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29. Why is a Medium necessary in Spirit Communication?
A medium is generally (not always) necessary because most people are spiritually blind and cannot see spirit forms; deaf and cannot hear spirit voices, insensate and cannot perceive spirit presence. There are, however, many who, if they had instruction and could rightly interpret their own experiences, would be able to communicate with spirit friends through their own powers. We call such people mediumistic. Mediums are necessary to most people as telescopes are necessary to the astronomer. They bring that which is naturally invisible into the visible realm. Our senses of sight, hearing and feeling are adapted to the physical realm in which we live, but quite inadequate to bring us into touch with the spirit realm and its inhabitants who function on a higher plane of vibration. Hence it has been the custom of kings to have their prophets (seers, soothsayers, mediums) and under one name or another men in all lands and ages have communicated with spirit people through mediums.
30. Why do my spirit friends go to a medium and not come to me?
There are two false assumptions in this question. Your spirit friends do not as a rule go to the medium and your spirit friends do come to you. If your spirit friends do go to a medium it is for the purpose of bringing you and the medium together that they may reach you in communication. Ordinarily your spirit friends, drawn by love and natural ties of relationship, come to you. They speak and attempt to manifest their presence in a variety of ways. They find you cannot see them, hear them or sense them. And after repeated vain attempts to manifest they seek some one whose senses are open to perceive their presence. It is a mistake to speak of a medium as bringing your spirit friends to you. When you get a message from a medium your spirit friends in all probability, went with you to the meeting—possibly impressed you to go—and often resort to various devices to bring about an opportunity to communicate with friends on the earth plane. Spirit Communication is a necessity and a boon to both realms.