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?

Tbh witchend none of the readings i had gave things like that, thats a bit 'jeremy kyle' style readings i think? Mine was more 'the situation you've been working hard on for a year with no solution in sight will resolve next month'. I was like 'yah, riiight
that situation is hopeless and a long way off a resolution'. But it was correct, out of the blue it all came together in a freakishly 'too good to be true' way, exactly when specified. Yes, maybe a coincidence, sure.

Not a reading as such but i was sat next to a lady i didnt know at a conference and out of the blue she said 'is your dog ok?' (We had not spoken about my dog at all) and she explained it was because somwtimes she got vibes/messages/whayever and with me she had a feeling about a dog with a specific condition - my dog at the time did have said condition!

It is a pile of shit and as other PPs have said, they prey on the vulnerable.

A few months later my father died quite unexpectatly. My mother believed the medium foresaw that but would not give her bad news.

We've reached a new level here. Now they don't even have to say anything to be right!!!

There could have been a dozen reasons for not giving the reading, IBS and needed to loo, remembered a previous appointment, a conscience, thought your mum could ill afford to waste her money so decided to return it? If she could foresee your dad's death, she would have been better off saying "get your husband to the doctor/tell him to get his brakes checked etc.

I know people want to believe - but it's what @BerttandRussell said.

That said, if it gives someone comfort Some people pay for counselling, some people go on holiday - "psychics" are just a panacea, really: they're providing a service, and it's up to you whether you want to pay for it. I wouldn't pay for Reiki, but I don't deny that other people do as they feel it makes them feel better in some way: that doesn't necessarily make practitioners charlatans - just means clients are getting their needs met however way. Similarly, the fact I don't think psychic powers exist doesn't make people who claim to have them, and through doing so give people who have chosen to consult them comfort, charlatans.

It's cold reading and research. If you know what you're doing it's incredible how much information you can get from just a phone number.

Don't knock the subject until you have been to a spiritualist church service a few times and seen different mediums.

Don't knock the sceptics until you have done some proper scientific investigation and seen the mountain of real, peer reviewed studies from various sources proving beyond all doubt that it's all nonsense.

Yes, YABU.
With all of the stories they tell, they’re bound to strike it lucky once in a while. Especially if the person on the receiving end really wants to believe and subconsciously embellishes what the “medium” has said to convince themselves.

Absolutely. I've met two in my lifetime who were incredibly accurate about future predictions, including random details that they couldn't possibly have known from looking at me (one of these women I only spoke to on the phone). The only discrepancy was the timing.

I wholeheartedly agree that 99% of so-called psychics are frauds but nevertheless, there are a very few who are spiritually gifted.

I don’t believe scientifically that the whole psychic/medium thing is possible. However, I have an Aunt who has been working as one my whole life (so about 30 years). I know that she genuinely believes in what she says and does, and isn’t deliberately scamming people, but just because she thinks it is real it doesn’t make me believe. She does sometimes pass on messages and make predictions for our family, some have come true and some haven’t, but given that she already knows about us she has a lot to go on.

I secretly record any 'messages' from mediums and then type up a verbatim transcript and print them out. I revisit the file every few months. This is my way of researching their accuracy or otherwise.

I go to a medium and he's amazing, I totally believe what he says. He doesn't give predictions for the future, just evidence that there is life after death.

Mine told me that I'd fall pregnant with a daughter easily.....

....fertility treatment gave me ds2....

I went to see Sally Morgan with a friend. At the last minute my friend cancelled so I thought sod it I'll go alone
The babysitter was late so I crept In late after the show had started. No prior discussion with anyone.

She in no particular way named my old best friend who had passed 10yrs before, the room she was in the contents of her stomach and the previous conversation we had and why she hadn't listened to me.
All completey accurate.

Many sceptics have said she heard you discuss in the foyer with friends - no.
She looked up your bank card when you bought the ticket and checked your fb - don't have one in my name
Also there is no mention of passed friend on there.

I saw this show in Devon when I grew up in Kent so no local connections.

How did she do that - how on earth could she know?

I think counselling is a worse scam than mediums. With a medium its would be say £30-60 either as a one off or at most a couple of times per year.
Unless you can get it free counselling is £50 plus per hour and its either every week or fortnight. Some people think they benefit from it and I accept that but I think its a load of utter bullshit.

I’m pretty sceptical but was persuaded to go to a medium years ago. Early 90s so no internet or social media.

The woman requested you brought a cassette tape so she could record it for you to listen to in the future.

It was all fairly generic. An older male family member recently passed. DH’s dad had died a few weeks previously. But I’m sure most of us could say we had an older family member who recently passed as who knows what ‘recently’ is? He liked to dress well. A lot of people like to dress well. All fairly generic stuff.

She mentioned my grandmother and said she was fine and that we shouldn’t worry about her. Again all generic.

She mentioned someone by name. But never came back to it or said anything else.

At the end she asked if I had any questions. I asked about the name she had mentioned. Now that was freaky. She said she could see a wooden rack with lots of keys in it. And she could see us both running for the train but I never got on the train with him.

