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A mediunidade é considerada uma sensibilidade extrassensorial, algo que existe em cada um de nós, de forma mais ou menos desenvolvida. Os médiuns afirmam ter a capacidade de facilitar a comunicação com seres espirituais, funcionando como a ligação entre o mundo físico e o mundo espiritual. Nas últimas décadas foi possível demonstrar que esse tipo de sensibilidade pode ser desenvolvido, mesmo em pessoas que não a apresentavam. Mas os investigadores continuam a tentar encontrar qual a explicação para a capacidade mediúnica muito evidente em algumas pessoas, estudando, inclusive, o seu cérebro e o seu código genético.
21 jul. 2025
A mediunidade é considerada uma sensibilidade extrassensorial, algo que existe em cada um de nós, de forma mais ou menos desenvolvida. Os médiuns afirmam ter a capacidade de facilitar a comunicação com seres espirituais, funcionando como a ligação entre o mundo físico e o mundo espiritual. Nas últimas décadas foi possível demonstrar que esse tipo de sensibilidade pode ser desenvolvido, mesmo em pessoas que não a apresentavam. Mas os investigadores continuam a tentar encontrar qual a explicação para a capacidade mediúnica muito evidente em algumas pessoas, estudando, inclusive, o seu cérebro e o seu código genético.
21 jul. 2025
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00:00Música
00:02Formal research on mediumship
00:21has actually been done for about
00:23150 years
00:24so in the late
00:261800s
00:29there was a huge upswelling
00:30of interest
00:32in these phenomenon
00:34in the spiritualist movement
00:36which was a religious movement
00:38and people had seances
00:40and practiced
00:43mediumship quite regularly
00:45so there was
00:46much research that began
00:48at that time to assess
00:50if the information
00:52that was coming through through these mediums
00:54at seances was
00:56actually verifiable
00:58if they were actually getting
00:59true information about these deceased people
01:02now
01:03that research was done
01:06very methodically
01:08in a
01:09qualitative way
01:11they would record etc
01:13only recently
01:14have we been able to apply
01:17our modern
01:18tools and techniques
01:19to the study of mediumship
01:21looking at brain waves
01:23heart waves
01:24different hormones
01:26and what is actually happening
01:28when the mediums are giving their sessions
01:31and we can't comprehend everything
01:41we don't have all the answers
01:42but they really are just a thought away
01:45the spirit world
01:48the spirit world's around us
01:49it's not there
01:50or down there
01:51because we're all energy
01:52and so is the spirit world
01:55it's tangibly there
01:56so when we can
01:58focus and move our awareness
02:01and own our sensitivity
02:03to that
02:04we become aware of the vibration
02:06and the frequency
02:08of the spirit world
02:09the spirit world
02:39of the spirit world
03:09when we talk about
03:13medium-indeeded
03:13we are talking about
03:14a percepção
03:15extra-sensorial
03:17the medium-indeeded
03:20of the authors
03:20consider today
03:22that people
03:24all have
03:24some sense
03:26to above the five senses
03:28all have
03:29all have
03:29all have
03:30all have
03:31all have
03:31all have
03:31all have
03:32all have
03:32all have
03:32all have
03:33all have
03:34all have
03:35all have
03:35people
03:36that have
03:36this
03:37sensibility
03:38more
03:39desenvolved
03:39some
03:41say
03:41dizem que, desde criança, tiveram facilidade em contactar com os seres espirituais,
03:47ou seja, com pessoas já falecidas.
03:50Tem-se vindo a demonstrar que, quando essas crianças com essas características
03:55são reprimidas pelos pais, as suas características tendem a desvanecer-se.
04:01Enquanto que, quando são incentivadas pelos pais, essas características desenvolvem-se.
04:06Mas, afinal, em que é que consistem e como é que podem ser desenvolvidas essas características?
04:11Essas capacidades?
04:13Tem sido estudado e os médiuns referem, verem, ouvirem, sentirem, compreenderem os seres espirituais.
04:21E, em alguns casos, mesmo, sentirem-se dominados por eles transitoriamente,
04:25durante alguns segundos, durante alguns minutos.
04:28O desenvolvimento dessas características faz-se por aprendizagem.
04:32Por um lado, o médium procura aprender a controlar a situação.
04:36Ou seja, aprende a definir o momento em que começa o contacto com o ser espiritual
04:41e o momento em que termina esse contacto, pela sua própria vontade do médium.
04:48Por outro lado, aprende a manter a sua independência.
04:53Aprende a compreender bem qual é o seu próprio pensamento,
04:57diferenciando-o do pensamento do ser espiritual
05:00e não se deixando intimidar, não se deixando influenciar por ele.
05:04Manter uma certa distância, no fundo.
05:06Uma certa distância.
