Joe's Blog

In my previous post about the goodness of the medium, I said that the quality of the content (of messages or readings) was an interrelationship of many things.  Without inventing a whole new branch of metaphysics, let's ask Phaedrus' perennial question, "What is quality?" With med...

If you want a message from the spirits and go to a medium, does it matter whether the medium is a good person or not?  Since mediumship, in the strictest sense, is only the ability to communicate and nothing more, what difference would it make? Obvious exceptions like being mute aside, everyone...

Spiritualist churches usually have a Declaration of Principles, which are a number of simple statements that describe basic Spiritualist beliefs.  Normally, these are short enough that they are read aloud during church service.  The principles vary a bit amongst Spiritualist organizations,...

When a seeker provides information that verifies a reading or message (or healing for that matter), it's a bonus. About two years ago, I gave a family member a message that he would encounter a very rude person, and it would be quite notable, as opposed to the typical day-to-day things.  At the...

Augustin Lesage was a French miner who knew nothing about painting, but painted many pictures with direction from the spirits.  Paranormal Review has a short article about his work being on display back in June 2008, and the article includes one of his pictures.  Kieron Rhys Johnson's si...