The Voice

“Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.” (Neale Donald Walsh)

Some people seem to be born with a special ability to always know things before they happen. Others have a special gift allowing them to see spirits or to communicate with the dead. Are people with these unique talents psychics or mediums? Recognizing the difference between these two words can help individuals appropriately seek out the right professional or correctly identify their own abilities:

A psychic will receive messages through intuition or a higher power, as well as energy of individuals, the past, or the future. Psychics may utilize items such as crystals, runes, or tarot cards in order to attune their abilities and receive clearer messages. Psychics tune into the energy of people or objects by feeling or sensing elements of their past, present, and future.

Psychics rely on their basic sense of intuition and psychic ability to gather information for the person being read. What a psychic provides can be considered guidance, advice, or perspective, depending on the reading and the client. The first recorded in 1855–60, psychic originates from the Greek word psȳchikós, meaning “of the soul.”

All mediums are psychic. To be considered a medium, one must be able to communicate with the dead. When conducting a reading, they are able to communicate with spirits that are related to or that surround the client. In doing so, they receive more specific messages to provide comfort or closure. A medium uses his or her psychic or intuitive abilities to see the past, present and future events of a person by tuning into the spirit energy surrounding that person.

Mediums rely on the presence of non-physical energy outside of themselves for the information relevant to the person being read.
It is important to remember that the medium may connect with an unexpected spirit so it is advised to have minimal expectations before attending the reading. The word medium originates from the Latin word medius (middle), and was first seen in English from1575–85.

“Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.” (Anthony J. D’Angelo)[i]

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[i] Sources used:

 

·        “Psychic” vs. “Medium”: Are These Synonyms? By Dictionary.com

·        “What is a Medium?” By Rebecca Rosen

·        “What’s the difference between a medium and a psychic?” by Bonnie Page

·        “What’s the Difference between a Psychic and a Medium?” by John Thomas