The guy in question was a guy I had worked with and sort of went out with and we had been very close for a while. We worked in a hotel with a big wooden rack for keys. Every Saturday we would go for w few drinks in the afternoon before he caught the train home for the weekend. We were always late and would end up but I got the bus from outside the train station and didn’t get the train with him.

She also commented about how he died which I don’t want to go into on here.

It was all a bit freaky!

I had a reading where I was told dh would work in a very specific place which isn’t anywhere near where we live, she didn’t know his job. She asked why I hadn’t gone to uni to be a midwife - I literally told nobody I was thinking about doing that and she told me in a lot of detail how my friend died. Again not something I tended to talk about.

I know someone who is a psychic medium as a profession, working on one of these psychic hot lines. As far as I can see she acts as an agony aunt to some very troubled people, giving common sense advice about life. She has never to me shown any pyschic abilities but people return to her for advice time after time.

I have visited a "fortune teller" at a fair, she utterly amazed me with the stuff she told me, I was in there a relatively short time she didn't know me from Adam but boy was she accurate with what she told me. In fact I have been approached a couple of times by people who have a message for me, no money exchanged hands, the advice was unsolicited but was always given when I was going through some personal turmoil. In each case the message was helpful.

Personally, I get very strong feelings about certain things. I have this thing going on where someone I know will pop into my head, then they invade my dreams and my thoughts, I have found that I get a desperate "need" to get hold of this person. Invariably this person has something going on in their lives and they just need to talk it out with a non involved person! I have never been wrong.

In summary, I think those people who charge for their "gifts" are just very good at reading people and situations, however there are people out there who do just know stuff but would never dream of profiting from their gift and only say something if they think they can help.

I don’t believe that anyone can contact the dead .
However , way back in the 90’s I had a friend who was desperate to meet the man of her dreams and get married etc . She spent a lot of time going to fortune tellers . One day she begged me to go with her to a fortune teller /astrologist who did horoscopes on a local TV show . I went with her for a laugh .
He looked at my palm and told me that I would meet my future husband in the next few weeks .He wore a uniform and he would take me all over the world on work trips but not to live abroad .
At the time , I laughed as my boyfriend was a police officer .
10 days later , I met my future husband who is an airline pilot and takes me on trips all over the US and Europe . He also said that I would have 3 kids and the 3rd would be very late in life . We have two adult kids so I sincerely hope that doesn’t happen

My friend could be on here saying "the psychic KNEW things with accuracy, stuff you couldn't guess, there's no way they weren't AMAZING". I was there. It was cold reading and she remembers what she wants to remember. She truly believes it though. Because she wants to. People have built entire world views and fought wars over the desire to believe in something bigger than mortal existence.

I once went for a card reading which I thought would be funny. It wasn't. She didn't do them very often and did not charge but asked for a small token, perhaps some flowers or something from where you worked.

As I turned the cards she said "you turn the key at number 3, you will own your own house in the new year". Then "Who is the man in uniform. You are the child of adopted parents. Who is .....and why does he live away from home?"

I turned lived at no. 3, was buying my own house with my bf, my dad was a police sergeant, I was adopted and my brother left home suddenly. I later found out he was gay and left after a furious row with my parents.

My dad said she had checked me out. But I only gave her my christian name.

Yes, I agree so called mediums are charlatans who prey on the vulnerable. I live in a small market town and it is very lentilly and alternative. I honestly think some people believe they have a "gift" and begin doing readings which they then charge for. I think they are delusional but get out of their depth.

I would never go again because she told me some stuff about a friend that upset me. I didn't linger and we finished early. Be prepared to hear things you do not want to. I was just a kid but could see I really didn't need to go there.

@Lifecraft

I'm not knocking the sceptics. In spiritualist churches scepticism is welcomed. We should all be sceptical. It isn't like a Christian church where there's a preacher as it is felt that those who wish to find out more will come to the church in their own time if they ever want to. I was just stating my view as the OP seemed a bit mixed up between Psychics and mediums.

Spiritualist is now a recognised religion in this country. Spiritualism is very involved in research as people want to understand why they experience seeing, hearing and sensing the spirits of those whose physical bodies are no longer alive.

Please don't be rude to me, it'scompletely 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.

Pharlapwasthebest Again, this is extremely naive at best.

The challenge has been going for decades and is world famous in the psychic community.

My mum was well into this and even attended the local spiritualist church every week with my aunt and nan. Then a year letter she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Along with chemo, she tried everything to get better. This included going to a medium who works nationally and said to be a healer as well. The meetings were very expensive and cost upwards of £140 for a half an hour plus the 2 hour drive to get there. My dad was skeptical but would do anything to make mum feel better and drove her to this medium once a month. The medium who is quite famous in the field had a lot of money out of my mum and dad in her desperation. Suffice to say it didn't work and she died a year later.

yes l went as a total sceptic-- totally freeked me out.
Tarot cards so specific it was amazing but l haven't gone back ever.

“I'm not knocking the sceptics. In spiritualist churches scepticism is welcomed. We should all be sceptical“

You can’t be sceptical and believe in spiritualism. The two positions are completely incompatible.