Concept in Definition ABC

A medium is the person who supposedly has the ability to contact the deceased. This activity is part of spiritism, which is the doctrine that defends the existence of the spirit of the deceased and that it is possible to establish contact with them.

Understanding spiritism to arrive at the concept of the Medium

Spiritism implies that when someone dies his soul survives and is located on a plane that goes beyond the known reality.

A medium has, in principle, an extraordinary gift that allows her to communicate with spirits that are in another dimension. In this sense, he is someone with an exceptional psychic gift and for this reason reason their activity is considered to be paranormal in nature.

An unexplained phenomenon

Some scientists have studied this strange phenomenon but have not yet provided a definitive explanation. Some studies attribute the faculties of a medium to a kind of mental hallucination that makes them believe that they are in contact with a deceased person.

Fraud, superstition and mystery

The unusual ability of a medium is valued as a fraud by wide sectors of society. To carry out the deception, the medium uses the predisposition emotional of someone who wants to come into contact with a loved one and from this circumstance provides information about the deceased using words with skill and with high doses of psychology.

Fraud obeys a reality: there are people who are superstitious and who believe in ideas that have no scientific basis.

Fraud and superstition alike have an explanation logic: we have no idea what happens when we stop living. Is uncertainty it generates a mystery and in this mysterious context it makes sense that there are people who present themselves as mediums.

An enigmatic character

Independently of the authenticity or falsehood of the paranormal power of a medium, there is something evident: he is someone enigmatic. This feature makes the literature and the movie theater use these types of characters to create engaging stories. The character of a medium allows the introduction of highly suggestive narrative elements (the soul as something that transcends one's life and the existence of a world where spirits meet).