What happens during a mediumship reading, and how can you tell whether the person delivering the message is genuine?
In this episode of Live Your Jam, Ellen McGinnis sits down with psychic medium, initiated Wiccan priestess, tarot teacher, healer, and bestselling author Linda Rauch to explore how mediumship works and what four decades of studying the unseen have taught her about life, death, grief, and the soul.
Linda began seeing spirits as a young child in 1960s England, long before she had the language to understand her experiences. As a teenager, those encounters developed into precognitive dreams. Her search for answers eventually led her through mediumship, tarot, Wicca, counseling, homeopathy, energy work, and years supporting people facing terminal illness.
Linda explains what she sees, hears, and feels when communicating with spirit, including the physical confirmation she calls a “spirit shower.” She also shares why evidence is only the beginning of a meaningful reading. The deeper purpose is healing, helping people receive the message they may not yet be able to see for themselves.
Together, Ellen and Linda explore how grief can become an invitation to grow, why authentic spirit communication should always feel rooted in unconditional love, and how mediumship may challenge our understanding of consciousness and what happens after death.
You will learn:
- How mediumship works from the medium’s perspective
- What psychic mediums see, hear, and physically experience
- How childhood spirit encounters can develop into mediumistic abilities
- Why grief can make communication with the spirit world feel especially meaningful
- How to recognize an ethical, authentic medium
- Why evidence supports a reading, but the message creates healing
- How tarot’s Major Arcana reflects the soul’s journey
- Why spiritual awareness does not remove the messy parts of being human
- What mediumship can teach us about accountability, purpose, and living a soul-led life
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We talk about:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Why more people are becoming curious about mediumship
05:04 Linda’s first spirit encounters as a child
08:15 Precognitive dreams and learning to feel safe with spirit
10:17 Overcoming her fear of developing mediumistic abilities
13:09 The lifelong search to understand consciousness and the unseen
15:34 Becoming an initiated Wiccan priestess
19:26 What actually happens during a mediumship reading
21:54 Deathbed visions and loved ones welcoming us to the other side
23:39 Psychic phenomena among people living close to death
27:24 The extraordinary story of Raven and the three pomegranates
33:43 How mediumship can support people navigating grief
37:00 The greater purpose of mediumship for humanity
41:04 The Psychic’s Way and the soul’s journey through tarot
46:32 How to recognize a genuine, ethical medium
50:15 What living your jam means to Linda
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