05:07E, finalmente, o médium aprende a sintonizar cada vez melhor com o ser espiritual
05:12no sentido de desenvolver, de potenciar todas as suas características.
05:19Isto é uma coisa que se aprende.
05:20E hoje já há, em países como os Estados Unidos ou o Reino Unido,
05:23há institutos que ajudam as pessoas a fazerem este trajeto de aprendizado.
05:28É, então, importante o papel da investigação científica
05:32para o entendimento e desenvolvimento da mediunidade?
05:37Em torno do fenómeno mediúnico, geraram-se muitos conceitos e preconceitos,
05:42muitos tabus.
05:43Até alguma outra vez.
05:44Alguma outra vez, alguma exploração da ignorância, algum negócio.
05:49A investigação, conduzida sob o rigor do médium científico,
05:52tem procurado esclarecer a situação do médium
05:56de ter acesso a determinativa informação
05:58que não é acessível pelos meios convencionais,
06:02pelos órgãos dos sentidos.
06:04Mas, por outro lado, também tem dado um bom contributo
06:07para recuperar a credibilidade do tema.
06:10de forma de renovar.
06:25Os pesquisadores têm olhando para o médium científico,
06:27e muita de essa obra é o que vocês chamam de testos de prova.
06:31Ou, é, pode demonstrar que desigendze overcústas
06:33realmente continuam a existir em alguma forma
06:35se você avalia o evidência que eles produzam.
06:38Essa questão ainda não foi resolvida, então nós, no Northampton,
06:42colaboramos com a União Espiritualista para fazer trabalho
06:46que é muito mais sobre a experiência de ser um medium
06:49e o processo de mediunidade.
06:53Shelley Ewell colabora nas investigações dirigidas por Chris Rowe
06:58no Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade de Northampton, em Inglaterra.
07:02Descobriu, ainda em criança, a aptidão mediúnica.
07:06Os dados obtidos nos encefalogramas permitem estudar as alterações ocorridas no cérebro de
07:34Shelley durante o suposto contacto com uma pessoa falecida.
07:39O que nós temos aqui são pessoas que realmente vivem e morrer em espírito,
07:45e morrer em espírito, e nós temos permissão de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer.
07:51O que você diz em relação a esses pessoas?
07:53Eu estou gravando aqui, e há um audio de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer.
07:57E aí nós podemos transcriar isso e dar para a morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer.
08:03E aí nós temos que ter um vídeo de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer de morrer.
08:07EG data so I'll introduce the question but I'll ask you not to say anything and if you sit with
08:13that question while you're in contact with the spirit that then allows us to get the data and
08:18then I'll ask you the question again and then you can answer and I'll write that down when you're
08:22talking you've got muscles that are being used and all sorts of things and that affects the EG
08:26readout so we don't get a clear reading so what we've done is we've randomly chosen somebody we've
08:31got a small collection of people about 14 people that we have relatives giving the names for and
08:36we can give you the Christian name of this person okay so the lady that we'd like you to make
08:40contact with is called Mary whenever you're ready just let me know
08:44I'm ready okay first of all what I want you to do in contacting Mary is have a sense of
08:55Mary's hair and how you would describe that her hair yeah so if you sit with that and I'll ask
09:00you the question in a minute how would you describe Mary's hair
09:06at some point in her life I believe she had red hair copper red hair auburn hair was very important
09:13to her very much so throughout her life even as she got older she always liked her hair to look nice
09:22regularly went to the hairdressers and things like weekly or monthly
09:28thank you so when I sat there in that experience obviously it's very different because it's controlled
09:38even though it's good it was controlled I set my intention and I moved my awareness through my
09:48thoughts to that inviting the spirit world to come and join me and as we used well I was given a lady's name
09:56so I asked her if she would come forward and because you've started to concentrate
10:01and alter your state of consciousness so you become more sensitive to the energy and vibration of that
10:09of spirit
10:10the next question we'll ask whether Mary's cause of death was natural or whether it was unnatural
10:20so unnatural would be an accident or a suicide or something like that
10:24natural
10:28okay
10:29next question will be to ask what particular body parts were affected at death
10:38yeah I feel all of her abdomen area there was problems stomach uh maybe kidneys um and liver actually
10:49but I also feel that there was like heaviness in the lungs don't know like a pneumonia or a condition
10:55there that attributed to her passing and there's weakness there with the heart
11:01are there any dates or times of year that Mary's mentioned
11:08yeah I get February and I get June and there's something about the date of the 16th and the 21st
11:15I feel it in them months
11:20of those months thank you
11:23when I was given the dates or have you got any months or dates I see them
11:31I see them flashing I see the month uh February and June and the dates I heard
11:38I just see it's like the word flashes in front of me within my own mind's eye if you like obviously
11:45subjectively not objectively
11:47I should have mentioned that neither David nor I know Mary so we were not able to give anything away about
11:56how accurate these statements are our task is just to pass them on to the family and let them decide
12:06a família de Mary recebeu as repostas obtidas em Northampton e fez uma avaliação muito positiva a
12:13a descrição física de Mary por exemplo revelou-se extremamente fidedigna bem como as respostas
12:19relativas aos interesses e atividades pessoais
12:22it's mind to mind like communication like telepathy so and they impress upon our mind through our super conscious
12:33and then it comes to our conscious for us to be able to relate the information but they do this through what we call
