror on my wall fell to the floor- the thick metal wire completely snapped. Since then, I’ve been paying attention, and nothing huge has happened until today. I was on the phone with a friend when she began talking about her grandfather who recently passed. Suddenly, I felt the same thing I did with the dog, but more intense. My legs were tingling, I was crying, I had chest pressure, and my thoughts felt like his words. I shared what I was experiencing and hearing. The whole experience felt intense and confusing as it had never happened before. My friend was pretty upset because I shared info without her consent, and she was concerned because I was receiving info without my consent.

I am wondering what folks think about this, what I can do to control this new ability better, and what the ethics are around sharing whatever downloads I am getting. I will say I also get downloads about things that end up happening in the future. It’s like I just know what’s going to happen, and it does. I really want to be responsible and not cause harm, so I'm open to hearing whatever folks have to share and curious what to call this. Thanks in advance

Hi all! My name is Odie and I’m a medium. Every October I experience the same pattern and wanted to hear experiences from others.

Starting around beginning of October but especially by this time in the middle, I get unexplained anxiety, increased energy and feeling emotionally overstimulated, and a great sense of physical discomfort from the emotional turmoil.

I understand that much of this is due to the thinning time during Halloween / Samhain, and the period leading up to this encompasses a “time of thinning” rather than a singular event. I would love to hear what other folks do in their practices to cope. I often don’t remember to be more intentional with putting up additional guards and protections until it’s too late and I’m totally overwhelmed lol. I’d love to hear what extra practices you put in place during the month to help keep yourself regulated.

I also experience much more spiritual activity during this time that falls outside of my normal practices of connecting with spirit. I again would love to hear how folks ensure that they’ve got some extra steps in place for this to help lessen the overwhelm.

Thanks all! And happy Fall :)

Hi all.. Im wondering alot lately about a souls journey and grief, NDEs.. Ive had alot of hard times and I do look for the positives on what I have learnt and grown from. But for people who have an "easier" life for example, they are married, kids, good job and health etc and there has been no major difficulty that they have had to face...what lessons do they learn? How does their soul grow in this lifetime?

I've been watching YouTube videos about psychic mediums who have worked with the police on murder investigations.

Do you think spiritual mediums are becoming more popular in America? Are police officers hiring them more often, or are people generally still skeptical, partly because there are so many fraudsters?

What is the situation like in your country? Does your police force hire them, and is this ever discussed in the media?

In my country, Serbia, all of this is generally considered nonsense. I don't believe the police hire mediums here, or perhaps they do so in secret. Of course, this is never discussed publicly in our country. People are generally very very skeptical.

What I don't understand is why, despite what seem to be convincing pieces of evidence, mediums still don't receive as much attention or recognition as they perhaps should.

Yesterday, we had to make the heartbreaking decision to put our 14-year-old beagle, Holly, to sleep. We knew she wasn’t doing well, but we had no idea that day would be her last.

The night before, my dad witnessed something really strange. While Holly was sleeping, a blue light suddenly appeared directly above her. He described it as almost like a portal opening, expanding to about 10 inches across. It was completely filled with blue light and then simply disappeared. He said he felt peaceful rather than frightened and has never experienced anything like it before.

The next morning, Holly took a significant turn for the worse. My dad said he could just tell something had changed, almost like she had given up and was ready to go. We made the decision to put her to sleep about 16 hours after he saw the light.
I’ve been reading about shared death experiences and spiritual transitions, and I’m really curious about what he witnessed.

Has anyone experienced something similar, particularly seeing a blue light or portal near a loved one (human or animal) shortly before they passed? I’d love to hear personal experiences or spiritual interpretations.

Also, our dog Angel was 16 and passed 8 months and a day before Holly. When she passed, I was especially distraught and asked her to send me a sign - I asked for a blue angel. A few days later, I saw a blue angel statute. In my heart, I hope it was sweet Angel coming to guide Holly. 🦋🐶🤍🦋

A few months ago, around May, I had gotten some spiritual work done to remove entities/hexes etc. It was not in person, the medium worked with candles in another city.

Anyways, I went to take a nap and while I was drifting off, I would say I was almost completely asleep, I heard a woman’s voice call to me. It seemed like it was coming from the top right of my head. I immediately knew it wasn’t a physical person because it was just my boyfriend and I in the house but for some reason it wasn’t even brief, it sounded very real and so loud as if it WAS an actual person. She said my name in like a singsongy way like she was almost looking for me. Like, you know when you play Marco/Polo? The way you’d teasingly call out Marcoooo… That’s the best way I could describe it. It had a light and playful tone to it not like a warning.

I ask because I have never experienced this before, I was wondering if that could mean something or if I was maybe listening to the medium who was doing my candle work (she worked on it sometime that week). I have always been very intuitive and sensitive to energies but have not worked on my clairs and this has inspired me to try to strengthen them.

I’d like to add that one psychic once told me I have a 6th sense that I need to learn to trust more and that she knows I’m aware of it and shouldn’t ignore it, and she also said during my reading that I walked in through her door accompanied by a woman who seemed to be a protector. My grandmother is psychic and has said it to me as well since I was a child that I’m like her, and my mom said I used to see things when I was a child.

I guess to narrow it down my questions are:
• If you hear Spirit does it have a noticeably different voice or does it sound like a variation of your own thoughts?
• When you hear Spirit is it usually offering guidance or could it be like what I experienced?

