As I have pointed out elsewhere, if mediums are really doing what they claim to be doing, it completely overthrows the laws of physics.
A person consists of their character and their memories. Memories, we now know, are neural pathways. We know the chemical reactions that lay down and then refresh those neural patheways. We know that a dead body cannot sustain those chemical reactions. So the memories are no longer in the brain - and in fact, if they were, there would be no way to access them, because dead bodies cannot speak, or write, or do semaphore.
For the memories and the character to be transferred, at the moment of death, to some other place where they can be accessed by mediums, there would have to be a tremendous data transfer conduit. Next time you want to transfer 4Gb of data over a USB 1.0 connection, note that it will take over an hour. OK, USB 1.0 connections are slow, but there's a hell of a lot more than 4 gigs of data in someone's memories. Think of the first weekender you went to and work out what sort of storage capacity that would need - people you met, their names, moves you learnt, places you encountered, memories of how to get to your chalet from the car park and from the chalet to the dance hall, etc. And that's just one weekend. There is no known mechanism by which data is transferred from a dying brain to some other place. If and when (if it hasn't been done already) a real-time MRI setup is attached to the head of a dying person I'm confident that it will (did) not show the sort of electrochemical activity which would be required.
The energy necessary to transfer those sort of data quantities is not insignificant either. Disconnect the laptop from the mains and battery and the 4Gb data transfer will come to a complete halt.
Of course, Christians have no problem with believing that these sorts of transfers are possible, without any known mechanism or energy source, because they believe in a soul. And since we almost all learned about souls before we learnt our 12x table, the concept is difficult to dislodge. This partly explains why most people swallow the nonsense spouted by mediums without asking questions. If you believe David Blaine can bring a dead fly back to life you're more likely to believe he can make himself float 4 inches above the pavement. But the first is the simplest of tricks, and is a preparation to make you believe the really difficult stuff.
But if RubyRed believes in life after death because she has a faith, then she ought to seek help from church personnel rather than mediums. If she has no faith, then perhaps it might help her to ask why she believes in mediums.
Me too.RR - I hope that whatever you choose to do, you find peace and acceptance of things.
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