General Chat

Thanks for the responses. I think I understood most of them :-)

I am sufficiently spurred on to try to meet a medium......I do have a problem with paying for one, though....so I will have to infiltrate the circle, so to speak.

So if anyone knows a reputable medium in the North of England, please let me know. I don't mind making a donation to charity.

I believe in life after death.

I have had my personal proof, from complete strangers who have described to my close family members who have passed, supplying not only physical details but confirming events, sometimes silly ones no one could begin to think up to tie in with the person being described, or things which may have happened to me in recent days which to me were unexplained at the time.

Funnily, several mediums over a couple of months (some in different places I may add)..Kept on giving the message that I would be having trouble with a back tooth of mine, and to say I must get it sorted or it would be very bad.

I kept on denying it, even when one medium told me exactly where it was to the very tooth.

I of course did have trouble with that tooth, it was cracked and even though i ignored it, every now and again it twinged.

I ended up losing that tooth, It turned out in the end to have a very nasty abscess on it. Even after it was pulled, days later I was in pain, infection had set in and 2 lots of antibiotics and a dangerous lot of painkillers had to be taken

No way could they tell, three or four mediums that is, that I had tooth trouble in that one spot. by looking at me, & I diddnt tell anyone either(sort of out of sight out of mind theory)

I will never again ignore a persistent warning lol !

I do agree there are some rotten mediums who fish for info. I just ignore them,

But there are some brilliant mediums who will give you proof personal for you, without fishing for details,

I really hate the fact people will give you say a white dog, and when you say no, its then symbolic of something else, or maybe if thats wrong, something else again. I wont take that !

That depends on what proof you waht colin ,and so you come back to what you chose to believe ,and I have my beliefs and because of them I feel I have the proof I need just as much as the believers in the spirit world feel they have there own proof .

Colin, so true ~~

Of course you cant PROVE that the spirit world exists, but then again none of the doubters posting can PROVE it does not

I don't give a flying whatsit what people believe as long as they don't exploit others emotionally or financially.

I'm not even sure what I believe. I have seen/felt things about people which can't be explained logically but I tend to think it's maybe an advanced form of empathy. I've seen enough documentary evidence of fake mediums to make me very cynical about the whole thing. I saw Paul McKenna reproduce a reading except he explained how it was all a trick and demonstrated how it was done.

My Nain taught me to read cards, against my grandfather's wishes, but Tarot is very much open to interpretation and I think you pick up on body language and emotion when you read them, which is why readings can seem so accurate.

My Nain supposedly had "the sight" and thought I did too but I have never explored it particularly, apart from a brief spell when I was a student.

I accept that I do get feelings about people and situations but remain unsure whether it's a psychic phenomena, the spirit world, empathy, telepathy or imagination.

I have synaesthesia so I can accept that there is more to the mind than can be satisfactorally explained by logic but I have also seen enough of the world to be deeply cynical about those who claim special powers.

Gwynne

I think, like anything there are good and bad. I am a medium and a psychic myself. I have been told I am very accurate. I know plenty of others who claim to be. I personally never charge for readings, but I know plenty that do. I feel the ones that charge have to perform, and are more likely to embellish or fabricate from my experiences anyway.

No andie you didn't upset me at all I'm sorry if you thought that I was trying to say we are all allowed our own beliefs :))

sorry tory but i didnt know i had upset you
i believe everyone is entitled to there own opinion, there are always two sides to any debate.

i have an open mind on the subject,

sorry again

nite andie

sorry, but you have all got me lost about this 'you already know' stuff!

Already know what?

i have no connection at all with anyone as you describe....sorry, but absolutely definetely totally unequivocally not, lol

andie thats fine if thats what you believe but in a debate both sides are intitled to say there bit and i do not believe and if that upsets someone I'm sorry but I am intitaled to my opinion ;))

I bet this thread has been quite interesting but it's too long for me to read. To answer the question though - yes I personally feel certain that some mediums have a genuine gift. Mia Dolan is a well known medium who I have a lot of faith in. There are also some who might have a gift but don't know how to use it properly and there are also a lot of fakes who exploit people's vulnerability to make cash.

I have no time for ghost hunts or the telly programmes that have mediums and so on - I think it's very wrong.

Who's question Kevin ?

yes it does make sense.. i just feel that for some people they really want to be connected with those who have passed on.

i dont like to think they are taken for a ride,

and i suppose people do give mor info and that does give these people something to use.

i just try to have an open mind, but people have been making money out of this sort of thing for years.

ELDRICK

CHECK YOU DO
BUT AS INSAID

YOU ALREADY KNOW


RON IFI SAY CAN I JOIN YOU
THIS LOT WONT TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY

As I've said before, they are parasites who
exploit human suffering and gullibility.

Their act is all show biz- smoke & mirrors.

It would be nice to think there was life after death,
but I was trained in the scientific method-
show me the proof then I will believe !

xxxx mick

I know what you mean Kevin.

I nearly married a clairvoyant but she left me before we met.

Ron what makes you think Eldrick knows what ever it is you think it is do you read minds ?

thats the third time youve said goodnight ron.

:-)

if that for me dizzi, absolutely no connection whatsoever Im afraid.