How Does the Absence of the Dead Make Them More Present in English Mediumship?

Mediumistic interlocutions in the English mediumistic context allow us to question the criteria for defining the category of “person” ascribed to both the “deceased” and the “living” in our contemporary Western societies, where physical separations seem to go systematically hand in hand with a sense of loss and a feeling of non-existence of those whose bodies are “absent”, in the experience of those who remain, i.e. physically “present”.