Dr. Julie Beischel is a scientist who has scientifically researched mediumship and the afterlife for over 15 years. Her goal with the Windbridge Research Center is to alleviate suffering around death, death and what comes after. They conduct rigorous scientific research and share it with professionals in the general public to spread the word.
This Skeptiko video interview with Dr. Beischel explains her mission with the research and breaks down some myths about mediums.
She didn’t know much about mediums until she experienced a reading with one after her mother died and realized how accurate and helpful they can be.
He also noted that there is a large percentage of people who don’t know anything about the media issue but dismiss it as fraud.
Dr. Beischel decided to use her scientific background and apply the scientific method to help others understand the middle process and show more people how it can ease the pain of losing a loved one.
More common than you think
She said communication after death is very common, but people are used to hearing that it’s rare, so they may not recognize when a loved one is trying to reach out and comfort them. Understanding it when it happens can ease the suffering and make the person more open to it the next time.
“As a society, we move forward with science and data,” Dr. Beischel said, and this is part of her goal in applying the scientific method to media. The data helps people, including doctors and nurses, and especially skeptics, to realize that mediumship is real.
In the past, most medical professionals would say that someone was crazy for saying that they had met deceased loved ones. It still happens today, and some medical professionals even classify them as schizophrenic and give them medication. She hopes to help stop this.
Psychic and mean overlap
She discovered in her research that during psychic readings for the living, it is common for psychics to communicate (whether they realize it or not) with random deceased people in the area who are not associated with the psychic or “caregiver”. . In other words, the lines between a psychic and a medium overlap and are much blurrier than previously thought.
Misconceptions of mediumship
Our consciousness is actually something more than our body. You only think “you” are in your body because you get constant feedback that you are. Once you die, you are still “you”, just not in your body. Dr. Beischel said that mediumship is like a radio; the consciousness and communication of another person is not hers, but passes through the medium.
He said that now more people know what the media is because of TV shows on the subject, but they don’t always show the reality of the process.
For example, 30% of the media outlets it surveyed do not charge for readings.
Not all mediums are clairvoyant (see); some are clairaudient (hearing), some are clairsentient (feeling), some are clairvoyant (knowing), and many are all of these at times.
Some mediums do not understand how they receive perception.
Many mediums see themselves as weirdos and don’t feel like they can be open about their talent.
other findings
Dr. Beischel said that many mediums have a higher rate of health problems, such as autoimmune diseases. At first they wondered if mediumship can cause disease. His organization drew blood before, during and after mean readings in a controlled study and did more than 30 blood tests. They found no changes, which showed that the average readings probably weren’t causing the health problems.
They then polled more than 200 outlets in a child abuse survey and came up with an out-of-the-ordinary score. She said that others have made the correlation between child abuse and psychic abilities. It may be because they had to learn to sense danger or disengage from the abuse when it happened, which made them more aware of or in touch with the Other Side. In summary, she found that mediumship does not cause illness, but trauma can stimulate mediumship and illness.
Side note: Scott can determine from his comprehensive astrology and numerology work who might be most likely to be a channel or natural medium. For example, strong recurring patterns that include the numbers 7, 11, and 22, in part, tend to symbolize innate psychic ability.
The future
The host asked Dr. Beischel if she sees the future of technology in helping with mediumship. She said that consciousness is channeled through the brain. Meditation helps one to become more psychic and acts as a medium for awareness. Technology can eventually help us with that state of mind so that we can be psychic, a medium, and access other realms more easily.
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