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What’s the difference between an American and a British psychic medium?

What’s the difference between an American and a British psychic medium?

by Bob Olson, BestPsychicDirectory.com, BestPsychicMediums.com & AfterlifeTV.com

A psychic medium is a psychic medium regardless of where they live. But most British psychic mediums are trained to give evidence-based readings (often called evidential mediumship), which provide evidence that the messages the psychic medium is giving you are legitimate. This isn’t to say there aren’t psychic mediums in England who do not give evidence-based readings—there certainly are—but I’ve found most British psychic mediums to follow a formula that gives evidence first and then other messages and guidance second.

You never really know what you’re going to get with psychic mediums from the United States unless they have been trained in evidential mediumship. If they’ve been trained at a Spiritual church, by another evidential medium or by teachers at Arthur Findlay College in England, they are likely trained in evidential spirit communication.

I’ve also noticed that psychic mediums from the US (including evidential mediums) tend to read at a faster pace than most British mediums, which I personally prefer. The slower, formulaic pace of British mediumship leaves me slightly impatient. This is probably indicative of our fast-paced society, at least in Massachusetts where I grew up. Nonetheless, I’m not the only person to have commented on the slow, relaxed style of British mediumship, which some people actually prefer because it’s easier to follow along.

Are evidence-focused mediums better than other mediums? Everyone has their preferences when it comes to psychic mediums. It’s impossible to say which style of reading is better. From my perspective, however, I like evidential spirit communication because it gives us evidence that the messages are really coming from our loved ones in spirit. The way my mind works, if the psychic medium has given me extraordinary evidence that they could not have possibly known with out getting it from my deceased loved one, then it helps me to believe in the other, non-evidential messages. But without the evidential messages, there’s really no way to know if anything the psychic medium is saying is true.

© Copyright 2011 Bob Olson, BestPsychicDirectory.com, All Rights Reserved

 


Bob Olson is a former skeptic and private investigator who began investigating the afterlife after his father died in 1997. As part of his afterlife research, he has tested hundreds of psychics and mediums for the past 28 years. Bob is the host of Afterlife TV, the author of Answers About the Afterlife, and the creator of the most trusted directory for psychics, mediums, animal communicators, and intuitive readers, Best Psychic Directory and Best Psychic Mediums.