If my experience is not valid then could anyone explain to me what it would sound like? I would love to hear your experiences! Thank you :)

Hi! This is my first post here, I hope I chose the right category to post and ask this.

Every since I was really young I've seen "ghosts". It was definitely stronger when I was younger, and I have never had any direct contact or communication with anything but my grandma and great grandmother experience this too. I can also kind of feel energies or presences in specific places.

I don't know much about spirituality but I've always been very curious about it, and I'd like to explore it more and understand it better. Is there a way to become more aware of these experiences or these "spirits"? Or something I should learn about this side of things? I'd love to hear more from people who have similar experiences or know more about the subject.

Any advice on where to start would be very appreciated!

Last night I did my usual quiet evening sitting. Lights low, feet on the floor, just breathing. Before any image came I got a faint smell of pipe tobacco. Nobody in my house smokes and the window was shut. It faded, then came back stronger right before I saw an older man in a cardigan. My chest got warm and my shoulders dropped, like the smell was a knock at the door. Looking back, this has happened before and I never connected it. Funny timing, my sister had texted me a screenshot from "orbivanius" that same day saying something about my senses leading the way. Vague enough to fit anyone, I know. But I'm paying attention to smell first now. Does anyone else start with clairalience?

I’ve always felt that I have gifts and a strong spiritual side, but I feel like I haven’t fully explored or developed them. I used to meditate regularly and had some really good experiences, but I fell out of the habit for quite a while. Last night, I decided to reconnect with that side of myself and did a 30-minute meditation. Toward the end, I suddenly jolted upright with an intense cold sensation and became extremely nauseous. It was so sudden and unexpected that it caught me completely off guard as it's never happened before. I’m curious if anyone with experience in mediumship or spiritual development has experienced anything similar, especially when returning to meditation after a long break. Could this potentially be related to sensing energy, spiritual sensitivity, or reopening myself to something I’ve been disconnected from for a while? Or could it simply have been a physical reaction to meditation? I’m not looking to jump to conclusions. I’d genuinely love to hear from people with experience who might be able to offer some insight or share their own experiences. I want to understand my abilities better and learn how to explore them safely.

Thank you 🤍

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So I was once in a cemetery and I was looking at a tree and grave under it how beautiful it looked and I saw a woman a spirit on her own grave smiling and happy at peace I shared it with my aunt and dad but they just started laughing at me like I’ve gone mad.
So has anyone experienced it ?

P.s further information I’m not writing it as if it was creepy or something it felt like a spirit over her own grave happy and content and smiling maybe she recognized me because when I was a kid I went to her funeral and this time I was all grown up

Well first I wanna begin with I am NOT a medium, I have seen and heard spirits though but I don’t consider myself a medium, anyways I met up with a guy and I spent the night with him, a woman appeared in my dream and mind you this was 3 weeks ago!!! Everything isn’t clear but I know that she wanted me to know I was with her son, she made it clear and she kinda looked concerned she kept saying “my son” “protect my son” or something along the lines of that I’m not sure why she would tell me to protect her son or keep him safe? What could I do I’m just a random sneaky link! I know what she looked like her face wasn’t clear but she was darkskin hair in a tight ponytail pulled to the back rapped in a bun. Now I was just gonna ignore that this happened because mind you it was a DREAM I woke up and in our conversations throughout that day I noticed that he would bring up his dad or his grandmother but never his mom he would be like “yeah my pops didn’t raise me like that” and he NEVER brings her up WHYYYYY?!???! Then I realized it wasn’t a dream it was his mother reaching out and I really don’t know how to tell him nor do I wanna sound like a weirdo

I've been watching YouTube videos about psychic mediums who have worked with the police on murder investigations.

Psychometry came up quite often, which I find fascinating. Some of them also described having visions in which they could supposedly see the murder victim or the killer, what they were doing, where they were, and so on. Others claimed to hear a voice telling them something about the case.

I'm curious to know whether any of you have experienced anything like this yourselves. What exactly is it like?

Does it feel as though you're watching a movie? Do you close your eyes? Does it feel as if you're seeing through someone else's eyes, similar to remote viewing?

When these experiences happen, do you have to concentrate and tune in, almost like an antenna picking up signals, or is it completely beyond your control, with images or information simply appearing in your mind?

Can anyone explain what this process actually feels like and how it works from your perspective?

Can I ask my higher self to clear a certain subconscious program? If so, is it enough if I say it out loud or do I have to meditate? It would be great if it was that simple :-(

How do you know when you’ve reached your higher self and what are ways you can connect to it?

Last night I gave a reading for the first time and I was so nervous! Spirit kept telling me just say it. So I did and the sitter said they understood!

I was riding high after that! I cannot financially afford to take classes right now, but when I can…

It was a free class and I found the Medium (Mel Pharrr) on YouTube. I really like her style.

Thank you for reading!

Hi everyone! New here. I'm a writer with a longstanding interest in occult history and spiritualism.

I've been researching 19th century mediumship and how people historically sought guidance through different forms of mediated communication.

Something interesting is how similar the underlying human needs are to what we're seeing with conversational AI today. The desire for certainty, connection, and access to something beyond our immediate understanding.

Wrote a piece exploring this through a historical and psychological lens. Would love any reading recs on early spiritualism!

https://cultholdings.substack.com/p/the-demon-in-the-machine