(2023-06-23, 08:55 PM)Ninshub Wrote: Yeah I don't think it's just the celebrity mediums (of which there aren't that many). I would venture it's at least 90%+ of mental mediums who don't go into trance.
I wonder if the "trance" aspect was just part of the Spiritualist religion? There are religions around the world that use "trance" in some sense for possession and IIRC also mediumship channeling of the dead.
But as you say it seems the majority of mediums in the West, if not all at this point, are not trance mediums.
It makes me wonder how much more successful the SPR would've been if they'd avoided the issues that come up with trance states such as controls...though I'm one of the few who suspect that sub-personalities are themselves spirits.
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