The challenges of mediumship development

Theme of the most frequent in the correspondence from our readers, the development of mediumship still raises many questions, even in the spirit middle.

Emmanuel tells us that mediumship "is the light that would be poured out upon all flesh and promised by the Divine Master in times of the Counselor", but it should not be the result of precipitation, since spontaneity is essential in such a matter.

According to the recommendations contained in the booklet "Guidance to the Spiritual Center," published by the National Federative Council, the candidate to psychic development must attend initially, for a while, the meetings of doctrinal study and spiritual care promoted by the Spiritist Center. If patients with obsessive process must, in addition to attendance at meetings mentioned, subscribe to the service set by the spiritual center for cases of obsession. 

It is recommended by the mentioned work that the candidate is oriented to psychic service to control psychic manifestations which conveys, repressing as possible wheezing, groaning, screaming and writhing as much as the beat of hands and feet and any violent gestures. It suggests, finally, that no one should participate in psychic work satisfactorily prior to educate, dodging, so the idea of ​​holding responsibilities or missions hefty transcendence, but rather recognizing the bearer of common tasks.

The Evangelical doctrinal knowledge is essential in this process, because the medium brain centers represent the operating bases of thought and will that affect all psychic phenomena, from the pure intuition to objective materialization. 

Léon Denis has examined the subject in one of his works. According to him, to develop the gift of mediumship, the man has to undergo a complex preparation and observe certain rules of conduct, requiring simultaneously to this, the culture of intelligence, meditation, self-communion and the shedding of human affairs.

Divaldo Franco believes, likewise, that mediumship education requires, firstly, the knowledge that comes from the study of mediumship. Then, moral education and, finally, exercise and experience of Christian conduct. 

Through the healthy habits of study and exercise of love, says Divaldo, the medium is released from any atavisms to be the bridge between him and the Creator, under the inspiration of the High Spirits.

Chico Xavier, the late medium that we all admire, had similar thoughts on the matter. The development of mediumship, he used to say, should be the chisel of the creature itself, because the improvement of the instrument to the Spirit will naturally manifest itself in communicating better and his moral improvement will provide line with the higher discarnate entities.