In this episode of Light the Day, Julie sits down with evidential mediums Marie and Eric for a heartfelt conversation about mediumship, spiritual development, and the enduring legacy of renowned medium and teacher Mavis Pittilla.
Marie and Eric share their personal journeys of discovering their mediumistic abilities, including the challenges of growing up in religious environments where their experiences were not always understood or welcomed. Their paths eventually led them to Mavis Pittilla, whose practical, compassionate, and deeply ethical approach to mediumship profoundly influenced both their work and their lives.
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Together, they explore what it truly means to work for the spirit world rather than simply deliver messages. Mediumship can be a powerful source of healing—not only for those grieving here, but also as part of a much larger spiritual relationship between this world and the next.
The conversation also explores the concept of the “whole medium,” the ethics and responsibilities that accompany mediumship, and why becoming a medium is not about completing a course or earning a certificate. It is a lifelong journey of development, self-awareness, integrity, and service.
Marie and Eric also share their experience completing the rigorous process of becoming authorized Mavis Pittilla teachers and discuss the upcoming Mavis Pittilla’s Legacy Academy of Mediumship, created to preserve and carry forward Mavis’s teachings for future generations.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Marie and Eric’s journeys into evidential mediumship
- Navigating spiritual gifts within religious environments
- Finding and training with Mavis Pittilla
- What it means to work for the spirit world
- Why mediumship can bring profound healing
- The ethics and responsibilities of evidential mediumship
- Mavis Pittilla’s concept of the “whole medium”
- Why mediumship development is a lifelong process
- The rigorous training required to become an authorized Mavis Pittilla teacher
- The vision behind the Mavis Pittilla Legacy Academy of Mediumship
Whether you’re developing your own mediumship, curious about evidential mediumship, or simply interested in the relationship between this world and the spirit world, this conversation offers a beautiful reminder that mediumship is ultimately about service, healing, integrity, and love.
About the Mavis Pittilla Legacy Academy of Mediumship:
The Mavis Pittilla Legacy Academy of Mediumship is dedicated to creating a global community of well-trained, ethical, and confident mediums who honor the spirit world through accurate evidence, compassionate communication, and professional integrity. Rooted in Mavis Pittilla’s Whole Medium teachings, the Academy provides education, mentorship, workshops, retreats, demonstrations, and ongoing development while encouraging each medium to discover their own authentic voice and uphold the high ethical standards that defined Mavis’s work. The academy opens early in 2027. More information will be available soon at mavispittilla.com.
About Marie:
Marie Belote is an evidential medium and spiritual educator who has spent more than twenty years helping people discover that love does not end when a life does. Through evidence-based spirit communication — the small, specific details only a loved one would know — Marie offers grieving hearts something more enduring than comfort: genuine reassurance that the bond continues. One of twelve teachers worldwide personally authorized by the late Mavis Pittilla, she serves on the faculty of the Mavis Pittilla Legacy Academy, where she carries forward Mavis’s belief that mediumship is an act of service to both worlds. From her practice in Pennsylvania, Marie offers private readings, public galleries, and mentorship for those ready to trust their own connection with the spirit world.
Connect with Marie:
www.mariebelote.com
https://www.facebook.com/mariebelote.medium
About Eric:
Eric began as a “natural medium” and has memories of seeing spirited people as a child, which was sometimes frightening. He grew up in a rural area in Ohio and in a conservative Christian family that didn’t foster or encourage this ability. As a teen, he was very psychic and often became the advisor of many friends in school. To him, it was just normal, and he didn’t realize that others couldn’t “see” life circumstances playing out in their mind as he did. In his 30’s he began to receive what he calls “downloads” of information from the Spirit World. After validating most of this information, he knew he had something that must
be shared and better understood. In 2012 he began to formally study and perfect his abilities, with local mediums and tutors. His never-ending thirst for knowledge let him to attend a 4-day workshop in 2018 with Mavis Pittilla, a world-renowned medium and teacher based in the UK.
Little did he know that this would become such a life-changing event, both personally and professionally. He remained under Mavis and her partner Jean’s wings for 5 years, developing and perfecting his mediumship further, and he has had the privilege to build a loving friendship with Mavis and Jean that has been everlasting, a friendship that he continues to cherish. Over these past several years Eric has trained exclusively Mavis Pittilla, with a few other hand-picked individuals. He has gleaned many of Mavis’ best practices and techniques to deliver exceptional evidence and to allow the essence of the spirit communicator to be felt by audiences. Eric has worked on the platform in many of the Spiritualist Churches in the U.K.
under the guidance of Mavis as well as in many galleries in the US, delivering evidence based and heart-felt communication from loved ones in the Spirit World. He has been formally certificated by Mavis Pittilla and Jean Else as an “Mavis Pittilla Authorized Teacher”, and as a mentor and teacher of the “Mavis Way”. This honor has only been awarded to a select few (12 people as of 2023) by Mavis Pittilla and Jean Else. Like Mavis, Eric believes the spirituality and reverence of this work are just as important as the mechanics, and he
strives to instill the same values, ethics, integrity, and service-oriented ministry in his students. In 2021 he began teaching mediumship and psychic development courses, that convey the spiritual essence of the work as well as the mechanics. He believes wholeheartedly that with true communication, a healing can take place in both this world and the Spirit World. Eric continues to teach courses and mentorships from beginner to
advanced, and also serves both the people in the Spirit World and here in the physical world through
private mediumship sittings and evidential mediumship demonstrations. He also does psychic readings for those who wish to find guidance and hope in their lives.
Connect with Eric:
www.ericlayman.com
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