CHAPTER3

THE WORLD OF MEDIUMS CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY

Like psychics, mediums are human beings on our earth with special abilities. They are psychics and most have many of the psychic abilities discussed in Chapter 2. However, mediums can communicate with people who have died and passed over into the spirit world. Linda Lee is one of them. Her remarkable ability will be fully elaborated on in later chapters within the context of the immediately followingparagraphs.

Upon conception human beings are said have a soul which is part of them for their lifetimes. Religious faiths have varying definitions of the human soul. No attempt will be made here to discuss them all. Rather, a consensus of various definitions and concepts is presentedhere.

The soul defines your life as a human and your characteristics as a human on your path through life. It may be a moral or religious spiritual compass, but humans are all endowed with the freedom of choice and may be led or convinced to follow less moral, immoral, or socially unacceptable lives. The soul is said to be immortal and a separate aspect of the human and survives death. It is the essence of life. All animate living things are also said to have souls. It is not a bodily organ and is without form or dimension. The soul is a repository for all the experiences of the body it occupies for its entire lifetime. The soul has some predetermined paths leading the human to encounter and experience physical and emotional situations intermittently, if not for a lifetime, for the betterment of the soul. This last concept will be discussed in detail in followingchapters.

Traditionally, in contemporary religions, but not all, the soul survives death and mourners pray for the soul of the deceased to be graciously or favorably received. The body, being only a vessel for the soul is embalmed for temporary preservation and buried below ground with an appropriate identifyingmarker.

This necessarily contemplates the existence of some form of afterlife. In some religious biblical concepts, the afterlife might include experiencing heaven, purgatory or hell. In even earlier times, in Egypt, the Pharaohs, Queens and other highly placed personages were buried in tombs with their size befitting their rank or status. They were mummified and often entombed with all the accouterments thought to be needed in their afterlife along with some of their bodily organs placed in separate jars or urns. The “Boy Pharaoh” Tutankhamun’s tomb was found by archaeologists, un-plundered by grave robbers, crammed with jewels and gold items including a full-sized gold leafed chariot. “King Tut” became a pharaoh at age nine and died at age nineteen. According to most historians his reign was, to a great extent,unremarkable.

References to an afterlife can be found in the documentation or transcribed oral chronicles of most religions or faiths as we know them today including Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim. In centuries old China, the country’s first emperor, Gin Shi Huang, who ruled from 246 B.C.to 210 B.C. was entombed in an area of approximately twenty square miles. Included with him were 8,000 life-sized terracotta soldiers and clay horses to accompany him in theafterli