Mediums may use either mental mediumship where communication with spirits is done while fully conscious or physical mediumship, where the physical body is used to get information from spirits through a process known as channeling or trances.
Mental mediumship may use one or more of the following processes known as ‘Clairs”:
Claircognizant- (clear knowing) Information seems to have been planted into your brain, you just ‘know’ what spirit wants to say.
Clairsentience – (clear feeling) Information is given with strong, emphatic feelings and emotions from spirit. The medium may feel pain, tingling or chills in a particular area of their body or emotions of joy, fear or sadness, which in turn is significant to the spirit’s message.
Clairvoyance – (clear vision) The ability to use the mind’s eye (Third Eye) to see objects, colors, symbols, people, spirits or scenes. These pictures usually flash into the medium’s mind like mini videos or snapshots. A spirit may also appear in 3-D or shadowy form to the medium but usually a spirit requires a tremendous amount of focused energy to do this.
Clairaudient – (clear hearing) Hearing words, sounds or music inside your head almost like your own voice. You may be thinking about something and suddenly another thought (that appears to be random) crosses over what you were thinking, this is spirit. Sometimes a spirit will be able make an audible sound but again this takes an enormous amount of energy.
Clairgustance – (clear tasting) The ability to get a sense of taste from the spirit. E.g. the medium tastes onions and the spirit hated/loved onions.
Clairscent or Clairsalience– (clear smelling) The ability to smell a fragrance or odor coming from the spirit. E.g. the medium gets the scent of pipe tobacco from a spirit who was a pipe smoker.
Clairtangency- (clear touch) Also known as psychometry, involves touching an object or person to make the connection to spirit.