Blog categorized as Ethics in mediumship

About Medical Advice

2008-11-11 10:13 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
This article discusses James Van Praagh's experience on the talk show The View, where he gives Barbara Walters a message (off camera) that she should check on her white blood cell count. She checked it out and nothing was wrong, so she told her audience the day after that it was ridiculous and wha...

Mediums behaving badly

2008-11-08 04:14 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
When it comes to message work and readings, mediums sometimes receive information that they should think twice about before letting it out.  Here is an article about a medium in the UK who didn't do that, and does not understand why she's been ousted from her Spiritualist church. Mediumship is...

Sex and spirituality

2008-09-18 11:00 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
Sex and spirituality, as wonderful as they are, are best enjoyed separately.  It keeps the confusion down, and helps avoid problems with sex in the name of spirituality. In my mind, taking unfair advantage of someone is one of the most unethical things you can do.  It's bad when it's done ...

Lessons learned from fake message work

2008-09-07 03:28 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
Here is a video about message work.  Derren Brown, a popular skeptic in the UK, says that the message work he's about to do is fake, then proceeds to give messages to members of the audience. During the messages, the seekers acknowledge that a number of items provided by the "medium"...

On being a medium - what NOT to do

2008-05-04 11:39 PM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
Becky and Debs' experiences are object lessons in what NOT to do as a medium. Heaven forbid any "medium" say stuff like this to anyone, even if it's true. My view is that beginners or inexperienced mediums may get negative stuff because they're new to it, and they pass it on because they ...

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