Do you believe some people have the gift of being able to talk to spirits?

[Funkyslippers]

I'm a non believer because nobody has ever convinced me otherwise. Even if the medium is correct on a lot if things how is it even possible for them to communicate with spirits? I'd love to hear people's opinions. This has come off the back of visiting a very well recommended so-called medium who was clutching at straws all the way through and in the end I left early & she didn't charge me!

No.

NO.

No

No

Nope

No.
There is no afterlife for charlatans to communicate with.

No. The only way people live on is in our hearts and memories. We won't meet them again in any physical/spiritual form but we can engage with their essence in our brains. I'm fine with that, it's comfort enough.

Why did you go see them OP?

No, but I do think some individuals are very talented (if you can call it that) cold-readers.

No way Jose

Absolutely not.

No. It's people's own wish to be fooled that makes them susceptible for the 'spirit talkers' are contemptible for preying on the vulnerable.

There's a poster here who keeps offering 'tarot readings' and posters flock to them. No accounting for silliness and nothing anybody can do to stop them.

I believe some people are extremely skilled in 'reading' body language and emotional states. One fortune teller I worked beside told me, "It's always health, wealth or happiness & everyone has a white haired man/woman on the other side". Derren Brown has successfully exposed all the cons. There's a creepy, skin Crawley on on Netflix.. Tyler somebody.. he is dead dyed, waxen but I huge self promoter. He dresses up normal interactions with 'tricks' to elicit distress in the desperate people who go along. Belongs in the 18th century.

Oh my god, yes 💯

I accidently stumbled across one of those "tarot reading" threads.
It was such bollocks.

I posted asking if everyone had changed their usernames, because its very easy to search your other posts.
Apparently I was being "negative" and told to go away

The funny thing was every so called "reading" was just Barnum Statements.
Like:
you have a tendency to be critical of yourself"
No shit Sherlock!

I like to think there’s something in it…

No. Don't you wonder why they only speak to the spirits that have a connection to the living person they are in close proximity to?

Yes. Genuine mediums etc are a tiny minority but they do exist.
Most of them don’t charge, or charge a very small amount.
They do it to help people.
The fakes (of which there are many) give the real ones a bad name.

No, because I don't believe there are spirits for them to talk to. When we're dead, we're dead. The memory of you may be a blessing (or a curse), but it is only an impression of what you were in the minds of others.

No. Contemptible people who prey on the vulnerable.

Just like religion

No

No. It's a scam.

"I'm looking for a man called...John."

No. These people are either con artists (the vast majority) or delusional.

No, I think its bollocks and showmanship.
I do believe some believe they are speaking to spirits.
I'm not entirely synical though, and (like to) believe that our loved ones come to collect us when we die - a couple of elderly relatives talked about their mothers coming to them close to their own death. Its probably the morphine, but I find it quite comforting.

What sort of spirits?

If you mean talking to the dead on request from the living, and repeating the answers, no.

Properly sanctioned Exorcism though is a different and very respectable endeavour.

No and if they claim they can, especially to someone who is bereaved, then I mentally judge them harshly.

Properly sanctioned Exorcism though is a different and very respectable endeavour.

Is it? Why is it different to Clinton Baptiste at the local working man's club? They're all claiming to communicate with paranormal entities.