12:41extra sensory perception which is your five senses so um you're hearing seeing feeling knowing
12:50but I believe that the very core of all this is the sentience the feeling and the emotion
12:57um because you really can be moved um even though you get pictures the difference between imagination
13:04and working with the spirit you get the emotion of that person you feel them so even that picture
13:11it's not just a picture there's emotions does that make sense
13:17sometimes it's just a knowing or an emotion I feel their presence um I feel emotional I feel their
13:25emotions and then I start to feel their personality maybe and sometimes between that I can hear things
13:32and sometimes I see see images um of whatever Mary wished to portray to me
13:51relatively recently when people had tried to test mediums kind of in a more systematic controlled way
14:06the results were pretty damned unimpressive now in recent years there have been some studies
14:12that have suggested that maybe under you know sometimes under triple blind conditions you can't really get much
14:22stricter than that the mediums do perhaps seem to be able to produce answers that are more accurate
14:29than one would expect by chance now most of that research has come from one laboratory to date not all of it but most of it
14:39um and I think again uh it's it's like another area if you've asked me this a few years ago I wouldn't have
14:45put mediumship as being kind of very high on the list of well there may be something in it after all um
14:51but it's risen up my rankings because of this recent research so I will watch that area research you know with
14:57with interest and see again what we ideally want are other independent replications from other laboratories
15:04um and and you know and then if it looks like there is a real effect there trying to figure out what that
15:10effect might be I mean it could be that there's some non-paranormal explanation but I can't think of
15:16one off the top of my head uh if it's a paranormal thing it could either be uh some form of either
15:22clairvoyance or telepathy relating to still living people or it might provide evidence for life after
15:28death but it's certainly really interesting intriguing research
15:43I mean are you still okay if we carry on for the second task yes and then just to illustrate that
15:47one so um again when we talked before we explained that one of the things we're interested in is one of
15:54the standard skeptical explanations for mediumship is that people are just drawing on their own
15:59imagination or their own memories of people that they knew in life who maybe have died and in doing
16:04an EEG study we've got a chance to see whether when you're bringing spirit forward it's actually
16:09triggering the same parts of your brain as it would do if you were just imagining somebody all you need
16:15to do for this one is to sit quietly with your eyes closed you don't need to respond and say anything
16:21and i'll just talk you through you sitting with different activities so one will be i'll ask you
16:26to imagine somebody just have you sit quietly imagining what that person might look like if
16:31they were a real person and then i'll also get you to remember somebody that you truly know
16:36they may be living or have passed but somebody that you're drawing on memories for i'll ask you also
16:41to reconnect with mary and just sit with her and then there's a fourth one which is where i read out
16:46a description of somebody you've never met and then just you just have to listen to me and imagine
16:50the person basically working with my imagination exactly exactly and as i say in the original study
16:56they did find that there were differences and we're hoping to confirm that
17:02entrar em estado mediúnico recorrer à imaginação ou resgatar memórias passadas são mecanismos com
17:09respectivas assinaturas cerebrais totalmente distintas the standard skeptical responses they're
17:16mistaken that in fact it's just their imagination and they're not entering any trans states whatsoever
17:21that they're still in the ordinary waking state of consciousness so some of the early work we've
17:26been doing using eeg so electroencephalography has been to measure brain activity as mediums shift from
17:33one state to another and the evidence is quite compelling that yes objectively something really
17:38is happening it does seem to go beyond imagination you know it's giving evidence that that we live on
17:49beyond physical death and it brings great comfort to the grieving and and helps bring heal wounds for
17:59people as well because some people can't cope with their loss whereas it changes people's lives when they
18:07can communicate and feel the presence of their loved one themselves and they can bring much much healing
18:16really and sometimes there's words they never got to say and often through this communication they can
18:23relieve those guilt or the emotions and accept that their their loved ones still around them
18:33okay and that's now the end of the experiment when we speak to mediums about their history and how
18:40they came to be mediums they often say that they've always been mediumistic but they never really
18:45recognized that that was what it was as children they may have unusual experiences like seeing
18:50apparitions or hearing voices that they presume that everybody else experiences as well and it comes as
18:56a shock when they discover that actually they're relatively unusual what followed from that point
19:01depended on the reaction of other people so where they found that other people were sympathetic to
19:05the experience they saw it as a sign that they were special or sensitive in some way and that those
19:10experiences were cultivated they had a very positive relationship with their experiences for other
19:15people their experiences were shut down very quickly by family members because they were concerned that
19:20it was a sign of mental illness and what these people found was that they spent years and years
19:25struggling to suppress those experiences unsuccessfully and ultimately it was only when they discovered
