Opportunity
to develop mediumship
We present in this issue
the topic #114 from the
Systematized Study of
the Spiritist Doctrine,
that is being presented
weekly, according to the
programme elaborated by
the Brazilian Spiritist
Federation (FEB),
structured in 6 modules
and 147 topics.
If the reader uses this
program for a study
group, we suggest that
questions proposed be
discussed freely before
the reading of the text
that follows. If you
would like to study
alone, we ask you to try
to answer the questions
at first and only then
read the text that
follows. The answer key
can be found at the end
of the lesson.
Questions
1. Is there a suitable
age to develop
mediumship?
2. When small signs of
mediumship appear, how
can someone know if they
are really mediums who
need to train and study
about their mediumship?
3. Where the biggest
difficulties of
mediumship come from?
4. Which recommendations
does the article
“Orientation to the
Spiritualist Centre”
published by the
National Federal Council
give?
5. Is the knowledge of
religious teachings
really important to the
practice of mediumship?
Why?
Text
Developing mediumship is
a mixture of efforts
with perseverance
1. Mediumship cannot be
improvised. The medium
is not an intelligence
or conscience incapable
of interfering in the
process of the
communication between
both worlds. That is why
improving mediumship is
a mixture of effort and
perseverance in time and
space.
2. Mediumship is an
instrument of high value
for knowing more about
how to help people,
develop virtues in the
realisation of rich
experiences and sorting
out personal moral
issues. It is, for the
individual really
conscious about these
values, a rare
opportunity got
sometimes through
difficulties but that
allows a rapid spiritual
development.
3. The development of
mediumship occurs
independently of place,
age, social conditions
or gender. It can start
during childhood,
puberty, adulthood or
during elderly years. It
can happen at home, in a
religious centre and can
happen also with
individuals who are
materialists.
4. When mediumship
appears, it should be
natural that the
development of it is
taken care of by its
apprentice
himself/herself, who
needs a serene
atmosphere to pray and
study about mediumship.
The apprentice should
study properly about
Spiritism, mediumship’s
characteristics and the
religious and moral side
of the practice of
mediumship which will
provide the apprentice
with opportunity to work
for good and obtain
spiritual ascension.
It’s not always that
mediumship appears
intensively
5. It’s not always that
mediumship appears
intensively and it
starts in the beginner
the desire to know if
he/she is a medium who
needs to develop their
mediumship studying and
educating it in
themselves. We must
understand, however,
that only practice, the
methodical and
perseverant exercise of
it will tell if the
candidate to mediumship
is prepared to practice
it.
6. The practice of
mediumship involves a
number of difficulties,
when it doesn’t involve
some danger, related to
a high perception of the
spiritual world from the
medium. Those can be
trigged by spirits who
are voluntarily enemies
of the practice of
mediumship or by the
medium himself/herself,
who has flaws which
attracts bad spirits.
7. To emphasise the
importance of
responsability when
communicating with good
spirits, Kardec affirmed
that communications
provoked for the wrong
reasons by the medium
facilitates the
influence of bad
spirits. That is a
mistake which shouldn’t
be made by mediums who
know the seriousness of
this task.
8. The meetings to study
about mediumship and
educate it must provide
mediums with conditions
to practice it according
to Spiritism teachings.
Nobody should
participate of medium’s
meetings before training
to practice mediumship
properly
9. We read in the
article of “Guide to the
Spiritualist Centre”,
published by the
National Federal
Council, that the
candidate to mediumship
should go to public
meetings of study and
spiritual help at first.
If he/she is victim of
bad spiritual
influences, he/she
should also subscribe
for the religious
centre’s treatment for
spiritual release.
10. It’s also
recommended that the
candidate to mediumship
should be guided to
control their bodies
while being used by the
spirit to communicate.
The medium should avoid
the moaning, crying,
heavy breathing, screams
or aggressive moves.
Mediums shouldn’t take
part of medium’s group
before taking control of
their mediumship,
avoiding to think that
they are special and
have the biggest mission
in the world. They
should take mediumship
as a something normal
procedure of
communication between
worlds.
11. Andre Luiz in his
book “In the
mediumship’s domain”
clarifies that the
cerebral chakras of the
medium represent bases
of thoughts and will in
all the spiritual
communications, since
only sensing things to
materialisation of
objects. And he affirms
that these phenomena
have the protection and
help from the wise and
good spirits when the
medium wants only to
serve and help people in
general. If this is not
the medium’s goal, these
phenomena can be
influenced by malicious
and bad spirits ending
up in a painful process.
12. This is the reason
why is never too much to
affirm that knowledge
and study of mediumship
and its application to
life are really useful
for a good practice of
mediumship. The
apprentice should be
docile and obedient to
the good spirits
instructions to correct
themselves and adapt
their desires and plans
to the interest of
people’s spiritual
ascension, not mattering
if these spirits are
incarnated or
disincarnated. This
should be the main goal
of all the candidates to
mediumship.
Answer
Key