Talking Mediums
166. Hearing mediums, who transmit only what
they hear, are not, properly speaking, talking mediums;
these last very often hear nothing; with, them the
spirit acts on the organs of speech, as he acts on the
hand of writing mediums. The spirit wishing to com-
municate acts on the organ he finds most flexible; of
one the hand, of another the speech, of another the
hearing. The talking medium usually expresses him-
self without having a consciousness of what he says,
and often says things completely beyond his custom-
ary ideas, his knowledge, or even the height of his
intelligence.
Though he may be perfectly awake, .and in a normal
state, he rarely preserves the remembrance of what he
has spoken ; in a word, speech is, with him, the instru-
ment the spirit uses, and through which another per-
son can enter into communication, as can be done by
the interposition of the hearing medium.
The passivity of the hearing medium is not always
so complete; there are some who have the intuition
of what they say at the moment of pronouncing the
words. We shall return to this variety when we treat
of intuitive mediums.
