Psychic mediums. How Real are they?

[MrsM1717]

I have had 2 readings and both were an expensive waste of time. I have attended many group readings as well and never had anything, I went to one group reading unaware that I was 6 months pregnant and it wasn’t picked up. Since then I lost all faith.
I’m not lost or looking for anything, Thankfully I haven’t been through anything traumatic. I just want to know if it’s real. I'm a very spiritual person so it makes sense for me to believe but I just can't based on my experience.
I have read many readings on here and from the comments people seem genuine. So if anyone could give me a reading on here I would really appreciate it.
TIA

About a year ago, I was working at the local town community centre with a student (I’m a teacher and and I tutor young people who are out of school - we tutor in random locations). The community centre is run by an array of people - including many volunteers- all ages and adults with SEN. One day, a man who worked there - around 50 ish (with a SEN - can’t specify) came into the room that I was in (with another teacher and the student) as he brought the student some food and drink. Out of nowhere he asked me if I had a bad shoulder. He said he could see my aura and it was dark grey around my shoulder area. With no exaggeration, my shoulder has been the bane of my life for years. It has worsened significantly in the last few years. I’m undergoing investigations. He didn’t spook me out - he fascinated me. Truly. He was so direct but had no motive to say this to me. He very casually told us he can see auras. Then off he went again, carrying out his duties.

What about Derek Acorah? He was found to be lying in some instances but was he just embellishing stuff it’s looks so real. I can’t make up my mind.

Sadly they are very real scammers.

Most are absolute scammers, they do 'cold reading' Derren Brown did a show where he revealed these psychic mediums secrets. It was fascinating. However I did meet one old boy in the village I lived in, who I was chatting to and he said about a woman who was by my side, and described her. I mentioned this to my Grandmother who said he'd described her mother (my Great Grandmother) exactly, who had passed away 3 years before I was born.

The vast majority of them aren’t real. However I’ve heard second hand stories about them that seem plausible.

This was also very strange. About 10 years ago I went to a spiritualist church and someone either called Charles or Felix came through, my paternal grandfather who I didn’t know much as a child and he didn’t have a good relationship with my mum as apparently was a fitter for Rolls Royce etc but was from a working class poor London background. Anyway his message to me was about ensuring a metal/wooden fence into my mum’s garden was secure, he said it wasn’t secure and there could be safety issues. What was there at my mum’s house at the time was behind a row of houses was a church, then next to it an overgrown churchyard (no graves) and a church hall which hosted playgroups and scouts, guides etc groups with a garden that was used by everyone who used the hall. etc. It had a metal/wooden grille fence which wasn’t secure but backed directly onto the garden (and others) with a wooden fence separating it from the metal/barbed wire/wood fence. There was also a path running round the back of the gardens to where this church fence was. My mum hadn’t had that many issues with the church fence in the past but as the church, playgroup got into decline and less people used both buildings she had noticed the odd person trying to break in. About a year or so later the church sold the land and the church and playground was redeveloped into posh town houses, flats and a vicarage but it was all secure and no o no more dodgy fences.

Like I saw my grandad was very straight talking and if it was him it’d be him warning his ex-DIL to take care (as his son when married he’d lived in the same house with the fence) but also warning me as his granddaughter to earn my mum. I’m just thinking re what I just wrote and it seems off a medium would bring that out of the blue, the medium mentioned someone else but nothing made sense there.

I did ring or text these mediums who are online and often abroad approx 3 or more years ago. They were ok but you could tell it was quite generic so I gave up after a short time. However about 2-3 years ago I was very sad and depressed mostly to do with a friend who’d died and so on and rang a medium who at night rang me back. Couldn’t have been more disinterested, almost wanted to get me off the phone very quickly with little or no info re my friend and stop me spending/wasting money and you could tell she was a charlatan! After that I decided I wouldn’t bother.

I’ve had close friends visit mediums, one gave her a CD recording of it but this friend thought it was mostly rubbish. A south Korean friend of mine says they’re very into mediums and she moved home about 3 years ago to Seoul. Another close friend of mine is into ghosts and reiki.