19:31mediumship that they found a way to understand what was going on and discovered a way to control it
19:47controlar e entender a natureza da mediunidade são objetivos fulcrais no arthur findlay college
19:54reconhecido mundialmente pelo estudos das ciências psíquicas recebe anualmente mais de 3500 alunos e conta com um
20:03corpo docente com cerca de 50 professores todos médiums experientes
20:08it was like the puzzles of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle were putting together soon as I walked into the building I felt like I was home and it was something I couldn't I can never really explain I just felt like it was home
20:22and I realized that I wasn't the only one in in this world and there was like-minded people and you
20:31could explain and talk about it all the exercises we did the tutors are wonderful and the explanation
20:39of of how things work because it you you kind of think you're a bit some strange or do I fit in
20:47and then you realize actually yes I do and that was my real turning point for me I believed in the spirit
20:55well but believe that I had the ability as a medium so and then I really took it on and embraced that and worked with it from then on
21:04The Arthur Findlay College is not an isolated organization. It is part of the Union National
21:12of Spiritualists, a bigger institution that promotes the formation and development of the individual skills.
21:22Over the last fifty or so years it has become such an amazing wonderful place and now attracts people from virtually every corner of the world.
21:33It's very hard I think to be formulaic about what we do here. It's almost about your personal experience, your personal feeling and certainly from my experience of developing mediumship, every medium in their own way is unique.
21:55We set about creating a standard, creating a knowledge, creating an education but how every medium works with that energy and works with the spirit world produces a unique experience for them.
22:13How do we prove things to general public? We don't actually. We present evidence to the public. It's for them to decide what it proves. We cannot prove life after death.
22:29What we can do is provide a body of evidence and present it to you. For example, information about someone you've once known, who you know has died. We just present the evidence. You then decide what that proves to you. So it's not empirical. It's personal.
22:47When you first get evidence that is personal to you, that makes you understand and know that life is eternal, I challenge anybody to not change the way they approach their physical life when they realise that that change we know is death.
23:05is not an end, but rather a gateway to a greater reality and life moves forward. And I just do not believe that having accepted that and having evidence of that, that you can possibly live your life here in the same way as you did before you had that knowledge.
23:34That knowledge, that knowledge, that evidence changes and transforms lives. It heals life. Spiritualists are not different from anyone else. We grieve, we feel physical loss, but we have this knowledge and this understanding that life goes on. And those people that have passed through that change called death survive in the spirit world.
24:04We've got to think of this like any other human skill. I can't play the piano, but I could have lessons and I might be able to play a bit of a tune. I actually don't think I'm ever going to be a concert pianist.
24:15Mediumship is no different to any other human skill. A small percentage of people are going to be really good at it. A whole load of people are going to be average and another percentage of people not very good.
24:29But everybody can do something. And yes, we're going to get people here who are not ever going to be very good at it or a professional medium, but they can learn something to some extent where if they're motivated by a desire to help people, they'll be able to help people to some extent.
24:47One of the reasons why this college is here is to help people understand these abilities they may have, how to work with them in a very controlled way, because you have to be able to turn them on and turn them off to be able to live a normal life as well.
25:07I'm very curious about whether there is a genetic component to the types of abilities that people have.
25:25There was a researcher in the United Kingdom who actually formally studied this and mapped out pedigrees of families and found a clue.
25:36And found a clear familial transmission. They also did the same with surveys. In the many surveys that we've done, it's very clear that there is some familial component.
25:52As far as we know, we've done the only official genetic study to actually test this in a small pilot with 13 high functioning psychics.
26:05Now, these were not specifically medium, but we found a unique difference in their genetic code. So the psychics had a region in what's called the non-coding region of the DNA.
26:25We're really excited about this result and want to keep moving forward with this research to see if we can replicate it and see if we can tease apart the different abilities and if those have different aspects in the genetic code.
26:40Many people want to know the source. They want to get to the definitive proof of whether mediums are actually speaking to deceased humans or these non-physical beings.
27:00My sense is that with the tools we have today definitively proving that this is true is going to be very, very challenging. So I'm more focused on the mechanisms or how it actually works.
27:18Why is it that one person is able to receive highly accurate information, whether it's from their higher self or a deceased person, we don't know, but they're still have this skill.
27:30What is it about them that allows them to do that? How does it actually work when they go in and out of their trance states? And how can we learn from that to support more people to be able to tap into their inner wisdom and their intuition?
27:49How can we find that understanding?"
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