Went to see a medium

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I went to see a medium yesterday for the first time. It was pure indulgence to see if there was anything in it. The medium did not hit on anything that resonated with me and I felt it was pure speculation. I'm curious now though... Has anyone here had a really accurate psychic or medium reading that simply couldn't have been made up? My friend swears that she has had genuine readings and regularly visits to stay in contact with her mother's spirit.

I would say that most but not all readings etc, are by research, astute observational and questioning techniques.
(I’ve done it myself, at a country fete, raising funds for a village amenity.
But there were some inexplicable and very niche hits even when I thought I was making it all up.)

But there are some people who can consistently just snatch things out of the ether, and be spot on. And not always for money.
I don't see the point of people so vehemently denying the possibility.

We live in a strange and inexplicable universe. We are having constantly to revise what we think we know.
Time is relative, space can be folded, they are both the same thing and not. If space time can fold, why can some people not access the past or future at the point they can be overlapped?
Quantum entanglement allows for instant communication across vast distances. Parallel universe bubbles may interact with this one.
Light responds to being observed.
And more…

There are energies that we can't discern and are difficult to detect without instrumentation. We are told that energy cannot be destroyed, only altered.
It's not such a large leap to speculate about surviving energies when people die physically, or even others that may exist independent of matter. Nor that some people can detect these, similarly to people who have hyper colour sensitivity.

I deal with people every day who’ve been financially scammed as part of my job, and no-one wants to admit they’re stupid or naive but there’s a large number of people who are. All these psychics and mediums are nothing but con artists and fraudsters. They prey on the weak and vulnerable. If any of them genuinely had this talent/skill, they’d be living a billionaire’s life of luxury. Life can be tough, sad and relentless but I don’t believe that creating a fantasy (including pretending you’re communicating with a dead loved one) is the healthy way to cope with your emotions.

What are the most prevalent types of scam that you see?

Is it generally the ‘lottery disbursement department’ and ‘my client needs to move £10m out of the country to avoid illegal confiscation of his money’ type of scam?

I’d be interested to know how much consumer scammery - i.e. not sophisticated frauds on companies - relies on greed.

What a waste of money.

Your opinion

@Daisybuttercup12345 Not opinion, fact. Science, science, science. Physiology, science.
Not woowoo or mumbo jumbpo. Not fantasy, science

To be clear the harmonica was mentioned in a spiritualist church..there was no exchange of money

sCiEnCe DoEsNt KnOw EvErYtHiNg

What is the science that proves there is no afterlife?

The burden of proof is on those claiming something exists when there is absolutely no scientific evidence that it does.

When apparent mediums can prove their abilities under laboratory conditions I'll believe they're legit. Not one of them has ever been able to do it.

What is the science that proves there is no afterlife

There’s never been a scrap of evidence that there is one. That’s the science.

The people who continually say this on woo threads know absolutely nothing about science, and use it as a kind of vaguely-self-important alibi for underthinking.

Absolutely science might, in a year, discover proof that an older man whose name begins with M, or maybe D, and who might have died of a heart condition, or it could be something to do with his lungs, is communicating with Psychic Sally on her circuit, and wants Sandra, or maybe Lisa, to know he’s watching over the baby, or the new kitchen, or wants Psychic Sally to say ‘harmonica’.

But it almost certainly won’t.

I'm not claiming to be psychic. However, I have dreamt and had thoughts that have come true. For example, I dreamt of a global disaster 2 days or so before it happened. Other times, it's my own voice saying something, or I picture something. I've got a lot of examples, but it's probably coincidence, no talking to dead people.

Not prebooked. Aged 24. No idea I’d be seeing a medium that day as it was a spur of the moment thing as I tagged along with a colleague.

My button had broken that morning as I tried to put on some trousers. “F**k it” I thought to myself. “Now I’m going to need to buy some more at the weekend.” Didn’t tell anyone this. It was an internal dialogue.

Got the medium and after a few startlingly accurate things, this one stick out. ‘Your Grandad says don’t be daft, just get out the needle and thread and sew it back on!’ Grandad was very practical and would have said exactly that! Had he not died ten years earlier.

The spirit of Granddad presumably prompted by the visible safety-pin holding your trousers together?

(I mean, I agree with the spirit of Granddad - I’m not in the least practical and my sewing skills are limited, but to me breaking a fly button would in no way prompt the thought that I needed to go and buy a new garment…)

Why ArE YOU sHouTinG?
Science can definately prove that once you are dead, you are dead. You ain't coming back either through a medium or on a number 24 bus.

Ah, science. Science, science, science.
Of course it doesn't know everything. That's why we still have scientists.

It's funny and quite bizarre how believers invoke "science" as some sort of proof for their woo, given that science has never found any evidence for their extraordinary claims, nor have psychics/mediums/clairvoyants (all conflated on this thread) ever proved their abilities under controlled conditions.
Science does not support you.

And being credulous does not equal being open minded: it's actually a pretty mindless position.

I am with you. It was sarcasm. That type of writing, online, is facetious.

@LowbrowVictoriana My point is science proves that there is no afterlife. Any 'science' purporting to prove the woo is about as robust as the 'scientific proof' of the effectiveness of homeopathy!

Yes, @Untilitisnt i agree with you.

My post was also about how science doesn’t prove woo. Maybe I expressed myself badly.

Don’t get me started on homeopathy!

@LowbrowVictoriana I'm sorry, I had the wrong end of your stick, so to speak! Both on same side!
Have a good day😊

An update… during the reading, which was a couple of months ago, the psychic gave the name (including spelling) of a person who would help my partner. A few days ago my partner had a situation which could have proved extremely harmful and a person with this exact name came forward to help, in a way that was above and beyond.

This reminds me of when Professor Winston was on Question Time, I think, discussing gender politics. He was asserting that humans cannot change their biological sex and some bright spark in the audience informed him that science had moved on since 'his day'. I cringed so hard for them.

I remember that. It was toe curling.

Oh god, me too... she was a Media student, aged around 20 ; Robert Winston was a professor, medical doctor, scientist, surgeon and expert in human fertility. She was telling him his science was wrong.

I nearly cringed myself inside out.