Dr. Julie Beischel is a scientist who has been scientifically researching mediumship and the afterlife for over 15 years. Her goal with the Windbridge Research Center is to ease the 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 research mission and discusses some myths about mediums.

She didn’t know much about mediums until she experienced a reading with one after her mother’s death and realized how accurate and helpful they can be.

He also noticed that there is a large percentage of people who know nothing about the subject of the media, but dismiss them as frauds.

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 she can ease the pain of losing a loved one.

More common than you think

She said that communication after death is very common, but people are used to hearing that it is rare, so they may not recognize when a loved one is trying to reach and comfort them. Understanding it when it happens can ease the pain 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 someone was crazy for saying that they had met deceased loved ones. It still happens today, and some medical professionals even classify them as schizophrenics and give them medication. She hopes to help stop this.

Psychic and medium overlap

She found 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 “caretaker” . In other words, the lines between a psychic and a medium overlap and are much more blurred than previously thought.

Misconceptions of mediumship

Our consciousness is actually more than just 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”, but not in your body. Dr. Beischel said that mediumship is like a radio; another person’s awareness and communication is not theirs, but passes through the medium.

He said that now more people know what the media is because of television programs on the subject, but they do not always show the reality of the process.

For example, 30% of the media he surveyed do not charge for readings.

Not all mediums are clairvoyant (see); some are clairaudient (hearing), some are clairvoyant (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 oddballs 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 illness. His organization drew blood before, during and after the mean readings in a controlled study and did more than 30 blood tests. They found no change, which showed that the average readings were probably not causing the health problems.

They then surveyed over 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 disassociate themselves from the abuse when it happened, which made them more aware or in touch with the Other Side. In short, she found that mediumship does not cause disease, but trauma can stimulate mediumship and disease.

Side note: Scott is able to determine with his extensive astrology and numerology work who might be more 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 presenter asked Dr. Beischel if she sees the future of technology helping with mediumship. She said that consciousness is channeled through the brain. Meditation helps one 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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