Recently, I have seen a number of people post pictures of their loved ones who are in spirit. These individuals ask for messages from an intuitive medium in hopes of hearing and receiving some healing messages from their loved one in spirit.
In various social media forms, people sometimes present a picture of their loved one in spirit that they hope a medium will read and post information about the deceased loved one online. The individual who posts will often comment on the remarks the medium is making, and may indicate in the comments of the photo that they understand or don’t understand the information coming through.
However, people who post their loved one’s picture likely do not realize that any information coming through is not from the spirit world, it’s actually coming from the medium’s own psychic intuition.
The spirit world is never wrong and it does not provide inaccurate information. So if the picture reading was in fact a connection to the spirit world, the information from those in spirit would be factual, because the sitter would know the deceased’s life and the evidence of that would be accurate.
So, is reading a picture of someone who has passed a true form of mediumship?
No, it is not a form of mediumship! Mediumship is where a person who has sensitivity to the spirit world utilizes their soul to blend and connect with the soul of someone who has passed, often in-person or online with the sitter. I often say it’s a soul to soul connection.
It is this soul to soul communication that provides the evidence and gives a message to the person here on earth. The soul of the person in spirit must be present in order to give the information to the medium. And a photo of the deceased is only a photo; it is not a soul.
If an intuitive medium or a person with intuitive abilities looks at the picture, they are likely accessing their psychic abilities to read it, and are not truly accessing not the soul of the person in spirit. They may pick up certain things psychically from the photo, but the soul of the person in spirit is not there for them to connect to because the sitter – the person posting the picture – is not in the realtime presence of the medium on either a live video call or in-person reading, and it is the sitter who brings the connection for the medium.
You see, we bring our loved ones with us to a reading, and they stay with us during the reading and leave with us when it ends. And so, it is not possible for mediumship to work in the case of a medium simply looking at a picture from social media to provide an evidential reading. The medium may be accessing their intuition and providing information from their intuitive self, but the information coming through is not from the spirit world.
It is important to know that a picture reading is only a psychic reading and not mediumship. If you have considered posting pictures, just know that any information that comes through flows from the intuitive side and not from the spirit world.