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Mediumship and Spirituality

Before we get deeper into the subject of the spiritual world, I’d like to clarify one of the greatest misunderstandings. During consultations in my practice, I’m frequently asked the question: “Do I have spiritual potential or talent?”

Clients would like to know whether they have mediumistic, healing, or other extrasensory abilities, however, spirituality has nothing to do with these.

Mediumship and spirituality are two completely different things. I’ve noticed that a distinction is often not made between them. Being a medium does not automatically mean that someone is spiritual. But unfortunately many people believe this – even quite a number of mediums themselves. But whether the mediumistic talent is used for “good” or for “bad” is always dependent on the person using the talent. During World War II, clairvoyants, for example, supported Adolf Hitler in the war. Nobody today would suggest that was an assignment marked by love. What I want to say with this is that no matter how mediumistic someone is, that doesn’t mean they’re spiritual (and a good person respectively), and of course vice-versa would also be true. I’ve had the privilege of meeting many spiritual people who were not psychically gifted. Plus, I’ve gotten to know many spiritual people who were not even aware of the fact that they were so spiritually advanced. And I’ve also met people who considered themselves very spiritual, yet in reality they had fallen prey to spiritual pride. I believe a truly spiritual person would never, from him or herself, claim to be spiritual.

I can still remember the beginning of my training very well. My teachers at the college for mediumship and healing kept telling us how important it was to have a spiritual attitude. How important it was to work at improving your character. At that time I underestimated all that. For me it was much more important to develop my mediumistic skills down to the minutest detail. For me a good medium, above all, had to be able to provide very precise information and many details and facts. This is still my conviction today, however I’ve learned something even more important: When a deceased person speaks through me, at that moment it’s not only important to provide many facts and details from the person’s life to the client, but also to relay, above all, the love and healing that’s being expressed to the bereaved.

The question is, of course, what does “being spiritual” mean after all? Today the expression “spiritual” is used very commonly and is, in my opinion, often abused or misunderstood. Previously, everyone called themselves esoteric who considered themselves so. At some point the word wasn’t good enough anymore – something newer was needed – and so the word “spiritual” emerged. I believe that you can’t understand spirituality with the rational mind – but only with the heart. And I’m convinced that you can’t be on a spiritual path. Spirituality is something personal, and each person can only discover their spirituality for themselves.

Spirituality to me is seeing and discovering God in everything that IS. Spirituality means surrendering to God or the Divine Energy and finding your own inner Divine core, or better said – recognizing it. Here alone, you can already see that spirituality and mediumship, which simply means communicating with the spiritual world, are two totally different things. Yet spirituality isn’t a path to God, because there are no paths to God – God IS. There are only countless numbers of ways leading away from God. When we recognize God in everything, and also the Divine in ourselves and, of course, in every other person as well, then we are spiritual. Whoever wants to reach God must become still, must stand still and stop following any path, and simply be. Since God is always and everywhere present, we can only encounter Him here and now. For a spiritual person, it’s not about being spiritual, but rather being with God. In my personal opinion, there is no right way that leads to God. There are also no spiritual practices that promise success and allow you to find God! Everything and every way is the right one, when through it you are able to recognize God. Stop searching for God and instead go into your heart and welcome Him. Have the courage to be that which you truly are. Stop leading a special way of life, following special practices, being nice only in order to be spiritual. True spirituality can’t be bought with things like that. God does not let Himself be discovered through prescribed activities and patterns of behavior. God and spirituality can’t be understood through the intellect; it doesn’t lead you closer to God when you try to understand spirituality with your head – you can only experience God. Stop wanting to understand spirituality and God – you’ll only get lost in intellectual masturbation. God can only be experienced in love and in everything you encounter.

My wish for you, dear Reader, is that the difference is clear. Of course mediumship and spirituality are close to each other, and they don’t exclude each other. Nevertheless, they’re entirely independent of one another, since there can be both mediumship without spirituality, as well as spirituality without mediumship.

While I’m clarifying terms, I’d also like to quickly explain the difference between mediumship and sensitivity. In English Spiritualism, a clear distinction is made between these two. Here in Europe the lines are more fluid. However I, too, differentiate between these two which, in my opinion, are totally different talents. As explained before, mediumship is the communication or the capacity to perceive the spiritual world or the deceased. A medium is a mediator between the spiritual world and clients. Sensitivity means receiving information and circumstances about a living person and relaying it. In other words, I read the energy of a living person. It’s possible that I don’t need any other means for this, or it can be that I work using the aura, cards, crystal bowls, pictures, or an object from the client. A medium is always also sensitive and must be able to read the energies of a spiritual being and those of a living person. A sensitive person, however, does not necessarily have to be able to perceive the spiritual world. It is only a small detail which separates these two things, but for me it’s important. I work as a medium and as a sensitive reader (aura reading), and for me these are two entirely different energies that I read and which I also use to access the information. The mediumistic energy is a very light and fast energy, while the sensitive energy feels to me a lot heavier and slower. When I watch mediums or sensitive counselors, I can see whether they’re working mediumistically or sensitively. They work with a different energy and with other energy centers (chakras). But that would lead us too far off and is probably not so interesting for most readers. However, in my opinion the differences between spirituality, mediumship, and sensitivity should be recognized.