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Communication with the Dead (Séances, Mediums, Channelers, Spiritism, Spiritualism)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The History of Mediumship

The term seance refers to an occasion when a medium would help people contact the dead. The word comes to us from the french language and is ultimately derived from the latin verb sedere, which means to sit. People who come to the medium for this s are therefore commonly called sitters. Very frequently, the medium has a special kind of spirit that she was in contact with. This kind of spirit is known as a control a control spirit is one that the medium is regularly in contact withwho serves as her guide the spirit world.

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