Believe what a medium has said?

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Has anyone had a reading from a psychic medium (or like) and had something exactly came true? Not something vague but something specific almost word for word?

She also told me that someone with the initial J was ill. I rubbished it and she moved on.

Classic example of medium technique. Most people know someone with either a first name, surname or middle name beginning with J, and "ill" could mean anything from a mild headache to terminal illness.

@whattodoabouywailmer
Please don't be rude to me, it's completely unnecessary.
What I mean is, I'm in the spiritual world, I've never heard of this, so maybe others haven't. They are just quietly going about their business and not actively looking to prove themselves.

@Icerebel that's a long time to do research on people

They don't take names. My mate tries a variety of them. You give A Name, which may or may not be yours. So you book as 'Mary' and you might be 'Janice'

A palm-reader on Blackpool pier was adamant that I'd have two children. Nope. But there are days when I cannot help wondering if she meant DH is the second child

“But I'd still love to have an explanation or suggestion as to how he knew...”

Breast pain is very common.

There is also the chance that if you were in pain it would have showed in your face, or you unconsciously put your hand to the place, or shifted in your chair. We reveal so much more about ourselves than we think we do. I’ve lived all my life with people with damaged backs (mum, then dp) I can spot back pain in people who think they are covering it perfectly. I’ve said to people I don’t know “ Can I help you with that? You’ll hurt your back if you carry on” Some people would think that looked psychic!

Had a friends mother go and see one and the 'psychic' said things which could have applied to my friend who recently had someone she knew pass away. (If you tried really hard to interpret what she said in a certain way)

I think it's revolting, using people's pain and trauma to earn money. And can someone explain to me why they can only see the first letter of a name? And why is it always J?? Must be a popular first initial. Or maybe that's my sceptical side showing.

My boss once said to me that she is 'a little bit psychic' as she has had that common occurrence of having thought about someone and then they got a phone call from them. I tried to explain that this phenomenon has been explained as we think about many people throughout our days but usually forget about it, unless something like hearing from them happens, then we suddenly remember that we had thought about them. My boss did not take kindly to my explanation and told me, no, that's not what happened

They don't take names.

The poster said they had her name. Surely most people who book a medium use their proper name when doing so.

witchend

Nope cause the friend didn't know certain things and they'd all made an agreement not to tell the psychic anything in advance - simply booked the session.

why do they never say the full name. it's always "someone whose name begins with k"
why don't they say kevin is with you all the time or your sister is called kim
i think it must be the only trade thats legal to con ppl out of money

I was given my husband’s 3 initials six months before I ever met him. Everything else this lady said came true as well. I’ve been to others who were just scammers but this one lady was the real deal.

I think there are good and bad. Years ago I saw one at a spiritual fair. She asked me about my father and why she was seeing a bag full of whiskey bottles and water. My estranged father drowned and I had to ask my brother about the bottles as knew nothing. He told me that a bag of his had been found that had a full bottle of very expensive in it. The lady told me that he had taken his own life, which I can believe because of the circumstances in his life.

Now, I’m really sceptical, but when my dm died, l was very unhappy and went to one. She only knew my phone number-nothing else.

She identified where l lived and the house number.
She identified the correct age of my son.
She identified we had lodgers in my mums house.
She knew the name of my father.
She identified that a relative (a specific relative who l don’t want to identify on here but not an older person)was in a care home and they would be briefly ill treated. This happened and someone was later sacked.
She knew my daughter had dm’s middle name.
She knew my daughter had a specific toy she was attached to.
She knew we hadn’t scattered my mums ashes.
I could go on...,

I didn’t believe when l went and l still don’t, but how could she see all this stuff so acurarately? It was the small specific details that got me. She knew nothing about me, and she requested that l tell her nothing,

🤷🏼‍♀️Not sure what to think,,,,,

That should have been an expensive bottle of whiskey in my fathers bag

I think the difficulty is that people who want to believe will dismiss all attempts to offer rational explanations. So coincidence, false and selective memory, confirmation bias, body language, magicians tricks and downright fraud are all dismissed as impossible. Despite the fact that they are always possible, and much more likely than unknown powers that cannot be tested or measured. And which only seem to work on a very mundane, day to day level.

I remember catching the end of some nonsense programme once, presented by Tricia, Britain's Greatest Psychic or something similar. There was a series of challenges, including trying to solve a historical murder if I recall correctly. At the end, a woman was crowned Britain's Greatest Psychic and the first question Tricia asked was something like, how do you feel? The psychic's response was absolute surprise, exclaiming, oh I had no idea! Not much of a psychic then are you love...😂

BUT the real shock was when he was finishing and he started rubbing the left side of his chest. He looked at me and said 'your father says you're worried about a pain here. He says it'll be fine and it's nothing.'
Thankfully my breast was indeed fine, as a scan revealed. But HOW ON EARTH could that man have known about it?????

