Psychic readers and mediums have a huge impact on our world today. In fact, the small community of Cassadaga located in the heart of Central Florida is known to be the Psychic Capital of the World. More than half of its residents are practicing psychic mediums. We know they exist and it raises curiosity as to the “supernatural” work they do.

At some point, we may have wondered what the difference between a medium and a psychic is. While both terms are sometimes used interchangeably, the reality is that there is a huge difference between the two terms.

Not all psychics are mediums but mediums have psychic abilities. There are those who are both a psychic and a medium, thus, they are called psychic mediums.

The Psychic

The psychic perceives. They work with your aura or the energy that is surrounding your body. All living things have an aura which changes depending on your physical, mental, and inner state.

Psychics work with your aura by using any of the four intuitive gifts – By perceptive seeing (clairvoyant), perceptive hearing (clairaudient), perceptive sensing and feeling (clairsentient), and by perceptive knowing (claircognizant).

We are all born with at least one of these intuitive gifts. But the psychic’s intuitive gifts are naturally stronger or may have practiced using their intuitive gifts. Much like in sports, with more practice, you gain better skills.

What is an Aura? The aura is recognized as an electromagnetic energy field that surrounds people. The aura is made up of seven levels or layers, or auric bodies – the physical, the astral, the lower mental, the higher mental, the spiritual, the intuitional, and the absolute.  

Every single one of these auric bodies that is present around the physical body possesses its own distinctive frequency. Each one relates to the other. These bodies also make an impact on the person’s feelings, emotions, behavior, thought patterns, as well as overall health. An imbalance to one is an imbalance to all bodies.

Psychics read the energy in your aura. With the information they get, they can perceive the events in your life. What’s happening in terms of health and other circumstances that happened in your past and at the present moment. Therefore, based on the information they perceive, they can also read your life plan, and what can happen in the future.

The Medium

The medium is a receiver.  They are vessels who acts like a conduit to relay a message between a divine source (or other entities) and a person. Mediums link their energy from one source to another.

All mediums have psychic abilities. They use this as a tool to somehow read and interpret the information they receive. Mediums can receive information from a deceased loved one, angels, spirit guides, and ascended masters.

In modern and in ancient times, a medium is also known as a gifted individual who can communicate with spirits. This individual is an “intermediary” between our world and the spirit world.

They are also referred to as “channelers,” because they apparently “channel” connection from the deceased to the living. Mediums may only connect to one or more certain spirits which they refer to as “familiars” or “familiar spirits”, or the connection could be with various spirits. The information they get from these various spirits may come visually audibly, or by means of physical feelings.

Modern-day mediums differentiate themselves from the psychics who can only read energies but are not capable of communicating with the spirit world. However, psychic mediums can do both and all mediums have psychic abilities using it as a tool to interpret messages.  Mediums also believe that their ability to connect with the spirits is an inherent ability and not learned from outside sources.

Quick Comparison of a Psychic and a Medium

Source of information

Mediums obtain their information by communicating with the spirits. It’s crucial to understand that mediums possess psychic abilities, however, not all psychic readers possess the ability of a medium. This implies that mediums have greater abilities compared to a psychic alone.

Psychics make use of the energy of a person (could be a place or a thing) to get information related to a person. The client (person requesting for reading) could be interested in learning the future events of his/her life. The client may also get information about past and present circumstances of his/her life.

Tools

Mediums use varying tools compared to psychic readers. Mediums usually use specific information, images, or things that are specific and could be very personal to the client.  This information could have been narrated by the spirits and it is the same tool that mediums use to further their communication and channeling for the client.

Psychic readers do not really follow a standard ritual. But they do use tarot cards, astrological charts, palm reading, and others.

Preferences/Level of Comfort

The psychic or the medium have levels of comfortability or particular preferences when it comes to the tools, objects, or places they choose to work with. Psychic mediums may prefer to read the energy of a person but may decline to communicate with spirits even if they have the ability to do it. Or a psychic may prefer to read through tarot cards rather than palm reading.

Credibility

To the public, mediums tend to  be more credible than psychic readers for obvious reasons. Psychic readers can read but cannot connect to the after life. Mediums can connect to the spirit world and relay messages. They can provide both future readings and connection to deceased loved ones which is important to most clients seeking for reading services.

The Accuracy of Readings

For many who are skeptical about psychic readings, the main question is based on the accuracy of their readings. Are the readings accurate? Are you really communicating to your deceased loved one? While many religions oppose these types of readings, there are still many who believe and take the readings seriously.

First of all, you will have to make sure that you are getting the services of a legitimate psychic or psychic medium. Whilte there are good mediums who really have the ability to read energy and connect to spirits, there are fraud and scams around especially in this age of internet technology.

The psychic’s or the medium’s predictions for anyone’s future are based on several factors – your past actions, your present life, the people you connect with, and other circumstances surrounding your life. With these factors, they are able to predict something that may come or happen or what lies ahead of you.

But it is also important to remember that predictions can change.

Factors That May Change Predictions

When you change your general behavior, your lifestyle, your location, the people you connect with, your career – all these can affect what’s predicted and your future will take on a new path.

Your spirit guides and angels will organize some other situations so that you can understand similar life lessons that you may have already learned. There could be an ideal path but this path can be manifested in many ways.

If your future relies on many people who make a huge impact in your life makes a significant change in their life patterns and behaviors, then your future may change along with the changes these people make.  

These people around you are variables that affects your path. So the more people that involve your future, the more challenging it is to give a concrete and predictable future.

If it is meant for you, it is meant for you. Psychics and mediums will tell you if it is meant to happen but will not be able to give you an exact time as to when it is going to happen.

Final Thoughts

There are many people across the globe who actually seek the services of psychics and mediums for many reasons. If you are among those seeking spiritual guidance, it is important to have a healthy skepticism about the medium or the psychic during the process.

The choice between a psychic and a medium depends on your circumstance and what you really want to achieve.

Seek to get focused Readings. It is a very good idea to be specific about the readings you want to get. Your focus could be present concerns about love, health or career. Or possibly to connect with friends and family in the spirit world. Note that the Medium is unable to control the spirits they connect to. The spirit is at control and the medium is just the messenger or translator.

Keep an open mind. An information that may seem insignificant during the time of reading typically has key significance down the road.

Psychic and medium mentors can be a good guide for a better and healthy path. It really depends on the person seeking reading – how the person chooses to take the reading, to take it positively and make changes for the better, or keep what’s already there.

Many people want to remain positive after the readings and they can do so. After all, predictions are predictions and changes are inevitable.