Mediums
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Join Date: May 2002
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Mediums
Has anyone any experience of mediums?I am largely sceptical, however a friend of my wife had a telephone reading which has proved very accurate.
To my knowledge the medium had no prior information on my wifes friend.Some of the stuff wasn't just generalisations but she foretold her marriage splitting up and two deaths.
To my knowledge the medium had no prior information on my wifes friend.Some of the stuff wasn't just generalisations but she foretold her marriage splitting up and two deaths.
Join Date: Feb 2016
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My view is that there is a lot that science cannot yet explain, however if there are people out there with the gift of being mediums they are very much lost in the deluge of charlatans doing it for the money.
If any money changes hands I would be extremely sceptical to say the least.
My mother in law did once speak to a lady who told her things about a murder case (infamous locally) that could not possibly have been known at the time, and only came to light several months later. Can't explain that at all.
If any money changes hands I would be extremely sceptical to say the least.
My mother in law did once speak to a lady who told her things about a murder case (infamous locally) that could not possibly have been known at the time, and only came to light several months later. Can't explain that at all.
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Originally Posted by andytug
Can't explain that at all.
Guess which ones you will and won't be told about afterwards?
(First or second statistics lesson.)
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I also am very sceptical about such things; however on several occasions I have "known" that someone was around the corner when logically I couldn't have known, and I once had a dream about a close friend in great distress - it turned she had been exactly that around the time due to a family death. I've never told her by the way.
Certainly odd; coincidence? Or is there some form of telepathy to which some people are more receptive?
I don't wish to know the future though...
Certainly odd; coincidence? Or is there some form of telepathy to which some people are more receptive?
I don't wish to know the future though...
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Originally Posted by WestofEMA
My experience of mediums are that they are just too tight. I'm much more comfy in XL.
I'll get my coat....
I'll get my coat....
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Treadigraph, there is something:
Couldn't meet someone as he had changed plans and would be in town. On the way home I was on the wrong platform. Train came in, door opened, out came my friend.
Or booked a day trip on a boat but it depended on sufficient numbers booking. Day prior, passing tour office debated ringing to check - tour office rang.
Or think sister in Law . . . She rings. Another time, in their car, talking or their son, phone goes, it is son ringing from Malta.
Couldn't meet someone as he had changed plans and would be in town. On the way home I was on the wrong platform. Train came in, door opened, out came my friend.
Or booked a day trip on a boat but it depended on sufficient numbers booking. Day prior, passing tour office debated ringing to check - tour office rang.
Or think sister in Law . . . She rings. Another time, in their car, talking or their son, phone goes, it is son ringing from Malta.
Join Date: Aug 2016
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I believe we are all more intuitive than we are aware. After all, for many thousands of years, human beings had to rely on instincts alone. Modern life doesn’t really require them, but we’ve still not quite lost the ability. Haven’t you had that feeling that something isn’t right about a person or situation but you can’t quote put your finger on it? I know for sure I’ve met people and for no reason I’ve taken a dislike, then after a bit, I’ve thought I was mistaken in prejudging them, only to have them behave in such a way later on that made me think my gut feelings were right.
However, I distrust mediums totally. Most people are drawn to them because of a bereavement or an emotional crisis so they are already mentally vulnerable. The law of statistics means that these mediums will get something right occasionally but because of my cynicism, a work colleague persuaded me to attend a spiritualist church. Never seen such conning and deception going on. Average age of the congration was 70+ so by saying I’ve got a message from an Albert, Hilda, Doris, George etc it will strike a chord with someone. The only positive thing I guess it did do was give some of the old people comfort that Albert, Hilda, Doris or George were happy where they are and they forgive the living for whatever happened!
i was particularly close to my late father and I know, if there was anyway he could contact me from wherever he went, he would speak to me, not through some third party.
