Eric Layman

Hi, I’m Eric.

I’m an evidential medium, teacher, and mentor, an Authorized Mavis Pittilla Teacher, certified to teach her Whole Medium Approach. My path into this work began in 2012, and for fourteen-plus years I’ve had the honor of sitting with thousands of people, helping them experience clear, evidence-based connection with the spirit world. Not vague impressions, no performance, just real evidence people can trust.

Alongside my own sittings and demonstrations, I’ve spent approximately seven years teaching, and I continue to serve as faculty with The Shift Network’s Evidential Mediumship Academy. I’ve now taught more than 300 students, many of whom have gone on to build their own confident, grounded connection with spirit.

My Story

Some of us grow up knowing, even before we have words for it.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household in rural Ohio, one that left little room for the inner knowing I felt I’d been born with. As a child I saw things other people couldn’t: figures and shadows moving along the walls. It was frightening for a boy with no way to explain it.

That awareness stayed with me into my twenties, but I didn’t know what to do with it. In my thirties, what came through became clearer and more specific, and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. In 2012 I started formal training in mediumship and psychic development. In 2014 I launched my professional practice.

In 2018 I sought out Mavis Pittilla, one of the world’s most respected mediums and teachers. What began as a four-day workshop became five years of study under her direct mentorship. I worked in front of audiences at Spiritualist churches across England, learning not only Mavis’s techniques but her belief that training the whole medium, not just the mechanics, would make students the best mediums they could be, truly healing servants of both worlds.

I began teaching in 2019. In 2022 I completed Mavis’s teacher training and was personally authorized by her to teach her work. Mavis passed that same year, and our formal certification ceremony followed in 2023.

“Calibrated honesty, not harshness.”