I will be interested in hearing answers to this myself.  I saw an ABC news special once on George Anderson.  I had always been somewhat sceptical of people like John Edwards, who gave vague things like "letter L!"  "the number 3!"

On this special, three celebrity stars were chosen without his knowledge.  According to ABC TV there was no way he could have investigated them or planned anything.  Anyway, he sat across from one, a wreslter whose brother died, and proceeded to tell him specific information as if the brother were right there.  He was doodling mindlessly on a paper as he talked.   He related messages in complete sentences from this dead brother.  Overall, I found it to be amazing.  His readings were "as if" he were holding a conversation.  Not vague impressions from the beyond. 

I kept thinking - this must be a fraud, or he's reading their mind or something.  Then the thought - hmmmmm if its real, this guy is the best of the best.

I'd be interested in other peoples' experiences.

Matthew

I've been fortunate to know many outstanding Mediums for some 30 years and received excellent evidence from those I've had a sitting with.

As in all walks of life, experience and practice are necessary to hone innate abilities, so as these vary, the results vary.

I also 'book' the Mediums to demonstrate at our Association and know what to look for in assessing abilities. Most Mediums are genuine and do deliver verifiable information to so many.

Currently, Gordon Smith, a fellow Glaswegian, is delivering first class, concrete evidence to folk all over the globe, often in their own language not understood by himself.

99.9% of mediums are hussling skum bags.

i went to see one, and i could pick her to peices, she was merely expanding on info i was giving her.

the best and only medium i have ever seen whos infomation was so accurate it could'nt have come from any other source is gordon smith, and is well work reading his books.

Actually, we are all our own mediums. We have all knowledge inside of us.

Namaste,
Mairlyn

I don't know if many of you are familiar with Harry Houdini, the famous magician.

He was very close to his mother and at her death he went to great lenght to find a medium that could give him information from his mother. He had a special question that only him and his mother knew which he asked all the known mediums around.

He proved that all of them where fraud.

When he died, he made an agreement with his wife.  That if it was possible to contact her from the other world he would do it. And they had agreed upon a sign to confirm this.

No one ever was able to do this.

"A sucker is born every minutes!" Let's try not to be one!

I'm giving this example because it is, in my view, the starting point for an honest discussion. Let's start with the premisses that almost all of them are fraud and are in it for the money.

That leaves us with a very limited possibility of legitimate mediums (channeled etc...).

I think we can agree that Edgar Cayce was one, there was another one called Ian Borts. The later was taken to court for medical malpractice...which he WON. He was a Cayce type of channel. He called it "The Speakers" with which he exchanged. You could say like an energy exchange...whatever.

There's probably a few others that are well documented.

An honest medium, channel, should accept to be chalenged.

Cayce was, as Borts and as Seth. 

Bruce Moen here said to prove it to YOURSELF. And everyone here knows that he himself had a difficult time to accept his own experiences.

Otherwise we are accepting information with "blind faith".  We HAVE TO QUESTION before considering if the person is legitimate, credible.

We also accept what resonate with US. Why?  Because we are the only one in charge of OUR life, and we have to follow ourself. What resonate within us is what we are to follow and accept. No one else knows what we need better than ourselves. TRUST!

And that means that it's OK to question the ideas of others. Like I said...there's no wrong or right in this. Only your own awareness, your own consciousness...your own freedom.

It's rather peculiar isn't it that so many channellers flowerished after Jane Roberts' death ?  And they are all surfing on the Seth information. Granted, they had a little touch of themselves, but the core is Seth's.

To be well understood here, let me say that I am NOT trying to convince anyone about Seth. I am also NOT saying that all the others are fraud.

But it is healthy to ask legitimate questions.

We expand our awareness through experiences. And thus, ALL sources of information are valuable. Even from a fraud. Because information comes to us from everywhere, casual conversation, books, discussions...everywhere!

We get answers to our questions this way. Some call it synchronicity! 

You can read a medium's transcript and learn something. An explanation that resonate with you, that makes sense to YOU, the answer you were looking for.

We just have to be aware that not all information is to be accepted blindly. 

My two cents!

I have never been to a medium, but have been thinking about it just out of curiosity.   There's a quite famous one not far from me (she's on TV all the time), but she just raised her rates so I'm not sure if I can afford it now.  It used to be $80 and now it's $110.  Not sure I want to spend that much money on something I'm not sure I even believe in.

Don,

I see what you're saying.  I often think mediums are really just mind readers or are tapping into some type of energy that the deceased leave behind, but aren't really communicating with them in the afterlife.

But I have decided I have enough curiosity about this that I should do a little research myself, so I've made an appointment with a local psychic and I'll report back on what happens.