Mediums / Psychics

[Monadami]

Hi,

Last week I went to see Colin Fry with friends. I have always been sceptical about so called Psychics, but went because my friend got tickets.

After the show, I'm still a sceptic and although some of the things he said in the second half of the show were more accurate, I got the impression it was all staged and the people selected for a "contact" were perhaps plants.

Has anyone been to such a show or had a reading with a Psychic? What did you think, how accurate was the Psychic? Or do you think they are just well trained in picking up micro signs and body language?

Thanks

I've done research on him albeit many years ago now. Never seen him except on the TV.

I've had enough experiences with spirit to know that such things as mediums do exist. I had these experiences at odd times over the years and nowhere near a ouija board or a spiritualist church. Recently I learned the most interesting things through direct contact with a spirit, but have no real desire to develop myself specifically as a medium. However, I do know at least one talented person who is developing her skills, and I have had a few really powerful readings from her using oracle cards, including some intense stuff that meant nothing to either of us at the time, but became significant, enlightening things two weeks after the fact. I'm not going into details, and it wasn't as a result of a financial transaction - she's a friend.

A lot of really genuine people will simply do readings and healing because they are genuine lightworkers who feel they have a calling. There will of course be mediums who have to take money in order to make a living. However, I have heard that in the world of commerical mediumship, the pressure is to be more of a showman based upon proving to the audience that the medium really does have "Aunty Flo" in the room, rather than upon delivering the vital message to the living person who really needs to know more than just "Your Grandad wants you to know he's okay" and details about how somebody passed - information that the living relative might already know.

I think it would be as dangerous to dismiss the notion of mediums as it would be to trust in mediumship completely to solve all your life's problems. Don't make yourself vulnerable;balance is key, and personal instincts are there for you to trust. There are flakes and fakes in the psychic world as there are in every other walk of life.

Caveat emptor!

BigWoo, I like your post, LOL tho about "Auntie Flo".

I only went to a spiritualist church to see if they were able to get a message and in particular tell me what I knew.

You have to go with your own instincts.

I agree there are people who see it as the be all and end all and so are vunerable to those out to make a few bob. I'm not vunerable to it, and hopefully never will be.
I'm just curios. I also read my daily horroscope at the end of the day out of curiosity to see how good it was, (hit and a miss, mostly misses lol).

Hi magicOC - LOL! Funnily enough I actually have an Aunty Flo that's passed, but goodness me she had a very stern reputation and I would be really worried if she came through with a message for me LOL!! I can't imagine it would be one that I wanted to hear!

RE horoscopes - I'm a very typical Taurean but I find that horoscopes don't really work for me because they're way too general. I guess a personal horoscope might be more useful, but the ones you find in magazines (including the spiritual publications) include general stuff about career (which doesn't count for me 'cos I currently don't have one!) and love life, which again is less of an issue for me.

Note to all: I hope I didn't come across as suggesting that anybody here was at risk of making themselves vulnerable - it was just a general comment really - but it seems to be the first thing that sceptics tend to seize upon: the suggestion that all mediums are out to exploit the needy, and by inference that those who consult them are a bit lacking. Deffo not so in my case or in the majority of my friends who use them.