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The Magnus Protocol 14 – Pet Project

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So every field has its own special vocabulary to get grounded in this subject. Let's look at the terminology that's connected with mediumship. What terms do we need to know?
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Some of the terms have to do with the people who make contact with the dead. Historically, some of them have been called necromancers. This is derived from greek roots. Neckross means a dead person or a body, and mantea is a means of divination or gaining an oracle. So a necromancer is a person who contacts the dead for purposes of getting information out of them, to get an oracle from the dead. Another term for this type of person is medium. This one from latin. In latin the word medium means in the middle. So a medium is a person who's in the middle between the world of the living and the world of the dead. A medium is able to exchange messages between both of them. This is the term that was most common for people who claim to commune with the dead in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But in more recent years, another term has become common. In the final decades of the twentieth century, people who served as mediums came to be called channellers. The idea was that they served as channels connecting the world of the spirits to our world. And if they went into a trance to do that, they would be called trance channellers. However, the older terminology has survived. And in this episode will principally be using the term medium for people who talk with the dead. Even within this term, though, there are some distinctions that need to be made. A key one is the difference between physical and mental mediums. This distinction was drawn in the nineteenth century when pari psychologists began doing studies on the mediums of their day. Mental mediums are those who make mental contact with the dead and speak on their behalf. Physic mediums not only made mental contact with the dead, they also had the dead physically manifest in their presence. That's why they're called physical mediums. This could include manifestations like making noises, speaking directly in an audible voice, apart from the medium displaying lights, moving objects and even materializing objects out of thin air. The fox sisters, whom we heard about earlier, were physical mediums. As the spirits would produce audible noises, the knocks or raps that they used to answer questions, even though the sisters themselves didn't appear to knock or wrap anything. They just sit there and let the spirits make the noises.

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