How do clairvoyants know things??

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I have never believed in this, I saw one once just for fun at my aunties house and she wasn’t great. She did say a few things that were accurate, but I put this down to being guesses or general vague things that would be relevant to the majority of people.

However, recently my friend went to one. She recently lost her dad and her partner. Without telling the clairvoyant anything, she knew how her partner died and what his name was. She mentioned my friends dad blowing kisses in a weird way, with the palm of his hand instead of his fingers, which is something he did used to do. How would she know these things??? I don’t honestly believe in it, but can’t understand how she’d know such specific things

Yes, confirmation bias.

One of the best I’ve seen was on TV. He was talking to someone in the audience and he said that the person who’d come through died because of “something in this area” and then motioned to his entire torso. The woman replied, “yes, it was his heart!”. Medium then repeated “yes, that’s right, his heart”. Cue astonished faces…..

I terms of large audience readings:
Cold reading works as they will pick something out of thin air that can apply to large group of people and hope for the best e.g. the letter J and classical music.
Warm reading happens when they plant people is strategic positions to find out what members of the audience want to here, this info is then fed back to the clairvoyant.
Hot reading doesn't tend to work with big audiences but it relies being able to dig into who you are reading, Facebook etc.

In personal readings some clairvoyants will start off vague then by reading your body language pick up.om which points you react to and build on those, its easier to remember accurate points than non, so those who believe will be convinced.

So, mediums have been variously credited on this thread with the ability to 1) See into the future, 2) See into someone else's past, AND 3) communicate with the dead (who can also see into the future and pass on messages about it).

Dear lord, why? How? How can you possibly believe this? When you encounter the seemingly impossible, does critical thinking not kick in and make you ask how this is even remotely real, possible or likely?

Some people can tune in to your thoughts and subconscious knowledge? Morphic resonance? WTAF! I don't know if you're being wilfully daft or are just deluded, but please just take a breath and stop your nonsense. Cold reading is the best these muppets can offer. Sad that the internet exposes vulnerable people to this harmful rubbish.

Is no one going to mention James Randi? He offered 1 million dollars for proof of clairvoyant under test conditions. No one could do this. Because it's not real.

I went to see one at a work's colleagues party pre social media , about 2001. Went in very sceptical, determined not to give anything away. I sat down and she said to me ...."she's walked in,.she's right behind you." I asked who...she said "your grandma ,.that's why you came to see me". It was the exact reason but I hadn't told anyone. Some of the things she said " your grandma says your wedding dress will be beautiful once you sort the shoulder out" ..5 years later I bought a wedding dress with one shoulder strap and had that removed to make it strapless.

There were other things as well and they freaked me out so much I've never been again to one. I'm a sceptic but she got me however she did it!

Sadly Mr Randi is no longer with us, but there are still various existing financial prizes up for grabs for those who a prove psychic abilities.

All still sitting in very dusty and undisturbed accounts, surprise surprise!

The trouble with a lot of these stories is that they grow over time and become more exaggerated. Humans can’t help themselves.
Ive heard a lot of stories told about situations that I witnessed first hand and it’s amazing how much people embellish when retelling it!

I think this is unfair. I have Morphic Resonance, and unlike the PP, it actually does allow me to see into the future (in a limited way!) Not predict events as such, but a definite sense of people's thoughts and comments before they occur.

I have seen two psychics who were pretty convincing. Both pre internet, one I’d only told my first (not unusual) name. She read tarot cards and said a lot of things that were bizarrely accurate. Random, strange things. She was young, on a gap year and a nice person. I’d gone to her for fun as a friend had seen her , been told she could see a house full of water, went home and her entire kitchen was flooded . So she passed on her number to me.
She told me something unusual about someone I was close to, that she couldn’t have known, I didn’t know myself at the time.
The other was a man who I went to with a friend, he was a clairvoyant. He said various things that could be generic, but then started talking about a friend of mine, she had committed suicide earlier that year, and he spoke about a fog of darkness around her. As he talked, his face somehow started to resemble hers. His mannerisms became like hers too. It was the strangest thing. He was middle aged and bearded, she was young and beautiful. They were from different ethnic groups, there was nothing about them that was similar.
I was really unnerved by it actually, and I haven’t seen one since.

My experience was many years before the internet , i went to see an elderly lady at her home.
I knew to say nothing other than a greeting when i met her, she told me things that were completely true, that no one would know about my family ,about my mothers pregnancy and specific details around the loss of my grandfather.
She described the man i would marry and what sex my children would be and how many , she was spot on, i had 2 then a 3rd later on,she told me the 3rd would be a long way off and did a gesture with her arm to indicate 'a long way' as she spoke ,she got that right.
She had 'something' i am certain, it was over 30 years ago and i remember it with clarity she was a very special person , my experience was quite profound but at the same time felt very natural.
I believe there are too many similar experiences to dismiss clairvoyance etc and so little we know about beyond death , i think that people with this gift / curse ? are few and far between and that the vast majority of 'mediums' are fake .

All the evidence in favour of it being real is anecdotal. It’s never been proven under test conditions, and there’s probably a good reason for it.

It’s the same as ghosts - 175+ years of photograph and not a single unequivocal photograph. 120+ years of film and in the last couple of decades cameras literally everywhere - and still no clear, unequivocal film of one.

You really, really don’t , you know. Even if morphic resonance were a thing, rather than an unevidenced dollop of pseudoscience, it’s not going to let you predict anything, even in the smallest sense.

I knew you were going to say that

Why didn't she just say to you -
"Get home quickly, your kitchen is flooding!"

My DH is convinced that Derren Brown really can read people's minds ... but dresses it up as a trick 🤣

Sometimes I know things. I don’t know how. It’s like I’m remembering that I met this person before and they told me the thing I know about them, sort of dejavu(ish).

I met a woman for the first time and knew that when she was younger her boyfriend had died in a motorcycle crash. It was like a memory, and it turned out to be true but I’d never met her, she was much older than me and there was no connection to her in any way. I didn’t ask her about it obviously but it came up in conversation naturally some months later when one of the young employees bought a scooter. Really weird.

😂

Why can nobody ever do it under test conditions?

I think we all know the answer to that!

it was over 30 years ago and i remember it with clarity

No you don’t. That’s not how memory works at all. Memory doesn’t take a photo; nor is it a stored file you can refer back to.
Every time you recall something your mind recreates the whole scene anew. It adds details in, and is biased towards how you want to remember it.
What you’re “clearly” remembering is not what happened, but reconstructed memory of a reconstructed memory, as convincing as it may seem.

I once went to have my tarot cards read, she told me that I wasn't with who I was to spend the rest of my life with (I had been my husband 22 years and was a bit shocked) she said that i would meet someone who was divorced or going through a divorce who had a son and a daughter and was a driver. A year later I was separated and met a man with a son and a daughter and was a driver going through his divorce. Here I am 20 years later with said man and extremely happy!

You wouldn't believe the number of people who do this ... and pay using a credit card 😂

your wedding dress will be beautiful once you sort the shoulder out" ..5 years later I bought a wedding dress with one shoulder strap and had that removed

Telling sequence of events.