Psychic & Healing Mediums: Origins, Beliefs, and a Biblical Perspective on Divination

Introduction

In modern spiritual and alternative-health circles, terms like “psychic,” “medium,” and “energy healer” are often used without much scrutiny. Many people regard these modalities as harmless, even helpful. Yet from a biblical standpoint, engaging with psychics or supernatural healing via universal energy may not simply be neutral—it may be dangerous, spiritually deceptive, and forbidden. In this article we will examine:

What is meant by psychic (medium, sensitive) and psychic healing (energy healing)
Their beliefs, origins, and purpose
Who or what forces are invoked in these systems
Why Christians often classify them as divination or deviation
What the Bible says, and what risks are involved

Definitions: Psychic / Mediumship & Psychic Healing

Psychic / Mediumship

A “psychic” or “medium” typically refers to someone who claims sensitivity to, or communication with, non-physical or supernatural realms—spirits, entities, or spiritual forces. Mediums attempt to act as intermediaries, conveying messages from the spirit world to the living. Sometimes termed “spiritual mediums,” “clairvoyants,” or “sensitives.” Wikipedia+2The Michael Teachings+2

Psychic Healing / Energy Healing

This refers to a practice where a “healer” claims to channel a universal life force or spiritual energy to effect healing—mentally, emotionally, or physically—through hands, intention, or spiritual connection. Some modalities use the idea of “chi,” “universal energy,” or “etheric flow,” and see themselves as clearing blockages, removing spiritual attachments or restoring energetic balance.

Thus, while psychic / mediumship is focused more on communication with spirits or non-physical beings, psychic healing is about channeling energy to heal. They often overlap in belief systems.

Beliefs, Origin, and Development

What Were Their Beliefs?

Psychic practitioners generally believe there is a spiritual realm beyond the physical, inhabited by deceased souls, spirits, guides, or non-human entities. They assert that certain individuals can perceive, communicate with, or channel these spirits.
Psychic healers believe that health and disease are, in part, manifestations of imbalances or blockages in a person’s spiritual or energetic field. They believe a universal life force or cosmic energy can be directed or moved to heal.
Many systems (e.g. Theosophy, New Age, occult traditions) combine spirit guides, karma, reincarnation, and energetic laws as part of their cosmology.

Who Created or Developed the Idea?

These ideas are ancient and diffuse: shamanism, animism, and spirit beliefs date back to prehistoric times. Mediumistic practices are found in many cultures. hirogaku-u.repo.nii.ac.jp+2The Michael Teachings+2
In the West, modern mediumship was popularized in the 19th century by the Spiritualism movement in America and Europe. hirogaku-u.repo.nii.ac.jp+3Encyclopedia Britannica+3Austin Texas+3
The Fox Sisters in 1848 are often credited as sparking the modern spiritualist craze in the U.S. bostonintuitive.com+2Austin Texas+2
Psychic healing as a formal “energy healing” practice often draws on Eastern philosophies, occult systems, or New Age reinterpretations, merging them with Western metaphysical trends in the 20th century.

Thus, there is no single founder; these ideas evolved in different cultures and were integrated over centuries.

Who is Their God or Gods / Spiritual Forces?

Most psychic or mediumistic systems do not adhere to a single monotheistic God (as in Christianity), but rather accept multiple spirits, guides, and cosmic forces.
Some believe in a “higher self,” “spirit guides,” “ascended masters,” or universal consciousness.
In occult or New Age frameworks, entities may claim godlike status.
Spirits from the “other side” are often invoked, some benign and some malevolent (but the practitioner may claim control).
The “divine” in these systems is often impersonal, pantheistic, or pluralistic—ultimately different from the Christian God who is sovereign, personal, holy, and singular.

Because the power is drawn from spiritual realms or unseen forces, the source is not God (as understood biblically), but spirits or universal energy.

Purpose & Use: What are They For?

