To spend money on visiting a clairvoyant?

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I ve always been interested in having readings done on money, relationships, future etc.

I had a reading done around 6 years ago, the guy that did it wasnt very good. He didnt pick up on my father dying when i was a child.

Dh says he doesnt believe in this kind of thing, and its a load of rubbish.

I have an appointment with a local lady today. Shes £35 and the reading lasts for as long as you like.

So am i being unreasonable in spending my money on this?

And if you have had a reading done before, will you please share your experience with me?

I thought the whole thing was bunkum and booked a visit to a psychic to prove it to my hardcore believer friend.
The psychic laughed and described my whole family to a tee. Described my fancy dress outfit from the night before. And basically told me a whole bunch of spot on stuff I have no idea how she could have guessed.
So now I'm a bit in the middle. She had never met me before that reading or knew of me at all. And definitely not my deceased grandparents. It was weird.
Supposedly she's a bit famous now her name is Imbal or something similar.
And my friend is smug as smug can be damn her.

Your friend took you along to see her, did she.......?

I think you have just prove the point about simple really.

Nope. I booked it independently. Wanted all bases covered.
Still think it's bunkum just couldn't figure out how she did it

If you want to understand how clairvoyants work read Paranormality by Richard Wiseman. Its cheaper then £35 and a lot more interesting. He shows how a variety of paranormal situations are created and then gives you tips to do your own tricks

I saw a brilliant short video about psychics and how they worked. They got people to give their credit card as they went in. People behind the scenes did some judicious googling and fed the psychic info through an earpiece.

The people were astonished that the psychic 'knew' they'd dressed as Spiderman last Halloween (Facebook), donated to charity (just giving etc) and knew their relatives names. A bit of an eye opener! Wish I could find the video...

Awww . Sorry you were conned OP. I would suggest you return and ask for your money back (she'll be expecting you ) If she refuses ask for her business registration number as she should be registered...I bet you get your money back then.

Give the returned cash to a charity for the homeless...she predicted that didn't she?

Look for a BACP registered counsellor in your area and spend your money on sessions there instead.

Wishing you all the best.

I went to a medium evening with a group of friends... I had a 1-2-1 reading and he knew about my being called to resus and finding the patient was a relative. he told me exactly who it was and the dr's mistake with them (they died) I don't know how he knew as things he knew happened I'd not told my family about.

generally I don't think I believe them.. but something's I don't know how they know..

Lueji - i wasn't big on sweeping predictions, but yes, i got allot of feedback to say i'd been correct.

Tbh it was more the unsought 'observations', like the one about the younger sister in trouble, that unnerved me. They would come uninvited and on the occasions when i did reveal them to the querent it would always be the case that i was accurately describing in great detail a very real situation. Often a private and upsetting situation. Too much for me i'm afraid.

OP i am sorry you've been disappointed today. Without knowing exactly what you are seeking i would say it sounds like you are looking for quite specific help. I think it would take allot of £35's and allot of disappointments for you to work your way through enough advertising clairvoyants to find one who will be able to tell you what you need to know. Perhaps counceling would be a better option - more of a two way street?

memory is a funny thing. What you think was said is often not what was said.

I bet that if these sessions were recorded and you watched them afterwards, you'd see exactly how they did it, as you watched yourself fill in blanks and give non verbal clues.

as it is, you simply don't remember how you led them.

and as for booked appointments. Well. Give me your name and a few hours and I could come up with bucket loads of stuff I'd have no way of knowing

And remember that all "psychics" have a fantastic advantage before they start because if you go to one you are invested in making it work. So clients will bend over backwards to make the readings fit. The OP was very brave to come back and say she spent her money and it was rubbish- most of us would either not come back, or would manage to find something from the reading to justify going.

Absolutely, seeker.

I see a man here with white hair. bill or ben or...

BRIAN? brian? with grey hair?

yes, brian, that's right, his grey hair is shimmering in the light

ooooh, she was so accurate, she knew his name was brian and he had grey hair.

Fluffy,
It's hard to judge without having been there.
But it is possible that, yes, the cards about bad stuff kept coming out, but it's often the case that there are worrying issues in people's lives. People who are sick, who have died, who are in trouble.
And people who seek help from readings are more likely to have these issues in their lives, as they seek reassurance.

For example, sometimes it seems that my mother is a bit psychic, but I realise that often her inklings are triggered by little thing that maybe even she doesn't realise.

And people tend to remember more accurately some things, particularly emotionally charged events. Which is why at some point you'd be worried about the deck, although in all likelihood it was only about bad things about half of the time.

I am interested in mediumship, consciousness and other such matters. I went to several tarot readers, psychics etc in my 20s and never had a good experience with any of them. In New York one particularly overt charlatan wanted me to give her 90 bucks a week to light candles to 'clean my aura' . That stopped me going again.

Having said that I don't agree that means that everyone who claims
Psychic ability is necessarily a charlatan. . There are some interesting medium experiments out there Julie Beischel for example- which I know people have argued over the design etc. However, still interesting. Rupert Sheldrake's work is also interesting - 'Dogs that Know When their owners are coming home'

she named our friend who had killed himself a few months previously. Surname, and not a particularly common one.

So, something in the local paper that, even if it wasn't your friend, one of you would have read about.

You're being conned by a charlatan because merely by turning up she knows you gullible
She will be adept at extracting information,appearing to answer questions,and you want to believe this
I am afraid to say she's preying on your belief. You'd might as well throw away money

Dogs that Know When their owners are coming home
You do know that it's because they can hear and smell better than we can, right?
Most animals hear in different ranges than us.

Psychic dogs.oh christ live.you don't go much for book learnin do you
Canine smell,hearing is different range to human
Of course they know owner on way,they hear,smell

The fact is that until now nobody has collected prizes offered to people who demonstrate psychic habilities.

skepdic.com/randi.html

any takers from this thread? :)

scottishmummy Obviously the author ( a former Cambridge fellow and well known biologist ) did consider the hearing and smell issues. He designed the experiments to rule out those factors.

Lol psychic dogs.behave.
Aye me nans budgie has a certain sense of knowing
Maybe a fine fellow could write book bout that.Joey the all wise budgie knows how you take your tea

scottismummy I think psychic budgie has a nice ring to it. Enter him for Randi's prize.

She also said that in all the cards, it indicated money in all of them.

So I said "are they saying I need money?"

Yes she says

I look like this as I'm not skint or scraping by etc.

She sees my reaction then says well it could mean you have money as your work is doing well.

She tells me that the cards only read 6 months ahead, no further.

I don't believe, waste of flaming money

Dh reaction why I got home?

Well you will believe in fairies won't you?

The one I went to predicted my future partner. I had gone to see her because I had no job, no home and was pregnant. A new partner was not anywhere on my mind as I was still in shock at the old one leaving!
No only did she predict I'd met him within a few weeks and she described his looks and his daughter. She also told me how I'd met him.
How can you predict that?

I am quite willing to agree that guessing the sex of my baby was a lucky 50/50 guess (and that of my SIL who was PG at the same time).

I was once told by someone who claimed to have Powers that I'd have 3 children but never marry.

I got married and had 2 children.

someone came to the door trying to flog me crystals and spotted I was pregnant and told me I was going to have a girl. Nope, I said, it's a boy. She then tried to tell me the scan was wrong. Reader, I give you my son...

and one time my husband was in the pub and the upstairs room had been hired by a clairvoyant for a performance. She tried to engage him in conversation and he turned to her and said "how many pints am I going to have?"

She stalked off.

You'd have thought she'd have been able to see that he was going to take the piss...