There are some who are genuine and many who aren’t very good. Others who are charlatans. It is very hard to know the difference initially.

If there were genuinely people who could 'see' into the future they would be the richest, most famous people on planet earth!

They would be employed by every government, large corporation, millionaire, billionaire, stockbroker, movie star, ...... they would be the most well paid, well looked after, famous people on planet earth, in the same way as ancient kings valued and wouldn't make a move without their soothsayers and astrologers (who were invariably wrong!).

Likewise if there were people who could genuinely talk to the dead, they would be talking to the great leaders of the past, the inventors, the monarchs, the great minds, the people from our history who could benefit our present day lives. Not talking to someone named "Fred" who "I got the feeling died of choking". "I can feel a choking sensation".

Turns out someone in the audience had a dad called Frank who died of a heart attack - near enough!!!

None of them are 'genuine'. I accept that there are those who genuinely believe they are 'genuine' (I've come across them myself) but it doesn't mean they are. They are just self-deluded.

There are things in life for which science and logic don't always have the answers and to dismiss them all is a mistake. Keep an open mind by all means, but always retain a sceptical and critical eye.

I once went to a psychic who gave me the fascinating piece of information that I needed to check the radiator in my daughter's bedroom. Turned out she was right. The radiator was broken. Amazing! Incredible! Of course the other 99% of what she told me was complete bollocks, but wow, how weird was that, the radiator - she got that right! .

As someone who has studied the Tarot for over 30 years I can tell you right now, that in my experience, every single person I have every come across who claims to have so-called 'psychic' powers is either a liar, self-deluded or mistaken.

It especially pisses me off that so many so-called psychics have hijacked the Tarot to add to their sense of mystique when it is clear within five minutes that they know absolutely nothing about the Tarot , haven't studied it, haven't researched it, and are just using it as a prop to make themselves appear more 'woo'.

@LittleMG

What about Derek Acorah? He was found to be lying in some instances but was he just embellishing stuff it’s looks so real. I can’t make up my mind.

Mary loves Dick

@Mable66

I've had had email readings done several times. Probably when I'm desperate for some hope in life.

I have had readings done through tim dehaney. Quite honestly didn't feel he picked up anything and just wrote random waffle at me. Nothing felt personal.

Anne Marie Kell. I really like this women. I often find she just gives motherly advice and I appreciate her views on things. I do feel safe with her readings and sometimes picks up on things too. She seems very genuine and warm.

Lily porter. She is probably the most unkind women. She is very harsh, judgemental and unhelpful. She actually upset me. She's the opposite to her website.

Psychic whispers/Mesina I feel is a good one. Very generous with her readings. I've never felt disappointed. I feel she focuses on things and gives good detail. She is non judgemental. Kind.

Suzy rayne. I was in early pregnancy and she predicted I'd have a girl on the 21st February. Around 7lb 6. She was a girl, born the 21st Feb weighing 7lb 9oz.

I would love a real face to face one, one day.

@Mable66 Can I ask you how much money these people are taking off you? You sound as though you have a lot of sadness and I can’t help feeling you are being very cynically exploited. I understand that the readings make you feel better, my anger is directed at the people who are happy to take money from you knowing full well that they are not giving you what you are hoping for but are palming you off and stringing you along. You might do better to find a sympathetic priest or vicar to talk to for free.

@Mable66

I've had had email readings done several times. Probably when I'm desperate for some hope in life.

I have had readings done through tim dehaney. Quite honestly didn't feel he picked up anything and just wrote random waffle at me. Nothing felt personal.

Anne Marie Kell. I really like this women. I often find she just gives motherly advice and I appreciate her views on things. I do feel safe with her readings and sometimes picks up on things too. She seems very genuine and warm.

Lily porter. She is probably the most unkind women. She is very harsh, judgemental and unhelpful. She actually upset me. She's the opposite to her website.

Psychic whispers/Mesina I feel is a good one. Very generous with her readings. I've never felt disappointed. I feel she focuses on things and gives good detail. She is non judgemental. Kind.

