Communication with the Dead (Séances, Mediums, Channelers, Spiritism, Spiritualism)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The History of Psychic Abilities in Catholicism
The idea that humans have weak natural abilities like this has a long history. Saint augustine took seriously the possibility that our souls may have a limited natural ability to get information about the future. He also believed that we have a weak natural ability to remotely influence others, or what we to day would call telicinesus.
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Throughout the ages, grieving people have sought contact with the dead, including through the use of mediums. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask whether mediums really can contact the dead, whether we should trust them, and what the Bible has to say about it.
