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To ask if anyone has ever had an irrefutable experience with a psychic?

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BlueDressingGown · 19/04/2015 23:41

I'm just going to be really honest and say that the reason I'm asking this is because I'm afraid of death. I really want to believe that there is something after death, and so in the past I've thought about speaking to a psychic. If they could tell me one thing - just one thing that couldn't be explained away - I could say to myself 'Ok, there is something else out there' and be content and not let the idea of 'the end' terrify me too much. Yes I should probably seek counseling.

So my question is - does anyone have an irrefutable experience with a psychic - something they were told that can't be explained away? Mostly the experiences seem to point towards it all being a load of hooey (which is what I believe, but I want to believe it's not). Psychics seem to give very general readings and most are frauds that pick up on things that the person has said and regurgitates them, right? My friend saw a psychic and apparently her dead father 'came through' and told her that she was having her garden done - and it was true! Like your dad would bother coming up from the spirit world to tell you some mundane crap from your own life that you already knew!

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SirChenjin · 20/04/2015 17:15

Compos - spiritualist churches don't charge (or the one we went to didn't). I am a complete skinflint, no way would I pay to be told I was going to travel/die

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BlueDressingGown · 20/04/2015 22:15

It's the naming names thing that I can't quite get my head around. My mum saw one and who knew nothing about her except her first name, and said that the psychic named her five brothers and sisters (including the name her brother was known by and his real name) and which ones were still alive. My mum is a bit flaky so I wasn't too sure about what she said but it's interesting that other people have had names named. I totally don't believe in those ones that say 'You're angry with someone' or 'Who is the strong woman you have a close relationship with?' or actually anyone who asks any kind of questions. It's the specifics that make me question.

And yes, for me knowing that there is SOMETHING after, no matter what it is, would be a comfort. It might not be for you, but it would be for me.

I don't know why, but people who state as certain fact that 'When you're dead you're dead and it's the end' really rub me up the wrong way. :)

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HubrisNemesis · 20/04/2015 22:28

Blue, your mother might genuinely remember it like that, but it's very likely she has unconsciously amplified the levels of accuracy and forgotten or downplayed the mis-hits. My mother spoke all though our childhoods and teens about a miraculous psychic she'd seen before I was born, who got all kinds of specifics right about my mother's future children and her own future life. Then we found a transcript written down at the 'reading' at the bottom of an old handbag. Of course it was far, far less accurate than my mother remembered.

Mumbehavingbadly · 20/04/2015 22:31

My DM had to take the afternoon off work in distress when a woman visiting a patient on the ward she was a working as nurse just blurted out of nowhere 'btw I've got your brother here, named him - then described him - his children and the violent death he had met' ... She started to say she had some message but DM was so shocked because there was no warning she shouted ' I didn't ask you for any of that' and ran off weeping. This was in the days before Google, the Internet and DMs brother had different surname, lived in a major city in a far off country and his death though violent had not been discussed in this country outside of DF and DAunt because DM doesn't like people knowing her business and to protect her young DC (as we'd never have slept if we knew the truth).
There is something but what?

AnnagrammaHawkins · 20/04/2015 22:51

When i was an early teen my graddad was fit as a fiddle. One day we noticed his foot was turning black. He had a Dr's appt for the week after. Three days later I woke up in the middle of the night and swore blind I saw his image. I ran into my parents crying saying he was dead. They tried to calm me down. Two hours later we got the call. He had died. Riddled with cancer. I've never been to a psychic.....and I know that we can probably put it down to "instinct" or whatever....but I cling to that memory as my proof that something must exist After death, as the alternative terrifies me.

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BlueDressingGown · 20/04/2015 22:54

I agree about my mother amplifying. She's even said herself that there were lots of things that didn't match up. For example, she said that my brother would soon meet his future wife who would be very petite and blonde. He soon met and is now married to a very curvy black African lady - so literally could not be more wrong.

I don't quite buy the stories that happened to 'someone I know' etc as stories are just that - a good yarn. It's the experiences that people relate regarding themselves that I'm not so able to dismiss.

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Pyjamaschocolateandwine · 20/04/2015 23:00

Hi op.

I literally saw a gypsie doing the cards at Hever castle in kent 4 years ago.

We live in the midlands so no contact, no credit card check/face book.

She told me a few things that no one and I mean no one could have possibly known. She warned me that our lives would be in turmoil for a few years over one of our children. That would happen next year but eventually it would be ok.

All correct.

I have no idea how or why but it was accurate.

I don't take the piss anymore.

LucyBabs · 20/04/2015 23:07

I actually find it very insulting to my intelligence how some posters on this thread are speaking. I am a rational adult. I don't just accept what someone says to me. However I went to see a medium and she asked me no questions she couldn't have known any of my info from the internet. She told me my Dads full name she didn't even no my full name ffs

No you CANNOT say if someone is a medium, psychic whatever. Please don't dismiss what a person was told during a reading. You weren't there. You may have seen a fake in your time but it doesn't mean there are no genuine mediums.

