Rochester Spiritualist Society

Spiritualism affirms the diversity of Spiritual Gifts as manifestations of the Divine and teaches the continual unfoldment of the psychic and spiritual faculties of humankind. 

 

The Rochester Spiritualist Society affirms that all psychic abilities are spiritual gifts, and are to be valued, developed, and shared with one another for the benefit of the world.

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Psychic Abilities 

A Psychic is an individual who has a natural sensitivity to higher level vibrations. This sensitivity manifests itself in numerous ways such as: Intuition, Telepathy, Astral Projection, Healing, and Mediumship.

 

Mediumship

A Medium is one who is sensitive to vibrations from the Spirit World, and through whose instrumentality, Intelligences in that World are able to convey messages and produce phenomena of Spiritualism. 

 

Mental Mediumship

Mental Mediumship occurs when Spirits communicate through the Mind of the Medium. Mental Mediumship includes such phases as:

 

Clairvoyance: Those who are able to see spirits.

Clairaudience: Those who are able to hear spirits.

Trance: Those who in an altered state of consciousness are able to allow spirits to speak through them.

Physical Mediumship

Physical Mediumship occurs when Spirits communicate through the physical energy of the Medium to produce observable phenomena. Physical Mediumship includes such phases as:

 

Automatic Writing: Those who have the faculty of writing under the influence of spirits.

 

Trumpet Mediumship: Those by whose energetic influence a voice of the communicating spirit is produced the use of a trumpet shaped arrangement of paper, card board, tin, or aluminum.

 

Table Tipping: Those by whose energetic influence communication with spirits is produced through the movements of a table.

Healing Mediumship
Those who have the spiritual gift of healing or soothing by laying on of hands or by prayer. Click Here to learn more about Spiritual Healing. 

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