Clake says: "The word mediumship, as understood and used by spiritualists, technically speaking, means a susceptibility to the influence, and more or less control, of decarnated spirits. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)
Although they occur in a context primarily meant to be entertaining, they have reintroduced the idea of mediumship to the public. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)
Far from being in any degree a suspension of consciousness as is what is known as mediumship, this power partakes of the quality of omniscience. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The careful student will of course notice that this communication with the higher planes of life and being -- this so-called "mediumship" -- does not depend upon any particular form of religious belief, or teaching, concerning the nature of the state or place of abode of the departed spirits of men; but, on the contrary, is common to all form of religion and to all phases of belief in the survival of the human soul. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)
Bearing in mind all these subjective states and experiences, including the whole range of so-called mediumship, the _theorem_ of the Masters and adepts of all ages may be made exceeding plain. ❋ Unknown (1877)
The mother is a spiritualist -- has been for years -- and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Of course, the term "mediumship," as above defined, lacks a clear meaning unless the term "spiritualistic," or "spiritualism" be defined. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)
If the assumed "mediumship" of this woman was not an imposture, some of the many people who have visited her for the purpose of getting communications from their spirit-friends would have been gratified. ❋ Unknown (1850)
Her playing on the piano, her singing are as the rustle of leaves in the forest compared to her mediumship, which is as a trumpet-blast opening the gates of the city of refuge to let the weary traveller in. " ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
But as certain gifts and graces are more developed in some individuals than in others, in like manner the sensitiveness which is called mediumship is more highly developed (or is capable of such development) in certain peculiarly constituted persons who may be regarded as supernormally gifted, yet as naturally so as are geniuses in other directions. " ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)
a high degree, by nature, those attributes which spiritualists describe (without professing to understand) as "mediumship". ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
Another mediumistic writer has said: "This kind of mediumship carries conviction of the real presence of the so-called dead, and your aim should be to get into communication with the intelligent operator at the other end of the line, and elicit from him evidences of his identity and purpose. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)
Harry not only felt inadequate in terms of his mediumship skills with this individual, but he said he even felt embarrassed to be reading her. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
It is relatively easy for researchers to establish definitively that conventional explanations of mediumship such as fraud, cold reading, rater bias, even experimenter bias, cannot account for all of the findings. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
You might associate words like respected, accredited, and licensed; but my line of work, mediumship, is usually prefaced with adjectives like purported, self-acclaimed, and supposed instead. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
It was testing mediumship capability, not life after death. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
Remember that Princess Diana has participated in a previous mediumship experiment with me related to Hazel Courteney. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
Dr. Beischel and I added this medium to our by-then ongoing university-based double-blind mediumship experiment. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)
"The medium refuted the [thesis] of [mediumship reductionism] in the discussion with the neo-atheist during the mediumship session."
"[Extraphysical theory] refutes the mediumship reductionism theory... But skepticals and neoatheists do not want to recognize it." ❋ Full Monteirism (2021)