I really don't care what anyone thinks about where we go when we die. Its our own beliefs that matter. Each to their own.

PrettyPenguin · 20/04/2015 23:14

In the early 90s I went to see a fortune teller at a fete with my mum and sister. She told me all sorts of things. She was convinced I was pregnant (I was only 16 at the time, and a virgin!) and said if it wasn't me then it was someone very close to me who no-one thought would be pregnant and it would be a boy with a name beginning with H. Turned out 2 months later that it was an extremely close family friend (who looked VERY like me). She'd had a baby a couple of years back and swore blind that she was never having another baby ever again because it was so traumatic. She had a boy, and called it a Welsh name beginning with H!! I'd never told her about that part but it freaked me right out!

When my mum saw the fortune teller, she was told that her car was going to be stolen off the drive. We got home and had a good laugh about that...as her house had no drive! About 9 months later, her and her DP decided to get the drive done and shortly afterwards the car was indeed stolen off the drive! No names or addresses were exchanged at the fete so this was very woo!

Songlark · 20/04/2015 23:17

I believe that we are here for a reason and that death is only the beginning.

wheezeontoast · 20/04/2015 23:18

I've been to a few for work, not because I've chosen to go because I believe.

One of them told me stuff that was absolutely amazing, really specific, I would never put it on the Internet or write about it publicly. I have no idea how she did it . . .

but I still don't believe it for a second.

I have also met others who are hiding some pretty reprehensible ideas and beliefs behind this mask of 'helping' others. I think some of them do believe they have a talent, others are excellent charlatans, others are just rubbish.

Hakluyt · 20/04/2015 23:22

You have all seen Derren Brown's shows, haven't you?

Oh, and "Or stories of kids with memories they shouldn't have of being fighter pilots etc."

Always turn out to be frauds. Always.

Pyjamaschocolateandwine · 20/04/2015 23:24

Billions of religious people world wide believe in peope/religions they have never ever seen or have no proof of. Christian/Muslim/Hindu etc.

wheezeontoast · 20/04/2015 23:25

I also don't know any rich ones.

Which is odd, given that million quid is going begging . . .

LucyBabs · 20/04/2015 23:26

Wheeze
If she told you specific stuff and she can't have known then how the hell can you say you don't believe it?
Genuine question

Pyjamaschocolateandwine · 20/04/2015 23:27

But of course it's not politically correct to call That utter balls.

wheezeontoast · 20/04/2015 23:28

Because it can't be true LucyBabs.

Lucky guesses, albeit specific ones, picking up on body language, Googling the stuff about me which is public and extrapolating.

Anyway, it bothered me for a bit, then I realised it didn't matter. It's all hooey and that's the only fact in the whole business.

Sheitgeist · 20/04/2015 23:34

Derringer Brown does the naming names and nicknames, cause of death of loved ones, and personal details live on stage. After making it clear it is nothing but a trick.
How he does it, I don't know... but I imagine it's pretty similar to the way the other so-called 'psychics' mentioned here do it.

When I hear about these awful, fraudulent tricksters exploiting vulnerable, bereaved people it makes me absolutely furious.

Sheitgeist · 20/04/2015 23:35

Er, make that Derren Brown.

expatinscotland · 20/04/2015 23:48

My MIL paid a psychic when DD1 was ill. She predicted that it would be a rough road but DD1 would be fine by September. I guess if you construe 'fine' as dead she was right because DD1 died in July.

Get real, people, if people could tell the future why don't they ever predict the winning EuroMil numbers?

Sheitgeist · 20/04/2015 23:53

I'm so sorry for your loss expat

I actually think people like that should be charged.

LucyBabs · 20/04/2015 23:54

You didn't mention the specific details were a free for all on the internet wheeze

expat I don't believe in telling the future but I truly believe when I met with the medium my dead parents were there and she was communicating for them.
Can I ask, have you ever been to see a medium since your DD died?

bensam · 20/04/2015 23:54

I'm not frightened of death. My dad died yesterday (pancreatic cancer) and it was peaceful. He wasn't scared of dying either - only what was going to happen to him before hand (and it was awful for the two weeks prior). Death itself is a release. I would like to think that we go somewhere else but none of us truly know.

Hakluyt · 20/04/2015 23:57

"I don't believe in telling the future but I truly believe when I met with the medium my dead parents were there and she was communicating for them."

Why do you believe that?

senrensareta · 21/04/2015 00:07

By its very nature, no reading with a psychic can ever be irrefutable.

I am open-minded and sceptical in equal measure. Have seen several as friends are interested and have found with some that the questions are repetitive and designed to lead you to the answers however I have seen a couple who have a far higher hit rate than I would expect if they were just guessing.

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