Is there a connection between psychics and religion?

Psychics and religion share a lot of similarities. Most of all, they require a great deal of faith. There are many people who refuse to believe either because they can’t be physicality perceived. Spirituality, and the relationship between life and death, is at the heart of both ideologies. What happens when you die is the base of many religions; Christianity believes you go to heaven or hell depending on how well you have lived your life.

Any crimes or atrocities committed and you’ll be heading down, rather than up. But they also believe if you accept God as your lord and saviour before death, you can make it to heaven. Hindus believe death leads to reincarnation, but the same basic principle of good vs evil remains. You will be reincarnated as something positive or negative depending on the choices you make in your life.

There are plenty of strong links recorded between Judaism and psychic readings. But readings often take the form of counselling in this instance, rather than anything closer than a prediction. Because death is one of only few certainties in life, many people, religious or not, are looking for answers to try and understand it. Having a structure or certainty in those terms can help people even if they don’t believe in any God.

Everyone has some understanding of faith, whether it is in other people, a role model or another something else spiritual. Psychic readings can give everything that religion can to some people, despite being very different entities.

But psychics can also get their own understanding of death through mediums. A medium is someone who performs a certain type of psychic reading, which connects with dead people using surrounding energies. Recently deceased people and contacting them are a major reason why some people get involved in psychic readings. Everyone wants to talk to those they’ve lost, and some go that way, while others turn to religion where they hope to connect with them once again in their next life.

One point of confusion in the relationship between psychics and religion comes from Christians themselves. There have been many reports of practicing people being unsure of voicing and amplifying their gifts for fear of acceptance from peers and ministers within the faith. But there is very little substance to the belief that religions condemn psychics. If people do, then they don’t really understand the Bible. Psychic gifts and psychic readings can and should be embraced by organised religion.

If people are struggling to come to terms with this whole notion, it is because psychics being so popular is a modern phenomenon. Though the principles come from Ancient Greece, while some religions were being developed, it has moved on so much in recent years particularly. The improvement with online and mobile access has made psychics more common and therefore more accepted. It is modern, cool and even trendy to get involved with the many different options online. Religion has the opposite problem; it stands as an old institution, only accessible to certain types of people. Perception may make you believe religion is more accepted these days, but things are changing truthfully.

Does a psychic reading have any real connection to religion overall? Not necessarily. Religion is a way of living your life; your faith teaches you certain things through books, passages and services; you learn to grow in a certain image. A psychic would never tell you how to live your life, but they would be able to help you better understand your life, the meaning of it and how you could perhaps improve it based on your past and future decisions.