Sentence examples for professional medium from inspiring English sources

It seems that spiritual visitors are willing servants to the professional medium.

Mantel's fat, middle-aged English heroine, Alison Hart, is a professional medium and clairvoyant -- a "sensitive" -- who depends on the help of a grizzled "spirit guide" named Morris.

Daguerreotypes quickly became the professional medium — they worked well for portrait-making — but even after 1851, when glass negatives, which produced a sharper image more quickly, became available, many British photographers preferred the paper negatives.

When he disappears, a professional medium (Geraldine Chaplin) is brought in to help with the search; the staging of her séance, under green night-vision light, is designed to stretch and snap the nerves of the hardiest viewer.

In the early two-thousands, she started work on a novel, "Beyond Black," about a fat professional medium named Alison, whose savage childhood has left her vulnerable to invasive spirits — notably Morris, the ghost of a lowlife john of her mother's.

"A Place of Greater Safety" is set during the French Revolution and has Robespierre as one of its protagonists; "Beyond Black" is set in modern-day Britain and features a professional medium who is haunted by the dead people she cannot help seeing.

The aim was to investigate whether professional mediums could prove their psychic powers in a controlled setting.

The two men, who are not related, are both professional mediums, men who charge money for their supposed skill at transmitting messages from the dead.

He exposed hundreds of professional mediums and offered $10,000 to any medium who could produce phenomena which he could not reproduce by relying solely upon his muscular strength and agility, his physical endurance and his knowledge of mechanics.

The Society turned the initial challenge into an annual event titled the "Halloween Challenge"; a scientific test to investigate if professional mediums could demonstrate psychic abilities in a controlled setting.

In 2012, researchers at Goldsmiths, University of London conducted the challenge with two professional mediums, who both agreed beforehand that it was a fair test of their abilities, asking them to attempt to identify information about five volunteers they had not previously met and could not see.