It is common for a person with problems, involving depression, anguish, chronic ailments, to be informed in the Spiritualist Centre: "You are a medium". Should he develop his mediumship in order to heal?

This is what the less informed spiritism leaders say. We cannot confuse spiritual maladjustment with mediumship to develop.

But there are cases where the person lives with spiritual phenomena, seeing and feeling spirits....

If she is tense, ill and nervous, based on her existential problems, she will experience a psychic super-excitement which can lead her to see and feel the spiritual world. It does not mean that she has mediumnity to develop.

What should he do?

To be treated spiritually, seeking a well-oriented Spiritist Centre, where "fraternal care" works, and an enlightened companion guides her as to the solutions necessary for her physical and psychological stability.

By speaking of a well-oriented Spiritualist Centre, do you mean that there are others who are not well-oriented?

Unfortunately, no. The leaders do not always concern themselves with the study of the basic works of the Doctrine, particularly The Book of Mediums, when it comes to mediumship. They do a spiritism "in the fashion of the house", distancing themselves from the norms.

How is a person to know whether his problems are the result of the birth of a developing mediumship or merely the fruit of spiritual maladjustments?

In principle you should not worry about that. Even if you have mediumnity to develop, it is essential that you do the spiritual treatment and overcome your maladjustments. After that you will think about the possibility.

But if he were a medium, how would he be able to adjust without attending mediumistic meetings?

Its balance is not subordinate to such participation. His presence, in principle, is counterproductive. If he were a medium, he would amplify his sensitivity, without knowing how to control it. He will accentuate his own imbalances.

What does this "spiritual treatment" consist of?

Basically, it would be the application of magnetic passes, the routing of his name to mediumistic meetings appropriate to such attendance, the use of fluidised water and the assimilation of doctrinal guidance, involving public meetings and the reading of indicated spiritist books.

It is not uncommon for a person to be under medical care. How should this be resolved?

He/She should be warned that spiritual treatment does not dispense with the assistance of a physician. A psyche exacerbated by spiritual influences or mediumistic imbalances has repercussions on the physical body, and not infrequently gives rise to problems that require specialist attention. Ideally, therefore, both treatments should be combined.