The way you were sitting/standing. The way you were holding your arm. Your posture. Nothing unusual. In sport, professional fitness coaches can sometimes spot injuries and issues before the athlete even knows about it themselves.

As for saying it would be fine, they had a 50/50 call. What do you expect them to say....tell you that it won't be fine and you'll be dead in 6 months?? If they say it's fine and it is, they look good. If they say it's fine and it's not, you're not going back for a refund!

One I know said told my dad that I was going to have a boy when I was 2 weeks pregnant. She hadnt seen me whilst pregnant so couldnt have picked up any subtle hints from me, the same lady also told my DP's they were pregnant with me and that I was a girl, before they even knew they were pregnant, she even bought them a little dress for me.

I've never been to one and doubt I would, but when MIL speaks about hers I'm always a little surprised at how she hangs on to the things she says. MIL is very fragile and has experienced lots of losses, so her trips to the psychic are her way to stay in touch. I always get the feeling that she's very vulnerable and that makes her (in my mind) an easy mark for anyone looking to make an easy £100 for saying some nonsense that could apply to probably 70% of the population.

MIL talks to the psychic about her DC and I always refuse to listen to the things the psychic has told her about our family because part of me worries that once you hear "x will happen" how much of you subconsciously seeks that thing out?

Decades ago my mum, heavily pregnant with me, went with her sister to a 'cross my palm with silver' medium, she did a reading for my aunt and then my mum gave her half a crown for her reading. The medium studied her palm and then folded the money back into her hand and said she could not do a reading for her. A few months later my father died quite unexpectatly. My mother believed the medium foresaw that but would not give her bad news.

I think there is a mix, some are fake but not all. The problem is it is open to their interpretation, the ones that aren't fake I have found there is a mix of true and untrue things. I used to go to a spiritualist church so nobody was paid. I don't bother anymore as trying to decipher what is true and what isn't is annoying.

@BertrandRussell And if they had got it wrong, you wouldn’t have remembered.

Nailed it. It's cold reading with a healthy dose of confirmation bias. We're all programmed to ignore the misses and focus on the hits.

"Remember that great night I won at the bingo?" Errr...yes.....but do you remember all those nights you lost?

They prey on our human weaknesses. There are two types of psychic.....the deluded who genuinely think they have a special power. And the crooked, who know it's a scam. There is no 3rd option.

Mediums, especially those affiliated to the Spiritualists National Union are forbidden from offering predictions about the future.

We are all psychic. A psychic is someone who picks up information from another's aura. We do it every day. Most of us call it intuition.

Spiritualist Mediums however communicate with the spirits of loved ones who are no longer here. In spiritualist churches they have different mediums every week and over the years I have had masses of messages from various mediums, some bang on and some I thought were rubbish but I understood the information two years down the line. Others I thought were way too general to assess (think nan with curly grey hair wearing an apron and loved baking).

In spiritualist churches affiliated to the SNU the mediums do not want recipients to say anything other than 'yes', 'no' or 'I don't know' to information given. They do not want you to feed them with information. They want to prove to you that our spirits live on, that there is a life beyond this life. These Mediums do not get paid for their services. They only get paid for travelling expenses to and from the church/centre. They are not allowed to give out bad news.

The people who charge a fortune or who tour theatres may be spiritualist mediums but are so full of their ego and drama and add on bull**it for good measure. You will not see people like Sally Morgan putting on stupid voices in spiritualist Churches. She has given true mediums a very bad name.

Don't knock the subject until you have been to a spiritualist church service a few times and seen different mediums. Even if you don't receive a communication you will be able to form an opinion based on how the medium conducts themselves and the responses of the message recipients.

There is no charge to attend churches on Sunday evenings although there is a plate collection as in Christian churches. On other days there may be a charge which goes towards running the building and paying travel expenses to the medium/speaker.

I saw a medium with a friend. There was a lot of cold reading, vague statements which were latched onto at the first sign of interest, clever word use. Friend came out shocked and surprised by the accuracy. Over the years she's slowly changed the story. In every retelling the psychic knew more and more, details she couldn't have guessed, 100% accuracy etc. She conveniently forgets that she provided all the relevant information.

I'm very good at cold reading. I do it sometimes as a party trick with new groups of people. Some of them say I should use my "gift" to help others. If I were less self aware or honest, I might think I'm psychic. I'm observant, nothing more. Most psychics are charlatans, presumably some believe their intuition is otherworldly. I think some need to feel special too. Or desperately want to believe themselves. It's all nonsense though.

“Don't knock the subject until you have been to a spiritualist church service a few times and seen different mediums”
Many of us, including me, have.

Yes.

A psychic told me in 1983 that I would marry a large blond man and it wasn't clear whether he was a lawyer or politician. DH is a lawyer and having stood for a no hoper in 92 and narrowly missed in 97 had to decide between law and politics in 2002. Law won. I met him in 1989.

She also told me I would struggle to have children but thought there would be three but not at the same time. DS2 died after a few hours.

There was another thing about my past that was specific but I'm not putting it here.