Check It! Mediums Issue

Mediums, channelers…reputed bridges between our world…and the Other Side; Can these individuals really communicate with discarnate entities, departed or otherwise, as they claim?

No doubt there are those who practice this art who are sincere, but the history of mediumship is rife with fraud, and remains so to the present day.

While open to the possibility of an existence beyond the physical, I remain unconvinced and unimpressed by many of the well-known media ‘psychics,’ for it does not logically follow that that which is possible is by necessity actual.

Mere Possibility is not sufficient evidence that something is real.

This installment deals with links, URLs, and a couple of videos, with a more critical take on the subject matter than I normally do with this series. So sit back and enjoy…

• …a piece on the Skeptic’s Dictionary, a good run-down on mediums, including the better known ones…

• …a bit on Wikipedia.Org on Mediumship…needs citations, but not bad…

• …and an article on Famous Mediums at Skeptical Analysis.Com…

• …here’s a piece on History Net.Com on Mina Crandon and Harry Houdini…

• …for those who can read Dutch, a piece on the physical medium Eusapia Palladino at Skepsis.Nl…

• …a bit on Cicap.Org on Eusapia Palladino’s Sapient Foot…

• …a piece from the same on Houdini and Conan Doyle…

• …and an entry for the medium Gerard Croiset on Wikipedia…

Derren Brown shows how mediums work

and finally…

BBC Bullsh!t detectors exposes three mediums

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