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What is a Medium? True and False Views about a Medium

The term “medium” has become fashionable in recent times, and many people know approximately what it means, but I often realize that many don’t know exactly how a medium works. So I would like to explain it right at the beginning of this book: A medium is a human being who can communicate with the spiritual world, that is, with the deceased, spiritual guides or angels. Put more simply, a medium is the mediator between the spiritual world and a client.

Many people think that a medium can predict the future, but this isn’t always true. Here and there events are shown to us that do happen in the future, but in most cases it’s just a coincidence. I work primarily as a medium and provide contact with the deceased for my clients.

However, I’ve also offered aura readings, as I call them. I analyze the aura of my clients and show them their problems and possible solutions in a kind of current life assessment. I can see clear tendencies for the future in the aura, but as I explained before, I only see tendencies. In my opinion, the future is not clearly predetermined but only certain major life events are. You can picture this like a train ride from Zurich to Basel. The route is set by the fixed train tracks. However, along the way we can get off, visit other towns and villages, and what we do or don’t do in those places is up to us. But at each moment our actions have a part in creating our future. This is how I can recognize tendencies in what might happen, because the client has acted in this way or another way in the past. When I plant corn, I reap corn.

Later on, I’ll address the topic of predicting the future a little more thoroughly. In this book, however, I want to focus on presenting mediumistic skills, in other words, the communication with the deceased and spiritual guides. I call myself a medium and I earn my livelihood as a mediumistic counselor. Sometimes I experience humorous things, for example, if someone asks me what I do professionally. I can still remember quite well a situation where I was invited over to a friend’s house and was chatting with a woman. She asked me about my job and I answered,“I’m a medium.” “Oh! Hmm, then you must be gay.” I looked at her quite shocked and wondered if I’d heard wrong. I asked, “Excuse me, what did you just say?” She replied, “I wondered if you were gay. I’ve heard that mediums are fat older women in menopause or are young gay men.” I could hardly stop laughing afterwards, but it seems that this is a view many people have about mediums.

It is probably true that many male mediums are homosexual, but not all are. A medium works mainly with emotions and has a great desire to support and help others. Those are more female characteristics, so it is understandable that among mediums you find quite a number of homosexual men, but nowhere near are all homosexual, and I’m not one of them. However, I’m also confronted with other prejudices. In England, for example, the majority of the mediums are a bit overweight. This became a disadvantage for me at an esoteric fair. After my presentation, a woman told me, “You can’t be a good medium! You are way too thin. Good mediums are heavier.” That was the funniest, but also the stupidest thing I’d ever heard. Because regardless of whether you are young, old, heavy, slim, homosexual, hetero, or whatever – all those labels are no indication that you’re a good medium.

Many people also believe that because I’m clairvoyant, I know everything, or that we mediums always see everything. This is not the case. During my training I learned how to turn my abilities“on and off” It would be way too tiring to constantly see everything. However, quite often I experience that people I meet outside of my consultations want proof that I’m really clairvoyant. Sometimes this is amusing, but sometimes it can also get on your nerves. When someone asks me about my work, many say, “Oh, do you see my grandmother? What’s she saying? Will I get married in the future? And when?“

I always ask what the person does for a living, and if someone says, for example, he’s a mason, I ask back, “Great, you’re in construction! Could you build a villa for me here really fast?”

Recently a younger woman came to my table and said, “Hello, I’ve heard that you are a clairvoyant! But crap like that doesn’t even exist!” I didn’t respond because I didn’t feel like I wanted to justify myself. But then came, “Can you prove to me that you aren’t crazy?” I looked at her and said, “No, I can’t do that because I believe I am crazy.” But still she wouldn’t leave me alone. My best friend Pablo gave me a look that said, “Hey, just end this pathetic scene and get her to leave us in peace.” So I continued, “Listen, I see you’re wearing black panties; you bought them at H&M, right? They cost 29.90 francs! It’s true, isn’t it?” She looked at me all surprised and said, “Yeah, incredible, it’s true.” I continued, “Okay, and you know what else is being shown to me? You should put on some fresh underwear; you should change it at least once a day.” She turned completely red and left our table, and we were able to enjoy our free evening. That was certainly not the kindest way of dealing with her, but even I can’t always be nice with people.

Many people, of course, would like to know lottery numbers from me, but honestly, even if I could know these things, I wouldn’t tell anyone. Another topic I’m often confronted with is money. There are quite a few people who think that a medium shouldn’t ask for money. I can’t understand that. After all, everything costs money, but time and again I have to hear that my gift comes from God and therefore I’m not allowed to earn money with it. I don’t consider it a gift, but rather a talent, so to follow their logic nobody would be allowed to make money with their talents. Religions, for example, also come from God, and in Switzerland we pay church taxes for them. Yes, even death is determined by God, and everyone who has lost a close family member knows that even death is not free. So I say to all those, if they would pay my living expenses and those of my assistants, I would work for free.

Nobody is forced to come to a consultation with me. It’s voluntary and everyone can decide on their own if they want to spend money on a consultation. Personally, I don’t believe that money spoils character – rather it makes what already exists visible. I’m often reminded of a quote by Bruno Würtenberger: “Money is dirty, but only if it ends up in dirty hands.” However, each medium should decide this for themselves, just as each client does.

Many people believe that mediums are better people. This, unfortunately, is not the case. I’m a human being like everyone else. Just like the deceased are not suddenly enlightened and can play the harp. I find it fascinating what people expect when they come into my practice. Television teams especially have always been very disappointed by my practice. What comes up again and again is the image of a medium holding a session in the dark by candlelight – the air filled with smoke from a variety of incense sticks, or at least a crystal ball or something else spectacular is in the room. This is not the case with me. Many people tell me that my practice is even more unspectacular than a doctor’s.

Others think I chase spirits or visit haunted houses, but this is also not the case. It happens once in a while that I’m asked to inspect the home of clients because they have the impression their house is haunted, but my main task is to create contact between this and the other world.

I personally don’t believe in evil spirits or demons. I’ve never seen one, and I don’t know of any other serious medium who has witnessed possessions or evil spirits. There is much in life that can perhaps terrify us at first sight or cause fear, but according to my perception there is no evil. Up until now, all my clients who thought they were possessed by an evil spirit had a psychosis and no evil spirit. They were no longer in psychic balance. In my first book I wrote more about all this.

Of course it often happens that the deceased want to contact their living relatives. This can certainly be uncomfortable sometimes, especially if we don’t know who or what it is that’s frightening us. Just recently I had a case where a client had been hearing“knocking” in her bedroom. She was sure this was something evil, but it didn’t turn out to be. I checked if I could perceive a deceased person with her, and I saw her mother.“Your mother from the spiritual world has made contact. She informed me that she died recently and couldn’t say goodbye to you. It was her who wanted to make herself known through the knocking. She wants to tell you that she is fine and she wants to say goodbye. Can you understand this?” My client could understand everything and the noises disappeared, as she told me later.

Needless to say, you should also check beforehand if certain knocking sounds don’t have a natural cause, because in most cases they do.