In the days prior to the 'experiment' known as "Mediumship", before the need to identify and validate the ancestral spirit who was communicating with the human channel, there was a system of MEDIATION.
The function of Mediation being undertaken by a priest or priestess, and their role was to act as an interface between divinity and humanity. In true mediation, the priest or priestess may reach deeply into the states of consciousness where transhuman entities exist. Such entities can be god forms or beings which have transcended the human realms.
In meditation, the human mediator acts as a focus or doorway for the consciousness of these transhuman entities. Mediation is thus not an act of passive reception as in the modern day mediumship communications. Mediation is not about 'messages' as the higher modes of consciousness transcend the human condition and mortal means of communications.
A true mediator may be able to translate a few key image or intuitions of the spirit realm into mortal words but he or she is more likely to be a channel for a specific power or vibration to flow out into the magical circle and ultimately into the world. It is the role of the priest or priestess to mediate the powers of divinity ...
Watch out for Practical Druidic & Spiritual Mediation Workshops to be facilitated by Matthew James in 2015, possibly within The Henge stone circle in NSW!