Suzy rayne. I was in early pregnancy and she predicted I'd have a girl on the 21st February. Around 7lb 6. She was a girl, born the 21st Feb weighing 7lb 9oz.

I would love a real face to face one, one day.

I find this so sad.

None of these people can tell you anything about your future and as for Suzy Rayne (whoever she may be) - a lucky guess. That's what cold reading is. They put stuff out there and some of it hits home. You focus in on that one thing she got 'right' and ignore all the other stuff she waffled on about that was completely wrong.

I can't give you a face-to-face reading, but I am a Tarot reader. I don't have a psychic bone in my body and am completely non-Woo. You just pick the cards, and I will read them in term of their prescribed meaning based upon years of study, and the order in which they appear. It might help, it might not but I don't want any money for it and I don't make any claims for it, other than I find it helpful in my own life. The only thing I would like is some feedback as to whether you found it useful.

Feel free to PM me.

When my son died I saw a lady who advertises as a psychic. She told me instantly that she knew about him and asked me what I wanted from her.
I told her I did not want anything in particular. I suppose I just wanted comfort of some sort so I asked about my health and the future.. nothing else really - I don't want to be told I will win the lottery.
She avoided talking about him as it would have been too easy.
She talked about things familiar to me, things that surprised me such as the place I came from as a child. She mentioned it instantly.
She talked about my partners family. No way could she have known anything about him as he does not come from here and at the time he was not on the search address and has a different name to me.
She told me his sisters would fall out and ruin a family holiday and to stay out of it
This happened. We went on a holiday and there was trouble between them. It cast a cloud over the holiday.
She told me things about my children - their lives and what she said was accurate because the things happened.
She told me things I disregarded because they made no sense and over time I realised that what she had talked to me about had in fact happened.
She read the tarot cards. She spent far longer talking to me than the appointment time, and she also talked to me about grief.
She told me that from a very young age she saw dead people
As the session was ending she told me some things about my son and said he told her to tell me I had a flat tyre on my car.
She said he did something to her when he was talking to her. This was something he did to me only and to nobody else. A little endearing thing when he was talking to me. I did not react to this but I was moved by it.
A few days later a light came up on my dash and I had a flat tyre

The last time I saw her I had been having dreams and thoughts about a future event concerning a relative of my partner. Suddenly she started telling me about it.
It was as if she could read my thoughts. She also told me something she said she should not have said but the weird thing is I already knew it !

She said some things about my son which I felt were not right and I decided she was fleshing the session out.

I decided I would not see her again, but I do not regret seeing her and I do not think she is a charlatan since she said direct things - by that I mean telling me without asking me about future events.

So to conclude, I think if you see someone like this and they give you comfort then they are worth it. It's up to you to decide if they are a cheat whatever that may be

I've been to see one a few times who tours the country, so around 2000 people in the audience. I've never had a reading and don't really 'believe' as such, but it's around the same price as going to the cinema with snacks or a night out and it's something a bit different. I always thought of it like going to a magic show.

However, last time I went something a bit spooky happened. I noticed my ex's mum a few rows in front of me. I'd heard that her husband had recently died in sad and shocking circumstances, and I felt for her being there in desperate grief even though I didn't say hi (we'd only met once before).

Ex's mum was actually chosen to be 'read', so I was excited as I knew I could verify some 'facts' that the medium said.

It was really patchy at first. The husband wasn't mentioned at all and lots of vague 'elderly' relatives that had passed but it was pretty disappointing and ex's mum was getting frustrated.

Then all of a sudden the medium changed course and started going into very specific detail about a woman who had not passed. I won't go into too much detail in case it outs me or ex's mum, as I'm sure she's told this to a lot of people, but the woman being spoken about had a very specific injury that was going to turn very serious as it wasn't being cared for properly.

Ex's mum knew this woman through work (not care or anything one could guess) and literally every detail was spot on.

Then the medium went back to trying to hit family members etc and missed every one

It was really strange. Honestly there's no way that the medium could have randomly got this through cold reading or research, and the fact that she got so much that was unrelated to this woman completely wrong kind of added to her credibility in a strange way! I do wish my ex's mum had been able to get some comfort from it though, fake or not.

