Blog by Joe Loffredo

The cable tv we had at our old house was pretty basic, as we didn't watch much. But I moved to a new house recently, and got more channels on my cable tv along with it. It took me about an hour (no exaggerating) to go through all the channels and mark the ones we might watch as favorites. I'm watchi...

Here's a short article about Mary Hooper, who wrote a novel entitled Velvet. She set it in Victorian London during the "height of the spiritualist craze", and one of her characters is a medium. Like most writers would do, she researched mediumship. Based on the article, it looks like she...

I try to avoid being prejudiced whenever possible. But there are times when it just doesn't seem to be avoidable. And this is one of those times. There is a new movie coming out, which is premiering today, called Cassadaga. Here is the synopsis of it, which is from the official trailer site:

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Here is an article from CNN that is written about spirits who recently passed and then appeared to their Earth plane friends. The spirits appeared before the friends knew anything of their passing.  If you like to read such accounts, I think you'll find it a little long but interesting. I work...

As a medium, you have a different relationship to the spirits than most people. It's like you have a connection that's always available between yourself and the spirits.  Not that the connection is always busy or anything, but it's just there. The comparison they make is that it's like when lea...