The Medium is the Massage

 So I had a phone call with an "intuitive" on the East Coast.  A friend of a friend had recommended her as helpful.

What do I think of Mediums?  Is there truly any connection between some minds and the invisible world?  

I don't know.

Mediums could be charlatans who are just high skilled readers of people -- skilled cold readers who are either conscious of their skill as a skill or who believe their own stories of the other side.

What the fuck ever.  All I know is that I heard two very important things I needed to hear.

Jeoren Krabbeas the Psychic in Midsomer Murders, S11:E7

First, she said that an older woman was butting in and needed to send me a message.  "Has your mother passed over?"  So after naming this my mother, the Intuitive said, "She apologizes for the abuses."  Now, lucky guess?  Is there anyone who wasn't at some time abused by a parent?  Whether "authentic" or good cold reading, it was something I needed to hear.

Second, during her "interaction" with my late spouse ("remember, he is now just energy") she said that he said that he was "Very grateful" for all the care at the end, and very grateful that I never institutionalized him.  She also shared a few other things that sounded like Will but could have been good guesses.

She clearly has a particular theology/ideology that I may/may not share.  I too, as revealed by a previous post, am a magical thinker, but one who leans into the Trinity.  

Happily enough, before the phone call I'd watched the episode of Midsomer Murders in which a crazy conservative Anglican priest (played by the always excellent Anton Lesser) does battle with a self-believing psychic.