For many, psychic / mediumship offers consolation: communicating with deceased loved ones, providing messages from beyond, or gaining hidden insight.
Psychic healing offers hope: relief of pain, psychological healing, spiritual cleansing, or energy balancing.
Some seek guidance, decision-making, protection, prophecy, or spiritual growth.
Others use these modalities to explore the unknown, or to bypass organized religion.

People often are drawn in times of grief, illness, spiritual curiosity, or desperation. The allure is that these methods promise insight, control, or power outside of traditional religious structures.

Biblical Perspective: Divination, Deviation, and Danger

Is it Divination?

Yes, from a biblical standpoint these practices are often classified as divination—the seeking of hidden or forbidden knowledge through supernatural or occult means. The Bible explicitly forbids divination, mediums, sorcery, and necromancy. King James Bible Online+6Bible Gateway+6Catholic Answers+6

Key verses include:

Deuteronomy 18:10–12: “There shall not be found among you… anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or is a medium or a spiritist… for all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord.” Bible Gateway+4Bible Gateway+4Catholic Answers+4
Leviticus 19:31: “Do not turn to mediums or ghosts; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them.” King James Bible Online+2CGG+2
1 Samuel 15:23 equates divination with rebellion against God. OpenBible
Isaiah 8:19 warns against consulting mediums and spiritists but instructs to seek God. GotQuestions.org+3OpenBible+3Bible Gateway+3
Acts 19:19 shows early Christians destroying books of magic/magic arts (those engaging in occult) as incompatible with the new faith. OpenBible+1

Thus in the biblical worldview, practices that seek insight or power from spirits or unseen powers, rather than relying on God, are forbidden.

Why It’s Considered a Deviation or Spiritual Danger

Such practices shift trust and authority from God to spiritual powers or human intermediaries.
They open a person to spiritual deception or malevolent spirits.
They conflict with the exclusive sufficiency of Christ and God's revelation—if one turns to mediums, one essentially bypasses God’s ordained means of guidance (prayer, Scripture, Holy Spirit).
Historically, occult practices often lead into syncretism, false teaching, spiritual bondage, and confusion.
Divination is not neutral; methods are not morally neutral in Scripture. They are condemned because their source is outside God’s order. cicministry.org+2Bible Gateway+2
The Christian doctrine holds that all spiritual authority comes from God; to claim authority from other spirits is to compete or usurp.

In short, from a biblical standpoint, psychic and healing practices that invoke spiritual powers outside of God are deviations, not benign or neutral.

Why Would Anyone Use It or Get Involved?

Desperation / Vulnerability: In times of confusion, loss, sickness, people look for help wherever they hope to find it.
Spiritual Curiosity: Some are drawn by intrigue about the unseen, supernatural, or paranormal.
Deception: They may be deceived into thinking this is spiritual “light” or advancement.
Cultural Normalization: In our age, psychic practices are more accepted in popular media, making them seem harmless.
Healing Hope: Belief in conventional medicine's limits sometimes pushes people toward alternative healings.
Power / Control: Some want access to spiritual power or hidden insight.

But using these opens one to spiritual hazard from forces outside God's authority.

Practical Warnings and Summary

If you are a Christian, the biblical text clearly warns against mediums, diviners, and spiritual arts that seek hidden knowledge through spirits.
Even many who engage in “energy healing” do so under cover of wellness, but the underlying logic is spiritual, often tied to occult or metaphysical systems.
Engaging with these practices can lead one away from reliance on God, into spiritual deception, or into occult footholds.

In conclusion, psychic mediumship and psychic healing, though distinct in focus, share a spiritual lineage of invoking unseen powers outside of God. In Scripture they would be categorized under divination and forbidden arts. For believers, to tread into such ground is to risk spiritual deception and to undermine the sufficiency and authority of Christ.

Teresa Morin
President of Touch of God Int’l Ministries
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Of Healing and Deliverance, Ordained Minister, Public Speaker
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Wednesday, October 08, 2025