Psychic, Mediumship, Intuition – Our Natural Ability?
By Susan Fiandach and Connie Wake
We live in an age where our connection to something greater than our physical senses is explored, discussed, and experienced more openly than ever before. What was once whispered about is now the subject of books, podcasts, research, and everyday conversation.
Many describe psychic-medium abilities as a special gift. Others believe they are inherited through family lines or rooted in our DNA. We share a slightly different perspective.
We believe the ability to receive, interpret, and respond to information beyond our five senses is not an extraordinary exception to being human—it is part of being human.
That may sound like a bold statement until we consider how we define ourselves.
From the perspective of our physical life, psychic insight appears remarkable. We experience ourselves as individuals moving through space and time, gathering information through our senses and reasoning through what we know. When someone seems to know something they couldn't possibly know, we naturally call it amazing.
But what if we are looking from only one side of ourselves? Imagine turning the picture around 360 degrees.
From the perspective of our deeper nature—our consciousness, spirit, or what some might call our "God space"—psychic awareness is simply the other side of our thinking. It is not separate from us. It is not magical. It is another way consciousness receives and understands information.
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Iain McGilchrist describes the brain's hemispheres as offering two complementary ways of engaging reality. The left hemisphere tends to focus on what is already known, defined, and useful for the task at hand. The right hemisphere remains open to the broader context, relationship, possibility, and the living whole. While this is not a description of psychic ability itself, it offers a helpful metaphor: perhaps we all possess a way of knowing that extends beyond our analytical mind, continually inviting us to experience a larger reality.
If that is true, then the role of a psychic-medium changes. Rather than possessing something others lack, a psychic-medium may simply have developed greater familiarity with this other side of thinking. Their work is not to perform something supernatural but to help bridge the conversation between our everyday awareness and the greater consciousness that has always been present.
This perspective shifts the focus away from the psychic-medium and back to the person seeking guidance.
The purpose is not to convince someone they are dependent upon another person's gifts. The purpose is to remind them of their own nature.
Whether we describe that nature as consciousness, spirit, intuition, or the Kingdom of God being "at hand," the invitation is the same: to recognize that we are more than our physical thoughts alone.
Psychic ability, mediumship, and intuition are not departures from who we are.
They are expressions of who we have always been.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Susan Fiandach and Connie Wake are professional psychic-mediums, teachers of psychic-medium studies and co-authors of “Everyday Conversations: The Key to the Contemporary Medium – Unlocking the Myths” and “The Student Guide to the Daily Medium – Unlocking Your 6th Sense.” Some language and structural support for this article were contributed by ChatGPT (OpenAI). All final content, perspectives and experiences of Susan Fiandach and Connie Wake. Susan and Connie can be contacted through The Purple Door, 3259 Winton Rd South, Rochester NY. 585-427-8110. Visit their website - http://www.PurpleDoorSoulSource.com
