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How did psychics get the name mediums?

How did psychics get the name mediums? Just want to know where the name originated or how it came to be called medium. Thanks!

Public Comments

1. It was used in the early 20th century when Spiritualism was big. It originates in the idea of being the mediator between the earthly and spiritual worlds.
2. I think it's because a phychic is the way a dead spirit communicates with the living, like a middle man, therefore a medium for them to communicate to us with. The same way that sound waves need air to travel across the room for us to hear the sound: The sound source (radio) vibrates and the vibrations shake the air particles in time with the music, and like a mexican wave the sound vibrations travel across the room to a person whos ears pick up the vibrations, letting us hear the music from the radio - In this case the AIR is the meduim. That's why when your in space nobody hears you screaming "Oh, Shite we're all gonna die!", because there's no air in space.