Jesus taught through his medium Paul that there are two worlds and that every human has two bodies, one for each world. In the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians, Paul explains that we are born with two bodies.

“It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.” [1 Corinthians 15:44 [RSV]]

“I tell you this, my brothers: an earthly body made of flesh and blood cannot get into God’s kingdom. These bodies are not the right kind to live forever.” [1 Corinthians 15:50 [LIV]]

Saint Paul taught that when death comes to the physical or flesh body, the spiritual (etheric) body, called the soul, is released to live in another dimension. Most people call this other dimension heaven. However, heaven is only a state of mind. The critical thing to remember is that the soul or spirit is living, breathing, and having its being in another dimension, called the Spirit World. This other dimension is not above or below the earth but is congruent or intermeshed with our physical world. However, the Spirit World exists on a higher frequency than most people’s physical senses cannot detect.

In the air we breathe, billions of sounds and pictures are transmitted from radio and television stations at vibrational rates much too high for human eyes and ears to detect. However, when the proper instrument is used, a radio or television attuned to this higher vibrational rate, the instrument receives this invisible information. Then, it modulates its vibration downward to a rate that human beings can hear and see.

The World of Spirit vibrates at a much higher frequency than radio or television waves. Therefore, the World of Spirit is right here, just like radio and television vibrations, but most of us cannot detect them. The only physical people who can communicate with the Spirit World are mediums/prophets.

A medium can become the communication link between the spiritual and physical worlds. Nature has always allowed certain people to alter their state of consciousness. This occurs when specific brain centers in a medium’s brain are activated. These centers receive Spiritual frequencies, but they are dormant in most people’s brains.

A Spirit can “broadcast” messages to a medium whose brain centers receive the information. The medium can then repeat these messages to other physical people, creating perfect communication between the Spirit and the physical world. Therefore, a medium is “the person in the middle” between the Spirit and physical people.

A medium has one of the Gifts of the Spirit (the same gifts that Paul described in 1 Corinthians 12). Each gift is connected to a different brain center. Depending on which brain center is operational in the medium’s brain determines which of the Gifts of the Spirit that medium will demonstrate. Gifts of the Spirit have been known and demonstrated through the centuries of time, even farther back than Biblical times.

Mediums who possess the Gifts of the Spirit are sensitive to the vibrational rates of another world. At times, mediums can raise their vibrational rate (altering their consciousness). At the same time, the Spirit lowers its vibrational rate. They meet midway, creating a linkage or bridge between the two entities from two dimensions. People endowed with these Gifts of the Spirit have been known by many different names.

Mantis, Shaman, Soothsayer, Seer, Prophet, Oracle, Sorcerer, Wizard, Witch, Manus, Person with a Familiar Spirit, Man in White Clothing, Man of God, Diviner of a Ghost, Psychic, Medium, Instrument.

The terms psychic and instrument are the most commonly used words to refer to a medium.

As God first breathed into the nostrils of man, he became a living soul, or to borrow an expression from the Greek, he became a living psyche. Psychic derives its meaning from the Greek word psyche, which means soul and mind. [1] Therefore, any study pertaining to the mind and any study pertaining to the soul consciousness is a study of psychic science.

Everyone is psychic to some extent. However, not everyone is a medium. A psychic can often get a sense of future events or a feeling that danger is ahead. However, they cannot identify the source of this information. A medium hears or sees a Spirit. Therefore, the medium can provide information that can identify the Spirit. The medium can also convey the Spirit’s message to other physical people.

The term INSTRUMENT is often used to describe a medium. A violin has the potential to create beautiful music, but it takes an outside force, the musician, to cause the music to be produced. The musician also has the potential to make beautiful music, but he cannot create his music without the instrument or violin. Music can only be made through the combined effort of the instrument and the musician.

A medium is the instrument for Spirit. Through the use of a medium, Spirit can transmit their messages from the Spirit World to a person on the Earth plane. The medium cannot bring this message about without the help of Spirit, just as Spirit cannot bring the message about without the use of the instrument. The cooperation of both is needed.

A Gift of the Spirit is having the ability to demonstrate psychic phenomena. It is considered a gift from God, just as Michelangelo had a gift of art and Beethoven had a gift of music. Through practice, the medium can develop his God-given gift.

Jesus taught us through the prophet (medium) Paul in Chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians that everyone should be educated in the Gifts of the Spirit.

"And now, brothers, I want to write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of you, for I don't want any misunderstanding about them."

"Now God gives us many kinds of special abilities, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all."

"There are different kinds of service to God but it is the same Lord we are serving."

"There are many ways in which God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work in and through all of us who are His."

"The Holy Spirit displays God's power through each of us as a means of helping the entire church."

"To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; someone else may be especially good at studying and teaching, and this is his gift from the same Spirit."

"He gives special faith to another, and to someone else the power to heal the sick."

"He gives power for doing miracles to some, and to others power to prophesy and preach. He gives someone else the power to know whether evil spirits are speaking through those who claim to be giving God's messages -- or whether it is actually the Spirit of God who is speaking."

"Still another person is able to speak in languages he never learned; and others who do not know the language either are given power to understand what he is saying."

"It is the same and only Holy Spirit who gives all these gifts and powers, deciding which each one of us should have." [1 Corinthians 12:1-11 [LIV]]

Jesus wanted the people to be educated in the Gifts of the Spirit so that they would realize that life continues after the change we know as death. The World of Spirit is the world we enter when our soul or spiritual body leaves the physical body at death. It is essential that we here in the physical world, or earth plane, know and understand that the Spirit World is real and exists now, not off into the future. Because whatever we do with our lives here on earth, whatever we build or make of ourselves, we will arrive in the Spirit World with the same talents, the same understandings, the same misconceptions. The sooner we understand and realize that the Spirit World exits, the sooner we will prepare ourselves for our life in the Spirit World.

The Bible contains all of the Gifts of the Spirit that Saint Paul mentioned. In fact, as you will see, if you removed all the Gifts of the Spirit or psychic phenomena, there would no longer be a Holy Bible.

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[1] Nelson, William Allan, ed. Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language. 2nd edition. Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Company Publishers, 1947. p. 2001.