@Sparklfairy

I've been to see one a few times who tours the country, so around 2000 people in the audience. I've never had a reading and don't really 'believe' as such, but it's around the same price as going to the cinema with snacks or a night out and it's something a bit different. I always thought of it like going to a magic show.

However, last time I went something a bit spooky happened. I noticed my ex's mum a few rows in front of me. I'd heard that her husband had recently died in sad and shocking circumstances, and I felt for her being there in desperate grief even though I didn't say hi (we'd only met once before).

Ex's mum was actually chosen to be 'read', so I was excited as I knew I could verify some 'facts' that the medium said.

It was really patchy at first. The husband wasn't mentioned at all and lots of vague 'elderly' relatives that had passed but it was pretty disappointing and ex's mum was getting frustrated.

Then all of a sudden the medium changed course and started going into very specific detail about a woman who had not passed. I won't go into too much detail in case it outs me or ex's mum, as I'm sure she's told this to a lot of people, but the woman being spoken about had a very specific injury that was going to turn very serious as it wasn't being cared for properly.

Ex's mum knew this woman through work (not care or anything one could guess) and literally every detail was spot on.

Then the medium went back to trying to hit family members etc and missed every one

It was really strange. Honestly there's no way that the medium could have randomly got this through cold reading or research, and the fact that she got so much that was unrelated to this woman completely wrong kind of added to her credibility in a strange way! I do wish my ex's mum had been able to get some comfort from it though, fake or not.

So the so-called 'medium' didn't pick up that the person she had targeted had recently lost her husband in sad circumstances. She rambled on about various vague relatives. Then suddenly she honed in on a woman who hadn't died?

Hang on a minute! Aren't mediums supposed to be in contact with the dead? Surely if you read for someone who has just lost her husband, then that's the focus.

But no, instead it's a living person and somehow miraculously the medium who is supposed to be communicating with the dead has suddenly got all this information about a living person with a specific injury who wasn't being cared for properly?

Isn't the whole point about mediums that that are communicating with dead people, not living people?

I don't think psychic mediums are "real", but I do think some people have the sixth sense, can see auras etc. They don't charge for it though.

None of them are real. Not a single one of them. The ones who seem real are just really good at reading people.

If they had any ability at all they would be keen to be tested in a scientific way rather than sitting in their front rooms charging god knows what to gullible members of the public.

I went to see a Medium.

I have had breast cancer, and she told me she could see it would not come back.

I don't think they should be saying things like that, I would never go back.

its rubbish read how doris stokes a well know 80s so called psychic used to to do this

They’re all charlatans.

A friend of mine has dreams where she knows things that have happened ie pregnancies, engagements etc before you even announce. She has known about many a friends big life events before they've even told their own families. She doesn't however claim to be in anyway psychic, in fact she's a little perlpexed and doesn't know how to explain it.

The best one I ever saw bar none was Clinton Baptiste live from phoenix nights fame.
Absolute legend.

Shalamar shakatak.

He is as real as you are ever going to get!
He has a podcast that has made me have to pull over in the car due to stomach aching laughter!!

Ooioh interesting. Do you have a link for a video or something? This sounds really interesting. I'm Aussie so no clue who Derren Brown is. Sorry!

@SerenTarot all thoughts that have crossed my mind I'm sure the "psychic medium" would say that she doesn't control the messages, that possibly "the dead" were giving that message about the woman who was alive to give some kind of "validation" even if the message wasn't what ex's mum wanted... hell, maybe as there were 2000 people in the audience, the medium couldn't hear that well

Like I say, it was more like going to a magic show, entertainment and suspending disbelief, though 99% of the people there are really grieving and I feel sad for them.

I believe there are phychics out there but there are very few. It's an ability or a disability depending on how it affects you and its genetic. I dont believe you can learn "how" to be one I believe you are " born" one and from a young age your different. It runs in families but does not affect everyone. There's a craze with it now where everyone wants to be phychic. It's not in a pack of cards. It's in your head you hear and see things and know things.