However, I distrust mediums totally. Most people are drawn to them because of a bereavement or an emotional crisis so they are already mentally vulnerable. The law of statistics means that these mediums will get something right occasionally but because of my cynicism, a work colleague persuaded me to attend a spiritualist church. Never seen such conning and deception going on. Average age of the congration was 70+ so by saying I’ve got a message from an Albert, Hilda, Doris, George etc it will strike a chord with someone. The only positive thing I guess it did do was give some of the old people comfort that Albert, Hilda, Doris or George were happy where they are and they forgive the living for whatever happened!
i was particularly close to my late father and I know, if there was anyway he could contact me from wherever he went, he would speak to me, not through some third party.
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Originally Posted by BehindBlueEyes
Average age of the congration was 70+ so by saying I’ve got a message from an Albert, Hilda, Doris, George etc it will strike a chord with someone.
The previous software my party used for recording canvass data etc had a "possibly old" flag that it would set for people with names like that when the DoB wasn't known. This flag could then be used in filters for targeting leaflets about pensions or whatever - like most of this stuff, not entirely accurate, but also not entirely useless.
It flagged an Eleanor I knew as "possibly old", which she, aged 40 or so, found amusing.
Controversial, moi?
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I am an atheist. Many years ago I had a lodger who attended a Spiritualist church. One evening we visited the couple who ran said church. The chap was sitting next to me and in the middle of innocuous conversation described an older woman and described a mannerism which my grandmother had. Neither my lodger nor this couple knew anything of my grandmother and no money changed hands. To this day it has me puzzled. And before anybody starts he was very specific about certain things and in no way was he generalising and homing in on information I was giving him simply because I said very little!
Out of curiosity I went with the same lodger to see Doris Stokes at Wimbledon. In my view she was a complete fake but a consummate performer . Even my spiritualist lodger thought she was fake!
Out of curiosity I went with the same lodger to see Doris Stokes at Wimbledon. In my view she was a complete fake but a consummate performer . Even my spiritualist lodger thought she was fake!
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Originally Posted by BehindBlueEyes
I believe we are all more intuitive than we are aware. After all, for many thousands of years, human beings had to rely on instincts alone. Modern life doesn’t really require them, but we’ve still not quite lost the ability. Haven’t you had that feeling that something isn’t right about a person or situation but you can’t quote put your finger on it? I know for sure I’ve met people and for no reason I’ve taken a dislike, then after a bit, I’ve thought I was mistaken in prejudging them, only to have them behave in such a way later on that made me think my gut feelings were right.
However, I distrust mediums totally. Most people are drawn to them because of a bereavement or an emotional crisis so they are already mentally vulnerable. The law of statistics means that these mediums will get something right occasionally but because of my cynicism, a work colleague persuaded me to attend a spiritualist church. Never seen such conning and deception going on. Average age of the congration was 70+ so by saying I’ve got a message from an Albert, Hilda, Doris, George etc it will strike a chord with someone. The only positive thing I guess it did do was give some of the old people comfort that Albert, Hilda, Doris or George were happy where they are and they forgive the living for whatever happened!
i was particularly close to my late father and I know, if there was anyway he could contact me from wherever he went, he would speak to me, not through some third party.
However, I distrust mediums totally. Most people are drawn to them because of a bereavement or an emotional crisis so they are already mentally vulnerable. The law of statistics means that these mediums will get something right occasionally but because of my cynicism, a work colleague persuaded me to attend a spiritualist church. Never seen such conning and deception going on. Average age of the congration was 70+ so by saying I’ve got a message from an Albert, Hilda, Doris, George etc it will strike a chord with someone. The only positive thing I guess it did do was give some of the old people comfort that Albert, Hilda, Doris or George were happy where they are and they forgive the living for whatever happened!
i was particularly close to my late father and I know, if there was anyway he could contact me from wherever he went, he would speak to me, not through some third party.
There again, I've never made any secret of the fact I believe only the body dies, the spirit and soul remain . Far too many encounters with what is termed, and invariably dismissed by those who prefer to think science as we know it can provide all the answers, the paranormal
The above being totally separate from those who seem to have had an amazing number of bizarre coincidences in their life.
My partner has visited mediums and found them to be more than accurate when describing events in her life.....without any prior knowledge or attempts to elicit information.
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