1. The spirit who acts as a kind of manager through which other spirits communicate to the medium during a séance.
2. In science (and in the scientific investigation of the paranormal—parapsychology), experimental proceedures instituted to prevent extraneous factors from influencing the results of an experiment.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...